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Houston, Texas — Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Vocational and Adult Education Pat Stanley addressed the Houston Community College Faculty Conference Community Colleges: We Are the Future on February 17, 2007, in the George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas. Following are Deputy Secretary Stanley's remarks:
Thank you for the kind introduction. I am delighted to have the opportunity to talk with you today and to bring you greetings from Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education Troy Justesen. I feel so fortunate to be in a position to promote and support our nation's community colleges.
Congratulations to Mary Spangler, Houston Community College's new chancellor. We go way back to our days in California. I can assure you that you are in good hands. It is my pleasure to also have worked in the past with other presidents and administrators from your area, the Gulf Coast Community College Consortium.
Community college faculty members are the most dedicated professionals I know. Not only are they experts in their various disciplines, but they also are committed to helping all students succeed. With the open-access mission of community colleges, our students are far from homogeneous, and it takes experts like you to make student success a reality.
I taught in junior high, high school, undergraduate and graduate programs at various universities and I also taught in several community colleges. All this before I went on to what one colleague called "the dark side" – college administration.
I loved teaching, and I loved being an administrator as both positions allowed me to positively affect and provided leadership to our students. I've walked a mile or two in your shoes and fully recognize that what happens in the classroom between you and your students is the heart of the community college enterprise. I deeply admire all that you do every day. You have chosen a challenging and rewarding vocation. Our country depends on you to keep up the important work you do in changing lives.
When community colleges were established over a century ago, their mission was to provide the first two years of a four-year college education. With the rising costs of tuition at four-year institutions this mission is as critical as ever, and is especially important for those first-generation students who are striving to succeed in the 21st-century economy.
And speaking of cost—according to the findings of the Secretary's Commission on the Future of Higher Education, "tuition continues to outpace inflation, health care costs, and family income levels." Recent studies show that while middle income has risen by 30%, the average cost to attend a public four-year college or university rose 51% after adjusting for inflation (the increase for private schools is 36%). That is the bad news. The good news is that the cost to attend a community college has kept pace with income levels, coming in at a 30% increase in costs.
But community colleges are much more than a cost-effective way to participate in higher education. Community colleges provide developmental education, adult basic education, and instruction for English language learners. They are often the bridge between secondary and postsecondary education, offering dual credit courses for high school students. In today's knowledge economy, community colleges lead the way in training and workforce development for business and industry.
Through innovative programs such as Early College High Schools and your newly opened Construction Trades Academy funded through a U.S. Department of Education Tech-Prep Demonstration Grant, you are laying the foundation for high school students to attend postsecondary institutions.
Through initiatives such as Achieving the Dream, Houston Community College and the other participating colleges from the Gulf Coast Consortium are helping a group of students who face many barriers to success. I recently heard a presentation about Houston's transformation of student services at the Bellweather Awards. Community colleges continue to do amazing things!
Community colleges are the future. About 11 million Americans attend community colleges annually. The Houston Community College System alone serves over 50,000 students. (Houston Community College is the fourth largest in the country.) Yet community colleges haven't always received the respect and recognition that they should.
But things are changing and these are exciting times for community colleges.
When Secretary Spellings formed her bi-partisan Commission on the Future of Higher Education, she was sure to include a community college president, Dr. Charlene Nunley. Dr. Nunley is quoted as saying "I am pleased that the first recommendation of the report calls for broadly enhanced access to postsecondary education and the restoration of the buying power of the Pell Grant. This recommendation is of utmost importance to community colleges."
President Bush's 2008 budget reflects a commitment to increase Pell Grants. He is asking to increase the maximum award from $4,600 in 2008 and $5,400 over five years.
This past spring, President Bush, speaking before the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College 2006 graduating class, became the first sitting president to deliver a commencement address at a community college.
The President's Community-based Job Training Grants Initiative, through the U.S. Department of Labor, awarded $125 million in grants to 72 community colleges and one-stop career centers. I was delighted to be on stage with the board at the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) when the president announced these awards.
Our Assistant Secretary, Troy Justesen, who is from a small town in rural Utah, received his postsecondary start at a community college. He and his twin brother were the only two people in their entire family to go to college. He understands, firsthand, the benefits of community colleges. He is committed to giving back to them. When the time came to name a Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) he specifically looked to fill the position with someone with expertise in community colleges.
