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Archive for March, 2010
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High school sports are still about the kids… aren’t they?
What is this craziness that seems to be infecting Arizona high school sports? Remember when high school athletics were about kids having fun playing the sports they enjoyed? And the coaches were there to guide the development of the players as athletes, but also as students and contributing members of society? It was an awesome task and [...] -
Women gymnasts take different mindsets into Pac-10 regional
The women’s gymnastics teams from ASU and UofA both learned this week that they have been selected to attend the April 10 Regional Championships. They are seeded just two places apart, but their path to get there was anything but similar. Arizona, which will be seeded fourth, hit all its routines to score 195.875 and place fourth [...] -
Wildcats snag national swim titles, Devil divers finish strong
They say there’s strength in numbers. The adage seems to have worked for University of Arizona swimmers. The Wildcats, who qualified the maximum number of swimmers (18) for the NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships just concluded, pulled off a third-place finish this year, scoring 387 points, and brought back a couple of individual titles as well. Arizona [...] -
ASU baseball packs the house as it sets best-start record
There’s nothing like winning to put fannies in the stadium seats. Throw in the drama of a drive to break a 49-year-old record, and you have a full house. Arizona State drew a sell-out crowd for each of the three baseball games against California this weekend. There hasn’t been a sell-out at the 4,371-seat Packard Stadium [...] -
ASU’s Ryan Whiting sets a new world mark in the shot put
While Arizona State was taking on the field in the ASU Invitational yesterday, Ryan Whiting was taking on the world. The Sun Devils won five events at the Invitational, including a sweep of the men’s shot put and discus. But Whiting continues to be the big story. Whiting, who has won three NCAA indoor national titles during [...] -
Chandler High School runs away with the Rotary Track Invite
A couple of out-of-state party crashers weren’t able to spoil the fun yesterday at Chandler High School. The Wolves still got the lion’s share of wins. Chandler HS cleaned up at their own party, the annual Chandler Rotary Track Invitational, held on their track. The girls showed why they are the three-time defending state champions by [...] -
ACCAC softball is a knotty problem as tournament time nears
The playoff push is on in the ACCAC softball wars. And four teams are knotted in a scramble to the top. A red-hot Arizona Western team is mixing it up today with Yavapai College, and Central Arizona College is visiting Pima CC, as each team tries to break out of the pack. Western is tied with [...] -
Charli is filling up the tank to get ASU back to the Big Dance
The Calvary is coming. And it looks like it’s arriving from Coolidge. Again. The Arizona State women’s basketball team has just signed what may be a key piece to its resurgance next year. Olivia Major, a sophomore guard on the five-time national champion Central Arizona College Vaqueras, is riding in with her 20 points per game [...] -
Sahuaro High School cleans up in Tucson track & field meet
Kathy Fisher wasn’t able to compete in the 300 Hurdles in Wednesday’s four-way track meet. But Sahuaro High School managed just fine without her participation in that event. Sahuaro HS collected wins in a total of 19 events, 11 of which were in the girls’ competition, to sweep Sabino HS, Sahuarita HS, and Desert Christian HS. [...] -
NCAA swimming championships swamped by a bug
Riley McCormick was on a roll heading into the men’s NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships this week. Now he sits and waits. The Arizona State diver had come from an impressive performance in the 10-meter competition at the Pac-10 Championships, literally destroying the rest of the field, and anxious to get on the board high atop [...]