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This week Dan Guarino officially joins The Wave newspaper as Assistant Editor and reporter.
A longtime Broad Channel resident, readers may already know Guarino from his "Broad Channel Bits" column. He took over writing the popular feature nearly two years ago with the passing of his wife, Liz Guarino, who wrote the column for more than nine years. His written work and photography have appeared in numerous publications and online.
Guarino is an exhibiting photographer/ artist, whose works have been shown in more than three dozen exhibitions and online venues and he is a performing singer/songwriter/musician with many appearances to his credit.
An occasional actor and spoken word performer with his own CD of original poetry and music, Apples and Apples, within the last two years he has branched out into standup comedy. Most recently he appeared at the Broadway Comedy Club for a Sandy relief benefit.
Guarino is Vice President and a Board Member of the Rockaway Artists Alliance, a member of the Broad Channel Civic Association and the Broad Channel Historical Society Committee.
He is a co-founder and currently coordinates the RAA Writers Group. He organizes their monthly meetings and activities and arranges, produces, performs in and MC's the group's performance events. Presenting a wide range of works written/produced and performed by members, they have successfully appeared at Fort Tilden, the Neponsit Adult Day Health Care Center, The Peninsula Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation, St. Helen's Church and other venues. He also volunteers his time at the PCECR as a strolling musician and has performed at various benefits.
A published author, he and his wife Liz developed, researched and wrote Images of America: Broad Channel, the first book chronicling the lively history of this unique island community. He and Liz presented a series of illustrated book talks and he has spoken on local history and even portrayed former President Theodore Roosevelt in historical presentations.
Professionally, Guarino gained invaluable business experience as a hands-on Manager for Time Warner Cable's customer service New York call-center operations. Starting as a phone representative he worked his way up through various positions over a 19 year career.
Before joining Time Warner he worked for 11 years in the restaurant industry, lastly as an assistant manager.
He's lived and raised a family in the Rockaways for more than 30 years.
Says Guarino, "I deeply love my community of the Rockaways and my 'hometown' of Broad Channel. It's a place I am deeply connected to, and I am proud to know so many great, hard working people here."
"Time and again, they are what makes this place special, what makes it go."
"I'm looking forward to working with The Wave, to making a difference, most especially in this post-Sandy world we find ourselves living in."


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Fading force Essendon may have lost another two key players to soft tissue injuries as their grip on a finals spot continues to loosen.
Forward Stewart Crameri suffered a hamstring injury and was a late withdrawal from the side that was humiliated to the tune of 94 points against Hawthorn on Friday night, while midfielder Brent Stanton also suffered tightness in his left hamstring.
Both will be assessed during the week ahead of the Bombers' trip to Adelaide to face the in-form Crows.
The setbacks bring the number of soft tissue injuries at Essendon to 23 under the fitness regime of new high performance manager Dean Robinson.
The Bombers suffered their third loss by more than 10 goals from their past four matches and slumped to an 11-6 record.
"They seemed to be running better than us, spreading better than us and the way we defended the ground meant even though we were having a few forward entries, as soon as it was going in it was coming out far too quickly," coach James Hird said at his post-match press conference.
"That's been Hawthorn's strength but it was a very poor part of our play today."
Hird admitted the recent heavy losses had dented his team's confidence.
"I can't put my finger on exactly why we performed the way we did today just yet. I thought last week Geelong's pressure beat us and probably got into our heads a bit," he said.
"This week it was a very different story. It will be interesting to look at the tape and see which guys wanted to defend and which guys didn't want to and why it went the way it did."
Meanwhile Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson said Luke Hodge's five-goal comeback from a knee injury was the most pleasing aspect of the percentage-boosting win.
Playing his first AFL game since Round 6, the skipper had 16 possessions and six marks before he was subbed off at three-quarter time.
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Over 50 years watching the Gmen and the 1st half in Carolina was one of the best ever.
Who knows how Carolina compares to the elite teams we have to play? Our next game against the Eagles will say alot.
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- We have our own Killer B's.... Joining Bradshaw are some new weapons for Eli... Brown, Barden, and Bennett,. All pleasant surprises so far, and makes me feel better about our depth moving forward.
- We have 12 - B's on the roster. Nicks, Cruz, and the Killer B's.
- Tynes leg continues to get stronger. 2 seasons ago he was always 3-5 yards short of the goal line and we were all unimpressed. Even though it's 5 yds. closer, he's consistently putting them 5+ yards deep in the end zone.
- The OLine was better than expected. Was it the competition? Or are they finally getting it? Their experience will help. Again, this weeks Eagle game holds an answer.
- Brown is quick to the hole... AB has to do the same.
- Prince was also better than expected. We need him to stay healthy, motivated, and in more Man coverage. He's still a little lost in zone. Hosely looked good. Keep your fingers crossed that our DB's hold their own.
- The DB's and OLine got a bit more aggressive against Carolina. These refs are a lot easier on the holding calls.... we have to take advantage of that... take what they give you... we were outsmarted and outcoached by Dallas in that respect.
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Niagara University is pleased to announce that it has partnered with the Monsignor Martin High School Athletic Association (MMHSAA) to present the Niagara Cup annually to the boys ice hockey champions.
As part of this agreement, Niagara University will host the play-in and semifinal playoff games at the Dwyer Ice Arena on the university's campus in Lewiston, N.Y. The championship game will then be played at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo, N.Y.
"This venture will allow for our boys to be able to showcase their talents at one of the best college facilities in the east," said Brian Kiszewski, executive director of the MMHSAA. "Our teams will play on the same surface that one of the best college hockey programs calls home."
Schedule for the 2013 MMHSAA ice hockey playoffs at Niagara University:
- Play-in Game – Tuesday, Feb. 12, 9:05-11:05 p.m. – Auxiliary Rink
- Semifinal Game #1 – Tuesday, Feb. 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m. – Main Rink
- Semifinal Game #2 – Tuesday, Feb. 12, 8:30-10:30 p.m. – Main Rink
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E!'s 'Fashion Police' went a bit too far on March 3, when they mocked Chris Hemsworth's beautiful wife Elsa Pataky for being pregnant with twins at the Oscars. What?! Is this real life?!
Apparently E!'s Fashion Police did not get the memo that you shouldn't mess with a pregnant lady, especially when Thor is her husband! Nope, Joan Rivers and co-host George Kotsiopoulos actually decided it was a great idea to tease Chris Hemsworth's soon-to-be baby mama, Elsa Pataky, for her serious Oscars baby bump. Weird!
'Fashion Police' Mock Elsa Pataky's Oscar Baby Bump
The Fashion Police coverage of the 86th Annual Academy Awards hit all the usual bases during their March 3 round-up show. However, for some unknown reason, they decided to go for the low-blow and diss Elsa's tummy! Umm, she's seven months pregnant with twins, guys, give her a break!
But no, Joan and her gang just could not leave Elsa and her Ellie Saab gown alone!
"I know why she's huge," Joan said. "I saw her sonogram."
"That doesn't look like a baby bump — looks like a beer belly," George replied snarkily.
Wow! Beer belly?! That is a little harsh, even if — I'm sure — it was said in the spirit of fun. It must be hard enough to be severely pregnant and in the spotlight… you shouldn't have to get teased about it as well.
On the plus side, at least Elsa has Chris' big beautiful arms to comfort her no matter what.
More Baby Bumps At The Oscars
Though Elsa's may have been the biggest (she is having twins after all), there were plenty of other mamas-to-be showing off their baby bumps on Oscar night. Both Kerry Washington and Olivie Wilde rocked the bump, wearing Jason Wu and Valentino respectively.
All Fashion Police jokes aside, all three prego ladies looked absolutely stunning, and a special shout-out to Mrs. Hemsworth, 37, for not being afraid to strut her stuff!
What do you think, HollyMoms? Is it okok to make fun of a baby bump? And which was your favorite of the three pregnant Oscar looks? Let us know in the comments!
