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I Know I Can Overcome Anything
In August of 2009 at the age of 49, I had just finished up one of my best Track and Field seasons ever. I had won the State Games of America national titles in the 110 meter high-hurdles, 400 meter intermediate-hurdles and 1500 meter Race Walk. I also won silver medals in the long jump and triple jump). Three days later I'm in the hospital with a 105 degree fever and am diagnosed with an auto immune disease called Sjogrens disease.
For the next 16 months my mouth is not producing saliva, my eyes and nasal passages were dry as a bone, I have numerous fevers that put me in the hospital, I lost my immune system 3 times for 3-4 months at a time, I'm in terrible pain in my entire body, I lost the use of 4 fingers in my right hand (trigger finger condition), I develop neuropathy in 3/4 of my body, I'm on numerous medications including prednisone, I get kidney stones every 3 months, I gained 30 pounds, etc.
In December of 2010 I wake up one morning and I have my immune system back, my neuropathy is gone (and neuropathy just doesn't go away), my energy had returned! (In November of 2010 I went off all of my medications and switched to auto immune system vitamin therapies and an anti-occident drink).
I cautiously began Track and Field and swimming training. I changed my diet, drank buckets of water daily, slept more, modified my training, and kept taking my auto immune system boosting vitamins and a high anti-occident drink.
In 2011 I won 77 medals in 8 track meets and won my age division in 3 events (1500 meter Race Walk, 3000 meter Race Walk, and 5000 meter Race Walk) at the Huntsman World Senior Games. In 2012, I won 156 medals in 14 track meets. I also set 24 state, invitational, national and World records. In addition I earned 2 USATF All-American Awards (sprinting and Race Walking) and was named the Utah Amateur Athlete of the Year.
At the 2012 Huntsman World Senior Games I won the Age division and "All Around" titles in the 1500, 3000 and 5000 meter Race Walking events and the Bronze medal in the 50 meter dash. Other highlights of the year included: having a standing long jump of 9 feet 7.25 inches (North Idaho Senior Games), swimming the 25 yard freestyle in 9.99 seconds (Wyoming Senior Winter Games) and running the 50 meter dash in 6.23 seconds (Western Colorado Senior Games).
Since the age of 41, I have won over 600 medals. I still have my Sjogren's disease problems: the lack of saliva, dry eyes, etc., but I know that I can overcome anything. It is never too late to try and win.
My name is Irma M Lookermans and I have lived in St. George for 26 years. I love this town. We have the best climate for health. I lost my husband 4 weeks before the 2012 World Senior Games. He was training for his bike ride on the Bloomington trail. He had a massive heart attack. His name is Jesse R Corwin. He had registered for the Road Race through Snow Canyon and the Criterium at the old airport. Unfortunately, he didn't make it. He was 80 years old.
As for myself, I play tennis. I always promised I will go on for him. And I did! I didn't win a medal but I DIDN'T give up. While I was playing I broke my foot but I played on, no matter what pain I felt. I had to do it for HIM. Thank you.
Irma M Lookerman
P.S He was the Games' best promoter. He would always send the entry books to all his friends and family. He wanted everybody to participate.
My first two years of playing softball in the Huntsman Senior Games were as a player for someone else. I decided to start my own 60+ team because I wanted to choose my players for character and ability so we could have a lot of fun in Utah.
I started out trying to get all Oregon players, but most of the guys I asked were already going to Utah with other teams or couldn't make the trip. So I used the Huntsman World Senior Games website (TeaFinder) to find players which turned out to one of the fun parts of putting a team together.
I contacted players and started a team called the Mittfits. No it's not the misfits; a lot of people make that mittake.
On my 2012 team I had players from Oregon, Washington, California, Arizona, Utah and Alberta, Canada. In the past I have had players from Florida, Texas, Montana, Missouri and Michigan. A lot of them went to other teams for different reasons. Some went to 65+ teams, some to higher division teams, some just didn't like the way I managed, and some I didn't ask back. No matter what the reason, it is fun to see some of my ex-players each year in October.
I have assembled a great bunch of 60+ year olds. The proof is in what some people have said about the Mittfits. In 2011, after a game one of the players from the other team came over and said that we were the nicest bunch of guys they had played against in a long time. This year one of our umpires after a game said he'd like to umpire all our games. One of the board members at the manager's meeting told me that he and some of the others think that we have one of the best names for a softball team. As we were getting ready to have our picture taken for winning the silver, somebody from another team told one of my players that we should win the sportsmanship award.
Most of the players from 2011 came back for 2012. I already have 11 of the 14 guys from 2012 saying they want to play again in 2013, so I should have the same great team attitude in 2013.
When I started this team I always said, that win or lose we are in St. George to have fun and winning would make it more fun. Well this year was more fun. We won our first medal (silver medal in the C division) and it truly was even more fun winning. So I believe I am living up to what the Huntsman World Senior Games are all about: having fun, good friendly competition, meeting old friends and making new friends.
Thank you Huntsman World Senior Games for 6 great years, 2 as a player and 4 as a player/manager, and looking forward to spending many more Octobers in your wonderful town.
I just got through watching the movie "For Love of the Game" with Kevin Costner. I want to tell you the story of my husband who also loves the game----baseball/softball. I have been married to him for 56 years and during all of those years he has played baseball for the first two years we were married and then switched to fast pitch softball for about forty years plus. He was the best hitter in the Salt Lake City Metro Softball League for years and was presented the Hall of Fame award. Most of the times he came up to bat he hit home runs. He loved the pressure of having the bases loaded and coming up to bat and hitting a home run/Grand Slam for all of the players on base, including himself to score. I watched this happen very often.
I was always so proud of him. Even before we were married he played all kinds of sports both in Jr. High and in Highschool. He lettered in baseball, basketball and football in his Highschool years. Ball to him was his life. He had a natural ability to excel in all sports. We went to many tournaments during our early years of marriage. When the children came along we took them with us to tournaments. The car we traveled in was always filled with music and laughter. We had many fun family trips. The grownup kids now remember these trips and say it was the most fun they ever had. They were always proud of their Dad and his accomplishments he made in the games.
Later in life as fast pitch softball seemed to die down and we moved to Arizona, he began to play slow pitch softball. Under the pressure of one of his real good friends he surrendered and went out to play slow pitch. Again, he was one of the best hitters.
He had real bad knees and had to have a double knee operation in 2009. It took quite a while for him to get ready to play again but he endured and started playing slow pitch softball again. He was hitting home runs and simply jogged, not ran, to the bases to home plate. Later, as he got older he wasn't hitting many homeruns but was hitting the ball up to the fence and made it to first base and a runner would run for him the rest of the bases.
