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The HTC Field Hockey Club mission is to increase the overall skill level of play for all levels of athletes. We provide top level coaching year-round to players of all ages and abilities. Our Club program is directed by a former United States National Team Member and Division I College Coach, a two-time All-American at The University of Iowa, Debra Brickey. Our assistant coaches are all former and current DI, DII, or DIII college or National Team standouts. We will keep a small coach to player ratio in order to personalize EACH player's development path.
Our top-level staff is made up of coaches who are all passionate about this sport. Our goal is to lead players to reach their field hockey potential, as well as, develop a well-rounded young person with a great sense of self and community.
When I decided to start this club team I was searching for a Club name. I thought about my playing days, my coaching experiences, why I wanted to start a club team, what was important to me, what I would want the team to stand for, and this is what shaped the name HTC.
I have been very lucky and blessed in my life, loving family and friends who have supported me through thick and thin! I have also been very lucky and blessed as an athlete. I have played this great sport at all levels and the game has given me opportunities beyond my wildest dreams. From the beginning I have loved the competition and admiration I have received as a member of a field hockey team. The feeling of accomplishment, of pride, of teamwork, of seeing all your hard work paying off, is a feeling that is one of a kind. I cannot explain for example what it was like to, after years of training, practicing, try-outs, being one of the last player cut from an Olympic Team try-out, to finally hear my name announced as a member of the USA National Team. To know that all the people around me who had supported me in this effort were standing and cheering for me, what a feeling! Another incredible moment was when I finally wore that USA uniform, and stepped into a stadium that had 30,000 screaming fans, to walk with my teammates behind the American flag, and stand there and look out and see people I did not even know, CHEER for me! It was and will forever be a moment and feeling I will never forget!
The next stage in my life was switching roles and becoming the coach or mentor. This was quite a different feeling for me and one that took a little bit of time to get used to. I had to move from receiving the cheers to providing that for my players. I will admit to you that is was and is a more satisfying feeling. To watch a player finally get a skill or take their game to the next level, to see that light bulb go on in their head, to see that smile on their face, to see their teammates cheer for them, to see the team come together after struggle after struggle, and get that their teammates are the key, put individual success aside, and put others first, is magical! I became the cheerer and gained such understanding of team, support, and what it means to belong to a group of individuals that morphs into a TEAM. Now to my surprise not only was I the cheerer for my players, but now I was being cheered for different reasons , for helping and guiding others, it was and is an awesome feeling!
So this is what I want to create for you. I want you to experience this feeling, no matter what level you participate in, Middle School, High School, College, or beyond, I want to help you accomplish these incredible moments. I want to cheer for you, I want your parents and friends to cheer for you, I want you to feel that pride through hard work and dedication, to finally walk out with your teammates on any field or stadium and feel the satisfaction of accomplishment! Along with these goals, I want to instill in all of you the joy and satisfaction of seeing others succeed around you, helping others who may not be as fortunate as you, encouraging younger players who are not as skilled as you, showing your teammates positive support at all times, understanding that you not only feel great when people cheer for you but maybe even a greater feeling when you cheer for others! That is our Club's goal, mission, purpose, to experience the exhilaration of others cheering for you and your accomplishments, as well as, you cheering on others, your teammates, your friends, your parents. We will strive to accomplish both of these very unique and important concepts here at HTC Field Hockey Club.
So with this said, HTC stands for:
Deb Brickey – HTC Owner
Deb is the owner of HTC Field Hockey Club, and the Director of 4Goals LLC. HTC was Deb's dream to provide opportunities for players of all levels to compete and reach their field hockey goals. Starting with only 20 athletes, Deb has grown HTC Field Hockey to multiple training sites that provide learning opportunites to student-athletes traveling from 5 states to be a part of the HTC family.
In addition to HTC, Deb is the Director of 4Goals LLC. 4Goals is owned by Marcia Pankratz, the University of Michigan Field Hockey Coach. Deb and Marcia promote the game of field hockey through camps, clinics, and tournaments. 4Goals premier events include; Camps/Clinics for Elementary, Middle School, and High School Athletes, Collegiate Camps that prepare the college athlete for their season, and The 4Goals Cup Tournament that offers $15,000 in prize money!
Deb has over 20 years of field hockey coaching experience as a Head Coach at Northwestern University and Virginia Commonwealth University and as an Assistant Coach at the University of Connecticut and the University of North Carolina.
As a graduate of the University of Iowa, Deb earned her Bachelor's degree in Education and Exercise Science. While a student athlete at Iowa, she was selected a two-time All-American and a three- time All-Big Ten Player. Deb is proud to have represented the United States as a member of the US U-21 Team, US Reserve Team, and the US National Team. Her time in the US program enabled her to compete at the highest level and travel all over the world. It is from this experience that HTC's philosophy was born, through work hard, resiliency, continual support and encourgage from your teammates and family and love of the game, you can create your "Hear The Cheers"moment.
Prior to returning to coaching, Deb was a Senior Manager with FedEx Office in the Connecticut Region.
Resume Highlights
Head Field Hockey Coach
Northwestern University – 1995-1998
Virginia Commonwealth University – 1994
Assistant Field Hockey Coach
University of Connecticut – 1991-1993
University of North Carolina – 1987-1990, 1989 NCAA National Champions
Bentley College – 1986
Representing the USA
1994 Olympic Festival Head Coach – South Team, St. Louis Missouri
1992 – 1998 Futures Head Coach/Director
1986-1990 US Olympic Festival Team
1989 – 1990 USA National Team
1983-1988 USA National Reserve Team
As a Student-Athlete at Iowa University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA – 1982-1985
BS Exercise Science and Physical Education
Two Time All-American – 1984, 1985
Three Time All-Big Ten – 1983, 1984, 1985
All Decade First Team – 1980-1990
Captain – 1984, 1985
Career Assist Leader
HTC Field Hockey Club – 2009-Present
Vice President/Director
4Goals L.L.C. – 2006-Present
Senior Manager
FedEx Office – 1998-2008
Darren Smallhorn – Co-Owner/President
Darren has been a Head Coach with HTC Field Hockey since its inception in 2010. He has coached HTC teams at numerous local, regional, and national club tournaments and showcases, including Regional Club Championships, National Club Championships, Disney Showcases, and the National Festival. At these tournaments he has helped teams achieve numerous victories while promoting a positive learning environment.
In 2012, he was promoted to Assistant Director of HTC. He has been in charge of organizing and managing coaching staff at all the pratice sites and continues to oversee and help implement the curriculum at all sites. Darren also manages and runs HTC Private Lessons and Individual Training sessions. These lessons are designed to give players who are college-bound or currently in college a more focused and specific skill-set to be successful on the collegiate stage.
In 2013, Darren became a Co-Owner and President of HTC Field Hockey Club. He has been crucial in the marketing and growth of the club and has been key in assisting with the college recruitment process. Darren continues to be a positive, up-beat and creative coach. He constantly challenges the other coaching staff and athletes to ask more of themselves, and helps to grow the level of play in all the athletes.
Darren is a certified USFHA Level II Coach and Level II Umpire. He coached in USFHA Futures program for 4 years. He is the Assistant Director and Head Coach of 4Goals LLC where he has helped promote, organize, and coach 4Goals camps, clinics, and tournaments around the nation since 2009. He is also a technical and tactical consultant to many collegiate and high school programs around New England.
Previous to HTC, Darren was one of the Assistant Coaches at the University of Connecticut from 2007-2010 working under Head Coach Nancy Stevens. He was also the Head Coach of the UConn Club Field Hockey Team for seven seasons and won two national titles.
Darren was a member of the Men's Junior National Team, as well as the Men's Senior National Team Training Squad. He was selected as a participant in the High Performance Training Centers and Men's National Championships. His international experience also includes playing for Australian Doncaster's Club 2nd team for three seasons. While in Australia, he was awarded the young player of the league award. He also trained in Argentina at the U21 Tucuman Club.
Darren graduated from the University of Connecticut with a double major of Coaching-Administration and Nursing. He also worked as a Technician at DaVita dialysis in Vernon.
Feel free to contact him if you have any questions about HTC programs.
Mika Black is currently serving as the California Regional Director for the organization. She joined HTC Field Hockey Club as a coach in 2016 and has been working with all levels and age groups. Black grew up in Massachusetts and played at UMass Amherst where she earned honors such as Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week. She also participated in USAFH High Performance and played in the Junior High-Performance Tournament. She also has served as an Assistant Coach at Elms College for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. During her high school playing career, she was selected to Junior National Camp and attended the National Futures Championship, Junior Olympics and Futures Elite programs. Black was a standout at The Williston Northampton School and earned Regional All American and NEPSAC and tournament honors. She is looking forward to helping continue to develop hockey out on the West Coast with HTC.
Emily is in her sixth year of coaching with HTC and is currently serving as the organization's head coach of the Hingham, MA location. She is a graduate of Thayer Academy and Providence College where she played field hockey.
Contact her about HTC opportunities in the South Shore area!
We are excited to announce that Nina Klein will be joining our HTC staff as Goal-keeping Director starting in the 2019-20 Winter season!
Nina Klein enters her second season with the Quinnipiac field hockey program in 2019 after being hired as an assistant coach on May 3, 2018. Klein was elevated to associate head coach in July of 2019 after a successful first season with the program.