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Debris Falls From Roof Of Abandoned, Deteriorating Lawrence Hotel
The Lawrence Hotel, once one of the most notorious welfare hotels in New York City, has long been looked at as a blight on the Beach 116 street landscape, but last week it turned from ugly to dangerous when pieces of the roof began falling on the shopping street.
On Friday afternoon, December 1 at about 4:30 p.m. fire apparatus from the firehouse on the street roared up to the hotel at 164 Beach 116 Street responding to a call that the roof was falling off the building.
Firefighters from the local house quickly closed off the sidewalk in front of the dilapidated building.
Onlookers watched from across the street at a number of shingles flew from the roof in the heavy wind.
A team from the Department of Buildings Emergency Response Team arrived shortly after the fire department and inspected the building's faade and roof.
The next day, the Buildings Department issued a violation to the owner, Vladimir Prokopov for "failure to maintain" the building.
The agency's Emergency Response Team also issued an emergency declaration that the building is a danger to the community and an "emergency shed" or scaffolding will soon be placed around the building.
A spokesperson for the Department of Buildings said that there is a history of complaints involving the building, the latest coming in 2005 for working in the building without a permit.
While the spokesperson said that the ownership of the building is unclear on city records, Prokopov bought the pigeon-plagued property in 2004 with plans to reduce the building to rubble and build a showcase building that was to include stores, a restaurant and four floors of condominiums or offices.
His plan was stymied, however by the fact that the zoning for that particular piece of property restricts it to three stories.
Propokov was unavailable for comment on this story.
From the early 1950's well into the 1980's the hotel was used by the city to house welfare clients awaiting placement in city housing apartments.
The community, angered by the impact of the welfare hotel on its main shopping street, rallied and the hotel was eventually shut down and its clients moved elsewhere in the city.
In 2004, John Lepore, the president of the Chamber of Commerce said of the plans to raze the hotel, "Anything that gets rid of the Lawrence Hotel, which is both a fire and health risk, is alright with me."
The building has only deteriorated further in the past two years, with the second floor faade completely gone and large holes in the roof.
Officials say the emergency shed will protect the public until the condemnation proceedings result in the demolition of the unsafe structure.


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In every trade, companies, much like people, learn by doing and EMC Corporation is no exception. In today's cloud, learning by doing means reaching into the fringes and pushing the envelope and it's obvious to everyone that we're looking at a petabyte scale world.
EMC is perhaps most well known amongst consumers for running Mozy, the online PC backup. Many readers probably know them by their clever commercials with absent-minded students getting their laptops run over by lawn mowers or putting them in the microwave instead of TV dinners. Online backup is a huge industry in a world where bandwidth is wide and storage is cheap; it does a lot for us to be certain that even if we suffer a failure of our local storage, we don't lose all our precious data in the process. As the Internet and the digital generation grows in size, so does its need for bigger and faster storage to accompany the proliferation of digital devices.
Joe Tucci, CEO of EMC, recently spoke with analysts at a closed-door meeting in London at the EMC Megalaunch in January about his experience with big data clouds and specifically about moving information at the petabyte scale (embedded below).
EMC Corporation also owns Isilon, a storage company who recently made news when they sold 12 petabytes of data to Apple—presumably to become part of their iTunes division. As Tucci mentions, Mozy manages over 75 petabytes, casting a shadow over even Amazon's size. EMC intends to backbone the next generation of cloud-storage and virtualization on big data scales but doesn't intend to compete with their providers and clients in the cloud business.
In his talk, he also says that he speaks for John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, when he says that they do not want to compete with their partners and cloud business providers. Similar to EMC, Cisco also builds infrastructure that would be the foundation for big data clouds by providing bandwidth and rapid switching for huge networks. Recently, John Chambers himself telegraphed intent to move further into providing support for deep cloud infrastructures a move that will mirror and enable EMC when more customers need petabyte-scale data management.
As part of his speech, he mentioned that the biggest and most important factor after the storage angle has been pinned down is that petabyte-scale cloud management requires automation.
With over a thousand customers that have storage that exceeds a petabyte, Joe Tucci believes that this foreshadows a future of petabyte-scale cloud developments. A sentiment echoed by EMC Marketing CTO, Chuck Hollis that large scale operations give rise to big data opportunity by solving big crunch problems.
Via running with Mozy, paving the way for petabyte-scale application services, and other ventures EMC is training themselves, and therefore their partners, to survive in that new ecology. Showing that they can not only supply petabytes of data, but manage and automate the underlying structures will put them on the road to the next generation in big data scale out.


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Prosecutors charge 3 in teen's shooting death
DENVER - Prosecutors have charged one adult and two juveniles suspected in the shooting death of a 13-year-old boy who was riding his bike after leaving a party in northeast Denver.
Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey on Wednesday charged 20-year-old Marquise Lewis and two juveniles with first-degree murder in the Aug. 30 death of Reysean Abram.
Authorities say Abram died from a gunshot wound to the chest. He had just left a party where there had been a fight and was a block away when he was shot in the Montbello neighborhood.
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- UPDATED: Residents busy sandbagging as Osoyoos Lake climbs above 914-foot benchmarkPosted 4 days ago
- UPDATED: No surprise in final vote count as Larson's win confirmed; Clark intends to lead minority governmentPosted 5 days ago
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Nk'Mip Cellars Winery has impressive showing at 2014 national wine awards
Osoyoos-based Nk'Mip Cellars Winery continues to prove it is producing some of the very best wines in this country.
Only 18 months after being named the top winery in British Columbia and second-best in all of Canada by Wine Access Magazine and six months after winning 13 awards in the acclaimed Decanteur Magazine World Wine Awards, Nk'Mip Cellars made a spectacular finish at WineAlign's 2014 National Wine Awards bringing in medals for all of the 14 submitted wines.
The winery earned a platinum award for the 2013 Qwam Qwmt Riesling Icewine as well as three gold, five silver and five bronze awards.
Nk'Mip's senior winemaker Randy Picton was thrilled with the continued accolades.
"We're excited to maintain our position in the upper echelon of wineries in this country," said Picton.
It took almost a full decade of hard work by his small team of winemakers employed by Nk'Mip Cellars to produce wines that have gained national and international attention on a regular basis over the past two years, said Picton.
Assistant winemaker Justin Hall and cellar supervisor Aaron Crey have worked with him for more than a decade to help produce the stellar lineup of wines produced, he said.
"We have a great team here," he said. "We know what it takes and what needs to be done to produce quality grapes and quality wines. The key members of this team have been together for more than a decade now and we're a very close-knit group that understands the commitment it takes to produce quality wines."
Having every single one of the 14 entries in this latest competition be recognized is extremely gratifying, said Picton.
The goal of Nk'Mip Cellars for the past several years has been to produce quality wines in all categories and that goal has been achieved, he said.
After being named the top winery in this province and second-best in Canada, Picton said his team is dedicated to continuing to produce world-class wines and hopefully attain the recognition of being named the best winery in Canada in the near future.
"It's definitely within reach," he said. "I would be lying if I didn't say it was a goal to be named the top winery in Canada.
"We believe in what we're doing and what we've accomplished and hope to continue producing quality wines throughout our lineup."
Picton is renowned for his commitment to making every vintage spectacular.
He was extremely pleased to accept this award on behalf of Nk'Mip Cellars.
"With so many exceptional wineries in B.C. it's an honour to receive this recognition. It is very gratifying to see consistency of results across our entire portfolio. This achievement is based on many hardworking, dedicated and passionate people."
As the vineyard manager, Sam Baptiste's careful attention to premium viticulture practices at Inkameep Vineyards, established in 1968, contributes heavily to the success of Nk'Mip Cellars' wines by ensuring each vine is scrutinized and only the best grapes make it into the winery during crush, said Picton.
