College Summer II 2011

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SPORTS EDITOR

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Mike Browning Mike RaimoJeff HaberRobert BrewerDr. Tom FerraroJoe PietaroMike Mejia, cscsMatt Sugam

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Morgan HarrisonAdil BorlucaMichael SamuelsAndrew AdlerMike BrowningMatt Sugam

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Letter From The Editor

Dear Readers,Thanks for joining us during the mid-summer lull

in college sports action. Our favorite college athletes have been training tirelessly behind the scenes for their upcoming seasons, but the athletic elds have remained vacant and devoid of action.

If youre reading this, you havent yet thrown your computer out the window in a t of hysteria from a lack of sports, so stay with us; there is only a little while longer until the fall season begins.

In the meantime, let us bring you what college athletes have been doing during the summer months to prepare for their seasons and occupy their competitive spirit. Some of them are training to excel when they take the eld next season, such as Rutgers Miles Mack, who is playing in a sum-mer league in front of newly energized Rutgers fans excited about the teams improvement. The star recruit hopes to bring the program to new levels and take a national championship back to his home state.

Several of the areas college baseball players have taken to Hamptons Collegiate Baseball, where they play against their peerswhen they arent chilling on the beachwith the hopes of developing their skills to take their game to the next level, even that of the major leagues.

For some local college athletes, the summer is their season. Surfers and sailors, like Suffolk Countys Jimi Sobeck, take to the water during the summer after a winter full of anguished anticipation. He is aiming at a shot to windsurf for the United States in the 2016 Olympics. His skills were on full display during the 2011 East Coast Windsur ng festival in East Islip, N.Y.

Come with us as we explore these stories and many more in our second and nal summer edition.

Happy Reading,

Mike BrowningCollege Sports Editor

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40 East Coast Windsurfing Festival

36 Golden Stick A Game Taken Too Far

22 John Starks Foundation A Shot at an Education

12 Jay Card Now a Lizard

26 Thrust Surf Contest Surfing for a Great Cause

48 Myles Mack Rutgers Prized Recruit

66 Pro Corner Picture Perfect - Derek Jeter

58 UA Training Short Circuit

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SouthHampton Breakers Shortstop Robb Scott turns a double play despite efforts from a hard sliding J.J. Franco of the Sag Harbor Whalers.

Look no further than this years MLL dra for evidence of lacrosses shi -ing landscape. Stony Brook Univer-sitys Kevin Crowley of New Westminster, British Columbia being taken rst overall signi es the recent infusion of Canadian players into American collegiate lacrosse, where the scoring charts have been crowd-ed with imports that would not be there only a few years ago.

Jay Card, a xture in the o ensive zone at James M. Shuart Stadium the past four years with the Hofstra Pride and for the foreseeable future with the Long Island Lizards, ts the prototype. He is among the players with nishing skills that are seducing College coaches throughout the country.

Its just exploded; the amount of Ca-nadian guys has tripled, Card said. You have guys like Kevin Crowley and Jordan McBride, who played on team Canada, now playing on Long Island.

Like his compatriots, Card honed his scoring in the nooks and crannies of box lacrosse, an indoor Canadian brand that better resembles hockey than American eld lacrosse. With countryman and fel-low attackman Jamie Lincoln of St. Cath-erines, Ontario, they created chemistry that ba ed opposing defenders and goal-ies with quick, lateral passes that o en le an open cage for an easy goal.

Its smaller dimensions, tiny nets and large goalies make the focus of box setting

up quick scoring strikes via tic-tac passes that must be deposited through small win-dows, rather than advancing the ball and making runs at the net by dodging defend-ers like in the United States.

eir style is very di erent, Card said about his teammates at Hofstra. ey played typical American eld lacrosse style, Im used to run and gun and get to the net, so at rst it was a little bit of a challenge. But I had great teammates and coaches to take the time to turn me into a player.

With only twenty seconds to shoot the ball a er a team gains possession and with all the contact of hockey, a box lacrosse game can conjure up images of pinball.

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As a result, Canadians have become scoring specialists with a knack for nding the back of the cage, but with traditionally un-derdeveloped skills in other areas. ey have largely been relegated to the o ensive zone as attackmen, but their propensity for scoring has made them vital components of the contemporary champion-ship formula.

Enter Brodie Merrill. One would be remiss to mention the di usion of Canadian players into the U.S. without mentioning Mer-rills contribution. Head Coach at Cards Alma matter, Hill Acad-emy, and a close family friend of the Cards, Merrill has served as a mentor to young Canadian play-ers nation-wide. His game was groomed in the United States, at-taining All-America status at the Salisbury School in Connecticut and then at Georgetown Univer-sity. A er attaining the highest levels of success at two lacrosse institutions, he brought the nu-ances of eld lacrosse north of the border.

It all started with Brodie Mer-rill, Card said. He was the inno-vator of Canadians going down and playing in the United States. He got my age group involved and me involved.

Not only is Merrill preparing young Canadians for the Ameri-can game, he advances their ca-reers by serving as a liaison be-tween them and college coaches at top universities.

Brodie and I talk a lot, said Hofstra Head Coach Seth Tierney. I coached against him when I was at Hopkins [when he played for Georgetown] and he was a bear to go against. Now I think Brodie and I have a very good relation-ship and he understands what we have done with Jay Card.

Canada, western Canada, Brodie knows the guys, Tierney said. You dont have to go to the Hill Academy to know what Bro-die does.

Merrills in uence has made Canadians more prepared to con-

tribute right away at the NCAA level, and in other capacities than just pure scorers.

Typically, Canadians have a reputation as nishers and nish the ball well, but Canadian guys are starting to adjust to eld la-crosse style, Card said. I watch [American guys] dodge and they help me with that and I help them with scoring from close quar-ters.

Card, despite playing on the Canadian national team, was rel-atively unknown before he was scouted by one of Hofstras as-sistant coaches at a Turkey Shoot tournament in Ithaca, N.Y. His ap-titude in scoring at such a young age was a coachs dream and Hof-stra jumped at the chance to fold him into their program.

We noticed right away the way he can shoot the lacrosse ball and put the ball in the goal, Tierney said. He plays tough and plays with an edge and has a will to win.

122 goals and 61 assists later, Card has le a sterling legacy at Hofstra, earning All-American honorable mention in his senior season. Continuing on the path blazed by Merrill, Card entered the MLL dra .