During Klein's first season with the program, the Bobcats finished with a 7-10 overall record and the team allowed two goals or fewer in eight games on the season. Following the year, Klein was selected to compete with the United States Field Hockey National Development Squad in the spring. During the summer of 2019, Klein competed at USA Field Hockey's Young Women's National Championship and earned a spot at the USA Field Hockey Women's National Development Team selection camp scheduled for December 2019.
Before coming to Quinnipiac, Klein was a standout goalkeeper for the UConn Huskies throughout her five years in Storrs, guiding the program to three national championships in that span.
Klein won her third national title this past in November 2018 as a fifth-year starting goalkeeper for UConn, earning first-team All-America honors from the National Field Hockey Coaches Association. She had a spectacular effort in a semifinal win over North Carolina, recording a career-high 13 saves in regulation and then making three saves in a 3-0 win in the shootout as the Huskies earned a 2-1 victory to advance to the national championship game.
Klein and the Huskies clinched the national championship with a 2-1 win against Maryland to complete an undefeated season in the cage (23-0), only the sixth perfect season in NCAA Division I field hockey history. She was named to the NCAA All-Tournament team for the second time in her career, and received the UConn Athletics award for top Female Individual Performance of the Year at the 2018 Husky Awards Show.
<img class="sidearm-story-image-align-left" src="https://gobobcats.com/common/controls/image_handler.aspx?thumb_id=13&image_path=/images/2018/5/3/Nina_Playing__Picture_71.jpg" alt="26644" width="300" height="200">In addition to earning All-America honors, Klein was named an NFHCA All-Mideast Region performer for the third consecutive year and was an All-BIG EAST selection for the third year in a row. A human development and family studies major, she was also named the 2017 Zag Field Hockey / NFHCA Division I National Scholar Athlete for having the highest grade-point average of any player named to the NFHCA All-America team.
Statistically, Klein led the NCAA with a 0.68 goals-against average, the second time in her career that she led the nation in that category, while her 87 career wins and 37 career shutouts are both UConn records. She played in every possible game in her four years after her redshirt season in 2013 and compiled a career record of 87-5.
As a redshirt freshman in 2014, Klein was named to the NCAA All-Tournament team after recording back-to-back shutouts in 1-0 wins over Albany and Syracuse in the national semifinals and finals to give the Huskies their second straight national title. As a sophomore in 2015, Klein led the nation in goals-against average at 0.62, the first of two times she led the nation in that category, while helping UConn to a 22-1 record.
Prior to attending Connecticut, Klein was a four-year starter for at Brandywine Heights High School in Pennsylvania. She was a Pennsylvania Field Hockey Coaches Association All-State selection in 2011 and 2012, and a second-team NFHCA All-America selection as a senior.
Klein also has significant playing experience in the United States national team program. In January 2018, she was one of a select group of 340 collegiate athletes who participated in the United States National Field Hockey Team trials in Pennsylvania. While in high school, she competed with the U17 Junior National Team in 2012, while her U19 Teams earned the gold in 2011 and 2012 at the USA Field Hockey National Festival.
Ponciano enters her eighth season coaching with HTC, and is currently serving as the organization's Recruiting Administrator. Ponciano is currently the head field hockey coach at Killingly High School and has playing experience at Killingly High School where she was an All-State and All-Conference player. She then went on to play at Eastern Connecticut State University. A 2012 graduate of ECSU, Ponciano served as the team captain in her final season.
Anika is has coached with HTC since 2013 and in fall 2019 accepted the position of HTC Massachusetts Regional Director, heading up the Western Mass sites. Currently she is the head coach at Elms College, and in her first year she led the Blazers to the top of the conference rankings. She has in her third season and continues to raise the level of play each year. Prior to Elms, she as the assistant field hockey coach at Connecticut College for two years.
Anika graduated from Smith College with a Bachelors in Psychology and Minor in Exercise and Sport Sciences. She was a highly versatile player for the Pioneers, capable of leading offensive, defensive, and midfield lines at any given point. She recorded 5 goals, 18 assists, and 1 defensive save in her career at Smith while captaining the team her senior year. In addition, Anika has played internationally in four countries outside the United States, including a six month stay in Australia where she was an influential player for the University of Melbourne Hockey Club. Following Smith, Anika coached at Mount Anthony Union High School for four years, helping lead them to four Vermont State semifinal appearances. She also assisted at Westfield State for two years during their spring season. Before moving to Connecticut, Anika founded Evolution Field Hockey Club. While primarily focusing on youth development, she also created opportunities for adults to play after graduation and developed a young-coaches program to mentor high school athletes who were interested in coaching.
Contact Anika about HTC opportunities in Western Mass.
Kelsey is in her second year of coaching with HTC. Before joining the coaching staff, she played one year at Salve Regina University, where she earned Second Team All-Conference Honors as freshman. After that, she played on the University of Connecticut's club team in addition to being President and Captain her senior year. Currently, Kelsey is serving as the HTC Youth Director, working to grow the game for our youngest players in the U14, U12, and U10 divisions. Kelsey has coached U14 and U12-only practices, U14 and U12 teams at 4Goals Cup, Summer Bash, a U14 team at NITs, and other HTC events and tournaments. Kelsey is also the Secretary of HTC Youth! a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing field hockey to young players throughout Connecticut and other states. She has coached at clinics and jamborees for this organization and was one of the tournament managers for the jamborees.
Outside of HTC, Kelsey received her Masters of Curriculum and Instruction in 2018 and her Bachelors of Elementary Education in 2017 from the University of Connecticut. She is in her first year of teaching first grade at Momauguin School in East Haven. Kelsey is excited to see the game grow through our youngest players already in the club and having more join the HTC family.
Shannon is in her third year of coaching with HTC, she is also currently serving as the head coach for the Tolland and Canton locations.
Malloy is a 2011 graduate of Bowdoin, rejoined the Polar Bears as assistant coach of field hockey in the summer of 2013, and continues to coach HTC as time allows for it. Malloy returns to Bowdoin after serving as an assistant field hockey and lacrosse coach at Trinity (Conn.) College the last two years while earning her master's degree in Public Policy. At Trinity, she helped coach the Bantam field hockey team to consecutive 11-win seasons. In lacrosse, she assisted in Trinity's back-to-back "Final Four" squads, including the 2012 NCAA Championship team. A decorated athlete as a Polar Bear, Malloy graduated from Bowdoin with a degree in art history in 2011. She was a member of all three of Bowdoin's NCAA Championship teams ('07,'08,'10) and was a co-captain of the 2010 team, earning All-NESCAC and All-New England honors as a defender. She was also an Academic All-NESCAC and NFHCA Academic All-American during her time in Brunswick. Malloy is a native of West Lebanon, N.H. and graduated from Lebanon High School.
Cara is in her first year coaching with HTC, she also serves as the organization's head coach of that Harwinton location. Clarke is a graduate of Cranbrook Kingswood High School and Hartwick College where she played field hockey.
True has been coaching with HTC for one year, and she is currently serving as the head coach at HTC Glastonbury site. She has playing experience from McAuley High School and Saint Anselm College. Bradi is currently coaching at the Loomis Chaffee School.
Kelsi, Shemp, Lykens is in her third year of coaching with HTC. She was named the first-ever head field hockey coach at the University of New Haven in January of 2017. Lykens spearheaded the inaugural season of field hockey at New Haven in the fall of 2017.
Lykens began her coaching career as an assistant coach at her alma mater West Chester State University in Pennsylvania, helping lead the team to a conference championship in 2014. Most recently, she spent the past two seasons at Sacred Heart where she was responsible for recruiting, scheduling, film breakdown, practice preparation, coordinating community service, developing camps and clinics as well as travel planning.
A highly decorated player at West Chester, Lykens earned back-to-back Division II All-America First Team accolades in 2012 and 2013. She was also named the Division II Field Hockey Athlete of the Year following her senior campaign and helped lead the Golden Rams to the National Championship in 2011 and 2012. In addition to her Division II Field Hockey Athlete of the Year accolades, she was also named as the Field Hockey nominee for the Division II Honda Sports Award.
The Mohrsville, Pa. native earned a Bachelor's Degree in professional studies with a minor in health and professional education in May of 2014. Lykens closed out her collegiate career ranked first in Division II history at West Chester with 29 career assists as well as third in career goals (33) and second in career points (95).
Morgan Brozena enters her second season as an HTC coach, and a member of the Field Hockey coaching staff at The University of New Haven; previously coming from a stint as an assistant coach at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio.
With a four-year playing career at Washington and Jefferson College, Brozena accumulated 3,705 minutes in the cage with an impressive 1.53 goals against average. She concluded her career with 219 career saves, second all-time in the Presidents record books. Over her four years, Brozena compiled a 25-20 record with 14 shutouts. She also led the team to three Empire 8 tournament appearances.
Brozena graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and French with a minor in Art History.
A Telford, Pa. native, Brozena recently completed her master's degree in Sport Management with a concentration in Collegiate Athletic Administration from the University of New Haven.
Bianca is in her second year of coaching with HTC, and she is currently attending and playing field hockey at Quinnipiac University, where she is a graduate student majoring in Sports Journalism.
Prior to joining the Bobcats, Strubbe played for AZS Politechnica Poznanska club team in Poland Poland's Junior National Team ('09-'15), Poland's Senior National Team ('15-present). She has earned 26 International Caps, she has won the Polish Championship six times. She has also won 1st place at the Hockey World League, 2nd place at the Hockey World League, and was the Top Scorer Euro Hockey Club Challenge.
Mia has been coaching with HTC for six years. Olsen is currently in her second season as the assistant coach of the Westfield State University field hockey team.
