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SportsWeek B ? Also Religion, Obituaries , Classifieds o jUL Collins takes over at St. Aug Former assistant becomes Lady Falcon head coach CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT Saint Augustine's College has announced the addition of LaTanya Collins to its athletic staff. Collins will serve as the new women's head basketball coach. A Richmond, Va.. native, Collins was the former women's assistant basketball coach at Saint Augustine's College during the 2004-05 season. Her duties included recruiting, planning team trav el, aca demic advise m e n t and working with the team's guards. During that sea son, the Lady Collins Falcons finished third in the CIAA's Western Division, led the CIAA in three-point shoot ing percentage, scoring defense and rebounding defense and won the CIAA highest grade point average award in women's basketball. Collins returns to the Lady Falcons as head coach after working at Southern Vermont College during the 2006-07 season. At Southern Vermont, she was the head women's bas ketball coach, the assistant ath letic director and senior women's administrator. Prior to coaching at Southern Vermont, Collins was the women's assistant basket ball cojich at Marist College in Poughkeepsie. NY, during the 2005-06 season. She was a key recruiter at Marist and also assisted with game and practice preparation, development of guards and team travel. Collins started her college coaching career as an assistant coach at Virginia State during the 2002-03 season after play ing basketball there. While at Virginia State, she coached three all-conference selections and two All-Americans. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in biology from Virginia State in 2000. Collins coached basketball on the high school level from 2000-2004. She was the head girls' varsity basketball coach and head boys' junior varsity coach at Charles City (Va.) High School from 2000-2003, and an assistant girls' basket ball coach at Highland Springs (Va.) High School during the 2003-04 season. I" \ r 1 1 ? I II Celeste Burgess (from left), coach Pam Benton and Tayana Perez pose for a photo earlier this week. Flashback Duo Young girls reminding fans of Little and Jones BY ANTHONY HILL THE CHRONICLE Celeste Burgess and Tayana Perez, both 10 years old, are reminding quite a few people of two other basketball players from this city. The duo are reminding a number of fans of Camille Little and Porsche Jones. "I can see that." said Porsche Jones, a former star guard at Carver and Wake. "I've seen them play, and they kind of remind me of me and Camille. Tayana is light skinned and pretty, like I was. They're also really good. They are like Camille and me. They both seem to understand the game very well. They listen too. They could be the next two great girls to leave this city." Reynolds Park director Bryant McCorkle added: "They remind me of Porsche and Camille too. But 1 think they will be better. That's my opinion. They really are two exception See Duo on B4 Parkland 's Brown headed to Surry College BY ANTHONY HILL THE CHRONICLE Marcus Brown, who recently graduated from Parkland, has committed to play for Surry Community College. The exciting point guard seems excited and ready to help rebuild the bas ketball program that's been inactive for the last three things a few years ago. We're trying to build it again." Wilmoth said having a signee like Brown will make the process a little smoother for the next two years. "He's definitely going to bring something to the table," Wilmoth said. "We feel lucky to have him. I've watched him play for the last years. Brown capped an impres six montns. i-ie s a strong ball handler that passes very sive prep career with 14.5 points per game, 4.5 rebounds, two steals and 4.5 assists. He's not known for his eye popping statistics, though. Brown usu ally excites the crowd with his quick dribble pene tration and precise passing. Brown <s excited to have the Wilmoth well. He nas a great attitude, and a refuse to lose attitude. Marcus is a real competitor." Wilmoth said he realized how much of a com petitor Brown was after a situa tion during his junior year at Parkland. opportunity to bring some excitement to the Surry pro gram. "I'm definitely excited," Brown said. "There's a lot of freshmen coming in with me. We're all going to be trying to help the program. It's cool that a couple ^uys from here will also be there." Also committing to Surry College were Parkland 's A J. Royster and North Forsyth's Jeremy Helms. "I'm happy about the guys coming in here next year," said Surry Community College head coach Ed Wilmolh. "We're also excit ed about Jeremy Helms. He's in the same position as Marcus, where they both fell short on the SAT. Jeremy is also going to be tremendous for us. He really works hard, and is dedicated." "We're all going to work hard to build this program," Wilmoth continued. "This is the first year back in a while. The program started in 1966, but went through some "His coach told me about a situation that took place last year where Marcus was n't playing that much." Wilmoth said. "He said he was so much of a competitor that he wanted to be moved down to JV. Of course, he didn't get moved down. But Marcus wanted to get better. He just wanted to play. I like Marcus a lot." "Like I said, we're lucky to have him," Wilmoth con tinued. "We feel good about all of the freshmen, especial ly Marcus and Jeremy. Marcus will probably leave here and go to a big program. Jeremy could sign with a Division I or II school." Brown added: "That's the goal. I want to leave Surry and go somewhere big. I'm going to continue to work on my grades and gm better on the court. I'm just happy to be going somewhere that isn't far from home. I just have to make the best out of this situation. I'm ready." ram oy i. name nan Parkland's Marcus Brown dishes a behind-the-back pass during a victory this past season. Brown will be dish ing passes for Surry College next year. Grand Champion 1 ij^AL yiii.D !3L)JLr PLATINUM. Olid "SPONSOR Dili) ? Gold Spoj Tho Chronlol*, Carolina C ?ra Piedmont Roallty, Forsyth ???food, T.W. Photo by Anthony Hill Local professional golfer Todd Brown, poses with the championship trophy of the third annu al Neal Wilson Golf Tournament at Winston Lake golf course last Sunday. Brown finished with a score of 133 (65, 6H). The two-day Pro Am tournament had more than 214 golfers this year. Wardlow news a bit exaggerated FROM THE HUDDLE Anthony Hill A number of you probably read the little write up in The Journal that said some things about O.C. Wardlow, who's a former football star at Mount Tabor High. Last Saturday's Journal said that Wardlow (who's actually O.C. Wardlow III) was charged with common-law rob bery after reportedly punching a 16 year-old and taking jewlry. Let's stop everything right there. What is common law robbery? Let me look that one up. (I'm looking.) OK. It seems that common Itfw larceny and robbery arc the same thing. The com mon law crime of larceny requires the taking and carrying away of tangible property from another person, with the Sec Hill on R5 OjC. Wardlow during his days at Ml. Tabor. -8624 - MASTERCARD. VISA A\D AMERICAN EXPRESS ACCEPTED
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