I wanted to play at the highest level and [Division I] was my rst goal, Card said. My nal goal was to play professionally and I didnt care where I went and I just wanted to get to that level.

He was selected by the team that has been keeping a close watch on him the past four years, the Long Island Lizards. Wanting to cash-in on his o ensive talent, the Lizards swiped Card in the second round to be a scoring spe-cialist at James M. Shuart Stadium long into the future.

Living only a few blocks from the stadium and having known many of his new teammates from his days at Hofstra made the tran-sition possibly one of the easiest-ever for a MLL dra ee. e Liz-ards were a clear-cut rst choice for Card, who still cant believe

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how well his young professional career is unfolding.

I had a lot of fans that followed me through collegiate career and brings my comfort level to a whole new level and also factored to the transition, he said.

Cards support net casts even wider than that. Needing to hold a career in the professional world to support himself, staying close to the academic community and his professors indus-try contacts are key for a recent college graduate, especially given the dubious prospects of the current job market.

Card, who studied linguistics and business at Hofstra, is looking to crack the business world.

Im looking to get into some type of sales or investment banking, Card said. I want to be able to use my ath-letic experiences, hard work and work ethic Ive developed over the last four years to be able to relate it my personal goals.

Card has been given the best chance to thrive in his new environ-ment, which is really still his old en-vironment. With Hofstra academics, athletics and the Lizards a major part of his life the past four years, Card, once a foreigner not only to the United States, but the game he was given a free ride to play, has made Hempstead, NY his home.

e biggest thing with me with coaching these guys is the word ex-perience and my relationship with them, Tierney said. I have great ex-perience and relationship with Jay and all the guys that graduate under my tutelage. We may not win a national championship while theyre here, but I want to make sure the experience goes beyond the four years. I want to stay with Jay and guide him as he enters this stage in the real world.

Jay has a bunch of job interviews right now, solidifying what he wants to do in his life, Tierney continued. Everyone changes their profession and right now he has many great op-portunities, a lot of him having to do with the success he had here and how he handles himself as a person.

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mericas best baseball prospects dutifully hone their craft year-round so that when the high summertime sun shines down like a stage spotlight, they are prepared to

take advantage of the attention. However, while no state covets baseball quite like New York, the temperamental weather of the Northeast hardly makes it a prolific developer of major league and college prospects.

Beyond the Yankees, Mets and their minor league affiliates spattered throughout the metropolitan area, New York seems de-void of elite baseball; at least compared to the hotbeds (no pun intended) south of the Mason Dixon and on the West Coast.

The Cape Cod League is the golden standard for prospect showcase in the Northeast, but its infamy and prestige have nev-er been replicated and probably never will. Unknown to baseball fans at large, but creeping to the attention of major league organi-zations, the fertile land of eastern Long Island is also cultivating a brand of baseball that may change the perception of prospect development in New York.

Hamptons Collegiate Baseball, a five-team division of the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League, has been in existence since 2007 and has since attracted an influx of rising stars from the col-

lege ranks. Unlike the Cape Cod League, which features older players ready to turn pro, HCB draws mostly underclassmen, some of which plan on returning the following season.

Beautiful beaches, affluent areas and active nightlife make the Hamptons an identical draw to Cape Cod off the field, but the rows of bleachers filled with scouts pointing radar guns like a regiment of colonial soldiers are what currently separate the two. Although a few scouts do show up at HCB games and the designated pro scout day, and five of its players were drafted in the 2011 MLB First Year Player draft, it is nevertheless a developmental league, while Cape Cod is a showcase league.

We are trying to fill a certain niche, said HCB president Rusty Leaver. Ill take for a long time the best freshman and sophomoresIll take that territory. Its good territory where scouts arent going to gravitate out here right now, but ulti-mately, when we are more successful and there are a multitude of valuable players on each team, scouts will spend a day a night and a day out here. You have to have patience and draw them out.

Leaver, a rancher, businessman and philanthropist with

deep roots in Montauk and an eye for successful ventures on the East End, has never shied away from cre-ating events that he believes will be wildly popular. Owner and operator of Deep Hollow Ranch in Montauk, the oldest cattle ranch in the United States and popular tourist attraction, he has produced Wild West shows, concerts and corporate events that attract sponsors, donors, spectators and world class talent en masse.

Perhaps his most widely known endeavor, the Back at the Ranch Concert Series, which draws 10,000 fans and attracts talents such as Paul Simon, Billy Joel, James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett and James Brown, raised over $2.5 million for charita-ble organizations and landmarks on the East End last year and best illustrates his philanthropic clout.

Like any of his other endeavors, HBC was conceived from Leavers sense of potential, passion for helping the community and love of showmanship. It gave his son, Gardner, a promising pitcher for the University of Rhode Island, a chance to play com-petitive baseball without having to leave Long Island, while also raising money for the community.

We had the experience of taking huge events that had a good effect on the community, Leaver said. We had a love of base-ball and real appreciation for what it meant not only to our son, but our family. Its a very healthy thing to be a part of, and we liked it and saw an opportunity there.

So, with the guidance of a baseball think tank featuring Long Island college coaches and major league scouts including Paul Gibson, perhaps the leading authority on Long Island baseball, and Leavers ability to attract financial and community support, the league was launched with the Sag Harbor Whalers as a mem-ber of the Kaiser division of Atlantic Collegiate Baseball.

The team won the division and reached the ACBL title game in the first year of its inception. The Whalers had tremendous backing from the community, which came to see players like Phil Klein, now a pitcher for Youngstown State, lead the ACBL in ERA.

The community supported it, and my interest was bring-ing back free family entertainment with no charge for games, Leaver said. The other two big things were whatever funds we could raise or attract and whatever community spirit we could bring to bear would go to fixing up community fields on eastern Long Island.

Inspiring youth baseball, fixing up facilities has become a mainstay, he said. We accomplish that and hope to do a lot more.

With donors like comedian Jerry Seinfeld and J. Crew Group CEO Mickey Drexler, and major sponsors like Prudential and Bridgehampton National Bank, HBC has grown into a 5-team house format with a stable foundation from which to grow into an organiza-

tion that may one day rival the Cape Cod league.

For now, Leaver and the five teams are happy to serve as a trustworthy plat-form for college coaches to send their players to get playing time and at-bats against elite competition with the focus on development rather than wins.

