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s the ice-cold Gatorade bath rained down over his head, engulfing him in sheer joy while masking his overwhelming tears, he thought of her.

At that moment, Billy Mohl, an assistant coach for the Illinois State baseball team at the time, who took over the game following thenhead coach Mark Kingston’s ejection, watched his team celebrate a series sweep of Southern Illinois.

The Redbirds had just clinched the program’s first-ever Missouri Valley Conference title.

But the image ingrained in the forefront of his mind while the circus swirled around him was her.

Sarah, his beloved wife.

Just two months prior to that gratifying moment, Sarah took her last breath. After a seven-month long fight, she succumbed to a rare form of cervical cancer at the age of 28, with her husband and family planted firmly at her side.

“I was in tears by the end of it,” Mohl recalled. “I just knew she was looking down on us.” *** The two met at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA — Mohl was a sophomore, Sarah a freshman.

Mohl was riding a baseball scholarship through school as a pitcher — becoming a living legend in the process. He set multiple records with the Green Wave and became only the second pitcher in school history to go undefeated (9-0) during his senior year.

But it wasn’t baseball that pulled the two together. Believe it or not, it was social media.

“I had her in a class and she

USF assistant coach Billy Mohl holds his son, Hunter, before the duo get their heads shaved Sunday as part of USF’s annual “Vs. Cancer” game benefiting childhood cancer research. ORACLE PHOTO/JACOB HOAG was gone to Connecticut for the summer,” Mohl said. “I sent her a message on Facebook, back when Instant Messenger and all that stuff was around.

“We spent hours talking and then I flew up there. We had never talked face to face, but I flew up there to see her and that’s all she wrote.”

The two were inseparable from then on. She was all he needed in life — well, outside of baseball that is.

“In terms of energy level, she was off the charts,” Mohl said.

“She was the most fun-loving person you’ll ever be around. I don’t think she had any enemies. She got along with everybody, it didn’t matter who you were.”

The two graduated together, given that Mohl was on the “fiveyear plan,” and within two years, they were married at Christ Church

Cathedral in New Orleans.

“My Best Friend” by Tim McGraw blared through the speakers.

“She was such a special person to me,” Mohl said. “We never fought. She was perfect.”

Soon came Hunter, their only son, born December 20, 2010.

Everything was complete.

“It was the American dream. I mean, it was perfect,” Mohl said, smiling as he looked from the dugout he was sitting in out at the field. “(Hunter) was her prized possession. He was young enough that he didn’t really understand what was going on. But he was her everything.”

Their lives revolved around baseball. Mohl was the coach, the apple of Sarah’s eye. Sarah would usually sit up in the stands with

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Sarah Mohl passed away on March 25, 2013 after a seven-month battle with a rare form of cervical cancer.

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Maymester classes fill up, aim to accelerate learning

By Krithika Venugopal C O R R E S P O N D E N T

Summer is approaching, and along with the new season comes the return of Maymester — an array of online courses that run from May 9 through 27.

Created in 2015, the intense mini-term resulted from demand by students and administration. It was modeled after similar shortterm programs offered by universities in the Northeast.

Since its introduction, Maymester has seen a marked upturn in enrollment, as its fundamental purpose has remained relevant.

Some students increasingly find the courses useful to complete their state-mandated summer requirements in a timely manner, leaving the rest of their summer vacant for vacations, internships and summer jobs.

Chandni Patel, a senior majoring in health science, said traveling over a majority of the summer was the reason she decided to take a course called Life Cycle during

The three week long semester referred to as Maymester starts on May 9. This year, 16 classes are being offered, including the first graduate class to be offered through the program — ­ Internet in Education. ORACLE PHOTO/SEBASTIAN CONTENTO last year’s Maymester.

Additionally, career-oriented courses offered both last year and this year have sought to ease upperclassmen into the professional world.

“We want these courses to be a tool that these students can use for however they define their success,” said Owen Hooper, assistant director for Summer and Alternative Calendar Programs.

Along with the returning class, Life Cycle, the 16 courses offered this year range from Basic Marketing to the fast-filling history class Hitler and Stalin, to the first-

ever graduate class offered by the program, which extends an additional two days.

The courses are offered to any enrolled USF student, new and currently enrolled non-degreeseeking USF student or currently enrolled student at any college or university other than USF. Students may add a Maymester course to their schedule as late as May 11, as May 12 is the add-drop deadline.

