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Had American Sign Language and Deaf culture professor Terrell Brittain grown up in the 18th Century, he wouldn't have been allowed to teach, because in society's eyes, he wouldn't have been intelligent enough to do so.

In the the middle of Deaf History Month, Brittan recalls growing up in the small town of Orange, Texas, and thinking he was the same as everyone else, other than that his ears didn’t work.

It was during his junior year of high school while attending the Texas School for the Deaf in Austin, when he was awakened to deaf culture.

“That’s when I finally identified myself as a person who was deaf and that there were all these other people who were deaf like me,” Brittain said. “That’s when I became motivated to learn and motivated to teach deaf culture and ASL.” Brittain taught high school ASL and is now entering his fifth year teaching at UH as a faculty member of the American Sign Language Interpreting program.

Through this program, a student can go on to be an audiologist, speech-language pathologist or an ASL interpreter.

“If we can have students and other people able to sign a little bit that would be really great,” Brittain said. “What I’d like to see is a completely ASL friendly environment where languages aren’t discriminated against so that UH becomes a model as a deaf-friendly university.”

Sharon Hill, ASLI's coordinator, has been working with the University and the community to increase the reach of the program through various means such as increasing faculty size, the number of courses offered and student interest in the major. In the upcoming semester, there will be 20 students studying to be ASL interpreters.

“While the number might seem small, be aware that there are only 1,530 certified sign language interpreters in the entire state of Texas,” Hill said. “Only 190 individuals qualified to sit for the state of Texas certification exam last year, so 20 students means a great deal to this community and this profession.”

On top of that, the program has doubled its faculty and gained permission to relocate to the

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McElhinney building to allow for easier cooperation with University programs, Hill said. The program has also been working on increasing enrollment and interest in the major.

“When I began at UH, we only offered ASL classes during the fall semester," Hill said. "Now we offer it every single semester and even have begun offering it in the summer due to demand.”

The ASL program now has four deaf employees on faculty.

“Having deaf instructors is paramount to creating an authentic learning environment for students interested in working with the deaf community,” Hill said.

Hill said the importance lies in exposing students to deaf culture.

And just as the cultures of hearing languages have quirks and details, so does deaf culture.

“Deaf culture is very straightforward,” Brittain said. “Take a deaf person talking to a deaf person. They may go ‘Man Terrell, you’ve put on some weight, what happened?' But (in the) hearing community, you would just say 'Oh hi Terrell, I haven’t seen you in a long time,’ and in the back of your head you’re going ‘Man he’s fat' — but you don’t say that out loud.”

Brittain operates his classes by telling jokes to make his points.

He also tells stories about his life, experiences and his children, who are hearing and have been raised in deaf communities.

“I love the way the classrooms are held,” communications senior Jonathan Hubbard said. “There is no talking involved so it gives a different learning environment. It is silent but not the awkward silence that some classrooms have. It’s a silence that everyone understands and respects so it makes for a fun and unique learning environment.”

More changes have involved community participation in the program. Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Houston Rockets and the Hobby Center are just some organizations that now provide UH ASLI students with real-world experiences.

All these additions to the program's structure are a part of a unified desire on part of the program’s faculty to increase exposure for the language and the culture. And that exposure has drawn in teachers, students and now money.

“Our program was recently awarded funding to provide testprep training for individuals from all across Texas seeking to become interpreters,” Hill said. “This training will be held this August at the University of Houston, and we are proud to have been selected by the state of Texas as a leader in interpreter education.”

Brittain thanks his personal experiences growing up deaf for motivating him and his colleagues to expand the program and become leaders in interpreter

education.

“I know there were a lot of times there were levels I wanted to pass and I was told I didn’t have to or I couldn’t, and so I didn’t try,” Brittain said. “Later I found out I could and went way beyond those thresholds."

Brittain said issues like inadequate education, housing inequality, a lack of ASL interpreters and the inability to get jobs create obstacles against the rights of deaf individuals. He still meets parents who are dealing with schools where personnel aren’t available or teachers are inadequate in instructing deaf children.