Its a new league--theyre trying to establish it for it to be a good learning experience because mainly, theyre all freshman and sophomores, [so] a lot of them havent played too much during the year-- they just want to get better during this season so theyre better prepared for next fall, said Michiel Van Kampen, Os-preys assistant coach. We want to win, but the main goal is to get all the players better get them quality playing time and if in the end we win a bunch of games,

well then thats a bonus.

Stuart Turner, a catcher on the South Hampton Breakers, is projected to be a collegiate star, but was not ready to hold the starting catcher position for Louisiana State University-Eunice last season and was recommended for HBC to cultivate his raw talent.

I know I wont be starting everyday [at school] so Ill take an


opportunity to watch the other catch-ers and learn how they do things; just all the learning experience and just get better at the same time, Turner said. Just using wood bats will help a lot when I go back to aluminum--just making solid contact with wood bats will help with that.

Robb Scott, a sophomore infielder for the Breakers and at Bucknell University, was drawn to the locale of HBC, but soon became aware of the benefits of playing under the watchful eye of its coaches and staff.

My freshman year I wasnt an everyday starter and getting to come out here and playing everyday was really big for me, said Scott. To come back my sophomore year having a lot more experi-ence playing at the college level with good competition it helped out a lot. I felt a lot more prepared then I did coming into my fresh-man year--I got to meet a lot of guys and play for good coaches and good competition.

Free, quality baseball games featuring talent such as Turner have inspired a culture of baseball in the area. As much as HCB gives to the community, the community gives back. The players,

who come from all over the country, stay with volunteer host fami-lies that essentially adopt them as one of their own for their stay on Long Island.

Brian Monette, a pitcher for the Ospreys and at Southern Illinois University, is benefiting from the relationship forged from his host family as much as the experiences on the field.

My host family is Pete Castillo, hes a single guy whos 26, 27 years old, Monette said. One of the cool things is that he was a pitcher in college--he played at Virginia Tech. He owns his own business. He designs waterfalls and architectural landscaping, so Im gonna be doing a lot with that, so Im going to be working with him over the summer to make some extra money.

I knew the league has been around for a couple years and that theres host families, said Castillo, Monettes host parent. I was approached by a friend about it, and immediately I said yes. I under-stand what theyre trying to do with the league and understand base-ball. I was an athlete and played at Virginia Tech and used to travel all over the country and what people do for others, and help them out and at the end, its to play baseball and I could understand that.

Hes willing to [work] and thats a great thing that hes helping out a helping hand [and] can learn in other ways, not just in baseball and I give him as much knowledge as I can. Maybe it can help him

become a better player and person. At the end, you have to have a backup plan.

The seed of growth has taken root in the commu-nity and is being nurtured by solid baseball minds and a sound economic model. The talent is arriving each year and steadily improving, producing an increasing-ly dynamic and exciting product. Like one of the East Ends many cornfields or wineries, HBC will eventu-ally blossom into the summer showcase league that many know it will be.


opportunity to watch the other catch-ers and learn how they do things; just all the learning experience and just get better at the same time, Turner said. Just using wood bats will help a lot when I go back to aluminum--just making solid contact with wood bats will help with that.

Robb Scott, a sophomore infielder for the Breakers and at Bucknell University, was drawn to the locale of HBC, but soon became aware of the benefits of playing under the watchful eye of its coaches and staff.

My freshman year I wasnt an everyday starter and getting to come out here and playing everyday was really big for me, said Scott. To come back my sophomore year having a lot more experi-ence playing at the college level with good competition it helped out a lot. I felt a lot more prepared then I did coming into my fresh-man year--I got to meet a lot of guys and play for good coaches and good competition.

Free, quality baseball games featuring talent such as Turner have inspired a culture of baseball in the area. As much as HCB gives to the community, the community gives back. The players,

who come from all over the country, stay with volunteer host fami-lies that essentially adopt them as one of their own for their stay on Long Island.

Brian Monette, a pitcher for the Ospreys and at Southern Illinois University, is benefiting from the relationship forged from his host family as much as the experiences on the field.

My host family is Pete Castillo, hes a single guy whos 26, 27 years old, Monette said. One of the cool things is that he was a pitcher in college--he played at Virginia Tech. He owns his own business. He designs waterfalls and architectural landscaping, so Im gonna be doing a lot with that, so Im going to be working with him over the summer to make some extra money.

I knew the league has been around for a couple years and that theres host families, said Castillo, Monettes host parent. I was approached by a friend about it, and immediately I said yes. I under-stand what theyre trying to do with the league and understand base-ball. I was an athlete and played at Virginia Tech and used to travel all over the country and what people do for others, and help them out and at the end, its to play baseball and I could understand that.

Hes willing to [work] and thats a great thing that hes helping out a helping hand [and] can learn in other ways, not just in baseball and I give him as much knowledge as I can. Maybe it can help him

become a better player and person. At the end, you have to have a backup plan.

The seed of growth has taken root in the commu-nity and is being nurtured by solid baseball minds and a sound economic model. The talent is arriving each year and steadily improving, producing an increasing-ly dynamic and exciting product. Like one of the East Ends many cornfields or wineries, HBC will eventu-ally blossom into the summer showcase league that many know it will be.

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Former New York Knicks all-star John Starks was known as a erce competitor with an unmatched passion for the game of basketball. His epic playo battles with the likes of Michael Jordan, Reggie Miller and Tim Hardaway are forever etched in the memories of Knick fans. Now, a er nearly a decade since he played his last NBA game, Starks is still utilizing his in-tense passion to provide an oppor-tunity for college bound students to have a leg up on the future.

Long before his fame with the Knicks, Starks was not a highly tout-ed high school athlete and was not awarded a college scholarship. As a result, he struggled with the cost of a higher education and found him-self enrolled at four di erent col-leges throughout the mid 80s before nally settling in at Oklahoma State University, where he nished his col-lege education in 1988. By creating the John Starks Foundation in 1994, Starks hopes to provide a helping hand to future students who may

have su ered through the same -nancial di culty as he once did.

Young people are the key to our countrys future, and I would like to give them some opportunities that I didnt have growing up, said Starks. is can give them the best chance to succeed in the future. I can give them the baton and hopefully they can take this baton and run with it all the way to the nish line. If I can help some kids reach their future goals and reach their full potential in life, Id be very happy with that. 23

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e John Starks Foundation, a non-pro t organization, awards a to-tal of ten to een scholarships each academic year to various high school students in Starks native town of Tul-sa, Oklahoma, as well as in the New York/Tri-State area. With over 250 applications each year, scholarship recipients are selected based upon nancial need, exemplary academic achievement and a commitment to community service.

