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Feb. 2, 2005
2005 Washington State University football National Letter of Intent signees announced Wednesday:
Name - Pos, Hgt, Wgt, Yr, Hometown (High School)
AHMU, Fevaea'i - DT , 6-1, 290, Fr., San Diego, Calif. (Serra)
ALFRED, Kenny - OL, 6-3, 285, Fr., Gig Harbor, Wash. (Gig Harbor)
BRADLEY, James - CB, 5-9, 185, Fr., Garland, Texas (South Garland)
BRUMFIELD, Lamar - LB, 6-3, 215, Fr., Carson, Calif. (Carson)
BURSEY, Lorenzo - RB, 5-9, 180, Jr., Long Beach, Calif. (Long Beach Poly/West LA College)
DANZY, Shelton - CB, 5-9, 185, Fr., Seattle, Wash. (Rainier Beach)
EPPELE, Joe - OL, 6-8, 270, Fr., Vancouver, British Columbia (Vancouver College)
EVANS, Cory - DB, 6-2, 215, Fr., Lena, La. (Northwood)
GIBSON, Brandon - WR, 6-2, 190, Fr., Puyallup, Wash. (Rogers)
HALL, Arkelon - QB, 6-1 , 210, Fr., Fresno, Calif. (Edison)
HICKS, Xavier, DB - 6-2, 195, Fr., Fullerton, Calif. (Fullerton)
HUNTER, Derek, OL - 6-4, 285, So., La Habra, Calif. (La Habra/Fullerton College)
PATTERSON, Dewayne - DB, 6-1, 190, Jr., , Redlands, Calif. (Redlands/Chaffey College)
STRIPLING, Jason, LB - 5-11, 215, Fr., Tyler, Texas (Robert E. Lee)
TARDY, Dwight, RB - 5-11, 210, Fr., Santa Fe Springs, Calif. (St. Paul)
TARKINGTON, Bryan - DT, 6-3, 290, Jr., Woodland Hills, Calif. (Taft/Moorpark College)
TOWNSEND, Joseph - DT, 6-4, 265, Fr., San Jose, Calif. (Valley Christian)
TRENT, Greg - LB, 5-11, 215, Fr., Keller, Texas (Keller)
WILLIAMS, Courtney - LB, 6-1, 210, Fr., Los Angeles, Calif. (Dorsey)
WOOLRIDGE, DeMaundray - RB, 5-9, 215, Fr., Keller, Texas (Keller)
#29 Fevaea'i AhMu, dt
#35 Arkelon Hall, qb
#81 Lamar Brumfield, lb
#85 Dwight Tardy, rb
#91 Xavier Hicks, db
#7 Kenny Alfred, ol
#9 Shelton Danzy, db
#11 Brandon Gibson, wr
Kenny Alfred, ol
Fevaea'i AhMu, dt
Kenny Alfred, ol
Shelton Danzy, db
Arkelon Hall, qb
Kenny Alfred, ol (Honorable Mention)
Shelton Danzy, db (Honorable Mention)
Brandon Gibson, wr (Honorable Mention)
Shelton Danzy, db
Kenny Alfred, ol
Shelton Danzy, db
Kenny Alfred, ol
Shelton Danzy, db
Brandon Gibson, wr
Kenny Alfred, ol (4A first team)
Kenny Alfred, dl (4A honorable mention)
Shelton Danzy, db (3A first team)
Feveaea'i AhMu, dt
Xavier Hicks, db
Kenny Alfred, ol (4A first team)
Kenny Alfred, dl (4A honorable mention)
Shelton Danzy, db (3A first team)
Shelton Danzy, rb (3A honorable mention)
Brandon Gibson, wr (4A second team)
Defensive Tackle
San Diego, Calif. (Serra)
HIGH SCHOOL: Coached by Brian Basteyns at Serra High School, lettering three times in football and twice in track & field...SOPHOMORE season earned second team All-Western League honors on offense and was Serra's defensive player of the year...earned San Diego Union Tribune All-Academic honors...JUNIOR season racked up 100 tackles and 10 sacks, helping the Conquistadors to a 6-4-1 record...piled up double-digit tackles in five games, including a season-high 18 against Point Loma...season-high three sacks against Mission Bay...scored a pair of touchdowns and also intercepted a pass...Western League defensive most valuable player...earned first team All-CIF San Diego Section honors, first team All-State underclassmen, and also served as team captain...again named to San Diego Union Tribune All-Academic team...as a SENIOR recorded 75 tackles and 12 sacks...also recovered a fumble...had seven or more tackles in eight of 10 games and at least one sack in seven of 10 games...also contributed on the offensive side of the ball as a lineman...helped Conquistadors to a 6-4 team record and the Western League title...named second team All-State...SuperPrep All-American...rated the No. 22 defensive tackle nationally by Scout.com and Rivals.com...listed as the No. 25 player in the state of California by Scout.com...participated in the CaliFlorida Bowl, recording six tackles and a sack against a team of Florida All-Stars...finished high school career with 235 tackles, 104 tackles for loss, and 27 sacks.
PERSONAL: Fevaea'i Fa'asiu AhMu...born February 6, 1987 in San Diego, Calif...parents Sauia and Sally AhMu...has two brothers, Owen and Mathew, and one sister, Adeile...interested in pursuing sports medicine or athletic training.
Garland, Texas (South Garland)
HIGH SCHOOL: Coached by Mickey Moss at South Garland High School...as a SENIOR recorded 58 tackles, intercepted five passes and broke up eight others, recovered two fumbles, and blocked seven field goals and extra-point attempts...also contributed as a punt and kick returner...helped Colonels to a 9-2 overall record and a trip to the 5A state playoffs...earned first team all-district honors by Garland Online...
Offensive Line
Vancouver, British Columbia (Vancouver College)
HIGH SCHOOL: Coached by Tod Bernett at Vancouver College Prep...is a standout hammer thrower and shot putter...is No. 1 in Canada in his age group in the hammer throw and placed fourth the 2004 Canadian Junior Nationals...won the shot put and placed third in the hammer throw at the 2004 Provincial High School Championships...also placed eighth in the discus...as a JUNIOR on the gridiron, earned Northern Conference All-Star honors for British Columbia's AAA Division...as a SENIOR helped pave the way for a running back that approached 1,500 yards in 12 games...defensively, recorded 28 tackles and a sack...Vancouver College also produced current Cougar defensive lineman Jon Conlin...Eppele is the third British Columbia native to sign with the Cougars the past four years, joining Conlin and Adam Braidwood.
PERSONAL: Joseph Eppele...born December 8, 1987 at Squamish, British Columbia...parents Thomas and Carol-Ann Eppele...has one brother, Josh, and one sister, Carlin...enjoys music and outdoor activities...interested in a science-related major at Washington State...a member of the Kajaks Track & Field Club, based in Richmond, British Columbia
Defensive Back
Boyce, La. (Northwood)
HIGH SCHOOL: Coached by Tom O'Kelly at Northwood High School...earned 10 varsity letters, including four in football, four in basketball, and two in track & field...as a FRESHMAN, contributed to the varsity football team, rushing for 460 yards...earned second team all-district...SOPHOMORE season limited by broken bone in foot...as a JUNIOR rushed for over 1,200 yards and 15 touchdowns, while also racking up 88 tackles and seven interceptions on defense...first team all-district on offense and defense...first team All-State defense...first team All-Central Louisiana...SENIOR season rushed for 1,500 yards and 22 touchdowns...scored on eight two-point conversions...defensively, recorded 125 tackles...repeat first team all-district selection on both sides of the ball...selected first team All-State on defense...played quarterback, running back, wide receiver, and free safety during his four years with the Gators...also a standout on the hardwood, earning all-district honors as a freshman, sophomore, and junior, and All-State honors as a junior...served as team captain for football and basketball at Northwood as a senior.
