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8 I The Blue Banner I 4.42012 [ 1 Featured Bulldog Corey McClintock Standout play: McClin tock threw a personal record of 45.99 meters in the ham mer throw at the Raleigh Relays track and’field meet last weekend. Her throw is the second furthest in school history. Hometown: Doylestown, Pa. Class: Junior Q; How long have you been running track? have, run track since seventh' grade, but I only started throwing last year. Q: What’s your major? A: Double major, chemis try and literature. Q: What do you plan on doing after college? A: I plan on pursuing graduate studies and maybe working outdoors, raayfie as a vet. Q: Whohas beettah inspi- ration for you in-^^our life? A: Bruce Springsteen, Cool Runnings, Seabiscuit, Lauren Isley, my mom and sister. Lauren Isley because he was a great writer and naturalist. Seabiscuit because he was the underdog but all it took was someone believing in him. Everything just fell into pl^e. Q: What is yoiir favorite thing abouttJNCA? A: All the flora and fauna make UNCA so pretty. It’s just so cozy. I know all my professors. Photo by Jackson Stahl - Staff Photographer Freshman Amryn Soldier receives a ball from King College on March 24 at the Asheville Racquet Club. Lady Bulldogs shut out by Charleston Southern Randal Walton rwalfon@unca.edu - Staff Writer UNC Asheville women’s tennis team dealt with injuries to their top players and a tough Big South Conference oppo nent when they lost to Charles ton Southern University, 0-7, on Friday “We’d love to do great in the conference. The most impor tant thing to me is that we’re getting better each day,’’ said Lise Gregory, the head coach for men’s and women’s ten nis. “I’m not concerned with wins and losses. I want us to be making good investments. We can’t do 75 percent of them; we have to do all of them.’’ The team tried to adhere to their coach’s advice during the match, said player Amryn Soldier. “Our goals were to do the right things, even if they didn’t seem to be working,” she said. “As a whole, I feel like we were doing the right things; the execution will get there. But if we keep doing them as a team, together, it’ll eventually bring the execution around.” The loss to CSU brings the Bulldog’s overall record to 6-10 and their conference re cord to 0-3, according to Uni versity Athletics Officials. For CSU, the magic number for the doubles round was eight, as the matches’ scores were 8-3, 8-1 and 8-2. The singles matches seemed to mirror the doubles, with CSU defeating UNCA with scores of 6-3 and 6-1, 6-1 and 6-0, 6-0 and 6-4, 6-4 and 6-1 and 6-1 and 6-1. They won the sixth single match by default. CSU’s depth seems the ma jor reason for their success, Gregory said. “They’re very deep,” said the Durban, South Africa, na tive. “They have a girl who plays (number) one, and she’s one of the best players in the conference.” Despite falling to CSU, the team tried not to let it affect them, said player Christine Boissevain. “We expected CSU to be a tough team and we gave them credit for the successes they have already achieved,” the 19-year-old said. “But most im portantly we made sure to not count ourselves out.” The team lost two of its top players, senior Devon Ca vanaugh due to a nagging back, and Zoe Hamel because of a blood clot. Soldier said. “In the beginning, it was kind of discouraging,” the art student said. “But our coach was really adamant. For every match, she says we will get through this and to have faith and control the process.” They tried not to focus on the effect of losing their injured teammates, Boissevain said. “Our goal ultimately was to compete our butts off, to en courage each other on and off the court and to look for things to go our way instead of fo cusing on the negatives,” she said. Though faced with difficul ties, the coaches still believed in the team, Gregory said. “We’re really in a tough situ ation with all the injuries,” she said before the match. “Do I think we can win? Of course I think we can win that match, but we have to do the right things.” The “right things” included the concept of fate. Soldier said. “It’s basically doing what you can do right and letting ev erything else fall where it may,” the 18-year-old said. “Making sure you do everything you can to the best of your abilities. Whatever’s in your control, focus on that. Anything else, there’s not really anything you can do about it.” Positivity helps to control the flow of the match, Boissevain said. “Personally my goal was to be positive after each point and to look for things to go my way. I lost 6-0 my first set but I tried to have positive body language and not allow my opponent or my teammates to think I felt defeated or phased,” the South- lake, Texas, native said. “My second set was 6-4 because of this. I think by being positive I helped myself in that second set and my teammates around me to feel encouraged and mo tivated in their own match.” Conference matches fall into the schedule at an opportune time. Soldier said. “Our coach schedules them close to the end so that we get all the experience from non conference matches,” the Du luth, Ga., native said. “When it does count the most, we can have more experience leading up to it. As a team, we’re re ally focused on doing the right things.” Experience taught the team valuable lessons that they carry with them through the season, Boissevain said. “We started this year with so much potential and now we have found ourselves in circumstances none of us had foreseen,” Boissevain said. “This will 100 percent make us stronger and as long as we take this chance to learn and grow, we will grow stronger together.”
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