As a former community college president, I was thrilled to accept this position. I am honored to have been named Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges and delighted to have the opportunity to promote and support community colleges at the national level.
I would like to take a few minutes to talk about who I am – and about my new role at the Department of Education - and my goals for community colleges over the next two years.
I served as President of Frederick Community College (FCC) for 7 years. During my tenure, I led a campus-wide effort to create a new college vision and sense of direction. As we structured our college around our vision to be a premier learning college, we shut down silos and organized around learning and learning support with additional support from administrative services. I also started an Executive Leadership Development Program. I am proud to say that while I served as president, our student body increased by 20 percent. But more importantly, our retention and transfer rates increased and our employer group indicated our programs were meeting their needs.
I was also a board member of the National Council for Workforce Education (NCWE) as well as a member of the Board of Directors for the American Association of Community Colleges and president of the Maryland Council of Community College CEOs, which led to me serving on the executive board of the Maryland Association of State Community Colleges.
I have consulted worldwide. America's community colleges are global models for economic development. I have been to many countries to talk about our community colleges and worked specifically in Kuwait and Thailand to help those countries develop community college-type programs of their own.
In my spare time, I used to like to cook!
My passion in life is that of lifelong learning, economic development and the promotion of community colleges, not just as a means of postsecondary education for those who are disadvantaged academically and economically, but also as a means of continuing education for everybody
One of my immediate priorities in my role as Deputy Assistant Secretary is to reach out and touch as many high school guidance counselors as I possibly can to ask them to add "attending a community college for the first two years" as a viable postsecondary option for all.
It is just one small part of a strategic plan that our office is developing for serving community colleges.
Our mission will be to serve as the federal hub for the information and leadership required to improve accessibility, affordability, accountability, and quality in community college education.
Our focus will be on collaboration and partnership with key constituency groups. We will also lead an effective communication effort to foster public support of community colleges.
It is an ambitious plan that I look forward to implementing
As we all know, many of our high school students are not prepared academically to do college-level work. According to recent estimates, we spend approximately $1.4 billion every year on developmental education. Our K-12 students must be better prepared.
With No Child Left Behind, we are making progress toward our goal of every child being proficient in reading and doing math at grade level by 2014. Reauthorization of this legislation is the highest priority of the President and the Secretary of Education.
As a part of his plan to increase academic rigor in high schools, President Bush has called for an increase in Advanced Placement courses. Encouraging more students to participate in dual enrollment courses is also a major component of the plan.
I would like to commend you on the work you are doing to this end. It is my understanding that the Houston Community College System alone has over 5,000 dual credit students in its service area.
I would also like to tell you about a few of the Department's many programs and initiatives that are already in place to support the work of community colleges.
Through the State Scholars Initiative, a program administered by the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, business leaders start early with middle school students to discuss the economic importance of taking a rigorous and relevant set of courses while in high school. We saw the benefits of this program, firsthand, in Frederick. We actually had to move staff from teaching Developmental English, to teaching English 101. I hope they can soon record the same successful results in math.
We also administer, in cooperation with the League for Innovation in the Community College, the College and Career Transitions Initiative (CCTI). The initiative is designed to develop career pathway models that help ease the transition from secondary to postsecondary education as well as to careers. One of the important outcomes we are seeking is the sharing of promising practices around secondary and postsecondary collaboration.
With the average age of a community college student being 29 years old, we are working to assist you as you serve the adult population as well. We understand the need to address the issues of a growing immigrant population, literacy, and workforce displacement. We administer several programs, such as Moving Beyond the GED: Low-Skilled Adult Transition to Occupational Pathways at Community Colleges, Career Pathways in Adult Basic Education, and Strategic Partnerships for a Competitive Workforce, a partnership between our office and the Employment and Training Administration at the U.S. Department of Labor that focuses on strategies for establishing and nourishing partnerships to support career pathways.
Earlier I mentioned the Secretary's Commission on the Future of Higher Education. In response to its report "A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of Higher Education," Secretary Spellings has called for an action plan to improve accessibility, affordability, and accountability in higher education. Because community colleges serve many disadvantaged students, I would like specifically to highlight the Secretary's proposals to improve the financial aid system.
Secretary Spellings has called for an increase in funds for need-based aid through the federal financial aid system (FSA). She has proposed to commission an independent management review of FSA and has recommended a partnership with states to use existing income and tax data to help students complete the free application for federal student aid in half the time. By streamlining the process, it is the Secretary's hope to make it easier for more students and families to pay for college.