“I consider that a form of abuse,” Brittain said. “Because it’s not fair to that child. This child is unaware of any skills they may have, and it’s not equality. It’s aggravating. Those who would look at us with pity often end up enslaving us.”

Working with these types of parents is another motivator for Brittain to keep making a difference on campus.

“That’s why I’m here teaching deaf culture in this class, to share my experience with these students to let them know what that discrimination looks like so that they are aware," Brittain said. "Hopefully these students will take that information out to the community so the discrimination can stop.” news@thedailycougar.com

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There’s a smartphone app for almost everything, but in terms of magnifying quality in photos, many phones are still limited.

Thanks to a student-run company founded through the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship, an alternative to squinting and straining to zoom-in on photos is changing the way people take their pictures and see the world.

DotLens is a start up company that manufactures a lens that can be attached to any smartphone camera and magnify the image seen through the camera up to 60x, providing a substantial amount of extra detail in the image.

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by Wei-Chuan Shih, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and his student Yu-Lung Sung, an engineering post-doctorate. Melissa Jinks, a business student with the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship, is the CEO. “Smartphone cameras can focus to roughly 3 inches from the object,” Sung said. “The DotLens allows the smartphone to work at a very close distance, down to about a third of an inch, while keeping the image in focus.”

To put this into perspective, according to the DotLens website, the lens makes it possible to see things down to one-tenth the width of a hair.

“The DotLens has a very high quality optical finish that allows magnification up to 60x in addition to whatever digital zoom comes with the camera," Sung said. "It can resolve details that a magnifying glass cannot."

This technology allows people to discover the world around them in ways not available to the naked eye.

While some people are using the product for recreation, such as studying the details of what a single strand of hair may actually look like or studying small insects, Jinks said the product is more often utilized in schools and education departments.

In November, DotLens was showcased at a trade show, where it was popular among teachers. Jinks said some

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teachers are starting to use the product in their classrooms in place of microscopes due to its affordability.

“They were so excited to see that DotLens was something that students could use and it was very cost-effective and fit the budget of the school and every individual student could be able to have one,” Jinks said.

Another reason people are utilizing this technology is because it is so portable.

DotLens features a special optopolymer derived from natural rubber which allows the lens to be attached to any type of smartphone or tablet camera and can be easily removed at any time.

The website states that “the material does not stick permanently, it can be as easily removed, and can be reused over and over again.”

Jinks said the business is working on branching the product out to other fields of study, including gemology.

Electrical engineering student Zhenyu Hu is helping with the quality checking and characterizing of the lens. Sung said that director of the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship Ken Jones has given tremendous support and guidance for the business as well.

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A recent study by a UH psychology research group found that accommodating breastfeeding in the workplace had a greater impact than other factors when a mother decided to exclusively breastfeed her baby.

Instrumental support, such as refrigeration and pumping rooms, were initially thought to be important, but researchers found social context more important. “We were surprised,� said associate professor of psychology, Christiane Spitzmueller, who led the study. "If a supervisor's made jokes about breastfeeding, that actually had an impact on women continuing."

Spitzmueller and her research assistants, doctoral candidates Jing Zhang and Candice Thomas, were interested in the

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They often look at the effect of work on family and health, but they were also interested in the specific health factors involved. “(Breastfeeding is) a really important health outcome for children, and also for mothers, because there’s lower breast and ovarian cancer for mothers later in life who do breastfeed,” Spitzmueller said.

The study was made up of two parts. One looked at data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention while the other looked at women from a variety of socioeconomic situations in Houston.

Both parts looked into infant feeding practices as well as the mothers' actions, such as whether they went back to work, if they stayed at work and if they continued exclusively breastfeeding.

Spitzmueller found that only eight of the over 800 women involved were able to continue breastfeeding for 12 months, the proper amount according to the study.

Breastfeeding and unpaid leave A variety of factors affect a mother's decision to stop breastfeeding, including race and socioeconomic status.

