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Clackamas Prin
Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008
‘Runnin’ down a drean
Basketball: Stand up and cheer
Andrea Simpson
Sports Editor
Photos by Kyle Steele Clackamas Print
Continued from BASKETBALL, Page 1
“She said, ‘Basketball is like
five fingers; when you have five
of them, you make a fist, and
that’s how I want you to play
tonight - together,’ ” Niebergall
said.
“ That’s what we did
tonight. We came together as a
team, and it was a good win.”
This now leaves the women’s
standings at 15-6 in season play
and 5-2 in league play.
The men’s basketball team
won their game against Mt.
Hood 71-57 last Wednesday, and
began well enough last Saturday
in their game against Umpqua,
maintaining a very strong lead
for the first half of the game.
However, they lost the lead in
the later half and were eventually^
defeated 104-88.
“It really hurt when [David
Fife] rolled his ankle,” said
Men’s Basketball Coach Clif
Wegner. “Once he left the ball
game, it made things very dif
ficult.”
This loss brings the men’s
standings to 13-9 in season play
and 5-2 league play.
The men’s basketball team
will play Chemeketa in Salem at
7:30 p.m. today and Lane’s team
in Eugene at 6 p.m. next Saturday.
The next home game for the men
will be against Portland CC at
7:30 p.m. in Randall Gym.
The women’s basketball team
will play Chemeketa in Salem at
5:30 p.m. today and Lane’s team
in Eugene at 4 p.m. next Saturday.
The next home game for the men
will be against Portland CC at
5:30 p.m. in Randall Gym.
With the surprising upset win
of file New York Giants over the
heavily favored Green Bay Packers
Jan. 20, football fans are anticipat
ing the Giants’ feeing off with the
New England Patriots in Super
Bowl XLII.
The Super Bowl is being held at
the University of Phoenix stadium
in Glendale, Ariz. It is the home of
the Arizona Cardinals as well as the
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.
The Patriots boast a perfect sea
son so far with a record of 18-0.
The Giants emerged from a season
starting record of 0-2 to a record
of 13-6.
If the match-up invokes feelings
of déjà vu, don’t be surprised. The
two teams faced each other not so
long ago on Dec. 29 of last year,
when tiie Patriots dug deep for a
38-35 win against the Giants.
The head coaches of the two
teams are familiar with each other
as well. Both Bill Belichick and
Tom Coughlin coached on the
1990 Giants team Belichick was
the Giants’defensive coordinator,
and doubled as secondary coach.
Coughlin was in his third year as
the Giants’wide receiver coach.
Now 18 years later, the two will
meet again.
According to the Boston Globe,
the oddsmakers put the odds of the
game at 12 points in the Patriots’
favor. The odds started at s
point favor but has since drc
Sources speculate that it’s bt
of recent rumors of Tom ]
spraining his right ankle, but
makers say it has more to d(
the way the team has played
last nine games.
This is the first time in,
years that the Super Bowl hai
played somewhere other th
NFL stadium.
The University of Phoenj
dium was completed in 200
cost $455 million to build. It
first stadium in North Amei
sport a retractable roof and ri
field. The stadium normally
63,400 for Cardinals garni
will provide approximately 1
more seats for the Super Bo:
The half-time show has
a departure from the barely
barely-legal pop stars of i
year.
This year, file band Tom
and the Heartbreakers w
performing at the half-time
sponsored by Bridgestone
Grammy award-winning
will be joined by music artists
Minogue, Paula Abdul, Soulj
Jordin Sparks and Akon.
This is the first tin»
Bridgestone has sponsored th
time show. In the past, the sht
been sponsored by companif
as MTV, Radio City and Dis
Super Bowl XLII will be
cast on Sunday, Feb. 3, at 6:3
on the FOX network.
ABOVE: The women cheer on their teammates on Saturday.
BELOW: Austin Dunn, center, guards Brian Williams of Umpqua CC.
Arizo stretches hamstrings and
manages to pull heartstrings
Kenton Benfield
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“You cannot change the wind, but
you can adjust the sails.”
Upon approaching Athletic
Trainer Kevin Arizo’s office, this
quote can be seen written right out
side the entrance.
On the ground floor of Randall
Hall, across the hall from the weight
room, lies the athletic training room
that is now Arizo’s domain. The
quote is fitting not only for his job,
but also his past career course.
Arizo is familiar with and has
worked with two of the previous
athletic trainers at Clackamas: Tony
Guyette and, more recently, Tara
Hebert.
The job opportunity presented
itself during Arizo’s time at the
North Lake Physical Therapy clinic,
where he started work in 2003, due
to the clinic’s working relationship
with the college. When Guyette left
the department after 2006, Athletics
Director Jim Jackson sent a request
to the clinic for someone to fill the
position.
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“I was thinking about it (the job)
after Tony left,” Arizo recalled, “but
I was debating if I wanted to go back
to school. Then I decided that I might
as well take this job because I was
still working anyway.”
It was not until a year later, fol
lowing Hebert’s departure, that he
finally took up the position for the
2007-2008 school year.
Arizo sums up the job of an ath
letic trainer as “... keeping athletes
healthy.” Trainers are responsible for
acting as a first line of defense should
an injury arise or if some other issue
threatens the health of a performing
athlete.
* “In a way, we’re that middle man
in between the teams and the doctors
and ... everybody else ... all the
other healthcare professions ... [that]
athletes deal with,” he said.
This may include a large vari
ety of services, such as administer
ing first aid or providing nutritional
advice, helping sprains or scrapes
heal, increasing flexibility and per
formance of the athlete and, if nec
essary, deciding if an injury needs
serious medical attention.
For Arizo, the best part of work
ing as an athletic trainer at Clackamas
is the students themselves.
He explained, “Part of being an
athletic trainer is definitely develop
ing relationships with athletes... part
of it is therfi being able to trust you to
make the decision... if they can play
or not. If they don’t trust you, they
are not. going to come to you.
“I get to work with athletes every
day, all day ... probably one of the
better parts of it is you get to see the
progress that you are doing.”
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