SOFTBALL: OLESON QUICK TO IMPRESS STEALTH : AGOURA PLAYER SHOWGREAT SPEED, DEFENSE.Byline: Rizza Yap Daily News Staff Writer Amanda Oleson eats like a normal teen-ager. She likes to munch munch - To transform information in a serial fashion, often requiring large amounts of computation. To trace down a data structure. Related to crunch and nearly synonymous with grovel, but connotes less pain. Often confused with mung. on anything chocolate. There's no special diet, no prescribed medicine or magic pellets. She's just fast. Period. With her speed, Oleson already has distinguished herself as a first-year member of the Stealth stealth Any military technology intended to make vehicles or missiles nearly invisible to enemy radar or other electronic detection. Research in antidetection technology began soon after radar was invented. travel softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' program. Playing on the 16-and-under team, the Agoura High junior leads off the lineup and has so far racked up batting averages batting average n. Baseball A measure of a batter's performance obtained by dividing the total of base hits by the number of times at bat, not including walks. Noun 1. of .543 and .443 in her first two summer-ball tournaments. More impressive, however, is her on-base percentage, which falls above .700. Although right-handed, Oleson has learned to become a left-handed slapper - a technique taught by Stealth coach Steve Harrington - which is part of the reason gets to first base most of the time. The other part is her speed. It takes the 5-foot-10 Oleson 2.85 seconds to run from home plate to first base. Teammates call her Legs.'' ``She flies,'' Harrington said. ``She can hit the ball to the pitcher and almost beat it out every time. Boy, is she lightning fast.'' Oleson's defensive performance also has attracted notice. As shortstop, she's a leader in double plays, instigating a total of four over the American Pastime and USA Athletics tourneys. That her talents came to life so quickly was at first somewhat of a surprise to Harrington. Before Oleson joined Stealth, Harrington said he was told the 15-year-old was going to be tough to handle. Oleson herself confessed to being stubborn, which led to a clash of personalities with her former travel-ball coach. That led to Oleson's transfer from the Breeze to Stealth during the past winter-ball season. The switch paid off for Oleson - born in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of but reared in Agoura - who said she and Harrington's philosophies mesh well together. ``She comes on my team, and she's just a blessing, a dream come true,'' Harrington said. ``She's a hustler hustler Sexology A ♂ paid to service–nudge, nudge, wink, wink–♀ or other ♂ at every practice. And if you use her right, she is a great ball player.'' Oleson's talents on the softball team might stem from hard work. But a lot of it, especially the speed, she said, comes from playing 10 years of soccer. Between the positions of forward and goalie, soccer built up her endurance and taught her to be quick. She quit the sport last year to concentrate on softball but still uses the strengths she derived as a soccer player. In lieu of Instead of; in place of; in substitution of. It does not mean in addition to. soccer, actually, Oleson decided to try her hand at prep volleyball last fall. She plays just for fun, she said, but it does help keep her arms conditioned before softball season. She plans to continue with volleyball this fall. Although much athletic success is brewing for Oleson, she said her next moves are geared more toward the classroom than on the field. As shortstop and pitcher for Agoura, she remembers missing two weeks of play during her freshman season because of academic ineligibility INELIGIBILITY. The incapacity to be lawfully elected. 2. This incapacity arises from various, causes, and a person may be incapable of being elected to one office who may, be elected to another; the incapacity may also be perpetual or temporary. . She kept her grades up last year, and she hopes to improve even more as a junior. ``Homework is frustrating frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: , but I need to bring my grades up, and I have to concentrate on school,'' Oleson said. This weekend, Oleson and the rest of the Stealth 16-and-under team will travel to Georgia, where a tournament win could earn them a sport in the national championships. The squad plays from Friday to Sunday in what Harrington expects to be 98-degree weather with 87 percent humidity. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO After switching from another traveling team, Agoura shortstop Amanda Oleson (left) has been a pleasant surprise for the Stealth. Michael Owen
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