Comport at the Next Level 2001 football Camp will receive person
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Next Level
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back and safety for the Tarheels,
said he often thought about the
idea of helping to develop young
players in the Winston-Salem area.
"I had a lot of people who did
things to help me to make it when I
was coming up," Legins said. "Now
it's my turn to give something back
to the kids who are coming along
behind me."
Legins said he and his staff will
work hard on teaching the funda
mentals and techniques that players
need to work on most.
And although there is a charge
for attending the camp. Legins said
he doesn't want that to be a deter
rent for kids who don't have the
means to pay to attend.
"If there are athletes out there
and parents who are experiencing
financial difficulties, I understand,"
Legins said. "I don't want that to
keep them from benefiting from
what we plan to teach at this camp.
This goes beyond just what hap
pens on the football field."
The staff is set for the camp.
One of Legins' teammates at UNC,
Jimmy Hitchcock, who plays for
the Carolina Panthers, will be the
headliner. Hitchcock has enjoyed a
stellar professional career, first with
the New England Patriots and then
with the Minnesota Vikings before
coming to the Panthers recently.
"He is a former teammate of
mine and a guy who really cares'
about helping kids," Logins said. '
"Having someone like him will real- ??
ly help motivate and open the eyes
of the kids."
The camp is the first of many
projects that Legins hopes to use to
benefit the community where he
was raised.
"I want to see something posi
tive happen in terms of the big pic
ture for athletes in Winston
Salem," Legins said. "1 want to see
these kids progress 1 hope this is a
means of getting exposure for the
kids. There's always been a lot of
talent around here, but a lot of the
'time it hasn't been cultivated the
bright way. I hope that we can work
on doing that."
Legins said he would like for
campers to register in advance to
ensure that all campers will receive
a T-shirt in their size. However, reg
istration for the camp will be held
up until the morning of the camp.
Camp participants also will receive
awards and other prizes for partici
pating in the camp.
Legins can be reached at 995
6421 for more information about
the camp.
Press Box
from page B1
work with him to accomplish
some of the goals that he has set
for the university."
Grant is one of three candi
dates whose names have been
publicly mentioned for the post
that was vacated when Anne Lit
tle resigned under fire last month
in the wake of resignations of the
Rams' men's and women's bas
ketball coaches. Both positions
are still vacant and Martin has
stated that neither will be filled
until the athletic director's posi
tion is filled. The other two
names being mentioned are
Charlie Davis, the former Wake
Forest basketball standout and
current athletic director at Bowie
State, and Dee Todd, another
WSSU alumnus, who is currently
the assistant commissioner of the
Atlantic Coast Conference.
According to a; source close to
the WSSU program, the opening
is expected to be filled by Aug. 1,
with the deadline for submitting
applications being July 15.
Grant said he hasn't contact
ed anyone at Winston-Salem
State mainly because he's been
trying to settle into his job and
get his family settled into their
new home. Although he took the
job in Durham on Jan. 16, Grant
and his wife, Vickie, and 5-year
old daughter didn't move to
Durham until three weeks ago
when they closed on a house.
Before that time Grant commut
ed from Winston-Salem while
waiting for his house to sell.
"My family is here now and
settled in," Grant said. "My
wife's not working right now.
She's trying to get adjusted to
here and this situation."
But that doesn't mean Grant
would have deaf ears to an offer
from WSSU.
"My wife supports my career
and my career path," Grant said.
"Before I'd consider making a
decision, we would have to pray
about it together and see what
path the Lord wants me to take.
Both Winston-Salem State and
the city of Winston-Salem have
been good to me. I consider Win
ston-Salem home because I've
been there so long."
Gaines
from page B1
teams out there."
Even in sports like baseball
and track, most CIAA programs
aren't funded well enough to put
competitive teams on the field.
"There was a time when the
kids on the football team were
out in the spring doing baseball
or track, but now with spring
football you can't do that."
Football, the chief revenue
producing sport for most
schools, has also changed.
"Now people need about 100
people to do well at football,"
Gaines said. "From a financial
standpoint, no Division 11 pro
gram can afford fhat many peo
ple. So you have to find creative
ways to make it possible to put a
strong team out there on the
field."
