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Volume 120 · No. 60
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BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY
Grad student killed in bike accident
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Assistant coach Ethan Pheister looks to keep learning from LSU volleyball team coaches Fran Flory and Jill Lytle Wilson while improving the team’s young setters.
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SETTING AN EXAMPLE Assistant coach Pheister adds different perspective to volleyball program BY MARKUS HÜFNER @Hufner_TDR Behind every great coach, there’s someone waiting in the wings. For LSU volleyball coaches Fran Flory and Jill Lytle Wilson, that person is Ethan Pheister, who accepted the assistant coaching position in February. Pheister’s coaching takes its blueprint from his remarkable student-athlete career at Ball State University. As the setter and team captain, he became
a three-time all-conference selection and two-time academic all-conference pick and was named the National Player of the Week by the American Volleyball Coaches Association. By the time his career was over, his 4,103 assists ranked fourth in school history. “We wanted somebody to run the offense and be creative with it,” Flory said. “And with him having been a
see PHEISTER, page 7
‘One of the best things I learned from someone I coached with in college was, ‘in order to be the best coach you can be, you have to be yourself 100 percent at a time,’ ETHAN PHEISTER LSU assistant volleyball coach
Kinesiology graduate student Zachariah Wood was killed by a car while riding his bicycle on Lee Drive Nov. 14, said Cpl. L’Jean McKneely of the Baton Rouge Police Department. McKneely said the incident is still under investigation, but it appears Wood attempted to cross the road lane and pulled out in front of a vehicle. There were two other cyclists with WOOD him, but they saw the vehicle coming and did not attempt to cross the road, McKneely said. Wood was a graduate assistant in the School of Kinesiology and taught tennis classes to undergrads this semester, said Director of the School of Kinesiology Melinda Solmon. When Wood first came to LSU, he worked at the UREC, but later started working in the Kinesiology program, earning his master’s degree and most recently working toward his doctorate, Solmon said. Wood’s tennis students and the kinesiology department are “devastated” about his untimely death. “He let his students know that his class was important to him,” Solmon said. Earlier this semester, Wood assigned his students a group project in which they would learn a specific tennis skill and teach it to their classmates, Solmon said. Though his class will be picked up by other graduate students in the program, Wood’s students reached out to Solmon requesting to finish the assignment. “He was a very talented student, as well as a very exceptional human being,” Solmon said.