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When sophomore Eric Patterson’s peers fi nd out he’s on the hockey team, he is usually met with confused looks and further questions.

“Anyone that sees me wearing anything to do with hockey pretty much asks me,” he said.

Patterson is one of 26 USC students who make up a South Carolina club hockey team that has been on a steady path to national relevance ever since coach Brian Bauman took over the program four years ago.

The G amecock s play in t he Southeastern Collegiate Hockey Conference, or SCHC, which is the club hockey equivalent to the Southeastern Conference and includes 10 of the SEC’s 14 affiliates. The SCHC belongs to the larger American Collegiate Hockey Association, or ACHA, that governs more than 350 programs across its three men’s divisions.

I n t he 2013-14 sea son , t he Gamecocks shattered a number of their previous records on their way to a 21-9-2 mark, the most wins in school history. In the process, South Carolina scored more goals than ever before (154) and Patterson set the individual program record for goals scored in a year (22).

While the South Carolina hockey team has not sought varsity distinction — nor does it plan to, Bauman said — the sport of college hockey is a whole different animal than football, basketball and other mainstream sports. And with a very l imited number of varsity programs across the nation, the club ranks are a viable alternative for many varsity-caliber athletes.

“The drop-off is not as big as most people would think,” Bauman said. “So you’re getting a lot of kids that are playing at a high level. You see many all-state kids from up north that are not making NCAA teams, and they decide that they want to go play club.”

Courtesy of Lezlie Patterson

Junior Mike Foster said South Carolina’s club hockey team has grown and improved since he joined as a freshman.

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Amber Krzys delivered the Carolina Beautiful keynote address Wednesday night, where she told the audience her story about looking past her fl aws and learning to love herself.

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Gamecock club hockey makes strides towards national prominence

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Three weeks after student Sen. Lindsay R ichardson presented a new St udent Government const itut ion, the student body president-elect took to the f loor once again Wednesday to propose another draft of the proposal.

The new proposal moves aw a y f r o m s o me o f t he controversial aspects of the pre v iou s a mend ment ; i t would have made the student body treasurer an appointed position, created a position — speaker of the senate — to oversee the student senate and put the vice president’s focus on running programs and initiatives.

The new proposal would keep t he t reasu rer a s an elected position and allow the senate, not the student body, to elect the speaker. Under the proposal, the speaker of the senate would receive a stipend.

The prev ious proposa l was met w it h debate and opposition that focused on paying an appointed treasurer and on the speed with which the new const itut ion was being pushed through.

An amendment presented b y S e n . Pa t r i c k B a i l e y changed this portion of the bill, strik ing the speaker’s stipend and instead making the speaker an ex-of f ic io memb er i n me e t i n g s o f SG’s executive officers and administration.

That is, if the amendment i s approved, t he speaker w o u ld a t t e n d t h e s a m e meetings as the student body president, vice president and treasurer, but would not be compensated for his or her work in SG. The speaker would serve in essentially the same capacity that the vice president currently does, but the posit ion’s name would

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t h e a m e n d m e nt , w h i c h Richardson said she does not support, Bailey said he did not have an opinion one way or another about if the speaker should be paid but that he wanted to make sure both sides of the argument were represented before the senate votes next week.

T h e c o n s t i t u t i o n r e f e r e n d u m a n d t h e accompanying amendment w i l l b e o n t h e s e c o n d contested reading calendar at next week’s senate session, when members w i l l have a cha nce to vote on t he legislation for the fi rst time.

The previous draft of the const itut ion was removed from consideration.

SG’s l ine of succession would also be changed under the new proposal, with the speaker of the senate taking over for the vice president if he is unable to fulfill his duties.

If the speaker left office, the speaker pro tempore of the senate would take over in the role.

Senators propose new changes to

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Speaker promotes self love, not harm

Bill would change structure of SG’s executive offi ces

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A mber K rz y s told t he crowd in the Russell House Ballroom Wednesday night that she bel ieves the act of loving your body starts with establishing a healthy internal relationship.

As the founder of “Body Peace,” Krzys has the unique opportunity of working with people to help them love who they are, she said.