“In this country, your wages have to be higher than your child care costs," Spitzmueller said. "That’s actually pretty hard to accomplish. An infant daycare is about $1,700 a month. So, for women who have one kid, if you make less than $45,000 and you want your kid to go to a licensed daycare, that’s expensive."

Spitzmueller said some countries like Norway and Sweden provide approximately 50 weeks of paid parental leave.

In Sweden, this leave includes both the mother and father.

“The U.S. is probably the only Western nation that doesn’t really have guaranteed paid parental leave,” Spitzmueller said.

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old. She took three months off before returning to work after her daughter was born, using up the 12 weeks allowed by the Family and Medical Leave Act. She exclusively breastfed her baby for the first six months, the first three of which she only nursed. She uses the bottle at times now, and even gives her daughter puréed fruit from time to time, because she was starting to get more hungry.

Keosayian still has her daughter on breast milk, and when she’s at home, on the weekends and on holidays, she goes back to nursing.

Keosayian is one of the few who was able to have her husband home for two weeks after their daughter was born.

“His company actually instituted like a transition policy where they gave him a week off paid, because we had the baby,” Keosayian said. “So he took that off, and he had taken another week off — but he had to take vacation time for that.

That was a new policy they had instituted, and it was helpful.”

Even with the initiatives helping Keosayian, she still wishes

that she had been given more than 12 weeks.

“Some women who I know here on campus who are administrative assistants or something can’t take 12 weeks unpaid leave (because FMLA) only guarantees 12 weeks if you’ve worked there for more than a year, and it’s 12 weeks unpaid," Spitzmueller said.

Mothers' accommodations on campus One thing that UH provides to its faculty, staff, alumni and students is an on-campus daycare, the Children’s Learning Centers, located on Wheeler Avenue.

“We currently have about 120 children, ages 3 months to 5 years old, enrolled of UH faculty and staff,” said Cecilia Hernandez, the Learning Centers’ assistant director. “Thirteen faculty and staff children are enrolled in the infant program and six of those families currently breastfeed at the Center during the day."

UH provides new mothers with 11 mother's rooms or lactation stations around campus.

According to UH policy, “UH provides an appropriate location and a reasonable amount of break time to accommodate employees who are nursing mothers for a period of up to one calendar year after the birth of the nursing child, pursuant to applicable state and federal laws."

The Children’s Learning Centers provide two nursing rooms and three infant rooms where mothers are welcome to breastfeed, Hernandez said.

Keosayian's daughters stay in the Learning Centers during the day. She said she is satisfied with the day care's quality and proximity, which she said provides her with a lot of comfort.

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he terrorists are winning.

Attacks in Ivory Coast, Brussels and Iraq have taken innocent lives and changed others forever. The worldwide death toll for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria attacks in March alone is nearing 100.

ISIS is a small militia compared to nearly any nation’s REAGAN standing army.

EARNST Its goal isn’t OPINION to conquer COLUMNIST the world by defeating any individual who stands in the way.

Instead, the group is using a tactic that has been around for centuries.

Ancient philosopher Philip of Macedonia is credited with forming the philosophy “divide et impera," Latin for “divide and conquer."

In short, this philosophy deals with how to accumulate power through the division of a large entity. It states that by separating the whole into smaller pieces, disputes and rivalries will arise and make the pieces far weaker than they would have been as a whole.

Does this sound familiar?

I can’t speak for other countries, but the U.S. is clearly being divided in the midst of fear. In doing so, we are playing right into the hands of radical militants.

Gruesome images from media platforms across the world are putting fear into the hearts of individuals from every walk of life. Whether intentionally or not, various media outlets use language that portrays all Muslims as terrorist. In turn people are influenced, maybe without even being aware.

Politicians see that people fear ISIS and take advantage to further their agendas. Instead of targeting just the militant group, they intentionally portray all Islamic followers as a problem that will be

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taken care of, ignoring the fact that their religion has its own share of crazy people.

Their constituents will clap and cheer.

“While politicians like Trump and Rubio are often quick to demonize all Muslims and blame them for acts of terror, little to no

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effort is given to really understand the root causes and motivations for such terrorism,” Ambassador Seyed Hossein Mousavian said. “With such a mentality, it is impossible to pursue a truly effective counterterrorism policy.”

