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SportsWeek May 6, 2010 Phou> by Dan Rosenstrauch/Contra Co*u? TimcvMCl The Golden Stale Warriors' Stephen Curry is among those vying for a spot on the USA Basketball Team. Road for USA Basketball Team begins in Vegas CHRONIC 1 I S Mil Rl I'ORI For the tilth consecutive summer the USA Basketball Men's National Team will conduct a training camp in Las Vegas. This year it will be from Julv 19-24 and culminate with the 2010 USA Basketball Showcase, an intra-squad game that will be held on Saturday. July 24 at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of UNLV. The training camp w ill be utilized to determine finalists for the 2010 USA World Championship Team that will participate in the 2010 FIBA (International Basketball Federation) World Championship. Aug. 28-Sept. 1 2 in Turkey. "The July 19-24 training camp in Las Vegas not only launches the USA National Team on another three vt*:ir <nu*\t hill il will be an important part of the USA team selection process and its prepara tions for the 2010 l-'IBA World Championship in Turkey." said 2010-12 USA Basketball National Team Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski. "I'm excited to get back on the court with my staff and the USA National Team plavers and begin our preparations for what I know will he an extremely competi tive World Championship." Krzyzewski Members of the 2010-12 USA National Team include: LaMareus Aldridge (Portland Trail Rln/erO: Carmeln Anthnnv (Denver Nuggets); Chauncey Billups (Denver Nuggets); Carlos Boozer (Utah Ja/z); Chris Bosh (Toronto Raptors); Kobe Bryant (Los Angeles Lakers); Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors); Kevin Durant (Oklahoma City Thunder); Tyreke Evans (Sacramento Kings); Rudv Gav (Memphis Grizzlies); Eric Gordon (Los Angeles Clippers); Danny Granger (Indiana Pacers); Jeff Green (Oklahoma City Thunder); Dwight Howard (Orlando Magic); Andre Iguodala (Philadelphia 76ers); LeBron James (Cleveland Cavaliers); A1 Jefferson (Minnesota Timberwolves); David Lee (New York Knicks); Brook Lopez (New Jersey Nets); Kevin Love (Minnesota Timberwolves); O.J. Mayo (Memphis Grizzlies); Lamar Odom (Los Angeles Lakers); Chris Paul (New Orleans Hornets); Kendrick Perkins (Boston Celtics); Tayshaun Prince (Detroit Pistons); Derrick Rose (Chicago Bulls); Amar'e Stoudemire (Phoenix Suns); Dwyane Wade (Miami Heat); Gerald Wallace (Charlotte Bobcats); Russell Westbrook (Oklahoma City Thunder); and Deron Williams (Utah Jazz). S.C. State Bulldog selected for NFL SH CI M II) llll CHRONK I I S.C. State University's Phillip Adams is headed ti) the NFL. He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the sev enth round. He was the 224th pick overall. The 5-11. 193-pound Rock Hill, S.C. native was pegged uy iiuiiiv p re - N F L draft Web sites as a seventh round pick or higher Adams saw action in 42 games during his four- year career for \dams the Bulldogs. A 200V first team A II -ME AC selection, he tied for the team lead with three INTs. two returned for TDs. and ranked 5th with 48 tackles. He also returned five punts for 18 yards, while recording a forced fumble, a team-high 1 1 pass breakups (first in the MEAC> and a fum ble recovery, which was returned for a TD. As a junior. Adams led the Bulldogs with five intercep tions. tied for first in the MEAC, and nine pass breakups, sixth best in MEAC, while ranking sixth on the team w ith 48 tackles. The Consensus Draft Ser\ ices and many scouts noted Adams as being "very physically imposing" and hav ing show'n at various times the ability to "dominate at the line of scrimmage". He is the first Bulldog selected since 2<MK) when tight end Arther Love was picked by the New England Patriots. ?? Kile Photo Coach Rig House Gaines is pictured with his wife, Clara. Dash honors Big House Gaines CHRONIC I I sr \l I RETORT :? ; Legendary Coach Big House Gaines is the first-ever recipient of the Winston-Salem Dash Honorary Coaches Award. Dash President Geoff Lassiter presented the honor last month to Clara Gaines. Coach I.assiter Gaines' widow. Gaines, who passed away in 2005, was the head basketball coach at Winston-Salem State University for 