perspectives athletics, volume 4, issue 1

8/12/2019 Perspectives Athletics, Volume 4, Issue 1

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Anthony Davis

Court at Joslin

Girls Volleyball

Showcase

Middle School Roundup.

Joslin Varsity Boys

Soccer.

Warrior Football.

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Warrior X-Country

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a seasonal review of the Perspectives Charter Schools Sports Program


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nthonyDavis

has sky-rocketedfrom theSouth Sideof Chicagoto profes-sional

Thats whythe 6-foot-10-inch NewOrleans

Pelicans for-ward-centerreturned toPerspectivesJoslin cam-pus Sept. 6to join BoostMobile indonating a

beautifuloutdoor bas-ketball courtto his formerschool.

is court is foryou guys, he toldJoslin students,who joined othermembers of theschool commu-nity during aceremony on thenew facility. Per-spectives admin-istrators in turnsurprised theirfamous alumnusby retiring Da-vis No. 23 Joslin

jersey.

e new ADisciplined LifeAnthony Davis

Court has specialmeaning for thesecond-year NBAplayer becauseJoslin does nothave its own

gymnasium.

During his visitDavis, a 2011 PCS

graduate, spoke

to students abouthis life in the NBAand stressed howthe principles ofA Disciplined Lifehave helped himmake his success-ful journey.

It was just an

amazing dayfor everyone atPerspectives,Athletic Director

Vinay Mullicksaid. Were verygrateful to Antho-ny and his familyand Boost Mobilefor their generos-ity.

e court willbe a fixture on

our campus for along time. Werelucky to have itand lucky to haveAnthony and hisfamily as part ofthe Perspectivesfamily.

By Barry Temkin

View photos athttp://bit.ly/1e8MwLSw

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Anthony Davis with Vinay Mullick, Diana Shulla-Cose, Dr.Angela Brooks-Rallins, and Boost Mobile and City execs.

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P3 e highlight ofthe Perspectivesgirls volleyball

season was thefifth annual PCSShowcase, duringwhich the threenetwork varsityteams played around-robinevent.

PerspectivesLeadership Acad-emy/High School

of Technologydefeated the visit-ing teams from

the IIT Math &Science Academyand Rodney D.Joslin campusesOct. 16 to claim theShowcase cham-

pionship. eShowcase also in-cluded combinedSenior Nightfestivities for thethree teams 22

seniors becauseMSA and Joslindo not have their

own gyms.

It was a greatopportunity toshowcase theachievementsof our volleyballteams across thenetwork, Per-spectives AthleticDirector VinayMullick said. It

displayed thehard work of ourstudent-athletes

and coaches.

It also was aunique experi-ence to combinethe senior nights.

I think everyoneenjoyed it, and ithelped build ca-maraderie acrossthe network,which is nice.

PLA/Techfinished 8-3in the Chi-

cago PublicLeague Blue2 Confer-ence behindhead coachEron Powelland the play ofsenior WilleashaLove and juniorCrystal Lackey.

Joslin, under

co-head coachesJacqueline Men-sik and Michelle

Anderson, hada 4-5 record.Seniors NoamiHernandez andKiya Hamptonand junior Jenia

Cooper led theway.

William Yadron,in his first sea-son as MSA head

coach, focused onestablishing of-fensive and defen-sive systems. Topcontributors onthe team, which

finished 1-6,included seniorsTaa Calhoun and

Cassidy Ander-son and juniorsKamaria Rasul,Kameron Sand-ers, Janeya Cun-ningham, Dawn

Rayford and BrieMiner.

Yadron praisedCalhoun as a con-summate leader

through goodtimes and bad.

I was veryproud of all ourladies becausethey excelled onthe court and offthe court withhonors programsand honor roll, he

added.

By Barry Temkin

Mr. Temkin retired in2008 from the ChicagoTribune and volunteers inthe Perspectives Charter

Schools athletic depart-ment. He spent his last20 years at the Tribunewriting a high schoolsports column that cov-ered hundreds of schools,including Perspectives.

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High School of TechnologyIIT Math & Science AcademyRodney D. Joslin Campus


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e PerspectivesLeadership Acad-emy/High Schoolof Technology

cross countryteams had a solid2013 season.

Senior Willea-sha Love, finished25th at the IllinoisHigh School As-sociation Class2A girls regionalmeet at River-side-Brookfieldto advance as anindividual to thesectional round.

Other crosscountry leadersincluded seniorsAaris Simmons,

Angelia omas,Jorrel Cassadineand DaZhane Sin-clair. FreshmenAlston Phillipsand Mona Pen-nington were thetop newcomers.

We were asmall but mightyteam, head coachLindsey Schwartzsaid. e boysand girls teams

were so support-ive of each otherand really ral-lied around each

other finishingthe races, regard-less of place.

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MIDDLE SCHOOL ROUNDUP.

Perspectives/IIT Math & Science Academystarted slowly but finished strong,winning the PCS Middle School FlagFootball League championship. MichaelHooker and omas Oscar, both 8th-graders, were among the team leaders.

Head coach Jesse Hardy called his teama wonderful group of young men. Improud to have coached them.

e Joslin Middle School team was madeup mostly of 6th- and 7th-graders butenjoyed an undefeated regular season.

e few 8th-graders we had did a greatjob of being leaders and vocal, facilitatingand guiding our young players on the

field, head coach Tiray Jackson said.

ose 8th-graders included RaKwonRoberts, Karson Heins, Joshua Yeo andLashaun Banner. Seventh-grader RobertJeffries and 6th-grader Kimmon Watsonwere among other contributors.

e Perspectives Middle Academyteam finished 4-6 under head coachRon McBride. Top players included 8th-

graders Emmanuel Gipson and TylerDanzy.