A three-year starter for the Trinity varsity field hockey program, Olsen was named captain her senior year, led her team in assists, was awarded the 'Unsung Hero', and was named to the Zag NFHCA National Academic Squad.
In May of 2017, Olsen graduated with faculty honors from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., where she studied for her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a minor in Women, Gender and Sexuality and was a teaching assistant for Individual and Society.
As a Granby, Conn. native, Olsen has previous coaching experience working with HTC field hockey coach, where she developed and conducted practices for young field hockey players.
Olsen served as the Assistant Director at the Salmon Brook Day Camp where she also worked as a camp counselor since the summer of 2014.
While attending Granby Memorial High School, Olsen was a part of the field hockey and lacrosse varsity programs, earning field hockey all-conference honors in 2011 and 2012, lacrosse all-conference honors from 2011-2013, was named to the field hockey all-state first team in 2012 as well as the lacrosse all-state first team from 2012-2013, and was awarded the outstanding female athlete award in 2012-13.
Kiana is a local to San Diego and attended Canyon Crest Academy during her highschool career and was a member of Rush Field Hockey Club with fellow Goalie Coach Erica Cohen. She then continued on to be a successful student-athlete as a Mechanical Engineer major at Johns Hopkins University from 2012-2016. Kiana started every game as a key defender for the Johns Hopkins Field Hockey Team and is now back in San Diego as the Varsity Field Hockey Coach at Canyon Crest Academy where she led the team to win the 2018 CIF Division I Championship.
Nelle has been coaching with HTC for over ten years. She is also currently coaching at Miss Porter's school where she has recently been inducted into the Connecticut Field Hockey Hall of Fame.
Prior to joining Miss Porter's School, Ms. Andrews, who also teaches English at Porter's, coached field hockey and taught English at Farmington High School for 19 years. During her time at Farmington High School, she was twice voted Coach of the Year by the Connecticut Field Hockey Coaches Association and once by the Connecticut High School Coaches Association. She also served for 10 years as an assistant coach and site director for the USA Field Hockey Futures Program, Connecticut Region, and is an executive board member of HTC Youth!, Inc. and member of the U.S. Field Hockey Association, National Field Hockey Coaches Association, and the Connecticut Coaches Association; and a past member of the CIAC All-State Committee, Connecticut Field Hockey Hall of Fame Committee, and Hartford Courant Coaches Poll for field hockey.
A graduate of Connecticut College, she was a four-year starter for their field hockey team, serving as co-captain in her senior year and earning recognition as a Division III Second Team All-American, North-South Division III All-Star, and team MVP.
Amanda is in her second season of coaching with HTC. She is currently a senior at Southern Connecticut State University where she is majoring in Physical Education and has been playing field hockey for four years. She has received honors such as the most improved player in 2017. Prior to SCSU, Oberly was an All-Conference, All-Area and All-Region selection at Warren Hills Regional High School NJ. She helped the team to win two division titles and two sectional championships, along with a group state championship.
Kealy has been coaching with HTC for a year. She has collegiate coaching and playing experience. Chipman is in her first season as an assistant coach with the Western New England University field hockey program in 2018.
Chipman played collegiately at Castleton State College from 2009-12, earning NFHCA second-team All-America honors her senior season. Chipman finished her career as the Spartans all-time leader in points (166), goals (70) and assists (26). During the 2012 campaign, she set program single-season records for points (68), goals (27) and assists (14). Chipman also earned NAC First Team All-Conference Honors while leading Castleton to a Conference Championship and a trip to the NCAA Tournament.
A native of Bellows Falls, Vt., Chipman received her Bachelor's Degree in Sports Administration from Castleton and went on to earn her Master's of Education with a concentration in Instructional Technology while serving as a graduate assistant at Wilkes University.
Erica joins HTC for her first year of coaching with the organization. She played at Branford High School (2012) and has playing experience with the USA Futures program, Tsunami Field Hockey Club. After high school, McLean went on to be a very successful midfielder at American International College (2016).
During her High School Career she was selected to the CIAC All-State Field Hockey team three times, All SCC Field Hockey three times, New Haven Register All-Area High School Field Hockey Team two times, and was selected to the high school field hockey senior all-star game. She recorded a school-record 26 assists in 2010 and had a school-record 56 assists during her high school career. She also had 31 career goals in high school. She was selected to the National Field Hockey Futures Championship in 2009 and 2011.
During her college career, she was selected to the Northeast-10 All-Conference team three times, she started in 70/72 games played during her career. She was selected to compete in the DII field hockey senior all-star game at Bloomsburg University in PA. In 2015 she was chosen as the captain at AIC. She finished her career with 15 goals and 16 assists, including 4 game-winning goals. Erica still currently sits in the top 10 for school records for points, points per game, goals, game-winning goals and assists.
Hannah has been coaching with HTC for a year. She is currently playing field hockey at Brown University. Before Brown, Depee competed in field hockey, lacrosse, and tennis at Avon High School where she was a two-year captain and four-year starter on the field hockey team. She was named First Team All-State, All-Conference, All-Courant First Team, All-State Academic and NFHCA National Academic Squad in 2015 and 2016. She was selected as a Scholar Athlete 2013-2016, and for the National Futures Championship in 2014 and 2015. She was a National Futures Championship Alternate 2012, 2013 and 2016.
Hannah has coached with HTC for three years. She is currently playing at Brown University. Before Brown, she attended The Hotchkiss School and Daniel Hand High School. She helped her team win the 2014 Class M State Championship. She was named Connecticut High School Coaches Association Field Hockey Player of the Year and Southern Connecticut Conference Player of the Year in 2014. She was named NFHCA Regional All-American and NFHCA Academic All-American in 2014 and 2015 and selected to the 2015 NEPSAC All-Tournament Team Class A. She earned State Championship Player of the Game (Class M) in 2014 and was chosen as the New Haven Register All-Area MVP and All Hartford Courant First Team in 2014. Hannah was selected CFHCA First Team All-State, Southern Connecticut Conference First Team and New Haven Register All-Area First Team in 2013 and 2014. Leckey was picked for the 2012 Southern Connecticut Conference Second Team, she played in the CHSCA Senior/Junior All-Star Game.
Guglielmo has been coaching with HTC for three years. In high school, she played at Saint Mary's Academy in Colorado where they won the school's first championship in 2008. She then went on to play for Providence College where she was a forward and studies finance. At Providence, she acquired multiple Big East Offensive player of the week honors. She is currently 22nd on the all-time scoring list with 23 goals and 14 assists. She was selected to participate in USA High-Performance for New England.
Courtney is an HTC coach for our San Diego site. Courtney is from Pennsylvania and attended Exeter Senior High School. During her high school career she played for X-Calibur Field Hockey Club and continued her career as a student athlete at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. While at UMass, she participated on the teams that earned two Atlantic 10 Conference Championships and made two NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearances. She has great coaching experience working with club programs on the East Coast. She is also currently the Head Coach at Torrey Pines High.
Berger has been coaching with HTC for three years. She also currently plays field hockey at Trinity College. At Trinity, she was acquired honors such as a NESCAC all 2nd team Selection, NHFCA All regional team selection, Single Season shutout record, and holds the fewest Goals Against Single Season Record for the school.
Brooke has been coaching with HTC for one year. She currently plays for Quinnipiac University, where she was the 2018 high goal scorer (6), she also had the most points (15) in 2016, in 2015 she was named to the North Carolina All-State team, in 2016 she was the North Carolina Field Hockey Association Sophie Steiner Award, recipient.
Lindsay is from Palmyra, Pennsylvania where she played at a successful highschool program at Palmyra Highschool and was an All-State Selection. During her highschool career she also played for Mid State Field Hockey Club and went forward continuing her career as a student athlete at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2010-2014. While at UMass, she earned several honors such as Atlantic 10 All-Rookie Team, Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week and UMass Co-Athlete of the week. She ended her playing career at UMass with 37 points on 16 goals and 5 assists, Atlantic 10 Conference Championship wins and three trips to the NCAA Tournament. She has also served as an Assistant Coach at York College in Pennsylvania and is currently Assistant coaching at Torrey Pines High with HTC Coach Courtney Spleen who is the Head Coach of the TPHS team.
Jess has been the head field hockey coach at Westfield State University for five seasons. Bergen has coached 20 NFHCA Academic All-Americans and 5 Little East Conference All-Stars. A Level II USA Field Hockey accredited coach, Bergen has been actively involved in the Futures field hockey program as well.Prior to coaching at Westfield, Bergen spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Springfield College where she earned a master of science in exercise science before accepting the varsity field hockey coach position at Southwick-Tolland Regional High School. Bergen spent her undergraduate playing career at Skidmore College where she earned varsity letters for her participation on four nationally ranked teams. During her tenure at Skidmore the program played in four Liberty League Championships and earned two NCAA tournament appearances to the second-round.
Kragen is a current member of University of Michigan Field Hockey team and we are excited to have her part of the HTC family. While at Michigan, she has already been part of teams that have earned a trip the NCAA Final Four and named the 2017 B1G Tournament Champions. She is a local to San Diego and attended Canyon Crest Academy from 2013-2016. While at CCA, she was part of the 2013 Division II CIF Championship team, 2016 Avocado West League Champion, 2014-2016 All League Selection, 2016 All-CIF team.
