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3 • BENNETT BANNER • SEPTEMBER 15, 1995 SPORTS 1995 volleyball season features 12 fresh spikers Tahja McVav Banner Sports Editor The volleyball team is back with an all-new team and an all- new attitude. Fifteen players have returned this season, and although 12 are freshwomen, they have really as sumed leadership roles. “The attitude of the team as a whole is positive and I expect them to improve as the season goes on,” Coach Joyce Spruill said. COMMENTARY Practices for the team are never the same because with an all new team a lot of things need to be worked on. “Some days we work on serv ing and other days its rotation,” Spruill said. “It just really depends on what I feel we need to work on.” Though the season has started, Spruill said that she is still look ing. “I didn’t run try-outs for any certain time period because I’m still looking at perspective play ers,” Spruill said. Spruill added that she has set a lot of goals for the Belles this year. “My main goal is to win and 1 also want to have good fellow ship as a team and be team ori ented,” she said. Since the season has begun the Bennett’s record is 1-1 after falling short to Barber Scotia Col lege in thefirst game. “We have a lot of things to work on including work habits and tlie ability to think,”the coach said. A tough choice: scholastics or sports Amanda E. Pecchioni Banner Sports Reporter Belle volleyball season opened Sept. 13 , at Barber-Scotia Col lege, and it wasn’t unusual to see some fresh faces. With only three players return ing from the previous season- ShanaDearing, LaTicia Jolly, and Amanda Pecchioni (all juniors), the team has to make a new begin ning. This year’s spiking Belles total 15 players. Minus the three jun iors, the rest of the team is made up One mllion hats later Interstellar Propeller turns to gold NEA Superstar Shaquille O’Neal and Hakeem Olajuwon model the latest fashion trend in Super Cool head gear, the Interstellar Propeller Flying Beany Cap, in this TV commercial for Taco Bell, directed by Spike Lee. of freshwomen, you do the math. However, this situation is not unique for this year or for this sports team. Every year, in every sport at Bennett more than 50 percent of each athletic team is comprised of of freshwomen. Some upperclasswomen say that they do not return for a variety of reasons including financial situ ations, a professors’ lack of under standing for an athletes’ desire to play, or simply the coach’s atti tude. Student athletes say they are pressured each year to choose be tween their athletics and academ ics. Many students obviously opt for their education. It’s too bad botli can not re ceive equal attention. ll may be true that what is taught in the classroom is more important than sports. Nonetheless, versatility is more important than just doing well in class. Part ofbeing a “Phenomenal Bennett Woman” is being able to succeed in any area. I* i BELLE VOLLEYBALL SCHEDULE Sept. 18 Piedmont Bible College & Johnson Bible College 6:00pm AWAY Sept. 21 Salem College 6;00pm HOME Sept. 26 Livingstone College 6;00pm HOME Sept. 27 Meredith College 6:00pm HOME Sept. 30 Mary Baldwin & College of Notre Dame 3:00pm AWAY Oct. 2 Meredith College 6:00pm AWAY Oct. 4 Salem College 6:00pm AWAY 0('t. 7 Bennett Invitational | 10:00am HOME (X'l. 13 Barber Scotia College ; 6:00pm HOME , 1 (X't. 17 Livingstone College | 6:00pm AWAY Oct. 18 Randolph Macon . Women’s Invitational 5:00pm AWAY Oct. 20-21 Women’s College Invitational TBA AWAY Head Coach: Joyce Spruill Assistant Coach: Jerry Patterson 1. The Altoni«1, by Cateb Carr (Bantam. $6 99) Tbe hunt for a murderer in tum-o* -Ihe cantury Manhattan 2. The Hoi Zone, by ftchard Preston (Anchor/DouWedey, >6 99) Combatng a vmjB 3. Debt Of rtorxjf. by Tom Clancy (BerWey. »7 50 ) Jack Ryan is beck to fo«i a Japanese ptot 4. The Storte Dtartee, by Card St>ieldi (Pengu»>. SIO 95) A woman s life from c^ik9x)Od itvougTi oM age 5. A 7n6 Helplr>g o4 CNckeo Soup For The Soul, by Ja* Canhekl and Mark Victor Hansen (Hearth Communication*, $12 95 ) 6. Apolk> 13, t}y Jim Lo/etl ar>d Jeffrey Kkjger (Pocliet. $6 50) The incredtbie 1970's moon miwon 7. The Channbef, by John Gnaham (Island/Del, $7 50 A lawyer represents a raosi on death row 8. Seven Habfte of H^|hly Effective People, by Steven R Covey (Fireside. $12 00.) Guide to personal fulfilment 0. CIrcte Of Frlefxle, t>y Maeve Bnxihy (DeM, $6 SO ) Coming ot age m an Insh village and DuMn’t academia 10. CMcken Soup For The Soul, b/ Jack CarAeld and Mark Vcior Hansen (hteaJthCommuncations. $12 00) Sioneelor been A sp^it
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