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TWIRLING TO HEAL Future OU student overcomes serious brain condition
WHAT IS HYDROCEPHALUS? Haylee Chiariello, a soon-to-be OU student, was diagnosed with hydrocephalus after a routine eye exam. We asked neurosurgeon Dr. Naina Gross for some more information about the condition: Hydrocephalus is a Greek word that can be broken into two parts: “hydro” meaning water and “cephalus” meaning head. The condition occurs in an individual when an abnormal amount of cerebrospinal fluid accumulates within the cavities or ventricles of the brain, according to the Hydrocephalus Association. The general adult population makes about half a liter of cerebrospinal fluid a day, which circulates around the brain, spinal cord and back up to the surface of the brain where it gets reabsorbed — unless an individual has hydrocephalus.
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Haylee Chiariello, senior homeschool student, is in the running to become OU’s next twirler. Chiariello plans to major in Native American studies next semester.
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our years ago, Haylee Chiariello lay in bed at the The Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center unable to walk, talk or remember things about her life before surgery. She spent a two-week stay in the hospital constantly praying, thinking about pursuing the passion she was forced to put aside — baton twirling. Chiariello, now 18, can not only walk and talk again, but travels the country competing in baton twirling events and is applying to become the next OU twirler. The Cherokee woman will achieve one of her greatest lifelong dreams in August when she sets foot on the OU campus as a freshman pursuing Native American studies. As a freshman in high school, Chiariello was diagnosed with congenital obstructive hydrocephalus. Hydrocephalus occurs when an abnormal amount of cerebrospinal fluid accumulates within the cavities or ventricles of the brain. Treating hydrocephalus requires brain surgery that lasts about 30 minutes, pediatric neurosurgeon at OU Health Science Center, Dr. Naina Gross, said. Patients usually stay overnight in the hospital and are sent home with over-the-counter pain medication and are told to rest for a few weeks, Gross said. Chiariello is one of the exceptions to a typical recovery. She was in the hospital for two weeks, vomiting from a shift in her brain pressure and unable to walk or get out of bed without the help of a wheelchair. “I suffered memory loss ; I couldn’t really talk, either. I felt like I was being changed. I felt like I lost a big part of my life during the surgery, and it was really hard,” Chiariello said. “I was a twirler at the time, too. I had just started twirling at 13, and it was really hard
CHLOE MOORES • @CHLOEMOORES13 that I had to put that down and put it aside while I was healing.” Two months after surgery, as soon as she could hold a baton in her hand, Chiariello started twirling again. “(Twirling) was really hard, but it did help me with my remediation and healing,” Chiariello said. “It worked my brain and helped me bring back some of my movement and my thinking.” Eventually Chiariello’s twirling took off, and she began to pick up tricks her coach taught her more quickly than pre-surgery. However, she would have lost her ability to twirl completely if not for a routine optometrist visit, when she received her diagnosis.
“(Twirling) was really hard, but it did help me with my remediation and healing.” HAYLEE CHIARIELLO, FUTURE OU STUDENT
At 14 years old, she went to the Oklahoma City Indian Clinic for a checkup, but her appointment turned out differently than expected. When the optometrist looked at Chiariello’s optic nerves, she noticed severe swelling and hemorrhaging in the back of her eye. A few more brain scans revealed Chiariello had excessive fluid in the third ventricle of her brain, which led to the swelling of her optic nerves. Then, she got her diagnosis: congenital obstructive hydrocephalus. She had two weeks to wrap her head around emergency surgery or suffer vision loss, a stroke or worse. “We had to go immediately to a lot of specialists. It’s a very scary thing when you get a serious diagnosis for a child,” Tanya Chiariello,