Zimmerman has been coaching with HTC for one year. She is currently a sophomore on Bryant University where she is apart of the field hockey team. Prior to Bryant she played four years for Newtown High School field hockey where she earned honors such as Earned All-SWC Team, All-State Second team as a senior in high school, awarded All-SWC Colonial Team as a sophomore and junior in high school, and made the All-SWC Academic Team for three consecutive years.
Liza is a native of San Diego and had a successful career at Canyon Crest Academy. While at CCA she earned the CIF San Diego Sportsmanship Award 15', First Team Avocado West League All-League 16', San Diego Union-Tribune All Academic Team 16' and 17' Most Valuable Offensive Player 16', 17' Serra Tournament First-team -17'. She also participated in 17' California Cup U-19 Championship team and Avocado West League Championship 16''.
She is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science.
Kayte Kinsley, who has been coaching with HTC for two years, was named the Pace University head field hockey coach in February of 2016, completed her second season on the sidelines in 2017.
Kinsley was named the Synapse Sports National Field Hockey Coach of the Year after leading the Setters to a program-record 15 wins and the team's first-ever Northeast-10 Championship Tournament berth. Coach Kinsley's team was ranked in the National Field Hockey Coaches Association poll for eight consecutive weeks in 2017, climbing as high as No. 6. Senior goalkeeper Lesly Sanchez Alvarez was named the NE10 Goalkeeper of the Year after ranking second in the nation in save percentage and goals-against average. Sanchez Alvarez and her senior defensive partner Margaret Maclean were both named to the NE10 All-Conference First Team, selected to the NFHCA Division II Senior Game, and appointed Synapse Sports Second Team All-Americans and NFHCA Division II Second Team All-Americans. Junior Paige Predmore was selected to the NE10 All-Conference Second Team, while freshman Lisette de Bruin was named to the conference All-Rookie Team.
In just the program's second varsity season in 2016, Kinsley guided the Setters to a three-win improvement with a record of 9-9. In addition, Kinsley's squad jumped three slots in the NE-10 standings, nabbing conference wins over Southern New Hampshire, Merrimack, Franklin Pierce, St. Michael's, and Southern Connecticut State,sophomore Halley Rose, (second team) and freshman Louisa Wegener (All-Rookie) were each selected to the 2016 Northeast-10 All-Conference Team.
Kinsley came to Pace from Mercy College, where she served as head coach of the field hockey team, as well as the Assistant Athletic Director of Operations.
Kinsley coached the Mavericks since their inception as a varsity program in 2010, helping the team build from the ground up. She led the team to marked improvement from 2010 to 2015. The Pace University field hockey team will benefit from Kinsley's experience as the team heads into its second season as an intercollegiate athletic program.
Kinsley's field hockey teams have also been impressive off the field. In 2012, the Mercy field hockey team earned the NCAA Division II First Place National Academic Team Award, and the team took fifth place in 2014. Her team also received the NCAA East Coast Conference Community Service Award in 2012.
Kinsley has served on the NCAA Division II Field Hockey National and Regional Committees. She was the head coach of the National Field Hockey Futures Program's Hudson Valley Region team from 2011-14, and has run Connecticut Revolution Field Hockey Summer/Winter Clinics since 2012. Kinsley has received Level II + III Coaching Certification by the USA Field Hockey Coaches Association.
Kinsley was promoted to Assistant Athletic Director of Operations in August of 2015. Her responsibilities included game day administration and operations, directing game contracts and coordinating schedules, acting as the athletic department liaison to admissions, and multiple other duties. She also helped write and present the Mercy College Athletic Department Five-Year Strategic Plan.
Kinsley's field hockey roots come from the Hudson Valley. She led Putnam Valley High School to the New York State Championship as a senior in 2005, capping her career as a four-time All-League selection, Section I Honorable Mention and the Section I Sportsmanship Award recipient. She was also a standout on the soccer field for Putnam Valley and went on to play with the women's soccer program at Adelphi University, where she graduated in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in physical education.
Hailing from Belfast, Maine, Ann is currently the assistant field hockey coach at Southern Connecticut State University where she also attended and played. As a student-athlete, Ann was a four-year starter and a three-year captain from 2007-10. She was an All-American and also captured All-ECAC and All-Conference honors and was selected to play in the NFHCA Senior All-Star Game in her final season. Ann currently holds the Owl's single-season assist record and ranks second in career assists and fifth in total points. Ann also excelled academically as a multiple NFHCA All-Academic Team pick and a selected member of the Northeast-10 Conference Field Hockey All-Academic Team. Ann earned a bachelor's degree in Liberal Studies and is currently pursuing a master's degree in Sport Management at SCSU.
Ann also coaches with the USA Futures Program and is a director for Revolution Field Hockey camps and
clinics. She has a Level I coaching certificate through USFHA.
Kloeckener joined the Trinity field hockey program after spending eight years at Sacred Heart University in various capacities. She joined the Pioneer coaching staff in the summer of 2008 as an assistant coach before being named interim head coach for the fall of 2010. After returning to her assistant position, she eventually took over the team full-time in 2012. While at Sacred Heart, she coached 14 All-Northeast Conference (NEC) players as well as five teams that won National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Academic Awards.
Prior to Sacred Heart, Kloeckener played field hockey at Ball State University, where she graduated from, summa cum laude, in 2008 with a bachelor's of science degree in Exercise Science. While there, she was named to the Mid-American Conference (MAC) All-Academic Team as well as the NFHCA Academic Team for each of her four years.
Kloeckener also served as a head coach at a US Futures site for the US Field Hockey Futures Olympic Development Program for four years and has coached at numerous field hockey camps throughout the country. She is a USAFH member with a Level II Coaching Certification and is a Women's Coaches Alliance Academy 2015 graduate.
Annie Lahey finished her sixth full season as the Assumption College field hockey head coach. In 2015 with an impressive 14-6, she lead her team to 2nd place in the conference. Lahey was promoted to a full-time position in the spring of 2013. Lahey posts a 28-42 overall record as head coach of the field hockey team.-During her tenure as head coach, Lahey has enjoyed both individual success, being named Northeast-10 Conference Coach of the Year after the 2012 season, as well as the success of her players on the field. She has guided two players to All-Rookie Team selections (Paige Anderson 2011, Kiley Colucci) and seven players to Northeast-10 All-Conference recognition. Lahey has also guided her players to success not only on the field but to accolades off the field. These honors include the 2014 Francis J. Grimaldi Award (Sadie Oliver), the 2013 Albert S. Banx Memorial Award (Kathy Moffett), and Scholar of Distinction recognition (Abigal Heroth (2013, 2014). Lahey also helped Moffett to lead the nation in defensive saves in 2012.In 2013, Lahey coached the Hounds to a 7-11 mark overall as the team remained in playoff contention entering the final week of the season. The team posted a 4-4 record at home and won three of its final four games, including a shutout win on Senior Day.In 2012, Lahey guided the Hounds to a seven-win turnaround as the team finished 8-10 overall and 5-5 in the Northeast-10. After a 5-5 mark at home, the Hounds finished in a three-way tie for fifth place in the league. At the end of the season, Lahey was honored as the 2012 Northeast-10 Conference Coach of the Year, as voted by her peers. The turnaround was the second-biggest turnaround in NCAA Division II in 2012. During that season the team also held the record for most fan attendance in the nation for Division II Field Hockey.
Lahey came to Assumption from Wachusett Regional High School, where she served as the program's varsity head coach from 2005-2011. In addition, she was the school's softball varsity head coach from 2004-2010, winning the 2010 Central Mass. Sportsmanship Award.
Allie is an HTC alumna who has returned to coach for the club. She played for HTC for four years and now plays defense and is a captain for Southern Connecticut State University. She was head coach for U14 Indoor squad and coached the players at their first National Indoor Tournament appearance.
Erica is a Goalie Coach for HTC San Diego. Erica is a local to San Diego and attended Torrey Pines Highschool. While in highschool, she also was a member of Rush Field Hockey Club and traveled to many local and National Tournaments with them. She then continued on to play at UC Davis from 2012-2016 and had a standout senior season with her team that advanced to the America East Conference quarterfinals.
Anne completed her 16th season as the head field hockey coach at Trinity College, after guiding the Bantams to an outstanding 13-4 record in 2014-15 and collecting both New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) and National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Regional Coach of the Year honors. Parmenter is 146-103 in 16 seasons at Trinity and 244-185-7 in 29 years of coaching field hockey at Connecticut College and with the Bantams. Parmenter, who ranks 19th in wins among active Division III coaches, and 32nd in wins among all-time Division III coaches, has taken Trinity to 10 NESCAC Tournaments and two NCAA Tourneys since 2000. In 2009, Parmenter guided the Bantams to a 13-1 regular season, and an appearance in the NESCAC Finals which Trinity hosted on Robin L. Sheppard Field as the top seed in the conference tournament. Trinity won NCAA contests in both 2008 and 2009, advancing to its fourth NCAA Quarterfinal Round. Parmenter also served as an assistant women's lacrosse coach for 13 seasons and is a physical education instructor in the Trinity athletic department.Prior to her arrival at Trinity, Parmenter was the head field hockey coach at Connecticut College for 14 seasons, compiling six ECAC Division III New England Championship appearances. She was also the head women's lacrosse coach at Conn. College from 1991-2001 with a career record of 107-47, nine ECAC Division III New England Championship appearances, ECAC titles in 1994 and 2000, and an NCAA Division III Championship Tournament appearance in 1996. In addition, Parmenter was assistant athletic director at Conn. College. Parmenter has also been an assistant field hockey, lacrosse, and squash coach at Amherst College and an assistant field hockey coach at the University of Massachusetts and Holy Cross.A native of England, Parmenter graduated from Chelsea College in 1981 with a degree in education. She earned her master's degree from Massachusetts in 1987. She took a year off from assisting the Bantam lacrosse team in 2006 to fulfill a lifelong dream of climbing Mount Everest.