“ I wa nt you to get a s much as you can out of this exper ience,” K rz ys sa id. “I’m going to share what has worked for me in my life, and it is up to you to process it.”

Audience members were encouraged to be themselves as Krzys shared her story of gaining peace with her body. She said that in any given moment, every person has a choice they can make: t o c ho o s e s e l f-h a r m or self-honoring.

“My i ntent ions a re to support you in self-honoring choices,” Krzys said.

At age 10, K rzys k new that she wanted to be on Broadway, and before that, she loved to da nce. She had t he oppor t u n it y to perform in Mamma Mia, but something was missing from what was perceived by others to be a success story.

“I didn’t feel successful. I felt miserable because I was obsessed with perfection,” Krzys said.

H e r o b s e s s i o n w i t h being perfect began in that moment, as she criticized her body and began searching for ways to change it, she said.

“I bel ieved in the idea t hat my body needed to be dif ferent,” Krzys said. “We start to f ight for the unattainable.”

Krzys deemed her f ight a “vicious cycle” and said it was an example of the ways people begin to turn away from themselves.

“We start to reject our body and say, ‘You need to do something about that,’” she said. “Our body ultimately becomes the enemy.”

Realizing that the lifestyle she had chosen — allowing numbers on a scale to dictate

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Women’s basketball head coach Dawn Staley has signed on to coach the U.S. women’s under-18 basketball team this summer at the FIBA Americas championship, according to ESPN.

Two assistant coaches will join Staley: Louisville coach Jeff Walz and Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico.

Should the team advance to the tournament’s fi nal four this summer, the team will qualify for the U19 World Championship next year.

Staley won three medals while playing for the U.S. national team and also coached the 2007 Pan American Games, in which the American team won gold.

“I appreciate every opportunity I have to work with USA Basketball, an organization that I’ve worked with for almost half my life,” Staley said. “I’m honored to be chosen and look forward to a different experience working with such a young group of athletes but in an organization I’m very familiar with.”

—Hannah Jeffrey, News Editor

City Councilwoman Tameika Isaac Devine said she made a mistake on a loan a decade ago that could cost taxpayers almost $158,000, according to The State.

Devine has been accused of mishandling a federally funded loan, which involved Carolina Procurement Institute, for borrowers with whom she had a professional relationship and who she represented in the closing.

Devine told The State Tuesday that she did make a mistake — was failing to have the mortgage notarized, which she said is not an uncommon misstep in real estate transactions. She said she had notifi ed her malpractice insurance carrier after hearing about questions about the paperwork earlier this year.

City Council met to discuss the situation in a closed-door meeting Wednesday at City Hall. Devine said she would not attend the meeting, as she had long-standing plans to attend an out-of-state conference that day.

—Hannah Jeffrey, News Editor

The state Senate blocked a plan Tuesday that would eliminate scores of public health, safety and environmental rules, according to The State.

State senators sent the legislat ion back to committee for further study, which diminishes the bill’s potential to pass.

The bill would kill more than 100 regulations within the Department of Health and Environmental Control. The regulations include those protecting air quality and overseeing how radioactive waste is handled.

State Sen. Larry Martin, R-Pickens, convinced the body not to approve the bill, The State reported.

The bill comes after DHEC offi cials, as well as offi cials from the state Department of Labor and Licensing and Regulation, expressed concerns about the legislation.

According to DHEC Director Cather ine Templeton, the state senate made the right decision, because, she said, killing regulations with little review is a bad idea.

—Hannah Jeffrey, News Editor

her life — Krzys began to let go and allowed herself to take a step in another direction.

“The one thing I never thought possible was to love the body that I was given,” Krzys said. “Even if you don’t think something is possible, as long as you’re willing to try, magic can happen.”

Her journey, she said, was full of exploration, trial and error and tears, and she invited the audience to try

that path as well.“When love is at your core, you

feel worthy,” Krzys said. “We’re shining a light on the darkest places when we face our fears.”

Through music, her personal story and laughter, Krzys aimed to inspire the audience through her words.

“In this room tonight, you’re allowed to be seen,” Krzys said. “You’re allowed to be not perfect — including me.”