Islamophobia is a growing epidemic in our country as a result of skewed media and political agendas.

“Casting blame on the whole religion of Islam is not only nonsensical, but also immensely counterproductive,” Mousavian said.

We are in an age where people want to be informed as quickly as possible. The increase in the speed of information leads to an inevitable decrease in accuracy.

A large portion of the American population gathers their news from systematically biased sources and takes them as legitimate simply because they are on the Internet.

Coupled with individuals who believe any picture with words on it, it’s clear we live in a frustratingly uninformed society.

As a country, we are doing exactly what the terrorists want us to do. We are voting for those who divide us, fearing people whom we shouldn’t and hating those who don’t deserve it.

Just like the philosophy Philip of Macedonia came up with hundreds of years ago, we are becoming weaker by division. The U.S. has always been a strong nation in large part due to the cohesion of its memebers.

We may not all look the same here, but we must once again come together to overcome those who want to defeat us.

Opinion columnist Reagan Earnst is a print journalism junior and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar. com

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Different times call for different set of heroes KEN LEVIN OPINION COLUMNIST

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hen I was a boy, hero worship was kind of common. In fact, my first two personal heroes were Tom Mix and William S. Boyd.

Mix was sort of the first motion picture cowboy hero back in the days when talkie movies were just becoming popular. Boyd was better known on the screen as Hopalong KEN Cassidy, a LEVIN cowboy hero OPINION who seemed COLUMNIST to smile even when he was drawing down on the black-hatted bad guys.

Fortunately, my hero taste has evolved with time as I have grown.

A few days back, I had the opportunity to hear one of my modern-day heroes, Lisa Falkenberg, a newspaper columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner.

Falkenberg was the guest speaker at a conference held by the Anti-Defamation League Women’s Initiative, and she turned out to be as interesting a speaker as she is a writer.

Now, I am aware that not many of my fellow college students are newspaper readers. I am, and let me tell you — you don't know what you are missing.

You can get flashy, doctored breaking news headlines from TV and radio, but you miss out on the fun of learning the full, in-depth story, reported and written by professional journalists. I enjoy the editorials; it is not that they change my mind, but no matter what angle they write from, they supply food for thought.

But now, I have to tell you the second most interesting thing that happened to me at this meeting.

I was seated at a table with six women. To my left, a truly outstanding human being, my wife.

To my right, two executives, the head of a well-known Houstonian social organization used by many and one of her assistants.

To their right sat a female attorney from a powerful law firm, and she was with another powerful lady, a banker.

There was a lot of female power, but the topic of conversation at the table was more important.

The attorney and the banker let us know that after being together for 12 years they were thrilled to

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have finally been able to marry in the state of Texas, in their own church, by their minister the previous October.

This caused the woman who works with a nonprofit to explain what brought her to Texas after her marriage to her significant other, also a woman, in New England.

Now mind you, I wasn’t much into this conversation, but I was sitting there thrilled beyond belief that here was a topic that we

could not even discuss, not only in my youth, but as short a time as 20 years ago. Here I was surrounded by six beautiful female minds, chatting away about their personal lives just as smoothly and easily as housewives did back in the ’40s.

I sat there almost in tears, so thrilled was I by the changes that God has wrought in my world.

And what a lucky human being I was that day to make the contacts I made with the alleged weaker

sex.

As the father of six daughters, two or three of whom are older than any woman at that table, and having spent that day surrounded by the absolute best in female pulchritude, I say to the female population: you go girls.

Bless you all.

Opinion columnist Ken Levin is a political science senior and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar. com

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Offense, pitching powering early season rally REAGAN EARNST STAFF WRITER

The 16th-ranked Cougar baseball team is firing on all cylinders, dominating games on offense and defense.

Struggling out of the gate, the team started just 4-5 in its first nine games. After their early season struggles, the Cougars won 12 of their next 14 games, bringing their record to 16-7.

