CLUB SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SPRING SEASON, 2019
1.25.2019 // NO. 106
CARE. ENGAGE. TRANSFORM.
TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE CORNER “Old Dogs Can Learn New Tricks” / 1 PHOTO COMP / 3 FENCING “Spring Fever” / 5 ALPINE SKI “Our Spectacular Advisor” / 7 ARCHERY “How I Became an Elite Archer” / 9 WOMEN’S LACROSSE “Hello Spring Seaon” / 12 WOMEN’S RUGBY “Back to the Grind” / 13 MEN’S ULTIMATE “Start your Engines” / 16 WOMEN’S ULTIMATE “Life Updates” / 17 WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL “Empathy” / 20 EQUESTRIAN “Back in the Saddle” / 21 LET’S BE SOCIAL / 23
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Club Sports Illustrated Edition 106 // January, 25th 2019 Designed by: Lydia Shoffner, UREC Publicity Program Assistant Articles by: Club Sports Team Officers
UREC DIRECTORY EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Patrick Arsena arsenapb@appstate.edu
Claire Biaggi biaggice@appstate.edu Sam Ingles inglessd@appstate.edu Greg Liles lilesgs@appstate.edu Ivy Wagner wagnerik@appstate.edu
UREC PRO STAFF
Joe Carter, Director carterjr@appstate.edu
Erin Sanders, Assistant Director for Sports and Activities sandersec1@appstate.edu Emily Walker, Coordinator for Sports and Activities walkerea3@appstate.edu Emily Haas, Coordinator for Sports and Activities haaser@appstate.edu Contact UREC 828-262-2100 www.urec.appstate.edu www.clubsports.appstate.edu clubsports@appstate.edu
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EXECUTIVE CORNER
OLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS BY: IVY WAGNER, EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Club Sports teams and Executive Officers alike were excited about a few innovations rolled into the program this Fall semester, but my favorite is the new addition added this Spring semester! As a previous Treasurer and President of the Equestrian team, I know all about the old ways in previous years of dragging your binder-full of tiny fluttering receipts with you across campus and up the SRC stairs to meet with your Club Sports Executive Officer. The pain was only emphasized by having to wait for your Exec Officer to scan in your team’s $5 Walmart receipts and monthly bank statements for the entire semester one-by-one. This year, however, we opened the 2018-2019 year with a new Google Share Drive where teams are able to upload scanned copies of their receipts and bank statements directly to the Drive, and input their expenses themselves, effectively avoiding the pain of watching their Executive Officer scan-in and record their team’s 20 hotel room receipts for the semester! This is something I know others in the Club Sports office are excited about as well, since they no longer have to wait for their printing jobs stuck behind stacks of receipts to be scanned by Executives. Coming into the Spring 2019 semester, we have rolled out an additional document to the Drive that allows teams to track their members’ MIC documentation progress, which I am personally very excited to see implemented. As those in our program know, each participating member must have a completed MIC profile, which consists of three components, to participate in team activities and practice. Noticing that a lot of our teams were having a hard time keeping track of whether or not new members have a completed MIC profile, or which component these members are missing if they do not, our Executive Officers decided to implement this MIC Progress Report into the Google Drive that will hopefully help our team executives stay on top of their membership and allow our Executive team to streamline yet another process for our teams! Here’s to the excitement of an ever-improving Club Sports Program! I hope everyone is as excited as I am about these changes and is looking forward to a great Spring semester! 1
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OFFICE HOURS
Patrick Arsena / arsenapb@appstate.edu Wednesday: 11:00am-1:00pm Thursday: 10:00am-12:00pm
Sam Ingles / inglessd@appstate.edu Monday: 9:00am-10:30am Wednesday: 9:00am-10:00am and 4:00pm-5:00pm
Greg Liles / lilesgs@appstate.edu Tuesday: 9:00am-11:00am Thursday: 9:00am-11:00am
Ivy Wagner / wagnerik@appstate.edu Monday: 2:00pm-3:30pm Wednesday: 2:00pm-4:30pm
COMMUNITY. LEADERSHIP. COMPETITION. Claire Biaggi / biaggice@appstate.edu Wednesday: 11:45am-1:45pm Friday: 11:45am-1:45pm
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You may check out equipment @ Library Tech Desk in the basement of the library with App Card o These items can be checked out for three days at a time: Tripods, Gopro (with mounts), DSLR Cameras Ask your friends that are in the Photography program to help you take some photos of your team in action o Any monetary exchange for photographic services will disqualify your submission o You must have photographer’s consent Team officers must be the ones to submit photos o Limited to three submissions per team To edit, open your photo in Photoshop o Do some basic color correction (image>Adjustments>) To size the image, go to (Image>Image size) and make sure the photo is 300 ppi Save the image as a .JPG Photographs must have been taken since the close of the last Club Sports Photo Competition (March 21, 2018 - Present). Name your image files with the team name and photograph title as such: TeamName_Title (i.e. Snowboarding_EpicGnar) Submit your photo by going to the Club Sports AppSync page > Forms > 2019 Club Sports Photo Competition Entry Form *If you have any questions please email clubsports@appstate.edu **Visit Club Sports on AppSync for full rules and submission form
