ANTELOPE VALLEY COLLEGE NOTEBOOK: PAPE'S MISSION IS PERSONAL: BUILDING A TOP GOLF TEAM.Byline: Gideon Rubin Special to the Daily News LANCASTER - Brett Pape views his role as coach of the newly reinstated Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. men's golf team as a personal mission. Pape, hired to coach the team just weeks before its season began in early February, played golf two years for AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C , including 1989, when the Marauders qualified for the state championship under former coach Newton Chelette, AVC's athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic . Pape coached boys' and girls' golf at Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley High, his alma mater, where he is a physical education instructor. He also coached Antelope Valley freshman football for six years and was a junior-varsity coach and varsity assistant coach for three years under longtime Antelopes coach Brent Newcomb. ``I'm passionate about this job,'' Pape said. ``I'd work hard if I were coaching at anywhere, but I'm loyal to a fault to people who've been good to me, and my experience at AVC meant a lot to me. It gave me direction.'' Pape said he sees tremendous potential for the program, which was eliminated in 1992 amid budget-cutting. He aims to promote the program as a venue for area golfers to play against elite competition in the highly regarded Foothill Conference, which has produced two of the past three state champions (Desert of Palm Desert and Mt. San Antonio San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. of Walnut). Pape believes AVC offers an alternative for golfers at talent-rich area programs such as Quartz Hill and Highland who, since the elimination of AVC's program, have gone to perennial state power College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. and other Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, programs. Jared Kennedy (Palmdale High), AVC's top golfer, who recently shot 80 on an 18-hole par-72 course at Spring Valley Lake in Victorville, is a player Pape believes can develop into a potential four-year collegiate golfer. He typifies the kind of player Pape seeks to recruit. ``They can play collegiate golf (at AVC) and make themselves better,'' Pape said. ``That's what I'm going to sell our program on.'' Pape has set ambitious goals of fielding a team within two years of five to seven players who shoot in the 70s. ``We have the opportunity to recruit from a heck of a lot of schools, and I'm not going to wait around for kids to show up at my school,'' Pape said. ``We're going to have kids coming to AVC. It's obviously not going to happen overnight, but down the road we're going to be a pretty good program. --Playoff loss: The women's basketball Women's basketball is one of the few games which developed in tandem with men's. It became popular, spreading from the east coast of the United States to the west coast, in large part via women's colleges. team lost 82-59 to Pasadena City in a Southern California Regional semifinal Saturday. PCC PCC prothrombin complex concentrate. also beat AVC in last season's state semifinals. AVC (22-10) was coming off its most successful season in school history and had high expectations with the addition of elite international talent, but the Marauders lost several key players to injuries and for personal reasons. They won a share of their fourth consecutive Foothill Conference title, won the Glendale tournament, and reached the championship game of their tournament, accomplishments coach John Taylor John Taylor, or Johnny Taylor may refer to: Academic figures
``Considering everything we had to overcome, I think we had to a really good season,'' Taylor said. ``The expectations are a lot higher here than at most schools, and that's something we've created, and that's something we want to live with.'' --School record: AVC's women's 4x100-meter relay team - Daunyae Harris, Sonya Schmidt, Kristal Quinn and Jelani Carter - set a school record, clocking 4:00.71 at the Feb. 25 Cerritos invitational track and field meet. The previous mark, 4:03.63, was established last season. --All-conference: Sophomore guard Deonte Huff (Lancaster) was a first-team All-Foothill Conference selection for the men's basketball team. Huff led AVC in scoring (23.2 points per game) and rebounding (7.4). Gideon Rubin, (818)713-3607 gideon.rubin(at)dailynews.com |
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