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Most college students need all the cash they can get their hands on. As their parents cut away the l ifeline, money for even basic necessities like rent and food becomes hard to come by. Add this newfound stress to a familiar one like performing well in class, and it’s easy to see where all the stereotypes about burnt-out, almost-malnourished college students come from.

Because of the especia l ly precarious balance between time, money and stress, students who work for USC and it s organizations deserve to be paid for their work. That goes for the speaker of the senate, too.

Under a proposed amendment to the Student Government const itut ion, a new speaker would preside over the student senate, taking over much of the work that the v ice president currently does. It makes sense that the speaker would be paid, because the vice president does.

But it does g ive us pause that someone would receive a stipend from student activity fees without being elected by

the student body directly. That’s why we think that the speaker should be paid, but we need to have a better idea for how much that stipend would be before we can fully endorse the changes.

The speaker will no doubt invest serious t ime into the posit ion, and that warrants compensation — more than just a line on a résumé.

If we want our leaders to do a good job, we need to reward them accordingly. Generally, you get what you pay for. Skimping out on our speaker is likely to lead to a migration of t a lent , so to speak . We should take every step we can in attracting the caliber of students we want in leadership positions.

We're not saying the speaker has to be paid handsomely — we don’t think they ought to be — but whoever fi lls the role certainly deserves some amount of compensation.

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As country enters peacetime,large ranks not necessary

ISSUE A proposal would establish a speaker of the senate, who would be paid.

OUR STANCE Although students won’t elect the speaker, pay is warranted.

“Since the speaker of the senate would not be elected by the student body, the bill also proposes that the speaker’s stipend be removed. While we understand its purpose, we can’t stand behind stripping the position of its stipend.”

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I’m an international student from Southport, England, and have been with my boyfriend for over a year. On Dec. 17., 2012 we went on our third date — the same day I found out that I had been accepted for my study abroad year at USC.

Having made a trans-Atlantic relat ionship work since last August, my friend suggested that I write about my experience and share some thoughts about the secret to dating long-distance.

While I do believe that there are many things that make a long-distance relationship easier — like commitment, trust and honesty, to name a few — I tend to treat "how-to" articles with skept icism when it comes to relationships.

The idea that there’s a “secret” to long-distance relationships is a harmful one. Every couple is different, and every couple w i l l be t r ied by d i f f erent circumstances. The things that have made my relationship work may be completely dif ferent from the next one. Thus, I’m reluctant to try and explain the secret behind “what it takes.” I would rather argue in favor of long-distance relationships in a more general sense.

It wasn’t unt il a couple of months before I departed for South Carolina that I started to realize that long-distance relationships are given such a dishearteningly bad press.

My best friends, close friends and even Facebook f r iends

I hadn’t spoken to in months started to creep around the topic, asking questions like, “So what are you going to do when you move away?” and “Don’t you think it will really change your year abroad?”

The closer my departure date came, the more I was starting to believe that I had a terminal disease written all over my face, as friends started to ask, “How long have you got left?”

I would like to call out the skeptics and reassure them that contrary to popular opinion, long-distance relationships are not synonymous with a slow and painful death.

Of course, being unable to pick up the phone and call my

b o y f r i e n d a n d spend t ime with him in person has been unspeakably d i f f i c u l t . A t home, we live just around the corner from each other, s o s c h e d u l i n g Sk y pe ca l l s a nd c o m mu n ic a t i n g via WhatsApp has been an unwelcome s u b s t i t u t e i n

a relat ionship that has never before been cha l lenged by logistics.

But it i s prec i se ly t he se cha l lenges t hat have made our relationship as strong as it is. Many people consider the decision to study abroad as a single person’s pursuit , but being in a serious, long-term relationship while abroad has been one of the most rewarding, life-changing and illuminating

decisions I have ever made. I o f t en meet p eople my

age who scoff at the concept o f b e i n g i n a l o n g - t e r m relationship during their early 20s. Stereotyped as the t ime to embrace freedom and single life, entering into one’s 20s is commonly seen as incongruous to long-distance, long-term relationships.