Haylee’s mom, said. “You start going through tests and they’re like, ‘Tonight at 8 o’clock you need to be here, tomorrow at 7 a.m. you need to be here.’ It goes really fast.” While in the hospital longer than expected, Haylee filled the days by watching movies like “Legally Blonde” with her mom and wanting desperately to “be normal again,” Tanya Chiariello said. The Chiariello family had a circle of support in the hospital from their Native American community in Oklahoma City, fellow members at Crossings Community Church who brought them meals and the “amazing staff” at the Children’s Hospital, Tanya Chiariello said. “God put amazing people in the waiting room with me that were laughing and joking when I would just fall apart,” Tanya Chiariello said. “It was a really bad time. You walk in with a normal kid and then her head is half shaved and all of her beautiful hair is gone.” Once home from the hospital, Haylee had to re-learn how to walk and talk. She underwent educational testing and learned new ways to approach her school work. Before surgery, she struggled with math and other concepts, but she found out the difficulties she faced were caused by the severe pressure on her brain, she said. “She had to figure out how to make numbers line up into columns again because she couldn’t figure out math. It wouldn’t work anymore in her brain, and she couldn’t read for very long periods, but she’s muscled through it all,” Tanya Chiariello said. Haylee also took up an art class in her homeschool co-op and found her drawing skills post-surgery were dramatically better than pre-surgery, as were her piano skills — she takes lessons from a private teacher in Edmond once a week. Haylee called her increase of talent in each skill after surgery “a
gift from God.” “I think God knew that time was really hard on my heart, and he gave me something that made me feel really special and gave me something that I can share with the world,” Haylee said. Haylee spent the last two years of her homeschool career balancing art, twirling and music with her schoolwork. She auditioned and became the featured twirler for the Stampede of Sound marching band at UCO for the 20162017 season and achieved an ACT score that landed her an academic scholarship to OU, where most of her family has also attended. Receiving a scholarship to attend OU is one of her greatest “dreams come true,” but she is most excited to spread awareness for the sport throughout Oklahoma and be a leader in the Native community, Chiariello said. S h e t a u g h t t h e “ Yo u n g American Indian Twirlers” clinic at the Oklahoma City Indian Clinic March 14 that combined two of her passions. She started a GoFundMe page and raised $125 to buy batons for the young girls who attended her clinic. “(Baton twirling is) really awesome for girls because it teaches them to persevere,” Chiariello said. “It’s beautiful, it’s graceful, but it is also athletic.” The opportunities awaiting Haylee at OU exist in large part to her perseverance the last four years. “I can’t wait to see what Haylee does,” Tanya Chiariello said. “She could have ended up on a very different path if she had just given in and thought, ‘This is it,’ and pulled into herself and sat along the wall and read books, but that’s not what she decided to do.” Chloe Moores
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There are two primary types of hydrocephalus. One is communicating hydrocephalus, which occurs when the brain is producing too much CSF and cannot reabsorb the fluid it is producing. The other is obstructive hydrocephalus, the form Chiariello has, and it occurs when something blocks the passageway of the CSF and prevents proper drainage of the fluid. The disease in general is very common: 50 percent of Gross’ practice is dedicated to treating the condition, she said. The cause of hydrocephalus varies from patient to patient. Congenital, communicative hydrocephalus is the form Gross treats most often, which usually develops in premature infants. Infants can also be diagnosed with congenital obstructive hydrocephalus, but the condition may not present itself until the child reaches teenage years, Gross said. Although Chiariello was born with hydrocephalus, the condition presented itself in a form called aqueductal stenosis. This takes place when the long, narrow passageway between the brain’s third and fourth ventricle, called the aqueduct, stops CSF absorption, forcing fluid to build up in the ventricles of the brain, according to the Hydrocephalus Association. Source: Dr. Naina Gross, pediatric neurosurgeon at OU Health Science Center
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An article in the March 9-12 edition of The Daily headlined “Study invites citizens to find ribbet-ing amphibian data” has been updated online to correct the following: the title of Jessa Watters; what animals are swabbed for the project (only frogs, not frogs and salamanders); how the kits for the project are funded (internally, not from grants); the correct name of the machine used to test samples and how many samples it can test in a three hour period; and who is eligible to participate in the project. It also corrects an error about when the previous samples were collected and who collected them — 2015, not 2016.
