Researchers and engineers at USF are bringing the fun of 3-D printing out of the lab and into the spotlight with a new exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI).

“3D Printing the Future,” which opened Saturday, allows the public to see exactly what new technology can do, with workshops that allow visitors to make their own 3-D printed objects and replica models of themselves.

Lori Collins, co-director and research assistant professor for the Alliance for Integrated Spatial Technologies (AIST), is the guest curator for the exhib-it and has been working to set the theme for the showcase.

“Through 3-D printing, we

can make digital data some-thing you can actually hold and print full-scale to see and appreciate,” Collins said. “It’s used a lot in teaching and get-ting students engaged in three-dimensional data.”

3-D printing also allows researchers to create replicas for other museums to preserve pieces of history that would once be forgotten.

Collins predicted we could see a greater prevalence of 3-D printers in the next three to five years. She said fabri-cation of these prints could enhance the efficiency of a classroom as students get a more hands-on feel for what they are studying.

The exhibit at MOSI show-cases replications of foren-sic science materials such as

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“3D Printing the Future” opened Saturday at the Museum of Sci-ence and Industry located near campus. ORACLE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU

Most people who hold card-board signs next to oncom-ing traffic aren’t hired off the streets by law firms, but that’s what happened last week to Damian Romero.

After graduating from USF, Romero said he and his friend, Jarod Fluck, realized they were lost in the crowd of countless other job seekers.

“If you’re doing what every-body else is doing, it’s really hard to get ahead,” Romero said. “You got to try a different approach, you got to think out-side of the box.”

So they held up signs read-ing “Not Homeless (yet)” and “Will Work for Good Company,” while handing out resumes to morning traffic on the intersec-tion of Kennedy and Westshore boulevards.

Romero graduated last spring with a bachelor’s degree in finance and Fluck graduated in 2012 with a bachelor’s in marketing. Two fields, Fluck said, with a high barrier to entry.

“If you ask any job seeker out there, they’re going to tell you it’s hard to find a job,” Fluck said. “If you ask any company that’s hiring, they’re going to tell you it’s hard to find the right people for jobs.”

The majority of hiring is done through internal recom-mendations, Fluck said, not through job fairs or websites such as Monster or LinkedIn.

“We went to a few job fairs, that was a total joke,” Romero said. “The companies there were looking for sales people … if you have $30,000 or $40,000 in loans, who wants to work on commission?”

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Built in 1978, the Bro Bowl was the first public skate park in Florida during an era often con-sidered the golden age of skate-boarding, when tricks like the Ollie took the sport to new heights in American culture.

“I’ve watched everything around the bowl change in 30 years, but it’s a static element in a dynamic environment,” Shannon Bruffett, director of Tampa’s Skateboarding Heritage Foundation, said. “You can watch the skyline of Tampa be ever changing, but the bowl withstands.”

Since its creation, the Bro Bowl has been featured in skateboard-ing videos, video games and has had its own documentary. It remains the last of three remain-ing U.S. skate parks built in the 1970s and the only one to keep its original form.

But soon, skaters could be rid-ing the Bro Bowl for the last time.

For the last eight years, contro-versy has surrounded the 36-year-old famous skate park. It stands in the way of a $30 million federal grant to renovate the neighbor-hood and honor its vibrant cultural past.

In the latest talks of demol-ishing the landmark, the City of

Tampa is considering enlisting the help of USF to recreate it.

If finalized, USF’s Alliance for Integrated Spatial Technologies (AIST) would use lasers to scan the bowl and generate a 3-D blueprint for architects to build an exact replica.

The accuracy would be “unbe-lievable,” said Michael Raphael, Direct Dimensions CEO and mem-ber of USF’s AIST advisory board.

“It would be the shape of that skate park — all the contours, all the imperfections,” he said. “In color, you would see all the skid marks and any markings that were on the concrete.”

Mayor Bob Buckhorn said this plan would be part of the $6.5 mil-lion renovations at Perry Harvey Sr. Park and would preserve the integrity of the Bro Bowl.

“Everyone can have their cake and eat it, too,” Buckhorn said in response to historic preservation officials, according to an article in the Tampa Bay Times.

But many in the local skating community, such as Bruffett, dis-agree.