The courses are chosen based on data collected on enrollment numbers during the fall and spring semesters, faculty availability and

certain college requests for collaboration.

The College of Business, for example, collaborated with the Summer and Alternative Calendar Programs Department in order to allow those pursuing their business certification the chance to finish one of the requirements during Maymester.

Meanwhile, the rest of the requirements would be made available in the Summer A and B sessions. This would enable students to obtain their compete certification over a single summer.

A similar partnership with the

College of Education aims to highlight the prerequisites required to allow students into the college, so that they are taken before the two main semesters begin.

Hooper agreed that the program will be looking into the prospects of implementing on-campus classes in the future.

“We’ve been in those conversations, we’re having those conversations now, and there are certain classes that lend themselves to being better facilitated online,” Hooper said. “And there are those that are better facilitated face-toface, so we definitely want to support those best practices any way we can.”

Although Maymester’s courses and relevant information is available online, increasing the program’s presence on campus remains a goal for the administration.

Hooper spoke about social media initiatives that will be aimed at dispersing the semester’s information quickly and efficiently.

“We’re working with Student Affairs to try to have a one-stop shop for students,” he said.

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take south county residents to the MacDill Air Force Base and an express bus in the southeast suburbs. But pouring millions of dollars into such lucrative and “If you take the time to, isolated measures is absurd. yes it’s possible.”

Only a select few would utilize such a ferry and the suburbs in question are sparsely populate.

- Brandy Mitchell, a Not only is the measure absurd, it sophomore majoring is also extremely vague in exactly in education how such projects would go about being created and completed.

Why not invest the time and money in something the majority of the general public would be able to utilize?

Hillsborough is a massive county and home to USF, the University of Tampa, Florida “I feel like it depends on the course. If there’s a lot of College, Everest University, the Art Institute of Tampa and substance, it’ll be tough to Hillsborough Community College. do in three weeks. But if it’s There are thousands of businessa fluff class, it’ll be easy.” es and over 1.3 million residents.

It is disappointing that after years of planning, the Go - Holden Reinman, a senior Hillsborough initiative will ultimajoring in leadership mately be useless to the majority of the population.

The commission is expected to vote Wednesday and decide “I believe it can happen, whether to schedule a hearing and vote on April 27 to put the but it depends on the measure on the November ballot. instructor and making sure The Commision has three days they outline the course to somehow transform this weak well so you can catch the initiative into a referendum that could greatly improve the lives grasp on what it’s about.” of the citizens of Tampa. There is much work to be done to - Kenny Holland, transform the current plan into a meaningful agenda, but unfortua senior majoring nately there is little time. in history If done correctly, the new initiative could connect various regions of the county and make Hillsborough easily accessible to “It really depends on what all who live within it. However, material is being taught. For if the measure is not enhanced, millions of taxpayers’ dollars will example, an organic chemistry be wasted on frivolous projects or genetics class would that will only benefit a select few. probably be very hard. I’m

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Miitomo: Nintendo’s first mobile app

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Nintendo released its very first mobile app, Miitomo, in the U.S. and Europe, on March 31.

The game was released in Japan earlier in March and, according to The Guardian, racked up more than 1 million downloads in its first three days.

According to Venture Beat, Miitomo was downloaded 1.6 million times in its first four days in the U.S. alone.

Fifty-one percent of Miitomo’s downloads come from the U.S., with other top regions such as Great Britain and Canada representing less than 10 percent Miitomo is Nintendo’s first social media app, which

allows people to communicate with friends and learn more about them in an entertaining way.

Players first customize their avatar, known as a Mii. These customizations range from appearance to personality and voice.

Players earn style and popularity points to increase their level by answering questions and buying clothes.

Daily prizes are also distributed to users who log in, and they get bigger each day.

One mini-game, Miitomo Drop, a Plinko-style game, is also available for players to win specialty-clothing items for their Mii and candy to give friends.

Miitomo is free and available on both Android and iOS devices.

In-app purchases also allow

users to buy coins and tickets to get items faster.

One of the most surprising features of the Miitomo app however, is the lack of a sensor. Players are truly free to express themselves anyway possible, whether it’s through colorful curse words or bizarre photo edits.