Nk' Mip Cellars was formed by the Osoyoos Indian Band and has been led by Chief Clarence Louie since 1985.
The awards captured by Nk' Mip Cellars in the WineAlign 2014 National Wine Awards include:
Platinum – Nk'Mip Cellars 2013 Qwam Qwmt Riesling Icewine
Gold – Nk'Mip Cellars 2012 Qwam Qwmt Pinot Noir
Gold – Nk'Mip Cellars 2010 Qwam Qwmt Syrah
Gold – Nk'Mip Cellars 2012 Qwam Qwmt Cabernet Sauvignon
Silver – Nk'Mip Cellars 2013 Winemaker's Pinot Blanc
Silver – Nk'Mip Cellars 2009 Qwam Qwmt Syrah
Silver – Nk'Mip Cellars 2011 Qwam Qwmt Cabernet Sauvignon
Silver – Nk'Mip Cellars 2010 Mer'r'iym
Silver – Nk'Mip Cellars 2012 Qwam Qwmt Chardonnay
Bronze – Nk'Mip Cellars 2012 Winemaker's Pinot Noir
Bronze – Nk'Mip Cellars 2011 Winemaker's Merlot
Bronze – Nk'Mip Cellars 2013 Winemaker's Rose
Bronze – Nk'Mip Cellars 2012 Qwam Qwmt Merlot
Bronze – Nk'Mip Cellars 2012 Winemaker's Talon
The goal of the national competition is to expose Canadian wine drinkers to the best in Canadian wines.
There is no restriction on price, leaving each winery the opportunity to compete with and against the best wines in the country.
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Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby will not play in Wednesday's playoff opener, he told reporters.
#Pens Sidney Crosby said he is not going to play in Game 1 vs. the Islanders.
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Crosby broke his jaw in a game with the Islanders on March 30, when a shot hit him in the face. He has been out since. Crosby returned to practice last week but has yet to be cleared for game action. The Penguins wrapped up the Eastern Conference's top seed without Crosby but surely want him back for as much of the postseason as possible. Crosby was third in the NHL in scoring (15 goals and 41 assists), despite playing in only 36 of 48 games this year.


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i365 launches cloud-based backup and disaster recovery replication service, along with custom APIs to allow integration between its cloud backup and other backup solutions.
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"We think the timing is right," said George Hoenig, i365's vice president of products operations. "The cloud idea is baked enough for customers to give it a shot."
The EVault Offsite Replication service synchronizes the on-premise EVault Plug-n-Play appliance or EVault backup software with servers in an i365 data center. If there are small-scale server or application failures, data can be restored from the local EVault system. If the entire site crashes, data will be restored from the i365 cloud.
Hoenig said the heterogeneous service lets any backup system connect to i365's cloud. He said the new APIs will allow third-party backup systems to hand off objects and handling instructions to the i365 cloud management system, which will use data services such as data deduplication, compression, and encryption before stashing the data in a data center.
"We as a company are becoming much more agnostic to other backup applications or application data," said Terry Cunningham, i365's senior vice president and acting CEO.
Cunningham said requiring customers to rip out legacy backup systems and install i365's EVault system does not work in today's marketplace. "That's a relatively unworkable pitch to a customer when they've got 10 years experience with another backup system," Cunningham said. "We're saying keep your old system, let us show you how you can connect to our cloud and keep those existing backup applications."
Cunningham also said the company targets the midmarket, including small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and enterprise remote and local branch offices. Cunningham said the cloud service is not being offered to consumers.
i365 licenses its on-premise software, and charges monthly for using the cloud-based replication service. If a customer has the on-premise EVault solution, the cloud-based disaster recovery service will be priced "substantially cheaper" Hoenig said, because the infrastructure is already in place.
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UK (rushPRnews) 05/22/13 — Portable Offices react to local authorities announcement that mobile classrooms will provide the solution for the growing number of primary school spaces required around the UK.
In a recent article on the company's official blog, Portable Offices has commented on the announcement that mobile and temporary classrooms will be use to accommodate the growing number of primary school children who cannot be housed in the limited traditional school spaces.
The news follows a Daily Telegraph survey of council plans for the school place crisis. 50 English local authorities took part in the survey, and a third of those who took part confirmed that they were planning emergency measures to cope with the unprecedented surge in pupil number. Primary measures would include additional portable classrooms, in addition to the conversion of redundant public buildings, such as churches or old police stations.
The government will spend around £5billion to provide extra spaces by 2015, while 190,000 additional spaces are expected to be in place by September of this year.
Modular buildings are seen as an ideal solution for schools, since they're cost effective and installed with a minimum of fuss, and the minimum disruption to a site. But despite the fact that these buildings are strictly temporary, they can provide all of the facilities that a traditional build can, including heat, electricity and all of the learning aids and accessories that a school needs.
Adrian Witty, Managing Director of Portable Offices, said: "Modular buildings have come a long way from the outdated pre-fab approach and will provide an excellent standard of accommodation for these pupils.
"Nowadays, portable accommodation or modular buildings offer a turn-key solution to new build needs with fast turnarounds of just six to eight weeks in many cases. We have developed a schools package which includes planning approval, essential amenities and ground works and warm, clean, bright state-of-the-art classrooms for a reasonable outlay."
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The US Masters stunk last year. Not just because Mike Weir beat Len Mattiace in a play-off, although the showdown between a worthy Canadian and a no-name American will not go down as one of the alltime greats.
The smell came from the tonnes of fertiliser used to keep the world's most neatly manicured course in picture-perfect condition. Heavy rain brought the fetid substance to the surface meaning that, with Greg Norman absent, most of the choking came from the spectators gagging on the fumes.
There was also the whiff of controversy. Those not privileged to have precious Masters tickets, which afforded them the privilege of wading through ankle-deep mud with a peg on their nose, could at least attend one of the protests, or counter-protests, prompted by the national women's association, which targeted Augusta National because it is yet to admit a female member.
This might not have been entertaining as watching Phil Mickelson fold on the back nine.
However, as an experience in modern anthropology, watching a disappointingly small group of feminist protesters try to get their message across despite being howled down by a Ku Klux Klansman, an Elvis impersonator, a man holding a "Make my dinner" sign (he later gave his name as "Heywood Jablome" to the local newspaper) and other assorted kooks was equally revealing.
Meanwhile, back on the steaming fairways, a field that had become slightly more inclusive than in yesteryear, because of a broader eligibility criteria that included, among others, black people, fought out a relatively mediocre championship.
The field's progress was not impeded by many of the septuagenarian ex-champions who used to turn up each year with their clubs and walking frames hoping to break 90 before they broke their plastic hip joints. Despite their protestations most have been forced, at the point of a harshly worded memo, to relinquish their lifetime rights to play the Masters and been pensioned off to less exacting honorary duties.
The tournament was played on a course that has been lengthened considerably in recent years - or "Tiger-proofed" as the commentators like to say. Like Royal Melbourne, and nearly each of the game's great masterpieces, even Augusta's famously treacherous greens are no match for modern golf technology.
Of course with poor weather and white sheets de rigeur outside the gates, it was a most unusual Masters. However, for someone making just his second visit to Augusta, you could not help feel something was wrong. That a tournament that trades on its mystique, its aura, was somehow losing it.
The Masters is, after all, a giant bluff just waiting to be called. The course is a lush oasis hidden behind its famous gates from a strip of fast food restaurants, garages and cheap motels that would look unsightly on the Gold Coast. The tournament is run by a rich and exclusionary membership whose former policies on race and current policies on equal opportunity are well out of step with society.
Yet, with its twee ceremonies and understated presentation, the tournament purports to be a throwback to the halcyon days of lilywhite competition. By exploiting the game's innate conservatism, and inviting comparisons to corporately driven events, the Masters distorts its anachronistic values into virtues. It tantalises outsiders with its green jacket of membership while at the same time censoring the media coverage and blackballing anyone with a dissenting view.
