WSSU mourns the loss of Kayla Woodbury, one of its all-time best softball players, please see page 4.
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Action has started to heat up in Coach Art’s Summer Basketball League at Hanes Hosiery, see 7.
Local athletes shine at East-West All-Star Basketball Games Wilson, Williams provide spark for West teams Forsyth County basketball continues to be among the best that’s played in the state of North Carolina. Several local programs have captured state championships in recent years and the local programs have been a hotbed for college recruiters. The senior class of 2017 helped to continue that photo by Tim Wilson trend. In particular Tierra Wilson scored 15 points for the West, which was defeated by the East team.
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Winston-Salem Prep’s boys and the R.J. Reynolds girls had outstanding seasons, as did the Mount Tabor and West Forsyth boys teams. Several local players, Tierra Wilson and Chrisalyn Boston from RJR, along with Zaire Williams of W-S Prep and Cameron Robinson of Mount Tabor were recently rewarded for their efforts by being named to the rosters off the East-West All-Star Game that was played on Monday
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Vic Johnson Golf Academy concludes another successful run Sam Puryear Jr., coach at Queens College, offers tips to young golfers at luncheon By Kim Underwood W-S/Forsyth County Schools Nazeir Blackman, who is 9, has been participating in the Vic Johnson Junior Golf Clinic ever since he was 4. He thoroughly enjoys coming back each year. “They help me with my swing,” Nazeir said. Golf is just one of the sports that he enjoys. Nazeir also likes baseball, basketball and football. He hopes to become a running back in the NFL one day. In the more immediate future, he will be celebrating his 10th birthday on July 12 and becoming a fifth-grader at Moore Elementary when school starts. On Friday, Nazeir and the other 60 participants in the clinic started their morning hitting balls on the driving range at Reynolds Park Golf Course. It was the last session for the clinic, which had met two mornings a week for the past three weeks, and they were going to finish their day with a celebratory lunch. At the lunch, DeMarcus
Guest speaker Sam Puryear Jr., and his dad, Sam Puryear Sr., pose with some of the camp participants. Mashack, who will be in the fifth-grade at Hall-Woodward Elementary, was going to be honored with the Sam Puryear Award. “I think he is very deserving of that award,” Johnson said. “He’s a nice fellow. He’s on time. He does what he’s supposed to do.”
The award was named after Sam Puryear Sr., one of Johnson’s coaches and mentors. Puryear Sr. attended the lunch, where his son, Sam Puryear Jr., who is the head golf coach at Queens College in Charlotte, was the keynote speaker. The clinic was celebrating its
20th year. Johnson, who is a member of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education and a retired assistant principal, started the clinic because he thought that golf had a lot to offer young people. For one, you can continue to play it your
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Carl Walker focuses his training on teaching the fundamentals Former Glenn, WSSU, QB is on a quest to help By Sam Davis Triad Sports Weekly Carl Walker has come fullcircle in the game of football. It's been more than 30 years since he played the game for the first time, as part of the Tiny Indians' football program. Those were some great years for the program and Walker benefitted from the mentorship of outstanding coaches and other personnel. Walker is currently trying to reach back and give to aspiring young football players. He is one of the coaches at this week's Twin City Football Camp, hosted by the Indians at Ray Agnew Field and sponsored by Rodney McKoy, former head football
coach at High Point Andrews. Last Sunday, Walker was on the field as part of the Quarterback Camp – a special camp for young players who want to play the position. Walker said it was an honor for him to be there. “The (Quarterback) camp was absolutely fantastic,” he said. “It was a free camp and it gave a lot of kids from this area a chance to participate. I enjoyed working with the other coaches, most of whom have put in a lot of work in this area.” Walker was very complimentary of McKoy, who started the Twin City Football Camp last year, for devoting special time to the quarter-
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Carl Walker places special emphasis on the technical aspects of passing.
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Home Grown Talent Johnson from Page 1 whole life. “I just wanted these kids to have an experience other than football and basketball,” Johnson said. “This is giving the kids an edge.” For years, Johnson’s wife, Constance Johnson, who was a professor at Winston-Salem State University before she retired, helped him run the clinic along with volunteers, people from WinstonSalem Recreation & Parks Department and a dedicated group of coaches. Constance Johnson was unable to be there this year because she was recovering from surgery. This year, most of the 60 students participating in the golf clinic came from W.R. Anderson Jr. Community Center, which is just across the road from the golf
course. Others were participating in programs at other recreation centers or their parents brought them each day. Along with young people who dream of playing professional sports one day, the participants included young people who see themselves becoming teachers, engineers, veterinarians, and lawyers. Adaniss Taylor, who will be in the seventh-grade at Southeast Middle, wants to be a lawyer. “I like helping people,” he said, “and I like to argue.” This was his fourth year participating in the clinic. “I like seeing myself get better at golf by hitting the ball farther,” Adaniss said. Camryn Davis, who will be in the fourth grade at Moore, wants to become a veterinarian. She already has the experience of taking care of her dog, a shichon
named Kingsley. She has enjoyed getting better at golf each year. Cameron Clement’s strongest sport is baseball. He also enjoys basketball, football and golf and enjoys the challenges that each sport bring. “I like to get better,” said Cameron, who will be a second-grader at Moore. Dejanae Mithchell’s gifts include dancing and singing. She particularly enjoys hip-hop, R&B and rock. One day, Dejanae, who will be in the fifth grade at Southwest Elementary, wants to play in the Women’s NBA. In the meantime, she has enjoyed becoming better at golf and pictures herself continuing to play it. Bryce Baker, who will be in the sixth grade at Southeast, likes the golf clinic so much that he has participated for five years. Why does he like it?