I will be discussing the Secretary's plan as well as OVAE's initiatives and more in further detail during my session.
Again, many thanks for inviting me to join you today and the opportunity to share with you some of my thoughts about the value of community colleges and how that can be translated into action supported at the Federal level. I look forward to accomplishing a lot over the next two years. I know we may not meet all of your needs, but we'll stand on our tiptoes trying!
All the best to all of you and congratulations on jobs incredibly well done!


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The "End Of Watch" premiere in Los Angeles on Monday was a star-studded event. Anna Kendrick looked lovely in a black and cream-colored gown, while Jake Gyllenhaal opted for a blue suit sans tie.
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Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce ReviewBy Russ Fischer - Posted Feb 25, 2010
Stylized and fictionalized events from China's massive historical novel The Romance of the Three Kingdoms are the basis for hours of hacking and slashing. Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce is ported from the PSP title of the same name, and like that release features four-player online play, aerial combat and more RPG elements than any previous Dynasty Warriors title.
The Pros
- Adds online multiplayer to consoles
- Attempts battle scenarios beyond basic 'run and slash'
- Customize weapons and powers via RPG elements
The Cons
- Offline AI partners more useful than online friends
- Combat can be intensely frustrating
- Small battle areas not as epic and strategic as past maps
The Dynasty Warriors series could typically be summed up with the line that opens Fallout: "War never changes." Sometimes, however, it does. When Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce hit the PSP in 2009, it switched up tactics to offer small, contained battle areas and the online multiplayer action for which fans of the series had long clamored. The action worked well enough on the handheld, but does it have enough moxie to be worth a console upgrade?
Hit X. Hit it Again. Then Again!
It's easy to make jokes about Dynasty Warriors, as the series has long lived and died on a few basic concepts. Characters from the epic historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms are caught in eternal battle to unite or destroy feudal China, with every battle won and lost based (more or less) on the mashing of one controller button.
From one perspective, nothing has changed for Strikeforce. Has it got the same characters? Yep! Will you mash one light attack button ad nauseum? Check! Are there are a few other combat techniques, which add superficial color, while really underscoring how repetitive it all is? Absolutely.
But there are some alterations that make Strikeforce a significantly different game. Trouble is, it isn't a more entertaining game. Gone are the massive, wide-open battle plains through which military heroes used to race around like headless chickens. Now you'll move through maps made up of small, interconnected "rooms." There's a lot more stuff in each of those areas than there ever used to be in a DW battlefield. That's a plus. But there are a great many drawbacks, too.
Up in the Air
Often the new stuff requires aerial tactics to defeat. You'll encounter massive, multi-level machines and airborne foes. In theory, launching combat into the air is a great idea, since one of the long-standing criticisms of the series that it just presents the same old fight over and over again.
But one of the other long-standing issues is the camera. Somehow, the Dynasty Warriors camera has never been properly tuned. Strikeforce has a soft, unreliable lock-on targeting system, and while you launch into the air to fight wizard generals that zip about like hummingbirds, the camera will circle and swoop and do pretty much everything but help you keep an eye on the battle. When a few bosses gang up and relentlessly pile on with attacks while you lay prone, it's wildly frustrating.
There was always something oddly satisfying about sweeping through the massive battle plains of previous games, eradicating one pocket of resistance after another. This time, not only are the areas much smaller, but enemies respawn, so there is often no way to clear out many regions. That's one small satisfaction the series offered, eliminated.
Misery Loves Company
Unless you've got friends who are absolute die-hard Dynasty Warriors players, there really is no reason to play with other people online. It works, yes, and with friends who are fanatics for the series you'll at least be in proper company. But playing solo, you can summon up to three other officers to fight by your side, and they can soak up a hell of a lot of damage. Oh, and they can't be killed. That sounds like a bug rather than a feature, but enemies and bosses will be appropriately stronger to compensate for your allies. Still, it's better to play with the extra help than without it.
A smaller addition to Strikeforce is the town hub. In between missions you'll repair to a cozy little village that sports a storehouse, armory, training center and a few other useful structures. At least it starts out cozy; over time you can boost each building using cards. Better buildings provide better gear.