Since its inception in 1994, the John Starks Foundation has provid-ed over 200 students with academic grants to pursue their college educa-tion. In addition to awarding scholar-ships, the foundation will be creating Seminars for Success, which will as-sist students with the necessary tools needed to complete and submit a college application, prepare for a col-lege or job interview, and nding ad-ditional nancial aid and internship opportunities.Funding for the John Starks Foundation uses individual and corporate donations, as well as special events to fund the communi-ty and scholarship programs. ese events include celebrity bowling, ca-sino nights and gol ng tournaments. During these events, many New York celebrity athletes have made appear-ances in support of the John Starks Foundation. Former Knick team-mates and NBA legends such as Allan Houston, Patrick Ewing, and Julius Erving among others have all taken to help raise awareness for the John Starks Foundation.

Ive known John and played with John for a long time, and his passion isnt just limited to basketball, said former Knick teammate Allan Hous-ton. Hes always wanted to use the platform that God has given him to in uence people in a good way. Johns foundation is right on target in terms of what we need to be focusing on to ensure the welfare of our children.

On Tuesday, June 28th, Starks, along with key volunteers from the John Starks Foundation were on hand at BLT Prime on East 22nd Street in Manhattan at a private dinner to con-gratulate this years class of scholar-ship recipients. Sponsorship repre-sentatives from Coca-Cola, Delta Air Lines, NY Knicks and UBS were also in attendance.

Josh Harrellson, one of the new-est members of the Knicks family, also made an appearance at the din-ner to show his support for the John Starks Foundation. e six-foot-ten inch rookie from Kentucky Univer-sity clearly understands the type of in uence that Starks still commands

within the New York community. Once I found out a little more

about John and the type of career he had in New York, I thought it would be the right thing to do to come out here and show support. Hes a great role model, not only to the future NBA players like myself, but also to young people everywhere, he said.

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SurfSurfSurfContest

Gilgo Beach

2011

Story By Mike RaimoPhotos By Morgan Harrison

SurfSurf


Chris KluesenerCo-Founder

With summer in

full swing, ath-

letes of all kinds are keepin

g busy.

Whether its soaking up

some

rays, working a part-time

job, or training for

fall sports, summer is a tim

e for activity. Take

the 5th Annual rust Sur

f Contest and Art

Show, which gives Long

Island surfers the

chance to not only compe

te in a large scale

contest, but for Long Islan

d artists to get their

creative juices owing.

Chris Kluesener, the man

who conceived

the event, has taken an id

ea that budded in

his head as a college kid,

and turned it into a

highly anticipated day at

the beach that fea-

tures sur ng, clothing an

d art. A native of

Babylon, New York, Kluese

ner sees this event

as more than just a contes

t.

When I was younger, I ha

d many friends

that were getting into thin

gs that werent the

most productive and lega

l, so I wanted to do

something entrepreneuri

al, Kluesener said.

I had a lot of friends who

were artists, so it

was easy for me.

I decided to put art on cl

othing and host

events where you can prom

ote it. From there,

it spiraled into this event,

ve years running,

supporting local artists,

musicians, surfers,

and giving back.

Gilgo Beach has been a ra

lly point for the

Long Island sur ng comm

unity. It is one of


the places that helped sur ng emerge on the east coast over forty years ago, and with the addition of the rust Surf Contest and Art Show, sur ng began to grow rapidly on Long Island.

is is the 5th annual rust event, and is always a very popular event. Kluesener said. You get the surfers, you get the artists, you get the surf goers. ey all come down and support Gilgo beach. Were also raising money for the Gi of Life Foundation.

Aside from the great sur ng and exciting artists, the rust Surf Contest and Art Show is also very involved in raising money for the Gi of Life charity.

e Gi of Life is a program that weve been working with for three years now, Kluesener said. What they do is that they nd children around the world with congeni-tal heart defects. is year were focusing on the country of Jamaica. We found this little girl, Richie Ann, and we raised $5,000, which was enough money to give a heart surgery. So, by selling t-shirts, sur ng, and selling murals, we were able to give a little girl a sec-ond chance.

e contestants ages vary from children of eight years old to men and women in their sixties. Recognized as a qualifying event for the Northeast Regionals, the event is looked

at closely by not only the local sur ng com-munity, but the national one as well.

Each surfer has the opportunity to com-pete in the short board, long board, and body board events. e judges look for the critical radical maneuvers in the critical part of the wave. Aside from the surfer, the wave selec-tion is a crucial part of the competition. By choosing the right wave, it helps the surfer in their quest for rst prize.

Aside from the impressive surfers that ock to Gilgo, the artists display identical tal-ent and creativity. If anyone has ever been to Gilgo, they have walked through the tunnel that leads from the parking lot to the beach. It has gone from a gra ti- lled slab of con-crete to a beautiful mural painted by local artists through rust.

What we did was that we went to the lo-cal government through art, says Kluesener. Everyone was skeptical at rst, but a er the rst year everyone was shocked at how beau-tiful it was, and they invited us back.

Five years later, artists come from all over to show o their portraits. From their can-vases to the tunnel of Gilgo, improvement through art is a major motif at this event.

I did ve murals in the tunnel, says e-resa Christensen, a local artist who has been

at the rust Surf Contest and Art Show for the past ve years. When asked what her favorite mural to paint was, Christensen re-sponded, the Volkswagon bus. I feel thats the one people have responded to the best. It gives local beach goers a sense of nostalgia to forty, y years ago.

e artists are there not only to show o their own artwork, but to be a part of some-thing positive.

is is my beach. I love what Chris is do-ing here, and I think the tunnel looks great, Christensen said.

Every year Gilgo Beach has been a hot spot for surfers and artists. By not only hav-ing fun, the rust Surf Contest and Art Show has given people a way to change the world. Whether its raising money to save a childs life, or by simply picking up trash at Gilgo, everything helps.

Surfers are environmentalists. e theme of the event is giving back, says Kluesener.

