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Wake's Smith named to AFC A All- America team CHRONICLE STAFF report Wake Forest senior cor nerback Alphonso Smith was named to the American Football Coaches Association All- America team last week. Smith joins a select group of Wake Forest players to earn AFC A All- America hon ors. He is just the seventh Deacon ever honored by the organization Other Wake Forest players named to the AFCA All-America team include running back Brian Piccolo (1^64). defensive back Bill Armstrong <19 5. 1976). offensive lineman Ben Coleman (1992), defensive end Calvin Pace (2002> and center Steve Justice (2007). The AFC A has picked an All-America team each year since 1945 The Football Bowl Subdivision head coaches select the team mem bers. Smith, a 5-9. 190-pound senior from Pahokee. Fla < Pahokee). led Wake Forest with six interceptions on the season and tied the ACC record with 20 for hi s career He finished die year with 36 tackles. 2.5 tackles for loss, two forced fumbles and a blocked punt Smith current ly leads the nation with 19 Fsie ror?c Wake's Alphonso Smith became the seventh Demon Deacon to be named a AFC A All American. passe-, defended including 13 pass breakup- and six inter ceptions. He set the school record with 60 career passes defended The only other Atlantic Coast Conference player selected was defensive line man Michael Johnson of Georgia Tech Smith turned id one of the finest performances of his career in a 33-30 overtime w in over Duke on \o\ I . Smith blocked a punt for a safetv. and recorded tuo interceptions including one in overtime that sealed Wake Forest's win <? Note: Wake Forest recently landed five players oc the All-ACC football team The Deacdns landed three players on the first team and wo garnered honorable mention honors. Linebacker Aaron Curry and cornerback Alphonso Smith were each first team elections while wide receiv er DJ Boldin earned first team honors on offense. Quarterback Riley Skinner and defensive tackle Boo Robinson were each honor able mention selections. For Smith, this marks his second consecutive year as a first team selection ? Cuijy earned first team All-ACC for the first time after being a second team selection in 200"? Skinner was the sec ond team quarterback in 2006 as a redshirt freshman. Hill from page B I ~ fact that he could pla? an D j entire 10-game season of foot ball. Then, he went down after taking one 3-point shot during a basketball game " "But that puts life into per spective for a lot of people." Griffin continued. "As coach es we try to use life as a plat form. We tell the kids to plav every down as if it's their last. You never know what the future may hold This is just very tragic. I definitely didn't see it coming after the year he had on the football field. His future was right in front of him We reallv lost a special kid." No one saw this coming Certain things really make me question things Most of us have dealt with situations in our lr.es that had us wonder ing why someone had to leave. I definiteK have One of my favorite quotes comes from an old rap song by UGK It says. "When I got down on m> knees that night to prav I asked God why You let these killers lave and take my home boy's son away. Man. if you've got kids show that you love em God just might call'em home. Cause one day they're here and the next. baby, they're gone " That's the truth It's sad, though. I feel so bad for the Pnnce family I feel bad for Khalid's fellow students. I feel bad for all of his friends This is a tragedy that has every one around the area thinking, talk ing and grieving "It's been sad around school," concluded Parkland's Nick James "But he's in a bet ter place now He's not in any more pain " NCHSAA makes changes The NCHSAA Board approved the sanctioning of both men's lacrosse and women's lacrosse as an NCH SAA championship sport starting with the academic File pfrx. Rodney Rogers was paralyzed from the shoulders down after falling off his?\TV a couple weeks ago. year 2009-10 I didn't realize lacrosse wasn't recognized until now The board also changed the start of basketball for the 2009-2010 academic sear, delaying the start by a week, the first practice may be Nov. 9. first contest Nov 16. in two different weeks of the season, a school would be able to play four games in a week if the fourth is on a non-school da;. Also, student-athletes, coaches and administrators will be required to complete a STAR Sportsmanship program after being ejected or disquali fied from a contest before he or she returns to play, starting with the 2009-10 academic year Another rule that was changed was the fighting poli cy. The policy was changed to "ateam whose players or coaches accumulate three indi vidua] ejections for fighting ( note if a situation occurs where* four players on one team are ejected during one fighting incident, then those four individual ejections will cause the team to lose its play off privileges) " Rodney Rogers paralv/ed Some of you may have heard about former Wake Forest and NBA star Rodney Rogers, who's paralyzed from the shoulder down after falling off his all-terrain vehicle (ATVf accident a couple weeks ago News of the accident got out after Rogers' former col lege coach. Dave Odom. told Raleigh's News & Observer last week Rogers. 37. who had a 12 year NBA careeT and won the league's sixth man award in 1999t2000, was riding in the woods in rural Vance Count) (near Durham) last week when he fell off the \ehicle. accord-,, ing to the North Carolina Highwas Patrol, the newspa per reported He was recently transferred from Duke Hospital to the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, which spe cializes in rehabilitation for people with catastrophic injuries That's a Nad chapter to Rodney's life I don't know him personally. But I know quite a few people that do know him well What sticks out ta me is the fact that he moved back to Durham and took a job w orking for the city ? using heavy machinery He was also a volunteer coach of a middle school girl's basketball team And. we all know he's financially'straight. So. he w as doing those things simply to keep busy. That's pretty said. Anthony Hill is the sports editor for The Chronicle. He cart be reached at 722-8624 (ext. 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