march 9th club sports illustrated
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Here are the stories of App State's Club Sports as told by our Athletes in this issue of the Club Sports IllustratedTRANSCRIPT
Morgan Page, JuniorPolitical Science/Pre-LawWomen’s Basketball, President
Camille Edwards, SophomoreCommunication-Public Relations
Women’s Lacrosse, Team Member
March 9th, 2012
Swimming .........................................2
Executive Corner ...............................5
Women’s Lacrosse .............................7
Men’s Ultimate ..................................8
Equestrian .........................................9
Women’s Basketball ........................10
Men’s Lacrosse ................................11
Women’s Ultimate ...........................11
Upcoming Events .............................12
Table of Contents
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For more information on any of the club teams, please
contact us at:[email protected]
or contact any of the people below.
Student Recreation Center(828)262-2100
Director of University Recreation:Joe Carter
Director of Club Sports:Erin Carpenter
Activites Supervisor:CJ Ramsey
Publicity Programmer:Sam Stroup
Executive Officers of Club Sports:
Lizzy [email protected]
Michael [email protected]
Lindsey [email protected]
March 9th, 2012
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Swimming Appalachian State Swimming won our first away meet in years this past weekend on Saturday (March 25th). UNCG hosted their first ever swim meet, “Battle in the Boro” at the brand new Greensboro Aquatic Center. Twelve teams including, Duke, UNC, Elon, Wake Forest, NC State, Davidson, and other notable schools. The meet was neck and neck between ASU and NC State until the very last event in which ASU pulled away with the win. Many swimmers broke some of their personal bests, and some of our relay teams broke records.
The Men’s A relay won the 200 Medley and 200 Freestyle. The Woman’s A relay took first in the 400 Freestyle, 200 Medley, and the 200 Freestyle.
Carlie Pendleton took first overall in the Woman’s 100 Freestyle event with a time of 57.54. Kristian Hellem took first overall in the Men’s 200 Backstroke with a time of 2:17.18. Stephanie Bayag took first overall in the Woman’s 200 Backstroke with a time of 2:26.86. Kristian Hellem also took first in the Men’s 200 Individual Medley with a time of 2:14.59. Many of our swimmers took second place overall in their events as well as many swimmers scoring points.
This was a great meet for Appalachian State Swimming and we look forward to continuing our success into the East Coast Championships where over 50 teams will be in attendance.
-article by Dan Wallace (Secretary)
March 9th, 2012
photos taken by Sam Stroup
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The
Student Athlete
Stephanie Smith, SophomoreCriminal JusticeWomen’s Rugby, Match Secretary
Chad Strickland, SeniorExercise Science, Biology, PsychologySnowboard, President
March 9th, 2012
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The
Student Athlete
Lindsay Lane, SeniorHealth Promotions with Food and Nutrition
Women’s Volleyball, President
March 9th, 2012
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This year has been very busy, and I find my time distinctly divided between three areas: the CS program, the Men’s Ultimate team, and my schoolwork. To manage my time and stay on top of everything, I find it necessary to maintain a dual perspective on everything. The short term focus must always be on the things that are coming up or are high priority. Yet, I am always keeping one
Being a Club Sports Executive Officer, the President of the Women’s Lacrosse team and an Appalachian State University student can all be very stressful but I have found that everything I learn can be applied to all three jobs. One of the biggest things I have learned is time management; but not just the time management like having to get a paper done within the hour. With all these jobs to do I must time manage myself weeks, even months in advance. I have set up time lines for
What does it taketo be a Club Sports Student Athlete?