“The first four games were good, and then we hit a rough patch where we dropped five games in a row,” junior pitcher Andrew Lantrip said. “We’ve finally hit our stride and are starting to get key hits. I feel like we’re getting more comfortable and not trying to press too much.”

Lantrip has led the charge for the pitching staff and accumulated a 4-2 record with a 1.69 ERA that is being recognized across the country. His strikeout to walk ratio, 44 to 1, leads the nation and is on pace to shatter previous records in the category.

An important part of the Cougars' recent success has been the return of center fielder Corey Julks. The sophomore dealt with back spasms at the beginning of the year just as he was settling into his role. Julks is now hitting .318 with 21 hits and six doubles.

“It’s good now," Julks said. "It’s been a long process of getting back, but it feels good now. I’m glad to be back now.”

Redshirt senior Michael Pyeatt began the year as the team’s primary pinch hitter, but has quickly transitioned into a valuable piece of the Cougars' everyday lineup.

Before Tuesday’s game against Texas A&M, Pyeatt was riding a team season high 15-game hitting streak. Pyeatt is patient in the batter’s box and is hitting the ball to all parts of the field.

Freshman Joe Davis is having

continued success and isn’t showing any signs of slowing down.

Davis leads the team in multi-hit games, batting average, home runs and RBI. Opposing pitchers take notice any time Davis is up to bat and do their best to work around the power hitter.

Cougar pitchers have also been dominant to compliment the hitters.

Sophomore Seth Romero sports a perfect 4-0 record with a team-leading 0.58 ERA. In his last two starts alone, Romero pitched 17 innings in which he surrendered just two hits and struck out 16 batters.

Pitching coach Frank Anderson attributes Romero’s recent success to his ability to develop new pitches in the offseason.

“He’s become a much better pitcher who really competes with his stuff,” Anderson said. “He’s a national-type player and an elite guy. Just hit presence on the field helps us tremendously because he knows how to compete, and he’s not afraid.”

Romero’s fearlessness will be crucial to once again earning a conference championship.

The team opens conference play this weekend on the road against the East Carolina Pirates, and the games become vastly more important. Its success in the nonconference portion of the season will bolster its postseason resume come May. Winning pivotal conference matchups will be of utmost importance to defend its American Athletic Conference championships.

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Unnoticed women's golf keeps on winning BRYCE DODDS

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Women’s golf has been off to a stellar start this season, earning top-10 finishes in seven of its eight events up until the HBU Husky Invitational. The team won back to back first-place finishes in two of itslast three events. The team's success has started to become unsurprising.

This is the third season of play for the program and just their second season of being able to compete as a team due to roster size, but its already set a high bar for years to come.

Last season, their first year of team competition, the Cougars finished in the top 10 in every event during the regular season, as well as a third-place finish at the American Athletic Conference Championships.

From there, they earned an invitation to the NCAA San Antonio Regional, where the team finished 13th in a field of 18 teams.

The program has used that season as a springboard into this

year, it earned sixth-place finishes at each of its first three events of the 2015-2016 season, with Cougars placing in the individual top 10 at each of them.

It wasn’t too long into 2016 when the Cougars earned their first team win of the year, claiming first at the University of Central Florida Challenge.

They topped the leaderboard as a team two of the three days, including a final round combined score of 295, their third-straight round of +7 over par for the weekend — finishing +21 over par — and finishing one stroke better than conference rival Tulane University Owls for the team championship.

Stand-out senior Raegan Bremer also earned a 6th place finish at the event. Bremer, who has been a member of the women’s golf program since tits first season, has been a consistent and strong contributor for the Cougars during her career. Now in her final year, she has continued to anchor the Cougars' squad and served as an integral part of building the

Now in her senior season, Raegan Bremer has been a consistent performer for the Cougars since the program began. | Courtesy of UH Athletics

program.

One month after earning its first team win of the season, UH hit the links again at the UNF Collegiate, where the team swept the championships, finishing first as a team, 10 strokes ahead of the 25th-ranked Texas Longhorns, to claim the title with a total score of +14 over par.