Maureen has been the varsity field hockey coach at Glastonbury High School since 1999.Maureen's Glastonbury teams have been Class L state champions in 2010 and 2014. While at Glastonbury, Maureen has been honored as the "Class L" Field Hockey Coach of the Year three times. In 2007 she was named the Connecticut High School Coaches Association Field Hockey Coach of the Year and in 2014 she was named the Northeast Region Coach of the Year by Max Field Hockey. Maureen is a history teacher and department head at Glastonbury High School. Prior to coaching in Glastonbury, Maureen served as the Assistant Field Hockey Coach at Connecticut College under Anne Parmenter.
Maureen earned a Bachelor's Degree in History and a Master's Degree in Education from the University of Connecticut, where she played field hockey. She was a two time All Big East Academic selection and was a member of the 1992 Big East Tournament Championship team.
Melanie Wojick&nbsp;joins the Connecticut College field hockey staff for her first season under third-year head coach, Christina Needham.
A native of Wall Township, N.J., Wojick was a four-year starter for Eastern Connecticut while appearing in 64 collegiate field hockey matches. Wojick started 59 of the 64 matches, and served as team captain. Wojick played on that attacking forward line and registered a total of 18 goals throughout her time from 2007 to 2010. During her collegiate career, Wojick played internationally for the USA Athletes International field hockey program (July 2010).
Melanie holds a B.S. Degree in Business Administration from Eastern Connecticut State University and currently working towards her Master's Degree from Wesleyan University. She currently resides in Waterford, Conn. with her husband, Chris and two dogs Zoey and Luna.
Tia Pydynkowski was named the head coach of the Bridgewater State University field hockey program in February of 2014. Coach Pydynkowski arrived at Bridgewater State after four years on the coaching staff at Salve Regina University where she served as an assistant coach for three seasons and the interim head coach in the fall of 2013. During her tenure at Salve, the Seahawks improved from a four-win season in 2010 to eight-win campaigns in both 2012 and 2013.
Pydynkowski is a 2010 graduate of Bryant University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications with a minor in Business Administration and Marketing. She competed for four seasons on the Bulldogs' field hockey team from 2006 to 2009 including the transition year of 2008 when the school moved from Division II up to Division I. Tia appeared in 66 games for the Bulldogs and recorded four goals and a pair of assists.
Tia spent time as a field hockey official for the Seacoast United Field Hockey Club from 2003 to 2007, as well as a coach and counselor at the Warriors to Be Summer Camp from 2004 to 2007. She was also an assistant coach at the University of Connecticut Elite Field Hockey Camp in 2008 and 2009.
A resident of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Tia is presently the Director of Customer Service and Marketing for Glynn Electric, Inc. out of Plymouth.
Summer enters her 2nd season as a graduate assistant coach for Trinity's field hockey and women's lacrosse teams in 2016-17. Washburn joined the Bantams after a stellar two-sport playing career at Salisbury University in Maryland. As an undergraduate, she was a two-year captain for the field hockey team and captured an NCAA National Championship in 2012 as a member of the women's lacrosse team.
Washburn was a standout on the field for the Sea Gulls, earning First Team National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) NFHCA All-American honors and collecting the Capital Athletic Conference (CAC) Field Hockey Player of the Year as a senior. She was a three-time All-CAC honoree and also received CAC All-Academic Team recognition.
Washburn already owns a wealth of coaching and leadership experience as well, having worked several clinics and served as both a teaching assistant and a Relay for Life Team Leader. She also coached and supervised 70 eighth graders in an after-school sports program. A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Washburn graduated with a bachelor's degree in exercise science from Salisbury in May of 2015. At Trinity, she is pursuing her master's degree.
Mika Black is currently serving as the California Regional Director for the organization. She joined HTC Field Hockey Club as a coach in 2016 and has been working with all levels and age groups. Black grew up in Massachusetts and played at UMass Amherst where she earned honors such as Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week. She also participated in USAFH High Performance and played in the Junior High-Performance Tournament. She also has served as an Assistant Coach at Elms College for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. During her high school playing career, she was selected to Junior National Camp and attended the National Futures Championship, Junior Olympics and Futures Elite programs. Black was a standout at The Williston Northampton School and earned Regional All American and NEPSAC and tournament honors. She is looking forward to helping continue to develop hockey out on the West Coast with HTC.
Kiana is a local to San Diego and attended Canyon Crest Academy during her highschool career and was a member of Rush Field Hockey Club with fellow Goalie Coach Erica Cohen. She then continued on to be a successful student-athlete as a Mechanical Engineer major at Johns Hopkins University from 2012-2016. Kiana started every game as a key defender for the Johns Hopkins Field Hockey Team and is now back in San Diego as the Varsity Field Hockey Coach at Canyon Crest Academy where she led the team to win the 2018 CIF Division I Championship.
Courtney is an HTC coach for our San Diego site. Courtney is from Pennsylvania and attended Exeter Senior High School. During her high school career she played for X-Calibur Field Hockey Club and continued her career as a student athlete at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. While at UMass, she participated on the teams that earned two Atlantic 10 Conference Championships and made two NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearances. She has great coaching experience working with club programs on the East Coast. She is also currently the Head Coach at Torrey Pines High.
Lindsay is from Palmyra, Pennsylvania where she played at a successful highschool program at Palmyra Highschool and was an All-State Selection. During her highschool career she also played for Mid State Field Hockey Club and went forward continuing her career as a student athlete at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2010-2014. While at UMass, she earned several honors such as Atlantic 10 All-Rookie Team, Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week and UMass Co-Athlete of the week. She ended her playing career at UMass with 37 points on 16 goals and 5 assists, Atlantic 10 Conference Championship wins and three trips to the NCAA Tournament. She has also served as an Assistant Coach at York College in Pennsylvania and is currently Assistant coaching at Torrey Pines High with HTC Coach Courtney Spleen who is the Head Coach of the TPHS team.
Kragen is a current member of University of Michigan Field Hockey team and we are excited to have her part of the HTC family. While at Michigan, she has already been part of teams that have earned a trip the NCAA Final Four and named the 2017 B1G Tournament Champions. She is a local to San Diego and attended Canyon Crest Academy from 2013-2016. While at CCA, she was part of the 2013 Division II CIF Championship team, 2016 Avocado West League Champion, 2014-2016 All League Selection, 2016 All-CIF team.
Liza is a native of San Diego and had a successful career at Canyon Crest Academy. While at CCA she earned the CIF San Diego Sportsmanship Award 15', First Team Avocado West League All-League 16', San Diego Union-Tribune All Academic Team 16' and 17' Most Valuable Offensive Player 16', 17' Serra Tournament First-team -17'. She also participated in 17' California Cup U-19 Championship team and Avocado West League Championship 16''.
She is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science.
Erica is a Goalie Coach for HTC San Diego. Erica is a local to San Diego and attended Torrey Pines Highschool. While in highschool, she also was a member of Rush Field Hockey Club and traveled to many local and National Tournaments with them. She then continued on to play at UC Davis from 2012-2016 and had a standout senior season with her team that advanced to the America East Conference quarterfinals.
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Fantastic, that's how I can call this day!
Finnish spring is in town; the ice is everywhere melting away what doesn't give the most beautiful sight (everywhere melting brown ice) but the sun is shining and it is not cold! "Ilma on kaunis" (the weather is beautiful) as they would say in Finland. With a lot of joy I walked home, eat one bread before I left my home again to go to Prisma (the shoppingmal in Forssa).
I had to buy three things and would look out if I could find some people to pray for. At the start it didn't really work very well cause the first 5 people didn't have any pain and one of the youngsters was even "aggressively" making clear that I had to go away. It doesn't scare me but it can have an effect on my motivation. I pray for them that they would get to hear more about Jesus before it's too late cause without Jesus were all facing an extremely frightening judgement day! For many people it will be the most horrific day of their lives, and that's what I really would try to prevent cause no one has to go there. That place is made as a place for punishment for the devil and his angels, but we have a God of justice and everyone who didn't accept the sacrifice of the son of God will go to that horrific eternal place of punishment. I am so glad that I can go around and tell people the GOOD NEWS that no one has to go to that place! We even can show the truth by performing miracles in Jesus name! Hallelujah!! God is good!
So after 5 or more rejections I did some shopping and suddenly I could hear my name: "Hey Tim! I looked up and there stood a woman with her daughter (I guess she was 35y old). They seemed to know me so I friendly said hi back and asked them from where they knew me." We have seen you in the church, (Saalem pentecostal church of Forssa)". We talked a bit and before we went our ways I asked them if someone of them had some pain. The daughter said she did felt pain in her arm. I could pray for her and I asked her if I could lay my hands on her, she agreed. I asked how much the pain level was and she said 7. "Oh, that's much", I said. I prayed 6 times or something like that for her arm and all pain went away! Glory hallelujah! When I asked if I could take a picture of her she was ok with it but only a pic. with her arm who got healed, not her face.