PERSONAL: Cory Derrell Evans...born February 26, 1986 at Pineville, Louisiana...parents Leroy Robinson and Jeanetta Johnson...has four brothers, Freddrick, Harold, Michael, and Ronald, and five sisters, Caroline, Melissa, Sharlene, Cynthia, and Sharon...enjoys music, watching television, and basketball...undecided on academic area of interest at WSU.
Fresno, Calif. (Edison)
HIGH SCHOOL: Coached by Tim McDonald at Edison High School...lettered twice in football and twice in baseball for the Tigers...stepped into starting quarterback role as a JUNIOR...threw for 2,604 yards and 34 touchdowns while completing over 60 percent of his passes...intercepted just five times...first team All-County/Metro League and first team All-State underclass...CIF Central Section Junior of the Year...Edison's most valuable player in 2003...SENIOR...led Tigers to an 8-4 record and a trip to the CIF Central Section quarterfinals...threw for 2,326 yards and 22 touchdowns...again named Edison's most valuable player...first team All-County/Metro League quarterback and the offensive player of the year...Washington State's first signee from the prestigious Elite 11 quarterback camp...ranked the eighth-best quarterback in the nation by Tom Lemming...ESPN's No. 81 player overall in the nation...U.S. Army preseason All-America nominee...PrepStar/CBS Sportsline postseason All-America nominee...rated the No. 8 pro-style quarterback nationally by Rivals.com...rated the No. 16 quarterback nationally by Scout.com...rated the No. 28 player in the West by Scout.com...named to the Tacoma News Tribune's "Western 100"...is the first quarterback in Edison High School's history to earn a Pac-10 scholarship at quarterback...4,930 passing yards and 56 touchdown passes both Edison High career records.
PERSONAL: Arkelon Faran Hall...born October 28, 1986 at San Diego, California...parents Sylvesta and Vanessa Hall...has one brother, William King...lived in Atlanta, Ga. for five years before moving the Fresno area...earned the nickname "The Big Back" at eight years old while playing tailback and carrying defenders on his back...enjoys chess, snowboarding, video games, and going to the movies...interested in pursuing a business-related field at WSU
Defensive Back
Fullerton, Calif. (Fullerton)
HIGH SCHOOL: Coached by Julian Smilowitz at Fullerton High School...earned letters in four different sports...as a FRESHMAN was named the most valuable player of Fullerton's football and basketball teams, leading both to league titles...SOPHOMORE season earned first team all-league at All-State underclass at defensive back...as a JUNIOR threw for 1,922 yards and 19 touchdowns at quarterback and rushed for 455 yards and three touchdowns...doubled as a safety, recording eight interceptions...earned first team all-league honors at safety...named second team All-CIF underclass as a utility player...SENIOR season completed 117 of 203 passes for 1,661 yards and 16 touchdowns...added 809 yards on the ground and three touchdowns...averaged over eight yards per carry...also recorded five interceptions on defense, including three in season-opener against La Mirada, and served as Fullerton's punter...threw for a season-high 284 yards and four touchdowns against Troy...named Freeway League's most valuable player and earned All-Orange County honors on defense from the Orange County Register...Los Angeles Times Orange County All-Region first team at defensive back...went over the 150-yard rushing mark twice in 2004...rated the No. 43 safety nationally by Rivals.com...named the CIF Division IX defensive player of the year...named to the All-State team as a utility player.
PERSONAL: Xavier Alphonso Hicks, Jr...born December 26, 1986...parents Xavier Hicks, Sr., and Marcie Cortez...has two brothers, Michael and Randall...nephew of former Washington State running back Kevin Hicks, a Cougar letterwinner in 1993 and 1994...enjoys video games, shopping, and sports...volunteered time to Special Olympics and the Fullerton Pop Warner program while maintaining a 3.5 grade point average...earned a Speech and Debate Degree of Merit...undecided on academic area of interest.
Offensive Line
La Habra, Calif. (La Habra/Fullerton College)
JUNIOR COLLEGE: Coached by Gene Murphy at Fullerton College...will have four years to play three seasons at WSU...SOPHOMORE helped Hornets to a 7-4 record and a win over Bakersfield in the Golden Empire Bowl...
Tyler, Texas (Robert E. Lee)
HIGH SCHOOL: Coached by Mike Owens at Robert E. Lee High School...named the District 12-5A defensive most valuable player as a SENIOR...helped lead the Red Raiders to a 12-3 record and the Texas Class 5A Division I State title, defeating Spring Westfield 28-21 in the final played at the Alamodome...picked off a pass in the state title game, returning it 69 yards for a touchdown...also reached the end zone on an interception return in the state semifinal against Euless Trinity
Santa Fe Springs, Calif. (St. Paul)
HIGH SCHOOL: Coached by Marijon Ancich at St. Paul High School...Anchich is the winningest high school football coach in the state of California...as a JUNIOR rushed for 837 yards and nine touchdowns while missing part of the season with injuries...helped Swordsmen to a 10-3 overall record and a 5-0 Mission League record...schedule included Southern California powers Long Beach Poly, Banning, and Sherman Oaks Notre Dame...eclipsed the 2,000-yard mark as a SENIOR, totaling 2,272 yards on the ground with 34 touchdowns...during the regular season, eclipsed the 100-yard mark in eight of 10 games...topped the 200-yard mark three times during the regular season, including 309 yards against Alemany, 272 against St. Francis, and 225 against Chaminade...also caught 14 passes for 153 yards and had 154 return yards...racked up nine touchdowns in first round of the playoffs in 77-35 win over Crescenta Valley...in that game scored on runs of five, six, seven, nine, 15, 41, 46, and 62 yards...also chipped in on defense, recording 33 tackles, two interceptions, and recovering two fumbles...Swordsmen finished with 8-4 record and reached the second round of the CIF Southern Section Division III playoffs...Los Angeles Times Southeast/South Coast All-Region first team at running back PERSONAL:
Defensive Tackle
Woodland Hills, Calif. (Taft/Moorpark College)
JUNIOR COLLEGE: Coached by Jim Bittner at Moorpark College...SOPHOMORE season helped Raiders to a 7-4 record and a 27-23 win over College of the Desert in the U.S. Bank Beach Bowl....
Keller, Texas (Keller)
Los Angeles, Calif. (Dorsey)
HIGH SCHOOL: Coached by Paul Knox at Dorsey High School...SENIOR season racked up a school record 27 sacks...reached the end zone on an 81-yard fumble recovery...helped Dons to a 12-2 record, reaching the Los Angeles City Section finals before losing to Birmingham 36-13...named to the Los Angeles Times' All-Star team and the All-Central City team...third team All-State selection by Cal-Hi Sports...also a standout sprinter on the Dorsey track team.
13. DeMAUNDRAY WOOLRIDGE
Keller, Texas (Keller)
HIGH SCHOOL: Coached by Kevin Atkinson at Keller High School...
Defensive Back
Redlands, Calif. (Redlands/Chaffey College)
JUNIOR COLLEGE: Coached by Carl Beach at Chaffey College...as FRESHMAN helped Chaffey to an 8-3 record and a trip to the Verizon Southern California Bowl...recorded 50 tackles, 12 tackles for loss, and two interceptions...as a SOPHOMORE tabbed first team All-Foothill Conference after being a preseason All-American...tacked up 90 tackles and three interceptions...helped Chaffey to a 9-2 record and a repeat trip to the Verizon Southern California Bowl.
HIGH SCHOOL: Coached by Jim Walker at Redlands High School...lettered three times in football, three times in track, and once in basketball...as a SOPHOMORE earned second team all-league and was named the team's best defensive back...JUNIOR year again named second team all-league and all-county...helped team reach the playoffs...as a SENIOR earned first team all-league and all-county honors...led Terriers to an 11-1 record, the league title, and a No. 2 state ranking...recorded 85 tackles and two interceptions...captained the football team, as well as the track & field squad...captured the league title in the long jump.