Due to a very serious illness of mine, he was unable to finish his knee rehab and this altered his running very much. But, he continued to play and hitting the ball to the fence and only running to first base. He was still enjoying playing. Then this year, his Carotid Artery became clogged in his neck and he had to have surgery to get it cleaned out. The surgery went well but the next day he could not move his left leg, foot or toes.
He had a stroke.
After numerous hospital stays due to other health problems he has, he began in-patient rehab at a hospital. He stayed there for a week and then came home and started outpatient rehab. His goals are to be ready to play ball again. He has worked really hard and still in rehab three times a week. The rehab personnel are trying to get him ready for the Las Vegas World Tournament in early October and then on to the Senior Olympics later in October in St. George, Utah. This Page 2 man is determined to be ready!
His leg is not back to normal yet and he is still limping and using a cane. The determination and goals he has are keeping him focused on getting better so he can "play ball again". He just turned 74 and this will be his 9th year at the World Senior Games. I thought you might like to hear this story and be aware of what kind of athletes are competing in the Senior Olympics.
I, as his wife of 56 years am very proud of him. Still, we are not sure if he will be able to play ball, but he is giving it a real good try. He wants to get better and return to playing ball for a few more years. He is working very hard to accomplish this.
Noteworthy: In 1996 Larry had a 7-way by-pass on his heart. It is simply a miracle that even though he has conjestive heart disease along with some other serious problems with his body, he has continued to "play ball" throughout his lifetime. I think ball has simply saved his life.
Yours truly, Betty D. Morgan Wife of Larry E. Morgan, Mesa, AZ
My name is Frances Flatau. In April of 2007, I first heard about the Huntsman World Senior Games. I was playing in the Maryland Eastern Shore Senior Games and someone mentioned it. My tennis doubles partner and I discussed it and thought it might be fun to participate.
In July of that year (before we registered) I was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer. Well - there goes the Huntsman World Senior Games. I had surgery and then 9 months of Chemo and radiation. By April of 2008, I was again playing in the Maryland Eastern Shore Senior Games, with a PICC line in my left arm, when my partner and I began talking about going to St. George again. When I was declared cancer free in June of 2008, we decided to participate.
This was our celebration of life. I am looking forward to my fifth year at the Games and my five years since my diagnosis. I try to be an advocate of positive thinking in the face of cancer and the importance of keeping up exercise and competition.
Journal Entry of Keith Jackson Kunz – Saturday – September 1, 2012 – By Keith Jackson Kunz
About the time I turned eleven, I realized that I enjoyed playing basketball and tennis more than softball or jumping around the block on pogo sticks. I have eight siblings, one older brother, two younger brothers and five younger sisters. I was mom's smallest baby but ended up the tallest at about 6' 2". Mom encouraged us to practice the piano and our other band and orchestra instruments before going out to play.
At first, basketball was more fun than tennis for me. I played basketball for East High in Salt Lake my sophomore and junior years. I was able to make money starting in the 4th grade as a janitor's helper. As a teenager, I was able to cut lawns to make enough money to pay for my own shoes, music lessons and a few extras like army surplus skiis, a Flexible Flyer sled and a Spalding Poncho Gonzales tennis racquet. I still have the sled and my first tennis racquet. I was 19 years old when that first racquet was last used for quasi--competitive play.
I was a member of the 53rd Army Band at Fort Ord California after my basic National Guard training. Among my few earthly possessions, I had a wood clarinet, a Selmer Bundy tenor sax and my Spalding racquet. A fellow bandsman, Dwight Marchant, was also a tennis player and a good LDS friend.
Army haircuts were $0.25. Tennis balls were about $2.00 for a can of three. I broke the original racquet strings and Dwight put on new ones for me. They were natural gut. I never played enough to wear out more than one Kingwood calf leather grip.
I served a thirty month LDS mission to North Germany. I got married to the most beautiful girl in the world and worked very hard to earn BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Utah. Life comes at you fast. We have seven children, two boys and five girls. The first was born in 1969 and the caboose was born in 1987. I had a successful career as a scientific software developer working for companies like Evans and Sutherland and Hewlett Packard. I was also successful for twenty years as an independent software consultant developing large systems for growing companies like Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake.
About the time I turned thirty, I realized that weight management was going to be a lifelong struggle for me. By the time I turned fifty five (1999), I knew I would have to lose weight or die too young. Tennis became a more important part of my life in about 2002 as I was doing some serious dieting. I joined the Salt Lake Tennis Club. I played several times a week. I played a few tournaments.
Katherine and I have traveled to Hawaii many times. I always take my racquets. My favorite places to play are the Makena Tennis Club and the Kapalua Tennis Gardens on Maui. Over the years, however, I have found that one of the most important aspects of tennis is to find the right partners. I have been most fortunate to have been able to meet some of the finest people in the world through my tennis associations.
I played the Huntsman Senior Games tournament for the eighth time last month. I had to take a break in 2008 because I was involved with arduous chemotherapy for (stage II high risk) colon cancer. In 2010 I had surgery for thyroid cancer and had radioactive iodine therapy. But, I played at the HWSG anyway. For me, it was a significant personal victory just to be able to play.I have learned that life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful. That year I gave myself the nickname of GammaGuy.
I love tennis because it's so much like music. Your performance is never quite perfect. But, you get to the point were it can be of benefit to all of those who are near and dear to you. We, at latest count, have twenty grandchildren. I play tennis partly to remind me that every day is a gift. Every friend is something precious, to be cherished and encouraged and supported. I retired from my profession as a software developer in September of 2010. It's hard to believe that two years have flown by since then. I'm striving to keep a balance in my life between the needs of my children and grandchildren, my wife and the demands of LDS church service. My children call me superman. My tennis partners call me 'The Rocketman'. My wife calls me irreplaceable. Unfortunately, I wasn't wearing my hearing aids when she said it. So, I thought she said, "Your ears are replaceable." I just finished paying for my fourth set of new hearing aids, however, which are state-of-the-art remote mic devices. Now, I should be able to hear the sound of the ball hitting the sweet spot and the whisper of a let and what my opponents are saying under their breath.
I love the game. I love the people that play it. I love the places it is played. I've always loved to solve difficult problems. Tennis gives me what I need, a way to solve problems without sitting at a desk. I love math. Tennis gives my brain an escape hatch where it can compute to the max and not have negative health side effects. I love to be able to play to the best of my ability.