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Conservative group to come to campus Turning Point USA gives voice to right-leaning
Incoming students to benefit from financial advising
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OU is implementing a financial advising program aimed at increasing retention rates by helping students understand how to finance their educations. All incoming freshmen in fall 2017 will be matched with a money coach to help them address their financial situations, said Nick Hathaway, OU vice president for administration and finance. “The thought behind the money coach is to serve students with their financial challenges in that very oneon-one, individual-to-individual kind of way, related to the challenge of paying for their education,” Hathaway said. Students will initially meet with their money coaches at New Sooner Enrollment over the summer, and their relationships will continue throughout their entire OU careers. “This would be somebody who’s assigned to them by the university to work with them in a very personal way on their finances,” Hathaway said. The university plans on employing nine full-time money coaches for the upcoming school year to cover all of the incoming freshmen, said John Hockett, senior projects manager in the OU Graduation Office. Hockett will be one of the nine coaches. Hathaway said OU will also reevaluate the program after the first year to make any necessary adjustments or hire additional money coaches. Matt Hamilton, vice president for enrollment and
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John Hockett, senior projects manager in the OU Graduation Office, works at his desk. Hockett will be one of nine money coaches for the fall 2017 incoming freshmen.
student financial services and registrar, said the program is an expansion of other financial education efforts undertaken in the past. Last year’s incoming freshmen had the option of filling out a financial success plan, an item that will be included in the new program. “The financial success plan was very specifically to make sure that students understood the full cost of education and what that might look like,” Hamilton said. Hathaway said this program was initiated after administrators observed that financial barriers are a leading cause of college dropouts. The administration has reached out to students who left OU and discovered that expenses were a key component in many instances, Hathaway said. “I think a lot of people who were involved in that effort were taken (aback) by the number of times that we got somebody on the other end of the phone who was emotionally distraught about the fact that they weren’t able to come back to OU and the reason was money,” Hathaway said. Hockett, who has acted as a financial adviser to students over the past year, said he has seen the need for this type of
service firsthand. “I’ve had essentially a year to kind of feel this out, and I think that there is a pretty strong need. ... There’s a large appetite for this, not only from the students, but the families of the students that I’ve worked with,” Hockett said. Hockett said his strategy for financial advising includes making students aware of resources, considering longterm planning and looking at future projections of earnings potential based on the individual’s major and career goals. “Some folks, they want to bury their heads in the sand about finances, but to me, information is power,” Hockett said. “I try to be realistic with students — helpful, supportive, but also realistic.” He said it is also important to educate students about financial issues and to equip them with skills like budgeting, living within their means and planning ahead. “When students leave the University of Oklahoma ... they will be dealing with issues of money and finance for the rest of their lives,” Hockett said. Anna Bauman
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An incoming conservative student organization aims to promote understanding of fiscal responsibility, free markets, limited government and openness to different opinions. Turning Point USA is a conservative-leaning group brought to campus by Elizabeth Miller, public relations junior and OU TPUSA president, who became involved in the national organization and felt like right-leaning students on campus needed a platform to voice their own opinions. The organization has experienced setbacks while trying to officially register with OU, but plans to fill out an application soon, Miller said. Fifty to 100 people have signed up to get involved, she said. “I feel that our campus can sometimes be rather left-leaning, and I feel like other people just believe differently, and I feel like there’s not a voice for that.
So that’s what I think that Turning Point is trying to accomplish: to educate people and just to talk to people about having two sides to every argument,” Miller said. Miller added that the point of OU TPUSA is to encourage everyone to exercise their First Amendment rights without having to worry about excessive government control. “I know with everything that’s been happening lately people tend to get angry,” she said. “I know friendships have ended over this last election, people are just afraid to disagree with anyone, and the whole point of our organization is to make sure that America never loses what it was founded on, which is the freedom of speech.” Despite the conservative lean of the group, Miller also said she wants to promote understanding of both political sides. “We just want to make sure that people are truly getting both sides of every argument, we just don’t want people to constantly be swayed to the left or far to the right,” Miller said. Sierra Rains