PERSONAL: Dewayne Patterson...born April 20, 1984 at Redlands, California...mother Roxie Hollins...enjoys cooking and skateboarding...undecided on academic area of interest at WSU.
Lynnwood, Calif. (Carson)
HIGH SCHOOL: Coached by Rowen Tupuivao at Carson High School......did not play football until sophomore year in high school...also competed in track & field...JUNIOR year racked up 98 tackles, four interceptions, three sacks, and recovered a fumble...helped Colts to an 11-3 overall record, the Marine League title, and the Los Angeles City Section championship...earned All-Marine League and All-City Section honors...as a SENIOR led Colts with 103 tackles...recovered four fumbles, forced two others another, and recorded four sacks...helped lead Carson to a 7-5 overall record and a trip to the second round of the Los Angeles City Section playoffs...returned a fumble recovery for a touchdown against Taft...was the starting linebacker in the 40th Annual Lions All-Star Game...again earned All-Marine League honors.
PERSONAL: Lamar Tyree Brumfield...born February 3, 1987 at Bellflower, Calif...parents Donnie and Lillianita Brumfield...has one sister, Doniesha...posted a 3.2 prep grade point average...interested in pursuing communication.
Los Angeles, Calif. (Long Beach Poly/West Los Angeles College)
JUNIR COLLEGE: Coached by Darryl Holmes at West Los Angeles College...as a FRESHMAN was among the top 20 in California junior college football in rushing and all-purpose yards...compiled 1,025 yards and five touchdowns on the ground...averaged 5.9 yards per carry...chipped in 260 receiving yards and 248 return yards for a total of 1,533 all-purpose yards on the season...earned first team All-Western States honors at running back as West Los Angeles finished 6-3...also picked off a pass on defense.
HIGH SCHOOL: Prior to senior season, transferred to Long Beach Poly, where he was coached by Raul Lara...as a as a SOPHOMORE at Beverly Hills, rushed for over 1,110 yards and had over 250 receiving yards...accounted for 12 touchdowns...co-offensive most valuable player in the Ocean League...JUNIOR at Beverly Hills, rushed for a school record 1,591 yards and 24 touchdowns, earning league co-most valuable player honors...served as the Normans' team captain and led them to a 7-3 record and a trip to the playoffs...SENIOR season at Long Beach Poly ran for 880 yards and 17 touchdowns...also had 300 receiving yards...racked up 20 all-purpose touchdowns and was named first team All-Moore League and All-CIF...helped Jackrabbits to an 11-2 record and a trip to the CIF Southern Section Division I semifinals...team also featured UCLA defensive tackle Kevin Brown...traveled to Hawaii and defeated powerhouse Kahuku 42-16...reached the end zone three times in that game, twice on the ground and on a 22-yard touchdown reception...Long Beach Poly program has churned out more NFL players than any other high school in America, as well as baseball legend Tony Gwynn, tennis great Billy Jean King, and actor Cameron Diaz...finished with 61 rushing touchdowns in his high school career.
PERSONAL: Lorenzo Lamon Bursey, Jr...born May 24, 1985 in Los Angeles...parents Lorenzo Bursey, Sr., and Sherry Tigner...has four brothers, David, Bryan, Laronzo, and LeeAndre, and a sister LaToya...enjoys playing video games, working out, and playing basketball...brother Bryan played football at Iowa State.
Offensive Line
Gig Harbor, Wash. (Gig Harbor)
HIGH SCHOOL: Coached by Darren McKay at Gig Harbor High School...has lettered nine times during high school career, four times in football, three times in track & field, and twice in wrestling...team captain for both football and track & field as a senior...as a SOPHOMORE was an All-Narrows League selection on the defensive line...regional participant in both wrestling and track & field...as a JUNIOR earned first team Narrows League Bridge Division honors on both offense and defense...named first team All-Area by both the Tacoma News Tribune and Bremerton Sun...honorable mention All-State...took third place at the Class AAAA track & field meet in the shot put...SENIOR...helped Gig Harbor to an 8-2 record...again named first team Narrows League Bridge Division on both sides of the ball...first team All-Area by the Tacoma News Tribune...also selected to the TNT's "Northwest Nuggets" and "Western 100"...earned first team All-State honors on offense by the Tacoma News Tribune and the Associated Press...also received AP honorable mention recognition on defense...rated the No. 8 player in the state of Washington by Scout.com...rated the No. 56 player in the West (California, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, Washington) by Scout.com...projected as a defensive tackle by Rivals.com, where he was rated No. 38 at that position nationally...named to the Seattle Times' All-State team...named to the Washington Prep all-league first team on offense and defense...selected to play in the East-West All-Star game...Pierce County Scholar-Athlete nominee.
PERSONAL: Kenneth David Alfred...born July 29, 1986 at Bellevue, Washington...parents David and Claudia Alfred...has one brother, Matt...father David played football at Western Washington University, while brother Matt currently plays for Eastern Washington...enjoys weight training, video games, reading, writing, and filmmaking...compiled a 3.3 prep grade point average...Gig Harbor's 2004 homecoming king...interested in Washington State's veterinary school.
Wide Receiver
Puyallup, Wash. (Rogers)
HIGH SCHOOL: Coached by Gene Bowen at Rogers High School...earned eight varsity letters, including three in basketball and three in football...as a JUNIOR earned All-South Puget Sound League honorable mention at wide receiver...also earned league accolades on special teams as a punt and kick returner...second team All-South Puget Sound League in basketball...as a SENIOR earned first team All-South Puget Sound League honors after compiling 946 all-purpose yards... rated the No. 17 player in the state of Washington by Scout.com...rated No. 38 nationally as an athlete by Rivals.com...named to the Washington Prep all-league first team as a receiver and second team as a defensive back...Tacoma News Tribune "Northwest Nuggets" honorable mention.
PERSONAL: Brandon Lewis Gibson...born August 13, 1987 in Germany...parents Steve Gibson and Marlene Williams...has two sisters, Sherelle and Nicole Wade, and one brother, Steven...uncle Vaughn Williams played in the NFL for the San Francisco 49ers and Indianapolis Colts...interested in pursuing education or communication at WSU.
Defensive Back
5-9 185
Seattle, Wash. (Rainier Beach)
HIGH SCHOOL: Coached by Mark Haley at Rainier Beach High School...four-year letterwinner, including one year at Franklin High School in Seattle...as a FRESHMAN played at Franklin, starting 10 games at cornerback and earning All-KingCo honors...played on offense in just five games, rushing for 200 yards and two touchdowns...recorded 39 tackles...SOPHOMORE season played primarily on defense, racking up 44 tackles and four interceptions...offensively totaled 492 rushing and receiving yards with six touchdowns...earned All-Metro honors as a free safety and running back, helping Rainier Beach win Metro League Sound Division title...became a dangerous two-way threat as a JUNIOR, rushing for 920 yards and seven touchdowns and recording 58 tackles and three interceptions on defense...also added 205 receiving yards on just 12 receptions...earned All-Metro honors at both running back and defensive back, helping the Vikings repeat as Metro League Sound Division champions...as a SENIOR topped the 1,000-yard rushing mark with 1,017 yards and 14 touchdowns on the ground...also had 88 tackles and four interceptions on defense...helped Vikings to a 9-2 overall record, including a third-straight Metro League Sound Division title...earned first team All-State honors as a defensive back by the Tacoma News Tribune and by Associated Press...named to Seattle Times' All-Area team as a defensive back...first team All-State by the Seattle Times...named first team All-Metro League at cornerback and running back...finished Rainier Beach career with 2,461 yards rushing and 28 touchdowns, 460 yards receiving and four touchdowns, and 229 tackles...also reached the end zone six times on interception returns and fumble returns...rated the No. 49 cornerback nationally by Scout.com...rated the No. 15 player in the state of Washington by Scout.com...rated the No. 97 player in the West by Scout.com...rated the No. 22 cornerback nationally by Rivals.com...named to the Washington Prep all-league first team as a running back and defensive back...named to the "Western 100" by the Tacoma News Tribune.