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APP STATE CLUB SPORTS
Submissions Open: March 13 Submission Deadline: March 24 Submit via Club Sports AppSync Winner revealed at Club Sports Banquet *only 3 submissions per team accepted (828) 262-2100 clubsports.appstate.edu clubsports@appstate.edu
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SPRING FEVER
photography by Ian Lilliston
BY: MARIA CILENTI, PRESIDENT
With a new semester brewing, the fencing team came back in full swing! Our winter breaks were composed of family vacations, traveling around the country, and training in the off season! Our junior saber fencer Nicholas Bayne flew from coast to coast, landing in California where he got to see the starting places of star wars and huge Hollywood named actors and actresses. For the New Year, some of our members travelled back to Boone town to celebrate 5
2019 and our president, Maria Cilenti’s, 22nd birthday when the ball dropped, and soon after, Ian Brundige’s 21st birthday as well! Those that stayed in town afterwards enjoyed our free time by snowboarding, going bowling, hiking, and taking a team trip into Charlotte for the 2019 January NAC. NAC is North American Cup, where division I athletes, top rated fencers, seniors, and even wheelchair fencers are featured. With this event taking place in Charlotte, Maria Cilenti, Hunter Lee, Emily MacDonald, Ben
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Lockwood, Caroline Gorman, and Patrick Arsena took advantage of this opportunity to watch world class fencers compete. Seeing this event was incredible; witnessing the finals for the foil wheelchair event gives fencers a tremendous appreciation for the athletes that devote their time and skills to master their event. We also had the opportunity to meet friends from all over such as Harvard University, Temple University, and Chapel Hill. Looking forward, we are extremely excited to see how the team competes. The season will
kick off with the Knoxville Open in February where our fencers will have the opportunity to become nationally ranked. March will take the team to MidSouth Fencing Club in Durham, which for some of our fencers, is a blast from the past. Many of our saber fencers learned how to fence for the first time at MidSouth and are excited to go back and compete there.
new officer and club council representative Ben Lockwood. The officers will also be implementing a new tactical training day where each weapon will get together and go over videos of themselves fencing. This new idea hopes to serve as a mental training day and will hopefully have positive outcomes.
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Next on our schedule is what the team works towards all year: the 2019 Spring SIFA event which will be hosted at UNC Greensboro. The tournament consists of team events where we’ll compete against schools such as Florida State, UF, USC, Charlotte, UT, Emory, TCNJ and many more. This two day-long event not only allows for our teammates to compete at a high level, but also support and bond with one another. After SIFA, App State will be hosting their Mountaineer Open the first weekend of April! Our event will host teams such as UNC Charlotte, UNC Greensboro, Clemson, and USC. Needless to say, our team is eager to suit up and begin practices with help from our photography by Ian Lilliston
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OUR SPECTACULAR ADVISOR Dr. Witold Kosmala, also known as Dr. K, has been the Alpine Ski Team’s faculty advisor for over 15 years. He started skiing in Poland as a child. Dr. Kosmala works as a professor of Mathematics here at App State. He teaches classes that range from Calculus I to Graduate level mathematics. Dr. Kosmala has been published in numerous publications, with topics varying 7
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BY: MIKEL SMALLE, CLUB SPORTS REPRESENTATIVE
from “Discovering Center of Mass” to “Representation of Solutions of a Solvable Nonlinear Difference Equation of Second Order.” He has been teaching at Appalachian state since 1984. Dr. Kosmala has been skiing since he was four years old. He learned to ski in Poland and had continued to ski since
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emigrating to the United States. In 1987, Dr. K earned his PSIA Alpine Level 1 accreditation. PSIA, Professional Ski Instructors of America, is the governing board for Alpine ski instructors in America. Since then, he has been accredited as a Level 2 and Level 3 instructor, as well as a certified Alpine Trainer. In this time, Dr. Kosmala has taught numerous instructors the art of
