Girls find mentor in Carline
Continued from Metro
g irls.”
Carline arrived and the girls were
soon in a circle, hearing his pep
talk about exercising during the
Thanksgiving holiday.
“D on’t just sit around for four
days eating turkey sandwiches, or
I the next team will kill you,’ he
said. Carline urged them to “be
thankful, not just tor the material
things, but the friendships, your
coaches, everything."
“Now, let’s work hard today," he
I said, quickly leading various exer
cises and small groups working off
each other’s energy and skills.
“1 teach the girls that if they
keep their grades together and work
I hard, there are opportunities out
there for them,” Carline told The
Portland Observer, pointing to a
I “ strin g o f su c c e sse s,” fo rm er
Benson players who now play ma
jo r college ball
Some won scholarships right
I away, he tells the girls, while oth
ers walked on after earning good
I grades and winning a spot on the
I team and a scholarship.
The Benson plan has worked so
well, several graduates are playing
college baskethall now and Carline
I keeps hoping for college recruit
ers to show up in the Benson stands
more often.
Some have won scholarships,
like Mfon Udoka (class ot ’94) and
I now a senior basketball star at
DePaul University, Chicago. (She
has been tagged by USA I oday as the
nation's lop rebounder in women s bas
ketball. And she is one ot five players in
DePaul history to have 1,000 points,
7(X) rebounds and l(X) steals.
When Sarah Green was at Benson,
she led the state in scoring in her
senior year and won a scholarship
to the University of Portland.
Persistence is as important as grades,
Carline tells his girls, noting Reshawn
Lewis, who "had great grades and gixxl
basketball skills, didn’t get recruited,
but walked on at the University of Or
egon and made the team "
He also recalled M onica Watts
who played on a junior college bas
ketball court for two years before
transferring to Oregon State Uni
versity, walking on the court, earn
ing a scholarship, and now averag
ing 13 points and 8 rebounds a game
Similarly, Kim Green, Sara s sis
ter, was getting good grades at the
University of Portland, where she
is a senior, walked on to the basket
ball court, and played so well in her
freshman year, they gave her a schol
arship for the next three years.
“We expect the kids to have at
least 2.0 grade point average to try
out for the team," he said. “But our
goal is to get them to a 2.5 or better
by the end of the year.”
With a combined roster of 38
girls on the varsity, freshman and
junior varsity teams, “our saying
this year is ‘W inning with Team
w ork’ and that includes players,
coaches, parents and teachers,” said
Carline "Everybody is involved.
“ I'm so happy with these girls, a
great bunch ot kids,' he said. Al
Each practice is a bit different,
with weight training on Tuesdays,
jum propeon Wednesdays, andcon-
stantly asking “Are you having tun
yet?” then telling them, “I’m hav
ing fun too.”
“If you do stuff like that, the
winning will com e,” he notes. "But
you have won already, the way you
act and carry yourself.”
C a rlin e o fte n ta lk s ab o u t
“sportsmanship, how to handle dif
ferent situations, being scared,
having intensity and all the things
you need on the court to be suc
cessful - that carries into the class
room .”
This is his 12th year at Benson,
where he also serves as drug and
alcohol coordinator.
“I’ve wanted to coach since seventh
grade in Los Angeles, said Carline,
who earned a physical education de
gree and played at Pacific University,
Forest Grove, then started coaching
middle school children in basketball,
track and volleyball.
He attributes his own success to
parental motivation that "put me on the
road” and inspiration from his junior
college coach Jim Thompson.
But in the end, “I did all the
sprints, ran the relays, did the triple
jum p and long jum p and played
basketball,” he said.
Carline, 41, and wife, Debra have
been married for 14 years. They
have four children: Denise (14),
Daedra (8), Delissa (7), and Den
nis Jr. (2).
though not as tall as some teams,
“they are quick, have good skills and
are hard workers.”
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ison freshman Serena Washington makes the pass as boacn
Sprewell
spars
with PJ
Draws 10 game
suspension for
attack'
Latrell Sprewell has been sus
pended indefinitely for what the team
said was an attack on P.J. C arlesimo
during practice, and the star guard
reportedly threatened to “kill the
coach.
“We aren’t going to tolerate the
conduct that was displayed on the
court," general manager Garry St.
Jean said at a Monday night news
conference.
Sprewell, leading the W arriors
with a 21.4 scoring average, is sus
pended without pay for at least 10
games, starting with W ednesday’s
home game against Cleveland. A 10-
game suspension would cost the
three-time All-Star guard $935,000
of his $7.7 million salary.
Carlesimo, saddled with a 1-13
record in his first year as coach at
Golden State, said he and Sprewell
argued twice during a drill in prac
tice Monday.
“I asked Spre to leave practice.
He didn’t, and words kind of esca
lated to some physical contact,” he
said, refusing to say how he got a
scratch on his neck.
O'Neal looks for Good Samaritan
Jermaine O ’Neal ofthe Trail Blaz
ers would like to thank the man who
got him out o f his car after a hit-and-
run accident last week, but the man
is nowhere to be found.
“ My mom said the guy was an
angel. It makes you wonder,” O ’Neal
said. “Nobody else but me saw him,
and when I turned around, he was
gone.”
O ’N eal’s mother, Angela Ocean,
is certain.
“ It was an angel; that’s why they
can't find him,” she said Sunday
from her home in Columbia, S.C. "I
always ask God to take care o f my
children, and he does.”
O ’Neal found him self trapped in
his Lexus after another vehicle
knocked it into a ditch about 1:30
a m. Thursday near his home in west
Portland.
O ’Neal was returning from Port
land International Airport after a
game in Minneapolis. He was treated
for a bruised left shoulder and a
bruised shin and given six stitches
for a cut near his left eye.
The driver o f the other car, Brian
Christopher Wolfe, 25, o f Canby,
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