“It’s open to everyone and it gives every kid a chance to excel,” Bryce said. Some young people have participated long enough to grow up and to help run the clinic. One of those is Trevon Williams, who goes to Fayetteville State and works with the city’s recreation department during the summer. He continues to play golf. Learning to play golf teaches skills that serve you well in the rest of your life, Williams said. One of those is patience. Malcolm Gant, who just graduated from Parkland High School, started participating in the clinic when he was 5 and became a coach two years ago. Gant is in the process of enlisting in the Air Force. When Sam Puryear Jr. spoke at the lunch, he talked about making your dreams come true. To do that, you have to work at it and, along the way, it’s important to listen to your parents and to your teachers. And it’s important not to listen to people who are negative. “They are going to give you a lot of reasons why you can’t do it,” Puryear said. Puryear also talked about the importance of being grateful, saying “thank you” along the way, and going through life with “your hand open.” With your hand open, you can shake people’s hands and give them pats on the back. In conclusion, he said, “Money won’t make you happy. What you do for other people will.” All the young people participating in the clinic received a T-shirt and trophy.
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important the footwork is or the mechanics of throwing the football.These are the things that I from Page 1 stress.” Working a full-time job curbacks. rently, Walker concentrates his focus “It is the first time I have to the weekend to get the work done done this particular function and it with his football training. He offers was a great idea that Coach McKoy his service on Saturday and Sunday came up with,” Walker said. “It gave from 9 a.m. Until 7 p.m. us a chance to show these kids the “In today's climate everybody basic fundamentals of what is needed gets caught up with the athletic quarto play the quarterback position. terback,” Walker said. “But you have What Rodney is doing is bringing to be able to have the attention to the “Most people don't undertechnical side to be sucquarterback posistand how important the cessful in this game. tion and showing how important it is footwork is or the mechan- There's no way Tom Brady could have fiver to learn the proper ics of throwing the foottechnique. ball. These are the things (Super Bowl) rings if he wasn't such a good techni“A lot of that I stress.” good things were - Carl Walker cian and studied his craft so well.” going on out In addition to offering athletic there,” Walker continued. “There training, Walker said he plans on were a lot of different kids of differbroadening the services his offers to ent ages getting a lot of instruction include SAT and ACT prep classes as and getting better.” well as life skills and mentoring proWalker is in the business of grams for his student-athletes.. tutoring young quarterbacks these Walker said the enjoyment days. He operates a company called that he used to get from seeing one of Elite Training for the Elite his passes land in the hands of a Quarterback, where he personally receiver, he now gets from seeing his trains aspiring quarterbacks from the pupils advance their game. age of six through 17. “I'm trying to give back to “I focus on the fundamentals the community,” he said. “There were that will make them better,” he said. so many people that helped me along “Most people don't understand how
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Carl Walker (center, rear) poses with participants at the camp. the way. So this has come-full circle with me and I'm excited to be in a position to give back to others.” Walker is one of Forsyth's County's all-time high school passer while playing for Glenn High. He held several state records (including most passing yardage and most completions in a game) until last season when they were eclipsed by Stephon Brown, one of Walker's pupils. `
“That's fine with me,” Walker said of Brown. “He's a Bobcat and so the record now belongs to another Bobcat, who I've had the pleasure of working with.” After concluding his career at Glenn, Walker also set several records as a junior college quarterback at Montgomery Junior College in Maryland. He started half a season at Winston-Salem State before a shoulder injury ended his career.
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Wake’s Serigne named to Mackey Award watch Deacon senior ranks second in receptions by tight end From Staff Reports Wake Forest senior tight end Cam Serigne has been named to the 2017 Preseason Mackey Award watch list. Serigne, a 6-3, 245-pound redshirt senior from Ashburn, Va. (Briar Woods) will enter his senior season as one of the most prolific tight ends in school history. Serigne ranks second in school history among tight ends with 130 career receptions and is second among TE’s in career receiving yards with 1,519. His 12 career touchdown receptions are the most by a Demon Deacon tight end and Serigne enters the 2017 season with a streak of 36 games with at least one reception. Given annually to the most
outstanding collegiate tight end, the award recipient is selected by vote of the John Mackey Award Selection Committee and the 2017 Mackey Award recipient will be announced on December 6, 2017 and then presented live on December 7, 2017 at The Home Depot College Football Awards Red Carpet Show on ESPNU. NFL Hall of Fame member John Mackey is considered to be the best to have played the tight end position. A tight end by whom all others are measured, Mackey was a role model on and off the field as demonstrated by his Super Bowl Championship, his commitment to community and his place in history as the first President of the National Football League Players Association.