B u t b e i n g i n a s e r i o u s relationship doesn’t necessarily equate to a loss of freedom. While my boyfriend and I are committed to our relationship, we encourage each other to pursue our respective passions in l ife and seize once-in-a-lifetime opportunities that come our way. To me, being in a long-term, long-distance relationship is far f rom a sacr i f ice or a compromise. It means enjoying all of the exciting opportunities that come my way during my 20s — but having someone I love to enjoy them with.

Attempting to make long-distance work has been just as t ransformat ive and l i fe-changing as my decision to study abroad in America. It’s brought us closer together, made us stronger, tested our limits and taught us about ourselves as a team, and as individuals.

W hen I look back on my year in South Carolina, I will look back forever grateful for the priceless life lessons I have learned during my time here, many of which have come from overcoming the odds, and the skept ics, by mak ing a long-distance relationship last.

During the Revolutionary War, the U.S. military was founded, and the number of troops swelled. After the war, President George Washington warned that “a large standing Army in time of Peace hath ever been considered dangerous to the liberties of a Country,” and under his direction the number of soldiers decreased.

For the majority of wars our nation has fought, the size of the military grew immediately before the conf lict began, peaked during the war and returned approximately to pre-war levels afterwards.

This trend ended with World War II. As the nation geared up to join the war, the number grew to well over a million by the end of 1941. Germany and Japan surrendered in 1945, but Cold War tensions kept the military from shrinking back to pre-war levels.

It wasn’t until just before the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 that our Army shrank back to its smallest size since 1940 — 480,000 active duty soldiers. Its numbers swelled again to fi ght the war on terror, and as more than a decade of war draws to a close, we currently have 522,000 active duty soldiers in the Army.

Maintaining such a large military for such a long time with little shrinkage during peacetime is extremely expensive. It’s not just a matter of paying salaries to all of the courageous men and women who defend our country; we’ve also got to train them, feed them, house them, transport them, equip them and pay for the benefi ts they’ve earned when they return home. All this has lead the United States to spend upwards of $600 billion annually on the Department of Defense, good for about 20 percent of the total budget.

To put it in other terms, the federal government spends almost 10 times more fi ghting than educating ($689 billion on the Department of Defense to $77 billion on the Department of Education in 2012). The United States makes up about 5 percent of the world’s population, but 43 percent of the world’s military expenditures. Every year, the United States spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined.

With all of this in mind, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel proposed major spending reductions across the board in the U.S. military. These reductions will shrink the Army down to 480,000 active duty personnel, the lowest level since before World War II, and the total military budget down below the $500 billion.

Thank you, Mr. Secretary, for recognizing how crazy this amount of military spending is, especially while our nation is in so much debt and faces no legitimate external threats. I, and many millions of other Americans, appreciate what you’re doing. We understand, as you do, that this amount of spending is unsustainable in the long run.

While these cuts aren’t popular among your fellow Republicans, I believe you said it best during your speech: “If we continue on the current course without making these modest adjustments now, the choices will only grow more difficult and painful down the road.”

I wish more branches of government would follow your lead.

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For the f irst t ime ever, USC’s student-run radio station has broken into the top 10 in the running for the nation’s best college radio station.

Af ter get t ing into the top 25 in 2013, W USC cou ld w in it s f irst mtvU Woodie Award. Kate A pp e lbau m , W USC ’s s t at ion manager, is very excited about this year’s nomination. She said that even though WUSC has a strong presence on social media, the station gets its street cred through word-of-mouth pull.

“I’m pretty sure we’re the only station in the running that does a ‘no top 40’ music policy,” Appelbaum said. “So, if you think about it, we’re the only true college radio station.”

If WUSC wins the college radio Woodie, Appelbaum said she thinks that the station’s reputation with students will grow. In addit ion, the award would draw more of the school’s attention to the radio.

“It would defi nitely put us back in the game,” she said. “Our station is really growing. The past few years especially, we’ve been seen as this weird, hipster, untouchable crowd, and now our last few classes of DJs have been so diverse.”

The executive producer of the 2014 mtvU Woodie Awards, Eric Conte , i s look i ng for wa rd to rewarding one college radio station for their hard work with plenty of publicity — and an award.

