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Teter's Caitlin Van Kooten and Phi Delta Theta's Steven Sharp won the 2010 Spring Series Event Miss 'N Out. Miss 'N Out is the second Spring Series Event Van Kooten has won this year. Only two weeks remain for the 60th Men's Little 500, and one day less for the Women's Little 500
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Little 500 riders call Miss ’N Out an event of musical chairs.When the music stops playing, who will be left riding?On March 31, Little 500 riders put their tires to the track for the second of four spring series events. While Individual Team Trials lays out the field of the fastest riders, the event also contributes to the heat line-ups for Miss ’N Out.Based on ITT times, riders are separated into heats of eight. The top 15 riders take the best spots of each heat, meaning they are placed along the front row inside the track.The rest of the riders are dispersed throughout the heats, with the fastest being placed closer to the inside of the track. After each lap, the last bike to cross the start/finish line is eliminated. This continues until the fourth-to-last rider is eliminated. The top three riders then continue to the next heat.Kristen Metherd, a senior Kappa Alpha Theta rider, finished 11th at the ITT this spring.This spot places her at the top of heat 19. The advantage for the top rider is having the inside lane, which is the shortest distance to pedal around the track. Starting in the inside lane is a slight advantage, but Metherd said her position doesn’t really matter.“Once the heat starts, you’re allowed to jockey for a position anywhere on the track, so if you started in the third slot you can easily jump right in front of the first person,” she said.A fifth-place finisher in the men’s ITT, Phi Delta Theta senior rider Baxter Burnworth will also lead his heat. Because Miss ’N Out rankings come from ITT finishes, Miss ’N Out is not so much a test of a team as a spectator event.“You’ll see some guys that have much lower seedings and they’ll advance really far in Miss ’N Out,” Burnworth said. “For the seeds, I think the only advantage is you have a little bit more of a breather in the first rounds.”With the white jersey still up for grabs, Burnworth said each team will try to advance as many riders as possible to the semi-final and final heats to earn more points.While Burnworth and Metherd are both in their ideal spots, Alpha Omicron Pi freshman rider Elizabeth Littlejohn is starting at the back of her heat. Although she is upset about her spot, the freshman has based her training this week by riding seven fast laps.“I don’t expect to get in the top three, but I hope to not be the first one out,” Littlejohn said.The worst spot for any rider is the one in the middle of the pack, Metherd said. Those who start between the front and back riders tend to get “boxed in,” Metherd said — one of the toughest positions to get out from.“You’ll see a lot of riders who will be sitting second place on the inside, and they will end up being eliminated just because they’re in a bad position,” Metherd said.While Metherd is happy with the spot her ITT time gave her in her heat, she said how she finishes depends on lap-by-lap decisions.“At the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter all that much where you start because things can change within a lap,” Metherd said
Francisco Contreras has his face painted during a national championship viewing party on Monday at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
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Members of the media work between practices for Final Four teams on Friday, April 2, 2010, at Lucas Oil Stadium. (Stephanie Kuzydym / IU Student News Bureau)
With Power Hour just over, Teter's Caitlin Van Kooten and Cutter's Eric Young lead the ITT's. Van Kooten posted a time of 2:40.03, while Young comes in with a time of 2:22.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Months of night riding, running stairs at Ballantine Hall and rolling on trainers ends with a spot in the Little 500.But not for sophomore Adam Fish, at least not last year.Fish, a Sigma Chi rider, was the team’s fifth rider. Teams are only allowed four riders on race day, and the search for the final four begins with Individual Time Trials, which take place today at 4 p.m. at Bill Armstrong Stadium.Last year, Fish put his sweat and leg power into riding with the team. But he was unable to compete. Instead, he sat in the stands while the 2009 Men’s Little 500 race went on without him.“Last year, I was pretty close to another rider, and it came down to race experience and a seniority-type thing, which was the right decision to make,” Fish said. “I wasn’t ready for the race that year. But this year, we’ve got some new guys coming in, and we’re letting everyone battle it out on the track. “We have a little process in the system for ranking guys in our program that’s all done based on your performance at the track. ITT’s are really important, especially for the guys competing for spots. It’s one of the objective things that determines who rides the race.”How Sigma Chi bases its final four is not necessarily how every cycling team decides its top riders for race day. Phi Gamma Delta has known its best cyclists since the team’s spring break training. “It kind of just showed who the top four were, who were constantly finishing up front and what not,” senior Phi Gamma Delta rider Todd Leone said. “I’m not trying to put down the other riders, but it was always the same four finishing up front.”Sophomore Black Key Bulls rider Stephen Mis was also a fifth rider last year. He found out he wasn’t going to race after spring break in 2009. Although his teammates never told him he was the fifth rider, he knew where he fell in the lineup. To Mis, ITT’s is just a spring series event.