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SID Report: September 4, 2007
Introducing: Rob Shook is one of the new guys on the block in Athletics this year. Rob is the Women’s basketball coach, Director of Intramurals and head of the Athletic Crew in DeVries Gym.
He comes to us via Waco, Texas where he did his graduate work (don’t worry, he’s not a wacko from Waco) and before that Grace College where he played baseball and Tiffin University as a football player, with a few years of Colorado thrown in there so he could get himself hitched.
Rob’s warming up to the Wilson population by supervising twelve athletic crew members who have diverse tasks such as of greeting visitors to the gym, cleaning the toilets, sweeping the gym, managing the weight room, helping with intramurals (see below), managing all home games, cleaning the toilets, and making the clever signs you see everywhere. Rob’s job is to help make sure they enjoy every moment.
Women’s Basketball will start practice second term, and their first games are in January. Interested women are especially invited to play on Wednesday nights at 7:00 in the pick up and pass around games.
Intramurals, directed by the new Rob and interested members of the gym crew, will look something like this this fall:
Tuesday nights – Ultimate Frisbee - 7:00
Wednesday nights – pickup basketball – 7:00
First kick ball tournament – Schafer vs. Sunderland
24 hour challenge – 10am Saturday Sept 29-10am Sunday 30th
Other things on the drawing board:
Capture the Flag tournament
Intra dorm or crew competitions
Flag football Sundays (second term)
Dodge Ball (second term – working around basketball schedule)
Men’s Soccer – had a big win this weekend against rival team LaGrange College in front of a huge and well fed crowd (thanks to Friends of Athletics Trent and Debbie Thomas, Bobbie Sommerville, Pierce Mottershead, and Elbert Hargrave).
The men kept LaGrange Panthers scoreless, sent a naughty player off with a red card, and racked up three points on the board.
Max Darcy scored first on a breakaway, twenty five minutes into the game; two minutes before the half ended, Conner McGeehan re-directed a beautiful corner taken by Kyle Carpenter onto sophomore Phillip Campbell’s head.
In the second half, Luke Brenard taking up for his buddy Kyle Carpenter who got fouled so terrible in the box that the mean boy that did it got sent home and his argumentative friend who argumented it, got a yellow card. While all that drama went on, Luke warmed up at the penalty kick spot, the goalie got nervous on the goalie spot, wondering which way to dive. When the ref was finished with his counseling and carding, Luke shot left and the goalie shot right (pictured). Very pretty for the home team. Not so pretty for the Panthers.
The Men, now 2 wins and 2 losses play
Wednesday, September 5 at home at 4:00 against Union College.
Women’s Soccer – For an entire blow by blow of the game, see the Women’s soccer home page. In brief, the scary Anderson University Trojans won 3-2 in the second great crowd- pleasing game of double-header Saturday.
Scorers were Serena Shah assisted by Sarah Gaskin (three minutes after the bad guys scored), and then Serena again in the second half, fifteen seconds after the Trojans scored their second point, and then again, by LoLo Kriel to retaliate the Trojan’s third and final goal, but, (there’s always a but isn’t there?) at the very moment LoLo took the ball down the field, Appalachian State, our friendly Division I mountain hillbilly team, blocked the extra point kicked by the University of Michigan and back in Swannanoa, the sideline ref, hearing the roar of the cell phone coverage from the bleachers, raised his arm in excitement, the center ref thought it was an off sides flag and CALLED LOLO’S GOAL BACK!
Of course, when a ref makes a decision, he can never take it back and in all the confusion, Anderson won the game 3-2 when it clearly should have been a tie.
That’s my story. I was there.
The women, now 1 loss and 0 wins
play at Brevard College Tuesday September 4 at 4:30.
Mountain Biking - The Warren Wilson Mountain Bike team took fifteen racers to Tennessee this weekend to race, eat, race, hydrate, and race some more.
There is a complete write-up on the Mountain bike page, so I asked Kylie, fourth year veteran and studley stud rider, to give me a description of each event – which is covered in the afore mentioned write-up with names and gory details.
Dual Slalom is a head to head race, with two racers gate-starting together and racing each other down a fast and grueling set of hills, pre-destined spills and big jumps. This event is often well attended, as the potential for carnage is high. The dirt piles that are regularly groomed behind the soccer field are the training ground for a Dual Slalom race.
The Short Track is a ½ mile course that is ridden/sprinted for twenty minutes. The riders can hardly do it, so judges count how many times a rider goes around, and sorta like in the new rage of Roller Derby in Asheville, if you get lapped, you get pulled.
The two-mile time trail starts one rider at a time with one minute between riders. These are narrow trails where passing somebody hiking would be easy, but with all those handlebars and big muscley legs and arms, the passes on this very fast trail ride get exciting.
The Cross Country race consists of four - five mile laps for the men (that’s 20 miles for youin’s that don’t have your calculator) and three - five mile laps for the women.
Pat Hurley, whose sculpture-esque legs are all the rage with his fellow racers led the Men’s “A” team with an 11th place finish in a very competitive field.
Matt Williams, finished 13th, followed by Ran Morra in 18th and Ben “Big Country” West in 20th.
The Women’s “A” race saw two Wilson riders in the top-ten, with Kylie Krauss in 2nd and Hannah Waldman in 9th.
The official finishing positions of Alexis Decosimo (Women’s “A”), Maxx Cohen and Scott Anderson (both Men’s “B”) are still pending
In the Women’s B race, the new riders showed considerable talent and enthusiasm, all with strong finishes. Becca Parish led the group in 3rd, followed by Vanessa Emery in 5th and Lauren Parker in 6th.