Players can also take a variety of custom photos with their Mii’s, called Miifoto’s, and are even able to use their phone’s photos as backgrounds and pose their Mii’s in a wide variety of stances and facial expressions.

“With Miitomo, Nintendo takes its first step into the world of smart devices,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of sales & marketing, on the Nintendo website.

“Miitomo brings the special

Nintendo charm and polish that people around the world love to an entirely new format and audience.”

This is not Nintendo’s only move into the mobile world.

According to Venture Beat, “the company is planning to launch four more games for iOS and Android over the

next 12 months.”

“Miitomo is designed to offer a new style of communication between friends,” Nintendo wrote on its site.

“You might even learn something completely unexpected or surprising about one of your friends, or a common interest!”

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about half the cost of driving a gas-powered vehicle.

Other advantages include more stable fuel prices, fewer A new electric car charging carbon dioxide emissions and station in the Patel Center for increased government incenGlobal Solutions parking lot tives. recently joined spots at two However, electric vehicles other charging locations as are not without their shortpart of an initiative by the USF comings. The DOE pointed out Student Green Energy Fund. a limited driving range, long The fund focuses on eco- recharge time and the expense friendly campus programs, and bulkiness of battery packs such as solar panels and the as challenges to owners.

Share-A-Bull bike program.

Pilz said he believes there The push to is a learninstall more ing curve for “Since Elon Musk electric car those who charging sta- took over and came don’t attempt tions on cameducate out with his awe- to pus has been themselves ongoing since on new tech2013, accord- some ideas and his nology, such ing to John Pilz, plans, I saw a lot of as electric a senior majorcars. ing in environ- what I want to do in “There are mental science students who who he is and what are my age and policy.

Pilz has been he’s done and most who have working alongelectric cars,” side Roger importantly I recog- Pilz said.

Stern, a gradu“There are ate student in nize the practicality students that medical sciare master’s, of electric cars.” ences.

Ph.D. stuTheir projdents (who) John Pilz ect focuses have elecon increasing Senior, Environmental Science and Policy tric cars, not accessibility for because they students who drive electric just believe in the potential for cars. electric cars and the benefits Their goal was not just to that they have, but they see add more charge spots, but that it’s more economical to also to show students that own an electric car.” electric cars exist and they are Pilz’s inspiration for the a convenient alternative. project came from the elecThe new location has one tric car company Tesla Motors, station, one plug and one even though he currently owns parking space, in addition to another make. the four charging stations, six “Since Elon Musk took over plugs and eight parking spaces and came out with his aweelsewhere on campus. some ideas and his plans, I Pilz said the project was saw a lot of what I want to do only allowed the one spot in who he is and what he’s because USF Parking and done and most importantly I Transportation wanted to keep recognize the practicality of surrounding pay-by-space electric cars,” Pilz said. spots open.

Currently, USF’s charging Along with convenience and stations can be viewed on accessibility, Pilz hopes the the website chargepoint.com, station will allow students to which locates stations all over learn about electric cars. the world.

According to the U.S. Pilz and Stern plan to push Department of Energy (DOE), for more charging station driving an electric car can be installation in the future.

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Hunter on her lap, watching her husband coach.

“Sarah was a great wife, she was a great mom,” said USF assistant coach Mike Current, who was part of the Redbirds’ staff in 2012. “She was always around the park and all the players knew her.”

Hunter, now 5 years old, continues his dad’s passion, playing for the North Tampa Rays. *** In August of 2012, Sarah began having health issues and pains.

Mohl decided to drive her to the doctor’s office to get a biopsy done.

The results that followed were far worse than Mohl expected.

“She went to work that morning and I was home — I hadn’t gone to work yet,” Mohl recalled. “I got a phone call from Dr. Santiago.

He said he needed to speak with Sarah. I said, ‘This is her husband, tell me what’s going on.’”

He wouldn’t.

Minutes later, Mohl received a call from Sarah who told him that the doctors believed she had cancer.

Standing alone in his living room, his heart dropped and his mind began reeling.

Worried and utterly upset, Mohl instantly called his mom and said possibly the toughest words he’d ever spoke to that point.

“I told her, ‘I don’t want to be a single dad.’”

Sarah came straight home from work, gathered a few things, and the family drove nearly six and a half hours to Columbus, Ohio for Sarah to begin treatment.

“If they go in there and it’s just in the one spot, than there’s a good chance of survival,” Mohl was told by doctors.