“It’s a good way to judge how fast somebody is, but at the same time, it’s only four laps and generally during the race, you’re not going to be riding by yourself for a full-out four laps,” Mis said. “It doesn’t necessarily represent race-day situations.”Instead of being frustrated by watching from the sidelines, Mis was one of the team’s student coaches. From that, he said he learned more about the top race in collegiate cycling.While Mis said he knows he will put his rubber to the cinder on April 24, sophomore Jack McMahon is still wondering whether he will be one of Wright Cycling’s race-day riders. Before this week’s qualifications, McMahon’s coach said he still had areas of his cycling to tweak.“We had a team meeting and he just told me ‘You’re fast enough, but unfortunately your exchanges just aren’t to the point that we need them to be for qualifications. So don’t let that get you down, just keep working, because you still have a chance to get in,’” McMahon said. The opportunity to still ride fuels McMahon’s training.“I still think I’m more than fast enough to make the team, and I still am willing to work hard for that fourth spot, even for the fifth spot, to make our team faster.”For Fish, the hard work needed to make the Sigma Chi team began when last year’s race ended.“I trained really hard this summer,” Fish said. “I wanted to come back and kind of make a statement and show what I was capable of. I came back in good shape, and it kind of raised the bar for the team.“I came back a little stronger than some of our good riders, and that was just from training hard for a couple months. I spent a lot of time on the bike.”From the stands as last year’s odd man out, Fish said he learned strategy he will bring with him to this year’s competition.“You got to see how the better teams are, the ones who take responsibility of the race and ride in front and chase down breakaways and protect their position and things like that,” he said. “There’s a big responsibility to being in a lead team.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Little 500 is more than the largest collegiate bicycle race in America. It is more than the biggest intramural event on the IU campus. It is more than a great college weekend.Little 500 is the event that turns men and women into riders and IU students into Hoosiers.According to the IU Student Foundation’s Web site, the Little 500 is the biggest intramural event at IU. It is also the largest collegiate bike race in the United States. Every year, riders compete in four-person teams in separate races for men and women around a quarter-mile track. IUSF coordinates Little 500 every year.More than 25,000 people attend the races each year, with the proceeds used for working student scholarships at IU. More than $35,000 was given away in scholarships in 2008.Modeling the event after the motor race that takes place 56 miles away at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Howdy Wilcox, then-executive director of the Indiana University Student Foundation, founded the Little 500 race in 1951, 32 years after his father won the Indianapolis 500.Similar to the traditions of kissing the sidewalk and drinking cold milk that accompany the Indy 500, the Little 500 is full of the traditions of mounting Schwinns and crashing on Turn Three.“I mean, it’s more than just an intramural sport,” Delta Tau Delta rider Nick Lenard said. “It’s you representing your house ... and your friends, and you’re showing what you’ve done the entire year. It’s a pretty big competition. It’s more than just a race. It’s the experience.”Along with the experience, Alpha Omicron Pi rider Lauren Wells said Little 500 means becoming more involved on campus. 2010 marks the 60th running for the men’s race and the 23rd running for the women’s race. “The history is cool, and it’s obviously one of the long-standing traditions here at Indiana University,” Grey Goat Cycling rider Brian Holthouse said. “For a school to participate in something that is 60 years old with alumni that have performed before you and the traditions that surround the race ... is really cool.” Riders compete on teams of four, equipped with one student coach, an experienced coach and a mechanical team. Thirty-three greek-affiliated and independent teams qualify through trials to compete in the main race, which Holthouse said is an indescribable experience.“You work all year and you show up and it just flies by so fast,” Holthouse said. “One minute the race has started, and then you’re already on the last 20 laps and you’re trying to figure out who’s going to make a move and when. It’s really beyond words.”Riders typically train for the race about six days a week. Wells said training for Little 500 is like any other athlete training for their sport to prevent injuries.Some say the riders who compete in Little 500 are nuts, but Lenard said all athletes are crazy.“It can be pretty boring day to day,” he said. “The good athletes have to be crazy about it.”