PERSONAL: Shelton LaVelle Danzy...born April 20, 1987 in Tampa, Florida...mother Demetrice Danzy...has two sisters, Traiyaune and Lexi, and a brother, Reshaud...enjoys watching movies, playing video games, and going to the beach...was a peer tutor for the Union Gospel Mission...participated in community little league football camps, teaching technique and instructing drills...interested in pursuing sport management at WSU.
Defensive Tackle
6-4 265
San Jose, Calif. (Valley Christian)
HIGH SCHOOL: Coached by Mike Machado at Valley Christian...earned two varsity letters playing on the offensive and defensive line...JUNIOR season earned first team All-West Catholic League honors on offense and defense...helped lead the Warriors to an 11-2 record, the West Catholic League title and Central Coast Section Division IV championship...as a SENIOR repeated as a first team all-league selection on both sides of the ball...guided Valley Christian to a 12-1 record, another West Catholic League title, and the Central Coast Section Open Division championship...recognized as one the top 30 players in Northern California by School Sports Magazine...named one of the top 22 players in Northern California by Tom Lemming's Prep Football Report.
PERSONAL: Joseph Townsend...born December 16, 1987 in San Jose, Calif...parents Larry and Alice Townsend...has two brothers, Nick and Larry, Jr...Larry played football at Nebraska...enjoys poetry, fishing, and camping...interested in pursuing engineering at WSU.
HEAD COACH Bill Doba
Class of 2005... "We improved the speed of our team with some very athletic guys. We got a group of kids that want to be here. They play hard and they are good character people. They will be a big asset to our program."
Instant impact... "Lorenzo Bursey can come in and play right away. We are excited about Courtney Williams from Dorsey High School. He plays outside linebacker and had 26 sacks last year. I don't care what league you are in, that's a bunch of sacks. We have two running backs that will run hard. DeMaundray Woolridge is quick and might be able to help us. Dwight Tardy is a very intense, tough kid.
"All of the defensive backs could play right away. Bursey could play receiver or corner. We would like to play him at receiver. Gibson played corner, safety and receiver and could have the ability to play other spots if somebody went down and we needed him."
Grading the class... "We have recruited under the radar for a long time. As far as what we wanted, this class is an A or a B in terms of number of kids. We only had one kid who de-committed. They are good character kids. They gave us their word and they followed through."
Advantages and disadvantages of not making bowl game... "I was in the homes of most of these kids before Christmas break, and that was a big advantage. After the break, we had seven assistant coaches out on the road to keep turning over those rocks and looking behind bushes for players."
Holiday Bowl still paying off... "We signed four kids from Texas. I don't think we would have if we hadn't beat Texas a year ago. I think that carried over to some degree."
Lack of in-state signees... "We offered more than three kids from the state of Washington, but some of them chose to go to other schools. We had a lot of tough decisions to make. There were some good kids in this state, and in California and Texas, that were very close to being offered. We think we offered the right ones and got the group that we needed."
Under the radar signees... "Courtney Williams is a kid that we stumbled on late that has great potential. Lorenzo Bursey has a chance to be an excellent football player and wasn't highly recruited. He will have three years to play. We may grayshirt Joe Eppele, but he is about 6-8 and 275 pounds. He is one of the top hammer throwers up in Canada and just turned 17. He is just a puppy. He is athletic and can run. Brandon Gibson is an excellent receiver that was at our camp and I think has a chance to be a very good player."
Arkelon Hall... "He is a great leader and a good kid. Last spring we looked at quarterbacks throughout the country and decided to offer four kids. One in Indiana, one in Chicago, and two in California. He (Arkelon) called right before our camp and decided this was where he wanted to be. I encouraged him to wait, take a look around, and see if he wants to be here. He said that he was a man of his words and he would be here. We are excited about his leadership. He is a good one. Not only can he throw the football around, but he is a great leader and a good kid."
Fevaea'i AhMu... "Fevaea'i AhMu was a really good find. He will develop and could play next year. He is a great kid and comes from a great family."
Derek Hunter... "Derek Hunter played one season in junior college. He is a good student, is interested in engineering, and I think he can help us this year."
Shelton Danzy... "He was in our camp this summer. He is a good hitter and a good athlete. He can play running back, wide receiver, a-back, or cornerback. We fell in love with him at camp."
RECRUITING COORDINATOR Robin Pflugrad
Leon Burtnett in Texas... "Leon Burtnett has a great reputation in the state of Texas, and also Louisiana. He lost a player that had made a verbal commitment and I think that it motivated him shift into fourth gear and do a great job. He has more miles than just about any recruiter in the country this year. He did a great job and was really motivated to get some linebackers. I think we outworked some people and I think that's what we need to continue to do here."
Cory Evans... "He will be able to play linebacker or safety. We are really looking at him as a linebacker first. He is a great looking player. He can come up and really force the run. It will be fun to show his highlight tape to people because he can really come up and hit."
Shelton Danzy... "He is excited about being a Cougar. He was a big asset in helping put together this class and he should be able to do some things on the field for us when he gets his opportunity."
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To play Microsoft Rebound, you must be running the Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7, a program for Windows Touch users. For more information, see What's the Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7?
Microsoft Rebound is a game in which you use your fingertips to move Tesla balls with an electrical field between them to try and catapult a metal game ball into your opponent's goal. Play against the computer or challenge a friend and battle it out in the electronic court for the championship of the Microsoft Rebound circuit.
The objective of Microsoft Rebound is to reach a target score or score more points than your opponent during a set time period. You try to launch the game ball into the opposing player's goal using Tesla balls and the electrical energy generated between them that acts as a paddle. As you play, you can collect "power-ups" to enhance your game play and give you an advantage.
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On the menu screen, tap Play.
On the Game Type screen, do the following:
Pick your opponent. Battle it out with the computer or a friend.
Pick your playing field. Tap the arrow keys to see all the playing fields. Continue when you see the field you want.
Tap Advanced, and then do the following:
Under GAME TYPE, tap the buttons above and below the lit numbers to select either a target score you must reach to end the game or a time period in which you must try to defeat your opponent.
Under DIFFICULTY LEVEL, Tap the dial to select Easy, Medium, or Hard.
Under POWER ITEMS, tap the power items you want to appear in the game.
Press Start to begin playing.
The game takes place in the Mechanized Microsoft Rebound Arena, a smooth metallic playing field surrounded by the inner workings of a machine. You must tap both your Tesla balls on the playing field and move them around with your fingers. A large arc of electrical energy is generated between the two spheres. Use this energy to catapult the game ball to the opponent's goal.
A red electric field divides the arena into two sides. You can't pass through this field with your Tesla balls. You must try and maneuver your Tesla balls and the electric field between them to stop and catch the game ball.
The multiball can make or break your game. Make sure you take control when this item is loose.
Use the Tesla balls to attack, and the arc of electrical energy between them to defend your goal.
Don't play too far from your goal.
Goal power items can give you the advantage.
Don't be overly aggressive.
The game contains several power items that control the goals, electrical field, and balls.
Ball for stationary electrical field
Puts a stationary electrical field in front of your goal that can stop one goal attempt.
Ball for moving electrical field
Puts a moving electrical field in front of your goal that continuously stops goal attempts.
Ball for extending electrical charge
Extends the electrical charge between the Tesla balls.