“College radio is amazing,” he said. “You aren’t going to f ind a more passionate group of radio DJs across the country.”

Woodie nominations start with a huge list of college radio stations from across the country. Among other things, mtvU talks to industry

insiders and observes fan responses to carefully pick which student radio stations deserve to be nominated for the award.

“We’re excited for all nominees, and we can’t wait out to hand out another Woodie,” said Conte.

Started in 2002, mtvU’s goal is to give alternative music a voice

on MTV. Outside of college radio, Woodie categories include Woodie of the Year, Did It My Way Woodie, Best Video Woodie and several others.

In 2013, the University of Alaska-Fairbanks won the Woodie that WUSC is up for this year.

Wo o d i e A w a r d s a r e w o n

t h r o u g h o n l i n e v o t i n g. Yo u can vote for W USC on MTV’s w e b s i t e a t h t t p : // w w w. m t v.com /ont v/woodieawards/2014/college-radio-woodie/.

The 2014 Woodie Awards will be held March 16 at 8 p.m.

Since the 1990s, electronic music has evolved from the low-quality, autotuned vocals in Cher’s “Believe” to entire genres of music composed by audio technicians.

The late 2000s gave rise to a rapidly growing and expanding genre known as electronic dance music, colloquially known as EDM, that includes many subgenres, like dubstep, house, trap and glitch hop. Recently, artists like Daft Punk and Skrillex have helped bring this developing genre into the spotlight, opening the door for new, small artists to break into the mainstream music scene.

Among those up-and-coming artists is Sampson Fire, a project by second-year advertising student Wright Clarkson.

Before he began producing EDM, Clarkson had a background in standard musical instruments.

“I’ve played drums for a while,” he said, ”some guitar, and a tiny bit of piano.”

Drums were his primary instrument, and in his eight years of playing, Clarkson has taken lessons to improve his skills and formed a pop-punk band called A High Like This.

Once in high school, a friend introduced him to electronic music and GarageBand, the default Apple audio software. After using GaradeBand to learn the basics of music production, he began using a program called Logic Pro to get serious about his music.

Since starting as an EDM producer, Sampson Fire has released one single, “Avalanche,” onto SoundCloud. He is hoping to release his first album, featuring 10 new songs, in late March.

The t rack s on t he upcoming LP, t it led “Misadventure,” represent various styles of EDM, but are focused on themes of anger and desire. “Misadventure” represents Clarkson’s developing style as an artist, which he described as “lush.”

W hile developing h is musica l aesthet ic, Clarkson looked to a few of his favorite producers for inspiration: Zedd, Porter Robinson, Skrillex, Excision and Space Laces. Zedd has been particularly inf luential because of his concise style of music.

“His composition and the sounds he uses are very well done, very clean,” Clarkson said. “It’s very pure.”

When Sampson Fire began DJing shows in

Myrtle Beach and in Columbia, he found a new source of inspiration in Zedd, Porter and Skrillex, watching their performances and aspiring to bring their hype and emotion to his own shows.

“They have so much fun with it, and they put on such a great show” Clarkson said.

Currently, Clarkson just posts his music to a SoundCloud account, but once “Misadventure” is released, Clarkson hopes to coordinate with EDM-specifi c blogs like dubstep.net, edm.com and White Raver Rafting to promote his music.

Clarkson is relatively new to the work, but he shares one trait with many successful composers: more ideas, almost, than he knows what to do with.

“[In my music] there’s a lot of different layers and sounds going on at once, but they all coincide well,” Clarkson said. “If I could sum up my music with one word, it would be ADHD.”

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The line between love and bestiality was blurred Tuesday night when the USC Department of Theatre and Dance premiered “Swimming in the Shallows,” a tale of passion and commitment that revolves around a married couple, two lesbian partners and — here’s where things get fi shy — a man and a mako shark.

The performance, which runs until March 1 at the Center for Performance Experiment in Hamilton College, was the company’s most bizarre and hilarious performance of the school year.

To ca l l Adam Bock ’s scr ipt of f beat is an understatement; things get downright weird.

