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Debate teams brings home national awards
By Allen Huddleston
The Collegian
The Fresno state debate team made
a strong push to close out its season,
ending with multiple accolades and
awards at the national tournament in
late March.
In the Cross Examination Debate
A s s o c i a t i o n ( C E DA ) N a t i o n a l
Tournament at Idaho State, Fresno
State debaters Pritpal Randhawa,
Sier ra Holley, Jamila Ahmed and
Emma Wheeler ear ned awards as
National Debate Scholars.
Candis Tate was elected to the AllAmerican debate team, which features
the top 30 debaters in the country.
Wheeler was selected as “Novice of
the Year” among all the first-year debaters in the country.
This past season marked one of the
best the debate team has had in a while.
Tate and Holley beat teams from the
US Military Academy, the University
of Puget Sound, Rochester and others,
fighting their way to a 5-3 record and
becoming the first team from Fresno
State in several years to clear at a varsity tournament.
The debate program at Fresno State
was discontinued in 2003, only to be
revived in 2011.
This past season the Fresno State
debate team had 18 students go to tournaments and debate, said Kevin Kuswa,
coach of the Fresno State debate team.
The Fresno
State debate
team brought
home
multiple
awards from
the Cross
Examination
Debate
Association
National
Tournament.
Photos Courtesy
of Fresno State
Department of
Communication
The team is open to anyone who
is interested and is considered a very
diverse team, he said, opposed to many
teams on the East Coast. The team is
also relatively young compared to most
others.
“We figured it would take three or
four years to get us to the varsity level,
but Candis [Tate] and Sierra made this
great run,” Kuswa said.
Randhawa, Ahmed, Andre Mitchell
and Christian Ybar ra won three
rounds at the varsity level of the CEDA
National Tour nament. Ahmed and
Ybarra’s performance qualified them
for the elimination rounds in novice.
They beat Johnson County, Kan., in the
quarterfinals before losing to Rochester,
N.Y., in the semifinals. The pair ended
the competition by tying for third place
in the country on the novice level.
Ariana Willingham and Tate earned
awards as National Debate Scholars at
the cum-laude level during the tournament as well.
Wheeler and Willingham won two
debates on the varsity level during the
Idaho event. Both intend to return to
the debate team at Fresno State next
year.
The Fresno State debate team is one
of the more diverse teams that compete
on the national level, he said, with a
majority of the teams it debates against
being comprised of mostly males.
The team has many of its members
entering their second year of debate,
leaving much room for improvement.
Fresno State’s Candis Tate holds one of the
many awards earned by the debate team.
This past year was the second
year that Tate has debated. She has
now received a scholarship to coach
the debate team at California State
University, Northridge.
Kuswa believes that since the season
is over, first-year debaters can now take
this time to develop positions on different topics.
Most debates are policy debates,
See AWARDS, Page 3
USDA hopes to settle discrimination
suits by Hispanic, female farmers
By Michael Doyle
McClatchy-Tribune
Photo Courtesy of University Communication
Fresno State grows many varies of nuts on its campus farms, such as these pistachio trees.
Fresno State’s JCAST gets
pistachio endowment
University Communication
The California Pistachio Research
Board pledged $1.5 million to establish an endowed faculty position with
Fresno State’s Jordan Colle ge of
Agricultural Sciences and Technology.
The endowed Professorship in
Pistachio Physiology and Pomology
assures dedicated faculty expertise to
help solve industry challenges, while
training the next generation of agricultural professionals. The position
will focus on applied research in pistachio physiology and teaching courses
in pomology, the science of cultivating
fruit produced by flowering plants.
When hired, the newly selected faculty member will work closely with the
pistachio board to prioritize research,
and as a teacher and adviser connecting
students to the industry.
Board chair and pistachio grower
See PISTACHIOS, Page 3
WASHINGTON _ Hispanic farmers in Texas and California’s Central
Valley planted the seeds for a billiondollar payout when they charged the
Agriculture Department with discrimination.
Their lawsuit has struggled in court,
but it scored politically.
Now Agriculture Department officials are scrambling to distribute some
$1.33 billion to Hispanic and female
farmers with discrimination claims.
Hoping not to miss anyone, officials
have extended the deadline for applications to May 1.
“We’re trying to make sure we leave
no stone unturned,” Lillian Salerno,
the acting administrator of the department’s Rural Business-Cooperative
Service, said in an interview Tuesday.
“We feel like we’ve done a good job of
outreach, but you’re never completely
sure.”
Saler no said 65,000 claim for ms
already had been sent to Hispanic and
female farmers, who could apply for
payments of $250,000 or $50,000 each.