If youre looking to enter the surf contest, show o your artistic ability, or enjoy a nice day at the beach, the rust Surf Contest and Art Show is the best way to go. day at the beach, the rust Surf Contest and


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reotype is mainly false. HUSL, Huntington Ultimate Summer League, is a beginner Ultimate Frisbee league focused on improv-ing each players skills. The rapidly growing game has become a popular sport among college campuses across the nation. Chris Grenier and Patrick McCourt created HUSL in the summer of 2008, after playing the game for about a year. It started out as just a league for their friends in Huntington.

It was mostly just friends, but then it grew through word of mouth and through the USA Ultimate website, said Grenier. Year after year its been growing. Its not really our Huntington friends anymore--its ultimate players across the island. We had 80 or 90 [players] registered but now we have around 200 [play-ers].

HUSL splits the players into eight teams, which compete in games up to 15 with halftime once a team gets to eight points

OOn a late Thursday afternoon, seven players raise their hands to shade their eyes from the blinding sun as it sets. They move towards their designated areas as a ying white disc ies over their heads. Team captain Chris Grenier runs back to catch it and calls out a play. Ho Stack! Ho Stack! he yelled as the players run into

their formation. The players started passing the disc uently up the eld. Players on the outside of the eld are cutting in towards the player with the disc, or the handler; the players on the inside were cutting deep and to the outside of the eld. One crisp throw after the next, until one player ran to the outside corner of the end zone and leaped up over the defender to catch the last pass, scoring a point for his team.

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thats what this club is really meant for.

Since ultimate does not have any referees, the captains call lines (if a player is out of bounds) during the games. The players call their own fouls.

The games are very intense but theyre good spirited and every-one is respectful, said Huntington Station player Lee Meller, who is a rookie in HUSL. If someone calls you out on something then you usually genuinely did it. Someone is not just saying that to be a sore loser.

HUSL also consists of more than just college players. The group has players as young as 17 and as old as 50. Some of the athletes play just for fun because the love the game, while some said that they play to stay in shape over the summer. Most of the players who are in college play for their college team. The players play to improve their game for the fall semester. Because there are so many different players with different backgrounds the league has become the center of different playing techniques. Guys who are 50 years old have game plans from back when they played in the 70s, while players who played in college have different strategies from playing in tour-naments and on a team. Players at different colleges have different strengths and weakness so everybody helps each other out.

The majority of our members are in college or on college teams, Grenier said. Its guys who come into the summer knowing that they have to work on something and they know that here they can try it, mess up and it will be ok because there will always be someone here who can help out.

He went on to explain, Its not just college kids. Its adults who havent played in years who come back [and] need to learn it over again or are looking for ways to improve. Even the really good expe-rienced are looking to play and mess around to get a little bit better.

As the sun has set, the players walk off the field and to their cars. They play till it is too dark to see the Frisbee flying in the air. Grass, mud and sweat stains cover their jerseys as if they were painted on by an artist. The players breathe heavily and are feeling sore, but a large smile on the faces lets everyone know the game was fun.

with no time restrictions. The league is four weeks into the season as they play in two games a week with a clinic once a week. The clinic serves as a practice where players come to learn about new plays, formations, and techniques.

Each week they go over a different topic and it introduces a new level of play, and then in the following two games youre al-lowed to incorporate what you just learned at the clinic, said Phil Kong, an experienced player from Glen Cove. Everyone will show up to the clinic and they will all participate in one or two drills designed to teach them that specific skill set and then they will play a couple games to incorporate it.

The organization used to have team practices but this year they switched to clinics to unite the group. Because HUSL is a beginner league, they want everybody to learn the same aspects of the game and everybody to be on the same page.

Each team has an experienced player who serves as a captain whose goal is to unite the team. HUSL does not want the league to feel like it is just a bunch of pick up games but rather the feel of a college or club team. They also communicate from the board members the rules and how things are going to be run. In addi-tion, the captains manage substitutions so everyone gets the same amount of playing time.

The experienced players are great because they help teach be-ginners and they act as role models of how they [the beginners] should look to play, Grenier said. As far as games and competi-tion, we try to make games competitive but we also try to maintain a level of fun and learning. We dont want people to be distraught or scared or too intimidated. We try to keep it as relaxed as pos-sible. Its always more fun when it is competitive.

The atmosphere of the HUSL clinics and games are very laid back and relaxed. This is he biggest difference between HUSL and other summer leagues or college clubs. Along with the location of the organization, this seems to be one of the most attractive features of the league.

This one [HUSL] really stands apart [from other Frisbee leagues] because its oriented towards every skill level, said Hun-tington player Marlena Luhr. I just want to relax and teach other people and build a stronger Frisbee culture on Long Island. I think

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We ran a tournament with no intentions of doing this, it was just in my yard really but we got 18 teams. In my life Ive always been taking things a bit too far, Levesque said.

e explosion of the league gave rise to its slogan, a backyard game taken way too far.

e tournament added ten local teams to Golden Stick, but also had players travel from as far as St. Louis. Once only a kids game, Wi e ball has become little league for adults as Golden Stick players range from ages as young as 12 to older players in their 40s.

We have guys from everywhere, Longiaru said. e farthest player we have would be Jim Powell from [St. Louis] whos on my team, Bad Chemistry, [which also has] guys from Massachusetts, New Hampshire [and] Pennsyl-vania.

Golden Stick consists of two di erent league di cul-ties: fast pitch and yard ball (or medium pitch). Yard ball is a bit di erent in that there is more o ense and the game relies more on defense. e pitchers use nesse, because they may not exceed 45 mph. According to Levesque, this creates an anybody can win attitude. In the fast pitch leagues, pitchers can throw as hard as they want, with the average speed clocking in around 80 mph. e tour-naments best pitcher, Sean Ste y, or wi eboy28 as he is known on YouTube, can throw over 90 mph.

Originally when I saw them on YouTube, I said I wanted to be that guy. I want to be out there on that same eld with them, and now Im one of the guys whos show-ing people how to be out here on the eld and how to play, Ste y said. ats a huge jump for me and I feel really blessed.

TTT e Wi e ball whips out of the pitchers hand, slicing towards the plate and emitting a low whistle as air shoots through its holes. e ball, barely recognizable from when it was taken out of the box, has been scu ed up with dirt, knife cuts and a cheese grater to give it more movement. Traveling at around 80 mph, it takes less than half of a sec-ond to reach home plate. Already with only fractions of a second to react, the batter must also contend with the balls dramatic cuts and dips that many of the leagues pitchers can use to hit the black strike zone box at will.

e batter takes a hack and swings the bat with all his might, but no luck; it takes more skill than imagined to make contact with these elusive pitches.

