Club Sports Illustrated: November 18th Edition

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In This Issue

Executive Corner

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Women’s Soccer 10

Fresh Princess of UREC

That’s A Wrap

Baseball 4

Men’s Ultimate 13

Crazy Comeback Win At Elon

The Axe Forgets, The Tree Remembers

Equestrian 6

woMen’s Ultimate

Many Breeds Within the Species

Miley Buns Equal Twice The Fun

Fencing 9

Women’s Volleyball

Wrapping Up The Semester

Trick-or-Tournament

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November 18th Edition of Club Sports Illustrated Designed And Published by Ian Hensley, Edited by: Molly Sharp + Brook Fulford UREC Publicity Programmers Articles by App State Students Kimberly Vaderman

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EXECUTIVE CORNER

Angena Lebarre

"FRESH PRINCESS OF UREC" A Poem….To the toon of “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” Now this is a story all about how Angena LeBarre and her life in the south And I’d like to take a minute Just sit right there I’ll tell you how I became an Exec in my UREC lair In Jacksonville Florida born and raised Moving up and down the coast is where I spent most of my days Movin’ out travlin’ and switchin’ schools Playing sports and doing band is what I liked to do When a couple years later I decided: APP STATE! I figured this school would be pretty great Special Education as the major, Leadership the minor Why not grad school? What could be finer?

I work and strive day after day To be a great leader while I’m on my way I found a great niche and a great role too An Executive Officer is what I like to do I was a president of Rugby, and treasurer of a sorority I teach little kids and read them stories If anything I could say that my time here Has been some of the greatest past five years

Article By: Angena LeBarre

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BAseball

CRAZY COMEBA Despite a huge come-from-behind win, the Appalachian State Club Baseball Team dropped its first fall weekend series to fellow Mid-Atlantic South conference foe, Elon University on October 28 and 29.

In the first game of the series on Friday, the Mountaineers fell behind early, 4-1, and the score stayed that way until the final inning, before they mounted an unbelievable comeback.

With two outs in the ninth inning, App State loaded the bases, bringing Zack Thompson to the plate. He hit a high fly ball to the outfield that was dropped by the left fielder. All three baserunners were running on contact and scored, tying the game at four apiece and sending the App State dugout into a frenzy.

The game went into extra innings, coming to an end in the twelfth inning. Austin Radford started off the inning by reaching base on a single. Clark Jones moved him over to second base on a perfectly placed sacrifice bunt. Radford would steal third base before Carson Isaacs drove him in with a base hit up the middle, and the Mountaineers would take a 5-4 advantage.

Collin Martin came in to close the twelfth inning, securing the win and earning the save. Zach Roddy started

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Marla Martin

Marla Martin

Marla Martin

ACK WIN AT ELON

Marla Martin

the game, going seven strong innings before Elijah Weinman and Clark Jones relieved him. Jones earned the win, throwing three scoreless innings.

On Saturday, October 29, App State and Elon played a 7-inning doubleheader with the Phoenix claiming both games, securing the series win. Carson Chet started on the mound in game two with Presson Norwood coming in relief, and in game three, Kaleb Kluttz got the starting nod before Weinman relieved him.

The Mountaineers close out the fall season when they travel to Greenville, South Carolina, for the Greenville Invitational Tournament on November 12 and 13, which features yet another game against Elon and one game apiece against Western Carolina and Vanderbilt.

Article By: Eric Ortiz Team Member

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Equestrian

Many Breeds Within the Species When people think of horses, they often don’t know that there are many different breeds. In fact, there are 350 specific breeds of horses found around the world!

These range from feral horses, to miniature ponies, to more common breeds like the quarter horse. At Mimosa Hill Farms, twelve of these breeds are represented.

Members of the AppState western team ride and train at this particular stable in Morganton, NC. Our team gets to ride two types of horses in particular, the quarter horse and the paint horse.

The most prevalent type of horse in our discipline is the quarter horse. Commonly known as an “all American animal,” this breed is used for dozens of different tasks.

Originally, the quarter horse gained its name for being able to run at the most impressive speeds for quartermile (or shorter) races. Speed still comes naturally for quarter horses, as they are commonly seen in barrel racing, team roping, and reining events. However, they are also seen as hunter/jumpers, western pleasure mounts, and all –around ranch horses. They are even known to pull a carriage! The quarter horse is one of the most diverse breeds of horses in existence—and one of the largest. The American Quarter Horse Association, the registry for quarter horses, currently has an astounding three million registered.