Ball for shortening electrical charge
Shortens the electrical charge between the Tesla balls.
Adds two more balls on the playing field.
Speed ball
Speeds up the game ball.
Slow ball
Slows down the game ball.


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A high-pressure laminate top covers a 1 1/4" thick, hi-density particle board core. A phenolic backer sheet is provided to prevent warpage in moist environments. Nylon leveling glides keep the table steady on uneven floors.
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When I was 24, I learned that there are two kinds of deathbed secrets: those that loved ones choose to reveal in an 11th-hour coming clean about who they are and what they've done, and those that you stumble across when sorting through their things. Either way, just as you lose this person you love, whose image you are trying to freeze in your brain, you begin to wonder how well you knew him or her at all.
A few months before my father died, he decided—at my mother's urging—to share with my brother, Todd, and me a secret from his childhood. Before we could make our way from our respective homes in different states to learn what the secret was, my father's health took a turn for the worse. The next time we were all together was one horrible afternoon when we were around his hospital bed and he was screaming for help as if literally drowning in his pain. After bullying the nurse into giving my father enough morphine to knock him out, my mother ushered Todd and me out of the hospital. We sat down on a sunlit bench, still trembling in the soul-wrenching aftermath of watching this man we loved so much suffer so greatly. "I think I'd better tell you the secret," my mother said, finally able to share what she'd known since before she married. "Your father's part black."
My brother and I laughed and felt immensely relieved. Compared with what we'd been imagining—some terrible crime—being part black struck us as no big deal. It didn't make our father seem like a different person, and I didn't yet feel that the disclosure had much to do with me. "Cool," my brother and I said. The next day, my father required emergency surgery, which he survived to live another month. But he was never lucid again, so I never had a chance to ask him why he chose to keep this secret and what it meant to him.
In the months that followed, the deathbed revelation began to seem more consequential. At his memorial service, I met his sister and my cousin for the first time and considered from their perspective how it felt for my dad to cut them off because of their color. I learned that many light-skinned black people from the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, where my father's family lived, had presented themselves as white to get work in the 1940s and '50s but that my dad was among the few who "passed" in his personal life, too. I also realized that my father, who served as an editor and a book critic for the New York Timesfor 18 years, never would have been hired in the early 1970s had he been open about his ancestry. At that time, there were no black critics on the staffs of any major newspapers.
I loved and admired my dad. But it was hard to reconcile his choice with the man I'd thought he was. The photos of my father and me I'd placed around my apartment—in his lap as a baby, looking up at him with an expression of unadulterated love; as a three-year-old in his arms, leaning in for a kiss; as an 18-year-old, with my arm slung around his neck the morning I left for college—no longer filled me with easy comfort by setting off a slideshow of similar moments of closeness. Instead, I began to look for signs of falseness, a trace of gloating or hiding in my father's smile. I missed my dad, but I also felt furious at him—for depriving me of a relationship with his family, for leaving behind so many unanswered questions and, most of all, for clouding my memory of him when it was already slipping away.
Even after 23 years, the issue of his ancestry and his struggles with it cast a backward shadow over our relationship. At the same time, I realized his secret wasn't just about him; it was about me, too—not least what the revelation meant for my own racial identity. A foundation of my sense of self that I had once considered rock solid, my father's love and affection for me, suddenly crackled with complexity.
I pored over his writings—his stories, essays and hundreds of book reviews—and sought out his family members, his friends, even his various psychologists over the years, but there were frustratingly few clues about the racial terms in which he had seen himself and whether he thought he was pretending to be something he was not. Instead, I learned more about my father's romantic life than a daughter would ever want to know.
I heard about the Midwestern girl back in the 1950s who hated New York City and the Greenwich Village world of my dad and his pals, but her pride kept her there because Anatole Broyard hadn't yet tried to sleep with her. There was my dad's friend Charlie, who gleefully told me of the time he witnessed my father pick up a woman sharing the elevator car in the seconds it took to reach the ninth floor. Then there was Vincent, who lent his apartment to my father one night so he could take a girl there. Afterward, Vincent noticed that the toilet base was shaky, and he asked my father what the hell had gone on. Vincent and I stood in the doorway of his tiny bathroom as he laughingly recalled my dad's story: that he and the girl were just taking in the view. He invited me to peer through the narrow window—I'd barely be able to make out the Empire State Building peeking above the skyline, he assured me—but I was reluctant to picture my father having sex on a toilet.
That particular episode occurred before my parents were married, but I gathered from my dad's friends and correspondence that his shenanigans never stopped completely. I'm sure his behavior hurt and angered my mother, but she was reluctant to discuss it with me beyond saying that my father loved women and he never pretended otherwise. For my part, his Don Juan tendencies further turned him into someone I didn't recognize as my dad.
He never shied away from discussing his popularity with women. But I'd thought of his days as a ladies' man as belonging mostly to his two decades of bachelorhood before marrying my mom. I'd been under the impression that once my brother and I came along, we had become his true calling. After all, his friends had told us what he'd said to them: You think you've been in love in your life, and then you have children and you realize that all those other relationships were dalliances. He spent hours tossing us, torpedo-like, onto a bed piled high with pillows, listening to us recount the long (and doubtless boring) plots of movies and rehearsing the lines of school plays or dance-recital moves.
He lost his temper sometimes, he yelled and acted selfish, but he always seemed interested in us, in our opinions on things and what we were doing. Now I wondered if this role of consummate dad was genuine or if everyone who encountered him was made to feel like the center of his universe; whether his need to be seen in a heroic or attractive light stemmed from a fear of being exposed as a fraud. No matter the motives for his seductive behavior—the more I recognized it as fundamental to his being, the more I saw its impact on me.
Among his correspondence, I found an envelope containing two dozen photos of young women, wearing bathing suits or short shorts to better show off their legs (at my dad's request?), and a sheet of paper covered with female names and mysterious notations: G, B or SS. I spent months wondering whether the letters represented pregnancies: "girl," "boy" and "stopped short"? Then one day I showed the page to a male friend, who pronounced: "good," "bad," "so-so."
I recalled my father's endless commentary about my clothes, hair, weight—the discomfort I felt in the face of his scrutiny. Now I wondered how I would have rated. Shouldn't his great love for me, his daughter, have made him blind to my objective physical appeal as a young woman? And what about my intelligence, my sense of humor and compassion—didn't these qualities matter, too? I'd never been completely comfortable with being found attractive by men or been able to enjoy the tension of mutual desire. I was too suspicious about where flirting was headed, too quick to recognize it as a means to an end. I chalked up my inability to treat seduction like a game to a nervous temperament and a shortage of confidence in my own appeal. It took years after my father died for me to realize that not all women felt this way, that perhaps another part of my father's legacy was my paranoia about men's motives. I still haven't managed to completely shake my knee-jerk reaction to male attention, whether harmless flirting at a party or a spontaneous back rub from my husband.
At the same time, my father was the parent to whom physical warmth and declarations of love came more naturally. I couldn't sit next to him without having his arm draped over my shoulder or wrapped around my waist. Every day he told me he loved me. I always credited his steady affection with my belief in myself and my insistence on being treated fairly in relationships. Like the question of his racial identity, the impact of his romantic life was not as simple as black or white.
If my father had lived longer, as his appetites waned and my sense of self grew, our evolving relationship might have resolved some of these contradictions. But since I didn't get that chance, I was forced to try to forge an understanding of my dad's life on my own. As I did so, a funny thing happened: I started seeing him less as my father and more as another struggling human being.