The biggest worry was that the cancer had begun to spread to the liver, which, from what Mohl was told, was the “worst case scenario.”

After surgery, doctors were able to cut out most of the cancerous cells, leaving the liver unscathed.

Mohl thought, “OK, that’s a huge success.”

The future was looking bright, or at least as bright as it could be given the circumstances. Sarah received chemotherapy once every six weeks.

All they could do was hope.

Not once did Sarah’s spirits falter. Through the grueling months that she endured, she emitted nothing but positive vibes and love to the family and friends surround-

ing her.

“Never once did she complain, never once did she ask, ‘Why do I have to die?’ It was always, ‘I’m fine, I’m fine, we’re going to get through this.’ Never once did she want you to feel sorry for her,” Mohl said.

But it didn’t take long for that blissful hope to plummet back into disheartening worry, just before the New Year.

“The cancer had exploded,” Mohl said. “It was everywhere.”

The cancer wasn’t responding to the treatments. The next step was to transfer her to a different cancer center in Washington D.C. — over 750 miles away from Mohl, who stayed home with then 2-yearold Hunter.

“It was hard for me,” Mohl said.

“My communication with her was through the phone only. It was really hard.” *** Baseball season was soon back in full swing, which presented Mohl with yet another major time commitment.

He was already taking care of Hunter in Sarah’s absence, with his mother moving in from Texas to help out. But he couldn’t stay away from the game.

“I think he would probably tell you that it was the biggest thing for him,” Current said. “I think any time you’re going through something like that, just having something to go to get your mind off of it, something else to think about, is an important thing. Baseball was that for him.”

But four weeks into the season, with the team gearing up for a mid-March matchup with No. 28 Miami, it all changed.

While sitting at a barbecue joint with the team hours before first pitch, Mohl got a phone call from Sarah.

“She basically told me she had two weeks left to live,” Mohl said.

Mohl immediately got on a flight to Columbus where Sarah was now staying, leaving his team and the sport to be by her side.

“Family is always first,” said Kingston, who now coaches at USF. “When he was dealing with what he was dealing with and he needed to be away from our team, that wasn’t even a question.

“We supported him 100 percent. Family is always first, baseball is after that.”

With Mohl listening to the game on the flight, the Redbirds beat Miami 17-6, dedicating the game to Sarah and her fight. ***

“I couldn’t even tell you how I was in Columbus, it felt like forever,” Mohl said.

Sarah was moved to hospice care where she would spend her final days. Mohl refused to leave her side as nurses scurried in and out every two hours checking vital signs. But Mohl wished they could just be alone. They had accepted it, as hard and unbearable as it was to think about, he knew time was minimal.

In Sarah’s final weeks, prior to her time in hospice, the Mohl family took advantage of every second.

Sarah was able to see her son Hunter baptized in the comfort of her own home, laying in her own bed.

“That was the last thing she remembered,” Mohl said.

At hospice, he slept in a hospital chair every night for a week straight. As time passed, Sarah became less and less like the vibrant woman he fell in love with years before.

“The last probably four or five days she wasn’t even there,” Mohl said. “And they don’t leave you alone, she just wanted to be left alone. She knew she was done and she just wanted to be left alone.”

On March 25, 2013 around 1 p.m, Sarah took her final breath.

But her spirit lives on.

“My mom went out and got birthday cards for my son — all the way from 1-18,” Mohl said. “(Sarah) signed them all for him, so every year, he has a birthday card from his mom.” *** When it came time for Sarah’s funeral, there wasn’t anything that was going to stop Kingston and the entire Redbird team from being

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“That was very important for us,” Kingston said. “We ended up playing a double header on Saturday so we could drive from Wichita (Kansas) on Sunday back to Illinois, which was about 12 hours. We could then get up early Monday morning to drive to Ohio to join Billy and his family.”

Days after, Mohl returned to coaching. Once he returned, a team that had lost five of its last seven games went on one of the greatest runs in program history.

Illinois State won 24 of its final 28 games with Mohl back in the dugout.

But being back in the ballpark couldn’t heal his pain or make what happened over those seven months disappear. It couldn’t bring Sarah back.

All it could do was help him cope and put a support group around him that could lift him up and help overcome his tragedy.

The tears have all but dried up and the wealth of memories he has of Sarah have begun to reemerge.

