JENSEN SWIMS WAY TO INDIANA.Byline: Gerry Gittelson Community Sports All the monotonous hours swimming laps at the Canyon Aquatics swimming club finally paid off for local Matthew Jensen. Last week, he accepted an athletic scholarship An athletic scholarship is a form of scholarship to attend a college or university awarded to an individual based predominantly on their ability to play in a sport. They are common in the United States, but in many countries they are rare or non-existent. to swim for Indiana University Indiana University, main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ. next year. ``I'm very happy for him. Indiana is a great program, with a great coach (Ray Looze),'' said his mother, Becky. ``I'm going to miss my son, but this is what we've been preparing him to do. He wants to become a better swimmer and further his education. It's very exciting.'' Jensen, an eight-time junior national qualifier, has been a member of Canyon Aquatics since he was 8 years old. He goes to Chaminade High in West Hills. Meanwhile, several other local athletes committed to Division I universities beginning last Wednesday, the first day of the early-signing period. Jaisa Creps, a catcher for Valencia High's softball team, signed with 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 , one of the premier softball programs in the country. Immediately after signing Wednesday morning, Creps and her family hosted a celebration brunch at Mimi's Cafe near Valencia High, and Valencia head coach Donna Lee Donna Lee is a bebop jazz standard itself based on the chord changes of the traditional jazz standard "(Back Home Again in) Indiana".[1] It is named after the now-obscure bassist Donna Lee. was among the well-wishers. Creps handed out UCLA athletic gear as party favors to all of the guests. Other Valencia athletes who either recently committed or have signed include: softball player Ashley Herrera (UCLA), volleyball players This is a list of top international volleyball players. : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
Shelton, who also plays for the football team as a kicker, has ruled out college football at Pacific, which doesn't field a team. --Add Lee: We wonder whom Lee was rooting for during the Hart-Valencia football showdown Thursday. Lee, of course, teaches and coaches softball at Valencia, but her nephew, Kyle Hetman het·man n. pl. het·mans See ataman. [Ukrainian het'man, from Polish hetman, from German dialectal hötmann, hetmann, captain; akin to German Hauptmann , is a starting offensive lineman for Hart's football team. --Bright idea at 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. : It's undecided whether College of the Canyons will install artificial turf Artificial turf, or synthetic turf, is a grass-like man-made surface manufactured from synthetic materials. It is most often used in arenas for sports that were originally or are normally played on grass, however, it is now being used on residential lawns and commercial by next year. But officials improved the lights significantly last week, just in time for the final weekend of the regular season for Foothill League teams. ``The new lights actually use less wattage wattage the output or consumption of an electric device expressed in watts. , but they're brighter,'' College of the Canyons sports-information director Bruce Battle said. ``I think the old ones had been there since, like, 1972.'' --Santa Clarita Warriors win: Ryan Zirbel scooped up a fumble and returned it 35 yards for a touchdown to spark the Santa Clarita Warriors' youth football team to a 20-6 victory over Simi Valley last week in the first round of the playoffs. Zirbel also led Santa Clarita with seven tackles. Santa Clarita's Ryan Casselberry rushed for 133 yards and a touchdown, and he also intercepted a pass. --More youth football: The Canyon J2 Colts, led by Chris Kingsbury and Anthony Arriga, capped an undefeated regular season with a muddy 28-12 comeback victory over the Santa Clarita Apaches (5-3) last week. |
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