[EST _jrlr L " WAKEI Phy over a second and a half in the final men's event of the day and earned 10 more points. On the women's side, jun ior Michelle Sikes earned All ACC honors in the 5000 meter run by placing third with a time of 16:09.86. Sikes' time marked a season and personal best and earned six points for the women's team. Freshman Carly Mauch placed fifth in the javelin th*ow with a personal best dis tance of 40.78 meters. Freshman Nicole Schappert earned three points after fin ishing sixth in the 1500 meter run with a time of 4:25.22. Sophomore Melissa Council earned three more points after placing sixth in the 400 meter dash with a time of 54.88 sec onds. The 4x400 meter relay team of Council, Michelle Duffey, Brittany White and Schappert shattered their sea son best time with a sixth place time of 3:47.21. The season best time prior came at the Yellow Jacket Invitational with a time 4:03.80. Robinson from pane 57 The other seven honorees are as follows: Patty Evers (East Bladen head women's basketball and Softball coach), Tom Harper (Alexander Central's athletic director and assistant football coach), Robert Woodley (Pasquotank head men's basketball coach and athletic directo^ David Poplin (South Stanley head Softball, assistant football and basketball coach), Billy Eccles (Gastonia Ashbrook head wrestling, assistant foot ball and women's track coach), B.J. Laughter (Hendersonville head football coach) and Mike Absher (Davie County head men's basketballcoach). ^These coaches provide excellent role models with their positive approach," con cluded Adams. The winners were chosen by a special committee based on nominations from the member schools. They will receive a plaque from NCH SAA assistant executive director Mark Dreibelbis as part of the Association's stu dent services program. Each Q school had the opportunity to nominate one of its coaches for this award. a Miller Jmmpage 57 not be doing well in the class room from time to time. "I tell guys that may be strag gling in some classes that they need (b be studying when the guys get together to hang out," Miller said. "I feel like that's my responsibility as one of the lead ers of this team. I can't just be a leader on Friday nights. The guys expect me to set an example all the time." North head football coach Bill Oakley added: "He's an unbelievable leader. He's a great model for the kids. Girard is in all the honors classes. He does a lit tle bit of everything. He's defi nitely up near the top of athletes I've coached, with the combina tion of academics and athletic ability. He's up there pretty high on my list. He's going to get some looks from colleges for both things (academics and ath letics)." Miller presently has the inter est of a number of schools like Princeton, Yale, Furman and Lenoir-Rhyne, to name a few. Miller seems to understand that it's going to take a lot for him to get a scholarship to the type of schools he would like to attend. He's taking care of business in the classroom. He also hopes to help his team take care of matters on the field after suffering a frus trating 2-9 season last year. "For me to get recruited I'm going to have to have an out standing year," Miller said. "Plus, we didn't do well last year at all. I think about last season too much sometimes. I just don't want to go through that again. I'm used to winning." Miller isn't just a winner in the classroom. He's also accus tomed to not losing on the foot ball field. He won many games while playing for the Tiny Indians during his Pop Warner days. Then, his JV team at North won a lot of games while he played on that level his first two years. His JV squad also took Pile photo Miller is expected to do more for the Viking offense this upcoming season. down a very talented Mt. Tabor squad that hadn't lost in two years a couple years ago. "That was hard for me to deal with at first," Miller said of los ing. "I was real close to leaving. I was thinking about going to Carver. That was the school I watched before I came to North. Before I got in high school the only North game I watched was the one they played against Carver. But I realized that my teammates are over here. I want to help them turn everything around." Oakley said Miller is going to have plenty of chances to help his Vikings succeed next year. Miller is expected to have a lot more responsibility on his plate next season. "We're going to expect more from him this year," Oakley said. "He's going to have more free dom. We have a lot of faith in Girard. He runs real well in traf fic. and he passes the ball pretty good. We're definitely going to use his talents more this year. We know he's smart enough to han dle what we will put on his plate, and we have all the confidence that he'll make some things hap pen for us." Miller added: "I expect to open up the playbook more this year. I think we're going to pass the ball more too. I think the whole team is ready to have a good season this year. That's our focus right now. We were young last year. Now guys know what to expect. Now it's just a matter . of putting what we know into what we do. Knowing is only half the battle." WSSU men finish fifth in CIAA Jeptolo-led Uidy Rams also finishes fifth at meet m CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT __ The entire Winston- Salem State University Ram's track and field team had a good showing at the CIAA track and field last weekend. The men recorded 14 top-ten finishes, while the Lady Rams eight en route to grabbing two fifth place honors at the 2006 CIAA Men's Track and Field Championships on Sunday afternoon in Petersburg, Va. The men were led by Jon Mobley's first place finish and Richard Marvellus and hzra Yowell's fourth place finishes en route to a fifth plate finish overall. The Lady Ranis were spear headed by the talented Irene Jeptolo, who recorded a first and fourth place finish dunng the meet. On the men's side, Mobley turned in the highest WSSU individual placing as he recorded a second-place finish in the shot put is he recorded a distance of 1354 meters. Ezra Yowell finished fourth in the men's high jump as he cleared a height of 6'04". He was joined Richard Marcellus who also recorded a fourth-place finish as he turned in a time of 1 1 .06 second in the men's 100 meters. The Rams finished with a toiai 01 +4 points, saint ? ?wi???i> Augustine's College won the WSSD'm Lady Rams. men's championship with a record 212 points overall. The Falcons easily captured the 2006 CIAA Men's Track and Field Championship as they defeated the runner-up Eagles of North Carolina Central University by and astounding 69' points. 212 to 143 on Sunday afternoon. The heavily-favored Falcons showed why they are one of the nation's top track and field programs as they placed in the top ten in all 17 of the 1 7 events that would be scored in the Championships en route to the title. On the women's side, Irene Jeptolo's first and fourth place finishes helped the Lady Rams to a respectable finish. Jeptolo. the NCAA Divisidh II Southeast Region Cross-Country Athlete of the Year showed the poise that makes her one of the nation's elite distance runners as she finished fourth in the women's 1500 meter; with a time of 5:01 .37 and won the women's 3000 meters with a time of 10:31 .64. 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