By extending the March 25 filing deadline, officials think they can reach more
potential applicants, as well as give
additional time to fill out the 16-page
claim forms. They also might avoid the
complications that troubled a different
discrimination-settlement program for
African-American farmers.
In se parate lawsuits, AfricanAmerican, Hispanic, female and
N a t ive A m e r i c a n f a r m e r s h ave
alleged discrimination by Agriculture
Department officials responsible for
loan-making and other decisions. Each
lawsuit initially named individual
farmers, who argued that many others
shared their plight.
Two dozen of the 81 aggrieved farmers identified in a 2006 version of the
Hispanic lawsuit were from Fresno,
Reedley or other parts of California’s
rural Central Valley. Twenty-two were
from Texas, many from around the El
Paso area.
“Hispanics were consistently discouraged from even applying for loans
or benefits,” the farmers asserted in
one legal filing, adding that “those
Hispanics who nevertheless persisted
in filling out an application for loans
or benefits experienced long delays in
processing their applications (and) they
experienced a high denial rate based
upon highly subjective eligibility criteria.”
A separate lawsuit was filed on
behalf of female farmers, including
Winter Haven, Fla.-area farmer Mary
L. Brown and Palm Coast, Fla., farmer
Lind Marie Bara-Weaver. Though the
Hispanic and female farmers’ lawsuits
haven’t been settled, the Agriculture
Department is offering the $1.33 billion
as an alternative to continued litigation.
Raising similar issues and winning certification as a class action, the
first African-American farmer lawsuit ended in 1999, when Agriculture
Department officials agreed to a $2.25
billion settlement, the largest civil
rights settlement in history.
While 22,700 far mers had filed
claims, another 74,000 individuals came
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Eye contact: Awkwardly effective One-Finger
By Dalton Gumz
Senior, majoring in mass communication
and journalism
Sitting at the tables outside of
the Starbucks at the Henry Madden
Library, we have all experienced a
strange phenomenon.
Working on laptops and homework,
the occasional glance up from a screen
to meet someone else's gaze, and we
quickly turn back to what we were
doing.
This awkward and uncomfortable
meeting of the eyes is just that phenomenon.
When you walk down the street past
someone and your eyes meet, especially
if you do not know the person, you feel
a sense of awkwardness.
Eye contact is something that is
feared, and oftentimes avoided, due to
the weird way it makes us feel.
For as often as it occurs, why does it
make us feel uncomfortable when we
glimpse into another person's eyes?
For centuries, eye contact has
been seen as a form in intimacy and
romance. When you look into someone's
eyes, that may mean you have some sort
of an interest in them. According to
primermagazine.com, making eye contact with someone establishes a type of
personal relationship with the person
you are speaking with.
This also makes the person who initiates and is able to hold the eye contact
the more powerful person in the conversation.
When we do lock eyes with someone
across the room, we do not necessarily
have the desire to get to know them or
even speak with them. It is just a random occurrence, and we look away
immediately.
Eye contact avoidance is key in keeping to ourselves and maintaining our
privacy.
However uncomfortable we may
feel when looking into the eyes of a
stranger, there is another aspect of eye
contact that is incredibly helpful and
essential.
When we meet people for the first
time, it is crucial that we shake hands,
introduce ourselves, all while looking
them in the eyes.
Without the element of eye contact,
conversations can be meaningless and
impersonal. Face-to-face interactions
require eye contact because in the
American culture, it is seen as rude
otherwise.
However, when using eye contact, if
you stare straight at someone, it can be
perceived as threatening.
A lack of eye contact when speaking
has the connotation of not being honest.
Primermagazine.com also notes that
this is why we have the saying, “Look
me in the eyes and say that,” because it
is more difficult to lie to someone while
you are looking at that person directly
in the eyes.
Although in our culture a lack of eye
contact is seen as rude, other cultures
see the aversion of the eyes as a sign of
respect.
In a study done by a Berkeley professor, he found that Latin Americans
make more eye contact when they
speak, and it is a key point in their personal interactions.
In contrast, many Asian cultures,
such as the Japanese, do not make eye
contact when speaking to their superiors as a sign of respect.
The study also noted that children
have a better chance of learning some-
thing when eye contact is present.
Whenever eye contact is initiated,
people have a better chance of listening
more intently to what is being said, and
flirting is also better received.
Eye contact is very underrated in
today's society. People who do not utilize it are missing out on two very
important things: awareness and confidence, according to primermagazine.
com.
It also offered tips on how to use
eye contact efficiently, because it has
become so underrated.
