12
The Broncos’ Voice
December 1993
Sports
Men's Basketball:
Hats Off
by Kathleen Barron
This season the Men’s Bronco
basketball team is, as its poster
demonstrates, “under new construc
tion” with a new head coach and a
new system of strategies. Coach
Ricky Duckett is a native of Win
ston-Salem and received his bacca
laureate at UNC-Chapel Hill and
masters degree at the University of
North Carolina and has “been coach
ing ever since”. He has coached
and taught at several high schools
and universities, such as Harvard,
Jacksonville, University of South
Carolina and Wichita State.
As you sit across the desk from
Coach Duckett, your eyes can’t help
but be drawn to the life-size poster
on the wall of Clint Eastwood. I
asked the obvious question, “Are you
a fan?” Coach said he admired the
kind of man Eastwood appeared to
be. “A man of few words,” the strong
silent type. This attitude spills over
into his coaching. I inquired how
he felt about the team and he said
he couldn’t ask for a nicer group of
people to work with. “ They are good
people and do the right thing.” The
most important “right thing” to do
while here is to get an education.
“As long as they go to class and do
what they’re supposed to do, they
won’t hear from me.” In a true
Eastwood fashion, “They don’t want
to hear from me. After we have had
a meeting, there is no misunder
standing. Everything is up front
and to the point.”
The attitude that Duckett brings
to the sport is that athletic ability
and talent are not the only attributes
needed to participate in sports.
Sports are cerebral and one needs
to use intelligence as part of the
game.
Another important aspect of the
game is winning. Coach Duckett
feels that at age five or six the im
portance should be placed on learn
ing fundamentals and not “win-win-
win”. At college level, the attitude
of wanting to win and learning strat
egies on how to achieve that goal
“translates” from the court to class
room and then into life.
The team has two assistant
coaches, John Cooper from Kansas
City and William McNeill, a stu
dent at FSU majoring in Education.
Three other people who assist Coach
Duckett are his wife, Letita, and
their children, Phillip, age five and
Keigan, nineteen months.
The team is also involved in a
community outreach program. They
visit Teresa C. Berrien, a school that
is in an area known as chapter one,
where there is a dependence on gov
ernment subsidy such as free break
fast and lunch. Students in those
areas do not have much community
intervention nor positive male role
models. Members of the basketball
team, in the middle of their busy
schedules of practice and classes,
manage to go to the school every
other week to tutor and interact with
the kids to encourage them in the
character needed to be successful
in contemporary society.
The following is a roster of the
team playing for FSU.
Derrick Hawkins, wearing shirt
number 34, is from Henderson, NC.
He stands 6’6" tall and tips the
scales at 220 pounds.
Ivan Cameron, mmiber 44, is also
6’6", weighs 215 pounds and is from
Fayetteville.
Jerome Oliver, nimiber 5, is a 6’1",
170 pounder from Mo\mt Olive, NC.
Carl Chasten, also from Mount Ol
ive fills shirt number 20 with a 6’2"
frame covered by a 175 poimd body.
Reggie Gilliam from Moore, SC is
6’0", 165 pounds, and wears shirt
number 12.
Donald Hartsfield is number 33 from
Wake Forest, NC, and weighs in at
200 poimds and stands 6’3" tall.
James Williamson from Durham is
nimiber 15, weighs 175 poimds and
stands 6’1".
Donald Petree, number 32, from
Winston-Salem weighs a slender 180
pounds on a 6’5" frame.
Michael Baskerville from Henderson,
NC wears number 4, is 6’5" tall and
weighs 205 pounds.
Charles Cameron, number 11, at
5’11" weighs 1645 pounds and is
from Fayetteville.
Harvey Petty, number 3 from
Shelby, NC, weighs 170 pounds and
stands 6’6" tall.
Charles Artis, from Winston-Salem,
6’6" tall weighs 209 pounds and
wears shirt number 24.
David Martin from Louisville, KY,
nxmiber 35, stands 6’5" and weighs
200 pounds.
Gerald Carter from Greensboro,
wears niunber 23, is 6’3" and weighs
185 pounds.
Students with I.D. cards get in
free to all home games. The follow
ing is a list of HOME games yet to
be played. Support our team.
“Hard” hats off to our team under
new construction.
January
13 St. Paul’s College
17 Norfolk State
22 Shaw University
27 Johnson C. Smith
29 N.C. Central
February
2 Livingstone College
7 Claflin College
17 Winston-Salem
19 St. Augustine’s
The Broncos' interaction with students at Teresa C. Berrien school provider
those students with positive male role models.
This year's Seniors are highlighted as they pose for the team poster.