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(04/27/09 3:45am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Although it won two of three games this weekend, the IU water polo team finished in fifth place at the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Eastern Championship in Cambridge, Mass.The fourth-seeded Hoosiers tallied their only loss of the weekend Friday afternoon against No. 5 Brown in an 8-7 finish. The Hoosiers trailed throughout the game, but rallied in the fourth period and came up just short. The loss eliminated IU from contention for the Eastern Championship and a shot at the NCAA tournament. On Saturday, the Hoosiers took on No. 8 Harvard and defeated the host team in a 9-7 game thanks to a late goal by sophomore Lauren Wyckoff. The Hoosiers finished the weekend by winning the fifth-place game against No. 7 Princeton Sunday. They cruised to an 11-6 victory after a quick start, outscoring Princeton 8-1 in the first half. The tournament marked the end of the Hoosiers’ season. They finished with an overall record of 21-16.
(04/20/09 3:19am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Despite a furious fourth-quarter rally, the IU water polo team came up short against Michigan, who finished the season perfect against the CWPA west.The Hoosiers lost 9-8 to the Wolverines in the championship game of the CWPA Western Division Championships on Sunday.Trailing 7-3 at halftime, the No. 2-seeded Hoosiers outscored the Wolverines 5-2 in the second half but couldn’t score again, allowing Michigan to keep its lead.IU coach Barry King said he was pleased with the way the team played all weekend, and said he thinks they could win against anyone with a performance similar to Sunday’s second half.“If we play the way we played the last 14 minutes of the Michigan contest, I have all the confidence in the world (in this team),” King said.The Hoosiers made it to the championship game by winning 15-0 against No. 7 Chatham and No. 3 Mercyhurst in a 15-1 Saturday defeat at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center.Despite the loss against Michigan, King said he thought the team played well enough to get a win, no matter who they faced.“We did the things the way we were supposed to do it,” he said. “We played at a level that, no matter who was in the pool, I think we would have won contests.”
(04/17/09 4:16am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Hoping to have more success than the first time it played at home, the IU water polo team will host the Collegiate Water Polo Association Western Division Championships this weekend. The second-seeded Hoosiers (17-14, 6-1 CWPA West) will take on seventh-seeded Chatham at noon Saturday at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center. The No. 17 Hoosiers defeated Chatham 15-2 earlier this season, and another win could send IU further in the tournament. IU coach Barry King said he thinks the team will play better at home this weekend because of its previous home match. “We just don’t have as much experience at waking up in our own bed and coming mentally prepared to win games,” King said. Although the Hoosiers have beaten every team they might play this weekend except Michigan, King said that the team can’t look ahead.“It (would) be real easy to just to kind of go through the motions and think we’re going to come out on the good side of everything,” he said. “It’s a good exercise for us to overcome the previous result and just take that game for what it is.”
(04/06/09 4:08am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU water polo team finished the regular season on a roll, winning all four of its weekend games.The No. 19 Hoosiers (17-14, 6-1 CWPA West) started the weekend in Erie, Pa., where they finished off their Collegiate Water Polo Association Western Division slate.On Friday night the Hoosiers beat Gannon 12-7 behind five goals from senior Maggie Hannon. Saturday morning they beat Mercyhurst, 11-7.With the victories over Gannon and Mercyhurst, the Hoosiers wrapped up the No. 2 seed at the CWPA Western Division Championships. IU will play host to the field at Cousilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center.After traveling to Lewisburg, Pa., the Hoosiers beat George Washington 12-6 on Saturday evening. They finished off the weekend with a 7-4 defeat of Bucknell that snapped its eight-game winning streak.The Hoosiers will play next at the CWPA Western Division Championships from April 18 to 19. They will open the Championship against the No. 7 seed Chatham at noon.