So how has it prospered? Partly because even the most cynical are gobsmacked by the course itself, one of the least disappointing sights in sport. They are charmed by the southern manners and the genteel, advertising-free way the tournament is run. But, mostly, it survives because it turns hardened sportsmen into a bunch of Peter Pans. Everything the Masters promises is so good, why wouldn't you want to believe?
This year, Australia's Nick Flanagan will play the Masters for the first time as the US Amateur champion. The Newcastle teenager will stay in the clubhouse loft like the other amateur invitees in accordance with tradition. He will eat breakfast on the balcony with Jack Nicklaus or perhaps Gary Player at the next table. He will hit off with the defending champion Weir and make the white-knuckled journey around Amen Corner.
No doubt the history and beauty of Augusta will overwhelm him. He will make his exit up Magnolia Lane vowing to play his way back into the Masters field as a professional.
That's what continues to make the tournament great even when, from the outside ropes, it can sometimes be on the nose.


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This first one has a young Alfonso Riberio. He played the Michael Jackson allegory on Silver Spoons and taught us to dance with his immortal Breakin' and Poppin'. Later he was the uptight Carlton on Fresh Prince. Here he shows a good example of honesty in the face of an angry opera diva.
This one has no notable stars that I'm aware of, but predicts dire consequences for those who stretch the truth. Apparently once one lies, his brain will ache, his heart rate will increase and he'll wish death upon himself. Don't worry, kids; it gets easier the more you do it.
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Fantasy Impact: Cubs trade Garza to Rangers
The first big deal before the MLB trade deadline - and perhaps the biggest deal of all - happened today when the Cubs traded SP Matt Garza to the Rangers for three prospects: 1B/3B Mike Olt, SP C.J. Edwards and SP Justin Grimm.
Garza steps into a Ranger rotation that will probably include him, Yu Darvish, Derek Holland, Matt Harrison and Colby Lewis when everyone is healthy. Until Lewis and Harrison are ready to return - which could be early August - Martin Perez and Alexi Ogando are likely to hold down their rotation slots (and Nick Tepesch ready to fill in when he comes off the DL). Ogando figures to be the first man to the bullpen when rotation reinforcements arrive.
Garza is a pretty good pitcher, but his strikeout rate is slightly above average, and his career ERA is 3.80. AL-only owners shouldn't expect an ace, but they should spend the bulk of their remaining FAAB budgets on Garza, as he's likely to be the best player entering the league this month. I think any Giancarlo Stanton trade talk is a pipe dream, (but I'm also the guy who kept telling you to draft - and hold - Ryan Braun). Garza owners in mixed leagues shouldn't expect a significant change in his fantasy value.
As for the prospects:
- Olt is a power-hitting third baseman who will turn 25 in August. He strikes out A LOT, but has plenty of power, with 11 homers in 67 minor-league games this year, and 28 homers in 95 Double-A games last season. Olt had some vision problems that seemed to affect him earlier this season, and he's been better lately, but he's hitting just .207. NL-only owners should expect to see him in Chicago soon, but he's more of a so-so keeper league target than anything else.
- Edwards is a 21-year-old A-ball starter with an 8-2 record, 1.83 ERA, 1.03 WHIP and 122 strikeouts in 93 1/3 innings. He wasn't a big name on prospect lists until this season, but he has come on strong. If all goes (very) well, Edwards could arrive in Chicago in late 2014.
- Grimm will be 25 next month. He's nothing special, but he's not as bad as his current 6.37 ERA in 17 starts with the Rangers would suggest. In NL-only leagues, Grimm will be an SP4/SP5 next season.
- Bleed Cubbie Blue offers a quick look here at Olt, Edwards and Grimm.
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USC Heads To Kansas City For NCAA Final Four
Dec. 13, 2010
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2010 NCAA Women's Volleyball Tournament NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship - Kansas City, Mo.
LOS ANGELES -- The USC women's volleyball team (29-4), winners of six national championships (three NCAA titles), travels to the Sprint Center in Kansas City for the 2010 NCAA Women's Volleyball Final Four. USC faces California (29-3) on Thursday (Dec. 16) at 8 p.m. (Central) after the Penn State/Texas semifinal at 6 p.m. The winners of both matches will square off for the national championship on Saturday (Dec. 18) at 7:30 p.m. Central.
USC enters this week with a nine-match winning streak and has won 15 of its last 16 matches. This is USC's sixth Final Four appearance in the last 11 seasons.
NCAA Dayton Regional Recap
In Saturday's regional final against Stanford, freshman outside hitter Falyn Fonoimoana had a season-high 25 kills in the win (20-25, 25-17, 22-25, 26-24, 16-14). USC snapped a seven-match losing streak to Stanford, dating back to the 2007 season as Stanford entered the match with a 10-2 all-time postseason record against USC. USC out-hit Stanford by a .303 to .268 margin and held slight leads for assists, digs and blocks. The match featured 47 tie scores and 17 lead changes, including three lead changes in the deciding set.
Stanford held match point at 14-13 in the fifth set, but Fonoimoana went down the line to tie it. After a Stanford hitting error gave USC match point, Fonoimoana and freshman teammate Alexis Olgard blocked Cassidy Lichtman's attempt for the decisive point.
Fonoimoana, the reigning 2010 Pac-10 Conference Freshman of the Year, was named most valuable player for the Dayton Regional after adding a season-high 14 digs while hitting .271 with four blocks. She finished with 33 kills and 20 digs in two matches during the regional.
Junior All-American Alex Jupiter was a bookend with Fonoimoana, recording 23 kills and 15 digs with two blocks while hitting .290. Junior setter Kendall Bateman posted 64 assists with 15 digs while freshman Sara Shaw posted a season-high 12 digs. Freshman libero Natalie Hagglund added 16 digs. The middle blocker tandem of junior Lauren Williams and Olgard combined for 21 kills with Williams earning 13 kills and five blocks for a .393 clip while Olgard had eight kills and three blocks for a .636 clip (8-1-11).
In the regional semifinal win against Indiana, Bateman had a career-high five kills with 35 assists, 10 digs and three blocks in the victory (25-18, 25-21, 25-20).
Jupiter had a team-high 13 kills for USC to go with nine digs while Williams was second with 10 kills while hitting .444 with a team-high four blocks in the match. Fonoimoana added eight kills with six digs while sophomore opposite Katie Fuller chipped in seven kills against one error (.333). Hagglund had 13 digs for the Trojans.
USC In The Postseason
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On The Road Again
After this weekend's trip to Kansas City (2,720 miles), USC will have traveled approximately 18,022 miles.
The Power of the Pac-10
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Fonoimoana also earned Pac-10 Conference All-Freshman Team honors along with Alexis Olgard and Natalie Hagglund while Sara Shaw received All-Freshman Team honorable mention.
This is the first time that USC has placed three All-Pac-10 players since 2005 and the most players (four) to receive All-Pac-10 and/or honorable mention since 2003 when the Women of Troy had seven players receive such honors.
It's All Academic
Junior Kendall Bateman earned Pac-10 Conference All-Academic honorable mention recognition with a 3.06 GPA in business.
Lock and Reloaded
The class includes five players ranked in the Top 100 nationally by Prep Volleyball, including three players in the top 11 spots and the No. 1 player in the nation (Fonoimoana).
"This class gives us a group of players that will add firepower to our lineup and make immediate contributions," said USC head coach Mick Haley. "These kids can play the game and we will have immense depth on the squad. There are no kids in this class that are `projects' and it's evidenced by what they are doing for their high school and club teams. I think these kids want to compete and win a championship."
Court of Dreams
USC mourned the loss of Lou Galen, who passed away on Nov. 12, 2007, at the age of 82.
Out Of This World
Jupiter has 16 double-doubles this season and 12 in 18 Pac-10 Conference matches. She was named to the 2010 All-Pac-10 Conference Team, the second straight year she received the honor.
