The Red FLASH
The Official Newsletter of SAAC and SAMs
Vol. II, Issue 3: [February 2012]
The Red
FLASH
“Sinking Shots & Making Miracles” By: Catherine Helming, Women’s Lacrosse Gatorade Pong is more than just a fun night of competitive games for college students to prove their skills. It is a night where money is raised in order to benefit the Zack Hinish Foundation. The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee has been working with the Zack Hinish Foundation for the second year in a row, helping to raise money to enable children with disabilities to have the same opportunities as all of their classmates. Last year, our First Annual Gatorade Pong Tournament raised around $500 which went towards helping the Zack Hinish Foundation put in an all-ability playground in Hollidaysburg, PA. This year, Gatorade Pong doubled in size with over 70 teams participating. This allowed us to increase our donation to $1,000! The donation this year will go towards “I Can Skate, Too!” a project to purchase adaptive equipment for Galactic Ice in Altoona, PA so that children with disabilities have the opportunity to learn how to ice skate. The Gatorade Pong Tournament is also designed to help provide an alternative, alcohol-free opportunity for college students to participate in a fun social activity on a Saturday night. The tournament took place on December 10th in the Stokes Auxiliary Gym. First place honors were clinched by two men's volleyball players, Dominik Stork and John Beck. Second place went to AJ Bowman and Laura Stayrook representing football and women’s soccer. A pair of runners on the men's cross country and track and field team, Chris Fischer and Chris DeLaney, rounded out the top three teams. The top three teams were awarded gift cards, Gatorade, and special trophies designed by the women’s volleyball team. All participants this year received a safety orange t-shirt as well as pizza, wings and of course lots of Gatorade. Be sure to watch for the 3rd Annual Gatorade Pong Tournament next fall! Sponsors for the event included the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and their new “Party Smart” initiative, the Office of Drug and Alcohol Services with Cindy Baney, Red Radio, and Loretto Pub and Grill.
Student-Athlete Spotlight: Kevin Parker, Football By: Kellie Mason, Field Hockey 1. If someone wrote a biography about you, what do you think the title should be? “A Walk in My Shoes.” 2. If you could be one kind of animal, which would it be and why? I would be a lion. As the kings of the jungle, they stand for leadership, courage and pride. 3. What is something everyone should know about the football team? What goes on in the locker room stays in the locker room. “Pause.” 4. What will get you through tough early morning practices this Spring? I think the disappointment from last season will give me motivation to work that much harder and get better this spring. Also, lots of prayer and ice baths will help as well. 5. Name something worse than the Indianapolis Colts’ record this year. Nothing is worse than the Colts’ record; the disappointment the Colts organization and fans suffered week to week was horrible. Even though the season was bad I feel we learned a lot in where we need to improve.
Upcoming Stories: Think Pink Push-Up Showdown Recap, Results of the NEC SAAC Issue #: [Date] Dolor Penny Sit Amet War, Alicia Richardson Sports 4 Kids Day, and much more.
New Rules, Same Game By: John Skarupa, Men’s Volleyball Each year over the past couple of years we have seen some new rule changes to the men's side of volleyball. The 2012 season is no different as we see a new ball and an update to the libero rule. In 2008 Beijing Olympics, volleyball fans may have noticed a yellow and green ball with spiral lines instead of the straight lines found on a typical ball. This year, the NCAA has chosen to use a similar ball made by Molten, although it still keeps the same red, white and blue colors. It is lighter and made of different material that makes the ball decrease its speed so that we will have longer rallies. However, you will still see many balls being pounded down with force. The other rule change affects the libero, or the player with a different color jersey. You are now allowed to dress two liberos, while in years past you could only have one libero dress each game. However, you can only have one libero on the court at a time and there must be a play between a libero substitution. You cannot sub libero#1 off and have libero#2 come in for another player. In other words, you cannot have a libero on the court at all times. We are still in the rally scoring era and the games are still best of five games to 25, with the 5th game played to 15 points. I hope that this has been informative and will help you better understand the game. A word from Coach Rummy: “I hope that everyone’s semesters are going well and you are enjoying your years here at Saint Francis. I wanted to take a moment and reach out to everyone who has supported us in years past. We have some of the best fans in the NCAA here at Saint Francis. Our fans know the game and know how to show their support. I hope to see you all in the stands sometime this season; nothing gets our team fired-up more than playing in front of a rowdy crowd of Red and White!”