Around eight Wi e ball elds took up eld eight at Ce-dar Creek Park for the Long Island Golden Stick Wi e Ball Tournament, part of Golden Sticks Tournament Circuit. As many as twenty teams from all around the United States showed up to compete for over $1,000 in prize money. Ac-cording to Rob Longiaru, the New York Regional Direc-tor for Golden Stick Wi e Ball, this was the single largest event Golden Stick has run outside of the national tourna-ments.

Golden Stick in 2002 a er running his own backyard tournament in Massachusetts. Since then, it has grown from small a tournament amongst friends to a full-blown Wi e ball league with divisions in four states and a nation-al championship in Las Vegas. ey also run a tournament circuit in 15 major cities across the United States with the national championship in Boston.

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e ball is not the same one that is taken out of the small cardboard box brand new and fresh. Players scu the ball up, not by just rubbing some dirt on it but rather taking a knife and creating grooves in the ball. is makes the ball move through the air faster and can cause some serious break to the ball. A brand new ball will only move around six inches, but a ball that has grooves in it can move as much as six feet.

Each player has their own style of ball. Some take knives and cut small half circles in the ball, said David Wegrzyn, a member of the Blue Razors while looking at a game ball in his hand. is one, someone took a cheese grater to the top of it and made cuts at the bottom. is is all legal in the game and each ball is di erent in its own way.

e bats used are not the typical imsy, yel-low plastic bats that come in a standard Wi e ball set either. e fast pitch players use Moon-shot bats, a special type of bat made out of car-bon bers, the same material a prosthetic leg is made out of. e bats are a bit heavier, but the barrel is the size of an average baseball bat. With a normal yellow bat, the chance of hitting a ball moving at 80 mph with a six-foot break would be nearly impossible, but with Moonshot bats, the odds of making contact become much high-er. e bats make the ball travel farther, creating more home runs, or hits traveling 90 to 100 feet.

e sport is played with just four players in the eld, including the pitcher. ere is no run-ning except a trot around the bases a er a home run. If a single, double or triple is hit, an invis-ible runner is put on base. e home run walls are in atable and are two or three feet high, with foul poles twice that height. If a groundball is hit, the elder must eld the ball cleanly and throw it to the backstop. If he hits the backstop, the batter is out, but if there is a runner on base,

then the runner advances. If the elder hits the strike zone, the lead runner is out.

Im proud and real excited. A lot of people have been watching me do this; making no money saying why? And its starting to show as weve got all kinds of new teams today here on Long Island, Levesque said.

All the money raised goes towards the or-ganization. e winning team and sometimes the second and third place teams get 60 percent of the prize money, while the other 40 percent of the money goes towards buying equipment to put up the elds and the cost of the event. Within that 40 percent, some of the money goes towards sending the league regional winners on an all-expense-paid trip to Las Vegas to compete in the League National Championship.

We grew from just a couple regions to last year where we ran 76 events in 15 cities across the country with leagues and tournaments com-bined and that was just with a few contributors, Levesque said. We have 300 to 400 players in our player body, but nationally hundreds of thousands play Wi e ball recreationally and theres only a few doing it competitively.

In the nal four of the tournament, Wi Inc. defeated e Phenoms, the 2009 National Champions, while Wi aholics defeated Ste y, Wegrzyn and the Blue Razors. e Wi aholics defeated Wi Inc to win the tournament 3-2 af-ter a walk o home run by Paul e Painter McBride.

All the teams participating in this tourna-ment quali ed for the GSTC National Champi-onship in Boston, Massachusetts on September 17 and 18.


MMMMMMMike Burns looked out over the choppy water. The Great South Bay resembled a vat of dirty dish water, meeting the drab skies half-way and enveloping the scene in a dismal hue. The cool temperature and a blustery wind that whipped anything not tied-down, made it impossible to enjoy the beach without a wet suit and a sail. But while the rest of Heckscher State Park was virtually devoid of human life, nearly 100 Windsurfers sliced through the grey matter like enormous Technicolor shark fins.

Surf vans with bumper stickers enveloping their exteriors and racks on the roof includ-ing a gigantic Austrian military surplus trans-port vehicle lined the parking spaces in field 6. Sailors from all over the area came to cel-ebrate their passion for what has become an increasingly isolated sport for its participants.

Already sporting a deep tan in early June and clad in a soaked black wetsuit, Burns, a talented freestyle sailor, seemed uncomfort-able watching the action from the beach-- especially with the best wind blowing at his event since he started it four years ago.

Forged from necessity rather than gratuity, the East Coast Windsurfing Festival fills a to-tally barren niche, drawing novice and expert sailors from all over the world who lust for the rare opportunity to sail amongst their fellow enthusiasts in a non-competitive environment.

Tom Deehan, a 48-year-old freestyle sailor from upstate New York, helped keep time for one of the races. With his wet suit half-on, he stood in the ankle-deep water, stop-watch in hand. Despite the inclement weather, he looked truly content knowing that he was fill-

ing an important role in the progression of his sport. A social worker, he carves time out of his schedule to travel to the coast to sail and come to East Islip each year to participate in the festival.

Its very inspiring to see other sailors come down to compete, he said. Its great to come down every year and share your passion and learn from guys who are better than you.

The events predecessor, King of the Cape, ran from 1999-2004 in Cape Cod and was the premier wind surfing event on the East Coast. Well-known around the world, it attracted hundreds of sailors, vendors, spon-sors and spectators while carefully navigating strict permit and insurance restrictions.

King of the Cape dwindled after 2004, with swelling numbers of participants of pre-vious years complicating the insurance and permit process and sponsors vying for influ-ence to profit from the event adding unwanted red tape. Once the organizer moved to Maui, it became too large to sustain itself and even-tually collapsed under its own weight.

Once he left, it was turned over to local shops and people organizing it, Burns said. They couldnt deal with all the issues like insurance and getting permits and couldnt get the money backing. The sponsors made it more about the money than the sport itself.

Seeing the writing on the wall and sensing its imminent downfall, Burns knew he could rebuild the event on Long Island and shield it from the nonsense and fun police, that proved to thwart the King of the Cape.

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Park more than happy to facilitate his vision, sailors of all ages and backgrounds now make the pilgrimage each year to share their passion and have fun; not compete.