What schools like WSSU have
done in the past is to rely upon
student activity fetes to help sub
sidize non-revenue^sports. Even
that, according to Gaines, isn't
enough to take up the slack.
"It's really hard to find a
Division II program that's fully
in compliance with everything as
far as distribution of scholar
ships and the number of sports
they offer for men and women,"
Gaines said. "And you really
can't add sports where your stu
dents don't have a lot of interest
- like field hockey or women's
tennis because you just don't
have that much interest or talent
among your students."
The bottom line, according to
Gaines, is finding a happy medi
an and settling in with it.
"The new AD will have a big
job waiting on him or her,"
Gaines said.
Russell
from page B1 J)
"That was a big relief," Rus
sell said. "Everything sort of fell
together, and that's what I had
really been hoping for. They saw
what I could do on film, and they
said they liked what 1 can do."
Russell hopes that he can
impress the coaches enough to
make a splash right away. The
team's starting quarterback from
a year ago racked up nwre, than
2,000 yards passing and nearly
1,000 on the ground before
exhausting his eligibility. In Rus
sell, the staff thinks it has found
a similar type player.
"1 think I'm coming into the
right situation," Russell said.
"Everyone seems to be very
happy with it."
Russell, who has already
qualified academically to play
next season, is considering
enrolling in summer school for
the second summer session so
that he can go to Atlanta and
work out with some of the
returning Morehouse players.
The youngest of three boys, Rus
sell said it will take some adjust
ing, but he's ready to begin the
process.
"I guess there comes a time
when you have to move out on
your own," he said. "My mom is
really happy with the school and
the type academic reputation it
has."
In fact, Russell said that's
probably the biggest attraction
for him.
"You can't get much better
than Morehouse when it comes
to going to college," Russell said.
"It's a very prestigious college. A
lot of people consider it to be
like the Harvard of black col
leges. If I go in and do what I
have to do, I can come out of
there and make a good living."
Tigers
from page Bl
the season, but defeated the Car
dinals three times on their way to
the first-half title. The Cardinals
struggled in th6 first half, but the
Cardinals gathered steam
throughout the second half and
came into their battle on a roll.
The Cardinals defeated the
Tigers 9-8 to set up a showdown
this Saturday (2:15 p.m.) and
Sunday (5 p.m.) to determine the
league champion for the season,
provided they can defeat the
Tigers this weekend and then the
Red Sox next Wednesday.
The Cardinals, defending
league champions, used strong
pitching and hitting to take their
8-7 victory. Robert Carpenter
pitched a complete game, getting
solid defensive play from his
team along the way.
Paul Moses, coach of the
Tigers, said his team might have
been a little overconfident after
defeating the Cardinals three
times in the first half.
"We had a lot of pop-ups and
we hit the ball where they could
make plays," he said. "It was just
Moor*
Hackmft
one of those
games where
we couldn't
get things
going right.
The"
Tigers start- .
ed off With "
Ray shawn"J
Moore on
the mound.
After the ?
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went ahead '
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werfl to Ren
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had no
Answers and
the Tigers
finished the
game with
Chris
Moore as
meir closer.
"We can't make any excuses,"
Moses said. "They just beat us.
That's the way baseball goes. You
have to take what you have and
go from there."
The Tigers were without the
services of Bediako Gaines, who
was expected to be the starter.
Gaines was away in the Upward
Bound program at Winston
Salem State on Monday but
should be available for action on
Saturday.
"We were hoping to have him,
"tkit we understand how the
^Upward Bound program works,
and he can't leave campus during
the week," Moses said. "A ball
jgame is important, but his educa
tion is much more important. I
Avant to get their minds right. My
'"goal is to have them playing
school ball."
Now Moses said the Tigers
must gather their troops and pre
pare for a tough battle.
The Tigers' hitting, which let
them down in key situations, has
been consistent most of the sea
son. They are led by Bediako
Gaines, Marcus Gaines, Moore
and Ronald Hackett.
"I think we'll be ready on Sat
urday," Moses said. "On Monday
we were a little sluggish, but I
don't want to make excuses. We
had our chances, but we made
tome bad decisions running the
bases. If we can get past things
like that, we'll be fine."
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