It noted to remember that eye contact is not staring, and not to lock eyes
with the person you're speaking with
because it will be threatening.
Effective eye contact can help you in
a variety of ways. It shows you have a
more personal interest in the conversation and can make you a better listener. Making eye contact shouldn't be
an awkward experience or make us feel
uncomfortable.
If we just all practice the tips for better interpersonal communication, then
it will be a much easier thing to deal
with when it occurs unexpectedly.
And next time, instead of instantly
looking the other way when we meet
someone's gaze, we can give them a
smile instead of an uncomfortable
shudder.
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Margaret Thatcher — politician, freemarket evangelist, labor antagonist and
dominant global leader — died Monday
at age 87 of a stroke. In 1992, Thatcher
was appointed a peeress in the House
of Lords with the title of Baroness. She
continued giving speeches and lectures
across the world. She also founded the
Thatcher Foundation, which aimed to
advance the cause of political and economic freedom, particularly in the newly
liberated countries of central and eastern
Europe. In 1995 she became a member
of the Order of the Garter, the highest
order of knighthood in England.
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Young adults can kick
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Researchers studying new methods to
help young adults to quit smoking report
that physical activity may actually have
an effect on smoking rates. Scientists
from George Washington University
School of Public Health and Health
Services report that young smokers who
upped the number of days they exercised
for 20 minutes didn’t light up as much
as those who weren’t as active. Some
who participated in both smoking cessation and fitness programs were able to
kick their habit for good.
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Budget cuts ground Air
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The U.S. Navy has canceled the remainder of the elite Blue Angels demonstration team's 2013 season and the Air
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combat force because of federal budget
cuts. The commanders of the Air Force's
Air Combat Command and the Navy's air
forces announced the moves Tuesday.
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PISTACHIOS:
Rapid growth in
industry has spurred
increased research
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Tom Coleman said the endowment comes at a pivotal time.
“During the past 20 years the
California pistachio industry
experienced rapid growth and
we have relied on researchers from across the state.
Unfortunately many of these
academic researchers recently
retired or will retire soon.
“Fresno State is the ideal
location with respect to our
growers. It is one of the top
agricultural universities in the
country and is deeply committed to supporting the agricultural community,” Coleman
said.
Richard Matoian, executive director of American
Pistachio Growers, echoed the
sentiment, noting the Jordan
College’s reputation for producing well-trained students
and conducting cutting-edge
agricultural research.
The Califor nia Pistachio
Research Board is composed of
pistachio producers dedicated
to researching pistachio propagation, production, harvesting,
handling and preparation for
market. The board also provides educational opportunities and material for pistachio
growers.
Andrew Anzaldo, director of Grower Relations at
Paramount Farms said, “This
e n d ow m e n t d e m o n s t r at e s
unanimous industry support
for a long-term research solution to combat the dwindling
state support of higher education.”
The Jordan College offers
students a comprehensive,
hands-on educational experience. Students train at the 1,000
acre farm laboratory, of which
25 acres are dedicated to pistachios.
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INFO: Jordan King, 559278-8861.
Bipartisan support for
bill connected to Prop. 30
Assembly Bill 67,
a joint ef for t between
Assemblymembers Kristin
Olsen, (R-Modesto), Rocky
Chavez (R-Oceanside) and
Jeff Gorell (R-Camarillo)
passed out of the Assembly’s
Higher
Education
Committee with bipartisan
support.
To
ensure
that
Proposition 30 tax dollars
are actually used to protect
higher education as the voters intended, Assembly Bill
67 would freeze tuition at all
UC and CSU campuses for
four years.
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Some lawmakers call
claims overly generous
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in late. Under political and
legal pressure, the Agriculture
Department provided an additional $1.25 billion in 2010 for
the African-American farmers
who’d missed the first claims
deadline.
A class-action discrimination lawsuit filed in 1999 on
behalf of Native American
farmers was settled for $760
million in 2011.
Conservative lawmakers
call the settlements overly
generous and politically moti-
vated.
“The proof is so low that all
an applicant has to do is allege
that there was discrimination
and then find someone who
is not a close family member
who will attest that they complained about being discriminated against,” Rep. Steve
King, R-Iowa, asserted during
a 2011 debate in the House of
Representatives.
The House, though, rejected
King’s effort to stop the additional payments to AfricanAmerican farmers.
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AWARDS:
Young team
makes big
progress
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meaning that before the actual
debate, the competitors are
already assigned to their topic.
“ Fo r p o l i cy d e b at e, we
debate the same topic all season long,” Kuswa said. “This
past year we debated a lot on
environmental policies, dealing with global warming, solar
panels. Basically a really indepth energy policy.”