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Norman police arrest 19-year-old after shooting leaves one dead Norman police arrested a 19-year-old man after he turned himself in Saturday for a shooting on Friday night. Deven Workman was arrested for first degree murder and assault and battery with a deadly weapon following a shooting on March 17 on the 100 block of Crestland Drive, according to a Norman Police Department press release. Two people were shot in the incident. One victim died at the hospital, and the other is in stable condition. NPD is investigating the events that led to the shooting. Staff Reports
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Former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating to serve term on OU Board of Regents Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has appointed former Gov. Frank Keating to the OU Board of Regents. Keating will succeed A. Max Weitzenhoffer and will serve a seven-year term. OU President David Boren, also a former Oklahoma governor, praised Keating’s appointment in a statement. “As governor, Frank Keating appointed some of the most outstanding individuals who have ever served on the OU Board of Regents,� Boren said in the statement. “They were Regents who always put the needs of the institution first and worked to help the university achieve the highest standards of academic excellence. I have every reason to believe Frank Keating would bring those same qualities to his own service on the board.� Fallin said in a press release that Keating is the “right person at the right time now to help lead OU.� “Frank Keating has a long and distinguished service with the state and federal governments,� Fallin said in the release. “I’m so pleased he has agreed to again serve the state of Oklahoma in this important capacity. Governor Keating is known as an effective governor, and a strong and compassionate leader.� Keating received a law degree from OU and served as governor from 1995 to 2003. His appointment to the OU Board of Regents still needs confirmation from the Oklahoma Senate before it is official. Staff Reports
OU meteorology professor appointed to governor’s cabinet
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has announced that Kelvin Droegemeier, OU vice president for research, will join her cabinet March 13 as secretary of science and technology. Droegemeier, who currently chairs the academic research and development subcommittee on Fallin’s Science and Technology Council, is a Regents Professor of meteorology, Weathernews chair emeritus and Teigen presidential professor at OU, according to a press release from Fallin’s office. Fallin said in the release that Droegemeier’s background in science, technology and government were key reasons for his appointment. “Dr. Droegemeier is a leading expert in the science and engineering research fields, as well as in the education community, and I am thrilled he has agreed to continue to serve the state in a greater capacity,� Fallin said in the release. Droegemeier earned a bachelor’s degree in meteorology from OU and a master’s degree and doctorate in atmospheric science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He began working at OU as an assistant professor of meteorology in 1985. Droegemeier also served on the National Science Board under President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, according to the release. “I am deeply honored by the privilege of serving in Governor Fallin’s Cabinet as secretary of science and technology,� Droegemeier said in the release. “I look forward to working with the governor, with other cabinet members, and with elected leaders and citizens in Oklahoma to unlock the full potential of our state’s science and technology enterprise.� Staff Reports
Ordinance concerns SGA Student leaders unsure if Norman zoning law is legal KAYLA BRANCH @kayla_branch
OU’s Student Government Association wants to determine whether a Norman ordinance that allows no more than three unrelated people to live in a house together is legal. Dylan Rodolf, SGA’s chief of staff and history and letters sophomore, said the city’s use of “familial status� to determine who can live together has been disputed in some federal cases. The federal Fair Housing Act states that no one can refuse to rent or sell housing to someone based on familial status. “We have found some instances of federal case law where they have prohibited the use of familial status in zoning ordinances, and instead limiting the occupancy rules based on the size and capacity of the dwelling, so we are looking into gathering research into that,� Rodolf said. SGA President J.D. Baker said he thinks this issue affects students because of high costs associated with living with only a few people. “I believe in giving our students options and the freedom to choose where they want to live and to make sure they have fair choices,� Baker said. Currently, SGA is meeting with university faculty who
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Houses on Jenkins Avenue. The Student Government Association is looking into Norman’s ordinance preventing no more than three unrelated people from living in a house together.