Four student-athletes take part in weekend long APPLE Conference On January 20th, Director of Student-Athlete Development John Krimmel and Assistant Director Jen Fox, along with four Saint Francis studentathletes traveled to Charlottesville, Va. to take part in the weekend long APPLE Conference. The Athletic Prevention Programming and Leadership Education (APPLE) conferences, developed by the Gordie Center for Substance Abuse Prevention at the University of Virginia, are the leading national training symposiums dedicated to substance abuse prevention and health promotion for student-athletes and athletics department administrators. The goal of the APPLE conference is to assist colleges in promoting student-athlete health and wellness by empowering teams of student-athletes and administrators to create an institution-specific action plan. "Every year I look forward to taking a group of our student-athletes to this conference,” Krimmel said. “This is one of the best conferences out there because it is well run and effective. Hats off to the great staff at the University of Virginia.”
This year's SFU student-athletes who participated in the 40-school conference include field hockey midfielder Tia Dudukovich, women's volleyball middle blocker Elizabeth Williams and Paul Print and Jake Smith of the SFU football team. They took part in team building activities on Friday and Saturday night that were put on by Charlottesville's Triple C Camp, as well as attend a number of informative sessions. “In addition to the sessions, our student-athletes got to interact with student-athletes and administrators from colleges and universities across the country and helped to develop an action plan to bring back here to Saint Francis,” Krimmel said. “I am so proud of our APPLE Team for representing Saint Francis with such class at the conference. Conferences like this one help to show student-athletes that they can make a difference on their respective college campuses." Part of Saint Francis' action plan will consist of restructuring the Student-Athlete Mentors program, which will be modeled after what the University of Central Florida currently has, along with developing a “Code of Conduct” for all SFU student-athletes.
Editor in Chief: Katie Dacanay Contributing Editors: Catherine Helming, Kellie Mason, John Skarupa
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Vol. II, Issue 3: [February 2012]
The Red
FLASH
“Sinking Shots & Making Miracles” By: Catherine Helming, Women’s Lacrosse Gatorade Pong is more than just a fun night of competitive games for college students to prove their skills. It is a night where money is raised in order to benefit the Zack Hinish Foundation. The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee has been working with the Zack Hinish Foundation for the second year in a row, helping to raise money to enable children with disabilities to have the same opportunities as all of their classmates. Last year, our First Annual Gatorade Pong Tournament raised around $500 which went towards helping the Zack Hinish Foundation put in an all-ability playground in Hollidaysburg, PA. This year, Gatorade Pong doubled in size with over 70 teams participating. This allowed us to increase our donation to $1,000! The donation this year will go towards “I Can Skate, Too!” a project to purchase adaptive equipment for Galactic Ice in Altoona, PA so that children with disabilities have the opportunity to learn how to ice skate. The Gatorade Pong Tournament is also designed to help provide an alternative, alcohol-free opportunity for college students to participate in a fun social activity on a Saturday night. The tournament took place on December 10th in the Stokes Auxiliary Gym. First place honors were clinched by two men's volleyball players, Dominik Stork and John Beck. Second place went to AJ Bowman and Laura Stayrook representing football and women’s soccer. A pair of runners on the men's cross country and track and field team, Chris Fischer and Chris DeLaney, rounded out the top three teams. The top three teams were awarded gift cards, Gatorade, and special trophies designed by the women’s volleyball team. All participants this year received a safety orange t-shirt as well as pizza, wings and of course lots of Gatorade. Be sure to watch for the 3rd Annual Gatorade Pong Tournament next fall! Sponsors for the event included the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and their new “Party Smart” initiative, the Office of Drug and Alcohol Services with Cindy Baney, Red Radio, and Loretto Pub and Grill.
