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...Anyone who thinks rope skipping is child's play hasn?t been to the 3-hour-a-day practices run by coach Ray Frederick, Jr., of the Bouncing Bulldogs in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In a typical session, team members climb 2000 to 3000 football stadium steps and do 500 one-footed jumping jacks. That hard work has paid off. "We've won the national championship three years in a row now, and that's never happened before," says Frederick, whose team currently consists of 95 boys and girls, ranging from ages...
...League Rookie of the Year in the fall after leading the league in point-scoring, made the final roster cut for the U.S. Under-20 National Team. Akpan was one of 20 players, including nine professionals, pared down from an initial list of 70 by veteran U-20 Coach Thomas Rongen, himself a native of the Netherlands. The squad will compete in the upcoming CONCACAF Under-20 Final Round Qualifying Tournament in Panama City, Panama.. Akpan and the U.S. Team are scheduled to play Haiti in their first game on Jan. 17 at Rommel Fernandez Stadium. They will play...
Kate Markgraf, assistant coach for the Harvard women’s soccer team, will travel to Carson, Calif. from January 11-15 to take part in training camp for the U.S Women’s National team. This weekend’s training camp will give head coach Greg Ryan a chance to evaluate the 28 players he has invited to Carson before whittling his roster down to 20 players. Those 20 will then travel to Gungzhou, China, to play in the Four Nations Tournament. The United States, ranked second internationally, will kick off tournament play on January 26 against...
Hallion, whom coach Kathy Delaney-Smith dubbed “the heart and soul of this team,” proved herself capable of rallying the team from its early-season ailments. After getting back on its feet against the league’s best, Harvard might just be strong enough to contend for an Ivy title once again...
...theater. A bombadier-navigator in Vietnam, Fallon, 62, has no operational experience commanding ground troops or battling the kind of insurgency that grips Iraq or is growing in Afghanistan. "To put in a naval aviator without any command combat experience is like putting a baseball coach in to run the offense in the Super Bowl," grumbles a retired Marine general...