Executive Corner
As Club Sports student-athletes we work our butts off to keep our team
running and competing at our highest potential. With the
exception of only one dedicated professional staff member, this entire program is student run. Student. Us. We are responsible
Zeb King, JuniorPolitical ScienceCycling, President
March 9th, 2012
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This year has been very busy, and I find my time distinctly divided between three areas: the CS program, the Men’s Ultimate team, and my schoolwork. To manage my time and stay on top of everything, I find it necessary to maintain a dual perspective on everything. The short term focus must always be on the things that are coming up or are high priority. Yet, I am always keeping one
eye on things that are farther off. To do this, I find myself making lists. I have one list for each of my three areas of responsibility. On one list I write down all of the assignments that are due, or tests that are coming up. On another list, I write down everything that needs to get done for the Ultimate team. This includes booking hotels, keeping up with paperwork and attending officer meetings. My third
list contains all of my Executive duties. All of these areas that I am involved in are important to me, and I really enjoy all that I do for each. But, it can get overwhelming if I lose my focus. Staying on top of the responsibilities that are directly ahead of me, while being aware of those in the distance, is critical to being successful and productive.
-Michael Neve (Executive Officer)
Being a Club Sports Executive Officer, the President of the Women’s Lacrosse team and an Appalachian State University student can all be very stressful but I have found that everything I learn can be applied to all three jobs. One of the biggest things I have learned is time management; but not just the time management like having to get a paper done within the hour. With all these jobs to do I must time manage myself weeks, even months in advance. I have set up time lines for
the events and find myself following them to a “T”. Being President, I have used the same format for scheduling games and I make sure I have all my practices organized and ready the Sunday before they are going to start. This is mainly so that I can go out on the field and not worry about what is next to practice but concentrate on coaching the team. I have learned many of these time management techniques by being a Recreation Management major and I would suggest this manner of organization to anyone. This has
helped me apply my major in the field and has made this something that I really enjoy doing. One of the greatest tips I have learned by being involved as an Executive Officer, Women’s Lacrosse President and ASU student is to delegate jobs. It is about trusting the people you work with, knowing that they will do their pull in the work. Without delegated jobs you would find yourself doing everything and that just would not be possible.
-Lizzy Lagasse (Executive Officer)
As Club Sports student-athletes we work our butts off to keep our team
running and competing at our highest potential. With the
exception of only one dedicated professional staff member, this entire program is student run. Student. Us. We are responsible
for everything in this organization. If we want something done, if we want something changed, if we want to get to that tournament, if we want to beat that rival, if we want more money, WE go out and get it. We make things happen. Club Sports student-athletes are organized, dedicated, driven, and self-motivated beyond what any other organization on this campus could ever claim to be. We don’t have the university hired support to help manage the team, games
& practices scheduled for us, workouts planned, trainers available, transportation provided, recruiters, tutors, meals, money… Everything we have in this program we’ve created ourselves. We have EARNED ourselves.
-Lindsey Mullen (Executive Officer)
March 9th, 2012
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Women’s Lacrosse When it comes down to the personality of the App State Women’s Lacrosse team everything is about being positive. As soon as the team hits the field for practice all you can hear is encouragement from teammates about a good pass, shot or awesome defense. And the positive attitude does not stop there, each and every member of the teams knows when they do something right. During practice constructive criticism happens in the form of “you got it” or “stick with it” because by throwing anything negative onto the field the team falls apart. When a game is not going to our liking it is often difficult not to get frustrated and angry at teammates and when that happens the team falls apart, literally. This is how we, as a team know that we must be positive and having fun in the half time discussion. We’re not just talking being positive on the field but also in everything we do, whether it be a crazy Christmas sweater parties or Relay for Life. We are a very social team and everything we do
together has to be positive and something we can goof off about. Our latest team bonding adventure was tie-dyeing after practice. Everyone brought anything they wanted to dye and we hung out and ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The team does a lot of fun things together, including a lacrosse clinic for Watauga High School where we taught the high school team how to play lacrosse. One of the team’s favorite bonding activities is the annual “LAX Bro/That Girl” practice. It is usually at the end of year and is a practice where the team dresses as a “LAX Bro” (bright colors, pennies and backwards hats) or “That Girl” (someone who wears jeans and makeup to practice) to practice and we play games involving lacrosse. It is an event that everyone looks forward to and we cannot wait for this year’s annual practice.
