CROSS COUNTRY: RUNNING MATES : SHELL BLEVINS' HALF SISTER LAURA HAS ARRIVED TO LIFT Q.H.'S HOPES.Byline: Kirby Lee Special to the Daily News If one Blevins was not already enough for the Golden League to handle, the Quartz Hill High girls' cross country team has added another this fall. For the last two years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Rebels have dominated the Golden League with junior Shell Blevins, the defending individual league champion and a member of the Rebels' 1997 State Division I finalist team. This season, Shell is joined by her half sister Laura. A former swimmer who lived in New Jersey, Laura, also a junior, has moved to 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 for her final two years of high school. While Shell has yet to compete in league competition this fall because of illness, Laura has helped keep the Rebels in contention for their third league title in a row. Laura started the season as Quartz Hill's fifth runner but was the Rebels' No. 1 runner in the second Golden League meet two weeks ago and finished third overall. ``I knew she had a lot of potential,'' Shell said. ``She is a strong person and doesn't care how much pain there is.'' Quartz Hill will be at full strength in Golden League competition with both Blevins sisters in the championships Wednesday at Pelona Vista Park. ``We've always tried to have the girls together, it was great when the opportunity for this arose,'' said father Kevin Blevins, the Quartz Hill girls' cross country coach. ``When I am out there, I see the girls as runners. I treat them as part of the group, but I do have a lot of pride to see both of them do well.'' Laura is hardly a stranger to Quartz Hill, where she has had her own bedroom for the last 10 years. Although she stayed with her mother Grace Holman during the school year, Laura visited her father during the summer and holidays since kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be . The last two summers, Laura also accompanied the cross country team to Mammoth mammoth, name for several large prehistoric elephants of the extinct genus Mammuthus, which ranged over Eurasia and North America in the Pleistocene epoch. for the annual running camp. Laura grew so fond of running with the Quartz Hill cross country team during the summer, she decided to forgo swimming to compete in cross country and track as a sophomore at Northern Burlington County High last year. Faced with the prospect of attending two different high schools over the next two years because of her mother's constant relocation RELOCATION, Scotch law, contracts. To let again to renew a lease, is called a relocation. 2. When a tenant holds over after the expiration of his lease, with the consent of his landlord, this will amount to a relocation. as an Air Force officer, Laura opted to move to the Antelope Valley this fall for stability. Although it has taken Laura awhile a·while adv. For a short time. Usage Note: Awhile, an adverb, is never preceded by a preposition such as for, but the two-word form a while may be preceded by a preposition. to adjust to the warm weather and the hilly hill·y adj. hill·i·er, hill·i·est 1. Having many hills. 2. Similar to a hill; steep. hill courses this fall, moving is nothing new. Her three-year stay in New Jersey was the longest Laura had resided in one place. She was born in Washington and has lived in Australia, Germany, Utah, Rhode Island Rhode Island, island, United States Rhode Island, island, 15 mi (24 km) long and 5 mi (8 km) wide, S R.I., at the entrance to Narragansett Bay. It is the largest island in the state, with steep cliffs and excellent beaches. and Illinois. ``When I was younger, it did not bother me moving, but it got really hard to move from New Jersey to leave my friends,'' Laura said. ``I wanted a stable life. I knew a lot of people because I have been coming here my whole life. I feel right at home.'' It's not much different on the cross country course. In addition to Shell and her father, her stepmother Cindi Blevins is the president of Quartz Hill's cross country booster club A booster club is an organization that is formed to contribute money to an associated club, sports team, or organization. Booster clubs are popular in American schools at the high school and university level. and is the team scorekeeper score·keep·er n. An official who records the score throughout a game or competition. score  keep .
``I am not used to having my parents come to the meets, cheering and wishing me good luck,'' Laura said. ``It really helps you run (having) someone supporting me.'' Shell is also glad to have Laura aboard. In addition to a training partner, Laura, a 4.0 grade-point average, has helped Shell in the classroom. The sisters, who were born three days apart, have a similar curriculum this fall, including classes in advance placement classes in English and psychology. Laura has helped tutor TUTOR - A Scripting language on PLATO systems from CDC. ["The TUTOR Language", Bruce Sherwood, Control Data, 1977]. and take notes for Shell, who wears hearing aids Hearing Aids Definition A hearing aid is a device that can amplify sound waves in order to help a deaf or hard-of-hearing person hear sounds more clearly. and suffers from progressive sensorneural hearing loss. She is unable to take notes during lectures while concentrating on reading the instructor's lips. With Laura's assistance, Shell has raised her GPA GPA abbr. grade point average Noun 1. GPA - a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted to 3.7 this fall with help of note-taking and tutoring from Laura. ``Last year, I was a little lazy,'' Shell said. ``I am doing a lot better this year. It is good to have her around 24/7.'' BLEVINS BUNCH The Blevins family has had a strong influence on the Quartz Hill girls' cross country program. Coach Kevin Blevins: Third-year coach has led Quartz Hill to 1997 and 1998 league titles Cindi Blevins: President and founder of Quartz Hill cross country booster club Shell Blevins: Defending Golden League champion Laura Blevins: Rebels' top runner in Golden League meet No. 2 CAPTION(S): Photo, box PHOTO The Blevins family, from left, Shell, father/coach; Kevin and his wife Cindi, the booster club president; and Laura. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer Box: BLEVINS BUNCH (See text) |
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