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-By James Cuthbertson! James It’s time for the nigh school football season to roll around again. Opening night is exactly one week away and most of the squads in the Southwestern 4A Conference appear to be loaded. There are no soft touches anywhere and most of the coaches believe that a 7-2 conference record could win the whole thing. This is the year of the beef for the conference with several players topping the scales at over 250 pounds. West Charlotte has tackle James Briscoe, 6’3”, 250 pounds, and noseguard Rex Reynolds, 6’4”, 280. West Mecklenburg has offensive tackle Mark Drag, 6’4”, 245; linebacker Brian Hinson, 260; and Jim Smith, 6’2 Vfe”, 245. Independence has All-State tackle Chuck Taber, 6’5”, 290; right guard Anthony Sterling, 6’1’\ 160; defensive tackle Steve Gabbard 6’5”, 261; defensive lineman Freddie Hoskins, 5’6”, 260; and tackle Brian Glassman, 6’5”, 250. North Mecklenburg has big Tony Mercer, 6’2”, 255, at noseguard. - South Mecklenburg ha& tackle Ted McNairy, 6’5”, 250; and tackle Van Jack son, 6T\ 255. East Mecklenburg has offensive guard Andy Politis, 6’2”, 240; offensive guard Walker Thurston, 6’, 245; and center Alton Terry, 6’1”, 240. Coach Glen Sasser at Myers Park said the biggest difference in his former conference, the Eastern 4A (Wilmington Laney) and the Southwestern is that the players here are more physical. Throw out the ball, strike up the band and “Let’s get physical.” Opening night, Fri day, August 26, has Winston-Salem Park land at Garinger, East Forsyth at Harding, Gastonia Hunter Huss at Olympic and Greensboro Page at South Mecklenburg. All should be tough games. Congratulations are in order for the Olympic High School varsity cheerleaders. The nine young ladies went to camp at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and won most of the honors. The camp was sponsored by the Eastern Cheerleader’s Association and held the last week of July. Honors won included Best Squad and the Megaphone Award denoting the squad with the most spirit. Head cheerleader Sarena Anita Mobley was voted as the “Cheerleader of the Camp.” The Olympic cheerleaders are Anita Mobley, Raena Johnson, Susan Nunn, Susan Row, Christi Hardin, Wanda Ward, Beverle Davis, Wendy Scroggs, and Lawanda Robertson. Jamie Pope is the advisor. James Johnson will enter Winston-Salem State University this fall to play football (running back) and possibly go out for the track team, but during the remaining weeks of his free summer, he was active in competitive track. Johnson sprinted a 10.4 in the 100 meter dash at the East Coast Classics track meet in Baltimore, MD. The high school record is 10.2. He will probably make the National Junior Olympics. The Myers Park graduate worked hard enough to improve his time by .5 seconds. His best in high school was 10.7 in the 100. Saying that he wanted to prove that he could do better after a disappointing senior season, Johnson said he hopes very much to be in the Junior Olympics. Melvin Mims finished fourth in the young men’s 400 meter hurdles at the National TAC Junior Olympic track and field cham pionships at Durham. Mims clocked a 53.75 second time behind the winner who came in at 51.56. Teresa Allen of the Charlotte Striders won the young wonen’s 17-18 year old division of the TAC National Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships. She long jumped 19’3Y4M which was four and a half inches better than anyone else at the track meet. The West Charlotte varsity cheerleaders won the Cheerleading Spirit Conference at Appalachian State University for the sixth time recently. Squad members included head Selestine Young, Nancy Babb, Joan Brooks, Vicky Cuthbertson, Rhoda Davenport, Debbie Garner, Stephanie Moore, Maria Neely, Dawn Ramsey, Pia Townes and Donna Walker Over 154 squads were at the camp. Ann-Marie Clinton is the advisor. West finished fourth in the Champion camp at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Christi Keller is head cheerlead Sitting on the lawn, cooling it with legs crossed are Raphael Leon Ellerbe and Dameion Lamon Owens (r). Of course both young men are talking about what all men talk about, economics, sports cars (it mav he »n« early for them to talk about golf). These bright young men can put your mind at ease the next time you hear the adage, "Tlie youth are our future.” (Post Photo By Teresa Sim mons) In Academics NCSU Inaugurates Tutorial Program To Advance Athletes North Carolina State Uni versity is taking steps to strengthen academic ser vices for its student ath letes by establishing a co ordinated Academic Ad vancement Program for Student athletes to be ad ministered by the Pro vost’s Office. Chancellor Bruce R. Poulton announced that Dr. Joe B. Brown, former chairman of the physical education department at Winston-Salem State Uni versity, has been hired to coordinate the program, and Ann Ferguson Mann, formerly a lecturer in the NCSU Department of En glish, will assist him as coordinator for instruction. Poulton said although the university for years has of fered tutorial and counsel ing services to athletes, the strengthening of these pro grams through the new Academic Advancement Program for Student Ath letes will bring together testing, counseling and tu toring under one umbrella “to insure that the uni versuy identities auuetes who need academic help and provides it to them.” Dr. Lawrence M. Clark, NCSU associate provost who has planned and de signed the