Athletes share their talents during off season

by Jessica Snow sports editor

For most college athletes there is no such thing as an "off-season" for recooperating or free time. Time is spent in some sort of training throughout the entire year. Many of Cabrini's athletes use the summer to share their love for a sport with children.

"I didn't even hear about field hockey until I was 14. I think it is great that these young kids get to participate. I want to help them get as much out of it as I have," Stephanie Masucci, a sophomore who plays field hockey and lacrosse, said.

Masucci spent last summer working at a field hockey camp at The United Sports Training Center with 7-17 year-olds.

Senior Jaclyn PierangeJi had the same sentiments about working basketball camps in the summer. Pierangeli, who finished her final season with Cabrini's basketball team this year, does camps at Villanova University and Cardinal O'Hara high school, where she attended, and with the Philadelphia 76ers at an all boys camp.

''The boys didn't want girls to teach them at first, but by the end of the week they told us that we were their favorite and we even won the tournament at the end," Pierangeli said.

Lisa Reynolds, a junior on the basketball team, was the other female who coached at the 76ers camp with Pierangeli.

"I love working with little kids. It's fun and they look up to you," Pierangeli, a spe- cial education major said.

Andy Zayas, a sophomore soccer player, had a different idea about why he does four different soccer camps in the summer.

"It is short hours and good pay," Zayas said.

"It is fun, I work with the munchkins. And I have older guys too, at Textile. That is cool because you can just talk to them and they're cool" Zayas said.

Zayas coaches at camps at Philadelphia University, formerly Philadelphia College of Textiles and Sciences, Chestnut Hill Academy, DeLeone Soccer School and Dave MacWilliams Pro Soccer Academy, said.

"I got to meet some Phillies," Michael

Braun interrupted Zayas.

Braun, also on the men's soccer team, worked at soccer camps at Rowan University and in Deptford, NJ. for his high school coach. He also did a baseball camp run by the Phillies organization in Deptford.

This experience is popular with players on almost all of Cabrini's teams. Paul Flohr and Matt Clements of the men's lacrosse team reported that they work with child athletes during the summer, as did Melissa McDonough of the field hockey and women's lacrosse teams.

"I got to coach my brother this summer af" a camp at Mount St. Joe," Clements said. His brother, Ben, is 12 years old.