-article by Lizzy Lagasse (President)
March 9th, 2012
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Men’s Ultimate CHUCKTOWN THROWDOWN CHAMPIONS! The Men’s Ultimate team ended our 3 straight weekends of tournaments with a win at the Charleston tournament. We came into the tournament ranked 2nd overall, and unlike last year, we were not looking to settle for second place. We were looking to be tournament champions. We had five games Saturday where we breezed through most of the competition except for Georgia College, the 2nd seed in our pool. While they are a good team, we had a bad start and found ourselves down 4-0. We managed to dig deep and make up our deficit and played them close the whole game, but ended up losing 10-9. That was our only loss for the entire weekend and if we had not given them 4 points at the beginning, I am positive we could have beaten them. We finished up the day 4-1 and a confidence that would carry over into Sunday’s games. Sunday came and having a little trouble getting ready, we showed up to the fields about 10 minutes until game time. Without a proper warm up, the Nomads came out hot as we cruised past Elon in the first game. The next game was going to be a
battle however as we were set up to face the number 1 seed of the whole tournament: Clemson. The start of the game was close with them as we traded points but eventually we started to show what we were made of and began slowly pulling away for the victory. This win put us into the championship against our friendly rival and host of the tournament, College of Charleston. We had beaten the talented Charleston squad earlier this year and through little effort, we put them away, claiming the Chucktown Championship. The big things that stood out from this tournament is our flow as a team and the play of our rookies. We finally seemed to click this weekend which was a big part to our success. The rookies coming off their own victory at the B-team tournament the weekend before stepped up and played with a lot of confidence. It is really nice seeing our younger guys grow into elite ultimate players.
-article by Daniel Niwinski (Vice President)
photo taken by Katie Mills
March 9th, 2012
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Equestrian The Equestrian Club has had our strongest year yet with some of the best finishes in club history! The Hunt Seat Team finished 6th overall with numerous individual riders having first place finishes and four riders qualifying for regionals. We also placed 3rd as a team at a few shows which is the best team finish we’ve ever had! We assembled our first full competitive Western Team this year and had some very competitive individual riders. Many of the Western Team members had never competed or shown before but represented the team well. We are anticipating sending many Western riders to regionals next year and hope to continue
to grow!
Our Dressage Team had some great accomplishments this year including earning an individual Reserve High Point Champion (Katie Sedlmeyer) and High Point Champion (Alex Jonker). The Dressage Team has four girls in the running to go to nationals as individuals. We are very excited about possibility of sending one or more riders to a National Collegiate riding competition for the first time ever! We could not be more proud of ALL of our riders and their accomplishments this year! Managing being a student and an Equestrian Team member is not easy. As with most sports, the more you practice, the more competitive you are. Since our riding facilities are an hour down the mountain it is tough to juggle school work and practice. We require that competing members have one riding lesson a week and can practice at their own discretion. We have many riders that practice multiple times a week and still
find time to keep up with their school work. We really have to make sure our priorities are straight and practice good time management skills. It is not unusual to see us sitting at a horse show with our Accounting book cracked open!
The Equestrian Team as a whole has great camaraderie. We love to hang out on the weekends, go to the gym and get together in between classes. We also organized a Blood Drive to support the American Red Cross and Volunteer at Horse Helpers of the High Country, a horse rescuing organization. We have also been known to go apple picking, dog walking and volunteering at local horse shows.