Hello to everyone and welcome to St. George for another year at the Huntsman Senior Games! My name is Rhonda Bigelow and it is my first time to participate as an Athlete in the Huntsman Senior Games but my second in participating as one of the Event Sponsors! My story is about Nicole, my oldest daughter of my 5 children.
Nicole was 9 months old when diagnosed with Neuroblostoma Stage 4 cancer. She is now 29 years old and a fit survivor of this deadly disease. I was 21 when she was diagnosed and for 4 1/2 years she endured radiation and chemotherapy. She endured treatment of several different experimental drugs and we watched her successfully battle blood infections several different times, almost losing her to two of them. As her mother I stayed positive for her and our family as we knew we may not win. God had a plan for her and a plan for both of us. Doctors pronounced her clean of the cancer at the age of 9 1/2. After a 5 year wait and repeated doctor visits to assure she was doing well, she was cured.
Through all this I ran. I ran to keep in shape, to help with stress relief and for confidence. The confidence I needed to know I was strong and like my young daughter, a survivor. I ran 2 to 3 miles a day then entered my first 5k and placed 2nd for my age group at 25! I ran and entered more and did well for my age. Nothing spectacular, but for me it was always winning. My 4 kids often rode along with their bikes pacing and urging me on! Nicole was always there, riding with me in the early morning before school. Then we rode bikes together and continued the fitness regime. That, I believe, is what inspired Nicole, who now inspires me. She started running several years ago and a few years ago started training for herself, then enterd her first Marathon, the Phoenix Marathon.
For her first race she finished in 5 hours and 20 minutes! How awesome after beating Neuorblostoma Stage 4 at 9 months of age and now at 29 completing her first Marathon! She has continued to compete and complete the "Mt. Hood to Coast" twice, the Vancouver Tri, The Eugene Tri, and many 10k and a few 5 k's. She will be coming from Portland, Oregon to compete in the St. George Marathon this year!
I am so proud of her as she runs to raise money for the American Cancer Society and a cure. My story is that she has inspired me. I have battled a herniated disk in my neck for the past few years due to horse riding injury and wanted so bad to run again. With chiropractor care, I am now running.
My husband Paul encouraged me to sign up for the World Senior Games to race and I did. My daughter Nicole after the St. George Marathon on Oct 6th, stayed and cheered me on to the finish in the 10K on Oct 8th as she did when she was younger. Afterward she flew back to Portland. It's amazing that now, 21 years later, I ran for her as I did when I was 21 and she ran the race of her life and is now a rare cancer survivor.
Rhonda Bigelow, Texas Roadhouse
I Thought My Playing Days Were Over
My name is Jim Rockstad. In 2005 I had a shoulder that was bone-to-bone and looked like I would have to give up racquetball--which I have played since 1974.
I was in a traffic accident in '91 which caused a trauma in my shoulder requiring surgery. I met up with Doctor Frederick Matsen at the University of Washington and said, "My goal is to play racquetball into my 70's". He had a new approach to fixing my shoulder which he called "Ream and Run". Instead of the plastic socket that was used normally he reams out the shoulder bone to accept the arm bone (with a chromium cap) and the body develops its' own cartilage over time. It sounded weird to me but I had no other choice.
He installed the replacement shoulder and I was hitting a racquetball in two months (with ice) and then playing the game in 5 months (although I was very weak).
Now, here I am playing racquetball better than I ever have (won a silver medal several years ago in St George and recently won a gold medal at the Washington State Senior Games in doubles 65-69). Additionally, I play racquetball 3 days a week for 6-7 hours and the shoulder is wonderful.
I have entered to return to St. George in October for my 7th time. I have consulted with over 30 patients for Dr. Matsen to tell them my story. Can't wait to compete again.
Thanks----see you soon,
Jim Rockstad
Polio is a disease that in the US is rarely heard of these days. But back when I was young it was a killer. Fortunately, when it struck me at age 3 1/2, it was a relatively light case. I had an extremely high fever for days and when it was over I was left with damage to my left side.
My mother had been told that I would possibly never be able to walk well and I remember wearing special shoes. But as my mother always told people, "Pulleeeeze, don't tell Karen she can't do something because that is like waving a red flag in front of a bull. She WILL do it."
I was always a 'Tom Boy' and have been playing softball since I was about 8 in the Cleveland, Ohio playground system. I've been the only woman in some men's leagues, played on the local pub league in Buffalo, New York, for years and currently am the catcher for the 70+ Freedom Spirit of FL team.
While my left leg is shorter than the right, the foot almost 1 1/2 sizes smaller than the other and my back has a slight curve I am so lucky to be walking, running and still playing. I even hit a home run in a recent tournament and ran all the bases, albeit with a limp but "I DID IT"!!!
Thank You for making these games possible. You always do a wonderful job.
Karen Campbell
A friend who had been competing in Basketball at the Huntsman World Senior Games for years told me that they had Racewalking and urged me to come. That was in 2009. I gave it a try and was glad I did.
I've competed three times now. Each time I compete in the three Racewalking events: 1500M, 3000M, and 5000M. I have really enjoyed the competition. Knowing I plan to come again next year keeps me working out all year long.
In 2010 I also tried the High Jump and the 800M run. I barely cleared 4'3", which is quite embarrassing since I'm 6'6" and should be able to fall over 5'0". I was dead last in the 800M too, but I did break 3 min 50 seconds and I was only 100 meters out of next to last. This year I plan to high jump again. I just turned 60 and I saw that last year M60-64 was won with a jump of 3'11" or so. Maybe I can get my first gold. Hah.
I've met many wonderful people at the Games. It inspires me to meet people who are over 60 or 70 or 80 and yet who are youthful in their outlook and still quite active.
Bob Wilkin
My name is Cesar Jimenez and I played Softball at the Huntsman World Senior Games last year for the first time. By itself, not that unique. However, I am battling cancer.
I had my chemotherapy treatment just one day before getting to Utah. I arrived a little sluggish as is usual after the "CHEMO". A couple of my teammates knew what I was going through and they encouraged me, cheering me on. When I went to check-in and met such nice people who welcomed me in a manner that made me feel at home, I became more relaxed and less worried about my feelings.
The thrill I felt when I marched with all of those other brave athletes in the Opening Ceremonies was just amazing. I felt so good out in St. George, Utah, that I actually cried one night. I did experience nausea and vomiting BUT that was nothing compared to the better feeling of competition and the feeling of being welcomed.