In addition to the team cham-

pionship, sophomore Megan Thothong and junior Emily Gilbreth shared the individual title after they shot +1 over par for the event, one stroke better than the next best golfers.

Each season, the team has continued to build on the strength from the previous year, adding more wins to the record books

and building more momentum. It shows no signs of being a new program, quickly establishing itself as a state and ACC class program.

A lot of the team's success is due to head coach Gerrod Chadwell, who has helped build the program from the ground up and recruited players who had an immediate impact on the program.

Now ranked 38th in the nation, the Cougars have gone from a surprising upstart to one of the most competitive teams every time out on the course, and it shouldn’t come as a surprise to fans if they capture a conference title this season and earn a second-consecutive berth in the NCAA postseason.

While it may not have the name recognition of the football, basketball or baseball teams, the women’s golf team has consistently been one of the more successful programs for UH athletics over the past few seasons, and when it continues to win, you shouldn’t be surprised.

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Herman began circle drills, instantly turning practice into a competition to fuel the Cougars to finish strong. | Efren Diosdado/ The Cougar

Team showing intensity, tempo in spring practices EFREN DIOSDADO

ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

When the team stepped out on the practice field for spring training, the cloudy skies seemed to slow down their intensity.

Head coach Tom Herman noticed something was off as he huddled up the team to give them a pep talk that immediately hyped everyone up.

“I think there’s a lot of guys that realize that the bar has been set really high around here,” Herman said. “They’re pleasers, and they want to do right, but at the same time I feel like it’s making a few of them timid and afraid to make mistakes. That’s not who we are.

We’ll never be a timid outfit, and we’ll never be afraid to make mistakes.”

After Herman broke the huddle, Drowning Pool’s “Bodies” cued on the speakers, the sun pierced through the clouds and the team’s intensity rose.

“I said ‘Just stick your foot in the ground and go’,” Herman said. “'Understand that you have 100 brothers that got your back

that are right beside you (and) a bunch of coaches that love you that are right beside you'."

Senior defensive tackle B.J. Singleton said he felt good and enjoyed getting back into the rhythm of things.

“It shows what you’re made of,” Singleton said. “Because in spring you’re practicing to play nobody. It’s just will, the will to practice, the will to work hard and the will to do things right, and that tests a lot of people.”

After the huddle, Herman began his circle drills that turned the practice into a form of competition and fed to the team’s intensity.

“Circle drill is the definition of who we are," Herman said. "It is man against man, will against will. The essence of football, especially in the trenches, is to move a man where he doesn’t want to go against his will, and that’s what the circle drill is. It was good for day one, but I think it could be a little better.”

There were a few high school football coaches in attendance evaluating the practice. The coaches’ consensus of the Cougar’s practice was that it was

“intense” and “up-tempo.”

Hightower High School’s offensive coordinator Freddie Maynard said he enjoyed the energy.

“They’re getting after it pretty good,” Maynard said. “Everyone is running around, including the coaches, so that’s good for the entire program.”

Galena Park High School’s receivers coach John Wayne Simms said the pace the team carried throughout the practice showed where its gets its speed from. Simms said he picked up some tips that he could apply to his own coaching.

“At our high school, we try to play up tempo, but our practices aren’t quite this fast," Simms said. “The way they transition from spot to spot would definitely help us pick up our speed.”

North Shore High School’s assistant coach Joe Price said Houston takes a really aggressive approach to play calling.

Price said he’d like to recreate the energy in his practices.

“Everyone is flying around," Price said. "(There’s) a lot of energy at practice and that’s always good when building a

Players needed a quick mid-day boost. | Efren Diosdado/ The Cougar championship team. (I would like to) figure out how to create the same type of energy and competitive environment every day at practice.”

Herman said the purpose of the spring practice is to develop the culture of how to practice and build physical and mental toughness.

Singleton said the pace they practice in the spring shows

what everyone on the team is made of.

“We’re not going to see who’s going to fold in August or in September, we want to see who folds right now,” Singleton said.

“That’s really what it’s about.” sports@thedailycougar.com