“When you go there, you can see the history in the cracks. We wouldn’t replicate the Columbia or the Crest building,” he said. “There is something the real article has and the replica never would — it has a soul.”

The debate over the Bro Bowl and Perry Harvey Sr. Park is only a part of the $30 million federal grant for Encore Tampa that hon-ors the area’s black and cultural heritage.

The urban renewal project is aimed to transform the Central Avenue area with new housing, a museum, a middle school and a

musical amphitheater. Under the plans for the renewal project, the Bro Bowl is in the way of an out-door exhibit featuring the history of Tampa’s black community.

Last year, the Bro Bowl was the first skate park listed by the National Register of Historic Places. The distinction requires officials seek public opinion when considering the impact of redevel-oping historical properties.

“All these people from local to state to national level all agree the Bro Bowl has cultural signifi-cance to our country and our city,” Bruffett said. “But the local govern-ment keeps on fighting that.”

In his 2014 State of the City speech, Buckhorn said the histori-cal significance of the skate park “pales in comparison” to the his-tory of the black community.

Since October, a series of public meetings in City Hall have dis-cussed four options: destroying the bowl after documenting its significance, building walls around the existing bowl to buffer it from the rest of the park, cutting up the bowl and moving the chunks to the new location in the northern end of the park or scanning it to recreate it.

While nothing is set in stone, Raphael said the 3-D scanning solution would be economical and practical. The FARO Laser Scanner, no bigger than a desktop com-puter, would scan the park in minutes.

Though preferring the Bro Bowl to stay the way it is, Bruffett said this seems to be the likely com-promise.

However, if the skate park stays,

the atmosphere may change, according to Tampa officials.

While skaters traditionally go to the Bro Bowl for its relaxed environment and laid-back rules, Buckhorn said if the park were to remain intact park employees would closely monitor skaters to make sure they carried identifica-tion and wore helmets.

“It’s like a brotherhood, it’s like a family,” Bruffett said. “There’s a lot of acceptance and never a whole lot of judgment. No one is worried about what trick you’re doing or what shoes you’re wear-ing … it’s about camaraderie.”

While the Bro Bowl’s future is still unclear, the city wants to end the debate before fall, as not a dime of the $30 million can be spent until the issue is settled.

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Bro Bowl controversy brings in USF for compromise

By Wesley HigginsN E W S E D I T O R

The Bro Bowl, an old-school style skate park, could be demolished and reconstructed in the northern end of Perry Harvey Park with the help of USF as soon as the end of summer. ORACLE PHOTO/WESLEY HIGGINS

As for job listing websites, Romero said it’s almost impos-sible to stand out to employers who rely on keyword searches and personality tests that fail to measure creativity.

“The personal touch has been taken out of it. There’s parts of the person much more important than a few lines on a piece of paper,” Romero said. “What is important is charac-ter, whether that is going to blend in with the company. That’s why we’re trying to get

out there first — and it’s work-ing.”

Less than two weeks after deciding to hand out resumes to “people in fancy suits,” Fluck said the two received multiple interviews and job offers.

“At first we weren’t expect-ing really anything … it start-ed taking on its own shape,” Romero said. “By Friday, peo-ple were driving by, honking, and they already knew our names.”

Fluck said he was interviewed on the spot in a Walgreens parking lot, and Romero at a nearby gas station.

One of the biggest challeng-

es is making an impression before the light turns green, Fluck said.

“If you’ve heard of an eleva-tor pitch, we’ve shortened our elevator pitch to 5 to 10 sec-onds,” Fluck said.

Romero said they didn’t just go up to anyone driving a Mercedes and wait for people to ask for the resume.

“This was not us throwing things into the dark and hoping something was going to catch,” he said.

The two also received local and national media coverage, which further helped get their names out there.

“When the news cameras were here, one homeless lady came out and was getting mad that we’re getting press and she doesn’t,” Fluck said. “It’s not so much of an attention thing as it is a unique, creative way we came up with to get our faces out there.”

Creating an impression is something potential employees don’t often get to do without a recommendation. Fluck said the stunt made that impres-sion.

“Not only do (employers) have a face and the resume, now they have a story to go along with it,” Fluck said. “No

matter what industry you’re in, you’re marketing yourself as a product.”