The restaurants and other businesses in St. George were also very friendly and that made my stay even better.
The best award that I received was the reward of being surrounded by athletes from all over the world and having them say to ME that I was a good player. For those that I shared my Cancer story with and they shared some of their own life struggles with me was also very touching.
As a Chaplain I have been trained to give others HOPE but I must say that because of the Huntsman World Senior Games and the great people involved in it, I was the one that experienced HOPE, a HOPE of getting Cancer FREE soon. The fact that I am still alive and writing this is the best story that I could ever write.
God Bless you all.
Chaplain Cesar Jimenez
My name is Craig Davis. In 1986 at the age of 45 I went into my doctor for a physical exam. I was busy in my career and found little time for fitness. My blood tests showed a cholesterol of 586 and my triglycerides were 1500. An EKG showed coronary blockage. My doctor told me I was on a path to an early grave if I didn't make some serious lifestyle changes.
I started cycling and changing my diet. Cholesterol drugs were limited at that time. I started training for senior games cycling events. This year will be my 20th Huntsman World Senior Games. I have competed in 8 different sports and won medals in all of them. My health is great and my cholesterl and EKG are normal. At age 70 I owe my high quality of life to sports and fitness.
My name is Alexx Stuart and sports have always been my life. Beyond participating in everything, I had been an athletic director, a sportswriter, and, currently, a playwright known for sports oriented plays.
I thought I was in great physical condition, having walked at least 3 miles a day every day for the previous 4 years. I played racquetball
every Monday and participated in 150-200 senior softball games per year for the last decade. Being in such superb condition, I wasn't too worried about health insurance. I was covered by the Dramatists' Guild Policy, but that didn't amount to much: basically, the best they could do was if you lost a leg, they'd help you look for it. So when I got to the 2011 Huntsman Games, my first ever, playing with the Rockies (Phoenix) Over 60 softball team, I thought I'd take advantage of the Games' free health screening.
On the day of the championship game which we'd be playing in later that afternoon, I blasted through all the prodding and poking stations with nary a problem ... that is, until I came to the bood sugar test. The young woman doing my blood test looked at her glucose meter and decided it must be broken. It had registered 580. A reading should be under 150. Mine was a recording the likes of which they had never seen before. After an additional test an hour later of 586, a consulting doctor was called over.
She said, rather urgently, that I needed to go to the emergency room ... NOW! She couldn't understand why I wasn't in a coma. However, I felt fine. Having a typical male softball brain, I informed her that I had a championship game to play, that I wasn't going to let my teammates down, and that I wasn't going anywhere but to the fields.
I guess I showed her.
Battling the Hippocratic Oath and all wasn't easy. We finally agreed that I would go to the E.R. the next day when I returned to Phoenix. Long story short (I know, that ship has already sailed), I was diagnosed with diabetes on Oct. 8. The dominoes began falling: the E.R. sent me to a diabetes doctor who heard a heart murmur; she sent me to a cardiologist who found blockage in three arteries to my heart; and he sent me to a heart surgeon. On January 10, 2012, I had triple bypass heart surgery. My surgeon said I had been a ticking bomb waiting to go off, and if I hadn't been given some indication of some problem at the Huntsman Games, I might not be here today to tell you my story.
At present, my health is fine: my diet now does not include any hot fudge sundaes or mashed potatoes and I've said my good-byes to Dairy Queen and Baskin Robbins. On April 19, I was finally allowed back on the softball fields after 5 months off. And, I'm happy to say I'll be seeing you all at the Huntsman Games this October, a wiser and much thinner man.
Hello, My name is Barry Meisel from Spain. I have won previous gold medals at the Huntsmans Senior Games. please see my story in the link below. Thank you. http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/costa-del-sol/86553-retired-ex-pat-heading-to-vegas-senior-olympics
First Time Bowler
Hi everyone.
I live in Portland, Oregon. Last year, 2011, when my husband, a 200+ scratch bowler decided to enter the Huntsman Senior World Games for the first time in the Bowling competition. I was eager to support him and looked forward to the trip.
I had no intention of entering the competition with my meager average. Jack's been the accomplished bowler in the family, hitting 803 last year in league play. He's also rolled multiple 300 games. However, since during many of our 55 years of marriage we had bowled together on a team, I decided to take the plunge and sign up too.
I considered my role as "supporter."
"Besides," I told myself, "No one knows me. I can be nearly invisible, no matter how I bowl."
On the morning of Bowling-Singles, we ate at one of St. George's many wonderful restaurants. I wanted to keep my salt intake down so I could get my fingers into the ball. I ordered . . . "Wheaties, The Breakfast of Champions."
God smiled at that!
He allowed me to qualify.
I continued to eat the Wheaties each day, and went beyond qualifying to earning a Gold Medal! I also qualified in Handicap Doubles with my husband, and we earned a bronze medal in that competition.
By the way, aside from the magic of "Wheaties" and the "Breakfast of Champions" partnership with GOD, there was no way to be invisible among a fantastic group of competitors that cared about everyone. Even me.
Jack and I met many outstanding people, event coordinators, and especially, the fine waitresses at all the restaurants. (In particular, the mornings at the Cracker Barrel) We are looking forward to a return trip.
With best wishes for another successful World event, I remain,
Shirley Hawe
From Israel to St. George to play Table tennis?!
I started playing table tennis in my country, Israel, when I was a kid. I was good in all sports but my father directed me towards Table Tennis because one of his brothers who was killed in WW2 as a soldier in the Red Army was one of the best players in Poland. When I was 16 years old I played in the Israeli first division. My first coach was Giora Senesh, a former Hungarian player who came to Israel and was a member of the Israeli National Team. Giora is (88 years old, God bless him) the brother of the famous Hanna Senesh, a 16 year old Jewish girl who made it to Israel during the Nazi time and went back, parachuting into occupied Hungary to save Jews. She was captured by the Nazis and executed. Giora told me when I was 14 years old: in order to play table tennis you need three things: first, you need to position your body; I'll teach you how to do that, second, you need to learn the technique of the strokes; I'll teach you to do that also, and third, you need to play when your body is on one side of the table and your mind is on the other side; this you need to figure out by yourself...
At the age of 18 in Israel we go to the army for a few years. That resulted for me in a 10 year break in Table Tennis. When I got back, in the mid 80's, it was not the same game. Anti-spin and other funny rubbers were already in use, the importance of serves boosted and in Israel another thing happened: the old generation, mainly players who came from Europe after WW2 became coaches and a new generation of modern, fast attacking players were controlling our sport. By that time I was already a manager in the Israeli Ports Authority, married and a father, so I decided to make this my hobby.