In four postseason matches, Jupiter has 75 kills (5.00 kps) while hitting .330 with 35 digs (2.33 dps), nine blocks (0.60 bps) and 83.5 points (5.57 pps). She registered a double-double against No. 3 seed Stanford in the Dayton Regional final with 23 kills and 15 digs while hitting .290 against the Cardinal and earned NCAA Dayton Regional all-tournament team honors. She had 16 kills and hit .464 with four blocks in the first round match against New Mexico and then led with a match-high 23 kills with six digs and a .362 hitting clip in the four-set win in the second round against No. 18 San Diego.
She finished the regular season with 17 kills and 15 digs at No. 9 UCLA on Nov. 26 in a five-set win. She had 20 kills and 12 digs on a .347 night (20-3-49) with an ace and two blocks in a five-set win on Nov. 20 at No. 23 Oregon. She had 34 kills in two win at home against No. 20 Arizona and Arizona State (Nov. 12-13). Against the Wildcats, she had 16 kills while hitting .308 with five blocks (two solo) and followed up with 18 kills while hitting .424 with 12 digs and four blocks (two solo). On Nov. 5 at No. 2 California, Jupiter posted 17 kills, 11 digs and five blocks (two solo) in a four-set win over the Golden Bears.
She was named Sports Imports/AVCA National Player of the Week and Pac-10 Conference Player of the Week for the second time this season on Nov. 1 after she recorded 42 kills in wins at home against Washington State and then-No. 7 Washington. She became the first player in the history of the USC women's volleyball program to earn national player of the week honors twice in a season.
She had 12 kills and seven digs while hitting .318 in the 3-0 sweep of Washington State on Oct. 29 and followed with a spectacular match on the FOX Sports Net Game of the Week against Washington. She had 30 kills (one away from her personal best) in the five-set win over the Huskies with 14 digs and a .414 hitting percentage (30-6-58). After getting only three kills in the first set, she came back with eight kills in the second set and nine kills in the third with no errors for a .607 hitting clip in those two sets. Her effort against Washington moved her into fifth place on USC's all-time list for career points.
She posted 20 kills and 10 digs with three solo blocks on Oct. 22 in a five-set win over No. 16 Oregon while hitting .429 (20-2-42). During the fifth set against the Ducks, she had two kills and two solo blocks. On Oct. 16 at No. 25 Arizona, she had 17 kills, 12 digs, three aces and a key solo block in the fifth set as USC defeated the Wildcats.
She had a season-high 26 kills and 18 digs in a five-set win on Oct. 9 against No. 7 California and 19 kills with 10 digs on Oct. 8 in a four-set loss to top-ranked Stanford. She recorded a team-high 23 kills with 14 digs, two aces and three blocks in a five-set loss on Oct. 1 at No. 10 Washington and followed with 19 kills and a .516 clip (19-3-31) in a 3-0 sweep at Washington State the next evening.
On Sept. 24 against No. 11 UCLA, she registered her 1,000th career kill and became just the 17th player in USC history to accomplish the feat. She posted a team-high 21 kills to go with 12 digs in the four-set win against the Bruins. She had 14 kills and nine digs in a 3-0 sweep on Sept. 17 at Fresno State. On Sept. 10 against Virginia, she had 10 kills and hit .500 (10-2-16) with an ace, five digs and a solo block in the 3-0 sweep.
She became the sixth player in USC history to earn AVCA National Player of the Week honors on Sept. 6 after earning most outstanding player honors at the Hawaiian Airlines Wahine Volleyball Classic in Honolulu (Sept. 3-5). She also was named Pac-10 Conference Player of the Week, the first time she earned that honor. She posted 49 kills (4.45 kps) in three matches against three teams that were receiving votes in the coaches' poll with four aces, 26 digs (2.36 dps), 10 blocks (0.91 bps) and 61.0 points (5.55 pps). She did not have one reception error in 58 attempts on the weekend. Against New Mexico, she had 10 kills, seven digs and three solo blocks in a 3-0 sweep. In another 3-0 sweep, this time against Michigan State, she had 17 kills and six blocks while hitting .483 (17-3-29). In the tournament finale against No. 4 Hawai'i, she had 22 kills and 16 digs in a five-set win over the Rainbow Wahine.
She posted her first double-double of the season on Aug. 28 in a four-set win over Cal State Fullerton with 23 kills and 10 digs against the Titans. She earned Luxe City Center Trojan Invitational all-tournament team honors after posting 29 kills (4.14 kps) with eight aces (1.14 saps), 17 digs (2.43 dps) and 39.0 points (5.57 pps).
She led the Women of Troy in 2009 with 522 kills (4.54 kps) with 33 aces (0.29 saps), 308 digs (2.68 dps), 73 blocks (0.63 bps) and 608.0 points (5.29 pps). She also earned her first All-Pac-10 Conference honor as well as being named AVCA All-Pacific Region. Her 522 kills were the fourth-most in school history, along with her 5.29 points per set average.
She finished seventh in the nation for points per set and 12th for kills per set during her sophomore season and recorded 15 double-doubles. She was third among all Pac-10 Conference players in points and kills and fourth for service aces. She tallied 23 kills in a 3-0 sweep over Oklahoma on Dec. 4, 2009, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. She posted 22 kills and a season-high .514 clip (22-3-37) with 10 digs, four blocks and 24.5 points in a 3-0 sweep on Nov. 20 at No. 18 Oregon.
On Sept. 26 at Arizona State, Jupiter posted career-highs with 31 kills and 20 digs in a four-set win while hitting .433 (31-5-60). She earned Holiday Inn LA City Center Trojan Invitational all-tournament team honors after recording 41 kills, 21 digs and seven blocks (five solo) in three 3-0 sweeps.
During her 2008 freshman season, she registered 350 kills (3.24 kps) with 12 service aces (0.11 saps), 122 digs (1.13 dps), 59 blocks (0.55 bps) and 403.0 points (3.73 pps). She was named to the Pac-10 Conference All-Freshman Team. Jupiter recorded double digit kills in 20 matches and became the third freshman at USC since 1981 to lead the team in kills (Tracy Clark in 1982 and April Ross in 2000).
She had her coming-out party at the Runza/AVCA Showcase against No. 4 Texas and No. 7 Nebraska. Jupiter, who was a 2008 Volleyball Magazine Fab 50 selection, led the Trojans in kills for both matches with 17 against the Longhorns and 12 against the Huskers. She also had 13 digs and four service aces on the weekend.
Take The Bait
With Bateman handling the team's offense, USC is sixth in the nation this season for hitting percentage (.295).
She sent the Trojans to Kansas City with 64 assists and 15 digs in the five-set win against No. 3 seed Stanford on Dec. 11 and had a career-high five kills with 35 assists and 10 digs against Indiana in the regional semifinal. Bateman earned NCAA Dayton Regional all-tournament team honors. In the Trojans' first-round match against New Mexico, she had 42 assists and six digs as USC hit .330, followed by 55 assists in a four-set win against No. 18 San Diego with two kills and five digs as the team hit .338.
She posted 63 assists with seven digs and four blocks on Nov. 26 in a five-set win at No. 9 UCLA. She had 61 assists with 13 digs and three blocks on Nov. 20 in a five-set win at No. 23 Oregon as the Women of Troy hit .360 as a team. Against No. 20 Arizona on Nov. 12, she steered the Trojans to a .365 hitting night in the 3-0 sweep with 34 assists and eight digs. In a four-set win on Nov. 13 against Arizona State, the team hit .348 as she had 49 assists with two kills, 13 digs and two blocks.
She posted a career-high 5.0 points on Nov. 5 against No. 2 California, tying her career bests with three kills and two service aces. In the four-set win against the Golden Bears, she registered 58 assists and eight digs. Against Washington State on Oct. 29, the Women of Troy hit .373 in the three-set sweep with Bateman getting 38 assists. The next day against then-No. 7 Washington, she recorded 57 assists and 12 digs in the five-set win against the Huskies.