Other than creativity, Fluck said it also showed employ-ers drive to wake up at 5 a.m. to stand at a corner in a suit “sweating bullets,” all to put yourself out there.

“Just the fact that we’re standing out there at 7 o’clock in the morning, ready to go to work, is already a big deal,” Romero said.

Romero said it was worth it. He was offered a job at a law firm in Ybor City, and Fluck has multiple interviews lined up.

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After coaching the Bulls for four seasons, golf coach Chris Malloy is leaving USF for his alma mater, the University of Mississippi.

In his time with the Bulls, Malloy was the 2013 Big East Coach of the Year and coached two Conference Players of the Year.

These players, Brooks and Chase Koepka, have experi-enced their share of success lately.

Chase was recently named one of the 157 All-Region play-ers for the 2014 season. His older brother, Brooks, finished the U.S. Open this past week-end tied for fourth place.

Malloy will replace Ernest Ross, who coached at Ole Miss for 16 seasons. This past year, the team finished last in the SEC Championship.

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Bulls golf coach leaves for Ole Miss

In the “3D Printing the Future” exhibit at MOSI, designs such as a robotic arm (left) and a bikini are on display, produced from a series of 3-D printers. ORACLE PHOTO/ ADAM MATHIEU

footprints and a human skull. Collins said learning about forensics from two-dimension-al pictures in a textbook rath-er than a three-dimensional anatomical model can prove a little less fulfilling when it comes to human observations.

“Looking at something on a screen or a picture or some-times even standing in front of it, we can’t quite appreci-ate it because the human eye can’t see all the detail of it,” Collins said. “3-D scanning

can enhance, exaggerate or feature certain areas.”

Not only does 3-D printing affect education, Collins said it also has the potential to grow into other sectors like the arts.

At the exhibit, fashion lov-ers can feast their eyes on a sleek, ready-to-wear black bikini with a cover-up wrap made from a 3-D printer. One designer featured in the exhib-it also created a pair of white high-heeled shoes.

Anthony Pelaez, director of education at MOSI, said he sees 3-D printing as an oppor-tunity to bring more engineers into the home. With 3-D print-

ing, Pelaez said children could learn how to solve problems from a younger age, even before they reach school.

“Younger children have the opportunity to solve problems like fixing their bicycles with the growth of 3-D printers into the household,” Pelaez said.

3-D printing has also been used for medical purposes like prosthetics for humans and animals.

Collins said the possibilities are endless and considers this exhibit a cool way for USF to show some cutting edge technologies the university is developing and make them

available to the public.USF students can venture

into this field for themselves, as the Advanced Visualization Center on campus allows stu-dents to take part in 3-D print-ing with the ability to request printed material for a fee, ranging between $2 and $13.

The MOSI 3-D printing exhi-bition is open now until Sept. 28. Pelaez said there will be more 3-D prints and work-shops available as the exhibit continues.

Admission to the exhibit for USF students is $5, and faculty and staff get a free ticket with every ticket purchase.

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DIVING INTO THE DEEP

Though 73 percent of the Earth is covered by water, the world that lies beneath the waves remains unexplored firsthand, visited only by the select few who decide to take the plunge and become certified scuba divers.

At USF, there are sever-al ways to get training on how to explore this under-sea world of weightlessness, curious creatures and vivid gardens, and William Dent, the diving safety officer for the scuba certification pro-gram at USF, said he is always amazed at what excites new divers. The scuba diving pro-gram was established at USF in the 1960s. Dent has been leading the program for over 30 years and has trained nearly 5,000 divers.

“We have a whole variety of people taking the class and they take it for a variety of reasons,” Dent said. “Some people will take it because they know that they’re going to be using it for their career, the majority of the people take it because they think it’s fun.”

For those seeking scuba certification, USF offers a day class for course credit and a recreational night class. The day class, PEN 2136, is two credits and run through the College of Education. For the first two-thirds of the semes-ter, students work toward their Open Water certifica-tion, which allows them to dive to 60 feet, and are then able to continue on to higher levels of certification, includ-ing Deep Diver, allowing students to dive below 60 feet, and Nitrox Diver, which teaches students to dive with enriched air.

The recreational night program runs for four weeks.