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>On a field that already bears the head coach’s last name, a new era begins Sunday.After years on the sidelines learning from his father’s head coaching techniques, new IU coach Todd Yeagley will take the field for the first time as the leader of one of the nation’s premier soccer programs.But as Yeagley prepares for the noon matchup with Louisville, he is more focused on his team than the opponent.“We really just want to keep building,” Yeagley said. “This is obviously a time to experiment for the fall, try different combinations, but we’re treating these games from the standpoint and approach as we would a fall game. Performance is our main objective, although results are important every time we take the field. But our main objective is to make sure performance and what we’re trying to get across as a team is accomplished.”As with most firsts, Yeagley said he will feel some jitters. But he said he is too honored to be overly worried about them.“The milestone-type emotions for the first and the last and all that always comes into play at times, but when it comes game day, for me, my focus is really just on performance,” Yeagley said. “Any time you step on that field and you’re coaching this program it’s special, and I’m sure that will hit me.”IU will play two teams this spring — Louisville and Akron — that it lost to in the regular season by a combined score of 5-0. Junior midfielder Cameron Jordan said the games’ exhibition status is no reason to diminish a rivalry’s intensity.“They beat us last fall season, and that’s when the rivalry started,” Jordan said. “We beat them, and then come spring season they beat us, and then come in the regular season again and then we get our little revenge in the tournament. So it’s been a battle back and forth.”With the Zips and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish awaiting the Hoosiers in April, Jordan said his team has an uphill climb this spring.“With three big rivalry games, there’s no game to take lightly,” Jordan said.In preparation for the new season, along with commonplace offseason conditioning such as weight lifting and running sprints, the Hoosiers added yoga to their regimen.“It’s a lot harder than you would think,” Jordan said. “It’s kind of strenuous but at the same time very relaxing. It was teaching us breathing motions and to just kind of let everything go and focus on one thing. It made you do some things you don’t think you’re going to be able to do.”Relaxation will be important for the marquee match of the spring against Mexico’s Youth National Team in Bloomington on April 27.Junior midfielder Daniel Kelly is not new to playing Mexico. He has played against the team twice while at IU and three times while he was a part of the U.S. Youth National Team. He said he hopes the Hoosiers will be comfortable before that time comes.“Luckily, it’s our last game of the semester, so hopefully we’ll get the kinks out and we’ll be playing well together,” Kelly said. “Hopefully the guys aren’t nervous. You’re always going to have some butterflies but it’s just taking what the coaches give you and taking that to the field and applying it.”This weekend is the coaching staff’s first chance to see the Hoosiers apply what they have learned. “We’re not going to be the finished product come Sunday,” Yeagley said. “But certainly we want to see improvements in areas that we have really been stressing.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Wing Cadet Kevin Skelton means business.As the highest-ranking cadet at IU, he walks around campus in uniform and expects a salute and a greeting from every cadet he encounters.But nine cadets know a less-strict side of Skelton the rest have not seen: his college-kid side.These nine cadets, along with Skelton, make up the men’s and women’s Air Force teams trying to qualify for this year’s Little 500.“When we’re in uniform doing Air Force business, I’m in charge, and they all know it,” Skelton said. “But at the track and during workouts, I made it very clear to them at the beginning of the semester, I was like ‘Hey, I’m your coach, I’m your friend. I’m not your commander right now, but still treat me with respect.’ Every once in a while, to be funny, they’ll throw in a ‘Sir.’”Skelton used his training and authority from the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps to fuel his creation of these Little 500 teams.Sophomore Ashley Doyle is one of the cadets Skelton recruited for the women’s AFROTC team. Doyle is a cadet third class, and as team captain, she understands the AFROTC’s importance.“We are such a close unit and family in the ROTC community that we’re really good friends, so it’s really easy to get through to one another and to teach each other what you’re doing wrong or what you need to do,” Doyle said.Doyle will attend field training this summer, which will determine what she will one day do with the Air Force. But for now, she and her teammates are hoping to represent their branch of the Armed Services in the Little 500.“We’re pretty sure we’ll qualify, but we want to have clean exchanges on the quals run,” Doyle said. “There are already nerves. Everybody’s a little jittery, really excited, not really sure what to expect. We think we’re going to do really well. We just need to make sure everybody is calmed down and not overly excited when we go out there.”Training five days per week, Skelton has no doubt his team is in top physical shape. He said he believes this so much that he had them exempt from physical training and designed his own workouts, which he said makes it easier for him to coach than any other team.“All of them have scored 90 or above on the Air Force physical fitness test, so they’re definitely in better shape than a regular cadet would be,” he said. “It is a lot easier, I think, coaching these Air Force teams than if I was just coaching a frat team or a dorm team, where they’re just regular students.“They’re not cadets that are conditioned with the ‘Yes, Sir,’ ‘No, Sir.’ If I tell them to go do a workout, they might not like it ... but they’re not going to be like ‘Oh, we don’t want to do that.’ They’re going to do it because I told them to — because I outrank them and they have respect.”Skelton is also the only member of either Air Force team to have ridden in the Little 500. Junior Julian Londono does not have race experience, but as a cadet captain and future Air Force pilot, he is excited for qualifications to show the other cadets what he and his teammates have done.“I think it feels great to represent the Air Force and all the 80 cadets that are in the Air Force ROTC right now,” Londono said. “It’s a great way to start a team that we’ve never had and hopefully be able to carry it throughout the years and have a strong team for Little 500 for years to come.”Skelton said his focus is to make AFROTC a presence on campus. Last semester, he was involved in the first Air Force group for IU Dance Marathon. Skelton said the presence of an independent organization in greek-dominated events is important.“I think the Air Force cadets, as a whole, don’t really realize how huge this event is at IU,” Skelton said. “It’s an enormous event. Whether it’s crappy weather and pouring rain or sunny out, there are 20,000-plus people there.“Every organization is represented, every greek house has a team out there and there are all these dorms and what not. And to have an Air Force cycling team, it’s a really big deal. Not just to our cadets but the rest of the University to say that we are here, we’re not just here to walk around in uniform and pop salutes at each other, we’re here involved in these community activities.”