(03/27/09 4:22am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Barry King came to IU in fall 1993 to begin work on his doctorate in exercise physiology.Now, he is coaching his 12th season for the water polo team – coaching every season of the program’s existence.When he arrived at IU, King’s first experience came with IU water polo was as a player and coach for the men’s club, which was the only IU water polo club at the time. The men’s club had a call-out meeting for players and was also was in need of assistant coaches. King filled in.Three women – Maryann Lekas, Amy Pankoke and Natasha Kuberski – came together in spring 1994 to form the women’s water polo club.Lekas said the process of starting the club team was hilarious but challenging because they had to fill out the team by recruiting women who had never played water polo.“It was hard to get these other girls who were used to being pristine swimmers to be aggressive and tough for water polo,” Lekas said.A committee was formed in late 1996 to pick a new women’s varsity sport. Mary Ann Rohleder, senior associate athletic director, was on the committee and said it first had to decide whether IU needed to add a women’s sport.“Number one, should we add sports – and secondly, if so, what sports should we look at?” Rohleder said. “Then, the end result of our work, we were supposed to make a recommendation to the athletics committee and athletic director.”Four club teams were picked to give presentations to the committee and lobby to become a varsity sport. The committee chose the women’s water polo club.King said he was notified in February 1997 that water polo was going to become a varsity sport for the following year.Rohleder said the committee decided that water polo was the best choice because of the facilities, competition and recruiting base with which it had to work.The decision to add water polo was highly favored because of how well it met the criteria and because Michigan said it would also add the sport, said Director of Football Operations Harold Mauro, who was also on the committee.Although club sports do not often become varsity programs, King said the quick four-year turnaround it took for water polo to become a full IU team was even more rare.“That’s quick, for the most part,” King said. “Take the men’s soccer team, for instance. Coach (Jerry) Yeagley had them for a club team for 10 years previous to being added in ’72.”The first varsity season was much different from being a club team, Lekas said. Travel plans changed and more demand was put on players, but she said it was an excellent experience.“It was amazing,” Lekas said. “We felt like rock stars. We would go train at Assembly Hall. We went from rags to riches.”The program continued to grow until it reached its highest point in 2003, when it made the NCAA Final Four. King said that entire season was very special.“That season in total was important for us from the standpoint that we learned that Indiana wasn’t just some fluke thing that happened in the Midwest,” King said. “We had the ability to create some pretty good players and compete on a national level.”Although the team has not reached the NCAA Tournament since, it has become a perennial top 20 program and consistently tallies 20 wins. The team (12-12) is currently ranked No. 18.While King strayed from his original intentions, he said he’s happy about his place at IU today.“If you would have told me 16 years ago that this is what I would be doing, I would have laughed, heartily,” King said. “I wouldn’t trade the experience at all.”
(02/20/09 3:43am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>When many future teachers graduate from college, they try to find jobs in areas that they are familiar with, such as their hometowns, but a program in the School of Education is hoping to change that. The Cultural Immersion Projects is a way for students to do their student teaching in places that are likely different from where they are from, said Laura Stachowski, Cultural Immersion Projects director.“We’re taking them out of Indiana and out of perhaps the suburbs, communities or small towns where they’ve grown up,” Stachowski said, “and placing them in culturally different settings where they can learn about how other people educate their children, what their values are.”The project, started by James Mahan in the early 1970s, consists of three areas where students can go. The projects include the Overseas Project, the American Indian Reservation Project and the Urban Project. Students are asked to do more than just teach if they participate in the project – they are asked to become active participants in the new communities they are a part of, Stachowski said.The Overseas Project, which was started in the mid-1970s, has each student spend 10 weeks at an Indiana school and then spend eight more weeks in the country of their choice.Students can pick to student teach in Australia, China, Costa Rica, England, India, Ireland, Spain, Kenya, Russia, Turkey, Wales, New Zealand or Scotland.The oldest of the projects, the American Indian Reservation Project, sends students to the Navajo Reservations in New Mexico, Arizona and Utah.The Urban Project, launched last year, places student teachers in Chicago Public Schools. Students are required to live in the city and aren’t able to live in the suburbs and commute, Stachowski said. Although IU is not the only school with a program like this, what sets IU’s apart from the others is the intense preparatory phase that gets the students ready for what they are going to be doing, Shonia said.The Cultural Immersion Projects, which has had about 3,000 students participate since its inception, averages about 100 students in the Overseas project, about 20 in the American Indian Reservation project, and has 40 students signed up for the Urban project next year, Stachowski said.One of the students who participated in the overseas portion, April Knipstine, had a positive experience student teaching in Kenya in 2007.“I loved teaching there, the students were so motivated to learn,” Knipstine said. “They were so eager to learn English, to learn grammar, to use their words correctly.”Knipstine loved her experience so much that she became part of the project as an associate instructor to get other students to take part in it.“When I graduated I decided that if I got an offer to be an AI here, that was absolutely what I was going to do,” Knipstine said, “because I want everyone to do this.”