Registration for the summer non-credited programs are currently available online at the campus recreation cen-ter’s website. Dent said if students are still on the fence about signing up, they are welcome to attend the first class and make up their mind then whether or not scuba is for them .

“The majority of diving, believe it or not, is building your self-confidence,” Dent said. “If you don’t have that self-confidence, you’re not going to feel comfortable in the water, and if you don’t feel comfortable in the water, even though you get certified, you’re not going to go out and go diving.”

Tuition for the class costs $175 and students must also purchase the required textbook package for $80. For the in-water portion of both classes, students must provide their own mask, fins and snorkel. The uni-versity will provide students with all other scuba equip-ment apart from a wetsuit, which is optional for the class and can be rented for about $10. Both courses offer certi-fication through the National Association of Underwater Instructors.

Florida is a prime loca-tion for novice and experi-enced divers alike because it

is rife with great dive loca-tions, Ben Meister, a graduate of USF’s scuba certification program and now one of the instructors, said.

“Whatever you want, Florida has it,” Meister said. “If you’re a diver in Florida, the opportunities are kind of endless. You can do fresh-water spring dives, you can do saltwater Gulf diving, you can go to the Atlantic and do something called drift div-ing, you can go down to the Keys … we’ve got lots of opportunities.”

During the certification course, students get to visit one of these dive sites with the class to complete their required open water dives. Blue Grotto is a freshwater spring in Williston roughly two hours from campus. The site features bright clear blue water and a ballroom-like underwater cavern. The spring’s beautiful natural rock formations create silvery pools of air and reverse water-falls that add an air of whimsy to the dark cavern. The main cavern dips down to about 60 feet and a smaller shaft goes down to about 100 feet. At about 30 feet down, Blue Grotto has an air bell where divers can take out their regu-lators and breathe while still underwater.

USF also has a student-run scuba diving club that sched-ules dive trips throughout the year. Many of the club’s mem-bers are graduates of Dent’s certification program. Dent said the dive certification program supports and pro-motes the club and joining the club is a great way to keep diving.

“I think it’s a matter of self-achievement, too. Why does somebody go out and run a marathon … It’s a challenge,” Dent said. “You’re able to meet that challenge.”

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Students can take a two-credit hour course in scuba diving at USF through the College of Education. PHOTO PROVIDED BY WILLIAM DENT

Blue Grotto, a natural freshwater spring, is located off FL-500 in Williston. ORACLE PHOTO/ COURTNEY COMBS

“It’s a matter of self-achievement,

too. Why does somebody go out

and run a marathon ... It’s a

challenge.”William Dent

Diving safety officer for the USF scuba certification program

USF offers scuba certification programs for students

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practices to accommodate hitters or watching videos with hitters,” Durkac said. “He’s very much a hands-on coach, very much an open-door coach. Anybody that needs to talk to him, whether it’s an assistant coach, player, trainer, academic advisor, whoever, the door’s always open for Mark.”

As Kingston makes the move to USF, it appears as though two of his assistants will be coming with him.

According to their Twitter accounts, Current and Bill Mohl will be head-ing to USF to continue coaching with Kingston.

Kingston said he’s excited to coach in Florida, a place he fell in love with nearly 30 years ago when his team took a train from Washington, D.C., to Winter Haven to play at Doyle Baseball Camp.

“I’ve been in love with base-ball and Florida since 1986, and to think I’m here now as a head coach, I’m very humbled,” he said.

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Bro Bowl should remain intact with

Tampa’s history

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In the name of urban renew-al, Tampa city officials have seen to the wholesale demolition of Central Avenue’s business district and “slum areas” in historic Ybor.

The newest victim of Tampa’s urban renewal program is the Bro Bowl, the first public skate park built in Florida and a staple of Tampa’s Perry Harvey Park since 1978.

City officials now want to demolish and redesign much of the 11-acre park into a “memorial that honors the history of the for-mer Central Avenue business and nightclub district,” according to the Tampa Bay Times.

The debate over the demolition of the Bro Bowl has been an almost year-long back-and-forth between leaders of the Save the Bro Bowl campaign and Tampa City Council members.

In October, campaign members were able to get the Bro Bowl list-ed on the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places, making it the only skate park in the United States to be on such a list.

This new designation hasn’t stopped Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn and other city officials from moving forward with plans for demolition, however.