Twenty-five years have now gone by. In these years I have played in 3 different clubs. My current club in Israel, Maccabbi Zichron Jacob, is one of the most active clubs in Israel. We have about 50 kids, some of them very good and about 25 adults some of them excellent players who would be rated over 2000 in the US.
My wife and I have family in California and in Florida so sometimes we come to visit them. My work also takes me from time to time to the States so I started to play in the US whenever I get the chance. I played in the US OPEN, in the California OPEN and I played three times in the Baltimore team event (great fun!).
This year I found out that I will not be able to make it to Baltimore so I started looking for another tournament I can enjoy and I came across the Huntsman World Senior Games. Soon enough I remembered that my wife and I have already visited St. George Utah in 1979 while we were on a trip in the US before we got married. At that time it was on our way to tour Zion and Bryce. I must admit it was not difficult to convince my wife to take this trip, one week with the family in California before the games and a few days in Vegas after and the decision was made.
More than that, I even managed to convince a colleague from my club in Israel, Yair Porges to join us in St. George. Ok, so I figured: I will take 2 single events (age and rating) 1 double event with my friend Yair and I will look for a lady to partner with me for the mixed doubles. I put my name on the partner finder and soon enough I found a partner: Gloria Cadavid from San Antonio Texas, so I am ready to go.
Now the adventure begins: we spent a great week in California, a few days in LA and a trip to wineries of Temecula Valley (beautiful!), a few hours' drive and we are in St. George. Well, nothing like we remembered! It is a big town now, checked into the hotel and went to meet my partners, Yair my friend from Israel who came directly here, and Gloria whom I met for the first time. Gloria came with her 2 sisters who live in Colombia; fortunately my wife was born in Cuba so the Spanish ruled the conversations (Yair and I understood very little.....).
The competition proved to be great fun. The atmosphere was excellent, very friendly (do not get confused, each and every player fought to the last point), ran smoothly by the professional staff and the charming volunteers, the venue was ok (there were some lighting issues, the barriers between the tables were not friendly and the floor a bit slippery) but the competition was great. Personally I made it into the semi-finals in the 2 individual events I participated, losing in both semi's and fighting twice for the bronze, losing one (the age event 55-59 to Moses Lan) and winning the bronze in the rating event (1600-1799 over George Taplin).
In the mixed doubles, Gloria and I made it to the final of the 50-54 group, after 2 matches we won 3:2 after being 0:2 down in both!, we lost the final 3:1 to Francisco and Sandra Mendez and won Silver. The medal ceremony was nice and the goodbyes were exciting, so after that we felt we earned a nice Vegas vacation.
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Into my sturdy canvas bag I put heirloom tomatoes, giant zucchinis, and shiny green peppers, picked fresh that morning. The farm pickup volunteer sits in his wheelchair, calmly surveying the hubbub of shareholders as they weigh out cherry tomatoes and choose the right chilies. My daughter, wrapped around my leg, watches the bustle with interest."Hey, Baby, want to go pick some flowers?" I ask as I choose a bunch of chard and nestle it atop the carrots. We head out into the hot afternoon.As we tromp the dozen yards out to the flower bed and past great piles of compost, I wave at a Somali Bantu elder harvesting cucumbers. My toddler picks marigolds by the fistful while I pluck a few more peppers in a nearby bed. Though the farm's fields are large, I know she is safe. The other shareholders know she is my child, and I can see her bright pink sunhat from wherever I go.The summer before her second birthday we visit DeLaney Farm weekly to collect our share, pick flowers, and run over the rock pile. "Farm!" she shouts joyfully as the white buildings and prairie-like fields come into sight. Half an hour from downtown Denver, DeLaney is an urban farm, surrounded by city, housing parks, and greenway trails. It is one of many urban gardening projects managed by Denver Urban Gardens (DUG). To my daughter our visit is another summer diversion in the endless days of toddlerhood, but to me it is hope. It is a promise to my daughter that I will do all I can to preserve this teetering earth so that she may have a future. This is where I work my magic, crafting a paradigm shift through local, organic gardening.It becomes clearer each day that a lot must be done right now to save our species (and millions others) from extinction. One place to do so is in a community garden. People come together to share skills and knowledge, grow their own food, and cultivate the very paradigm we will need to survive global climate change. Urban community gardens like DeLaney Farm bring together diverse people growing their own food or supporting local farmers while cultivating better lives and stronger communities. In a community garden, language is not important. One's agricultural or educational background is not important. Religious and political conflicts give way to an ethic of the land. Community gardens are especially beneficial to people who have faced adversity in their lives. In one Denver garden, special education students gain a sense of pride and self-efficacy. They take on leadership roles and learn to work with others1. Another DUG-sponsored garden memorializing nearly 100 murdered youth offers families solace and hope. This garden has become a safe community gathering place and a symbol of what connection through the land can reap2. At DeLaney Farm, Somali Bantu refugees who fled persecution and slavery in Africa grow food for their community while learning marketable skills and the English language. Through their work at the farm they will one day be able to purchase their own land. These are all examples of the power of the garden to transmute adversity and craft a better society. In another local garden, Jeff Tejral of Aurora Water illustrates how gardening can be integral to city life, a crucial piece of what I call the gardening revolution. With the Aurora Xeriscape Demonstration Gardens and experimental gardens at local water treatment plants, Jeff hopes to show individuals and businesses more sustainable ways to use water than traditional lawn. The Xeriscape Demonstration Garden boasts nine varieties of low-water turf and over 350 varieties of perennials, trees, and shrubs. These include a few edibles, like the alpine strawberries my daughter loves to poke through, and herbs. The garden is just down the road from DeLaney Farm and across the parking lot from the city's municipal building. They are another example of the new urban land ethic.Tejral feels strongly that the next revolution will be about food. The water and energy crises we now face already affect our food economy. When imported bread and soda and milk all become unaffordable for the average family, we will learn we need to focus our resources at home. Instead of paying the government taxes to subsidize corn and petroleum companies to transport that corn, instead of dumping gallons of water and chemicals onto lawns, we will invest our money, energy, and water into our own gardens and community farms. Jeff's gardens and the urban community gardens around the city show us that such a life is possible right now. We can grow our own food. We can create the kind of world we want to live in, one that is healthy, affordable, and beautiful. We can live in harmony with the planet.What would it take to make organic farms and gardens as ubiquitous as Starbucks coffee shops? The change must come from within, beginning with local farms, back yards, and parks. We need to completely rethink our parks and green spaces; as Jeff Tejral says, "Getting back to parks before the time of the lawnmower3." We will need to make room for outdoor community spaces that offer multiple uses. Not just walking the dog and playing Frisbee, but growing mint and eggplant and quinoa. Raising chickens and goats and bees. Holding community rituals that unite diverse peoples and foster hope.I envision a world where the "empty" lots are transformed by neighborhood residents into gardens and gathering places. Where every child knows where her food comes from and how to grow it. Where water and energy are used with the whole in mind. I know this world is possible because I have seen it in action at DeLaney Farm, the Xeriscape Gardens, the urban gardens across the city, and programs like these around the world. I also believe people want this world. Friends of mine who don't utilize the city's recycling program and don't care about how their meat is raised ask me for help growing tomatoes and herbs in pots, and they shop at the Farmer's Market. Our bodies and spirits feel drawn to the land. We need that relationship. We just need a little help getting there via new infrastructure and education. With a paradigm of interconnection, personal responsibility and empowerment, buying local, growing our own food, and living a truly green lifestyle will become a way of life for all people. At the end-of-season potluck at DeLaney Farm, one of the young translators for the Somali Bantu urges me to try one of their traditional dishes, amboga. Made from wild pigweed, or machichi in MaayMaay, it is a traditional African recipe using greens, onion, curry powder and peppers. The spicy, tangy dish melts on my tongue. I smile at the young man, so different from me in many ways, yet here, transforming the earth by my side. This is deep activism and powerful magic: putting down roots, growing interconnections, and creating lives based fundamentally on an ethic of the land. 1"Meaningful Harvest: Discovering a landscape of wonder, youth flourish in community gardens." The Underground News. Denver Urban Gardens. Autumn 2004 (Vol 10 No 1). 2Denver Urban Gardens brochure. 3 ibid.