In single tournaments, the
debate team will enter six preliminary rounds, each round
being different. Some rounds
will be affirmative, while other
rounds will be negative. At the
end of the preliminary rounds,
the team with the best record
out of six rounds will receive
the top seed, set to play the bottom seed.
The team as a whole won
second place in the nation for
public debate advocacy for
the public forum debates at
Reedley College and earned an
undergraduate travel grant for
the Madison Cup being held at
James Madison University this
month. Randhawa and Tom
Boroujeni will be representing
the team.
Kuswa is very excited about
the direction that the debate
team is headed, especially after
it finished in the top 32 teams
in the country. He understands
that his team is young and has
room to grow.
“The community decides
what we debate on. One of the
topics that I am pushing for is
economic inequality, which
would be good for the Valley,”
Kuswa said. “I’m excited for
people that have started off as
novices on junior varsity and
seeing how they will develop
into the next season.”
The team will be bringing
back many of its key debaters,
including Ahmed, Ybarra and
Holley, who are looking forward to the next debate season.
This past season these debaters were able to get experience
that will carry over.
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Instructor prepares ag students for life after college
FEATURES EDITOR, CAMERON WOOLSEY • COLLEGIAN-FEATURES@CSUFRESNO.EDU
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By Lauren Jenkins
Special to The Collegian
Fresno State instructor Neal Spiro
takes a different approach when teaching his classes, not only teaching with
great passion for the dairy industry, but
also with a realistic point of view on
life.
A staple of the Fresno State animal
sciences department, he has decided
to retire at the end of the semester and
move on to greener pastures.
Spiro, already a veterinarian, began
working as a professor at Fresno State
in 2007, where he teaches dairy science
and pre-veterinarian classes, such as
anatomy and physiology.
Though he enjoys teaching, Spiro
said he never thought he would become
a professor.
“It was a huge culture shock for me
when I started teaching,” Spiro said.
He said there are special qualities to
both his veterinary practice and teaching.
“Working with students is always the
best part about teaching,” Spiro said. “I
really enjoyed being a veterinarian.”
Prior to becoming a professor, Spiro
went to Cal Poly, where he received a
bachelor’s degree in dairy science and
continued on to Ross University for his
doctorate of veterinary medicine. He
began as a herdsman, and then worked
at a mixed-animal practice and later, a
dairy.
Spiro moved back to California in
1989, and in July of 1990, he started his
own veterinary practice. He still has
his practice, although it is much small-
Roe Borunda / The Collegian
Fresno State instructor Neal Spiro teaches classes in the animal sciences department. He uses his
experience from owning his own veterinary practice to prepare students for graduation.
er than it used to be. His focus is mostly
on dairy cows, but he also works with
some equines.
Spiro said his greatest personal
achievement was starting his veterinary practice.
“I was always blessed to have excellent clients to work with,” he said.
Though he loved the work, he had
to cut back on his veterinary practice
because it is a physically demanding
career, he said.
“I did mostly large-animal [practice],
and physically it starts taking a its toll
on your body, especially with the dairy
practice,” he explained.
Spiro’s job is not only to teach, but
also to prepare his students for the
work environment. He said obtaining
work in the students’ desired areas is
very important and feels it is part of the
faculty’s job to help with that.
Spiro uses his classes as a time to
prime students with the skills that will
be needed in the workforce.
“It’s really important to try and
bridge the gap between academia
and, for lack of a better word, the real
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013
world,” Spiro said. “I think the two need
to stay connected, and students need
to be made aware of what’s going to be
expected of them when they leave college.”
Spiro is also an assistant coach for
the Dairy Challenge team, the Pre-Vet
Club adviser, the department representative and is on the Institutional and
Animal Use Committee.
W h i t n e y E t c h e ve r r y, a D a i r y
Challenge team member for three
semesters, said the challenge is a competition between schools to give consulting advice to different dairies. The
team travels to various dairies and evaluates them to find ways to make them
more efficient.
April Chabala, a senior in the animal science pre-veterinary program
at Fresno State and the Pre-Vet Club
president, said Spiro is adept at relating
class work to the actual industry.
“Spiro is excited when he teaches,”
Chabala said. “He teaches with a realist aspect that helps us implement it in
real life.” Chabala said that Spiro doesn’t cut
corners and teaches with a straightforward approach. She said Spiro supports the Pre-Vet Club and makes sure
the students know it is a competitive
industry.
“He brings forth the realization that
not everyone gets into vet school,”
Chabala said. “He teaches us it is
important to have a plan B.”