-article by Katelyn Young (Vice President)
March 9th, 2012
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Women’s Basketball The weekend of February 24-26th, Appalachian Women’s Club Basketball team traveled to Georgia Southern for the 2012 NIRSA Regional Tournament. The weekend started off with pool play. Our pool consisted of ASU, North Georgia, and Mississippi State. After a lengthy drive, Friday night kicked off the tournament with a match up between App State and North Georgia at 8pm. App took the win over North Georgia 49-37, with Sydney Revis leading the way with 24 points. Appalachian resumed play Saturday morning at 10am against Mississippi State University. Unfortunately MSU outscored ASU by 2 points in overtime, on a controversial foul call leading to free throws after the clock had expired. This gave ASU a number 2 seed leading into bracket play. Due to unfortunate luck, ASU drew the last spot on the bracket placing us up against a strong Howard team which would then lead into MSU for the rematch immediately afterward. Tip off for the first bracket game began at 6pm Saturday. A very quick Howard
team took off fast, leading App by close to ten at times. App fought back and closed the gap, using free throw shooting to gain the lead. The game went into double overtime. Both teams were extremely tired and drew, what had seemed to be, the largest crowd to the court that had been at the tournament yet. The game was heated and intense as Howard’s Men’s team, as well as some other surrounding schools, cheered Howard on and booed App. ASU drew one lone fan in support in the hostile environment, which I believe motivated the team even more. The booing was like energy, it lifted the team up and we fought even harder, coming out on top 42-39 at the end of the 2nd overtime. After such an emotionally and physically draining game, ASU then went immediately to the next court to take on MSU once again. They were well rested and confident after their last victory, and knowing we would be tired. App fought, but trailed the entire game
with simply no energy left. App only managed to put 28 points on the board and lost 39-28 in the quarter finals. Overall, I am pleased with the results. No one likes to lose but considering what this team started as, and where we are now, to make it to the quarter finals and defeat such prominent schools and even being a contender in every game we play, is a great accomplishment. We have yet to be blown out of a game, if we lose, they are close and hard fought games. In 2011 at the same regionals, this club did not make it past pool play to even play in the bracket. This year we not only made it in the bracket, but made it to the quarter finals, and that is something to be proud of.
-article by Morgan Page (President)
March 9th, 2012
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Men’s Lacrosse The App State Men’s Club Lacrosse team record is now 3-2. In the last two weeks the team has suffered one loss but achieved one win. Two weekends ago on Saturday the 25th, the team suffered a loss against Liberty University at Liberty. After a five or so hour bus ride, the team was unfortunately not able to hold on to a lead, losing the game in the end with a score of 16 to 11. However, this past Sunday the team came out with a win against Ferris State who came down from Michigan to play. The team gained a lead early on and kept it up the whole game with a final score of 18 to 3. The week before Spring break the team had a break from practice. After Spring break we will have only two practices before our next game against UNC Charlotte on Thursday at Charlotte. We are looking forward to this game and expect to come out with another great win.
-article by Scott Murphy (Secretary)
Women’s Ultimate The Nonads trip to Charleston was both successful and fun. The girls finished 4th with many close games and finished in time to see the Nomads win the whole open tournament. The girls are back on the field now ready to prepare for their next tournament at Elon at the end of the month. With the second semester of the year now starting to get busier than ever, the Nonads are having to balance school work, practices, and tournaments. Jessie Harrleson comments that with practices being so late, it is hard to get work done. It really shows the dedication of all the players because we practice hard later on at night. Ingrid Humphry, a rookie this year, also commented that ultimate was something to look forward to at the end of the day. Knowing that she has practice at the end of the day motivates her to get her work done so she can go.
-article by Kasey Telfer (Secretary)
March 9th, 2012
Upcoming EventsMarch 12-17, 2012 - Baseball, Spring Break Showcase, Clearwater, Florida
March 19, 2012 - Club Sports Photo Comp opens for submissions
March 24-25, 2012 - Men’s Ultimate Thaw Out Tournament, State Farm Fields - Baseball vs. University of Kentucky, ASU Baseball Field
March 24, 2012 - Men’s Lacrosse vs. Davidson, State Farm Soccer Stadium - Women’s Volleyball Tournament, Student Recreation Center - Women’s Soccer, Kidd Brewer Stadium
March 28, 2012 - Club Sports Council
March 30, 2012 - Next Club Sports Illustrated
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Photo Competition! The Club Sports Photo Comp opens up for submissions starting Monday, March 19th! Visit the photo competition page on clubsports.appstate.edu for rules, dates, and more information.