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PRFS WEDHESOHy •T FEBROURT 21. 2018 ih1 Grabbing attention off the court Junior forward Tyler Seibring shares his perspective as a mid-major player I Christian Galvano ;ion News Network | @Chrisgalvano Junior and basketball player Tyler Seibring said he was hum bled to hear his article, “Just for the Record: The Chronicles of a Mid-Major Basketball Player,” reached so many people in the Elon University community and landed on the desk of none other than President Leo Lambert. Accumulating more than 30 retweets and close to 100 likes on Twitter, the article gave read ers a chance to briefly step into Seibrings rather large shoes and learn more about his life as a semi-recognized athlete. He said the purpose of his ar ticle was not to persuade more people to pay attention to Elon athletics but simply “to create something to document the in tricacies of the life of a mid-major basketball player.” Elon, Seibring said, is by no means a major basketball school. “Everyone is a fan of Duke, Kansas and North Carolina,” Seibring said. “But most people don’t end up there - they end up in mid-major programs that are more fitting to what they are try ing to accomplish at that time in their lives.” But it no longer feels as though they’re a member of a Division-I team. Seibring said other than some occasional stops for pic tures, being a Division-I athlete has little effect on his life. “I love it when mid-major pro grams are supported against high major programs,” Seibring said in Tyler Seibring drives to the hoop against a University of Southern Florida defender Nov. 30,2017. ALEC MANDEli | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER his article. “I’m sick of feeling like we play a different sport.” Seibring said one of the driving motivations to write the article was to show he is playing the same game as the top-tier teams whose games are broadcast on ESPN. “Everyone’s rooting for the un derdog, but there are a lot of mis understandings about the lives we’re living and how hard we are trying to compete,” Seibring said. He said many people don’t re alize how tough it is to play on the Division I level, at any school — midsize college athletes are “working the same hours and un der the same system.” Seibring leads the men’s bas ketball team with 437 points. He ranks 14th overall in the CAA with 15.6 points per game, spend ing more time on the hardwood than any other Phoenix player. He doesn’t let his responsibil ities to his team detract from his academic duties. As a student, Seibring is dou ble-majoring in English and eco nomics, and he was named the 2016-17 Colonial Athletic Asso ciation (CAA) Men’s Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year for his hard work. “There are a lot of challenges for any student athlete, but it has helped craft skills and manage ment techniques that will hope fully continue for the rest of our lives,” Seibring said. Seibring said there is one im portant sl^l he has learned to master by being actively involved in both athletics and academics. [WOMEN'S eoiF 1 FEB. 25-27 KIAWAH ISLAND SPRING CLASSIC/KIAWAH, SC WBAU. msNis 9-3 FEB. 16 PENNSTATE/ELON 1-2 FEB. 17 PENNSTATE/ELON 6-8 FEB. 18 PENNSTATE/ELON 2-3 SeiRMII FEB. 20 RADFORD/ELON 4 P.M. FEB. 21 KANSAS STATE/ELON 4 P.M. FEB. 23 MARSHALLAELON 4 P.M. FEB. 24 MARSHALLAELON 2 P.M. FEB. 25 MARSHALLAELON 1P.M. WOMEN’S TEFOIIS MEN’S TENNIS msaiis FEB. 18 VCU/ELON FEB. 18 CATAWBA/ELON M 4-3 HSMIS FEB. 17 APPALACHIAN STATE/ELON 4-4 7-0 «Mmif FEB. 23 WINTHROP/ROCKHILLSC FEB. 24 DAVIDSON/DAVIDSON, NC 1P.M. 12 P.M. FEB. 20 CAMPBELL/ BUIES CREEK, NC FEB. 25 YALE/ELON 2 P.M. 12 P.M. MEN’S BASKUBALL WOMEN’S BASKETBAU BfSHIS FEB. 15 UNCW/WILMINGTON FEB. 17 DELAWARE/NEWARK, DE 14^14 63-87 57-72 IWSNTS FEB. 16 HOFSTRA/HEMPSTEAD, NY FEB.18 NORTHEASTERN/BOSTON HK7 72-65 