The married couple, Bob ( Justin Sanders) and Barb (Leeanna Goldstein Rubin), runs into trouble in paradise, when Barb contemplates ending the relationship to become a Buddhist monk and give away all her worldly possessions (save for eight, a la the eightfold path to enlightenment). Partners Donna (Kate Dzvonik) and Carla Carla (Laurie Roberts) want to take things to the next level and tie the knot, but Donna’s cigarette habit complicates things. Then there’s Nick (Cory Lipman), who falls in love with a mako shark (Liam MacDougall) after a visit to the aquarium.

But there’s a surprising depth to the exploration of these odd couples.

Director Scott Giguere gives his actors enough freedom to f lex their quirk while simultaneously establishing enough structure that the production’s main theme (there is a point to the madness) can shine through: The fear of jumping into the deep

end with a signifi cant other.But some couples in the show take that theme

more literally than others — just ask Nick and his shark lover.

Off beat comedy meditates on love through troubles of odd romantic couples

‘Swimming’ pairs up unlikely partners

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In college hockey’s varsity ranks, there are Division I and Division III levels with no middle tier in between. Those two divisions combined include 133 total programs. When that number is compared to college football’s 252 and basketball’s 350 teams in Division I alone, it isn’t hard to see how some of the country’s best high school hockey prospects can get lost in the shuffl e.

As far as Gamecock hockey goes, many different paths have led the 26 members of the team to South Carolina’s home ice at the Plex in Irmo.

While Patterson is from Chapin and wanted to stay close to home, his teammate Mike Foster is a Lancaster, Pa., native who considered schools with varsity hockey programs before fi nding a home in Columbia.

“[Playing college hockey] was the goal in high school,” Foster said. “But it got to a point where education and where I was going to go to school was more important.”

The South Carolina team has representatives from 13 different states , includ ing import s f rom Maine, Minnesota, New York and Massachusetts.

Foster, a junior, has been with the team since his freshman year and has been an integral part of the success the program has seen lately. Just this past weekend, the Gamecocks’

regular season record earned them the honor of hosting the ACHA’s regional playoffs.

South Carolina played its fi rst game Friday against Christopher Newport, defeating the Captains 2-1 behind a late goal from sophomore Adam Hepp on Patterson’s assist with less than fi ve minutes to play in the third period. The win would allow the Gamecocks to advance in the bracket to face the University of Miami the following day with a berth in the national tournament on the line.

South Carolina’s season would end there, as Saturday’s 7-4 loss to the Hurricanes would halt the Gamecocks’ record-breaking campaign.

While Patterson, Foster and the rest of their teammates made no secret of their goal to reach the national stage, they cannot help but acknowledge how far the program has come at South Carolina. And with the 2013-14 season in the books and just three departing seniors on the team, the sky appears to be the limit for Gamecock hockey once next September rolls around.

“Since my freshman year it’s been amazing, just to see the growth of this team,” Foster said. “When I fi rst started, I think we had nine rookies that season, and it just took off from there. It went from a team that could barely make the playoffs to now hoping to make a national tournament.”

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Eight top-25 teams stand between the South Carolina track and field team and an SEC championship.

The Gamecocks are set to compete in the SEC Indoor Championships, which are held annually at Texas A&M, against some of the nation’s best teams, including the top-three teams in the country: Arkansas, Florida and Texas A&M.

“If you can compete with them and hang close and score in the SEC, you know you’re one of the best athletes in the world at your age,” coach Curtis Frye said. “Being a young team, that’s what we are doing. If we get to be a top-fi ve team in the SEC, we could be a top-10 NCAA team. Our goal for the men is to be a top-10 team. For the women, let’s try to be seventh.”

The Gamecocks will bring four sprinters from the men’s team who are ranked in the top-15 in the conference, while the women bring eight who are ranked into the top-11, including the 4x4 relay team of Briana Haith, Precious Holmes, Marisa Bellamy and Tamera Harris.

O n t he men’s s ide , hu rd ler J e r m a i n e C o l l i e r e n t e r s t h e championships ranked fourth in the conference, and Dondre Echols enters at ninth. A long with the hurdlers, sprinter Kendall Kee is ranked eighth in the SEC.