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Another common type of breed is known as the paint horse. Paint horses are typically identified by their two-tone coat. Also known for being able to enter into a wide variety of events, paint horses are both beautiful and stocky—two traits that appeal to many people for a variety of tasks. The American Paint Horse Association is also one of the largest in the world, coming in right behind the AQHA. It’s important to note that not all paint horses feature the characteristic two-tone coat.

Some paints have just a solid coat—these are commonly known as “crop-out paints.”

At Mimosa Hill Farms, there are quarter horses, paint horses, palominos, sport horses, Bashkir curlies, Tennessee walking horses, Peruvians, warm bloods, morgans, Arabians, miniature horses, and fell ponies.

These horses are used for everything from jumping to driving to western horsemanship, with plenty in between! Each breed is unique and typically has a task that it excels at. As western riders, we usually stick to those that work well for us—paint and quarter horses.

However, every once in awhile our riders like to try something new!

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Article By: Savannah Mathis Captain-Western Team

Ferran Pestana

Crosby Reed

Donn Kobashigawa

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Fencing

Laren Brackett

Laren Brackett

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Laren Brackett

Laren Brackett

WRAPPING UP THE SEMESTER During the past semester, we were fortunate enough to travel to East Carolina for a training clinic and to Georgia Tech for the SIFA tournament. These were both great opportunities to bond and learn as a team, and to do a little adventuring along the way. I think we have grown tremendously both as a team and as a group of friends, which has been really fun. Additionally, the officers are discussing the possibility of hosting a tournament sometime in the coming semester and we are hoping to attend Nationals somewhere in North Carolina! The spring is typically our busier time for traveling, so be on the lookout for updates on our future tournaments.

We have had an awesome semester and are truly sad to see it coming to an end. We grew so much as a team and gained some really great members. Our Vice President, Sophomore Maria Cilenti, added

that she is particularly excited for the Winter Club Expo and hopes to expand our team with more recruitment opportunities next semester.

When asked about our favorite fencing moments this semester, Patrick Arsena said his favorite was hanging out with the team after a long day of competition.

We also have high hopes for a possible Krispy Kreme or Comeback Shack fundraiser night, so keep an eye out for that in the near future. See you in January for some more fencing fun!

Article By: Lauren Brackett Public Relations Officer

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Womens Soccer

That's A Wrap The fall season for the women’s club soccer team has sadly come to an end. The season kicked off with a many returning players as well as a substantial group of new members. Our home game debut was against our toughest competition, UNC-Chapel Hill, and another solid opponent, UNC-Wilmington. Two tough games later we came out with a win against UNC-Wilmington, and a loss against UNC-Chapel Hill. We quickly realized we had a lot of room for improvement as a team.

Increasing the intensity of our practices vastly improved not only our fitness, but also chemistry as a team. In late September we traveled to UNCGreensboro and beat them 5-0. The next day we hosted another home game where we defeated Wake Forest in a very intense game that ended in a 3-1 win.

The following weekend we traveled to Virginia Tech for a tournament. Our record over the weekend was 1-2-0 after three long games against UNC-Chapel Hill, James Madison University, and William and Mary. The tournament was a great bonding trip with our team as well as the men’s club soccer team.

Throughout the tournament we supported and

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cheered each other on and organized a group team dinner one night.

Our season finished with two make up games against Duke and ECU. Playing some of the best soccer we have this whole semester we beat Duke 1-0 and held a close game against ECU losing 0-1 in the end.

We didn’t just end there. Even though we all joined club soccer to play competitively, we also joined to have fun and make new friends. During the semester we held potlucks, went to haunted houses and other team bonding events. Our last practice of the season consisted of a heated kick ball game as well as a soccer tennis tournament. Our latest event was a Halloween potluck, and we plan on having more events as a team even if the season is over.

