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Team officials are facing the challenge. "We have to do an awful lot of work in the black community," says manager Frank Robinson, the former slugger who was the first black major league skipper. He plans to visit schools, YMCAs and business leaders to hype baseball. The Nationals have set up a foundation to promote and fund baseball and mentoring in inner-city areas. The contract that brought the team to Washington even stipulates that the Nationals engage with the community and offer free tickets to city kids. "The key for the Nats is to integrate themselves into the social...
This fundamentals-first approach to coaching hockey is something Stone learned from her skipper...
...double-handed racing, the Crimson’s A-division finished eighth. With junior captain Vince Porter at skipper and junior Ruth Schlitz crewing, the duo faced problems with consistency, combining a win in the second race and a second-place in the eighth with finishes in 14th-place or greater in the first, fourth, and seventh...
With junior captain Sloan Devlin at skipper and sophomore Christina Dahlman crewing, the A-division finished 14th...
Brown finished only fifth in the A-division, but a three-win showing in the B-division let the Bears edge the College of Charleston for first place in the regatta. Under skipper and three-time singlehanded national champion Anna Tunnicliffe, Old Dominion University never finished out of the top 10 in the A-division, winning four races. With a weak performance from its B-division, however, the Monarchs finished eighth overall in the regatta...