| Fire on the mountain: Appalachian anticipates
to blow Buccaneers out of water |
by Brad Norman
Staff Writer |
East Tennessee State University’s football
team comes to Boone Saturday for the last time.
ETSU will discontinue the football program at the end of the season,
a fact that is worrisome to Appalachian State University’s
head football coach Jerry Moore.
“Their pride is at stake,” Moore said. “They have
been slapped in the face and been told they are not good enough
for [the university] to have a football program. Those guys, they’re
hurt.”
Moore said when someone is hurt they usually play more competitively.
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| NCAA looks to expand drug testing policy to include
more student-athletes |
by Hugh Kellenberger
Staff Writer |
The NCAA’s Championships and
Competition Cabinet recommended expanding drug testing of student-athletes
during a recent meeting.
Currently only football and track and field athletes are subject
to random drug tests year-round, according to the NCAA Year-Round
Drug-Testing Program Overview. Athletes in other sports are subject
to drug tests only at the NCAA Championship site.
The NCAA Committee of Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects
of Sports (CSMAS) identified this recommendation as its top priority
for budget expansion consideration. According to the agenda report
for the Sept. 16-18 meeting of the Championships and Competition
Cabinet, the expanded testing would cost the NCAA $123,129.
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| Club volleyball sets sights on second conference
championship, bid to nationals |
by Michael Trivette
Staff Writer |
The season opens Oct. 11 for the
Appalachian State University women’s club volleyball team.
The team hopes to defend last year’s North Carolina Club Volleyball
League (NCCVL) conference title.
“We want to win the conference [championship] again,”
third-season junior Leslie McNeill said. “We’ve got a
lot of depth this year and a lot of talent.”
This year, the Mountaineers have 30 players on three teams: nine
on the Black team, 10 on the Gold and 11 on the White team.
Captains for the teams are: Black — McNeill, and Lindsay Lamb,
Gold — Katherine Smith and Allison Lee, White — Becky
Franklin and Beth Mullin.
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