“Kendall knows he’s No. 8 in the league, and he knows there are three guys on there that he should beat. He knows he can go win it all,” Frye said. “For our hurdlers, they know that the No. 1 and 2 guys were competing in the world cha mpion sh ip s l a s t yea r. You don’t worry about the numbers or the times; that’s what we have to achieve.”

Wit h such s t i f f compet it ion gathering in College Station, Texas, the Gamecocks are expected to fi nish 10th this weekend.

“We need to exceed expectations. You never work with things you don’t have; you work with things we have,” Frye said. “We focus on how good are the people we are coaching now. Did they improve from last year? We are making sure the three stars are four stars and the kids that are no stars are competing like three stars. Let’s try to be better than we were yesterday.”

While the team competes against the best of the best, Frye believes a seventh-place fi nish will be a victory for the underdog Gamecocks.

“(A) Cinderella (team) may get to

the fi nals in the SEC, but the favorite usually wins,” Frye said. “We can’t get discouraged because you expect to win it all. ... Seventh, eighth and ninth place are phenomenal in this league.”

The event will kick off Thursday with the men’s 60 meters, and the competition will wrap up with an awards ceremony late Saturday

afternoon. Despite Frye’s acknowledgment

that a low fi nish in a diffi cult SEC f ield t akes not h ing away f rom h is team, he sa id he is hoping h is Gamecocks can exceed the expectations that have been placed on them.

“Right now, we are excited about our runners, and we are looking

forward to this weekend,” he said. “The expectation from the league is that South Carolina is going to be number 10 and 11. Low expectations lead to opportunity. That’s the goal. I really think we are there.”

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The South Carolina softball team hits the road this weekend to escape Columbia’s gloomy forecast in favor of somewhere sunny and 75 down in the badlands of Tempe, Ariz., for the Arizona State Louisville Slugger Invitational.

The team is riding a nine-game winning streak, so confidence in the locker room is sky high right now. The pitching staff has been lights out, and the two impact freshman, Nickie Blue and Kaylea Snaer, have been on a tear.

However, while the Gamecocks have played some very formidable opponents, this weekend could serve as a rude awakening for the team if it’s not careful.

South Carolina’s first matchups are against No. 4 Arizona State, which has a 17-0 record , and No. 20 Minnesota, which has a 12-1 record. The Gophers’ only loss came at the hands of No. 1 Florida.

With SEC play right around the corner, this weekend could be an excellent indicator as to how the team will fare in conference play this year and could end up serving as a platform for success, or it could end up a total nightmare.

Each game presents a d if ferent

challenge. As Arizona State has invoked the mercy rule in nine of their 17 games , and Minnesota has allowed, on average, less than one run per game, excluding the Florida loss.

Blue, a freshman pitcher, said she thinks the team is hitting its stride at just the right time and should be up for the challenge.

“I think we’ve definitely honed in on the mentality that we really want to succeed,” Blue said. “So I think we are close to where we want to be, but there’s always room to grow, and in the weeks leading up to the season and even during, we’re always looking to get better.”

W hile coach Beverly Smith was pleased with her team’s weekend sweep over Gardner-Webb, UNC Greensboro and Western Carolina, she seemed to disagree with Blue , saying she feels the team could play even better than they already have.

“That’s kind of what February’s all about,” Smith said. “Just putting people in different positions and rotating the lineup and seeing what works best. But I still don’t think they’ve even scratched the surface of their potential, so I think we have a long way to go, but I’m liking the direction they’re headed in.”

The Gamecocks’ two other games at the invitational, which look to be less competitive than the fi rst two, are against Ball State and Detroit.

Despite the success the team found last

weekend, winning all four of its games, senior Chelsea Hawkins said she won’t be satisfi ed with anything less than a repeat.

“I expect four wins,” Hawkins said. “Nothing less.”

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Kendall Kee enters the SEC indoor championships ranked eighth in the conference, but his coach feels he can fi nish higher.

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Senior Chelsea Hawkins says that she is not complacent with her team’s current winning streak and she will settle for no fewer than four wins this weekend at ASU.

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