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What's up Prizefight fans? I'm Brian Tong, and the Smartphone season is getting hot and heavy, so we're bringing in a new contender. It's a Prizefight punch-out between the HTC One and Apple's iPhone 5. Our judges for this fight, our senior-editor Jessica "The People's" Dolcourt, senior editor Brian "Boom Shakalaka" Bennett and myself, "Can't Go Wrong" Tong. Now, we'll take all three judges' scores and average them out to the nearest 10th each round. The final Prizefight score will be an average of all rounds using the same system. Let's get it started, round one is design. The HTC One is a really unique piece of beauty with its contoured aluminum body, polished metal edges and the highest build quality on an Android phone we've ever seen. And let's not forget about its 4.7-inch screen with super sharp 468 pixels per inch. Now, Apple's iPhone 5 design was one of their best ever, but it's not the best anymore. It still looks great, but the industry copycats have made this design stale and its 4-inch retina display looks like a shrimp with its pedestrian 226 pixels per inch that's still thinner and lighter than the HTC One. You might call it, the one that took down the iPhone, and HTC does it with a perfect 5, and the iPhone 5 gets 4. Next round is user interface and controls. HTC brings their next generation of its sense UI that runs on top of Android Jellybean, and it's a clean and easy to operate experience for an Android device. Now a new feature is the blink feed that shows you all your social media updates. And if you like it, it's nice, but if you don't. There's no way to hide it or get a rid of it, and it lives as one in your main home panels. Though you'll still get all of Android's customizations for creating folders and widgets, and the notifications pulled down is still right where you expect it. 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Then, let's just add on all the Android Jellybean features like Google Maps for the best maps with turn-by-turn and speech-to-text for search and directions. There's NFC for sending content from one phone to the other, and Google Now for happenings around you. Now, their singled piece aluminum body design, means no removable battery and no expandable memory. But guess what? You might not care. Now, Apple's iPhone 5 brings a dual-core A6 processor that's fast and snappy and Siri can do more with sports, movies and food recommendations. But it's still not as accurate and it still takes way too long to get information back from its servers. Apple Maps is more than a step behind Google Maps right now. And Passbook still remains rarely used and the phone doesn't have any kind of built-in NFC. Can you guys, guess who takes this round? It's the HTC One with another perfect 5, and the iPhone gets 4.3. Next round is web browsing a multimedia. The HTC One comes pre-loaded with Chrome and the default browser with Flash support. Now, we'll take Chrome as one of the best mobile browsers with incognito mode, synched bookmarks and a sweet tab interface. Apple brings Safari which is also an excellent mobile browser, but you can install Chrome and others on the iPhone as well. Now, most of the time with multimedia, people wanna know about the cameras, and the HTC One takes a different approach with 4 megapixel camera, but they call it an ultra-pixels that's able to gather more information and handle lighting situations better with similar results as the best phone cameras. Now, we know megapixels don't really matter, and the iPhone's 8 megapixel camera has been one of the best. So, here's the break down. In our camera test, both cameras can take 1080p video and both cameras took great pictures, but the difference is that specifically in low light situations, the HTC One excel with more image detail and handle dark conditions better compared to the iPhone 5 in our examples. But then, in normal daylight situations, the iPhone had an advantage with a slightly sharper and more saturated images compared to the HTC One that still took great pictures but they were a little duller with color temperature pretty much being the same for both. Now, the other advantage the HTC One has is the more extensive camera that can take pictures with different filters and really extensive editing features for retouching people's faces, different effects, transferring the images in different ways and then the ability to remove objects from a picture with their Zoe feature. That is great. Now, the eco-systems are extensive and Google Play has done a great job of catching up as a legit option, and movies look and sound amazing on the HTC One. But we also know Apple still has the advantage for more exclusive content on iTunes and Apps that come out on the platform first. Now, the HTC One has really raised the bar with what a camera can do, but lot of people would still rather take the best camera overall. This one is a toughie, but the HTC One gets 5 and the iPhone gets 4.7. So, after averaging 4 rounds, the HTC One still leads by a smaller margin. The final round that decides it all is performance. Both phones are snappy performers and we always tell you the same disclaimer that your [unk] will vary on your carrier and location from our testing both phones sounded great. The battery life is going to be different for everyone, but the HTC One has a power-saver mode that's handy to turn off functions to save your juice overtime. Now, in our battery video drain test, both phones were closed to 10 hours of juice and that's pretty much a push. These two are great performing phones, but we're handing out 4.7 points to each phone because they're still better performing ones out there. So let's average out all 5 rounds and enterprise by-- or the HTC One jumped out early on Apple, it stayed on top with 3 perfect rounds taking this battle 4.8 to 4.5 and is your Prizefight winner. The smartphone world is only getting more competitive and we'll find out how Samsung, Apple, Google and others step up their game with their next flagship phones. I'm Brian Tong. Thanks for watching, and we'll catch you guys next time for another Prizefight.