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Article By: mary ANNE Savage Club Council rep

Mary Anne Savage

Mary Anne Savage

Mary Anne Savage

Mary Anne Savage

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Men’s Ultimate

Rob Sprankle

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Rob Sprankle

Rob Sprankle

The Axe Forgets, The Tree Remembers It is the greatest samurai who lets his sword rust in the scabbard. One day you’re battling David and Goliath, and the next day you’re snuggled up watching old Peyton Manning highlights. Luckily for the Nomads we leave it all on the field. The first day on that pristine State Farm field was as the French say “bonjour”. We said hello to the other team and never looked back. Our first battle was against the Bum Alums, and we won handily 13-6. The second game up was against the young squires formerly known as the Bums. Chalk up another W. The third game was against the Oldmads, or as we like to call them “Tanks”. There’s an old story about Tom Cruise being the greatest to ever do it because as you probably guessed the mission was impossible and somehow he was still able to do it. Well next time you mention Tom Cruise you better not forgot to put the Nomads right next to that god. Nomads 13 Oldmads 9. Don’t call it a comeback. Special shout out to SAVAGE Ultimate for supplying us with some sweet

hats and Yardies for supplying a set to the winner of the tournament. Sunday the Nomads faced the Oldmads in a rematch of the best of the best of the best. Nomads take an L, but I’ll say it once and I’ll say it twice if you don’t get an L every once in awhile then there wouldn’t be 26 letters in the alphabet. Nomads finished the weekend by beating Golden State 15-14 on universe point. Shout out the Primos Pizza in the Boone Mall for giving us an awesome deal. Fantastic pizza, fantastic people. Thank you to Galileo’s for hosting a swell social for us to meet some other teams. And finally, after the games ended Saturday, we had a Pulls for Piece fundraiser. As always it has been a pleasure updating the loyal followers of the Nomads. Stay frosty.

Article By: Myles Grady Secretary

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Womens Ultimate

Miley Buns Equal Twice the Fun The Nonads hosted our home tournament, the Blueridge Blowout, this past weekend and rocked our way through. The weather and the competition were beautiful. We hosted eight teams including our alumni team. It is always a fun tournament to host especially when we get to see the alumni that come back and play as a pick up team. We played UNC Asheville, College of Charleston, and Davidson on Saturday winning all of our games. We played some lights out defense while really balling out on our offense to win our bracket.

We had a slow start to our playing on Sunday, but we finished fourth over all which is our highest finish in a

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tournament this season.

We will finish out the semester with a few more practices and our annual team sock exchange and potluck. This has been a great fall semester of Frisbee and we are all excited to see where we are headed next semester.

Article By: Sarah-Cabot Morris Secretary

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Womens VolleyBall

Mike Collins

Mike Collins

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Mike Collins

Trick-or-Tournament The Saturday before Halloween, Appalachian State Women’s Club Volleyball hosted their first home tournament and it was a real trick-or-treat! The competition included all four of the clubs’ competing teams plus one team from both East Tennessee State University and Georgia Southern. All teams fought hard throughout the day for the first place title and the spooky thing was that the National and Regional 1 team ended up head-to-headless in the final match.

Since the teams know each other well and are used to scrimmaging in practice, it made for a haunting atmosphere (not really, it was fun but I am trying to make this as halloween-y as possible!). The teams split the first two sets, with Regional 1 sweeping the first. However the National team came back and put the nail in the coffin on the last two sets.

All Mountaineer teams fought and played well, and the home tournament was an overall success! Thank you to the Student Recreation Center for hosting us, and to the parents and fans that came out to support Women’s Club Volleyball!

Women’s Club Volleyball finished out an exciting and successful season this past Saturday, November 5th at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s new student recreation center. All four teams competed starting at eight o’clock in the morning, and all gave their best efforts in matches against North Carolina State University, UNC Wilmington, NCA&T, UNC Chapel Hill, Elon, UNC Charlotte and of course UNC Greensboro. With over

20 teams present, the Mountaineers had a variety of tough competition and by the end of the day, the National team was the only competing team that powered through to the first round of tournament play. Alas, they too were defeated in the first round

by UNC Wilmington’s first team. The Mountaineers have a lot of work to do to prepare for the coming spring season, but overall showed an outstanding amount of growth, positive adaptations to change, and a lot of heart for the game.

As for the spring, the club is looking to make improvements in efficient use of practice time and space, continuing to improve interclub communication, and to get as much competitive experience as possible. Fall can be a difficult time for many schools to schedule club tournaments, in part because of fall football schedules, but the spring is a different story. The National team will be heading to Kansas City, Missouri for the NCVF Tournament while Regional Teams 1,2, and 3 will compete in a hopefully much fuller schedule. We are optimistic and enthusiastic for the coming season, but ready for a much-needed winter break!

Article By: Natalie Bouchard Secretary

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