The key is to keep it small, less visual, Burns said. Once it gets too big, too many people get involved to try to make money off of it. Its all about fun. Guys were out here last year having a great time, pushing each other off the boards even though there was no wind. When competition level rises, fun level drops.

Im not doing it for money or anything, he stressed. Im doing it to get more people into it. I have more people seeing how fun it is.

Jimi Sobeck, a 21-year-old student at Suffolk Community College and one of the sports best young talents, got into windsurf-ing much the same way as anyone else--intro-duced by his mother, a casual sailor-- and put into a few clinics. Recognized by his instruc-tors as an elite talent, he was nudged towards


giving windsurfing his full attention and is now hopeful that he will represent the United States in the 2016 Olympics. As an ambassador for the sport, Sobeck recognizes the importance of Burns creation for the windsurfing community by recruiting more members and raising awareness.

Mike Burns put all this together, he said as he pointed to the crowded beach. It started a couple years ago--he basically gets everyone together from Long Island, everyone who sails waves, that races, people that summer out here and throws them all in one parking lot and lets them go at it for a couple hours on the weekend. Its great.

The festival provides a time for the tight-knit, but spread-out community to sail together, catch-up and show off im-provements from the previous year.


More sailors catch wind of the east coast windsurfing festival

Weve got a core group of guys; probably about 10 of us who sail waves all the time out east, and we never really sail flat water anymore so I only see them out in the ocean, Sobeck said. I get to see those guys here, all the guys I used to free style with are here, all the people who coached me when I was younger and in the Caribbean. Ive seen them here and just watching those top guys in free style do their thing is pretty cool.

Deniz Kalayciglio, a 21-year-old resident of Long Island and engineering student at Carnegie Melon University, grew up windsurfing the Mediterranean in her native Turkey. A veteran of wind-surfing circuits throughout the world, she realizes how important the event is to the sailors of the temperamental winds and waters of the Northeast.

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the fact that theres one festival where every-one can come and everyone looks forward to is just really amazing. They do a really good job of planning this and making sure its fun for everyone no matter what happens. It wasnt really windy last year, but we all still had a blast and came out for the two days and its a great way to connect with people. A lot of times when you do go on vacation, you end up seeing a lot of people from here in a for-eign place.

While passionate windsurfers sail any-where they can, having a large event to bring

them together will strengthen the community while accruing new interest, which is vital to its growth in the Northeast. Mike Burns will continue to organize the East Coast Windsurfing Festival to keep ties between the areas sailors strong and grow the sport in an area where its popularity will not grow organically. With the passion displayed at the festival and the initiative of sailors like Burns, windsurfing in the Northeast has a bright future, even on a cloudy day.


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The tiny gym at St. Rose High School in Belmar was standing room only. The packed bleachers were peppered with scar-let, and the game had a championship vibe despite being only the first night of the Jersey Shore Basketball League season.

The team the Rutgers faithful had come to see boasted the Scarlet Knights entire incoming freshman class; a class that is the highest-ranked in the programs history.

The fans have embraced Rutgers head coach Mike Rice, who won despite an undersized and under-talented roster in his first season. With a highly talented freshman class on the way, theres an unfamiliar buzz around the program still with five months be-fore the start of the season.

While many of the Garden States basketball fanatics were see-ing these Rutgers basketball players for the first time, there was one familiar face on the floor: Myles Mack. The Paterson native is the states top-rated point guard by most recruiting services, and the most highly anticipated Rutgers recruit in years.

After a decorated high school career at Paterson Catholic, Mack moved to St. Anthonys for his senior year. However, he didnt want to leave his hometown high schoolthe one he dreamed of playing atbut had to. The June before his senior year, the school closed down.

I didnt know what to think at the time. I didnt know it was true, Mack said. I couldnt really do anything about it. I was emotional for a couple weeks, but I got over it.

The senior-to-be had trouble coming to the realization that his high school dream would not be fulfilled the way it played out in his head.

He just couldnt fathom the thought that the place that he dreamed of was actually closing its doors, said his mother, San-dy Mack.

While it took a while for reality to sink in, it didnt take long for other high schools to begin pursuing the 5-foot-9-inch point guards talent.

The day they announced the schools closing, we arrive home and the phone rings and theres already another high school, which was Montrose Christian, which heard about the school closing and offered him an opportunity, Sandy said.

Myles took his time choosing a new school. He wanted to go somewhere he felt comfortable and had a basketball coach and pro-gram that would benefit him as much as his skill set would benefit them.

After some soul-searching, the answer was clear: Hall of Fame coach Bob Hurley and his nationally-recognized St. Anthonys High School. The choice paid dividends. Not only did Mack im-prove his defense and thicken his skin under Hurley, he led the team to an undefeated season, which culminated in a state and national championship.

Hes a command style coach, Mack said. So I had to get used to that because that was the first command style coach that I had. He taught me the angles on defense, so I think thatll help a lot on the next level.

Defense is key in Rices style of basketball, but what the head coach has really become known for is intensity and tough love. Mack got a good taste of that from Hurley, which will prepare him for what he will experience with Rice over the next few years.


When asked if playing under Hurley for a year will acclimate him to Rices style, Myles responded yeah, with a grin and small chuckle.

Its going to help a lot, he said. When [Rice] says something to me I wont really get nervous or have a quick reaction to say something back.

Rutgers wasnt on the national radar under old regimes, but when Rice took over in May of 2010, Rutgers quickly became a relevant member of the Big East. Mack, and Rutgers fans ev-erywhere, noticed how Rice had turned a mid-major in Robert Morris into a back-to-back NCAA Tournament team in just three seasons after an 18-year drought from the big dance.

After a couple conversations with Rice, Sandy felt her son could play and benefit from a coach with his passion and exper-tise. If theres a next level for her Myles, Sandy feels Rice is the one who can help him get there. Still, Sandy was a bit surprised her son would choose a program that hasnt made the NCAA Tournament in two decades when he could have gone to UConn, UCLA and just about anywhere in between.

But the kid who dreamed of playing for his local high school had his reasons.

If I go to Rutgers I can be a home town kid, Sandy recalled Myles explaining to her. If I go to UCLA, someone else is the hometown kid, so why not stay where I already have fans, a lot of people know me, and Im going to get the support.