She recorded a career-high 71 assists (14.20 aps) in a five-set win on Oct. 22 against No. 16 Oregon and orchestrated an offensive attack that hit .392 against the Ducks. The following night, she had 41 assists in a 3-0 sweep of Oregon State as the Trojans hit .370 for the match.
On Oct. 9 in a five-set win against No. 7 California, she had 64 assists and 12 digs. She had 53 assists and 13 digs in a five-set loss on Oct. 1 at No. 10 Washington and recorded 39 assists in a 3-0 sweep the next night at Washington State. In a four-set win on Sept. 24 against No. 11 UCLA, she had 49 assists and 12 digs.
She was named most outstanding player for the Fresno State Invitational (Sept. 17-18) after recording 102 assists (11.33 aps) in three 3-0 sweeps against Fresno State, Cal State Bakersfield and Sacramento State. She had 17 digs (1.89 dps) and five blocks (0.56 bps). She had 41 assists and nine digs in a 3-0 sweep of Virginia on Sept. 10 at the Galen Center.
She earned all-tournament honors at the Hawaiian Airlines Wahine Volleyball Classic in Honolulu after leading USC to a 3-0 mark with wins over No. 4 Hawai'i, New Mexico and Michigan State. She had 126 assists (11.45 aps), 17 digs (1.55 dps) and 11 blocks (1.00 bps) as she guided the team to a .302 hitting percentage on the weekend. She had a career-high six blocks in the five-set win on Sept. 5 against No. 4 Hawai'i, adding 53 assists and six digs. She posted 41 assists and guided the Women of Troy to a .407 hitting night in a 3-0 sweep of Michigan State.
She registered a then-career high 66 assists and career-high 18 digs on Aug. 28 in a four-set win against Cal State Fullerton to earn Luxe City Center Trojan Invitation most valuable player honors after recording 130 assists (13.00 aps) and 33 digs (3.30 dps) as the Women of Troy won the tournament title.
She earned 2009 Pac-10 Conference honorable mention and Pac-10 Conference All-Academic honorable mention recognition last season after leading the nation with a 12.41 assists per set average. She recorded 227 digs (1.97 dps) and 48 blocks (0.42 bps) on the season and handled an offense that hit .248, ranking 35th in the nation. USC also finished second in the nation for assists per set and kills per set.
She posted 49 assists and 12 digs against Oklahoma in the first round of the 2009 NCAA Tournament at the Galen Center and finished the regular season by registering career highs with 62 assists (15.5 aps) and 15 digs in a four-set win on Nov. 28 against No. 19 Arizona. She earned her first-ever Pac-10 Conference Player of the Week honor on Nov. 23 after recording 80 assists and 10 digs in two 3-0 sweeps. She had 57 assists, seven digs and three block assists against No. 4 Washington on Nov. 13 in a five-set win and then posted 60 assists (15.00 aps) with eight digs in a four-set win against No. 25 Washington State.
Bateman appeared in 24 matches in her freshman season and recorded 117 assists on the season (2.72 aps) with two aces (0.05 saps), 32 digs (0.74 dps) and seven blocks (0.16 bps). She had two assists and one dig in her collegiate debut on Aug. 29 against No. 3 Texas at the Runza/AVCA College Showcase in Omaha, Neb. She recorded 10 assists and two digs on Sept. 5 against Hofstra at the Holiday Inn LA City Center Trojan Invitational. She recorded 10 assists in two sets on Oct. 4 at No. 11 Oregon. At No. 10 UCLA on Nov. 28, she came into the third set and tallied 14 assists, two digs and one block assist. She made her first collegiate start in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Dec. 5 against No. 15 San Diego, recording season-highs in the four-set victory with 25 assists, 10 digs and four blocks. She got the start the next night in the second round against No. 6 Hawai'i and had 16 assists and three digs.
During the summer of 2008, Bateman played for the U.S. Junior National Team, playing at the FIVB World Championship in Mexico. She was a two-time member of the U.S. Girls' National Team, part of the squad that finished 10th at the 2007 FIVB Girls' World Championship in Mexico and a member of the squad that won the 2006 NORCECA championship.
She was a two-time Mizuno/Volleyball Magazine All-American at Mira Costa and led the Mustangs to a perfect 37-0 record and the school's fourth straight state championship in her senior season. She was part of the mythical national championship squads in her junior and senior seasons as named by prepvolleyball.com and named CIF most valuable player in her senior season.
No Harm, No Foul
This season, she has 392 kills (3.38 kps) with 22 aces (0.19 saps), 190 digs (1.64 dps), 59 blocks (0.51 bps) and 458.5 points (3.95 pps). She has recorded 20 kills in a match seven times this season (six of them during Pac-10 Conference play).
She earned NCAA Dayton Regional most valuable player honors after recording 33 kills and 20 digs with her big match coming in the regional final against No. 3 seed Stanford with season highs in kills (25) and digs (14). She opened her first NCAA postseason with 13 kills, six digs and four blocks (two solo) against New Mexico on Dec. 3, followed by a double-double with 15 kills and 12 digs against No. 18 San Diego on Dec. 4.
She tied her previous season high with 23 kills in her final regular season match at No. 9 UCLA with nine digs and four blocks. In the third set against UCLA, she registered seven kills and two solo blocks. She had a team-high 22 kills in a five-set win on Nov. 20 at No. 23 Oregon, hitting .392 (22-2-51) with seven digs and two blocks. On Nov. 13, she registered a season-high 23 kills in a four-set win over Arizona State while hitting .442 (23-4-43) with two aces, five digs and three blocks. In the match, she was a perfect 7-for-7 in the first set alone.
She had 20 kills with a then-season-high 13 kills on Nov. 5 in a four-set win at No. 2 California, hitting .359 and adding two solo blocks. On a televised match against No. 7 Washington on Oct. 30, she registered 21 kills and hit .311 (21-7-45) with two aces, eight digs and two blocks including a key four kills in the fifth set of the victory.
She posted 20 kills and 21.0 points in a four-set loss on Oct. 15 at Arizona State, following up with a double-double in a five-set win on Oct. 16 at No. 25 Arizona (13 kills, 11 digs).
She had 15 kills, eight digs and two solo blocks in a five-set win against No. 7 California on Oct. 9 at the Galen Center. On Oct. 1 at No. 10 Washington, she had 16 kills, nine digs and two solo blocks in a five-set loss. She had 17 kills, hitting .371 (17-4-35) on Sept. 24 in a four-set win against No. 11 UCLA.
She posted her first collegiate double-double on Sept. 18 against Sacramento State with 10 kills and 11 digs in a 3-0 sweep, hitting .381 (10-2-21) with two aces and one block. She hit .800 (8-0-10) on Sept. 17 at Fresno State and for the weekend at the Fresno State Invitational (Sept. 17-18), she led the Trojans with 32 kills and 17 digs.
Fonoimoana was a finalist for the Prep Volleyball National Player of the Year honor and a 2010 Volleyball Magazine Fab 50 selection. She earned 2009 All-CIF Southern Section first team honors and was named Daily Breeze Player of the Year after recording 664 kills and 311 digs on the season with 63 blocks and 34 aces. She was named 2007 National Sophomore of the Year by Prep Volleyball after teaming with current USC setter Kendall Bateman to lead Mira Costa to the CIF-Southern Section I-AA title with 17 kills in the final over Redondo Union.
Her mother, Debbie, played beach volleyball and trained with her sister, Lelei, who swam in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, placing seventh in the 100m Butterfly at 17 years old. Her uncle, Eric, won a gold medal in 2000 in Sydney for beach volleyball and was a longtime standout on the AVP Tour.
Where There's A Will, There's A Way
As of Dec. 13, Williams is sixth in the nation with a .425 hitting percentage.