ALPINE SKI teaching skiing at mountains such as Sugar Mountain, Beech Mountain, and Mammoth Mountain. He has been a ski instructor at Sugar Mountain and Stratton Mountain. Dr. K has been the faculty advisor for the Alpine Ski Club for over 15 years. He has classroom sessions to help teach the fundamentals of skiing, while also doing dryland sessions. The dryland sessions are done in the parking lot at Watauga High School. Dr. Kosmala has a trike that allows the user to mimic the motion of skiing. He uses this to help train during the off-season. He even comes to our home races to cheer us on. We really appreciate him and everything he has done for our team. photography by Claire Biaggi
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HOW I BECAME AN “ELITE� ARCHER BY: MATTHEW PROCTOR, CLUB SPORTS REPRESENTATIVE When I joined the archery club my sophomore year of college. I had just bought my first compound bow and had no experience in the sport whatso-ever. I had a very old family bow and no knowledge of how to shoot or how to increase my shooting ability. After joining the Appalachian Archery team, I quickly learned better shooting methods, techniques, and began to gather archery education. I began a search for a new bow and was suggested to look at a few brands; one of the members had an Elite bow and I really liked the way it look and with further conversation, decided that was the brand I wanted to buy. It was this same individual (Byron 9
Burrell) that sent me a link one day to an Elite bow on sale for a very good price. After receiving my bow, I realized I had made a great decision because I loved the way it looked, felt, and most importantly performed. Once I had set the bow up with newer, and better equipment, my scored jumped tremendously and I quickly became a much better archer. There are few characteristics that had a strong influence on performance: the weight and balance of the bow, the thinner and more comfortable, wood handled grip, and the immaculate draw cycle and let off.
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The most important feature was the draw cycle. When drawing a compound bow, there is certain location in the cycle where all compound bows reach their maximum pulling weight. This is usually located roughly half way through the draw cycle. With the Elite draw cycle, it is one smooth, continuous motion. Other bow brands will feel like they are skipping or have an incredible amount of resistance while drawing and become uncomfortable and causes the shooter to strait to complete the draw. The next most important feature for myself is the let off. When my bow (Elite Energy 35) reaches the max drawing length, there is no resistance what-so-ever. I can completely relax my arm and the bow will not want to jump forward. This feature is adjustable and in my opinion is a very important feature to contribute to a higher score. In conclusion, I would suggest buying an Elite over any brand of bow on the market. I have owned my bow for roughly two years now and I love it more and more with every shot. In my opinion there is no better bow produced and certainly no better draw cycle on the market.
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HELLO SPRING SEASON! BY: TAYLOR MCINTOSH, CLUB SPORTS REPRESENTATIVE The weather won’t stop the Appalachian State Womens Lacrosse team! Every year we have to power through snow days, freezing practices, and wet fields-and we always get it done that is for sure! With practices on a bit of a delay due to field conditions at the moment, the officers have been meeting regularly to make all the plans for the upcoming Spring season. Not only planning tournaments, but planning lacrosse socials, fundraisers, and reading through the NCAA rule book so we can go into the looming season fully prepared, no matter how big of a curveball Boone weather decides to throw us! This past week, we held our
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interest meeting on Friday. We have put together a powerpoint outlining what it means to be a part of the Women’s lacrosse team here at App State. With all these plans underway, in addition to all the effort being put in by our lovely officers, it is hard not to be incredibly pumped about the season to come. Our first tournament will be held right here at home on February 16-17; we have dubbed this tournament a “Galentine’s Tournament”. Red lacrosse balls, a Valentine’s Day themed gift basket awarded to the winning team, the whole nine yards! We are hoping to draw a big crowd cheering on the Appalachian State women as we embark on
WOMEN’S LACROSSE our first game of the season. We plan on making this a tournament to remember, one that will follow for years to come! I believe I speak for the whole team when I say how excited we are about the tournament filled, fun filled season we have ahead of us! Snow, wind, rain, freezing temperatures, bring. it. on.