(02/04/09 4:47am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU campus has a way of selling itself to the many prospective student-athletes who visit each year, but a random guy making fun of a dog usually isn’t in the plan.But in the case of Lauren and Cassie Wyckoff, current members of the IU water polo team, it might just have played a part.“There was this one guy who came up to my mom and said, ‘That is the ugliest looking dog I have ever seen,’” Cassie said of her visit to IU. “And from that moment I thought this college was going to be awesome.”Cassie added that beyond the random canine insult, she enjoyed the school and the prospect of having her sister nearby.For Lauren, the traditional reasons brought her to campus.“For me, I liked how it was a college town,” Lauren said. “Everything was revolving around IU. I really, really enjoyed that. Not a lot of places in California that I was looking at were like that.”The Los Altos, Calif., natives started to play the sport when they were swimmers, with a push from their dad, Travis Wyckoff, who has coached high school and club water polo for 30 years.The sisters were first steered toward IU when their mother, Ramona Mosley, talked the two into a visit. It was this trip that made both fall in love with the campus and put IU on their college-questing map.And since starting at IU, the sisters’ teammates have enjoyed them.“Personally, I love them. They’re really, really good friends,” teammate Maggie Hannon said. “They have really outgoing personalities. Their humor is a really big part of the reason I like them. It’s really dry and funny.”Though the team stresses the two are individuals, members of the water polo team say it’s the two’s similarities – like their humor – that make them so fun.They are “goofballs, interactive, inclusive and socially gifted” people, said IU coach Barry King.But King said once the two are in the pool, they employ two different styles of play.Lauren, who is a sophomore, is a utility player, and is thus asked to play multiple positions. She has a natural ability in the water and understands the game very well, King said.Cassie, a freshman goalkeeper, is “a really good athlete and has very good poise for a position that requires poise,” King said.Although they are very similar to each other, there are some differences between the two besides the positions they play.“I’m more relaxed and patient,” Cassie said. “Like when we go shopping, it’s all about Lauren. It’s never about me.”And through the ups and downs of being student-athletes, the sisters are still very close.“She is very loving, very caring to me. She is very motherly to me,” Cassie said of her older sibling. “But she also treats me like a friend and a sister. I love her to death.”
(01/30/09 3:42am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>General Motors is no longer holding the top spot among auto manufacturers.Toyota now claims the title of top automaker, taking the spot from GM, but both companies say they have a lot more issues on which to focus. Toyota has a manufacturing plant in Princeton, Ind., and representatives said the company was honored to be the No. 1 automaker in sales. But they strive to be No. 1 in other areas. “Our goal is to be No. 1 in quality and customer satisfaction,” Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana Inc. spokeswoman Kelly Dillon said. “Certainly we’re honored that we’re No. 1 in sales, but that is not our goal as a company.” Dillon said she believes the company, which has not been spared from the tough economic times, helps the state’s economy. Toyota employs 4,500 people at the plant and uses suppliers from throughout the state, Dillon said. GM spokesman John McDonald said he recognizes Toyota has passed GM, which has a plant in near Fort Wayne, but said it is not of much worry to the company. “We don’t put much stock in horse races. It seems to be more of a concern for other people,” McDonald said. “What we’re concerned about is becoming profitable in all of our regions and serving our customers with the best product and price.”McDonald said he believes only people outside the auto industry really care that Toyota has taken over the top spot.But not everyone agrees Toyota is No. 1. United Auto Workers Local 2209 President Orval Plumlee said he does not believe Toyota has passed GM as the top global seller. Plumlee said he doesn’t think Toyota and GM are on level playing fields because Toyota, as a foreign company, gets subsidies from the United States, individual states and local governments to bring jobs here. The total subsidies given to foreign automakers is about $3.6 billion, according to Good Jobs First, a national policy resource center. Toyota has received more than $650 million of those subsidies, including $30 million to the Toyota plant in Princeton, according to Good Jobs First. This gives companies such as Toyota an unfair advantage against U.S., Plumlee said. Even with all the talk about who is No. 1 in global sales, McDonald said he believes customers look at other things when they are looking to buy a car.“Consumers don’t buy the car because it is produced by the largest manufacturer,” McDonald said. “They buy a car because it meets their needs and meets their price range.”