47 years He retired as 't^e all-time uinningest NCAA Division-II coach with 82X victories, a number that, at the time, was second only to Adolph Rupp in all of college basketball. In 1967. he led the WSSU Rams to a 31 I record and the D-ll National Championship, making WSSU the first historically black college or uni versity to win an NCAA national rhnmnuin^hin f'.mn.'v u/at in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1^82. the first blaek coach to receive the honor. In 200ft. he was part of the founding class of the College Basketball Hall of Fame. "Coach Gaines contributed to this community in so many ways through his leadership and mentoring on and off the^ court." said Lassiter. "We are so pleased to honor his mem" ory and are thrilled that Mrs Gaines and other family mem bers could be with us today. I cannot think of a better person to be our inaugural honoree." The Winston-Salem Dash Honorary Coaches Award will be presented each year at the beginning of the season to a citizen of Winston-Salem and its surrounding communities who has made a lasting impact on the community through his or her involvement in athletics. CIAA again draws North/South battle lines SPECI \l no I HI CHRON1CI 1 The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Board of Directors has decided to readjust the conference's ' divisional alignment to accommodate J the CIAA's newest additions - Lincoln University and Winston- ? Salem State, which is returning to the CIAA after testing the waters in the D- 1 MEAC. The change was needed, say offi cials. due to the geographical loca tions of the conference's newest mem- ^ hers. Lincoln is in Eastern Pennsylvania. while c nowan university, another recent audition, is in northeastern North Carolina. V ?L ... J C.....L 1 I JXUIUI dliu .^UUIIl U I \ ISlDIKtl grouping. which the conference once used, will he implemented for all sports that use divisional rank ings - football, basketball, women's bowling, tennis, softball and volleyball. These schools will I be in the North Division: Bowie I State. Chowan. Elizabeth City I State. Lincoln. St. Paul's. Virginia | State and Virginia Union. The I South teams are: Fayetteville State. Johnson C. Smith. Livingstone, St. Augustine's. Shaw and Winston-Salem Stale. Lady Deacs earn ACC golf honors SPEC I \l ID 111! CHRONIC! I ACC Individual Golf Champion Michelle Shin and sophomore Cheyenne Woods each earned their first All ACC honors, while Wake Forest Head Coach Dianne Dailey claimed her second straight ACC Coach of the Year honor. Voting was con ducted by the league's nine Dailey neau coacn es. Shin became the first fresh man to win the ACC Individual crown since four-time Alt /\ III tl I C it II Amanda Blumcnhurst of Duke won it in 2006. The Cape Coral. Fla., native has had a tremendous f irst season as she has played in all nine events and is averaging 74.37 strokes per round, which is sixth-hest in the conference and ninth-best for a single season in school history. Shin has also posted a total of four top- 10 finishes and 24 of her 27 rounds this season have counted towards the team Wfl Ph?*> Michelle Shin captured the ACC Individual Golf Championship. score. Woods has also had a breakout season. She's fin ished outside of the top-21 just once and claimed her first collegiate victory at the Bryan National Collegiate last month after finishing the event at 5-under par. Thirteen of her 27 rounds this year have been at par or better and her 73.52 stroke average is currently the lowest single season average in school his tory.-She has shaved nearly three strokes off her average from a year ago. Dailey, who is in her 22nd season at the helm of the Demon Deacon program, claims her fourth ACC Coach of the Year honor and the second-straight She also won the award back-to-back in 1994 and 1995 after the team won the ACC Crown. Dailey has now guided the team to four ACC Championships and 12 NCAA Championship appearances. Shin and Woods are the 10th and llth Demon Deacons to earn All ACC honors under Dailey. This is the eighth time that two or more Demon Deacons have been repre sented on the 12-member All- ACC Team.
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