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12 Servings
Prep: 1 hour Bake: 25 min. + cooling
1 cup (6 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 package German chocolate cake mix (regular size)
1 cup water
1 cup mayonnaise
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 cup evaporated milk
1/2 cup butter, cubed
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1-1/3 cups flaked coconut, toasted
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In 2002, the Cobb County School District in Georgia, USA, adopted a policy to place disclaimer stickers in the front of its high-school biology textbooks that present evolutionary ideas, but caution the readers that evolution is "not a fact, regarding the origin of living things." Now that decision by the school district is being challenged in U.S. federal court by six parents of Cobb students and the left-leaning American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who declare that the sticker pushes creationism and discriminates against non-Christians and followers of a number of other religions.1
Will the sticker stick? That is the question that will be answered at the end of the court case, Selman v. Cobb County School District, currently taking place (and ending today, Friday) in Cobb County, Georgia. A question is whether or not the sticker supposedly violates the so-called "separation of church and state" by promoting religion.
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The federal trial over this constitutional issue is expected to address the following questions:
- Is Intelligent Design (a leading alternate theory that purports that the variety of life results from a purposeful design guided by a higher intelligent being—read AiG's Cautionary Views of the ID Movement) religious?
- And if the theory is found to be religious, do the disclaimers, which don't mention religion or Intelligent Design by name, violate the separation between church and state?2
As reported on November 8, 2004, by the British paper (yes, this Georgia issue is making international headlines), the Guardian Unlimited, Linwood Gunn, a lawyer for the suburban Atlanta school system, testified in U.S. District Court in Atlanta on Monday (Nov. 8), saying the sticker was meant to "encourage critical thinking" and said that it did not imply that evolution was wrong. Gunn said it was silly to consider the stickers a promotion of religion.3
Lawyers for the ACLU, however, argued that the school board had demonstrated a clear bias about the material in its textbooks and should remove the stickers.1
Attorney Seth Cooper, an expert on the legal aspects of teaching evolution, said in a November 8 press release posted by Yahoo News, that "it's astonishing that the ACLU opposes having students study evolution 'with an open mind.'"4
"The ACLU is supposed to be against censorship and favor the free marketplace of ideas, but here it is dogmatically trying to censor a school district from encouraging an open-minded approach to teaching evolution," Cooper added, who is also a program officer with the Seattle, Washington-based Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture.4
In Monday's opening statements, ACLU lawyer Margaret F. Garrett told U.S. District Court Judge Clarence Cooper that "the disclaimer's wording is actually an endorsement of religion and it makes evolution seem unsound and unsupported." She added that while the school board said it only wanted students to consider "alternative" theories of evolution, almost all alternate theories are based on religious belief.5
Attorney Cooper pointed out that the textbook sticker does not deal with creationism or even alternative scientific theories to evolution: "It merely encourages students to avoid dogmatism when studying evolution by carefully and critically examining the evidence with an open mind." He goes on to say that this sort of critical inquiry is the heart of what science is supposed to be about.4
Reinforcing that belief is the backing of over 30 scientists who submitted a legal brief to the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Georgia. The brief said "the courts should not prevent educators from encouraging students to approach the study of evolution with an open mind."4
Attorney and counsel for the parents against the sticker, Michael Manley, who sees the case shaping up much like a 21st-century Scopes trial, said that "although the sticker makes no mention of God or religion, it is a disclaimer for the only accepted scientific explanation of the origin of life."6
"Evolution is the underpinning of all life sciences," said Manley in a Yahoo News report. "Stating that evolution is only a theory is a covert way of prompting students to discuss the existence of God and to proselytize religious theories of the origins of humankind."
During court sessions, Gunn explained the stickers were inserted as part of the board's decision to have evolutionary science taught in Cobb high schools. For the Cobb district, it was "a radical revision of its former policy,"7which he acknowledged was the result of a previous school board's decisions to "cater to people's religious faith, maybe even in a way that was unconstitutional."6
Manley said that he had hoped this would be a battle of experts from the very beginning. "Let the judge decide where the facts lie," he told the Fulton County Daily Report.
Gunn has a different view, saying the case will be far more narrow in scope than Manley suggests, and should not be used as a vehicle to validate evolution or challenge creationism.6
"They want to have this as a big show trial," Gunn told Fulton County Daily Report in a November 5 article. "It's not going to be about that. It's going to be about what the Cobb County school district did in strengthening its evolution curriculum," he added.
That scares Marjorie Rogers, a parent of Cobb County students (before moving them to private school), who led the efforts in the petition drive that prompted the school system to put evolution disclaimers on the inside front cover of the science textbooks used in middle and high schools. It wasn't her first choice though, stating that she had first recommended other options such as providing supplemental information or providing students with an elective course on alternative theories to evolution.
In a phone interview, Rogers, an admitted six-day creationist and AiG supporter, stated that one of her main concerns was that the new science textbooks would be accurate. When invited to review the textbooks, along with other parents, she was shocked to see content, like the peppered moth and Haeckel's embryos, still included long after evolutionists themselves have questioned the errors
Rogers said it's ironic that some of the six parents complain that seeing the disclaimer offends them, when the school district requires the use of book covers on its books and thus the disclaimer sticker is actually partially covered.
Tip of the iceberg—others to follow suit?
Manley told the Fulton County Daily Report the Cobb school district is one of dozens across the nation "bowing to pressure to omit or remove evolution from high-school science curricula" [Note: This is a red herring, for AiG is not aware of a single serious effort currently underway to remove evolution from any science curricula], or include religious-based teachings in academic coursework. "We are just the tip of the iceberg."
One such example is the Grantsburg School District in Wisconsin, which recently passed a motion permitting "various theories/models of origins" to be incorporated into its science curriculum.
Unlike the states of Kansas and Ohio, where motions were overturned, Grantsburg is active—making the public school board the only district in the nation to allow theories other than evolution to be taught in the classroom.8
Whether it's a picture book offering a "different view" on the origin of Grand Canyon or a small sticker that challenges the theory of evolution on biology textbooks, some evolutionists are doing everything in their power to protect their fallible ideas from being questioned, as witnessed by this court case and the ongoing attempt to ban the photo-illustrated creationist book Grand Canyon: A Different View from being sold at Grand Canyon National Park bookstores (see The Great Divide Continues).