Like many of his graduating students, Spiro is not sure where he will
end up after the semester, but looks forward to the next stage of his life.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013
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Professor enters a new chapter
By Zack Edwards
The Collegian
Every writer hopes to one day find
his or her name on the cover of a novel.
For one professor in the Fresno State
English department, those long held
hopes of becoming an author have
materialized into a career.
Born in Tijuana, Mexico, and raised
in Southern California, Alex Espinoza
has always wanted to write. The youngest of 11 kids said that he never imagined himself doing anything else.
He began the process of writing his
first novel, “Still Water Saints,” as an
undergraduate student at UC Riverside.
He worked on it little by little, as he
continued his education, earning his
Master of Fine Arts in writing from UC
Irvine.
“Still Water Saints” was published
in 2007 and received rave reviews.
Espinoza said a big reason why was the
outpouring of help he received from fellow writers.
“I managed to have lots of friends
who were writers, who managed to navigate me through the process and also
be very supportive — writers who gave
me blurbs, writers who endorsed what
I was doing,” Espinoza said. “So the
publishing world appreciated that and
responded to that positively.”
The same year his first novel came
out would also be the year he would join
the faculty at Fresno State. Espinoza
said he was just following the advice
given to him by one of his professors.
“She said you have to put yourself in
a place where you can now help young
writers find their voice,” he said. “Just
like I held the door open for you, now
it’s your turn to hold the door open for
other people.”
Brandon Baker is one of Espinoza’s
M.F.A. students. He said that having the
chance to study under the tutelage of a
published author has been immensely
helpful.
“It lends a lot of credibility to his
teaching, to his advice,” Baker said. “I
mean he’s a published author, and we
get to ask him all kinds of questions
every week, so it’s fun.”
Espinoza said it is tricky to be both
a writer and professor, but it is possible
to be successful at both.
“I found that, early on, I needed to
make sure that I was really regimented
in terms of the hours that I spent dealing with my classes and doing stuff for
the university and then the time that
I spent sitting down and writing,” he
said.
That scheduling has paid off for
Espinoza, because he once again gets to
see his name on the cover of a novel. His
second book, “The Five Acts of Diego
León: a Novel,” came out in March.
“Now with the second one, it’s cultivating that platform,” he said. “It’s really sustaining the reputation that you’ve
built as a writer.”
However, just because he has gone
through this once before, does not mean
that the publication process does not
make him anxious.
“It’s a very different experience, but
you still have that sense of apprehension,” Espinoza said. “You still get really, really sort of nervous. I feel like I’m
about to have a child. The baby’s about
to be born, and I’ve been in labor for
like five years.”
For students who wish to become
authors, Espinoza has a few pieces
of advice. First of all, he suggests the
importance of reading.
“Oftentimes, I encounter people who
want to write but don’t like to read, and
that doesn’t work,” he said. “You have
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The daily crossword
Across
1 Tons o’
6 Blows, as a script line
11 Has permission
14 One may be passed
around at a reunion
15 Like the Vegas strip
16 Honest prez
17 One of Beethoven’s 32
19 Moll’s leg
20 More pitiful
21 Channeling state
23 Gas from the past
24 Rants and raves
27 Charity’s URL ending
29 Change to zeros
30 Social service item?
34 Wing measurement
38 More than impress
39 Debit card ID
40 Where to get off: Abbr.
43 __ Deco
44 Sweet root
46 Proverbial nonexistent
meal
49 Davis who was married
to Ruby Dee
52 “Collages” author Anaïs
53 Place of central interest,
man
57 Dog in the FDR
Memorial
61 Hang up the gloves
62 Hollered
64 Slick-whistle connector
65 Has a meal, and as the
circles show, what 17-, 24-,
30-, 46- and 53-Across each
does
68 Chi follower
69 Farsi speaker
70 Edible little sphere
71 Oeuf seasoning
72 He bested Alexander in
1804
73 Fragrant compound
Down
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2 Jumbles
3 Snowboarders’ aids
4 Venting car option
5 Parisian possessive
6 Apt name for a woman
with a green thumb?
7 Jeremy in the 2012 NBA’s
Rising Stars Challenge
8 Acting teacher Hagen
9 Steep-sided hills
10 Spread out
11 __ Carta
12 Bead counters for bean
counters
13 Arabian republic formed
in 1990
18 Composer Prokofiev
22 Creates some drama?
25 Like the vb. “to be,” in
most languages
26 Hunch
28 Sales __
30 Oft-grabbed ride
31 Be in hock to
32 Admission price
33 Not up to snuff
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36 __ de Triomphe
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45 Songwriter Amos
47 Matter in court
48 Displays, as a flag
50 Montenegro neighbor
51 __ Club: conservation group
53 Completes a shoot
54 1946 Literature Nobelist
Hermann
55 Cybersales
56 Invite to enter
58 Took the hit, financially
59 Time off
60 Venomous snake
63 Double-reed instrument
66 Musical talent
67 “It’s __-brainer!”