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BACK TO THE GRIND BY: HANNAH KOON, CLUB SPORTS REPRESENTATIVE AHO Women’s Rugby had a blast over winter break as everybody dispersed to their hometowns, and some even hung out in Boone until Christmas Eve. Everyone was happy to see fellow AHO that lived near home, and everybody eagerly awaited the return to Boone to be back together. My team’s love for one another is a big reason that I’ve stuck around for rugby because the family bonds are like nothing I’ve ever experienced. I’m personally very excited to meet the new women that will join 13
the team this semester because every one of my teammates is an incredible person that I have the pleasure to know. Our team is officially back in Boone and ready to take on another semester of rugby matches, tournaments, and conditioning. So far this semester, AHO has two home games scheduled for February against UNC-C and Coastal Carolina. The executive board is looking at some tournament opportunities later in the semester that we may
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also partake in. As the two first weeks of classes progress, AHO has been setting up recruitment opportunities across campus to reach any new interested ruggers that potentially want to join the team this spring. We’re very excited to meet these new faces and see the potential and passion that develops within every new rugger that joins the team! AHO Women’s Rugby wishes Appalachian State a great start to 2019!
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START YOUR ENGINES The Dayton 500, The Indy 500, Talladega . . . What does everyone in these races have to do? They have to start their engines. Your Appalachian State Alien Mountain Nomads are getting ready to do some cruisin this weekend as we start our engines and head down to Chapel Hill to start our season off at Carolina Kickoff. Chapel Hill, where some of the greats have come from: Michael Jordan, James Worthy, Psycho T, Ty Lawson, Harrison Barnes, and The Goat, Seventh Woods. Luckily none of those boys will be on the fields this weekend, so we at least have a chance. After finishing our fall semester off with a great home tournament, our boys’ arms itching to throw again. We
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have a tough first game of our semester against Florida State, a team that made a big splash at nationals last year. We follow that up by playing in a rivalry game that mirrors UNC/Duke, App State Ultimate vs NC State Ultimate. The lads from Raleigh are nationals contenders and we are ready to take their spot. We finish our day with Temple and the process. This should be a fun and competitive weekend to start our spring season. We are ready to compete this weekend and will have a great time doing it. Spring tournaments are always a lot more competitive and we are ready to show what Alien Mountain Nomad frisbee is about. What can beat a weekend with the boys and playing the
greatest sport ever invented? A quote comes to mind from the great Myles Grady, former writer of these articles, “ Wind in my hair, not a care in the world. Live, Laugh, Love.” To finish my first Club Sports article of the semester I would like to shout out the women’s ultimate frisbee team at App State, the Nonads. Through the years we’ve had some great scrimmages that have been fun and competitive. We look forward to continuing to work with you in the future. Stay golden out there Nomads fans.
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LIFE UPDATES
BY: BRIANNA HIBNER, SECRETARY
The Women’s Ultimate team finished the year strong placing second at blowout, our home tournament, and shared lots of laughs and shenanigans last semester. We are looking forward to this semester with our first tournament being the 2nd and 3rd of February at Chapel Hill. We are excited for the competitive side of frisbee as we dive into our spring season. To update our fan base, the Nonads have done a lot of awesome activities over the break. Julia Adams and Paige Tarleton traveled up north with Bri Hibner to shred some pow at the slopes, explore the deep woods of Vermont, and admit the fact we cannot go a full break without seeing each other. Madison Browne and her 80 year old grandfather took flight in Siesta Key, Florida over winter break. Madison wanted to give her grandpa a shout out, he was born in Italy and immigrated to the united states when he was 16. After graduating from New York University, on a full ride, he worked at the Pentagon. Madison and her grandfather went parasailing this year and 17
plan to go skydiving next year. The Nonads love you Grandfather Browne. Jack and Margarita llamas become TV famous at the Sixers game over break. Not only did they cheer the loudest in the arena, but they got the players sweat towels at the end. On behalf of the whole women’s ultimate frisbee team, we are very excited to have the Jack Llamas back on the sidelines to Fortnite dance us to regionals and beyond. Without Jack’s sick dance moves and support we would not be the fun, pumped up team that we are today. Rachel Milkereit “flew like a bird over break.” That’s all she gave me, find her and ask for details if so inclined. We would also like to give a shout out to Nacho for all he did for the Llamas family. Sadly Nacho, a loving, family oriented, Chihuahua, ran away on a family vacation to New Jersey. As a team we are all very upset to hear of the loss of such a great partner. We know that Nacho is on the adventure of a lifetime, possibly becoming a producer for Jersey
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Shore, enjoying long endless day at the beach not knowing what month it is. He is taking surf lessons, rooming sunup to sundown, eating clam chowder, lobster dinners, and occasionally chinese food when he is feeling just right. Nacho misses his family and all that they did for him but he wants them to know he is living his best doggie life and he cannot wait to meet them again in another life form. Back to reality, this semester we will miss our recent graduate Katie Bowyer. She graduated with a degree in music therapy and is starting her internship in St. Petersburg, Florida being a music therapist for children. We wish Katie the best of luck and want her to know we will be missing her dearly on and off the turf. Can’t wait to see our fans out there this season, let there be hucks, layouts, skies, and a whole lot of dubs. 2019, you will be a good one.