Cam Serigne was recently named to the Mackey Award Pre-Season Watch List. Serigne is currently second in tight end career receptions.
Weaver, Wake kicker, is named to Lou Groza watch list From Staff Reports Mike Weaver of Wake Forest has been named to the Lou Groza Award watch list that was released today. Weaver, a 6-1, 190pound redshirt senior from
Pine City, NY (Southside) enters the season sixth in school history with 212 career points. He has converted 47 of 64 career field goal attempts and is second alltime with a .734 conversion rate. A first team All-ACC selection in 2016, Weaver has
converted 71 of 72 career PATs and enters the season with a streak of 31 consecutive made PATs. Weaver’s 47 career field goals are the secondmost by a Demon Deacon behind record-holder Sam Swank (2005-08) who made
71 career field goals. The Lou Groza Award is named for National Football League Hall of Fame kicker Lou “The Toe” Groza, who played 21 seasons with the Cleveland Browns. Groza won four NFL championships with the Cleveland Browns.
Deacons’ Anderson named to Remington Watch List From Staff Reports Wake Forest redshirt junior offensive lineman Ryan Anderson has been named to the 2017 Preseason Rimington Award Watch List. Anderson, a 6-6, 300-pound redshirt junior from Raleigh, N.C. will enter his third year as a starter in 2017. Anderson has started 16 straight games, primarily at right
tackle but his versatility allows him to play center, guard or tackle. Entering preseason camp, Anderson is projected as Wake Forest’s starting center but could move elsewhere on the line if needed. In 2016, Anderson led all Demon Deacon offensive linemen by being on the field for 896 offensive snaps. He was the highest graded offensive lineman in seven of 13
games last year. The Rimington Trophy, named after former Nebraska AllAmerican center Dave Rimington, is presented annually to the most outstanding center in NCAA FBS football. Since its inception, the Rimington Trophy has raised over $2.9 million for the cystic fibrosis community.
WSSU mourns loss of one of softball greats Kayla Woodbury, class of 2011, led the Rams to CIAA championship From Staff Reports The Winston-Salem State University sadly announced the loss of former Rams softball player Kayla Woodbury, one of the top players to play for the Rams. Joining the Rams in the fall of 2008, she finished her career in grand fashion, leading the team to a Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Championship. She was also an assistant coach on the Rams' 2012 team that won its second consecutive CIAA championship. During her career, Woodbury placed among the greatest in school history as she set the school record for career runs batted in (RBI) with
128 and total bases (293) . She also recorded 23 career home runs with 39 doubles, the second most in school history in both categories as well. In fact, she also remains among the school's top five statistical leaders in most hits (4th, 169), and most at-bats (5th, 456). During her career, she earned several honors. As a senior she was named to the NFCA Atlantic AllRegion team as well as earning first team All-CIAA honors. She was also named to the NCAA Division I AllIndependent team in 2010. She was also honored as the 2011 Mary Garber WSSU Female StudentAthlete of the Year.
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Press Box From Page 1 night at the Greensboro Coliseum. Wilson stood out among her peers in the battle on Monday night. The diminutive point guard scored 14 points, making four of eight 3pointers, for the West team. Wilson, who has signed to play basketball at Appalachian State this coming season, concluded an outstanding prep career. She began her high school athletic career at Atkins, where she helped lead the Camels to consecutive playoff berths. Wilson then transferred to RJR prior to her junior season and led the Lady Demons to one of their best records in recent seasons. Boston accompanied Wilson to
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Wolfpack, Deacons, Pacers, Bucks get opening wins Coach Art’s All-Star Summer Basketball League gets underway at Hanes Hosiery From Staff Reports
11-15 League
Deacons 13, Tar Heels 12
Wolfpack 30, Blue Devis 7 Ian Coleman and Jerrick Braboy both had 10 points to lead the Wolfpack to a win in the Wolfpack opener. Jeremy JohnsonWilliams had 8 points, and Braylen Williams put up 2 points tho help the Wolfpack start out strong and finish strong in the victory.
Emmanuel Sugut and Cleveland Brown both had 4 points and Josiah Sugut had 4 points to help the Tar Heels in a closely contested battle that went back and forth until fhe final buzzer. Ryan Johnson with the Deacons scored 4 points, Justice Lewis put up 3 points, Christian Carter, Joshua Williams, and Ahmad Spaugh-Hickman all had 2 points.
with 8 points, Evan Dunlap had 5 points.
Pacers 35, Spurs 29
Nuggets 45, Nets 43
“DJ” Barkley 12pts and Jerell Cohen scored 10 points each and they had help from Jalen Barkley with 4 points, Corey Simons 3 points, Isaiah Conrad and Jason Russell both had 2 points each to help put the Pacers in the win column. Darren Pegues led the Spurs
Reggie Miller led the way with 14 points and Cain Thomas added 13 points for the Nuggets to put them in the win column. Josh Sugut had 11points, Alex Sugut and Imoni Moore both had 6 points each.
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Ian Coleman (above) gets back on defense to stop a score and Joshual Williamson (right) rises up for a jump shot in his team’s game against the Wolfpack.
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