CHATTER: CLU DIVING INTO NEW AQUATICS PROGRAM.Byline: Heather Gripp Staff Writer Cal Lutheran plans to field a men's water polo water polo, swimming game encompassing features of soccer, football, basketball, and hockey. The object of the game is to maneuver, by head, feet, or hand, a leather-covered ball 27 to 28 in. team in Fall 2003, marking the first of the aquatics teams the school announced it will begin offering for the 2003-04 school year. CLU (language) CLU - (CLUster) An object-oriented programming language developed at MIT by Liskov et al in 1974-1975. CLU is an object-oriented language of the Pascal family designed to support data abstraction, similar to Alphard. also intends to add women's water polo as well as men's and women's swimming and diving. The new teams will fulfill an agreement CLU made with the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) is a college athletic conference that operates in the NCAA's Division III. It consists of eleven small private schools which are located in Southern California and organized into eight athletic programs. when it joined in 1991. The conference wanted CLU, the only SCIAC SCIAC SIGINT Correlation Integration & Analysis Capability member withought aquatics, to add the sports. 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 Bruce Bryde doesn't anticipate any problem filling rosters for the teams because a recent e-mail survey among the school's students showed there already is a high level of interest, with several students having participated in aquatics during high school. The teams are scheduled to use the pool at nearby Oaks Christian High of Westlake Village for at least the first two seasons until an on-campus facility is built. Coaches have not yet been hired. ... Three CLU football players made the Football Gazette's All-West Region team. Senior defensive lineman Nick Dunn earned second-team honors, and junior kicker Alex Espinoza Alex Espinoza is a former NFL quarterback who played for one season with the Kansas City Chiefs. He went to college at Iowa State after transferring from Cal State-Fullerton. and senior linebacker David Oviedo were named to the third team. ... Jacob Tepper of the Oakwood High of North Hollywood baseball team committed to Cornell. The catcher batted a team-high .604 with 34 RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in and 19 of the Gorillas' 40 extra-base hits in 17 games last season. ... Several current and former major leaguers are scheduled to take part in baseball clinics hosted by Oaks Christian the first two weekends of January. Angels manager Mike Scioscia
Rich Rodriguez (b. May 24, 1963 in Grant Town, West Virginia) is the current head football coach at West Virginia University. Rodriguez is the 31st head football coach of the WVU Mountaineers and is also a 1986 alumnus of the University. of the Texas Rangers Texas Rangers, mounted fighting force organized (1835) during the Texas Revolution. During the republic they became established as the guardians of the Texas frontier, particularly against Native Americans. and former Kansas City Royals The Kansas City Royals are a professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Royals have played in Kauffman Stadium. teammates Bret Saberhagen and Mark Gubicza, who are involved with local high school teams, are among those scheduled to participate. Each two-day session (Jan. 4-5 and Jan. 11-12) is open to players ages 8-14. The price per session is $75 during early registration and $90 after Monday. Information: (805) 440-3604. ... UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX first baseman/pitcher Wes Whisler was selected to the Collegiate Baseball Preseason All-America second team. It's the second preseason All-America team the sophomore has made. Whisler was the 2002 Pacific-10 Conference Freshman of the Year after batting .328 with 46 RBI and a UCLA freshman-record 18 home runs. As a pitcher, he was 5-2 with a team-best 4.06 ERA in 84 1/3 innings. USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. senior shortstop Anthony Lunetta and sophomore first baseman Joey Metropoulos were third-team selections. ... Outfielder Jason Kubel, a 2000 graduate of Highland High in Palmdale, was named the No. 8 prospect in the Minnesota Twins organization in Baseball America's annual list of organizational top-10 prospects. After spending two seasons in the rookie-level Gulf Coast League The Gulf Coast League is a minor league baseball league which operates in Florida. It is a Rookie League, with a season running from mid-June to late August. The season