More than 120 Participants Took Part in Presidential Tire Flip Challenge</h1> <article> <h1>More than 120 Participants Took Part in Presidential Tire Flip Challenge</h1> <p>ygay — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:30:12 +0000</p> <span>More than 120 Participants Took Part in Presidential Tire Flip Challenge</span> <span><span>ygay</span></span> <span><time datetime="2020-11-10T14:30:12-05:00" title="Tuesday, November 10, 2020 - 14:30">Tue, 11/10/2020 - 14:30</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The male who recorded the most flips was senior track and field athlete Connor Hibbard with 31. First-year track and field thrower Abby Cannon and sophomore softball player Kathryn Beeman tied atop the women's list of participants with 22 flips each.</p> <p>Read more about the event and see a video compilation on <a href="https://goyeo.com/news/2020/11/9/general-presidential-tire-flip-challenge-featured-over-120-participants.aspx" target="_blank">GoYeo's web page</a> <span aria-hidden="true" class="fa fa-external-link"></span>.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2020-11-10T12:00:00Z">Tue, 11/10/2020 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">91ֱ�� Athletics</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Each competitor was allotted one minute to flip the tire as many times as they could. At the end of the four hour event, 2,062 flips were made for an average of 16.8 per round.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2771">Athletics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2379">Student Life</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2415">Sports</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Jack Lichtenstien ’23</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Tennis Down Under</h1> <p>anagy — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:03:18 +0000</p> <span>Tennis Down Under</span> <span><span>anagy</span></span> <span><time datetime="2016-11-07T13:03:18-05:00" title="Monday, November 7, 2016 - 13:03">Mon, 11/07/2016 - 13:03</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The men’s and women’s tennis teams traveled down under for a winter term to rival other winter terms: up-close access to the Australian Open. </p> <p>Throughout January, players experienced the best of everything in Melbourne and Sydney, including matches with Australian teams (their first time playing on red clay tennis courts), day passes to watch the Australian Open, which is held annually in Melbourne at the end of January, and a training session with tennis analyst Craig O’Shannessy. </p> <p>Off the courts, the teams enjoyed visits to sprawling street markets, sight-seeing at the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House, encounters with Australian wildlife, and beach lounging and surfing lessons on the Melbourne coast. Some took the opportunity to complete individual winter term projects or fulfill a personal quest to scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef.</p> <p>The women’s team <a href="http://www.goyeo.com/news/2015/1/17/WTEN_0117154439.aspx">blogged</a> about their journey. Their itinerary began in Melbourne on Day 2 of tournament action at the Australian Open. Some team members were lucky enough to catch a few minutes watching Roger Federer, Andy Murray, and Maria Sharapova on the practice courts. After an exciting day at the Open, the teams played at a local club on the harbor of Williamstown. “It was a productive first practice, but it was definitely tricky getting used to the heat and the wind,” says second-year Emma Brezel. </p> <p>After a two-hour match, the teams took a bus to the beach to see a presentation on tennis strategy and the mental aspect of the game delivered by Craig O’Shannessy, the lead analyst for the Association of Tennis Professionals and Women’s Tennis Association tours. He was on site writing previews and match analysis for the Australian Open website during that time. “Craig was extremely insightful, and by breaking down tennis into numbers he helped us look at tennis from a much different perspective,” Brezel says. </p> <p>Later that day, the men’s and women’s teams played matches at another local club, this one with red clay courts. “It was really interesting to play on red clay, which is a much different surface than the hard courts we usually play on. We had an awesome time playing with and meeting local kids, many of whom are planning to play college tennis in the States,” says Brezel. “After a couple hours of matches we ended our long day with a barbecue at the club. It was a really awesome way to start off our playing in Australia.”</p> <p>In the heart of Melbourne, the locals were consumed with the Open. “We traveled to lunch at an outdoor cafe in our first visit to Federation Square in Melbourne's bustling city center. After strolling across the bridge and taking in the remarkable skyline we came upon dozens of Melbournians in the square watching the Open on a jumbotron in bean bags and beach chairs,” says first-year Jackie McDermott. “After lunch, some of us joined the locals watching afternoon matches, while others enjoyed strolls along the Yarra River.”</p> <p>Afterward, the women swapped out their street clothes for tennis whites and headed to the historic Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club, former site of the Australian Open and several Davis Cup matches. “Kooyong features clay and grass courts as far as the eye can see. 91ֱ�� alumnus Bob Moses ’61 and his friend Maurice Broom, who himself played in the Australian Open Juniors, were our gracious hosts for our first time playing on grass. Maurice even gave us a few serve pointers and made us serve with our eyes closed to remind us to keep our motions consistent,” McDermott says.