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Boys soccer isbackall the waybackat Perspec-tives Rodney D.Joslin Campus.

Coaching turno-ver and low par-ticipation num-bers ended the

program a fewyears ago, but itreturned recentlyas a club programand was boostedto full-fledgedvarsity status thisfall.

A strong turn-

out of 19 playersproduced a 1-4record underhead coach Ken-neth Borre. Lead-ing the way weresenior goalkeeperBryan Villase-nor, who made25 saves against

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Sports Alliancesponsored the flagfootball league forthe third straightyear.

Volleyball e PerspectivesMiddle Academy7th-/8th-gradevolleyball teamfinished 2-2under co-coachesStephanie Madziarand BridgetBrennan. eteam won its finalmatch 18-1 with aroster of just three7th-graders andthree 6th-graders,who had to step

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up because the8th-graders wereaway on a fieldstudy. KimberlyWilbourn, a 6th-grader, served 16straight points.

Top contributorsincluded 8th-graders CandaceLeeper, Angel

Dixon and JasmineGalloway and 7th-grader CourtneyJones.

e PMA 6th-grade team was1-3 under NicoleSpindler, whosetop performersincluded Wilbourn,Ashley Poole,Brittany White andMarque Wallace.

We cant waitfor our 6th- and

7th-grade girls tojoin the team andsee their progress,Madziar said. Wehad the largest and

most committed6th-grade team inPMA history, andwe cant wait to seewhere that takes usthe next two years.

e MSA 8th-grade volleyballteam enjoyewd afine 6-3-1 seasonthat included

a second-pacefinish in its owntournament. e6th-/7th-gradeteam was 4-6.

Back of the Yards,and senior cap-tain Edgar DelToro, who scoredat least one goal in

each of the teamslast four games.

Other contribu-tors included sen-ior Andre Adamsand sophomoreRaphael Hutchins.

Our goal nextseason is to main-tain the core ofour team so thatwe can improveour fundamen-tals and end ourseason with awinning record,Borre said.

Athletic Direc-

tor Vinay Mul-lick praised theresults of theinaugural varsityseason.

It was a great

start, he said.e commit-ment of the kidswas great, andthe leadership ofthe coaches wasexcellent. Werelooking forward

to playing evenmore games nextseason.


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team is made upof players fromall four Perspec-tives high schools.It definitely was achallenge, but thekids did well.

It set things up

for the future, notonly the under-classmen realizinghow hard theyhave to work butalso the coachesunderstanding a lotof things we haveto get back to thedrawing board on.

Leading the waywere four seniors:running back Jahl-eel Griffin, centerRomanus Hutchins,linebacker Steven

Robinson andoffensive tackleChristopher Hawk-ins, a sought-aftercollege prospect.

e Warriorsprospects fornext season look

promising. Joneswill have about 15seniors enteringtheir fourth sea-sons in the footballprogram. is fallonly four of his 14seniors had thatmuch experience.

Perspectives alsowill continue togain the benefits ofstrong sophomoreand freshmanteams. e sopho-mores, under head

coach Randle Wil-liams, finished 4-2.

e freshmen,under Jason Wise,were undefeatedin their conferencegames and posteda tie with pow-

erhouse Simeon,which Jones saidhas usually routedthem in the past.More freshmen, headded, are arriv-ing at Perspectiveswith experience inthe CPS elementaryschools footballprogram.

e future looksbright, Jones said.Were eager toget out there andcompete.

games against thelikes of perennialpowers MorganPark, Robeson andHubbard were awhole new experi-ence and a meas-uring stick for Per-spectives athletes.

ey respondedwell enough to posta 2-3, fourth-placefinish among sixteams, earning thefirst Public Leagueplayoff berth in thesix-year history ofthe varsity footballprogram.

It was a measur-ing stick, learningwhat it takes tocompete at this lev-el, said head coachTerry Jones, whose

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is was a seasonof adjustment andprogress for thePerspectives Char-ter Schools footballteam.

e Warriors 3-6record may not re-

flect that, especiallycompared with lastseasons 7-3 markand first-ever berthin the state playoffs.is team, however,was debuting inthe tough ChicagoPublic League IlliniPrairie State Con-ference after breez-ing through thelower-level WindyCity Conference in2012.

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Top contributorsincluded 8th-graders JourneeLockridge, AireielCegards, Daniyia

Little, LavannahGiles and JoannaAdeij and 7th-graders SheritaTaylor, KhaiyaMartin andLaHannah Giles.

e scholarsI have workedwith for the pasttwo years madea positive growthfrom one seasonto the next, headcoach Hanna Yangsaid. Stick withwhat you love andpractice hard!

Soccer

e PerspectivesMiddle Academyboys soccer teamhad a 1-4 recordwhile competingin its first season in

the Lake CalumetConference.

We fought veryhard in everygame, head coachPatrick Duffeysaid. e boysdemonstratedA DisciplinedLife perfectly on

the field whilerepresenting theirschool.

Top contributorsincluded 8th-graders StephenMoore, who scored

two goals in onegame; John Duffieand Philip Jernigan.

I hope the sportgains a greaterfollowing in theyounger gradesso we can build aprogram, Duffeysaid.

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