Censorship is something many evolutionists are practiced in and know far too well, especially when it comes to the public schools (where, by and large, the creationist position is outlawed), reports AiG–USA president, Ken Ham. "Evolutionists know, and from our experience we've found, that as soon as students hear the creationist interpretation and how observational science supports it, they can see the flaws in the evolutionists' philosophy."
What the ACLU, school boards, most evolutionists, and even some Christians fail to see (or at least admit) is the real debate is not about "science versus religion." Evolution is a religion and it isn't science (see The Religion of Evolution). When it comes to the origin of life, evolution isn't a fact or a theory that can be proved by scientists who weren't there. Rather it's an unprovable "hypothesis" or "guess," based on a worldview without God. Evolution is a religious system (without God) that allows man to live according to his rules, not his Creator's rules.
While it would be very encouraging to see the sticker stick in this important court case, in the long run, the battle is really much bigger than fighting school boards and organizations like the ACLU. This battle between worldviews (evolution vs. six-day creation account) is really about seeing our society return back to biblical authority, beginning with the church.
That's why we spend so much energy at AiG to equip the church to restore biblical authority beginning with Genesis. Then and only then will change stick permanently.
Help keep these daily articles coming. Support AiG.
- Simao, Paul, Georgia school board in court over evolution flap, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34850-2004Nov8.html, November 8, 2004. Back (1) Back (2)
- Torres, Kristina, Court to weigh in on evolution feud, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/1104/07evolution.html , November 6, 2004. Back (1) Back (2)
- Associated Press, Trial begins over Ga. Evolution disclaimer, www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4603521,00.html, November 8, 2004. Back
- PRNewswire-First Call, Georgia scientists file legal brief in evolution lawsuit, defend open-minded approach to teaching evolution, biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041108/sfm123_1.html, November 8, 2004. Back (1) Back (2) Back (3) Back (4)
- McDonald, R. Robin (Fulton County Daily Report), Evolution vs. creation trial starts with a big bang, www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1099927154197, November 9, 2004. Back
- McDonald, R. Robin, (Fulton County Daily Report) Evolution, creation collide in federal court (again), biz.yahoo.com/law/041105/ef0c1853a5c7c256d00441f725316599_1.html, November 5, 2003. Back (1) Back (2) Back (3)
- Earlier this year, Georgia became a national punch line after state School Superintendent Kathy Cox removed the word "evolution" from the state's science teaching standards. She quickly reversed herself after getting nearly 1,000 complaints, including one from former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Court to weigh in on evolution feud, November 6, 2004. Back
- Quick, Susanne (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), Theories other than evolution to be taught in Grantsburg, msnbc.msn.com/id/6419416/, November 5, 2004. Back


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West Point Director of Rugby Rich Pohlidal distributed an email Tuesday to the press and coaches in collegiate rugby stating in grand detail his argument for a fall season for college rugby. At the heart of the email is the likelihood that the Army men's team, at least, could be switching its season to fall-only for 15s, with emphasis on 7s and select-side play in the spring. The topic has been one close to Pohlidal's heart for some time, and in a conversation with RUGBYMag.com following the email, he outlined his thought processes. "Win-loss records are not how I am judged," said Pohlidal. "Our program is judged on academics, military development, and then athletic success. Now, if we get those first two right, we will likely win as well. But I want to look at solutions that develop rugby. I really strongly believe that moving to playing in the fall, with a championship in the fall, that puts teams on a more equal footing in terms of their preparation, is the right way forward." Pohlidal pointed out that the teams that did well at the USA 7s CRC were those that had the most preparation time, regardless of state of origin (Utah had a week more than Cal, and beat Cal; Army a week longer than Utah, and Army beat Utah; Dartmouth a week longer than Army, and Dartmouth beat Army). What he is proposing is to play a fall season that, for some schools, asks players to arrive on campus early (this, Pohlidal says, is much easier on the players than making them play a championship during finals), devotes seven to ten weeks for preseason games and league matches, and then three weeks of national playoffs. Or, it might not even end in a national playoff, depending on what colleges want from their rugby. Such a plan, Pohlidal said, would mean every team has the same preparation (while the current system favors teams that have warm weather in January), and would free up the spring to ensure players were available for the USA U20 team or other select or national teams, provide time to prepare for the USA 7s Collegiate Rugby Championship 7s event, and also free up coaches and players to help coach high school and youth teams, and by extension allow coaches to recruit potential students to their universities. Stated Pohildal in his outline (emphasis his): While the Pacific Coast, Southern California, and South Unions enjoy fairer weather and outdoors training environments year round, the largest unions and the majority of colleges/ universities to include the three military academies do not; we are snow bound in Jan and February, and for some, most of March and April. With 4 of the seven unions (NE, West, Mid-West and Mid Atlantic) playing a split season in both fall and spring due to weather restraints through late December into mid March (April for some), only a small window exists to provide collegiate teams across the country equal footing to train, compete, and build up to peak performance for a national championship competition in 15's. This preparation gap creates an unfair advantage for warmer climate teams which in a full contact sport like rugby cannot be mitigated without undue hardship placed on the shoulders of the schools and moreoever the student athletes. Modulated training on "basketball courts or on wrestling mats" as suggested by once D1 coach could never compensate for 10-12 preseason matches and outdoor training on grass/ turf fields in rather normal rugby conditions. However, we can make best use of the small spring playing window for a collegiate sevens season which would allow equal opportunity for all collegiate athletes to compete, in a fair play model, in the code of rugby sevens. The CRC and NBC's drive for rugby content demonstrate that we are now being given a golden opportunity for rugby- not just sevens. It should be recognized that the 15's World Cup in 2011 NZ, has been picked up by NBC- without a doubt sevens rugby has influenced this positive repositioning of the 15's game in the American Sporting Landscape this fall…..seems like NBC doesn't mind competing with football? Pohlidal called his solution "an American solution." One that standardizes the schedule in a country where coordinating the right weather conditions to play an outdoor sport can be a challenge. This is by no means a settled issue, but Pohilidal has taken a big step not only by outlining his ideas in a formalized form, but also by strongly hinting that whether any formal change is made or not, Army rugby may well switch to fall play regardless. If nothing else, it seems that the success of the USA 7s CRC and the new Collegiate Premier Division have not settled anything in American college rugby. Rather, they have simply uncovered more issues, and more questions.
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