She posted 13 kills and five blocks on Dec. 11 in the five-set win over No. 3 seed Stanford in the Dayton Regional final after 10 kills and four blocks the previous night against Indiana. Against No. 18 San Diego in an NCAA second-round match, she had 10 kills and hit .562 (10-1-16) with five blocks in the four-set victory. She finished the regular season with 12 kills and seven blocks in a five-set win on Nov. 26 at No. 9 UCLA.
She recorded 26 kills in two matches (Nov. 19 and 20) at Oregon State and No. 23 Oregon while hitting .590 for the weekend with nine blocks. In the five-set win at No. 23 Oregon, she tied her career highs with 19 kills and eight blocks while hitting .533 (19-3-30). The previous night, she hit .778 (7-0-9) in the 3-0 sweep against Oregon State. She had nine kills with six blocks while hitting .615 (9-1-13) on Nov. 12 in a 3-0 sweep of No. 20 Arizona. In a four-set win on Nov. 5 at No. 2 California, she had 11 kills with five blocks while hitting .429 (11-2-21).
She tied her personal best with eight blocks (the fifth time she did so in her career) on Oct. 30 against Washington. She had one of her best matches of the season on Oct. 22 in a five-set win at home against No. 16 Oregon when she had a season-high 17 kills and hit .640 (17-1-25) against the Ducks. On Oct. 16 at No. 25 Arizona, she had 13 kills and no errors while hitting .565 (13-0-23).
Williams registered all-tournament honors at the Fresno State Invitational (Sept. 17-18) after hitting .421 on the weekend with five blocks (1.00 bps).
She earned all-tournament honors at the Hawaiian Airlines Wahine Volleyball Classic in Honolulu after leading USC to a 3-0 mark with wins over No. 4 Hawai'i, New Mexico and Michigan State. She was second on the team with 31 kills (2.82 kps) while hitting .473 with 18 blocks (1.64 bps). She had 12 kills and six blocks while hitting .450 (12-3-20) in a 3-0 sweep of New Mexico and followed that up with 14 kills and six blocks while tying her career high of five assists in the five-set win over No. 4 Hawai'i.
She garnered Luxe City Center Trojan Invitational all-tournament honors after registering 25 kills (3.57 kps) in three matches while hitting .622 (25-2-37).
Last year, she made 30 starts in 31 matches as a sophomore. She finished fourth among Pac-10 Conference players with a .371 hitting percentage and third on the team with 281 kills (2.55 kps). Last season, she recorded 15 assists (0.14 aps), 19 digs (0.17 dps) and 343.5 points (3.12 pps) while leading the team with 105 total blocks (0.95 bps) with 20 solo blocks. She finished the season with double-digit kills in four consecutive matches.
She had a team-high 14 kills and hit .407 (14-3-27) with a career-high eight block assists against No. 3 Hawai'i on Dec. 5, 2009, in the second round of the NCAA Tournament and recorded 10 kills and no errors for a season-high .714 clip (10-0-14) against Oklahoma on Dec. 4 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
She earned her first-ever Pac-10 Conference Player of the Week honor on Nov. 16 after registering 33 kills while hitting .462 with 11 blocks and 41.0 points in wins over No. 4 Washington and No. 25 Washington State. She had 14 kills and eight blocks (four solo) while hitting .364 against Washington. She followed that with a career-high 19 kills against Washington State without a single error for a .559 night (19-0-34).
In her first collegiate season, Williams earned Pac-10 Conference honorable mention recognition and was named to the Pac-10 Conference All-Freshman Team. She had 209 kills (2.11 kps) with a .323 hitting percentage and a team-leading 103 blocks (1.04 bps) with 15 solo blocks and 88 block assists. She recorded 11 blocks (two solo, nine assisted) in her first two collegiate matches at the Runza/AVCA Showcase against No. 4 Texas and No. 7 Nebraska. On Oct. 11, 2008, in a five-set loss to No. 10 Washington, Williams recorded a season-high 16 kills with six block assists while hitting .462 (16-4-26). She hit .550 (12-1-20) on Nov. 21 at No. 2 Stanford and followed it with a .455 match (11-1-22) with four blocks at No. 7 Cal.
She played on the 2008 U.S. Women's A2 National Team and played on the 2007 Junior National Training Team.
Surf's Up
She has 487 digs (3.99 dps) this season for the Women of Troy and was named to the 2010 Pac-10 Conference All-Freshman Team.
During postseason play this season, she registered 13 digs in a three-set win against New Mexico in the first round and 21 digs (5.25 dps) against No. 18 San Diego in the four-set second-round win. She had a team-high 16 digs in the Dayton Regional final win against No. 3 seed Stanford.
She recorded 27 digs in a five-set win on Nov. 26 at No. 9 UCLA. On Nov. 20 at No. 23 Oregon, she had 20 digs in the five-set win against the Ducks. She had 16 digs in a 3-0 sweep on Nov. 12 against No. 20 Arizona. She posted 23 digs on Oct. 30 against No. 7 Washington and had a season-high 28 digs (7.00 dps) in a four-set loss at Arizona State.
On Sept. 24 against No. 11 UCLA, she had 19 digs in the four-set win against the Bruins. She had a season-high 22 digs in a five-set win on Sept. 5 at No. 4 Hawai'i. Her previous high of 21 digs came on August 28 against Cal State Fullerton (4 sets).
She earned 2009-10 Under Armour All-America first team honors and played for the La Costa Canyon High squad that won the San Diego Section Division I championship in four sets. Hagglund played for the 2009 U.S. Under-19 Beach Volleyball squad as part of the No. 2 team and was part of the youngest team ever to qualify for the main draw of the AVP Manhattan Beach Open (2009). In high school, she was a member of the 2008 La Costa Canyon High squad that was named national champions by Prep Volleyball and Max Preps.
Standing Guard
In the Dayton Regional final against No. 3 Stanford, she hit .636 on eight kills (8-1-11) with three blocks. During the Trojans' second-round match in the NCAA Tournament against No. 18 San Diego, she missed her season-highs by one for kills with 11 and blocks with eight against the No. 18 Toreros.
She had a season-high nine blocks to go with eight kills in a five-set win on Nov. 26 at No. 9 UCLA. In two wins at Oregon State and No. 23 Oregon (Nov. 19-20), she had 14 kills combined and hit .583 (8-1-12) against Oregon State with four blocks and .417 (6-1-12) against Oregon.
She had 15 combined kills with no errors for a .625 hitting clip in wins against Washington State and No. 7 Washington (Oct. 29-30). She had seven kills on 10 swings (.700) with two digs and two blocks against WSU and eight kills on 14 swings (.571) with three blocks (two solo) against Washington.
On Oct. 22 against No. 16 Oregon, she had 10 kills and six blocks and followed it up the next night with eight kills and a .636 night (8-1-11) in a 3-0 sweep of Oregon State. She had 10 kills and no errors with three solo blocks on Oct. 16 in a five-set win at No. 25 Arizona.
She posted season highs for kills in successive nights on Oct. 8 and 9. Against No. 1 Stanford on Oct. 8, she had nine kills with no errors and three blocks for a .450 night and recorded 12 kills in a .500 night with two blocks against No. 7 California. Her block, along with teammate Alex Jupiter, while USC was down 14-12 in the fifth set against the Golden Bears sparked a 5-1 run as the Women of Troy pulled out the victory. She was third on the team with 26.0 points during the Fresno State Invitational (Sept. 17-18) with 16 kills and a team-high five service aces.
She was rated as the No. 5 recruit in the nation by Prep Volleyball and played for the 2009 U.S. Women's Junior National Team while being an alternate for the 2008 squad. She was a finalist for the Prep Volleyball National Player of the Year honor and 2010 Volleyball Magazine Fab 50 selection. At the 2009 FIVB Junior World Championship in Mexico, she finished fourth in blocks among all players and 20th in scoring. She was an integral part of three state championship squads (2006, 2007 and 2009) and was named 2009 Gatorade State Player of the Year as well as 2009 Inland Northwest Junior Female Athlete of the Year.