program, said, “We intend to provide help to those student athletes who need it so they can move forward to reach their academic and career goals.” Clark said this spring the university conducted a pilot tutorial program for student athletes with aca demic problems and that the pilot program resulted in a “marked improvement in grades.” The new coordinator for the program, Brown, is uniquely qualified for his post, Clark said, since his background includes ex perience as a student ath lete in college and later as a faculty member, coach and administrator at the college level. A native of Statesville and a 1964 graduate of Shaw University, Brown earned his master’s degree in 1970 from George Wash ington University and his doctorate in 1978 from Ohio State University. Before joining the Win ston-Salem State faculty in 1979, he was on the faculty at Albany State College, (Ga.), and taught physical education ir\ the Newton Conover Public Schools and the public schools of Montgomery County, Md. In coordinating the new NCSU academic assistance program, which will pro vide academic advising, counseling and tutorial ser Clark Captures Second Place Id Bodybufldmg By James Cuthbertson Post Sports Writer Tim Clark, graduate of Harding High School, Eastern North Carolina competition. em North Carolina com petiticm. ‘‘My father was in it,” Clark said. “He inspired me. He won quite a few awards." The contest was held in Jacksonville, N.C. and he won the short class, 5’8” and down and finished se cond overall. “I like bodybuilding,” he revealed. “It is good for health reasons.” In June, the 5’7”, 180 pounder won a powerlifting meet in Asheboro. He squats 550 pounds, bench presses 320 and dead lifts 510. He works out on a regi mented schedule six days a week at the YMCA working on two body parts from two to four hours per day. He considers his back shots as the best in his.pose down procedure. He measures 46” across the chest, 16V4” in the upper arms, 25" in the thighs and 15” in the calves. “I look up to Tom Pltaz, the great bodybuild er with the big calves,” he informed. i -- . .Do you have something to say? Then do so for everyone to read. The Charlotte Post, the only other voice in town, wel comes all letters on various subjects. ms \rjj2 mms « mmmmm mmm im mm ®u&msm> isttmsm/s vices, Brown said the first step is to develop an aca demic profile of each stu dent athlete who is select ed. Brown then will co ordinate the efforts of coaches, the students’ fa culty advisors and teach ers. Brown said the priority of the program will be to identify from among 500 athletes omcampus the 100 to 130 who need academic help. This will be done by giving tests to assess each student’s academic ! strengths and weaknesses. “This will help place the student in the appropriate classes and give his aca demic advisor a profile of his abilities,” Brown said. The tutorial segment of the program will be co ordinated by Mann, who will be responsible for matching students who need academic coaching with the appropriate fa culty member. A lecturer in the English Department since 1978, she also has taught English at Hale High School in Ra leigh, Adams Middle School in Guilford, Conn., ana new Hanover High School in Wilmington. A 1969 graduate of the University of North Carol ina at Chapel Hill, she earned a master’s degree in 1973 from Southern Connecticut State College in New Haven. “We are finding those who made poor grades be cause of lack of back ground, and they will be given basic remediation in ! math, reading and writing ■ skills,” she stressed. For other students, the problem may be combining the hours of practice re quired by their sport with their academic schedule. “We will help them work on time organization, draw ing on the services for the NCSU counseling center,” - Mann concluded. BATCH Finished Fourth In Southeastern Tournament The BATCH Traveling All-Stars finished third in the Southeastern Racquet Association Confer ence tournament held in Winston-Salem. The Traveling All-Stars accumulated 10\£ points to 25 for Winston-Salem, 19V* for, Greenville, 7 for Greensboro, 4M* for Nor folk, and lMt for Durham. The BATCH juniors tied Norfolk for third place. Winners for BATCH in cluded Brenda Slade in flight five ladies singles, Brenda Styles in flight eight ladies singles, Cina Mack and Brenda Styles in flight 3 ladies doubles, Brenda Slade and Erika Gantt in flight four ladies doubles and Scott Fortson in flight one junior sin gies. Participating from Char lotte and winning runner up trophies were Chuck Whitley, Frento Burton, Stan Law, Calvin Davis, Ernie Felder, Jim Rich ards, James Cuthbertson, George Neale, Robert Reeves, Cina Mack, Alger- ] non Johnson and Patricia ! Jett. Others playing in the tournament were James Richardson, Melvin Watt, Melvin Carthran, Tommy Davis, Scott Arnold, Rick Norwood, Brian Watt, Ja son Watt and Juan Hou ston. BATCH will host the Charlotte City Classic Au gust 27 and 28 with adult singles $5; adult doubles, $7.50 per team; junior singles, $4; and junior dou bles, $6 per team. For information, contact James Cuthbertson, 393 2058. __ In the final standings the All-Stars finished fourth with a 2-3, 3-5 records. Greensboro 4-1, 6-1 and Norfolk 4-1, 4-1 were co champions. Greenville was third at 3-2, 3-3, Durham and Winston-Salem were 1-4, 1-4. In junior standings Char lotte was third with a 2-1-1 record. Norfolk won with 4-1, 4-1 followed by Green ville at 3-1-1, 3-1-1. 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