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December 1998 Pre-season gets teams ready Jesse Wharton Winter sports are un der way with interest meet ings, pre-season training, and tryouts over with. Basketball, swimming, cheerleading, dance team, and wrestling sea sons have begun. Oliver Gray and Alex Yockey praticefor wrestling after school in the PEC. • This year’s women’s basketball team is coached by Hunter Lambreth. Tryouts ended Saturday Oct. 24 and fifteen out of nineteen female athletes made the team These dedicatd ladies attend daily practices in order to be pre pared for the tough competi tion. With a present record of 0 and 5, their goal is to keep on improving. The men’s basketball team also finished tryouts Oct. 24. Head coach and Media Specialist Anthony Myles posted the first 15 team mem bers at “high noon” Sunday Oct. 25, and after soccer sea son ended, second cuts were made for guys on the soccer team who also wanedt to play bas ketball. “ 1 think that the competi tion is going to be a lot tougher this year. We have a young team which may make the competi tion tougher with teams we played last year,” Senior Harold Eustache said. The competition “So far the team has been di vided into three levels according to experience and each level occupies one of the three lanes. The amount of people in each lane is about the same give Senior pointguard Scott McCann takes afreethrow in the game aginst Ravenscroft. . *%■! 1 has been vejy tough thus far. As of now, their record is 0 and 5 but they expect to improve before the season is over. The swim team’s season began Nov. 2 with a week of try outs. Fortunately, there ar sev eral lanes available for the team’s use at the Durham YMCA, where the team will practice regularly, so no cuts were needed. or take a few. Tm hoping the swim team will be a success this year,” Junior Bria Sasser said at the beginning of the season. The men and women’s teams are 1 and 1 at the present time. Cheetleading Coach Amy Vandercaute chose 12 girls out of 20 for this year’s squad Now they are concen trating on learning cheers and routines for the season and, more im portantly, for competitions. The team was nationally ranked last year and hopes to improve on its ranking this year. “Our goals for the season are to go to competitions and win,” Senior Keren Jones said. Since the dance team, sponsored by SLI Tonya Smith- Holliman, finished tryouts their main goal has ben to cho- Senior Jay Fredrickson and junior Ben White mix it up during wrestling practice. reograph dances for the season. There are nine girls on the team but several NCSSM boys will always be performing'in some of the dances this season. The team is not planning on going to any competitions but it has been performing at all of the home basketball games. § Before the offi- ^ dal season be- g gan on Nov. 1, ■g the wrestling 3 room stayed open from 4 to 6 every night for prospective wrestlers to start conditioning, building muscle, and training. Head Coach Avery Winford did not make any official cuts, how ever, the prac tices at the very beginning were espe cially grueling so to “weed out” the ones who were less dedicated. “Our goals are to have a tip-top shape team, aca- demically ^ sound, and fo- cus on the ba sics,” said Assistant Coach Duane Holliman. Although the team’s record thus far is 0 and 2, the scores have been close and they have proven that they are a dedicated and competitive team. Sports Clubs are alternative fun Hollins Pause Many NCSSM students express a desire to unglue their hands from their keyboards, and their eyes from their books, and get into sports. A number of these students do not feel as if they can devote as much time and energy to physical activity as a sports team requires. However, in terscholastic sports are not the only option. Numerous stu dents join one of NCSSM’s many sports clubs. NCSSM has a large variety of sports clubs, from the Rock Climbing Club to the Ultimate Frisbee Club. Since NCSSM clubs are open to all students, joining a sports club is as easy as going to a meet ing and being added to the club member list. NCSSM stu dents favor sports for a number of reasons. “I like sports clubs be cause they allow me to play sports that I enjoy without the commitment of a sports team,” said senior Vic Weighman, a member of the Ultimate Frisbee Club and the Racquetball Club. Sports clubs are indeed a popular option for students who want to play a sport that they enjoy without the time, commitment, and competitive ness of sports teams. Many stu dents take advantage of sports clubs in areas that are not tra ditional team sports. The Ulti mate Frisbee club, organized by senior Jonathan Pahl, is one of the most popular non-tradi- tional sports clubs at NCSSM. The club meets everyday to play Ultimate Frisbee on Watts Lawn or-an IM soccer field. The Ul- Senior Steve Carpenter hurls a disc past Jordan's defenders. NCSSM defeated Jordan High School 19-6 in the Ultimate Game. timate Frisbee Club is also unique in the fact that it is the only competitive sports. “Ultimate Frisbee is great. We have a lot of fun. Sports clubs are a good way to meet people that share a com mon interest with you,” says se nior Jonathan Pahl. Aside from these non-traditional sports clubs, there are plenty of clubs, such as Clubb Volleyball or Tennis Club, that focus on stan dard sports in a less intense at mosphere than that of a sports team. NCSSM sports club members have another reason that they enjoy sports in a club format. “Besides providing me with a good way to stay in physical and mental shape, this is a great way to relieve stress,” said senior Martial Arts Club member Ray Tan. At this point, there are 15 sports clubs at NCSSM. These 15 clubs are widely var ied, with all degrees of competi tiveness and physical exertion. Furthermore, if students don’t find a sports club that suits their interest, they can start their own club. NCSSM students can charter clubs at any point in the year. The only criteria are that the club have a faculty or staff sponsor, and that a club char ter form be filled out and given to SGA.
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