have lived in Norman for a long time, as well as former members of the Norman City Council, to see why these types of rules are in place and what changes could be made, Rodolf said. “Right now, what we’re doing is trying to gather more information regarding this ordinance so that we can better understand the perspectives and sides of the issues,� Rodolf said. The main issues for the city include parking and traffic problems as well as noise violations, said Susan Connors, director of the planning and community development department for the City of Norman. Being able to identify a situation in which more than three unrelated people are living together, though, is no small task, Connors said. “If we can prove that the
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violation of the code do not break other city ordinances, there should not be a problem. “If students go behind this ordinance and choose to live with more than three unrelated people in a single house, I think the biggest thing is that they still abide by other city of Norman laws,� Rodolf said. “So they shouldn’t acquire any noise violations or accumulate a large amount of parking tickets for illegally parking in the streets or other people’s driveways.� Rodolf said there have been previous efforts from SGA and the Norman Board of Realtors to have the city amend this ordinance, but that no change that came from those efforts. Kayla Branch
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OU Publications Board elects new editors for The Daily, Sooner yearbook
The OU Publications Board unanimously voted to elect Jesse Pound as the next editor-in-chief of The Daily and Rachel Schaub as the next editor of Sooner yearbook. Pound, journalism and economics junior, will be The Daily’s editor-in-chief for the fall 2017 semester. Daily editors typically serve for two semesters, but Pound will not serve in the spring in order to pursue his economics degree. “I’m excited and honored to be the next editor-inchief of The Daily,� Pound said. “I hope to follow in the footsteps of ... all of the great people who have held this position before.� Pound said his vision for The Daily is to be a resource for students, faculty and staff members on campus, as well as a place to grow and develop student journalists for careers in the future. “I trust Jesse as much as I trust anybody here, and I think everybody looks up to him and can see how his work makes all of us better,� said Dana Branham, the current editor-in-chief of The Daily. “I think he’s going to be an excellent editor and a great leader.� Pound currently serves as The Daily’s enterprise editor, managing the organization’s larger, more in-depth pieces and their multimedia elements. Pound has also covered football and served as a news editor and reporter for The Daily. Last summer, Pound was an intern on The Oklahoman’s business desk, and this summer he will be a business intern for the San Antonio Express-News. Schaub, professional writing and English junior, currently serves as the managing editor of Sooner yearbook. One of her goals for the year is to make the yearbook something more students can find themselves in. “I want to focus on getting as many students into the book as possible,� she said. Staff Reports
people there are unrelated, which is very difficult to prove, then we would issue a letter of warning to the owner of the property to have only three unrelated people,� Connors said. “Then, after that, it would be citations.� Connors said there are locations that have been approved by the Norman City Council to house four or more unrelated people, such as certain apartment complexes, but that any other location is breaking city code. Rodolf said SGA is deciding whether or not pursuing this issue is the best use of student resources, which would include signing resolutions and doing presentations at Norman City Council meetings to persuade city council members to amend the ordinance. Rodolf said as long as students who are possibly in
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pon entering the Sam Viersen Gymnastics Center in Norman, you’ll find a trophy case overflowing with almost every college gymnastics trophy imaginable. From national championship trophies to individual awards, the success of the programs housed in the center is clear with a single glance, but the trophy case wasn’t always so full. Seven of the national championship trophies on display belong to long-time Oklahoma men’s gymnastics coach Mark Williams. Since he took the helm in 2000, he has developed arguably the most dominant program in Oklahoma history — he boasts a .932 winning percentage — decimating the rest of the college gymnastics world and crafting athletes for international competition. The Sooners are undefeated in 2017, their third such season in a row. They’re poised for a third straight national title, a first for the program and a nod at Williams’ top-flight coaching. Under Williams, the Sooners have finished no lower than third in the national championship aside from his first season, when they finished fourth.
The foundation
Williams’ road to coaching history began long before he made it to Oklahoma. It began behind another legendary men’s gymnastics coach — former Nebraska coach Francis Allen. Williams competed under Allen from 1977-1980 and was a part of two national championship teams, earning All-American honors on the high bar in 1978. Early in his time at Nebraska, Williams stood out — not for his athletic ability, but for his way of thinking. It wasn’t hard for Allen to see that Williams had the mind of a coach. “He was continually an excellent student of gymnastics,” Allen said. “He was always paying attention, and I could tell he was going to be a good coach.” Seeing Williams’ coaching potential, Allen began taking him along to camps, unaware that he was forming the mind of the next coaching great. In 1981 Williams became a graduate assistant under Allen, learning from a man who would go on to have eight national titles credited to his name. Over the years Allen has watched from the sidelines like a proud dad as Williams found the highest levels of coaching success. “I’d like to think he learned his coaching style from me,” Allen said. “I’m louder, more abrasive and, I think, funnier. I don’t know what others would say. He’s soft-spoken, and I speak before I think and then say sorry.”
Head coach Mark Williams sustains dominating tradition of men’s team KELLI STACY • @ASTACYKELLI
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Coach Mark Williams celebrates as the Sooners earn their ninth national championship April 10, 2015, in Norman, Oklahoma. Williams has been coach of the men’s gymnastics team since 2000.