"Wait," you might ask, "why cards?" Good question, but after some missions you'll be able to talk to a new arrival in your town square, and doing so earns you that officer's card. You can place them on buildings to improve them, and when prepping for battle, you can combine cards to earn special tactics. At the very least, players who love gathering items and experimenting with tactical combinations will have plenty to do.
Unfulfilled Ambition
The difference between an epic game and a game with epic ambitions can often be in the details. Strikeforce cuts corners left and right, all of which undermine the details. You can carry two weapons, but each character has a primary weapon model, meaning that you don't see the alternate weapon onscreen, even when you've equipped it. Switch to the second weapon and it won't appear in your hand while roaming around, but it will when you swing. Then there's the numbing repetition of the world. Only a few enemy character models are offered, so you'll slay the same grunt a million times. Many of the visual limitations have to do with the amount of action that will take place onscreen at once. With four allied characters fighting dozens of enemies, there can be a near visual overload.
Although Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce offers some new ideas, such as air combat, online multiplayer, and a town hub that implements an upgrades-via-card system, there are familiar cracks under the façade. The camera is still infuriatingly troublesome, it's rather ugly, in-game AI is more beneficial than playing online with friends, and the enclosed battle areas don't really improve on the sprawling environments you've seen ad nauseum. If you just want stuff, stuff and more stuff on the screen to mindlessly slice through, then pony up for Strikeforce. But if you want a battle game that rewards thinking, strategy and skill more than button-spam attacks and numbing repetition, consider a hasty, tactical retreat.


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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. -Robert A. Heinlein, off-the-wall science-fiction author (1907-1988)
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Hallelujah! The good people of America have not legislated our religious creeds into law. Instead we have enabled people of strange and odd conceptualizations to live amongst us. Yes, we are the best of a motley bunch.
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Via French, from Latin ignominia. Ultimately from the Indo-European root no-men- (name) which also gave us name, anonymous, noun, synonym, eponym, renown, nominate, misnomer, and moniker. Earliest documented use: 1540.
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"Here's a fun exercise for you: find at least one person epitomizing the day's word, every day this week. With some seven billion of us around there can't be any excuse for insufficient data." -- A.G.
adjective: Speaking incessantly or fluently.
Via French, from Latin volvere (to roll). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wel- (to turn or roll), which also gave us waltz, revolve, valley, walk, vault, volume, wallet, and helix. Earliest documented use: 1575.
EVOLUBLE - a quality assigned to any pre-adapted animal that can effect strings of articulated speech. So far homo sapiens sapiens is the only known species to evolve a proper language. These loquacious creatures began talking 75,000 years ago and haven't stopped since.
Edited by jenny jenny (01/13/14 10:05 PM)
Edit Reason: Forgot to transfer VOLIBLE.
#213949 - 01/13/14 04:36 PM Monday's word in brief : VOLUBLE [Re: jenny jenny]
Carpal Tunnel
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Posts: 6943
Loc: Worcester, MA
VOLUBE (pronounced "V.O. Lube") - to break down social inhibitions with Seagrams
#213961 - 01/14/14 11:41 AM Tuesday's word [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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Registered: 08/06/01
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Loc: Worcester, MA
PRONUNCIATION: (in-TRAN-si-jent)
adjective: Unwilling to compromise, especially from an extreme position.
noun: One who refuses to compromise.
(if you like, TRANGENTSI; read "In 'TRANSI', 'GENT'")
INTRANSIENT - a one-night stand (maybe that should be SINTRANSIGENT?)
or, maybe
PINTRANSIGENT - (bowling): that last 7-pin that won't go down in the 10th frame, spoiling a 300-game
#213962 - 01/14/14 12:00 PM Re: Tuesday's word [Re: wofahulicodoc]
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/08
Posts: 8541
Loc: Land of the Flat Water
GINTRANSIGENTrefusing to budge from one's accustomed
drink no matter what is being served by the host.
KINTRANSIGENT Your friends you can choose but your
SINTRANSIGENT Refusing to 'give up that sin' and 'sin no more"....
Edited by LukeJavan8 (01/14/14 12:04 PM)_________________________
----please, draw me a sheep----
#213963 - 01/14/14 12:07 PM Re: Monday's word in brief : VOLUBLE [Re: wofahulicodoc]
Registered: 06/05/10
Posts: 1554
Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi
Tom Chamblee.