Though state historic preserva-tion officials have urged City Hall to “seriously consider” leaving the Bro Bowl intact, the city wants to enlist USF to make a 3-D image of the bowl in order to build a replica on the other side of the park.

While Buckhorn told the Tampa Bay Times he sees this as a have your “cake and eat it, too” situation because the skaters who frequent the park can have a replica with new additions and Tampa officials can have their memorial, the real situation is that community mem-bers fighting against the city don’t want a replica that lacks the histor-ic sanctity of the original Bro Bowl.

Buckhorn’s comment clearly

shows a lack of understanding for what Save the Bro Bowl means and there is a fundamental flaw in the city’s notion that demolishing an integral part of Tampa’s history somehow promotes an apprecia-tion for its past.

As Tampa officials continue to hide under the guise of historic appreciation, they systematically bulldoze over the history they claim is so integral to the city’s culture. They think as long as they put up memorial signs, they can continue to destroy historic shops, clubs and parks in the name of cre-ating a new, more modern Tampa.

However, for many, Tampa’s rich culture and history go beyond anything a sign can provide.

Not to say Tampa doesn’t need to modernize like every other urban city, but there is a way to make a city more appealing to young professionals and urban-dwellers while still incorporating the history that attracted people to it in the first place.

One only needs to look across the water to St. Petersburg to find a city that has learned how historic preservation and urban renewal can go hand in hand.

With five historic districts throughout the city, including a 320-acre district in the heart of downtown, St. Petersburg contin-ues to have a vibrant nightlife and modern developments alongside shops and bars that maintain his-torical integrity.

In terms of historic significance and economic growth, it seems St. Petersburg, not Tampa, is the one having its cake and eating it, too.

If Tampa officials genuinely care about the city’s history as much as they claim, they should keep the existing Bro Bowl intact and follow a plan of urban renewal that improves on history, not erases it.

Roberto Roldan is a junior major-ing in mass communications.

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Constant gun violence should not be our reality

During a recent Q&A, President Barack Obama said there is no place like the U.S.

The statement was the fur-thest thing from proud, how-ever, as Obama said no other developed country, except the U.S., would tolerate the frequency of gun violence that occurs here.

Regardless of one’s stance on gun reform, it’s unfortu-nately true.

According to a study by two New York City cardiolo-gists, the U.S. has the most guns and gun-related deaths in comparison to 27 other developed countries, with 88 guns for every 100 people and 10 gun-related deaths for every 100,000 people.

Just last week, a young

gunman shot and killed a 14-year-old student, wound-ed a teacher and was later found dead at the scene in Reynolds High School in Troutdale, Oregon. Less than a week before, the shooting at Seattle Pacific University resulted in one death and three injuries. About two weeks before that, Elliot Rodger attacked the Isla Vista community, killing seven in a shooting rampage.

The Oregon shooting was the 74th school shoot-ing since the gut-wrench-ing attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, two years ago, in which 20 stu-dents and six adults were killed.

It shouldn’t be a given to expect gun violence to occur so frequently.

During the Q&A, the presi-dent addressed how any sort of legislation to change gun violence seems unlikely until the country demonstrates a dramatic change in its public opinion on gun control.

Even within the year fol-lowing the Sandy Hook shooting, Gallup polls show

that only about half of those polled felt gun laws should be more strict and only about a third felt strong dissatisfac-tion with the existing restric-tions on firearms.

Last year, following the shooting at Sandy Hook, the president issued 23 execu-tive orders concerning gun violence, all of which were halted by guns rights groups.

According to an MSNBC article, only recently has Congress made an effort for gun legislation since Obama’s attempt, as the House passed an amendment to enhance funding to improve the crimi-nal background checks sys-tem, which gun dealers cur-rently use to screen buyers.

Still, the gun violence that has occurred in recent weeks indicates more must be done.

Ultimately, until stricter gun regulation is passed on a national level, it seems fac-ing relentless devastation will remain the country’s real-ity, one which should not be accepted.

Isabelle Cavazos is a junior majoring in English and Spanish.

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Kingston determined to renew USF baseball

At his introductory press conference last Thursday, coach Mark Kingston said he believes USF can be an elite program. ORACLE PHOTO/ADAM MATHIEU

Even before participating in three College World Series and coaching 16 would-be MLB play-ers, new USF baseball coach Mark Kingston has had remarkable determination.

