CHATTER: UNDEFEATED PIERCE COLLEGE GOES FORWARD.Byline: Ramona Shelburne Ramona Shelburne is an American sports journalist currently writing for the Los Angeles Daily News. Shelburne was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California where she was a class valedictorian. Staff Writer Casey Dodd didn't have much to say when Pierce College In 2006 the Library won a national Excellence award. Academics Pierce College offers associate's degrees, mainly in the arts and sciences. There are also certificate programs in early childhood education, social services, dental hygienist, and others. women's soccer coach Adolpho Perez first approached her about a switch from defender to forward this season. Dodd, a former Chatsworth High standout who had come to Pierce to resurrect her career after a disappointing redshirt season in 2002 at Cal State Northridge, figured she should just do whatever her coach asked. Good move. Dodd has scored 26 goals, the fifth-highest total in the nation, and assisted on 11 more to lead Pierce to an undefeated season and a No. 9 national ranking. ``We lost our top two forwards to injuries right before the season, and I saw Casey doing some shooting drills and she just had a rocket shot,'' said Perez, who has guided Pierce to a 53-6-6 record in the three seasons since the program was formed in 2001. ``I asked her if she'd switch to forward and she just smiled. She's like that. She does whatever you ask her to do. You'd think a superstar-type player wouldn't do that, but she's always the first one there and the last to leave.'' Dodd says she's grateful to Perez for helping turn her career around. ``It's definitely turned a lot around,'' she said. ``I love playing forward but I miss playing defender. But I just play wherever the team needs me.'' Because of her success, Dodd will have a decision to make after the season. She's eligible to transfer this year, or she can remain at Pierce. If she is selected a junior college All-American as Perez expects, she will have plenty of four-year colleges offering her scholarships. That decision will come soon enough. But Perez said another decision that came up recently was a no-brainer. Pierce lost its stopper, Tricia Arosemena, who left the team for the rest of the season to play for the Panamanian national team at an Olympic-qualifying tournament in Guatemala. It leaves Dodd's old position vacant, but Perez said there's no chance she'll move back. ``We need her to score now,'' Perez said. ... Former Chaminade High of West Hills girls' basketball standout Christina Zdenek is expected to play significant minutes this season at Utah State, which is fielding a 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. program for the first time since 1986. ``Christina is doing great. She's an extremely intelligent young lady on and off the court, and she has high expectations for herself and the team,'' Utah State coach Raegan Pebley said. ``She had opportunities to go to more established programs, but because she is such an overachiever o·ver·a·chieve intr.v. o·ver·a·chieved, o·ver·a·chiev·ing, o·ver·a·chieves To perform better or achieve more success than expected. o , she wanted to come here and build a program.''... Former 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 of Lancaster guard Crystal McCutcheon, the Golden League girls' basketball MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. in 2000-01, is eligible to play this season for Long Beach State after redshirting last year. McCutcheon transferred from Pepperdine after her freshman year. The 49ers also gain the services of another local product in Chatsworth guard Liz Sun. Sun, a three-time Daily News All-Area selection who holds the Chatsworth High record for points, assists and rebounds in a career, has recovered from a torn ACL See access control list. 1. ACL - Access Control List. 2. ACL - Association for Computational Linguistics. 3. ACL - A Coroutine Language. A Pascal-based implementation of coroutines. ["Coroutines", C.D. that forced her to redshirt as a freshman last season. ... USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. sophomore catcher Jeff Clement Jeffrey B. Clement is a catcher who is currently in the Mariners farm system, and was called up to the Triple-A Tacoma Rainiers on June 21, 2006. Clement was the Mariners' first round draft pick (third overall) in the 2005 Major League Baseball Draft. was named a preseason All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. Granada Hills graduate Ryan Braun, a sophomore shortstop at Miami, was named to the second team. ... Harvard-Westlake of Studio City graduate Imani Dorsey was named the West Coast Conference's Defender of the Year as a senior for Portland. Pepperdine's Lacey Ubaldi also was named to the All-WCC first team. ... Westlake High baseball player Steve Bralver has orally committed to the University of Hawaii (body, education) University of Hawaii - A University spread over 10 campuses on 4 islands throughout the state. http://hawaii.edu/uhinfo.html. See also Aloha, Aloha Net. at Manoua. Bralver, a 6-foot-2, 185-pound senior outfielder/first baseman, batted better than .400 with five home runs and 20 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 during the recent Valley Instructional League. Bralver overcame pre-stress syndrome in his right leg during last season, an injury he suffered during the summer between his sophomore and junior years that kept him on crutches from September through the end of November. Although Bralver batted over .300 with two home runs, he was never 100 percent until this past summer, when he was able to perform before college scouts and coaches. ... Brandon Owens, a freshman at 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 , and Edwin Miranda, a senior at Cal State Northridge, were named to Soccer America's Team of the Week. Staff Writers Vincent Bonsignore and Heather Gripp contributed to this report. Ramona Shelburne, (818) 713-3617 ramona.shelburne(at)dailynews.com |
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