Sell helps lead way with improved team concept
(04/22/98 4:00am)
Sometimes, dreams change.
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Sometimes, dreams change.
It might have been more exciting if it hadn't been so expected.
When Lise Gregory took over the Florida State women's tennis program in the 1996-97 season, she had one goal in mind: to become one of the nation's top 10 teams within the next three years. When Jamie Ashworth took over the Duke women's tennis program in the middle of the 1997 season, his goals were somewhat higher: to lead the Blue Devils to their first NCAA title.
There is going to be a lot of tension around the dinner table next Christmas in Kathy Sell's household. Somewhere between the "please pass the gravy" and the "are you going to eat that piece of ham," there will be at least a couple of evil glances, kicks under the table and an "are you choking?" followed by a "don't worry, she does it all the time, remember that doubles match in February?"
James Dean always held to one philosophy in life: dream your dreams for tomorrow, but live your life for today.
Earlier this year, South Carolina men's tennis coach Kent DeMar was inducted into the South Carolina Tennis Hall of Fame. Yesterday at the Cone-Kenfield tennis center in Chapel Hill, he once again proved why.
The ballroom: Cameron Indoor Stadium. The partner: fifteenth seeded Middle Tennessee State University, champions of the Ohio Valley Conference. Leading the dance: the No. 2 seed in the west, the Duke University women's basketball team.
Call them serious contenders and you'd be a bit unrealistic. Call them a Cinderella team and you'd be overstating it. But call the wrestling team unimportant to this weekend's Atlantic Coast Conference, and you would be dead wrong.
Mayor of Punxatawney, Pa., men's basketball coach at N.C. State? Mayor of Punxatawney, coach of N.C. State?
In what has been a season of superlatives, it seems only fitting that Duke women's basketball coach Goestenkors would be named the Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year. For Goestenkors, however, her second Coach of the Year award in three years, came a bit unexpectedly, despite leading the Blue Devils to their first ever regular season championship and its highest national ranking in school history.
In a season where records fell like the raindrops that soaked Durham all season, winning the Atlantic Coast Conference title outright and fielding the No. 1 seed in this weekend's conference tournament is something out of a fairy tale. And for the Duke women (20-6, 13-3 in the ACC), the view from the top is unbelievable. Then again, that's what Humpty Dumpty thought too.
Somewhere, Sisyphus has to be smiling, maybe even empathizing with the women's tennis team. Damned eternally to push a rock up a hill, each time coming closer and closer to the top before the rock rolls back down, he might just know a little bit about the Duke situation. After three consecutive semifinal losses in the National Women's Team Indoor Championships, the Blue Devils pushed their proverbial rock one notch further this year before again succumbing, this time in the finals to defending NCAA champion Stanford.
Chances are if you look at the calendar of any women's basketball player, you won't have any trouble finding the box for Feb. 12. Chances are its been circled, starred, boxed and circled again. Chances are somewhere in the middle are three letters: UNC.
When it comes to Georgia Schweitzer and basketball, there's no stopping her. In grade school, her mother couldn't stop her from shooting on her backyard court. In high school, the janitors couldn't stop her from practicing in the high school gym. And in college, there haven't been too many coaches that have figured out just how to stop her from winning.
College basketball is a game played by those of great will and determination, of natural talent and carefully honed skills, of athleticism and grace. Yet, ultimately it is a game owned by those of a greater level, the select few-those teams that make themselves No. 1 and those players that make themselves champions.
New course listing for the spring semester: Job security 101. Instructor- C. Anderson. Lesson one: Don't lose.
If Florida is the Sunshine State, then the Florida State women's basketball program must be a sunspot.
To have seen the game is to have never forgotten it. To have seen the shot is to have never forgotten her. A young freshman dropped Carmichael Auditorium to its knees as she bolted the length of the court and smoothly sank a 12-foot jumper. The clock read :01.6. The scoreboard read Duke 86 UNC 85. The game was over and Hilary Howard's stardom had begun
A (not so) long time ago in a college far, far away...
For the Duke women's basketball team and the student body there is one burning question that the first two days of the San Juan Shootout will force the Blue Devils to answer: What the heck is a Saluki, anyway?