I got Holy Spirit power in me. Also when I was living in Belgium and I spoke to people about God on trains or busses, it often felt that the Holy Spirit was really on me. After a conversation with someone, I mostly had another efficient conversation were I could share about Jesus. Nowadays, when people are healed, it feels a bit the same. It's always good to continue, when one person gets healed, because there's more to come! Just press on! 😀
I asked more people and I think the third person I asked had pain. I was surprised but didn't want her to see that so I asked her "Aah, I pray for people with pain because I believe that Jesus can take that pain away". "Yeah, but I don't believe that", she responded (or a bit like that). "That's no problem", I said, "..because I believe and that's enough, can I pray for it?" She agreed. She seemed quite ok with me praying for it because maybe she didn't expect anything to happen. The pain level was 7/10 and after the first prayer it was already reduced to 5. I told her that it mostly goes away with few prayers and if she was ok with me praying for it some more times. She still said very resolutely "yes" but now I could feel that she was a bit puzzled. I was really happy and prayed again and asked with a smile on my face, "and how is it now?" 😀 … she said: "2.. or, no it's gone!" I said, "Really? Waaw!". I could share the gospel with her a bit and showed her the card from the last reformation. I told her that she really should go to the site on the card and check out the video. I believe that the Holy Spirit will lead you closer to him, just don't let it go! Today you have felt that God really wants you to know that he exists." She was very thankful. She was on her way to a meeting, so I let her go because I don't want to give her a bad feeling, when she would come too late at her meeting.
I felt very happy when I left her and thanked God. I bought my last things and was almost on my way home when I saw a older woman sitting in a wheelchair pushed forward by a teenager. I immediately felt that she would have some kind of pain, so why not asking her? I knew somehow that she would be healed. I just hoped that she would let me pray for her. So I went to her and explained my request. She was immediately ok that I would pray for her. Her pain level was 9.5. Even though she let me pray for it, she also said that she didn't believe that something would or could happen: she wouldn't fake it at all. I said again that I believe God could heal her and that's enough. After the first prayer I asked her to check it. "No difference", she said. "Ok, then I pray again", I answered. She said, "… Hmmm, yes, maybe 9". When I prayed again, the woman started to laugh a bit (not in an accusing way, but in a curious way, like she never had heard anyone praying two times or more for the same problem). I prayed again and asked her how it felt now. The woman checked it and said maybe 7. She also said that her leg was starting to feel hot, and my hands were also hot. I told her to feel my hands (which were cold) and said to her that it wasn't me but the Holy Spirit that was healing her. She didn't really say something back. I was happy that there were two people seeing this happen: The teenager who was assisting this woman, and the older lady herself, who was in the wheelchair. I said I would pray again because all pain had to go. I was encouraged by her remark that she felt warmth and I knew that all the pain would finally go away. I think I prayed 10 times for her, in total, but in the end she was totally set free from the pain. I gave them both a TLR-card and we exchanged our phone numbers. I told them that they should really check the movie, which they promised to do. We happily said goodbye.
Just before I wanted to leave the shoppingcenter I saw a "big" guy, kind of gangster-type with black sunglasses on. I feel quite compelled to talk to those kind of people. They can look very "hard and furious" outside, but on the inside there is quite often another kind of a person and that's the one I want to meet. I went to the guy and asked if he had some kind of pain in his eyes, or if he had problems with the light from the sun or another kind of sickness. The guy was a bit surprised and asked why. I explained that I believe that Jesus could take all pain away if he would let someone pray for it. The guy looked at me and said "Come on". He took me a bit by my arm and guided me towards the outside were we could talk without people passing us all the time. I asked the same questions again and he said that he didn't have some pain but I could pray for him. I asked him if I could pray for him now and if he would tell me where I could pray for. He said, "Ooh, for everything', so I prayed that Gods spirit would come on him and I put him in God's hands. He looked very happy and blessed and with a smile we said goodbye. What a Wonderful Day!
It feels that God has turned the power on again! Hallelujaah! I'm ready for MORE TO COME!!!!!!!!!

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Let's go for the good news from last night's Astros game against the Pirates. The Astros broke their streak by scoring three runs, their first time to do so in eight games. Now for the bad news. Brandon Backe gave up four runs and the Astros lost. Again. 4-3.
Here are a few things I learned during the game that amazed me. The Pirates have yet to lose a game this season when leading in the seventh inning. And coming into his last at bat of the game, my man Hunter Pence led the National League in batting with men-in-scoring-position. Unfortunately, Hunter flied out with two men on and two out in the top of the ninth to lose the game.
The Astros are now on their way home, and it's a not a moment too soon as the team went 2-7 on this road trip. Unfortunately, the Astros weren't exactly lighting it up at home as they started the trip having won only four of the last seven home games.
The Astros are now 31-30 for the season, and after having lost eight of their last ten, the team sits in fourth place. However, the Pirates are just a game-and-a-half back of the Astros.
The St. Louis Cardinals are in Houston for a three-game weekend series at MMP. Brian Moehler (2-2, 4.54 ERA) gets the start tonight against Braden Looper (7-4, 5.03 ERA). Shawn Chacon (2-1, 4.41 ERA) goes on Saturday night against Adam Wainwright (5-3, 3.12 ERA). And Wandy Rodriguez (2-1, 2.38 ERA) closes out the series against Kyle Lohse (6-2, 3.87 ERA).
The Astros are catching a bit of a lucky break in that the Cardinals played a double-header yesterday with the second game going into extra innings. Of note would be that, in the first game, Albert Pujols hit the first pinch hit home run of his career to lead the Cardinals to the victory. And in the second game, the Cardinals were down 8-2 in the sixth inning before tying the game in the ninth inning, then taking the lead in the tenth, only to lose on a two-run walk-off home run by Washington's Elijah Dukes – his first homer of the season – making the final score 10-9.
***************** The Astros made a roster move yesterday, sending catcher J.R. Towles down to Round Rock and bringing Humberto Quintero up to the big league club. Quintero, however, will be sitting the bench as Brad Ausmus will now be getting most of the starts at catcher.
***************** I've been reading the comments over at the Chron and on some of the message boards around town, and I know that many of you are unhappy with Michael Bourn, and many of you think some more lineup changes should be made. I'd agree with some of you if you were talking about those moves being the benching of Carlos Lee or Miguel Tejada, because they're the ones in massive slumps.
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Looking at the stats from the start of the last Cubs series, from May 19 to now (16 games), Bourn is hitting .271 and has raised his on-base percentage, whereas Carlos Lee is batting an anemic .200 with a severe drop in both on-base percentage and slugging percentage. But Lee looks like a great performer in comparison to Tejada, who in this same time, is hitting .185, has seen his batting average drop 40 points, his on-base percentage drop nearly 40 points, and his slugging percentage drop over 60 points.
So bitch all you want about Bourn, but it's the cattle rancher and the juicer who are really stinking up the ballpark. Maybe if Bourn had a fancy nickname like the Bourn Supremacy, and had a bunch of nut job fans wearing Matt Damon masks out in left field he would get a little respect. Then again, maybe the Astros should see what they can do about getting a shipment of B-12 to Tejada, stat.
I do agree that some lineup changes need to be made, however. So I'd change things up a bit this way. Bourn leads off and plays in center. Mark Loretta bats second and plays short. Hunter Pence bats third and plays in right. Lance Berkman stays at the cleanup spot while starting at first base. Darin Erstad bats fifth and plays left field. Ty Wigginton bats sixth and plays third base. Brad Ausmus bats seventh and catches. Kaz Matsui bats eighth while playing second, and then the pitcher bats ninth.
Sure, the infield defense is a little weaker (but if you've been watching lately, then you've been watching Tejada butcher a lot of plays his way, so maybe it won't hurt too much), but the outfield defense will be immensely improved – who knows, maybe there'll be a few less cheap doubles down the left field line. – John Royal


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CHICAGO – A new study by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) demonstrates how much consumers and payers save when medical procedures shift from an inpatient to an outpatient setting.
The study, "How Consumers Are Saving with the Shift to Outpatient Care," examines four common shoppable* procedures — hysterectomy, lumbar/spine surgery, angioplasty and gallbladder removal — from 2010 to 2014. These four procedures cost Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) companies, their members and employers nationwide an estimated $11 billion in 2014.
KEY FINDINGS: Patients who utilized outpatient procedures saved money in 2014:
$320 on average for lumbar/spine surgeries
$483 for hysterectomies
$924 for gallbladder removals
$1,062 for angioplasties
Total average costs for consumers, payers and employers in 2014 also went down when shifting to the outpatient setting:
$4,505 per hysterectomy
$8,475 per lumbar/spine surgery
$11,262 per gallbladder removal
$17,530 per angioplasty
"Performing procedures in the outpatient setting will continue to provide valuable cost savings," said Maureen Sullivan, chief strategy officer and senior vice president of strategic services for BCBSA. "These savings will be especially important for members when they need surgical care and will help them save money."
This report** also measured the varying shifts from inpatient to outpatient settings for each of the four procedures. Hysterectomy underwent the most dramatic shift during the study period, with the proportion of outpatient procedures increasing from 36 percent to 64 percent, while the proportion of outpatient lumbar / spine surgery grew from 61 percent to 82 percent. Angioplasty's outpatient share increased modestly from 43 percent to 50 percent. Laparoscopic gallbladder removal remained essentially flat at 80 percent, having already shifted to mostly outpatient by 2010.
"For appropriate patients, outpatient surgery has been shown to be safe and effective, achieving similar or better outcomes as inpatient procedures while allowing patients to spend less time in a medical facility, recover faster and incur less pain," Sullivan said.