Winning tradition Williams’ list of accomplishments grows longer by the second, as his tenure at Oklahoma has been nothing short of immaculate. The La Grange Park, Illinois, native has led the Sooners to seven national titles and 14 conference championships since he took over in 2000. Williams took the helm of a program that hadn’t seen a title in over 10 years. His first year on the job Oklahoma finished fourth nationally — the only time in the Williams era the Sooners have been outside the top three. In 2001, the Sooners were national runners-up, and by 2003 Williams had led Oklahoma to back-toback national championships. In 2005 he cemented his place as the winningest men’s gymnastics coach in Oklahoma history by leading the Sooners to their sixth national title — his third — and surpassing former Oklahoma coach Paul Ziert for most national title wins. Oklahoma won the national title again in 2006 and 2008 but hit a rough spot after that — if you consider no lower than a third-place showing rough. Williams found success again in 2015 and 2016, when he coached two of the most dominant teams in NCAA histor y. Oklahoma won back-toback national titles once again and broke the record for highest team total in NCAA history with 457.300 points, becoming the only team to eclipse 450 points. After Oklahoma’s 2016 National Championship win, Williams owns the third-most national titles
with seven. He’s one title away from tying with his former coach, Allen, for second place. “It’s a burden,” joked Allen, who said he is looking forward to Williams tying his record. Former Penn State coach Gene Wettstone holds the record with nine national championships, something that Williams will likely tie — if not beat — if he continues to coach at the level he has been for the past 17 years. “He is the best coach, and I think his record and his titles have proved it,” senior Colin Van Wicklen said. “It’s been a blessing. I’ve wanted to come to the University of Oklahoma since I was 8 years old. Mark gave me this opportunity, and it’s something that I’ll never take for granted, so it’s been a privilege to compete for Coach Williams.”
Sustaining success
Williams treats his gymnasts like a father would treat their sons. He’s tough but fair. He understands that he’s coaching college guys and there needs to be a certain level of fun. “His personality in the gym is exactly what you need out of a coach,” assistant coach and former OU gymnast Steven Legendre said. “He knows when to keep it kind of light and fun just like the athletes usually prefer, but when it comes down to it, when it’s a work day, or
when the team isn’t performing the way they need to perform, he’s also the personality that’s really going to come down on them and let them know that what they’re doing isn’t enough or it’s not acceptable.” Williams has built a high level of trust within his team through his role as a father figure, which has allowed for continued success. With the full trust of his gymnasts, Williams is able to tweak his coaching style and game plan as much or as little as he believes is necessary. “I think that the basic principles that I’ve used over the years are pretty much the same and a lot of the scheduling may came down to doing the same things,” Williams said. “But I believe every year becomes different in what we need to do and how we need to do it because the chemistry of the team, the personnel, changes.” “I’m always flexible to new ideas,” Williams said. “I think I’m willing to adjust when it’s necessary. Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons, assistant coach and former OU gymnast under Williams, said Williams’ plan inspires faith in the team ever y year, making for continued success. “Ever since he took over as head coach, the team kind of just started to excel from that plan,” Abdullah-Simmons said. “And then when you have that first generation of success, the athletes that come in understand that the plan works, so the buyin happens almost immediately for the athletes, which allows the teams, the rollover, to never skip a beat. So that’s just how it happens
year after year. Every team is willing to work hard and go for that goal of winning that national championship.” Developing athletes is what Williams does best. Doing the exact same thing every year doesn’t work. The team changes along with its strengths and weaknesses, and adjusting to that is how Williams has found sustainable success. He’s not stuck on a single method or formula, because no two teams or gymnasts are the same. Allen said Williams’ ability to understand how to change his coaching style for different athletes is his key to success. “Some people get good athletes and don’t know how to develop them,” Allen said. “You have to be able to analyze a kid and try to find out what works for him. Some people try to fit kids into a model, and that doesn’t work.” Williams’ success can be credited in part to his adaptability while developing athletes, but it’s also because of his winning mentality. He knows how to win championships, and he’s confident that’s not going to change any time soon. “The expectation here is high,” Williams said. “If you want to come here, we’re going to compete for championships, and we’re going to expect a lot out of you in order to earn the right to be out there. So I’m comfortable that we’ve created a program and atmosphere that generally breeds more success.” Kelli Stacy
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Williams’ sustained success can be attributed to a coaching style that’s as flexible as his gymnasts. He knows when to draw the line among coach, friend and father figure. His gymnasts see him as someone they can take their problems to as well as someone who won’t cut them any slack. “Honestly, it’s amazing,” sophomore Yul Moldauer said. “He’s not just a coach, he’s a father, too. He’s always getting on us about school and how we act. It’s really cool to have a coach, but it’s also really cool to have someone you can talk to personally and just look up to. And I’m blessed that I could be an athlete under his name.”