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CHAMPS: Fresno State captures title with eight-man roster
"Well, who's gonna drop off
next? Whoever’s left, we’re
the survivors. We’re the tough
ones who were able to stick it
out.
"And it kind of just galvanized us. It brought us closer
together. We’re the ones that
have stuck it out and we’re
going to make the best out of
what we have left."
Knight, a Bullard High grad-
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setter who recorded 251 assists
during the tournament – were
all part of the 2009 national
championship team.
And then the chemistry
kicked in.
"At that point, when everyone quit, it just kind helped
bring us closer and closer
together," Knight said.
uate is one player who plans
to pursue playing the sport at
the professional level – a feat
several seniors from the 2009
national championship team
achieved.
And as for the club program’s future?
Tsukimura hopes to fill
holes at the middle blocker and
at setter – a position vacated by
Burriss, a senior.
The club sports program
helps coordinate the City/
County All-Star high school
volleyball game in June – an
annual match that features the
Central Valley’s top performers.
Tsukimura said he’ll reach
out to potential incoming
Fresno State freshmen at the
game – a usual routine of his.
“It’s all about the play-
ers who want to be there,”
Tsukimura said.
Knight has high aspirations
for the future of the program.
“Hopefully we can get a
scholarship team someday,”
said Knight.
“That would be awesome.
But until that happens, I think
Fresno State is going to have a
good club volleyball program
for years to come.”
MEN: Pitino, Louisville emerge victorious
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league tournament.
They dominated the first
four rounds of the NCAA
Tournament, but were pushed
by Wichita State in Saturday’s
semifinal, winning by four.
Hancock came up big in that
game as well with 19 points.
Guard Peyton Siva came up
big with his scoring and playmaking. He finished with 18
points, 14 in the second half.
Forward Chane Behanan
made a big difference in the
middle with 15 points and 12
rebounds, including seven
offensive boards.
Michigan guard Trey
Burke, who has won a lion’s
share of national player of
the year awards, tried to keep
the Wolverines in it, but his 24
points weren’t enough.
As the final moments tickets
away, Louisville players came
to hug Ware. He got to help cut
down nets as the backboard
was lowered.
The first half unfolded at
a frenzied pace with unlikely
recruit and not just a younglooking kid playing a prank.
“He may not win the look
test, but he can play,” Burke
said. “He has a bright future.
I wasn’t surprised by this. We
see it happen in practice a lot.”
Albrecht cooled of f in
the second half, coming up
short on his only three-point
attempt, and he didn’t score
after halftime.
But the true dif ferencemaker of the first half was
H a n c o ck , wh o p e r s o n a l ly
kept Michigan from jetting
away. With Michigan leading
33-21 with 3:56 left in the half,
Hancock scored his team’s
next 14 points, including four
three-pointers in a 1:59 span.
Hancock had 16 by halftime.
L o u i s v i l l e, w h i c h a l s o
trailed by 12 in the second half
against Wichita State, caught
Michigan on a vicious slam by
Montrezl Harrell off a lob from
Peyton Siva.
The game had changed —
and Louisville was on its way
to a title — thanks to Hancock.
WOMEN: UConn routs Cardinals
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Michigan inched ahead 38-37
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wildest dreams with 17 points.
Entering the night, he hadn’t
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most he had in a game.
But Albrecht went nuts
Monday, making all four of his
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a couple of drives for variety,
and the only shot of the first
half he missed was blocked.
A l b re ch t w a s p l ay i n g
because he was hot and Burke,
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It was UConn, 29-14.
And in the most literal sense, the
torch was officially passed to Stewart
and Mosqueda-Lewis, who for the next
two seasons will try to help Auriemma
reach Wooden.
Au r i e m m a i s n o w t i e d w i t h
Tennessee's Pat Summitt for the most
titles in Division I women's basketball
history. And he's only two from tying
the great John Wooden for the most
ever.
UConn (35-4) had five players in
double-figures. Mosqueda-Lewis, the
All-American and UConn's greatest
three-point shooter in history, added 18
points, including five threes. She had
nine rebounds.
Kelly Faris, the fundamentally fabulous one, who transformed herself from
a team player to a team leader, scored 16
points with four three-pointers. She had
nine rebounds and six steals.