This determination, in part, stems from Kingston’s admiration of six-time All-Star Don Mattingly, his favorite baseball player grow-ing up.

“(Mattingly) played the game the right way, he always had the utmost respect for the game,” Kingston said Thursday at a press conference, in which AD Mark Harlan introduced him to the USF community.

“That was the guy I tried to be,” he said. “I actually was a right-handed hitter growing up, and I fell in love with his swing so much that I turned myself into a switch-hitter my sophomore season.”

Kingston’s determination has not dwindled since his days of playing for North Carolina, as he spoke of his vision for USF base-ball to become an “elite” program.

“If USF was a stock, I’d recom-

mend you buy it right now,” he said.

Kingston renewed the hope of fans, players and alumni at the press conference as he spoke of his desire for players to be model athletes who work just as hard as if they were competing in Omaha.

“When they’re coming off the field from defense, I want it to look like they can’t wait to hit,” Kingston said. “When they’re going out from the dugout, I want it to look like they can’t wait to pitch and they can’t wait to play good defense. When you’re win-ning and things are going well, everybody plays hard. How do you play when you ground out, when you pop up, when you’re down by four? To me, that’s what separates the good teams from the great teams.”

Kingston has a history of trans-forming baseball teams, the most prominent example being his stint as head coach at Illinois State for five years.

“It went from a program that was at the bottom of the league to one that I think people now expect to be one of the more com-petitive programs in the Midwest,”

ISU assistant coach Mike Current said.

Kingston led the Redbirds to two Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) Championships and broke the single-season school wins record twice. He also compiled more than 30 wins in each of his five seasons as head coach. In two of these seasons, Kingston earned MVC Coach of the Year.

Before ISU, Kingston spent seven seasons as a recruiting coordinator for Tulane, where he recruited or coached seven play-ers who became All-Americans.

Kingston’s eye for talent and knack for developing skill is evi-dent as six Redbirds were selected in this year’s MLB Draft, an ISU record. Only three of them had been drafted out of high school.

Kingston brings a shining track record to USF, but ISU assistant coach Bo Durkac said USF is also getting a “high-energy” coach who treats his players the way he would expect his three children to be treated.

“He is involved, whether it’s throwing (at batting practice), doing various drills, organizing

By Tiana AumentC O R R E S P O N D E N T

Two Bulls earn All-American honors

USF sent two athletes to the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon this past weekend and when the events ended, both emerged as first-team All-Americans for the second consecutive season.

Courtney Anderson ended her career at USF on a high note, clearing 6 feet in the high jump for the first time this season. The senior finished eighth for her event and earned first-team All-American honors by staying within the top nine competitors.

“It’s a relief, it feels great,” Anderson said. “I’ve been work-ing hard for this. I didn’t have the best season, but now it feels even better.”

The rocky beginning to the

season may have been due to Anderson’s success at the NCAA Championships last season. After becoming the national runner-up, she felt as though she had to live up to that finish.

“I think in the beginning of the year, I just expected too much of myself after that,” Anderson said. “I had to deal with that pressure, but now I’m peaking where I need to be and it didn’t affect me at all.”

When she cleared the 6-foot bar on her final attempt, Anderson said she knew that she had made the jump as soon as her feet left the ground. Now, she will attempt to parlay that success into the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

Garnering a personal best and a USF record, Matthew O’Neal also competed this weekend, placing

fourth in the triple jump event with a distance of 53-2.5.

Despite setting a school record, the sophomore said he could have finished even better if he hadn’t overstepped the board on his final jump. The result was a foul and a frustrated O’Neal.

“It definitely felt like it was going to be a great jump, but I over-stepped the board, and I knew I fouled and I couldn’t complete the jump,” O’Neal said. “It felt like I was going to go farther than I had before on that jump.”

Even though he set a school record this season, O’Neal said he will have a better season next year simply by staying on the track.

“Just staying healthy through-out the year will help a ton, so I definitely think I’ll do better next year,” he said.

By Vinnie PortellS P O R T S E D I T O R

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Matthew O’Neal recorded a personal best jump of 53-2.5, which earned him fourth place in the NCAA Outdoor Championships. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE

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