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Student turns old denim into body positive business MOLLY KRUSE @mollykruse98
For Jobeth Solís, vintage denim isn’t just a fun wardrobe staple — it’s a canvas for her creativity. Solís, film and media studies senior, built her business, The Joraffe, by repurposing old jeans and other denim that she finds in thrift stores and online, she said. “I make them into shorts, I do dye them, I bleach them, I cut them, I patch them — I basically revamp them,” Solís said. Solís runs the business out of her home, online, and uses her roommates as models to test out styles, she said. When a customer wants jeans, Solís “does all the dirty work,” she said. First, she measures her customers and finds out which styles and washes they want, and then she finds jeans to fit their exact measurements, she said. After Solís finds several potential pairs, she has each customer try them on to see which ones they like best. Then, she gives the jeans a makeover according to the customer’s taste and brings back the final version, she said. Solís reworked her first pair of jeans when she was in high school, but at the time, it was not fun for her. After gaining a lot of weight in the middle of senior year, she found it difficult to
accept her body shape and to find jeans that fit right, she said. “I was forced to, technically, because I hated going to the mall and never finding jeans that I liked on myself,” Solís said. She thrifted a pair of old Lucky Brand jeans that fit her and cut them into shorts she wore for years. Eventually, the shorts became too big for her, but she couldn’t let them go, she said. Solís revamped the shorts again, along with a few other pairs, and showed them to her roommates. One of her roommates, Daniela Lopez, pre-nursing and Spanish senior, began noticing Solís wearing “really cute” shorts and jeans to work, she said. “And I just remember saying like, ‘Dude, Jo, you’re really good at this. This looks good,’” Lopez said. Solís’s denim caught the eyes of people at work as well, and soon one of her coworkers requested that Solís make her a pair, Lopez said. In November 2016, right before finals, Solís decided to start a business. “I made some shorts for this girl, and I made some shorts for this other girl, and, just, why not make this business out of it?” Solís said. After making this decision, Solís began buying up
WHERE TO GO See Jobeth Solís’s work on her Instagram account @the.joraffe.
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Film and media studies senior Jobeth Solís holds the first pair of jeans she revamped March 6. Solís repurposes old jeans and other denim for her business The Joraffe.
large quantities of denim and working on them, said Stacey McPherson, an environmental sustainability senior who also lives with Solís. “You couldn’t even see her carpet at one point because there was so many pieces,” McPherson said. Si n c e t h e n , S o l í s ha s built an Instagram following, styled denim for photoshoots and begun taking on one-on-one consulting jobs to help her customers get exactly the right jeans, she said. Solís’s platform is to be resourceful and make people happy.
“I have turned some of the ugliest things that I’ve picked up at the thrift shop … into very presentable items,” she said. Similarly, the name of Solís’s business is also repurposed — from a hurtful nickname that her older sister used to call her. She would call Solís a giraffe because Solís was “tall and awkward,” she said. Solís’s sister has “a Kim K” body type, Solís said. “She’s shorter than me, and she has boobs and a tiny waist and a big butt — everything I’ve always ever wanted growing up. “And I w ould be like,
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‘Well, you’re a hippo,’” Solís said. “And me, the giraffe, is secretly thinking in her head the whole time, ever y time she’s calling her a hippo, ‘I want to be a hippo.’” It took a long time before Solís accepted her body and realized that she actually loved the nickname. She has since turned it into her platform to encourage others to “stand tall” like a giraffe does. Now, as a final touch, she cuts the size tags off the denim she’s refurbished so that no one has to “worry about” the number size, she said.
The Joraffe is based on body positivity, since Solís finds her customers jeans to fit their bodies, McPherson said. “I know that for me … sometimes you’ll leave the dressing room kind of feeling like crap about yourself,” McPherson said. “And so what Jobeth wanted to do is make it more personal and to make people know that your body is unique, and that should be celebrated and not something that you feel bad for.” Molly Kruse molly.kruse@ou.edu