Bria Hartley, whose season was
seriously uprooted in August by an
ankle injury suffered playing for USA
Basketball in Greece, added 13 points.
And Stefanie Dolson, the AllAmerican junior center, who played in
so much pain for the last month because
of a stress fracture and plantar fasciitis, had 12 points and six rebounds.
Stewart, last season's high school
player of the year, who struggled so
mightily in the middle of the season,
became just the fourth freshman in the
history of the women's tournament to
be its Most Valuable Player. The last
time it happened was in 1987.
In vanquishing the Cardinals, the
Huskies ended the tournament's rousing run. Louisville, the first No. 5 seed
to play for the title in tournament history, beat Baylor and Tennessee and
California to reach Monday.
A win would have given the school a
sweep of both men's and women's titles,
Only UConn in 2004 had ever done it.
Louisville men's Rick Pitino, to be
inducted into the next Naismith Hall of
Fame class, delivered a pep talk to Walz'
women before the game.
Pitino arrived about 30 minutes
before tipoff and sat in the Louisville
cheering section, right behind his
bench. He was besieged by cameras and
well-wishers, stopping to shake hands
with many, including NCAA President
Mark Emmert.
The Cardinals seemed to be packing
enough emotional fuel to run through
three overtimes, if necessary. But after
eight minutes, the engine began to sputter.
Louisville came out of the box assertively, sophomore Sara Hammond (15
points) opening the game with a three.
With 14:41 to play in the half guard
Monique Reid, the only remaining
member of Louisville's 2009 Final Four
team, scored to give the Cardinals a 13-8
lead.
And that was that.
Stewart was exceptional, just as she
has been since the final Big East tournament started in Hartford one month
ago.
She drained threes with the gentle
snap of her wrists. She soared to tip in
an offensive rebound. She was everywhere and seemingly capable of anything. And she exasperated her opponent with the effortlessness of it all.
A n d wh i l e s h e t o o k ove r t h e
game, Louisville's star junior Shoni
Schimmel, whose firecracker style fired
the Cardinals to New Orleans, struggled
to keep up. And she never did.
Her first basket brought the
Cardinals to within 41-25 and she was
1-of-8 in the half. She was 3-of-15 with
nine points.
And in the second half, as if to call
attention to what lies ahead for the
program, Auriemma fielded a team for
a long stretch that featured the three
freshmen, Stewart, Moriah Jefferson
and Morgan Tuck, and MosquedaLewis.
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FRESNO STATE CLUB VOLLEYBALL
THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM
UConn
women win
8th national
title
By John Altavilla
McClatchy-Tribune
Photo courtesy of Fresno State club volleyball team
The Fresno State men's volleyball team poses with the national championship trophy after Saturday's straight-set win over UC Santa Barbara in Dallas.
Program rides team chemistry to third national championship
By Ricardo Cano
The Collegian
Fresno State men’s volleyball coach Brian Tsukimura
and the team were faced with a
grand dilemma throughout the
season.
Fresno State captured its
t h i rd n at i o n a l ch a m p i o n ship in nine years after its
25-21, 25-16 straight-set win
against UC Santa Barbara in
the Collegiate Club Volleyball
Championships final Saturday
in Dallas.
But throughout their journey, players were quitting –
leaving the team due to a number of reasons.
Part of it could’ve been the
late practices. The team’s typical practice schedule would
run from around 8:30 to 12:30
at night, said fifth-year senior
Hunter Knight.
“When everything else is
basically over, then we go in
and practice,” Tsukimura said.
The time commitment, the
fees, the practices, the inconvenient scheduling – all that
might’ve had its part in depleting a 16-man roster to half its
size when all was said and
done.
Tsukimura, a biology professor at Fresno State, saw the
problem. He looked to chemistry to fix it.
“We kept shrinking as the
season went on. Every time
we shrank, it was an unofficial
call out for everybody to step
up,” Tsukimura said. “Where
the kids get credit is they actually did step up. They stepped
up to the national championship.”
Fresno State (29-6) finished
the championship tournament
9-1. The team swept all four of
its opponents on Saturday –
Cal, UC Irvine, UC San Diego
and UC Santa Barbara. Fresno
State’s only loss of the tour-
NEW ORLEANS _ After all
the years and countless milestones, it's hardly possible for
UConn to bounce a pass anymore without making history.
Geno Auriemma, the master
craftsman, and his series of
master classes, have become as
synonymous to their sport as
Howard Johnson was to the ice
cream cone.
Things just seemed vastly
different in the world once they
came along.