I imagined the confusion about his racial identity that he must have felt growing up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where his family moved when he was six. In their neighborhood, the Broyards were the only Creoles, an identity that had allowed his parents to comfortably straddle the color line back in New Orleans. I imagined how liberated he must have felt on arriving in the late 1930s at Brooklyn College, where his classmates, mostly children of recent Jewish immigrants, were outsiders, too. I envisioned him in Greenwich Village, where he moved after dropping out of college in 1938. There, nobody cared who his parents were or where they'd come from. They wanted to know what he thought—about literature, art, politics and women.
Among these would-be artists and intellectuals, I imagined him cultivating his identity as a charismatic man of letters; someone who seemed as if he belonged at the athletic club, the dinner party or the beach house; and an aspiring Casanova for whom each conquest represented social acceptance. I pictured him meeting my mother, a Waspy blonde of Norwegian ancestry, and gaining entry into her world of upper-middle-class possibilities as he downplayed his racial origins. I thought about the births of my brother and me, and our father's unspoken relief that his blackness didn't imprint itself on our appearance. I considered his decision to keep that background from us to protect us from the racial uncertainty of his own childhood, to make true his determination that a person's background shouldn't matter.
Rather than viewing his life before I came along as irrelevant, I started to see it as the beginning of a continuum that led him to being my father. Even his sexual exploits made more sense when considered in light of his constant need to seduce everyone around him into his vision of himself and the world.
I ended up spending many years contemplating these questions, which culminated in a book about my father's racial identity and the origins of his seductive nature. While I didn't necessarily forgive the choices he'd made and their effects on his family and me, I came to understand them better, which made it easier ultimately to forgive him. The truth was, being angry with my father wasn't getting me anywhere: Anger locked me into a position that didn't allow for change or growth. Since my father was no longer here to either amend his ways or defend his actions, I had no choice but to alter my own position. And in the process, I returned to the place where I started. Now when I considered his choices, I saw him less as a fraud than as a father, trying to do what he believed best for his children. Having become a parent myself helped me sympathize with his decisions. It also helped me look past my narcissistic belief as a child that everything my parents did necessarily involved me.
There are still things I learned about my dad that sit outside even my revised and expanded sense of him—things that leave me scratching my head and wondering how well I really knew him, what kind of man he'd been. But I no longer seek to reconcile every tender memory of mine with my discovery of unsavory secrets. And in that letting go or letting be is a kind of lesson. If my own husband were to die -unexpectedly—perish the thought—I'm fairly certain I would resist the impulse to search through his personal e-mails and Facebook messages and an old box of his papers in our basement that I suspect might contain photos or letters of girlfriends past. I don't have a reason to doubt my husband's fidelity, so it would feel like a violation of our trust to snoop through his things looking for evidence. Also, I don't feel entitled to illuminate every last corner of his life as I did with my father.
When I imagine my kids conducting such an exhaustive survey of my life one day, I immediately shudder. (Like my father, I married late and did not have children until I was almost 40.) But then I reassure myself that my daughter, who is four, probably won't idolize me in the way I idolized my dad. Times have changed. In addition to encouraging our kids to be more communicative with us parents, my generation is more communicative about our own imperfections. A strange, macabre memory pops into my head: I remember my mother telling me about transferring my father's ashes from the crematorium box to an urn that a potter friend had made for their burial. Amid the grainy gray dust were some hard white chunks that wouldn't pass through the narrow neck of the urn. My mother ended up collecting them in another, wider-mouthed jar that now sits on a shelf in her bedroom. The knowledge that these pieces refused to burn and crumble into bits has always given me an odd comfort—my father's impenetrable, impervious remains.
BLISS BROYARD is the author of the short story collection My Father, Dancingand the memoir One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life—A Story of Race and Family Secrets. She is currently working on a novel set on Martha's Vineyard.
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This is all so petty and stupid
I've heard fans and commentators take sides.
And I'm just sick of it.
On the one hand you have BILLIONARE owners who have taken our money in taxes to fund their stadiums. And taken money out of our pockets for tickets, concessions, parking, and merchandise. And they cry poor, oh boo hoo, woah is me. As they stand on their luxury yachts or on their private jets. F--- them all.
On the other hand you have the players. Nearly 100% of whom had NOTHING when they were in college, and suddenly they're millionares. And as a result, they become spoiled. They say ("Its modern day slavery") and do (like being at a nightclub with your posse and there's a shooting) kind of stupid things. Its a difficult fence to straddle with them - I feel for them to a point because they became rich overnight, many without much eductation, and they're just getting paid well because they happen to be good at a sport, and they themselves are just "lucky" to be there. But it is just a sport and seeing them get paid that well is ludicrous. And since they were represented by a union, I say F--- them all too.
We the fans are screwed in all of this. And we have no voice.
How about this compromise? Lower ticket prices. Lower the cost of merchandise. Cut your TV revenue by some percentage. Do away with charging at all to see the preseason games. Set a rookie wage scale with the midpoint in round 5, such that the average of all salaries is the median US income (ie, about $50k). The veteran players can make no more than $5 mil per year, and the total salary cap is $30 mil per team.
Setup a 401k for the players. 50% contribution by the owners, 50% by the players. The team can pay for long-term healthcare through a standard HMO, with the co-pay and dedcutible paid by the players.
And for the owners, their take is the same as the players. Say about $40 mil per team. They have to contribute to the players costs, and pay office and coaching salaries out of that.
Take an amount after that to fund research into injuries, and to look at better means to increase safety.
After that, an amount should be contributed to fund equipment for high schools and smaller colleges.
Any overage that's made in operations is placed into a fund at a banking institution, where the number is made public and accounted for. Owners can BORROW from it to fund constuction. But they have to pay it back WITH INTEREST. There has to be a means for players to borrow small amounts from it as well, but you don't want them walking away from their obligations.
And in this scenario, the players lose and the owners lose. But you and I win. No more stupid money out of our pockets.
This "sport" has ceased being that, and people are quibbling about large sums while you and I make very little, all the while providing for them.
I've been thinking about this a lot, and I still love football. But I'm hating the monster that has become the NFL. I've already started (and invite you to join) my protest:
(1) purchase no merchandise / wear no merchandise
(2) boycott the traditional advertisers (the ones during games on Sundays)
(3) spend no money on tickets now, or at all this season.
I'm thinking about expnading on all of this to span a longer time. I'll let you know.
And something else...a friend of mine had a son playing flag football this winter. On his team was Daunte Culpepper's son. Daunte, it turns out, is a pretty decent guy, very personable, and he seems to have gotten a raw deal from the NFL and the Dolphins. Maybe even I didn't realize it at the time...
So, for now my new team is the UFL's Sacramento Mountain Lions for whom Daunte is the QB. Rooting for them is kind of the antithesis of the NFL and Dolphins. Its an upstart league with a player who the Dolphins screwed over.
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Thanks. I'm about *this* close to wrapping it up. But I am curious to see where this all nets out.
So stay tuned.
Dave - another perspective on the lucky players. They are the best in the world at what they do. The best in this country at anything and everything make a good to great living while they are the best. The best CEO's make hundreds of millions of dollars per year, the best plumber makes millions of dollars per year, etc, etc. The best players are the engine that drives a multi-billion dollar industry and people like you think they are lucky. They are not lucky they are good and talented and have worked hard as hell for 15 or more years to get where they are. If most of us worked as hard at our jobs as NFL players worked at theirs, we would make millions too. If we were as good at our jobs, whatever they are, we would make millions too.
Just because their job involves a multi billion dollar game that you probably played as a kid doesn't make them lucky to get paid what they do. Why begrudge it?
I wouldn't begrudge them - and never did before -as long as they are not being greedy with MY money.
They only have success because of you and me. If we didn't buy tickets and merchandise, they wouldn't be in the position to make millions.
Yes they are the best at what they do. And I enjoy watching them play. But when everyone starts acting like they are "entitled" and it becomes a rich man's game, its no longer a sport and really not so fun to watch.