65-46 snmiu FEB. 22 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON/ CHARLESTON, SC FEB. 24 NORTHEASTERN/ELON FEB. 26 JAMES MADISON/ELON 7 P.M. sdHiiii FEB. 25 HOFSTRA/ELON 2 P.M. 7 P.M. 7 P.M. SOFTBAU Aisnis FEB. 16 BOWLING GREEN/ELON LACROSSE 7-3 4-3 MSMTS* FEB. 17 VIRGINIA/ CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA 4-17 FEB. 16 RHODE ISLAND/ELUN FEB. 17 BOWLING GREEN/ELON FEB. 17 NORTH TEXAS/ELON FEB. 17 MOUNT ST. MARY'S/ELON b-z 3-6 6-1 8-0 semmi FEB. 21 NC STATE/RALEIGH FEB. 23 HOWARD/ELON SCMMIf FEB. 25 NOTRE DAME/ NOTRE DAME, IN 1P.M. 4 P.M. 1&3P.M. SPORTS BRIEFS “Time management is proba bly the most important thing,” he said. “For a lot of people it is ex tremely tough, but eventually you have to figure it out.” “I’m probably just another col lege kid with a blog,” Seibring said. “If people decide it’s not worth their time and it’s just my parents reading it, I can live with an out let for thinking. You don’t get to decide what something ends up being. You can only try to make something cool. So I’m just going to have some fun with it and start with the end.” But the Elon community knows he is “more than just an other college kid with a blog,” and its response has encouraged him. Seibring said he hopes to not let Lambert down. Softball’s Mitchum pitches perfectly Senior pitcher Kiandra Mitchum recorded Elon softball’s second ever perfect game during this weekend’s home tournament. Mitchum recorded five strikeouts in her 66-pitch, complete-game per formance. Redshirt sophomore Abby Barker is the only other pitcher to achieve the accomplishment, doing so in 2016 as a freshman against Niagara University. Mitchum’s game, ending in a 8-0 shutout, was the final game of a five- game weekend for the Phoenix. With the only loss coming in the first match up against Bowling Green University Saturday, Elon has won seven of the last eight games it’s played. Phoenix coaches reach milestones Both Elon University softball and men’s tennis coaches reached career milestones in competition. Softball coach Kathy Bocock picked up her 400th career win as Elon defeated Bowling Green State University 4-3 on Feb. 16. Men’s tennis coach Michael Leonard picked up his 200th career victory as the Phoenix swept Appalachian State University to start its spring season. Both teams will be back in action this week as softball travels to Raleigh on Wednesday, Feb. 21 to face North Carolina State University and men’s tennis takes on Yale University at home on Sunday, Feb. 25. Hames sets another personal mark Senior thrower Bryanna Hames set her second record this year at the UCS Invite to cap off the indoor reg ular season. In the weight throw, she recorded a mark of 54’ 6.75” and fin ished fifth, qualifying for the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Indoor Championships. Elsewhere at the meet, the Elon 4X400-meter relay team captured a season-best time of 3:55.00, fin ishing second. Junior sprinter Katie Arbogast, a member of the relay team, recorded a personal-best time of 57.63 in the individual 400-meter race. Members of the team who qual ified in their respective events will compete at the ECAC Indoor Championships March 1 in Boston. Lacrosse blown out again on the road The Elon University wom en’s lacrosse team suffered its sec ond-straight loss to start the sea son, falling to No. 14 University of Virginia 17-4. Outshot 29-19, only three Phoenix scored in the double-digit defeat. Senior attacker Nicole Sinacori con nected on two shots, capturing half of the team’s goals. Senior attacker Stephanie Asher, Elon’s top scorer, was held without a goal and only one shot in the game. Lacrosse will be on the road for the third straight game, as Elon travels to South Bend, Indiana on Feb. 25, to face No. 17 University of Notre Dame.
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