Tom Chamblee could talk the ears off a cornfield. His third grade teacher, Miss Hattie Grimes, tied him to a desk with a jump rope and taped his mouth shut with duct tape for the entire year back in 1958. Poor Hattie, She forgot to plug his ears so Tom listened real good and left the third grade thinking he was the smartest kid in Pickins County. Maybe he was. Tom grew up to become a street preacher and the town drunk. It is said that Tom can switch from preaching to cussing in a single breath without anyone knowing which is which.
#213966 - 01/14/14 04:40 PM Re: Tuesday's word INTRANSIGENT [Re: wofahulicodoc]
Registered: 06/05/10
Posts: 1554
Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi
INTRANSIBENT -- red-eye flight from Seattle to Atlanta seated middle isle, middle seat, between a middle lineman with the Seahawks and Oprah Winfrey.
"Both remain intransigent in their respective positions without any real effort to negotiate in a democratic spirit."
#213967 - 01/15/14 02:14 AM Re: Tuesday's word INTRANSIGENT [Re: jenny jenny]
old hand
Registered: 05/10/10
Posts: 954
Loc: Alaska
DINTRANSIGENT refuses to turn down the stereo despite all pleas and threats.
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By Kevin Wilson: Freedom Newspapers
PORTALES — A Roosevelt County Sheriff's deputy was arrested Monday following accusations he took a prisoner out of the Roosevelt County Detention Center and had sex with her.
Gary Adkins faces a second-degree charge of criminal sexual penetration. Ninth Judicial District Attorney Matt Chandler said Adkins could face a maximum sentence of nine years in prison. He was released from the RCDC on Monday afternoon after posting a $20,000.
Attempts to reach Adkins for comment were unsuccessful.
According to court documents, the woman was incarcerated at the RCDC after she violated her probation related to unknown charges. She was taken out of her jail cell about 6 p.m. on July 1 by Adkins, who also arrested her, records show.
She was taken into a room within the Portales Law Enforcement Complex, where Adkins began to kiss her and tried to remove her pants, court documents allege. Adkins then took her back to the RCDC about 7 p.m., according to court documents.
Approximately an hour later, Adkins removed the prisoner from RCDC for a second time and took her from the complex, according to court documents. The prisoner was taken from the complex to an unknown dirt road off U.S. 70, where Adkins had sex with her in the front passenger seat of a patrol car, court records allege.
While returning to the law-enforcement complex, Adkins took the prisoner to a convenience store and bought her cigarettes, a pack of gum, a lighter and a pen; he checked her back into the RCDC about 9:48 p.m. on July 1, records show.
Peter Olson, communications director for the Department of Public Safety, said the matter was reported to jail officials later that night, and evidence was collected. Court documents said a sexual assault kit was used later that night at an emergency room in Clovis and a fluid consistent with semen was collected.
Roosevelt County Sheriff Tom Gossett said when he learned of the allegations against Adkins, he placed the deputy on administrative leave and requested assistance from the New Mexico State Police.
"We do not do our own internal investigation for a simple reason that it's not a good policy," Gossett said. "In most cases, you have to have a substantial (amount of staff to have your own internal affairs)."
Gossett declined to comment on the investigation.
State police were contacted on July 2, Olson said.
A search warrant was executed on the patrol car the deputy was driving, and three pornographic DVDs were discovered under the seat, according to court documents.
Olson said while the alleged sex may have consensual, Adkins faces the criminal charge because his position as a deputy is viewed as a position of authority over the prisoner.
Chandler said all motions and hearings would be handled through the Curry County office of the district in order to eliminate any perception of impropriety.
"Mr. Adkins' case will be handled as any other case (would be)," Chandler said. "Anyone in a position of authority like that … by no means has the right to abuse his powers or his badge."


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The event was a second round of live fire practice for the day on the BPD's firing range off FM Road 673.
Officers had to wipe sweat from their eyes throughout the exercises being led by Robert Leal, a former BPD officer who has been working for years with the Austin Police Department's Special Weapons and Tactics Team.
Leal is the founder of R.L. Tactical, a Round Rock-based company that trains SWAT officers in the fine art of beating bad guys and stopping them from hurting innocent victims.
Leal was in town from Monday through Wednesday of this week lecturing officers in the classroom and putting them through repeated drills, both on the range and in residences in the Capehart Subdivision.
The main focus of this course was hostage rescue. The trainees were learning the fine art of entering a building, taking out bad guys with expertly fired rifles and pistols, and then getting the hostages to safety.
