Reid, third best rebounder in PAC

CHRISTINE BLOM SPORTS EDITOR CBB722@CABRINI EDU

Being the number three rebounder in the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference, sophomore forward, Randy Reid, is originally from Philadelphia, Pa.

Reid got his start on the court when he was just ten years old.

“I started playing basketball when I was in the fifth grade,” Reid said. “It’s all about the passion, the competitiveness and the friendships.”

Reid played all throughout high school, also as a forward, at Monsignor Bonner High School. As a sophomore, Reid realized his true passion for the sport through a major loss.

“My sophomore year, we played St. Joe’sPrep in a play-off game. We lost with very little time left on the clock. The final score was 66-46,” Reid said. “It was so upsetting. We all cried. It made me realize how much basketball meant to me. It was the worst game of my life.”

Reid came to Cabrini two years ago as an accounting major When he graduates he hopes to become involved with sports agents.

“On a typical day, I go to class, I study and I go to practice,” Reid said. “The I try and spend some time with the fellas and hit the books.”

Reid says that he has never had trouble balancing his school work with the game he loves.

“The program is really structured and it’s all about time management,” Reid said. “It’seasy to stay on top of everything when you have such a great support system.”

As a Cavalier, Reid thinks the best thing is the way the players get along and bond together.

“We are a never-ending family,” Reid said. “Being a part of a program like this says a lot. It means a lot, too.”

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Now back to the basketball nets. Fortunately this has been the only encounter where I could slightly see the advantage of being a guy when you are playing a sport.

Apparently, the members of the men’s basketball team don’t know how to put up or take down there own nets. After they are done practice, if our softball team is practicing after,we have to take the nets down and move them. Now I don’t know if it’s just me, but I see no reason why any team has to put away another sport’s equipment. Abasketball team’s equipment consists of a ball and two nets. There really isn’t a lot to clean up after practice.

I think about all the things my team would hear if we didn’t clean up our equipment. I am positive that no other team would clean it up for us and more so no other team should have to clean it up-we used it!

If the nets are up we move them back and we replace them when our practice is over. It’s not the biggest deal, but we don’t like to do it. But in the bigger picture there is an underlying point to be made that no one sees a problem with this minor net issue because we are girls and they are guys.

I mean of course I am lucky to only be able to link this incident to how I can see the different levels that male and female athletes are viewed as being on. I have never directly experienced mistreatment as a female athlete, although I’m sure that male athletes all over the nation have the upper hand, more privileges and better opportunities then female athletes.

This is unfortunate because the quality of a female athlete is no less then the quality of a male athlete. I know that female athletes and male athletes are built different, have different advantages because of the different make up of a male body versus a female body. But the when it comes down to it, all testosterone and estrogen put to the side, both men and women deserve the same respect in the athletic field.

Just because male athletes may have bigger muscles, may be able to run faster and on the professional level get more exposure and money then female athletes, it does not mean female athletes are inadequate.

We are just girls and women who love sports or love to be in shape, love the competition or love being part of a team. When it all boils down we are all in it, male or female, for the love of the game, no matter what game it is. And on any playing field the treatment should be fair and equal.

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