On Tuesday, after being rerouted at times by injuries and,
well, you know, Notre Dame,
the Huskies arrived at the
place they've come to know so
well.
This eighth team brought to
the national championship by
Auriemma did what the previous seven accomplished. It
won.
Led by freshman Breanna
Stewart, UConn's newest flavor sensation, who scored 23
points with nine rebounds,
the Huskies drilled Louisville,
93-60, to win their eighth
national championship.
UConn is 8-0 in national
championship games and here
is basically how this one went:
With 13:51 to play in the first
half, Bria Smith's free throw
gave Louisville a 14-10 lead.
And then it was over.
O ve r t h e n e x t 5 : 2 5 t h e
Huskies, with classic, clinical
precision, sped to its championship.
UConn went on a 19-0 run,
starting with a Bria Hartley
field goal with 12:54 remaining,
ending with a looping three by
Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis with
nament was a three-set loss to
Purdue in the opening round.
It was on that first day in
which Fresno State – the No.
4 seed that everyone expected
to roll through the first-round
competition – squeaked by Cal
State Fullerton and Cincinnati,
both in three sets.
Fresno State hadn’t competed in about a month.
Said Knight, Fresno State’s
go-to offensive weapon this
season: “After our team meeting that night, our coach broke
us down and gave us a good
tongue lashing. And we got
together as a team.
“A totally different team
came to play for the rest of the
tournament after that.”
Fresno State dominated the
rest of the tournament.
But it wasn’t an easy road to
the national championship –
especially during the first half
of the season, when a bulk of
the players quit, and the team
was riddled with injuries at
various times.
Knight was out. Chris
Hughes, the tour nament’s
Most Valuable Player, was out.
And so was Taylor Dildine,
adding woe to the dwindling
numbers.
“With each person that quit,
it was really frustrating,”
Knight said. “Two of the guys
that quit were two of my best
friends that had been playing
for multiple years.
“It was a little discouraging to see some of those guys
quit. It made me think that our
chances of winning were going
down, honestly.”
But Fresno State had the
pieces to the puzzle. The team
had reached the 168-team tournament's Sweet 16 the previous
two years.
Knight, Hughes and Jordan
Burriss – Fresno State’s pivotal
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McClatchy-Tribune
some break suffered in last
week’s regional final.
“They got the job done, and
I’m so proud of them,” Ware
said.
Hancock was one of the players whose minutes increased
because of Ware’s injury and
turned in the game of his life.
He came off the bench and
fired away, knocking in all five
of his three-point attempts,
including four in the first half
that pulled the Cardinals back
from a deficit. His final three
late in the second half allowed
Louisville to keep its distance.
Hancock finished with 22
points, and his two free throws
with 29 seconds remaining
gave Louisville a six-point lead
that allowed the team to start
feeling victory.
He was chosen the Final
Fo u r ’ s M o s t O u t s t a n d i n g
Player.
“I tried to do whatever
I could to help the team,”
Hancock said. “I just hit a few
shots.”
Michigan ran out of gas in
the end. The Wolverines, a No.
4 seed, pulled off some stunning victories along the tournament path, over top-seeded
Kansas, No. 3 seed Florida
and No. 4 Syracuse. But they
couldn’t overcome Louisville’s
defense and hustle in the end.
On the day he was
announced as a Naismith Hall
of Fame inductee, Louisville’s
Rick Pitino became the first
college basketball coach to win
national championship with
two programs. The first came
at Kentucky in 1996.
“Players put coaches in the
Hall of Fame,” Pitino said.
Heroes were plenty for the
Cardinals, whose only loss
after Jan. 28 came in five overtimes at Notre Dame. Along
the way, the Cardinals finished
as co-champions of the Big
East and rolled through the
Louisville wins NCAA Tournament, 82-76
Mark Cornelison / McClatchy-Tribune
Louisville coach Rick Pitino hoists the trophy up in the air after Saturday's
82-76 win in the NCAA Tournament final in Atlanta.
ATLANTA — Questions
were raised in late January.
Was Louisville, losers of three
straight, national championship material?
The Cardinals answered the
question emphatically.
Louisville, the No. 1
overall seed in the NCAA
Tournament, finished the job
Monday night with an 82-76 triumph over Michigan that gave
the program its third national
championship and continued a
march that started in doubt.
“It doesn’t get better than
this,” Louisville forward Luke
Hancock said.
The Cardinals, 35-5, finished
the season winning 16 straight
and 19 of 20, and the title also
came with an inspiration tale.
Reserve guard Kevin Ware
stood at midcourt celebrating
with his team, on crutches as
his leg heals from the grue-
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