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EMPATHY
BY: HEATHER INMAN, CLUB SPORTS REPRESENTATIVE
In the dictionary, the definition of empathy is described as the ability to understand and the share the feelings of another. You might wonder why I’m telling you this? Well one of the most important things I have learned about playing a sport is learning empathy for the other team, a true respect for the other athlete. Not to say this should make you play any less competitive or you give up during a game, match, or competition. No, it means at the end of it all a team will lose, an athlete who’s fought for their team for as long as they can remember will have to accept defeat, and someone’s season will come to a final end. That is when empathy should be dealt with in respect full of grace and dignity in regard to the dedication of each individual athlete. Three years ago, I ended my high school volleyball career playing for the last time as the starting varsity libero. In the second round of playoffs, we lost a heartbreaking match to a very competitive team that in the end won out. Tears all over the team were shed at the reality that for us seniors, our season together was really over. As expected, empathy was felt around the entire team yet, something unexpected happened beyond that. A member from the winning
team came over expressing to me that she noticed my skills on the court, leadership, determination, and her true shared empathy of being a senior athlete that has to face the same reality of saying goodbye to a sport soon that’s been a part of her life on a daily basis. The graciousness that day of like-mindedness for a love of the same sport is something I’ll never forget. That night on the last bus ride home was full of love, laughter, and joy between the seniors and the rest of the team. I’d played with this team for four years and had worn the jaguar jersey for as long as I could remember. Playing a sport teaches you many valuable lessons about teamwork, leadership, and determination. It taught me the importance of building relationships and making those life lasting connections that really do go far in life. My freshman year I walked onto Appalachian State University’s campus and went to the Club Expo that was offered to all incoming students. I was utterly excited to find Women’s Club Volleyball present!! At first, I was concerned about making new teammates and that I’d never be able to replace my last team but I decided to take a leap and put my name down.
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL That year I traded in my old jaguar jersey for a new black and yellow Mountaineers jersey. Appalachian gave me a new opportunity to continue what I love while building connections with new amazing people. In my current sophomore year, I am on the executive board for Women’s Club Volleyball as the Club Representative. I serve alongside four other ladies that strive to make this club excellent and really have a passion for the sport that shows in our continual dedication. This new role has allowed me to realize the importance of getting to show others what Appalachian provides not only at Club Sports, but beyond that. I am so happy to be a part of a club that allows me to represent my Mountaineer pride, and share how much I’ve fallen in love with Appalachian State. Thank you, Club Sports!!
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BACK IN THE SADDLE The Equestrian Team has already jumped into the Spring Season, reluctant that we were able to have our first meeting the week that classes started back. With this being said, there have been a few changes to the Hunt Seat team due to the loss of the indoor arena per snowstorm at Foothills Equestrian Center as well as a change in the competing coach for the rest of the year. At last minute Sarah Klassett stepped up as our head coach, in order to compensate for our previous coach departing from her time at Foothills. In addition, a couple members dropped out of their leadership positions at the very 21
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BY: KAYLA GUNTER, CLUB SPORTS REPRESENTATIVE end of last semester, resulting in the need for a new VP and Social Chair. Luckily we were fortunate to have Maya Townsend step up to be Vice President, bringing new positivity to the exec board. So far we have gained a few new members this Spring and look forward to providing them with a fun-filled and hopefully not “too cold� semester in the saddle. With this being said, we started lessons this week and will continue to have lessons up until the weather permits us otherwise. The horses are also doing well, as we are making sure to properly warm them up before lessons to ensure
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that their muscles do not stiffen due to the freezing temperatures. Overall, this season we look forward to getting to know the new members as well as doing more as a collective team. We are already coming up with more team bonding activities as well as bringing back boot cleanings before competitions which have proven successful in the past. Our team has the potential to be stronger than ever and aims to make the most out of the time that the seniors have left.
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