This was one of several visits to Beeville planned by Leal and area law enforcement agencies.
The SWAT expert and experienced sniper for the APD is scheduled to be back in town for other courses before the end of the year.
During this week's course, officers practiced tactics, including how to enter a room and rescue a fallen comrade.
The officers ended their Tuesday afternoon range session with a short-range pistol shooting competition that was won by a team led by BCSO Deputy Cecil Daniels.
The team captain was presented with a special coin issued to SWAT members of the APD.
Gary Kent is a reporter at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 120, or at email@example.com.


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My memory may be failing me but I seem to remember a season when we won the cup and our league attendances were shocking but that was down to lousy play throughout the season. I may be wrong but I thought donny did the double over us that year.
seem to remember us loosing at home to Doncaster in 1967 on bitter night


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Picacho Hills Country Club
Las Cruces. New Mexico
June 21-24, 2004
LAS CRUCES, N.M. â Only three rounds were shot below 70 all week. Richard Lee of Vancouver, British Columbia, had all three.
Lee scorched the 68 player Boys Division in his AJGA debut and cruised to an AJGA record 15-stroke victory at Picacho Hills Country Club in the Nike Golf Junior at Las Cruces. He finished at 13-under-par 203.
Taylore Karle of Scottsdale, Ariz., capped off her first AJGA victory in blowout fashion. Karle recorded the only two sub-par rounds all tournament in the Girls Division and finished at 3-under-par for a 14-stroke victory.
The Nike Golf Junior at Las Cruces is a 54-hole stroke play event conducted by the American Junior Golf Association at Picacho Hills Country Club. The tournament featured 80 of the nationâs premier junior golfers, ages 12-15, from 13 states and Canada.
Coming into the final round with a 7-shot lead, Lee never let up as he entered the turn at 4-under-par and finished with a 6-under-par 66.
âIâm satisfied,â Lee said. âIt feels good to win. I just played it simple and safe. Putting was key. I made a lot of putts.â
Leeâs record margin of victory topped the previous record of 13, set by Jeff Bell at the 2003 Abilene Reporter-News Junior.
Tommy Chung Hao Mou of Bradenton, Fla., finished second at 2-over-par 218. Cody Gribble of Dallas, Texas, placed third at 219 while Jordan Russell of College Station, Texas, and David Lipsky, of La Canada, Calif., tied for fourth.
Karleâs victory ranks ninth on the all-time margin of victory list in the Girls Division. Her final- round 2-under-par 70 was on the mark as she hit 13 of a possible 14 fairways and carded five birdies.
âIt is relieving to win,â Karle said. âI made more putts for birdies today and definitely had fun playing. I was just trying to shoot red numbers.â
Wonjoo Choi of Murrieta, Calif., finished second at 227 and Jenny Kim of Los Angeles, Calif., placed third with a 229.
The American Junior Golf Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the overall growth and development of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf. The largest association of its kind, the AJGA has a junior membership (boys and girls ages 12-18) of approximately 5,000 junior golfers from 50 states and 30 foreign countries.
Titleist, the AJGAâs National Sponsor, has been the catalyst and driving force behind the Associationâs success since 1989. Rolex Watch USA, a supporter of the AJGA since 1983, became the inaugural AJGA Premier Partner in 2004.
AJGA alumni have risen to the top of amateur, collegiate and professional golf. More than 160 former AJGA juniors currently play on the PGA and LPGA Tours and have compiled more than 300 wins. AJGA alumni include Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Davis Love III, Mike Weir, Charles Howell III, Jim Furyk, Vicki Goetze-Ackerman, Grace Park, Cristie Kerr and Beth Bauer.
For more information about the Nike Golf Junior at Las Cruces, please contact the AJGA at (770) 868-4200.
The Foundation
The Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) Grant program provides financial assistance to junior golfers who wish to play in AJGA events. Its goal is to give top-flight golf opportunities to young golfers regardless of financial resources. This program helps to fulfill the AJGA's mission of developing young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf.
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Leadership Links is a new program whereby the AJGA is able to further its mission to help develop young men and women by teaching charitable giving skills and service-oriented practices at an early age. This program gives juniors all the tools necessary to donate their time, talent and resources to local charities and the AJGA youth development programs. Please click here to learn more about the program and the different opportunities available.