Spine surgery and angioplasty have been shown to be safe and are associated with similar or better outcomes in the outpatient setting. Additionally, outpatient hysterectomy was found to have fewer 30-day complications, lower risk of perioperative morbidity, less risk of wound complications and other medical complications compared to inpatient, even after adjusting for demographic and operative differences between the two groups***.
This study is the fifth by Blue Cross Blue Shield, The Health of America Report, a collaboration between BCBSA and Blue Health Intelligence, which uses a market-leading claims database to uncover key trends and provide insight into healthcare affordability and access to care.
For more information, visit www.bcbs.com/healthofamerica.
* This report highlights general industry shifts in site of care from 2010 to 2014 for select elective or "shoppable" procedures that could be performed in either inpatient or outpatient settings. Shoppable procedures were selected based on consumer interest in pricing and include planned procedures performed on a non-emergency basis that allow patients time to search for providers and select where and when they would like to receive surgery.
** This analysis is based on four years (2010-2014) of independent BCBS companies' claims data, focusing on people ages 18 through 64. The dataset contains over 43 million BCBS commercially-insured members (excludes Medicare and Medicaid).
*** Liu JT, Briner RP, Friedman JA. Comparison of Inpatient vs. Outpatient Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion: a Retrospective Case Series. BMC Surg. 2009 Mar 5;9:3.
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Investors who think they can be successful stock pickers are about to get some sobering news from new academic research.
The good news: Yes, buying one stock gives you better odds than buying a lottery ticket.
The bad news: Those "better" odds are still much too awful to stake your future on.
For starters, think about Treasurys
Right now, if you buy some individual stocks at random, you mightget some or all of your money back. And you might make a profit. But at least statistically, your odds will be vastly better with those lowly T-Bills.
I recently learned of a new academic study entitled "Do stocks outperform Treasury Bills?" by Hendrik Bessembinder, a finance professor at Arizona State University.
The study evaluated every one-month return of every U.S. common stock traded on the New York and American stock exchanges and the Nasdaq
Read: Warren Buffett's simple investing strategy, explained by big data
That's a lot of data: 25,782 distinct stocks (companies, in other words) and 3,524,849 monthly returns from July 1926 through December 2015. (Note to math nerds: The latter number is much less than you would expect, because nearly half of the total stocks went away in less than seven years.)
In the abstract of his study, Bessembinder summarized some of his key findings:
- The best-performing 4% of listed stocks accounted for the entire lifetime dollar wealth creation of the U.S. stock market since 1926.
- Only 42.1% of all the stock returns (both monthly and for as long as a stock was listed) were even positive; by definition, the one-month T-Bill rate was always positive.
- Less than half (specifically 47.7%) of one-month stock returns were greater than the T-Bill returns for the same month.
- The reason that overall long-term positive stock returns seem so high is statistical: A stock (think Apple, Google, Microsoft) can appreciate by many thousands of percentage points, while a loser like Enron or Washington Mutual can lose only 100%.
So while the stock market
Think you can pick the future winners that well? Good luck!
I agree with Bessembinder that diversification is essential to avoid the 96% probability that any stock you pick today will fail to do even as well as the lowly T-Bill by the end of one month.
Read: When it comes to retirement, don't just wing it
Here's a quote from his report:
"Not only does diversification reduce the variance of portfolio returns, but non-diversified stock portfolios are subject to the risk that they will fail to include the relatively few stocks that, ex post, generate large cumulative returns. Indeed, the results help to understand why active strategies, which tend to be poorly diversified, most often lead to underperformance. At the same time, the results potentially justify a focus on less diversified portfolios by those investors who particularly value the possibility of 'lottery-like' outcomes, despite the knowledge that the poorly-diversified portfolio will more likely underperform."
In my own words: If you choose your own stocks, you're very likely to miss the relatively few stocks that turn out to be winners. (Remember, virtually every investor who ever bought an individual stock believed that it would be a winner.) Yet if you want to roll the dice ("lottery-like returns"), the way to do so is simple: Own fewer stocks, not more.
This study is full of other interesting statistics regarding one-year returns and "lifetime" returns, and you may wish to pursue it — however, I must warn you that it's not always easy going.
Picking individual stocks is essentially a losing game that relies extremely heavily on luck.
James Saft, writing about the study for Reuters, put it this way:
"If you want to be a stock picker, you had better be a truly exceptional one because the alternative is not pleasant. ... You are, in other words, more likely to buy an IPO which underperforms T-bills over its entire publicly traded lifetime than one which beats bills. ... This implies the IPO you buy is more likely than not to actually destroy wealth on an inflation-adjusted basis."
Diversification, on a massive scale, is the right answer for equity investors. Thanks to index funds and ETFs, this is easy and inexpensive to achieve.
This latest study affirms my belief in following academia instead of Wall Street. If this research had been done at Merrill Lynch, do you think it would have had even a slim chance of seeing the light of day? Me neither.
Thousands of hours of work went into this study, and the motive behind it was not to sell anything. The motive was to uncover what really works (and doesn't work) for real-life investors like us. To me, that spells credibility with a capital "C".
For more reading, here's an easy-to-read article about the attractions of index funds.
By the way, I recently visited with John Bogle (he likes to be called Jack, in case you get to meet him), the inventor of index funds. He hadn't heard about this study, and when I showed it to him he immediately asked his assistant to make a copy for him.
If this information is good enough for Jack, it should be good enough for you and me.
Oh, and if you still think the best route to financial success is by picking stocks, don't show this article to your spouse.
My recent meeting with Jack Bogle, a true hero to most of us who invest in index funds, was a great thrill. I was surprised by some of the things I learned from him. Inmy latest podcast, I share 10 lessons from "the king of index funds."
Richard Buck contributed to this article.


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Hello Mid-Century enthusiasts, my name is Shelley and I have an addiction! For those of you who don't really know us, we're hoping that's all about to change. You see…Matthew and I have a crazy addiction for most things Mid-Century. Some would say it's extreme, I say,...
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MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Um Laila and Farida Hassan had not seen each other since the day Iraqi soldiers helped them escape from Islamic State's brutal rule in Mosul.
On Saturday, the friends were reunited at a polling station in Mosul, a Sunni city that had long felt marginalized by the same Shi'ite politicians who are competing to become prime minister after Saturday's parliamentary election.
"I never thought I'd see you again, especially not here!" Hassan said, as she kissed her neighbor's cheek. "Who are you voting for?"
While the rest of the country was on track for a historically low turnout of about 30 percent, the people of West Mosul were out in force on Saturday, though few believed turnout would surpass 40 percent in the city.
Mosul residents had initially welcomed the ultra-hardline Sunni Islamic State who swept through Iraq in 2014 and capitalized on widespread resentment fomented by the Shi'ite-led government headed by Nuri al-Maliki, who now hopes a new parliament will choose him as prime minister once again.
Sunnis in the biggest city in the north accused him of pursuing a sectarian agenda and marginalizing their minority community.
With much of Mosul destroyed by the devastating war against Islamic State, residents hoped their vote would help elect a new generation of leaders who will look after them, unlike past ones
they now revile as corrupt and ineffective.
"They sold us out and now they want to buy us back for cheap," said 20-year-old university student Mohammad Firas Majeed.
Some credit incumbent Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi with the defeat of the radical militants that terrorized them for three years and they concede the British-educated engineer promoted reconciliation.
But mistrust still runs deep in Iraq, which exploded into a sectarian civil war in 2006-2007. Not all Mosul residents were enthusiastic about the election.
Reuters visited eight polling centers in Mosul throughout the day and saw mixed turnout.
In the western half of the city -- which suffered the heaviest damage during the war - polling centers surrounded by rubble were more crowded than those in the east, which has slowly come back to life.
Data collected by Reuters from about 20 voting centers across the city, showed voter turnout rates hovering around the 30-40 percent mark.
Voting got off to a rocky start, owing largely to a nationwide driving ban over security concerns. Many had to walk across the city to reach voting centers through mounds of rubble and upturned trucks, and through neighborhoods haunted by memories of starvation.
"But we had to come and vote," said Mohammad Bilal, a lab technician now residing in East Mosul who hopes Sunnis can make a comeback after their fortunes were reversed when a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam 15 years ago.
"Since 2003, none of us ever voted since we were suspicious of the new system. But this year has to be different. It's time for us to participate in politics and to demand our rights."
Some were pushed in wheelchairs, still bearing injuries from Islamic State torture, while others slept in their half-demolished homes so they could make it to the polls in time.
Those who could afford to, paid a few dollars for a licensed minivan to take them across town or hitched rides with buses paid for by various candidates.
"We never used to care about elections, but now we have to," said 26-year-old Mohammad Imad Younis, a university student who blames the policies of Iraq's rulers for the Islamic State seizure of a third of the country in 2014.
"This is my first time voting. These same corrupt politicians allowed Daesh into Mosul and now we must vote them out." Daesch is a derogatory Arabic term for Islamic State.
Others, seemed to be just going through the motions.
"I don't really have faith in the candidate I'm voting for," said Naser Amer Majeed, a 46-year-old retired army officer who was voting in East Mosul.
Some residents said the high turnout was due to candidates giving handouts to residents of the poorest neighborhoods in West Mosul. Reuters could not verify that claim.
On the eve of the election, a Reuters correspondent witnessed an argument between the Governor of Ninewa Province and the provincial head of the independent election commission, Mohammad Hani al-Badrani, over the traffic and illegal sale of voter ID cards.