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>When the Schwinns crossed the finish line of last year’s Little 500 race, Alpha Tau Omega placed eighth. Just a year later, the team no longer exists.Derek Bailey, a former ATO rider, and his rookie teammates, Sean Vallely and Alex Ray, were given three options: Don’t ride, ride under the dispersion rule with only members or previous riders of ATO, or deactivate and form a team with independent riders.The ATO’s decided to do the latter. They joined Justin Haviar and Eliot Englert to form their new team.“Our team name is Emanon, which is ‘no name’ backwards, which we thought was appropriate since we can’t ride under ATO,” Vallely said. “I just don’t think it’s fair that if you’re a part of the greek system you have to have a moral code, whereas if independent teams got in a bar fight, they would still be allowed to ride.”The last time ATO did not race was in 2007. Before that, the team was suspended from 1992-94 for alcohol violations.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Years ago, with a board game in front of him and a baseball card in hand, H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger’s sports journalism career began.He would play Strat-O-Matic, and when he finished, he grabbed a piece of paper and recapped his play-by-play experience, letting his words flow like the swing of a major league bat. He wrote as if he had credentials at the New York Times.Before long, he became a No. 1 bestseller for the same newspaper with his book about football-crazy Odessa, Texas. Tim Franklin, director of the National Sports Journalism Center, worked with Bissinger at the Chicago Tribune in the early 1990s, and they have remained friends since. Their friendship is just one reason Franklin asked Bissinger to present a seminar at 7 p.m. today at IUPUI’s Campus Center.“He is, without question, one of the best journalists — not just sports journalists — of his generation,” Franklin said. “In addition to that, he’s also a thought-provoking speaker. He’s not somebody who’s shy about expressing his opinions about sports, about the state of journalism, about the state of sports journalism.”Three sports-based books, countless articles and a Pulitzer Prize for investigation later, Bissinger does not consider himself a sports journalist. Even his No. 1 book, despite ballooning into one of the biggest sports movies and television shows of this decade, doesn’t fall into that category, Bissinger said. “‘Friday Night Lights,’ I really don’t consider a sports book, but much more a book about the kind of sociology of sports,” he said. Junior Andrew Gaboury is focusing on sports journalism, but he agrees that listening to Bissinger is listening to more than a sports writer.“It’s a pretty good opportunity, not just if you’re interested in sports, because obviously he can write a good sports book, but he can just tell a good story in general,” Gaboury said. “If you want to be a journalist, you have to tell a good story.”Whether the stadium lights are on in West Texas or Akron, Ohio, Bissinger has evolved into one of the best narrative journalists, but he’s struggled to get there.“You’re telling a story, you want to tell something with a beginning, a middle and an end, whether it’s 20 inches or whether it’s 20,000 words,” he said. “You have to be willing to rewrite and you have to really be willing to cut.”To Bissinger, most books are under-edited and overwritten by writers who hate to outline. Bissinger himself was thrown into the fire when it came to outlining.He said when he began “Friday Night Lights,” he wrote the first 30,000 words without an outline. He was soon humbled. “Of those 30,000 words, 25,000 words weren’t very good. My editor said, ‘No offense, but this stinks.’ I had to learn the hard way, but that’s what you have to do in order to succeed,” he said.Sports Illustrated called “Friday Night Lights” one of the five best sports books in history, and success is not lacking in Bissinger’s biography. He began his career in the Norfolk dugout and built his way up to the Vanity Fair press box, covering the MLB, NBA and high school sports along the way.From a baseball card to a baseball series, Bissinger has dived into the sports world. And while an IU basketball story isn’t in his future plans, he said he will always respect the tradition the coach known as The General began.“I’ve met Bobby Knight,” Bissinger said. “I actually think for all his excesses, he really did care about kids and his players getting an education. I know Indiana basketball is not the same as it has been for quite some time, but I miss it.”
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The IU men's soccer team will take the field this spring with a new coach and a new schedule. It will start their spring season with six matches, mot notably a final match against the U-21 Mexican Youth National Team.