The Pattern Is Full
Fuller had five kills and six blocks (one off her personal best) on Dec. 4 in the NCAA second-round win against No. 18 San Diego. She had seven kills and a career-high seven blocks on Nov. 26 in a five-set win at No. 9 UCLA. She posted seven kills with no errors in a .467 performance against No. 20 Arizona on Nov. 12, adding four blocks in the 3-0 sweep. She tied for the team high with nine kills in a 3-0 loss to No. 3 Stanford on Nov. 7 and hit .350 (9-2-20) with eight digs. She hit .368 (8-1-19) against Washington State in a three-set sweep on Oct. 29.
On Oct. 22 against No. 16 Oregon, she posted 10 kills and hit .529 (10-1-17) in the match. She had a team-high 11 kills in a 3-0 sweep on Sept. 10 against Virginia, including 10 in the first set alone. She hit .500 on the evening (11-2-18) with an ace and five digs. On Sept. 5 in a five-set win at No. 4 Hawai'i, she posted career highs with 17 kills, six digs, six blocks and 20.5 points while hitting .382. She had eight kills and hit .312 in a 3-0 sweep on Sept. 4 against Michigan State.
She filled in admirably during the Portland and Fresno State matches (Sept. 18-19) as a freshman last season. She led the team with 10 kills against Portland with two digs and one block while hitting .471 (10-2-17) in the 3-0 sweep. The following night against Fresno State, she had five kills with seven digs and two service aces.
That's G
She is second on the team for aces this season.
Urango tied her career high of four aces in a match, registering all four in the first set of the NCAA first-round win against New Mexico. She had a season-high 11 digs on Sept. 24 in a four-set win against No. 11 UCLA.
Urango made seven starts in 30 matches last season, recording 69 kills (0.74 kps), seven assists (0.08 aps), 20 service aces (0.22 saps), 107 digs (1.15 dps) and 93.5 points (1.01 pps). She earned 2009 Pac-10 Conference All-Academic second team honors, posting a 3.69 grade-point-average in communications. Her best match came on Sept. 11 vs. Idaho State, leading the Trojans with a season-high 17 kills while hitting .469 on Sept. 11 against Idaho State at the Wolverine Invitational in Orem, Utah.
She played in every match during her 2008 sophomore season, recording 36 kills (0.35 kps), 11 assists (0.11 aps), 13 aces (0.12 saps), 158 digs (1.52 dps), five blocks (0.05 bps) and 52.0 points (0.50 pps). She had a season-high nine kills and added two aces and two digs against Hartford on Sept. 18 and posted eight kills and a season-high 14 digs on Oct. 3 at Oregon State.
Urango recorded 112 kills (0.90 kps) and 347 digs (2.80 dps) in her freshman season, earning All-Pac-10 Freshman Team honorable mention honors. She finished in a tie for sixth place in the Pac-10 Conference with 40 service aces (0.32 saps) and recorded four aces in a match twice (Sept. 1 vs. Mercer and Sept. 15 vs. Purdue).
She recorded 21 digs on Sept. 7 at Utah in a four-game victory and posted a season-high 31 digs in a five-game win on Sept. 14 at No. 20 Ohio State. On Oct. 11 against Oregon State, she tallied a season-high 10 kills, hitting .304 in the match and adding nine digs. She recorded a season-high 21 kills, taking 47 swings against No. 9 Cal in a 3-2 win on Oct. 26 at the Galen Center. Urango posted her first collegiate double-double on Nov. 2 against No. 9 UCLA with 17 kills and 12 digs in the 3-1 victory.
She was on the 2008 U.S. Beach Volleyball Training Team for the SWATCH FIVB World Championship. She also played two years for the U.S. Youth National Team (2005-06) and also played on the Junior National Team.
The Shawshank Redemption
She recorded a season-high 10 digs on Dec. 11 in the Dayton Regional final against No. 3 seed Stanford with her previous high being 10 digs in a 3-0 sweep on Oct. 23 against Oregon State.
She was rated No. 11 nationally by Prep Volleyball and played for the 2009 U.S. Women's Junior National Team. She also was a finalist for the Prep Volleyball National Player of the Year honor and 2010 Volleyball Magazine Fab 50 selection. Shaw earned 2009-10 Under Armour All-America first team honors after leading Westlake to its third straight Class 5A state final and was named 2009 Gatorade State Player of the Year.
It's Greek To Me
Garrett made 16 starts in 24 matches as a junior last season for the Women of Troy. She recorded 81 kills for a 1.27 kps average and a .288 hitting percentage with 16 assists (0.25 aps), six service aces (0.09 saps), 27 digs (0.42 dps), 45 blocks (0.70 bps) and 112.0 points (1.75 pps). She received 2009 Pac-10 Conference All-Academic honorable mention recognition
She earned all-tournament team honors at the 2009 Wolverine Invitational (Sept. 11-12) at Utah Valley after getting 20 kills and seven blocks while hitting .474. She had nine kills while hitting .500 at Utah Valley (9-1-16) on Sept. 11 with four block assists and had nine kills with four blocks while hitting .571 (9-1-14) on Aug. 29 against North Carolina.
As a sophomore in 2008, Garrett started in all but one match during the season, recording 171 kills (1.71 kps) for a .305 hitting percentage with 19 service aces (0.19 saps), 61 digs (0.61 dps), 90 blocks (0.90 bps) and 241.5 points (2.41 pps). She tied her previous best of nine blocks on Sept. 18 against Hartford with one solo block and eight block assists in the 3-0 victory at the West Point Challenge, also tied a season high with three service aces. In the Pac-10 opener against No. 4 UCLA, she had nine kills and hit .400 (9-1-20) in the five-set win with six digs and five blocks. In a 3-0 sweep of Washington State on Oct. 10, she tied her career high with 13 kills, hitting .476 (13-3-21) in the process. She tied her season and career highs with 13 kills and nine blocks on Dec. 5 in the first round of the 2008 NCAA Tournament against No. 15 San Diego and hit a season-high .478 (13-2-23) against the Toreros in the four-set win.
Garrett received All-Pac-10 Freshman Team honorable mention honors in 2007 after recording 210 kills (1.81 kps) and 118 blocks (1.02 bps) while hitting .262. A 10-kill performance came on Oct. 18 at Washington State where she also registered a season-high nine blocks (one solo, eight assisted).
Burn Notice
This season, she has 38 kills (1.03 kps) while hitting .213 with 38 digs (1.03 dps).
She was the team captain for the Newport Harbor squad that won the 2009 CIF-SS Division 1-AA championship as Burnham earned 2009 All-CIF Southern Section first team honors. She was named most valuable player in the CIF Division I state championship match after posting 12 kills in the 3-0 sweep of Salinas. Burnham was a member of the National Charity League where she completed 50-100 hours of community service a year and created her own neighborhood food drive in her community while she was in high school.
From Serbia With Love
She had a season-high four kills in a 3-0 sweep on Nov. 12 against No. 20 Arizona.
While going to the School of Economy, she also played in the Serbian National Team program on the youth, junior and senior squads. She was a member of the 2008 and 2009 squads that finished fourth at the European Championships and a member of the 2007 squad that finished second at the European Championships. She was the fourth-ranked blocker at the 2007 World Championships in Mexico.
All-Time Great Night
On October 30 against Washington State, the Women of Troy honored Terry Place (1976-77), who was a two-time All-American and two-time Olympian (1980 and 1984). During the September 24 match against UCLA, Dana Smith (1980-83) was honored. She was a three-time first team All-American. She was a member of two national championship squads (1980 and 1981). Her best season came in 1982 when she had 385 kills with 24 aces and 30 digs. Smith is one of only four USC women's volleyball players to earn an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship (1984).
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