SPORTS SCENE
—By Nate Weyant
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Sports highlights: Rollins student-athletes posted a 3.11 average GPA during the Spring 2007 semester, making it the 12th consecutive semester they have earned above a 3.0 … In Golf Digest’s 2007-08 college rankings of almost 800 men’s golf programs and more than 500 women’s programs for students who value both academics and athletics, Rollins’ women’s program ranked first among Division II schools (18th overall) and the men’s program ranked second (54th overall) … the 2007 Boyd Coffie Golf Classic was held October 19. Proceeds from the event, which honors the memory of legendary baseball coach Boyd Coffie ’59, benefit Rollins College baseball … Soccer players Frazer Siddall ’08 and Jack Clifford ’10 and soccer alumni Daniell Robertson ’06, Chris Cerroni ’08 HH , and Ian Zarac ’06 MAT represented their home country, Great Britain, in the World University Games in Bangkok, Thailand.
2007 SSC HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
(l-r) Former Rollins men’s soccer player and current Rollins women’s soccer coach Tony Amato ’00, former women’s tennis player Anzela Zguna ’02, former women’s basketball player Jill Razor ’01, and Director Emeritus of Athletics J. Phillip Roach were inducted into the Sunshine State Conference Hall of Fame in June.
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Tars basketball player brings hope to young athletes in her native Cameroon IF
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Broadband Network) to launch RollinsSports.tv, the Tars online destination for exclusive live and on-demand video and audio streaming. Host of the Tars Sports Network, RollinsSports.tv will air more than 175 live sports events, features, and highlights packages throughout the year. Broadcast games will include volleyball, soccer, basketball, baseball, softball, and lacrosse. RollinsSports.tv will also include an auction site and Tars merchandise site. Also new this season is Tar Talk, a regularly updated audio and video podcast featuring weekly coaches’ shows, video highlights, and archives of game broadcasts. Fans can download content to an iPod or MP3 player through iTunes or listen on their computer, all free of charge. A regular feature on the podcast will be the “Tars Sports Report,” a weekly talk show that includes coach and player interviews, commentary, recaps, and a look at the week ahead.
Bafoussam, Cameroon and wanted to live in Orlando, Florida, you’d have to travel more than 6,100 miles, learn how to speak English, and adapt to an entirely different culture. Just ask Tars basketball player Ines Teuma ’10. At the age of 18, Teuma left her hometown of Bafoussam to live with her brother, who was working on a Ph.D. in biochemical engineering at the University of Central Florida. Being with him helped ease the transition to life in the United States, said Teuma, who four years later is faring well in Rollins’ pre-med program and as a starting forward for the Tars. Last year—her first with the Tars—Teuma finished fifth on the team in points per game and fourth in rebounds. “She’s probably as strong a player as I’ve ever had,” said Glenn Wilkes, Jr., head women’s basketball coach “She’s a good athlete and has a commanding presence on the court.” While she loves scoring for the Tars, Teuma has a more important goal: helping aspiring young basketball players in her native country. Teuma had been saving money for two years to return home to Cameroon for a visit when she approached Coach Wilkes last year with the idea of collecting equipment to give to young players back home. With his support and the help of her Rollins teammates, she collected three large boxes of clothes, shoes, and basketballs. Then she came up with a plan for distributing the goods: she would stage a basketball tournament. “It was just a tournament to play basketball,” Teuma said. “When I was growing up, I loved just playing basketball.” She found sponsors to help defray the costs, and the “Lady Tars Tournament” became a reality. Equipment was donated to tournament players as well as to local youth programs. “It’s amazing seeing the pictures that Ines brought back and seeing the Rollins name in Cameroon,” Wilkes said. “It’s great that she’s helping out those with fewer resources.” Once she can save $2500 for another round-trip to Cameroon, Teuma plans to host another Lady Tars Tournament. —Daniel Paulling ’08