As for them making millions for what they do, what about teachers who are "the best" or other professionals for whom the ceiling is much lower than a million? They're kids playing a game. What about the 100s of kids who come out of college who are just as good as the 53rd man on any roster, but can't/don't make it and have nothing to show for their years in college?
They opened this can of worms, not me....
But as I say, I want to see where this plays out. Maybe there's a reasonable conclusion and everyone will be contrite. Or maybe it all goes crazy and they actually lose part or all of the season.
Anybody who talks about millionaires Vs billionaires is missing the reason for the work stoppage.
My biggest question, and one that has yet to be answered, is what exactly do the players want? In '87 they wanted free agency, a fair opportunity to recieve honest value for their services. In 2011 do they just want more money? Do they think they're going to get a court ordered raise?
Remember it was the players who, by their own admission, walked away from negotiations not the owners. Owners who as business men negotiate deals all day every day. As business men that's all they do, that's their life. Why would they suddenly stop now? To go to litigation in the liberal court system that's given players everything they have ever asked for? That's what the owners wanted? That's their master plan?
Look, there are two ways to make a name for yourself, by building something up and by tearing something down. The labor stoppage is because DeMaurice Smith is the latter. Just ask Takeo Spikes who has already said the plan is to return in August. We haven't had a hearing yet and they already have their return planned?
This is about D-Smith milking the labor shortage for all it's worth before the players abandon him when they start to miss their game checks. Don't be surprised to see the players suddenly come back to the table in August for no apparant reason, regardless of the court rulings, and sign a similiar CBA to what they already had. Also, don't be surprised to see D-Smith running for an office somewhere (likely the U.S. House) in 2012.


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ASU Meet Notes - NCAA Regionals
TEMPE -- The Arizona State University cross country teams continue the championship season on Friday as the team heads to the Northwest to take part in the NCAA Regional Championships in Seattle, Wash., on Friday, Nov. 9 The women will open the competition with a 6,000-meter run beginning at 12 p.m. PT at the Jefferson Park Golf Course while the No. 25 men will follow with the 10,000-meter race at 1:15 p.m. The weekend will mark the last chance for teams to solidify or earn a bid to the NCAA Championships, set to take place in Louisville, Kent., on Saturday, Nov. 17.
With the nine region races throughout the United States crowning both a regional team champion and an individual champion, the heading into the region races is for a team to finish in the Top 2 to earn an automatic berth into the national final. After all nine meets have concluded, the field of 18 automatic qualifiers will be expanded to a final field of 31 teams as the NCAA will announce 13 at-large selections on Sunday.
Since 1998, the Sun Devil women have finished outside of the Top 5 in the West only three times (6th in 1998, 13th in 2011 and 7th last year) while finishing second four times (2000, 2002, 2004, 2005) and third four other times. The men, in that same time, have posted 13 Top 10 finishes (11th in 1998 and 2006) while taking second in 2004 and finishing third twice (1999 and 2005).
The NCAA West Regionals will feature mostly the same cast of characters that faced off at the Pac-12 Championships, but with the addition of several other schools from the west, though the men's conference champion Colorado Buffalo will actually be competed at the NCAA Mountain Regional. The Big West Champions, Cal Poly, and the West Coast Champion Portland are among the additions that will add to the competition at this particular meet. This will mark the first time this season that the men will compete at 10,000 meters. The race will feature No. 3 Stanford, No. 9 Portland, No. 11 Oregon, No. 25 Arizona State and No. 27 UCLA.
The West Region remains arguably the most competitive division on the women's side of things and will likely see the most teams represented at the NCAA Championships on Nov. 17. The field will feature six of the top 30 teams in the nation, including four squads ranked in the top ten nationally. No. 3 Oregon, No. 4 Arizona, No. 5 Stanford, No. 7 Washington, No. 26 San Francisco and No. 29 UCLA make up the top contenders in the field.
The ASU men just missed cracking the rankings for the first time this season, collecting votes for the first time in 2012 and sitting as the first team outside of the top 30. The women's team did not receive any votes in the most recent USTFCCCA Coaches Poll. In the regional rankings, the ASU men remained in fifth while the women dropped three spots to 10th in the West Region Rankings.
The Arizona State University men took fourth overall while Shelby Houlihan was eighth for the Sun Devil women as the team opened the championship season with the Pac-12 Conference Championships in Santa Clarita, Calif. Nick Happe paced the way for the Sun Devil men, coming across the line in 11th overall in a time of 23:45 to earn second-team All-Conference honors for the first time in his career. Arizona State finished with 109 points and we were just four points of a podium finish behind third-place Oregon's 105 points and just 27 points behind second-place Stanford with 82. Colorado was the team champions with 49 points. Entering the competition, the ASU men were unranked while Oregon was No. 8 in the country and UCLA was No. 15. On the women's side, Shelby Houlihan took eighth for the second consecutive year for the Sun Devils in a time of 20:26 as she continued her streak of being the top Sun Devil finisher in every race she has competed in at ASU. She earned second-team All-Conference honors for the second consecutive season.
A LOOK BACK - 2012 NCAA West Regionals
The Sun Devil women's team finished seventh overall while the men were eighthat last year's NCAA West Regional. Freshman Shelby Houlihan, a youngster out of Sioux City, Iowa, was the top freshman in the field in the race as she finished 12th overall in 20:36. Junior Nick Happe paced the men for the third consecutive race as he reeled off an impressive 21st-place finish in what he later dubbed 'the best cross country race of my life'. Happe covered the course in 29:56 to earn All-Region honors for the first time in his career.
There was no more dynamic freshman in the conference last year that Shelby Houlihan, and the sophomore was honored in 2011 as the Pac-12 Cross Country Newcomer of the Year before following that up with the 2012 Track and Field Newcomer Award as Well - becoming the first student-athlete in conference history to complete the sweep. Houlihan kickstarted the 2012 campaign by winning the George Kyte Invitational in Flagstaff for her first career collegiate victory as she nearly set the course record with a time of 16:52.4. Houlihan would go on to pace the team at the Notre Dame Invitational a couple weekends ago with a 13th-place overall finish in 16:58. Houlihan has been the ASU's top finisher in every race of her collegiate career thus far, including the Pac-12 Championships. There, Houlihan matched her finish from last season, taking eighth overall to earn second-team honors.
It took senior Darius Terry one race to pick up where he left off last cross country season before injury limited him towards the end of the season. Terry was third at the Pac-12 Preview hosted by UCLA in a time of 24:35 and was just five seconds shy of No. 18 Northern Arizona's Brian Shrader - regarded as one of the top runners in the country - who finished in 24:30 for the eventual team champion Lumberjacks. Terry followed that up with a strong 22nd-place finish at the Pac-12 Championships, helping the team to a fourth-place finish. Terry was the Sun Devils top runner early last year, winning the George Kyte Classic and posting a strong run at the Roy Griak Invitational and looked prime for a potential All-American season before sturggling at the Pac-12 Championships and sitting out the NCAA West Regionals for precuationary measures.
Arizona State's biggest offseason pickup may prove to be University of Kansas graduate transfer Zach Zarda. An NCAA West Preliminary round 5,000m competitor for the Jayhawks in 2012, Zarda showed what he could bring to the Sun Devils with a strong sixth-place run at the Pac-12 Preview hosted by UCLA in a time of 24:43. The finish prompted head coach Louie Quintana to say Zarda earned the "game ball" for the race. Zarda followed that up with a championship-caliber run at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational, finishing as the team's top finisher with a 37th-place finish in sub-24 fashion. Zarda would go on to be the team's second runner at the Pac-12 Championships, just missing All-Conference honors with a 15th-place overall finish.
