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August, 1975 - CROSSROADS - Page 5
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uoug Foust shows good kicking form at Belmont Abbey’s fifth annual soccer
camp. Goalie is Norman Deal. Both boys play in Charlotte’s Junior Soccer
League where they can put their camp training to good use.
Belmont Abbey Holds
5th Annual Soccer Camp
Fifty-three aspiring,
young soccer stars spent
the week of June 22 at
Belmont Abbey College
learning the tricks of the
trade from some of the
Someone to look up to! Belmont Abbey basketball
campers received some valuable tips from pro stars
Artis Gilmore (Kentucky Colonels) and George Adams
(San Diego Conquistadors) when they visited the camp
on June 26. The 7’2” Gilmore was the American
Basketball Association’s most valuable player last
season. Over 250 boys and 32 girls attended one or
more of the three, week-long camping sessions
directed by Abbey basketball coach Bobby Hussey.
area’s best teachers. The
occasion was Belmont
Abbey’s fifth annual
soccer camp for boys 7-19
under the direction of
Abbey head coach Stan
Dudko.
An indication of
Belmont Abbey’s
,reputation as one of the
South’s finest college
soccer teams can be seen
in the number of states
represented at the camp.
Alabama, Florida,
District of Columbia,
Maryland, Massa
chusetts, New Jer
sey, North Carolina,
Ohio and^ South Carolina
all had campers in at
tendance. In addition to
Dudko and Jack Murphy,
soccer coach at Carmel
Academy in Charlotte,
the counseling staff in
cluded top players from
several area colleges.
“A boy has to really
like soccer to come
here,” Coach Dudko
commented. “During the
four full days of camp we
spend approximately
hours per day practicing,
playing and discussing
soccer.” Time is also
[allotted for a daily dip in
the Abbey’s Olympic-size
[swimming pool, but only
an hour. “Too much
swimming wears them
out,” says Dudko.
That’s more or less
what you would expect a
soccer coach to say.
Crusaders Sign
Three Cage Stars
Bobby Hussey,
basketball coach and
athletic director, has
announced the signing of
three high school all
stars for next season’s
Abbey basketball squad.
All three players passed
the 1,000 mark in points
scored during their three-
year high school careers.
Greg Leslie was first
team All-Area and All-
County his junior and
senior years at Hopat-
cong High School in
Hopatcong, N.J. During
his senior year, he
averaged 20 points and 15
rebounds per game.
Leslie scored 1,127
points in three years at
Hopatcong and led his
team to a 56-17 record.
The 6’6” forward turned
down a scholarship offer
from Ohio State to attend
Belmont Abbey.
Jimmy Crawford set a
new all-time career
scoring record (1,130
points) at Charlotte
Catholic High School and
was also the team’s best
defensive player. In 1975,
Charlotte Catholic
became the first private
school to ever reach the
state finals in North
Carolina and Crawford
:ontributed 19.6 points
and 14 rebounds per
game to help the Cougars
attain a 25-3 record.
The 6’7” pivotman was
first team All-Conference
his junior and senior
years and was named to
the Mecklenburg County
All-Star team this past
season. An outstanding
student, Crawford will
attend Belmont Abbey on
a four-year Martin
Luther King Scholarship.
Mike Littlejohn scored
1,134 points during his
three years at Lincolnton
High School, Lincolnton,
N.C., and averaged 19
points and 10 rebounds
per game his senior year.
Littlejohn led Lincolnton
to a 24-2 record and a
berth in the district finals
this past season, and was
I named district player-of-
the-year. He also made
the Gastonia Gazette’s
“All-Gazetteland” first
team in 1975.
Leslie, Crawford and
Littlejohn will vie with
six returning varsity
lettermen and several
standouts from last
season’s jayvee squad for
places on the 1975-76
Crusader basketball
team.
Abbey Continues
Re-Entry Program
Belmont Abbey College
shares a commitment
with other institutions of
higher learning - a
commitment that higher
education should serve a
more diverse population
than it traditionally has,
and that such education
should, at times, use
methods that have not
been traditional.
To fulfill this com-
nitment, the College has
a new program, begun in
January 1975, and called
Re-Entry. The program
is geared to the atypical
jlearner who traditionally
has been ignored or, at
jbest, inconvenienced, by
the higher education
system.
Examples of atypical
learners are
homemakers and men
and women in mid-
jcareer. A number of
them fall into the
category of ‘‘non-
traditional learner,” by
which is meant an adult
(over 22, usually much
older) who has been a
partial college attender.
Often employed full time,
such persons may be
very motivated to get a
degree - they may, in
fact, need it for a
promotion. But they are
held back by the prospect
of halting work to attend
school full time, or at
tending night school for
several years.
Unlike typical college-
bound seniors, such
-people have to fit
leducation into a life
essentially devoted to the
'home, work, or the
community. Non-
traditional learners often
view the prospect of
returning to the
|Classroom with a
measure of trepidation,
reasoning that their
powers of concentration
and ability to study ef
fectively have somehow
diminished through un-
ase.
Obviously thse un
comfortable feelings can
be most quickly dispelled
in a class of one’s peers,
and this was proved in
the Abbey’s first Re-
Entry class.
While re-awakening
their minds and shar-
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