Recently remarried, Mohl doesn’t look back thinking about the seven-month battle. Instead, he looks at what her battle taught him and the new perspective she instilled.

“There have been two things in my life: my family and baseball,” Mohl said. “When (Sarah) left, I didn’t have a full house, but when I go to the park, I have 35 kids that keep me going.

“What she went through and how she handled it all makes any bad day I have seem like nothing.”

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Warriors match ‘96 Bulls with 72 win With its 92-86 road win over the San Antonio Spurs Sunday night, the Golden State Warriors matched the NBA record for wins in a season at 72. Led by reigning MVP Stephen Curry’s 37 points, the Warriors were able to accomplish a feat they hadn’t done since Feb. 14, 1997: win on the road against the Spurs. The win also snapped San Antonio’s 48-game home winning streak, which included a 39-0 mark this season entering Sunday’s game.

The Warriors will look to edge the Chicago Bulls’ record and stand alone when they take on the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday Sophomore outfielder Duke Stunkel’s late-game heroics got two key outs in the ninth inning of Sunday’s game against Memphis. After the game, night for the regular season finale. Coach Mark Kingston (bottom-right), along with the entire team, got his head shaved to support the “Vs. Cancer” foundation.

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Senior Roberto Cid, the No. 5 men’s tennis player in the country, has now beaten No. 1-4 after his win over Tulane’s Dominik Koepfer. USF beat Tulane 5-2 Sunday.

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Senior Erica Nunn continued her dominant season with an 11-strikeout outing Saturday followed up with a go-ahead RBI Sunday as USF swept UConn.

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Junior quarterback Quinton Flowers tossed three touchdown passes in USF football’s final scrimmage of the spring Saturday, further cementing his starting position over sophomore Asiantii Woulard.

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Leaning halfway over the railing of his own dugout in the top of the ninth, USF first baseman Duke Stunkel Jr. nearly flipped over as he stretched out to snag a foul ball at the USF Baseball Stadium.

With a quick recovery, Stunkel came up firing to third base and got the Memphis runner out, who slid past the bag. The unusual double play effectively ended the Tigers’ chance at a comeback, sealing the 7-5 USF victory.

“Earlier in the game, actually, we had talked about how important toughness would be in the difference in winning and losing games and for him to go into the dugout like that, that took toughness, there’s no doubt about it,” USF coach Mark Kingston said.

“That play took toughness and to have the presence of mind to throw that guy out at third too was just icing on the cake.”

The win helped USF (16-16, 2-4) avoid the series sweep after the Bulls were overmatched in an 8-3 loss on Friday and gave up a late lead to lose 4-3 in the ninth on Saturday.

After winning six straight nonconference series to set a program record, the Bulls have lost their first two AAC series this season.

“This needs to be a turning point for us,” Kingston said. “We have to protect the culture of this program. Coaches and players, we need to protect the proper culture of this program. I thought today they got a lot of positive reinforcement for doing the right things.”

The USF offense, which had pieced together three runs in each of the first two games, broke out

in a big way Sunday.

Trailing 1-0 to the Tigers (1219, 3-3) with two outs and two aboard in the home half of the third inning, designated hitter Luke Borders lofted a fly ball deep to left field that appeared to be the final out of the inning.

However, the Memphis left fielder lost the ball in the sun and it landed safely on the warning track, 50 feet behind him. By the time the ball reached the infield, Borders had crossed home for the inside-the-park homer.

“It took a little heat off at that point, I think,” Kingston said. “We were scratching out runs and we couldn’t break through, so to get three on one play, it almost felt like OK, maybe we can have a little good luck. Because if we’ve had any luck so far, it’s been bad luck.”

Some of that bad luck has

resulted in the absence of seniors Levi Borders (bacterial infection) and Luke Maglich (wrist injury), which Kingston said has played a role in the sputtering offense.

“You take your two best hitters — who are first-team allconference players — out of your lineup, it’s been a significant hit to our lineup,” Kingston said.

Led by freshman third baseman David Villar (4-for-5 with a homer), USF bounced back on Sunday and scored its seven runs behind thirteen hits.

“It’s great, personal feeling and for the team, it’s good to get back on track,” Villar said.

Now sitting at .500 on the season, USF will aim to become a winning team again behind plays like Stunkel’s when the Bulls host the University of North Florida on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.