Last season, Shelby Houlihan made history by being the first person in conference history to sweep the Pac-12 Newcomer of the Year Award for both the cross country and track and field seasons. So who are ASU's candidates to challenge for that honor this season? CJ Albertson is a young man that men's coach Louie Quintana is very excited about. A freshman out of Buchanan High School in Clovis, Calif. (the same school as former ASU great and Olympian Kyle Alcorn and current teammate Macy Bricks) was among the top high school cross country runners in the season last year, qualifying for the Footlocker Nationals despite battling injury through the season. Adriana Olivas is a freshman out of Corona, Calif. (Centennial HS) who is the gritty, hard-working sort of runner that women's coach Ryan Cole says represents what the program is all about and could make a splash early as well. Other notable newcomers include Zach Zarda, a 2012 NCAA West Preliminary Qualifier on the track, and Garrett Seawell, the 2012 California State Junior College Cross Country champion.
After advancing to 12 consecutive NCAA Championship appearances from 1998-2009, the Sun Devil women's cross country team had one of the longest active streaks in the nation before missing out in 2010. Some might have thought it was an end to the dynasty, but the women regrouped last season to advanced to their 13th championship meet in 14 years and will look to restart the streak with another appearance in 2012.
Nick Happe was a pleasant surprise for the Sun Devils in 2011 and the senior will be looked upon as a leader this season. Happe was the team's top runner through most of last season and saw that come to fruition with an All-West Region finish at the NCAA West Region Championships. That momentum carried to the track for Happe as he set personal records indoors in the mile, 3000m and 5000m and moved up the ASU all-time top-10 list in all three events. Happe earned the first cross country All-Conference honors at the Pac-12 Championships a couple weeks ago, finishing 11th overall in a season's best time of 23:45 to pace the Sun Devils and earn Pac-12 All-Second Team Honors. The best part of the run? A month prior, Happe had run a time of 25:07 on the exact same course.
In addition to his All-Conference accolades, Happe was honored by the Pac-12 as the conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The award, which is presented in each of the 22 sports the Conference sponsors, was established to honor collegiate student-athletes that are standouts both academically and in their sports discipline. A finance major with a 4.09 cumulative grade point average, Happe was a first team Academic All-Pac-12 honoree in cross country in 2010 and 2011, while also earning first team honors on the track and field all-academic squad. He also was voted a third team CoSIDA Academic All-American last year, an award that is voted on by the nation's College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Happe's honor marks the third time in the last five years that a Sun Devil has earned the Pac-12 Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year honor. Brandon Bethke earned the award in 2009 while Jenna Kingma did so in 2008.
Coming into his ninth season as a head coach for Arizona State cross country, Louie Quintana has put together quite the program since taking over in August 2004. During his seven years leading the distance group, Quintana has worked with seven individuals that earned 10 total All-America honors in cross country, including the program's only three-time honoree Amy Hastings and Brandon Bethke who placed seventh nationally at the 2009 NCAA Championships. On the track, his athletes have been instrumental in helping the Sun Devils capture four national titles and three Pac-10 crowns. He has worked with four individuals that have collected five NCAA titles, including Kyle Alcorn, who won the indoor 3,000-meter run and the outdoor 3,000-meter steeplechase in 2008 and more recently, Mason McHenry, who was the 2012 NCAA Indoor 800m champion.
Ryan Cole has built up a reputation as one of the most promising and exciting up-and-coming young coaches in the nation and was named as the head coach for the women's cross country team for the 2011 campaign as a testament to that. Now in his second year as head women's cross country coach, Cole began working with the Arizona State program during the 2007-08 campaign and had served as an assistant ever since. In that time, Cole worked with the ASU women's distance teams serving under Coach Louie Quintana while also handling many of the daily administrative aspects of the Arizona State program and working with the management of home meets. Cole led the ASU women back to the NCAA Championships in 2011 for the 13th time in the last 14 years.
The Arizona State cross country rosters feature a total of 33 student-athletes (16 men, 17 women). Of that total, there will be 12 brand new faces gracing the Sun Devil uniform. The women's squad features five true freshmen in Marcelle Cartledge (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Tory Haberman (Gilbert, Ariz.), Kaitlin Kaluzny (Yakima, Wash.), Adiana Olivas (Corona, Calif.) and Alexia Velarde (Rancho Mirage, Calif.). Dalanne Bartlette will join the Sun Devils with three years of eligibility after transferring from Shata Community College while Christen Collins will come on as a transfer out of the University of San Diego. On the men's side, CJ Albertson and Connor Vigil represent the line true freshmen while transfers Jeff Bickert (RS-Fr./Pleasant Hill, Calif/Cal Poly SLO), Garrett Seawell (Jr./Sacremento, Calif./American River JC) and Zach Zarda (Sr./Shawnee, Kan./Kansas) will debut for ASU this year. In addition to the new faces, redshirt freshmen Ryan Herson, Daniel Wong and Heyden Wooff could all contribute for the men this year in their first action with the Sun Devils.
Both the men's and women's rosters are loaded with underclassmen but both squads will look to the seniors to help lead the way. Coming into the year, Darius Terry and Nick Happe are far and away the top returning runners on the roster and among the top returners in the conference with Doug Smith expected to make contributions as well. For the women, two local products in Hailey Hanna and Natasa Vulic are the lone seniors, both walk-on's who have been praised by Cole for doing everything necessary to get to this point and providing the model work ethic for the younger women to follow.
One of the keys to building one of the top running programs in nation is the ability to recruit well from the areas around you. The Sun Devil teams have taken that task seriously and will field eight Arizona natives on the 2012 roster, several of whom will be expected to play a large role on this year's team. Mention as already been made of Hailey Hanna (Mesa, Ariz.) and Natasa Vulic (Phoenix, Ariz.) for the women. But the team also welcomes freshmen Marcella Cartledge (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Tory Haberman (Gilbert, Ariz.) this season in addition to junior transfer Christen Collins (Phoenix, Ariz.). Redshirt freshman Daniel Wong (Tucson, Ariz.), redshirt sophomore Garrett Baker-Slama (Tempe, Ariz.) and redshirt senior Josh Walker (Chandler, Ariz.) are some others that could play a pivotal part as the season progresses for the men.
Not only is the ASU cross country team looking to get things accomplished on the athletic side of things in 2012, but they have also started to put in work in the classroom as well. Four members of the Sun Devil women's squad and three men will take classes as part of Barrett, The Honors College, during the 2012-13 academic calendar. Barrett, which has been named among the top honors colleges in the nation, enrolls nearly 40 Sun Devil student-athletes in its highly selective program with almost a quarter coming from the cross country programs. The members representing the cross country team in the honors college consist of Natasa Vulic (Sr.), Marcella Cartledge (Fr.), Karlee Owens (Jr.) and Kayla Springford (So.) on the women's team and Garrett Baker-Slama (So.), Daniel Wong (Rs-Fr.) and Nick Happe (Sr.) for the men.
Nick Happe earned USTFCCCA All-West Honors as the ASU men came painstakingly shy of an NCAA Championship qualification last season. The team took eighth at the NCAA West Regional Championships after a disappointing last-place finish at the Pac-12 Championship just weeks earlier. The team opened strong on the heels of Darisu Terry's individual victory at the George Kyte Classic in the season opener. The team rode that momentum to a fourth-place finish at the Roy Griak Invitational. Terry was fifth at that event to lead the team before injuries slowed him down over the rest of the season, eventually knocking him out of competition at the regional meet.
A young Arizona State women's squad advanced to the 13th NCAA Championship appearance in 14 years for the program on the heels of freshman phenom Shelby Houlihan. Houlihan was named the Pac-12 Cross Country Newcomer of the year follow All-Conference and All-Region finishes on the year. The women took sixth at the Pac-12 Conference championships and followed that with a seventh place finish at the NCAA West Regional Championships to earn an at-large bid the the NCAA Championships.


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