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Vol. 1 No.
29, Thursday, May 9, 2002 - PIRATE SPORTS ONLINE |
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Thursday, May 9, 2002
SUMMER CAMP
INFORMATION AVAILABLE ONLINE
PARKVILLE, MO--Complete summer camp
information for sessions directed by Park University coaches are available
online. Click here
for details about sporting camps for baseball, basketball, soccer and
volleyball.
Thursday, May 9, 2002
FAULCONER REPRESENTS
PARK SOFTBALL ON ALL-REGION TEAM
SPRINGFIELD, MO--Sherry Faulconer, a
sophomore right-handed pitcher for the Park University softball team, has
been named to the NAIA Region V Second Team for the 2002 season. The
honor was announced Thursday afternoon following the conclusion of the
Region V tournament in Springfield, Mo.
A two-year letterwinner in the program, Faulconer
finished the season with an 18-8 record, garnering pitching wins in
eighteen out of Park's twenty-one team wins this season. Faulconer
also earned the first perfect game in Park University softball history and
went on to earn NAIA National Player of the Week honors. The native
of Grain Valley, Mo., batted .342 and led the team with nine doubles and
two homeruns. Park University won fourteen out of the final
seventeen games this season.
Wednesday, May 8, 2002
FOUR PIRATES
DISTINGUISHED AS ARTHUR ASHE JR. SPORTS SCHOLARS FOR 2002
PARKVILLE, MO--Four Park University student-athletes were distinguished in
the April 2002 edition of Black Issues in Higher
Education as 2002 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars. This was the
tenth annual disbursement of the honors; Park University student-athletes
have been among those selected for the last four years.
Dave Foster, a junior forward from Kingston, Jamaica,
was named to the First Team for men's soccer. Foster is majoring in
Computer Science at Park. Foster's teammate, senior John Eugene
Wah, a midfielder from Monrovia, Liberia, was a Second Team selection.
Wah will graduate from Park University Saturday with a Bachelor of Science
degree in Criminal Justice Administration.
In women's basketball, Priscilla Torto, a sophomore
forward from Harare, Zimbabwe, was named to the Second Team. Torto
is majoring in Computer Science at Park. Junior biology major Crystal
Bethel, a sprinter from Nassau, Bahamas, was named to the Second Team
for Track and Field.
The Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Awards salute
student-athletes of color who maintain at least a 3.3 grade point average
and make a formidable contribution to their athletic program.
Friday, May 3, 2002
OPEN BASEBALL
TRY-OUTS SET FOR MAY 19
Baseball News
PARKVILLE, MO--Head coach Dan Backhaus
will conduct open tryouts for the 2002-2003 baseball team on Sunday, May
19, at 1:00 p.m. Try-outs are open to anyone interested in
participating in intercollegiate baseball at Park University. For
more information, contact Dan Backhaus at (816) 584-6746 or at dbackhaus@park.edu.
Try-outs will be held on Comfort Field located on Sixth Street in
Parkville.
For more information, visit the Park University Department of Athletics
web site at www.park.edu/athletic.
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| Track
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| 3/8, @ ESU
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3/30, @ Truman St. |
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4/6, @ Wm. Jewell |
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4/13, @ Simpson |
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| 4/27, @ UMKC
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| 5/11, @ NAIA
Midstates, 10 AM |
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shadow indicates events held on the Park University campus.
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