He had come to complain that several hundred voter ID cards belonging to dead Islamic State fighters were being bought and sold by his rival candidates in his province.
"But how am I supposed to control what a family does with their suspected IS son's ID card?" Badrani later told Reuters. "They're poor and if someone's offering them money for a voter card, they're going to take it."
Two hours before polls closed, men and women across the city were already knocking down campaign posters and billboards, taking the metal parts they hoped to sell for scrap metal.
Reporting by Raya Jalabi and additional reporting by Salih Elias in Mosul.; Editing by Michael Georgy
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UK HABer Anthony Stirk and US HABer Jim N2NXZ launched their attempt to cross the Atlantic yesterday evening (UK time) with a 1600g Hwoyee balloon. The balloon will be using a small tube in the bottom to prevent burst at sunrise.
In his own words, Anthony said,
"Balloon will be carrying two UKHAS format 70cms telemetry transmitters as follows :
$$$$$N2NXZ-1 434.550Mhz 50 Baud RTTY 7N2 500 shift
$$$$$N2NXZ-2 434.445Mhz 50 Baud RTTY 7N2 500 shift
These are not equipped with TCXO's so this frequency may be +/- some arbitrary amount. In additional N2NXZ-2 is equipped with a Euro/Azores frequency (144.800Mhz) APRS transmitter which will transmit below 300 meters and then is geofenced so it won't transmit until ~ 400km from Azores, or > -15 longitude subject to normal euro legislation geofencing, call sign will be N2NXZ-12 with country prefix in comments i.e CU/N2NXZ-12.
Finally there will be a 50mW 10 meter CW beacon on 28.219 Mhz which is transmitting N2NXZ/BLN/6 and repeats every 10 seconds @ 10 wpm.
The current winds are taking it down towards Southern Spain, most likely in range of the Azores : http://nstar.org/GFS/10mb/10mb.048.png but this is subject change. Once its launched hopefully we should get an idea of its velocity and be able to make some guesses as to when it should appear.
We welcome listeners in the Nova Scotia area, as always live chat here : http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=highaltitude and a tracking guide here : http://ukhas.org.uk/guides:tracking_guide "
By the morning of Friday 4th December the balloon was over New Brunswick.
6th December 2013
The following update was made on the UKHAS web site
"It looks like the balloon didn't make it as there has been no contact. We'd like to thanks everyone for trying especially members of Associacao de Radioamadores dos Açores (CU2ARA) for taking the time to set up a receiving station in the Azores. Was great to see an antenna on the map there and we will be sending more your way soon!
Anthony M0UPU"


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Happy HoliDAZE babes!
I have a special treat for you guys today!
It is my very first….VIDEO INTERVIEW!
Well, its a compilation of a few interviews…but well…you get the point.
It is so EXCITING!
I cannot wait to share this with you.
Anyways….back to the point of this article!
I had the pleasure of collaborating with RAW Artists OC for the SECOND time this year!
This is my fourth RAW show I have attended, and I do have to say that the next is always better than the last!
This time around the show was based around the holidays and supporting each other as artists, performers, and people!
I honestly can say that I could feel the love that night! Everyone there was so friendly, inspiring, and amazing at what they do.
For those that are not featured in the video, I had the pleasure of chatting with off camera.
The artists that were featured last night include:
Jason Pierce, Michelle McKernan, Carena Leigh, Lauren Merenda, Bree Aherne, Reese Pickell, David Anderson, Jessica Grant, Hayden Navarro, Micah Magtoto, Luis Arredondo, Jennifer Warner, Rachelle Donovan, Chris Kent, Janice Hagey-Schmidt, Justin Reding, Paige Mauiriello, Kody Sherwood, Chelsea Richardson, LEI, Courtney Hatzenbumler, Karen Goulekas, Adriana Blagojevic, Cathryn Steir, Lisa Lee, Jenny Famularcano, Janice Hagey, and Lauren Eberhardt!
One thing I absolutely LOVE about every RAW show I attend is just how different each and every artist is!
Find out just how different in my video interview…
Unfortunately since the venue was so packed….I didn't have a chance to interview everyone I wanted to! But luckily I was able to chat with them for a bit!
One of my favorite artists there was STAMP POP! Aka: Christopher Duke Kent!
His art work was SO RAD! It totally reminded me of Andy Warhol so of course I was drawn in right away!
Chris was such a nice guy! I had such a pleasure meeting him and FINGERS CROSSED he may be doing an interview with me soon! So if you guys want to find out more…. STAMP POP
The other artist I got to really connect with off camera was Reese of Na Nalu Media!
Reese was such a nice guy and his story is so interesting and awesome!
I'm going to keep it short and sweet and just say that he's a surfer that photographs well..you guessed it…SURFING!
But why am I keeping it short and sweet?? That's only because Reese promised to do an interview with me! So stay tuned for that!
Another great thing about the RAW Artists shows is how amazing their live talent is!
Dancers, Musicians, Fitness…they showcase it all!
Here is the band NIGHTAIR! (you can also find them towards the end of the video I posted up there^^)
I'll be doing an interview one on one with them as well!
Well, I think that's enough of me rambling on about how much I freaking LOVE going to these events! Here's to the many more RAW events to come!
& more importantly to the wonderful artists, performers, and people that allowed me the pleasure of meeting, chatting, and getting to know them!
Also, shout out to BECKY for allowing me the opportunity to be a part of such a wonderful event.
Until next time!


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Course Catalog 2019-2020
Course Catalog 2019-2020 > College of Arts and Sciences > Department of Science and Mathematics > Biology, BS
Students with a variety of science related interests and goals may choose the Biology major. The degree forms a solid background for biology related fields such as laboratory technician, agriculture/park services, food safety inspector, science writing, environmental science/remediation, water treatment, and for science related graduate work to prepare for professions in medical, research, veterinary medicine or specific environmental fields. The major contains a 31 credit hour core and two tracks; a 18 to 19 hour Cellular/Molecular Biology Track and a 12 hour Environmental Biology Track. Only one track need be selected. This major is often paired with a Chemistry Minor.
Program Learning Outcomes
The following learning outcomes are linked to assignments and activities throughout this program. After completing program requirements,
(The following general education requirements are covered in the major: Lab Science. MAT 1334 is required to satisfy Critical Thinking/Math Competency.)
CHE 3514: may be included in the Chemistry Minor
MAT 1334 Pre-Calculus (included in gen ed), CHE 1514 and CHE 1524 College Chemistry I and II, CHE 2514 Organic Chemistry I, and PHS 2024 General Physics II are required support courses for the Biology major. Some support courses satisfy general education requirements.
Total Credit Hours: 120


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Post Your Selfie From Campus: #ACSelfie
Help us illustrate the Augustana experience by sharing a photo of yourself on campus. If you tag your photo with #ACSelfie, Augustana reserves the right to curate your photo from social media for marketing purposes.
Augustana Basketball Doubleheaders to be Played at Sioux Falls Arena in 2014-15
The interior of the Sioux Falls Arena will be transformed into the new home for Viking basketball and will feature various amenities for fans including, more than 3,500 chairback seats and more than 4,400 parking spaces.
Aging Faithfully Conference to Feature Dr. Martin Marty
Set for Thursday, Aug. 7, the one-day conference will feature keynote speaker Dr. Martin E. Marty, one of today's most prominent and articulate scholars of religion and culture. Hosted by Augustana, the Good Samaritan Society and the South Dakota Synod of the ELCA.
Fisher, Herst Named 2014 Peace Scholars
Juniors Aimée Fisher and Eric Herst have been named the 2014 Augustana Peace Scholars. The two will receive a seven-week academic experience in Norway designed to deepen their understanding of the central issues and theories related to peace, justice, democracy, and human rights.
History Unfolds During J-Term Course in Thailand
Students in Dr. Reynold Nesiba's J-Term course, "The Political Economy of Thailand," got a firsthand glimpse of the power of political demonstrations during their time in the country last month. Dr. Nesiba shared reflections from the group's time in Thailand with SDPB's Dakota Midday.
Finalists for 2014 Peace Scholarship Announced
Juniors Christian Einertson, Ellen Ferry, Aimée Fisher, Eric Herst and Erin Williams have been named finalists for the 2014 Peace Scholarship, a prestigious honor featuring a seven-week study at the University of Oslo's International Summer School. The two recipients will be announced on Thursday, Feb. 20.
Augustana Announces Revised Dates for Viking Days 2014
After surveying alumni and friends following Viking Days 2013, Augustana has announced its decision to move the date of Viking Days 2014 from the previously scheduled Oct. 31-Nov. 2 to Sept. 26-28. More details about this weekend, including plans for an All-Class Reunion recognizing the classes ending in 4 and 9, will be announced soon.
Choir Members Invited to Perform at NYC's Lincoln Center
Student members of Angelus (Augustana's women's choir) and the Collegiate Chorale will participate in a performance of Robert Harris' "Gloria" as part of the DCINY Concert Series in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall on Saturday, May 10, in New York City.
Crosstown Competition Benefits Local Nonprofits
Last week, Augustana students turned a crosstown rivalry into a benefit for those in need. The "Sioux Falls Showdown," a collaborative effort between Augustana and the University of Sioux Falls, featured clothing and food drives and gave students a chance to serve meals at the Banquet.
A Day in the Life of a Freshman
From move-in day to J-Term, the Class of 2017 is charging through its first year on campus. Take a glimpse at what a 'Day in the Lives' of freshmen Katie Romano and Kellen Klubben looked like during fall semester.