is 60 games long and teams in the league are divided into three divisions, East, North and , Kubel had a breakthrough season this year. He batted .321 with 17 home runs and 69 RBI for Single-A Quad City (Iowa) to earn Midwest League All-Star honors despite being bothered by back problems. STATILICIOUS GET A HAND IN THEIR FACE Saugus senior center Sheridan Arredondo is shooting 49 percent from the field, one of the lowest percentages on the team. Five players on No. 1 Saugus average more than 10 points a game, and Saugus is shooting more than 60 percent as a team. Freshman shooting guard Taylor Lilly leads the team, having hit 49 of 70 shots (70 percent) from the field and 15 of 30 3-point attempts. ATHLETES OF THE WEEK Jimmy Goffredo Senior Crescenta Valley The Harvard-bound guard matched his season high with 47 points as Crescenta Valley of La Crescenta easily defeated Taft of Woodland Hills to win the 15th annual Falcon Classic basketball tournament. The 6-foot-1 Goffredo was 17 of 25 from the field, hitting nine 3-pointers against an athletic Taft defense featuring Jordan Farmar and Steve Smith. Goffredo is averaging 33 points in the Falcons' nine games. ``He can score off the dribble and is equally deadly from 3-point range,'' Crescenta Valley coach Adam Jacobsen said. ``He's the type of player that makes the guys around him better.'' Christina DeVries Senior Westlake In the Warriors' Marmonte League match at Royal of Simi Valley, she displayed incredible versatility. In the first half, DeVries stopped a Highlanders' penalty kick. ``At the time it was still a 1-0 game, so that was a huge save,'' Westlake coach Frank Marino said. With third-ranked Westlake leading comfortably in the second half, Marino wanted to give talented backup Kelsey Davis some playing time. DeVries played in the field and scored two goals. Her week continued to bring good news. On Thursday, she committed to Virginia to play soccer for the Cavaliers. UP AND COMER Corey Duncan Cleveland High Duncan is a freshman, but after less than a month of play he might earn a call up to varsity. Duncan was averaging 20 points per game on junior varsity, so varsity coach Andre Chevalier decided to take Duncan to a tournament in Las Vegas last weekend. Duncan hit a game-winning 3- pointer with six seconds remaining as Cleveland of Reseda beat Perry Central of Kentucky in the quarterfinals. HEAD 2 HEAD Matchup of the week: Sylmar Tulyah Gaines Burroughs Wrighster is one of the area's quickest guards and Gaines, a junior point guard, already is receiving recruiting letters from programs such as Duke, Connecticut and Notre Dame. This matchup only happens though, if both teams win or both teams lose in the first round of the Ayala tournament. No. 8 Sylmar plays Ayala of Chino Chino (chē`nō), city (1990 pop. 59,682), San Bernardino co., S Calif.; founded 1887, inc. 1910. It is the business and processing center of a diversified farming (notably dairying) area. Hills in the first round and Burroughs plays St. Paul of Santa Fe Springs Santa Fe Springs, city (1990 pop. 15,520), Los Angeles co., SW Calif., inc. 1957. The city lies in an oil and natural gas region and has diversified manufacturing. . THEN AND NOW One of the Valley's favorite sons, Gilbert Arenas from Grant High of Van Nuys, will be coming home a few days after Christmas. Arenas, who starts for the Golden State Warriors The Golden State Warriors are a professional basketball team based in Oakland, California. The team plays in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Franchise history Philadelphia Warriors , will play against the Clippers at Staples Center on Saturday. Arenas owns 15 school records at Grant, including the career scoring mark with 2,124 points. Arenas left for the NBA draft after two years at Arizona, where he helped lead the Wildcats to a 2001 NCAA Tournament runner-up finish. He averaged 16.2 points, shot 47.9 percent from the field and was an All-Pacific-10 Conference selection. The Warriors chose Arenas with the 31st overall pick. After starting the season on injured reserve, Arenas had worked his way into the starting lineup by the end of the season. This season, he is averaging 16 points, 6.9 assists and 1.88 steals a game. CAPTION(S): 3 photos, 6 boxes Photo: (1) Jimmy Goffredo (2) Christina DeVries (3) Corey Duncan Box: (1) STATILICIOUS (see text) (1) STATILICIOUS (2) ATHLETES OF THE WEEK (see text) (3) UP AND COMER (see text) (4) HEAD 2 HEAD (see text) (5) THEN AND NOW (see text) (6) ON DECK: Highlights of the coming week |
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