“I felt the whole Lancer nation with me that night” according to Andy Schulz the head coach of the basketball team(Schulz). That was what he was feeling on the night of the basketball state championship. In 2006-07 the General McLane Lancers football and basketball teams both won the state championship, by talking about their history, giving a game by game review, and talking about the coaches and players will show their journey. The head coach of the General McLane Lancers football team was Jim Wells. Jim Wells was 35 at the time. He started coaching at General McLane in 1977. He graduated and played football for Ithaca College. When he came to General McLane he brought the option which is a type of offense. He ran the option in college and took it with him. He has only had one losing season. The season was in 2001 when the Lancers had four wins and five losses. The next year they came back with a vengeance and won the District 10 Championship (Orbanek). Jim Wells was assisted by coach Graham, coach Wheeler, coach Frick, coach Renne, coach Palmer, coach Stumpf, and coach Bolheimer(Kennerknecht). The Lancers had a ten game season in 2006. They had thirty eight players on the varsity roster(General McLane High School 06-07 Football Schedule). The coaches and the players were ready for the season(Wells). The Lancers previous season they made it to the semifinals and were beaten(Kennerknecht). Players like Drew Astorino, Bobby Stauffer, Dan Skelton, Ryan Skelton, and Shawn Walker were returning. “I think we all believed we had the talent necessary to compete at the state level.”(Kennerknecht). They were great athletes and are still spoken of today as role models. Drew Astorino was a senior the year of... ... middle of paper ... ... CBS Interactive, 2014. Web. 06 May 2014. . "General McLane High School 06-07 Football Schedule." MaxPreps.com. © 2014 CBS Interactive., 2014. Web. 06 May 2014. . Kennerknecht, Rob. "Interview about PIAA State Championships for Football and Basketball." E-mail interview. 3 May 2014. Orbanek, Steve. General McLane Athletics Stories from the First 50 Years. St. Louis: Reedy, 2010. Print. Schulz, Andy. "Interview about the PIAA State Championship for Basketball." E-mail interview. 23 Apr. 2014. Wells, Jim. "Interview about the PIAA State Championship for Football." Personal interview. 15 Apr. 2015.
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There have been many historical moments with the University of Dayton Flyers Men’s Basketball team, but Mark Weaver recalls of the one that meant most to him. It took place on March 24, 1967, in Louisville’s Freedom Hall for the Final Four of the NCAA (National College Athletic Association) tournament against the highly favored North Carolina Tar Heels (Collett 228). This was the third straight NCAA tournament appearance for the Flyers, but their first ever Final Four (Collett 228). It turned out that the Flyers smashed North Carolina, seventy-six to sixty-two. Don May hit a record thirteen straight field goals and scored thirty-four points (Collett 228). Mark Weaver, a lifetime fan said, “I remember that game like it was yesterday, it almost brings tears to my eyes. I have never seen UD party like we did the night of that game. I have been following Dayton basketball since the mid-1960s and I have yet to witness the team getting a greater win than the one over the Tar Heels.”
This tournament, apart from entertaining students and other fans, highlights what stuff different colleges are made of. This comes at a critical time when high school seniors are considering what colleges to attend once they graduate. Thus, it is not surprising that this package of sporting events brings glad tidings to the people as it helps usher-in the beautiful spring season. However, a critical evaluation of the different teams and schools reveal the series of events -both good and not so good- that occur as they prepare for this all-important tournament.
players from the New York metropolitan area. Gerry Clark, a Holy Cross alumnus and an assistant district attorney in the nation's largest city, took it upon himself to scout Catholic high school players and direct them to Worcester. Among those who accepted an invitation ...
team with pure anti-Indian phrases and pure hatred. When the Pine Ridge team was about to enter the
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In just an instant, someone’s life could change forever, and things will never go back to the way they used to be. Sometimes it is only something as simple as a broken arm, but in the chance that it is something worse, don’t let McKeel or any other school have a football team. Imagine if this happened to you, and your whole life changed because of an accident while playing a sport in high school. Don’t risk the chance of that happening, because nothing will be the same after that.
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The team was ready, we had been working extremely hard for the past seven months for this. We were all in great shape and very rested. A few of the returning players were meeting me at my house to carpool to the final game of the state championship tournament. Everyone knew that the hard work had paid off when we won the semi-final game the preceding day.
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With shaky knees, I hesitantly made my way up the large white steps. With the back of my hand, I brushed away a few salty tears of relief. As I stood at the top of the podium and looked up into the packed stadium, my mind drifted back to everything I had gone through to achieve this moment, the day I became a state champion.