And thats exactly what he is, which has led to the lofty expec-tations before he steps onto the court in a Rutgers uniform.

As the lone incoming recruit from the Universitys own state, Myles has already been labeled as the ambassador for Rutgers to bring in New Jerseys top talent. The humble point guard is aware of the pressure that has been put on his 160 pound frame.

Im going to try to live up to my expectations and try to play well this season, Myles said.

Not surprisingly, his new head coach hasnt anointed him any-thing.

Until he goes and does it, then nobody is the face of New Jer-sey. He now has to perform on a different level. Im very confident that he can, but Im not putting that on anybody, Rice said. Hes certainly somebody who Im going to rely heavily on, but Im not going to say to anybody that hes the face of anything right now until he actually produces at the Division I level.

Even still, the fan base has already put Myles on that pedes-tal, and the anticipation for the most decorated recruiting class in school history is an NCAA Tournament berth despite not yet hav-ing a practice under Rice.

Until I get with them and until they embrace the level of de-mand and the coaching and playing with one another its hard to say, Rice said. I think theyre a talented group that will help us break the drought to the NCAA Tournaments. Its hard for one guy. Im not going to say Myles is the guy thats going to get us to the NCAA Tournament or not.

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A patient, who is a business man, recently asked me a simple question. What happened to fun on the job? He went on to explain how years ago when the cor-porate world was more relaxed he would enjoy the fun and laughter on the job but not anymore. Now its all grind, grind and more grind. I immediately began to think of how this same grinding attitude prevails in sports. I work with many elite high school athletes and if they have one thing in common its that nobody is having much fun. ey are all worried, injured, stressed, overworked and

have a coach that screams. And this begs the question Is there any room for fun in sports? In this article I will ex-plore this simple question.

Many athletes will begin their rst session by con ding how much they hate their sport. My favorite story hap-pened this summer. I was asked by a tour player to join him in playing golf with two MLB franchise owners at an exclusive club. It was a very pleasant sunny day for the rst 8 holes when the tour player whispers to me on the 9th tee I cant take this any longer, tell them that it looks like rain and we have to quit a er nine. e pro hated to play golf.

e literature on sports and fun reveals two basic points. e most well-known text on the sociology of sports was written by Johan Huizinga entitled Homo Ludens: A study of the play element in culture. He pointed out that sports were played in earnest and in fact were far more serious than ordinary life. Sports o ered up beauty, the sacred-ness of the playing eld, many rules to follow and that the

Are you having fun yet?


The key to great performance is the ability to enjoy the sport at all times

The key to great performance is the ability to enjoy the sport at all times Far too many athletes take the game too seriously and this only results in anger, injury and tight play

beauty and excitement of games set them apart from life and above life. is may be why we are willing to devote so much time and money and e ort to our sport.

Another writer Ernest Becker won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Denial of Death where he wrote that sports are a way to achieve heroic victory and our way to overcome our fear and despair about death. All very heavy stu . Su ce it to say that this literature reinforces our com-mon sense awareness that sport is a very serious a air. Scholarships are worth as much as $250,000 and sports accomplishments bring press clippings, community rec-ognition and fame.

e literature in sport psychology suggests that when you take your sport too seriously your performance will su er. Too much intensity brings with it tight and poor play. We know that the more relaxed and fun you are having the better you will play. Hebb coined the term Optimal State of Arousal to describe the idea that too lit-tle intensity and too much intensity hurts performance. Too much e ort and too much focus will make you too tight. One must relax and try to have fun in order to play at your best.

So we see the con ict. You play at your best when you are light hearted, having fun and relaxed and carefree. But

on an unconscious level we all know how crucial winning is especially in big games. It may mean getting a scholarship or winning $1,300, 000 as Darren Clarke did when he won the British Open this summer. So what is the solution? How do you stay relaxed and have fun when its all on the line? I recommend you do two things. 1) You must feel rested enough physically and socially to be able to relax and en-joy the game you play. No injuries, no burnout and no big social distractions to deal with, 2) then you must be able to see that you are in fact bigger than your sport. You must feel you do not need the win. What I have learned by working with athletes in long term therapy is that the athlete must be accepted and made to feel worthwhile no matter what the outcome. Only then can they relax and play freely. e reason that the Japanese team beat the US in this years Fifa World Cup for women is that before the penalty kicks the Japanese coach joked and fooled around and got his players to laugh. at is some-thing that the US coach failed to do. e result was the US team was way too tight during the kicko and lost it all .Sometimes great coaches can do that for players and sometimes you will need a sport psychologist to do this. Sometimes a parent or a friend can help you see are of value and thus lesson the pressure. What I do know is that the key to playing relaxed is to see that sport is only a game and something to be enjoyed and played rather than desperately worked on. Usually you ought to try to relax breathe easy and try your best to minimize the pres-sure. Tell yourself how great you are already and go out with a smile rather than a grimace.sure. Tell yourself how great you are already and go out


It is only when you are relaxed that you play with grace and power

enough physically and socially to be able to relax and en-

A great coach knows how to relax his players


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Short CircuitThe athletic approach to summer tness.

Story By Mike Mejia, CSCS | Photos By Mike Browning

With summer nally here, nows the perfect time to kick back, relax and take a well deserved break from the rigors of scholastic sports. For the next couple of months you can forget all about the endless practices and constant traveling to away games and weekend tournaments. Yet, as much fun as summer can be, its not all about beaches and barbeques. Remem-ber, you are still an athlete and will be expected to show up in at least some form of sports-ready condition this fall. Not to mention the fact, that you also want to be able to rock the kind of body that people associate with a varsity level competitor, while youre hang-ing out poolside with your friends. So, the question is, how can you accomplish both of these goals, without spending too much of your precious summer vacation in the gym? Two words: Circuit Training!

Now, Im not talking about just any kind of circuit training here, mind you. Simply going through a battery of machine based exer-cises with little to no rest between sets may be ne for the general population, but its of little bene t to athletes. Instead, what you need are more functional movements that help improve things like core strength, mobility and explosive power, but strung together in a fast-paced, fat-melting circuit format! By training this way, youll accom-plish several di erent things:

Increased resistance to fatigue: e continuous pace, combined with the di erent focus of each exercise (i.e. explosive power, core strength, mobility and change of direction etc.) will really help im-prove your level of conditioning. Its also a great way to mimic the constantly changing physical demands youre exposed to during sports participation. (See below).

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