Student-Athlete Spotlight: Kevin Parker, Football By: Kellie Mason, Field Hockey 1. If someone wrote a biography about you, what do you think the title should be? “A Walk in My Shoes.” 2. If you could be one kind of animal, which would it be and why? I would be a lion. As the kings of the jungle, they stand for leadership, courage and pride. 3. What is something everyone should know about the football team? What goes on in the locker room stays in the locker room. “Pause.” 4. What will get you through tough early morning practices this Spring? I think the disappointment from last season will give me motivation to work that much harder and get better this spring. Also, lots of prayer and ice baths will help as well. 5. Name something worse than the Indianapolis Colts’ record this year. Nothing is worse than the Colts’ record; the disappointment the Colts organization and fans suffered week to week was horrible. Even though the season was bad I feel we learned a lot in where we need to improve.
Upcoming Stories: Think Pink Push-Up Showdown Recap, Results of the NEC SAAC Issue #: [Date] Dolor Penny Sit Amet War, Alicia Richardson Sports 4 Kids Day, and much more.
New Rules, Same Game By: John Skarupa, Men’s Volleyball Each year over the past couple of years we have seen some new rule changes to the men's side of volleyball. The 2012 season is no different as we see a new ball and an update to the libero rule. In 2008 Beijing Olympics, volleyball fans may have noticed a yellow and green ball with spiral lines instead of the straight lines found on a typical ball. This year, the NCAA has chosen to use a similar ball made by Molten, although it still keeps the same red, white and blue colors. It is lighter and made of different material that makes the ball decrease its speed so that we will have longer rallies. However, you will still see many balls being pounded down with force. The other rule change affects the libero, or the player with a different color jersey. You are now allowed to dress two liberos, while in years past you could only have one libero dress each game. However, you can only have one libero on the court at a time and there must be a play between a libero substitution. You cannot sub libero#1 off and have libero#2 come in for another player. In other words, you cannot have a libero on the court at all times. We are still in the rally scoring era and the games are still best of five games to 25, with the 5th game played to 15 points. I hope that this has been informative and will help you better understand the game. A word from Coach Rummy: “I hope that everyone’s semesters are going well and you are enjoying your years here at Saint Francis. I wanted to take a moment and reach out to everyone who has supported us in years past. We have some of the best fans in the NCAA here at Saint Francis. Our fans know the game and know how to show their support. I hope to see you all in the stands sometime this season; nothing gets our team fired-up more than playing in front of a rowdy crowd of Red and White!”
Four student-athletes take part in weekend long APPLE Conference On January 20th, Director of Student-Athlete Development John Krimmel and Assistant Director Jen Fox, along with four Saint Francis studentathletes traveled to Charlottesville, Va. to take part in the weekend long APPLE Conference. The Athletic Prevention Programming and Leadership Education (APPLE) conferences, developed by the Gordie Center for Substance Abuse Prevention at the University of Virginia, are the leading national training symposiums dedicated to substance abuse prevention and health promotion for student-athletes and athletics department administrators. The goal of the APPLE conference is to assist colleges in promoting student-athlete health and wellness by empowering teams of student-athletes and administrators to create an institution-specific action plan. "Every year I look forward to taking a group of our student-athletes to this conference,” Krimmel said. “This is one of the best conferences out there because it is well run and effective. Hats off to the great staff at the University of Virginia.”
This year's SFU student-athletes who participated in the 40-school conference include field hockey midfielder Tia Dudukovich, women's volleyball middle blocker Elizabeth Williams and Paul Print and Jake Smith of the SFU football team. They took part in team building activities on Friday and Saturday night that were put on by Charlottesville's Triple C Camp, as well as attend a number of informative sessions. “In addition to the sessions, our student-athletes got to interact with student-athletes and administrators from colleges and universities across the country and helped to develop an action plan to bring back here to Saint Francis,” Krimmel said. “I am so proud of our APPLE Team for representing Saint Francis with such class at the conference. Conferences like this one help to show student-athletes that they can make a difference on their respective college campuses." Part of Saint Francis' action plan will consist of restructuring the Student-Athlete Mentors program, which will be modeled after what the University of Central Florida currently has, along with developing a “Code of Conduct” for all SFU student-athletes.
Editor in Chief: Katie Dacanay Contributing Editors: Catherine Helming, Kellie Mason, John Skarupa
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