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APRIL 9, 2004 GREENSBORO, NC Ashley Cooke: leader on the field Alison Duncan performance days, pressure I put on Staff Writer myself, and frustration when I do not A feel like I have helped the team (get in shley Cooke is Guilford's start- my way)." ing catcher. As team captain, Her coach can see her determina- Cooke leads Guilford's softball team in tion. ability and spirit. "Every time she goes up to bat she "She has a .345 expects a hit," tor. "She also Ashley is there to nine doubles, three said first-year year was the Offensive Most one up and into Valuable Player. Ash ! e V Cooke > winner of A - the game." With a .978 field- ODAC in softball last year, won "She works hard ing percent, she All-Conference honors through to make people has a strong glove, out a " school comfortable on too. . the team," said "She's generally more of a clutch Dutton. "She talks to everyone and player," said Coach Ty Cook. "She is helps everyone out." able to produce when we need it." Cooke started playing Softball as "(My goals as a player are to) give soon as she was allowed on the field 100% every day (and) support other at five years old. She started fast team members," said Cooke. "Bad pitch in elementary school, played all Kurt Cavanaugh Sports Editor LONDON - Soccer star David Beckham denied reports of an , affair he supposedly had with a 26- year-old assistant in Madrid while his wife, pop star Victoria, was in England. According to the tabloid News of the World, the young lady was an employee at SFX Group. The sport management firm looked after Beckham until last December. The company was involved in Beckham going from Real Madrid to Manchester United last summer. National Sports Briefs Beckham issued a statement through his agent Carolina McAteer. "The simple truth is that I am very hap pily married, have a wonderful wife and two very special kids. There is nothing that any third party can do to change these facts." •Quote from sportsillustrated.cnn.com BAGHDAD - Iraq will compete at this summer's Olympic games in Athens, Greece. On April 3 the country unveiled its new Olympic logo and at least 10 Iraqis will participate in the games. The top athletes include a martial SPORTS artist, a 100-meter sprinter, a 200- meter sprinter and two wrestlers. The limited number of athletes hear kens back to the Saddam regime, when Odai Hussein regularly tortured athletes if they did not win. MORGANTOWN, W. Va. - A special task force will be studying tailgating, security and treatment of visiting fans this fall at WVU. Fan Behavior Task Force hopes to have a plan in place by August to decrease the amount of on-campus destruction after big football games. "We just want to make sure every one has a good time," said Margaret through high school at Eastern Guilford, but took a year off her first year of college because Guilford did not have a team yet. While in high school, she made All Conference four times in softball, and twice in volleyball. She was the female athlete of the year her junior and senior years of high school, and the salutatorian of her graduating class. Last year, her first year of college ball, she was one of two Guilford play ers named All-ODAC. On top of all that, Cooke is a double accounting and mathematics major. Get more out Donate a G^a-C^a of Ofe Go see u'Wumw MJ&iMm J£ST LIKE MOVIES? #N g* NEED CASH? !TT"T™? Weareacapmj The Grande 16 i | upphcalKtt* at the 3205 NorthlillC Ave. Tickets arc only $6 \PPLYTODAY Greensboro, NC 27408 AVITLI lUUAi (336) 808*7800 ssio before 6pm. www.consoiidatedmovics.com WWW.GUILFORDIAN.COM "Catcher is a rough position and I definitely see some similarities," said math professor Rudy Gordh, of Cooke in class. "She's a stickler for getting in there and getting the details right." "She's always working away," said Gordh. * In the off-season, she works at The Disney Store, collects Disney snow globes, cross-stitches and plays with her two cats, Flora Belle and Callie. The captains this year were coach's choice. "The catcher is kind of the leader on the field by nature," said Cook. Ashley fills the position well. Phillips, chief of staff to WVU President David Hardesty. Hardesty ordered the 10-person task force. The biggest problem on campus at WVU are intentionally-set fires. Between 1997 and 2003 over 1,100 intentional fires were set after athletic events. The problem is not only at West Virginia. There is a similar task force at Maryland. Vulgar shirts were sold to students before the Terrapins hosted Duke in basket ball in January. The obscene writing on the shirts could be seen on the ESPN nation ally televised game. PAGE 11
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