</p> <p>Second-year Anna Treidler and third-year Alexandra Kahn traveled a week ahead of their teammates. Treidler stayed in Melbourne to explore the city’s abundant street art, which has become an internationally known tourist attraction. She used the experience for an individual winter term project to analyze the art as a way to learn about the culture and politics of the city.</p> <p>Treidler says she spent hours wandering up and down alleys filled with vibrantly colored graffiti. “I signed up for a street art tour lead by an eccentric and hilarious street artist. He took us on a three-hour walk around the city in which he showed us many of the important alleys, told us about prominent artists (many of which he knew personally), and explained to us the history and politics of much of the art. I could not have imagined how immense and impressive the body of work in Melbourne is.”</p> <p>Kahn, an environmental studies major, researched a scuba diving adventure in the Great Barrier Reef. “I’ve grown up in and around the ocean, and snorkeling through coral reefs is one of my favorite things to do in the universe. The idea of coming half-way around the world and being so close to the biggest reef but not being able to see it would have driven me absolutely crazy.”</p> <p>So, before she embarked on her trip, Kahn took an intensive introductory scuba diving certification class. She went on a three-day liveaboard trip in Cairns. She says swimming beneath the ocean with a rainbow of corals, fish, turtles, rays, eels, nudibranchs, and sharks was awe-inspiring. “The Great Barrier Reef is absolutely magnificent, and for me to spend some time not looking down on it from above, but being right in the thick of the action, was phenomenal.”<br></p> <p>On the last full day of their trip, the teams took a grand tour and played a match at Sydney Olympic Park. Third-year Erin Johnson stayed an extra day to visit the Australian Museum in Sydney. “My favorite exhibit was on the Aboriginal peoples of Australia,” says Johnson, who is majoring in anthropology and biology. “I am fairly familiar with indigenous peoples of the Americas but did not know anything about those of Australia. It was really fun to compare and contrast the historical and cultural differences between the two.”</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2015-02-13T12:00:00Z">Fri, 02/13/2015 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Amanda Nagy</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2411">Athletics & Wellness</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2415">Sports</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">91ֱ��’s tennis teams visited and played a match at the Sydney Olympic Park. </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">91ֱ�� Athletics</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Improve Yourself to Dance</h1> <p>Anonymous — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:03:39 +0000</p> <span>Improve Yourself to Dance</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2016-11-07T13:03:39-05:00" title="Monday, November 7, 2016 - 13:03">Mon, 11/07/2016 - 13:03</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP5W6Wp_t0I" class="newshub_embed">Instructor of Dance Deborah Vogel</a>While dance majors fill most of 91ֱ��’s dance classes, DANC 221 is targeted to a different student group. Taught by instructor of dance <a href="http://new.oberlin.edu/arts-and-sciences/departments/dance/faculty_detail.dot?id=2638367">Deborah Vogel</a>, Body Re-education,was offered to student athletes for the first time last semester.</p> <p>And what exactly is Body Re-Education? “We focus on the relationship of mind and body in improving alignment and movement,” Vogel explained. “This understanding has significant benefits and is especially important for students that push their bodies to the limit.” This semester, the course was specifically intended for varsity, club sport, and independent athletes.</p> <p>Vogel is a neuromuscular educator, what she describes as “a cross between a kinesiologist and a movement analyst.” She started in the field of dance medicine, cofounded the Center for Dance Medicine in New York City, and has traveled extensively to give lectures about injury prevention and care. “My niche is being able to look at someone’s alignment and movement and see relationships in the body,” Vogel said. Her goal is to then help students bring their body back to muscular balance.</p> <p>She has taught classes in the dance department and for the Conservatory of Music that focus on improving alignment, posture, and movement for many years, but last semester, for the first time, she extended her class to athletes. “My hope is that every student leaves with a better awareness of their own physical muscular patterns, their own alignment, and how to improve their efficiency.” This helps prevent future injuries and helps each student maximize their strength and long-term health.</p> <p>Vogel puts together an animated lecture that she assigns before each class and then focuses class time on labs that integrate the information. Students are then able to work on their individual weaknesses.</p> <p>Second-year Taylor Swift, who plays field hockey and lacrosse, says she found the class helpful for her athletic endeavors. “Before, I always assumed that my physical tightness and limitations were permanent, so I’ve had countless injuries as a result,” she said. “But in this class I learned easily fixable changes and stretches to implement daily that have made noticeable improvements. It’s definitely carried over into field hockey and lacrosse. I’ve been in less pain and been more consistent with my play.”</p> <p>Fourth-year Paul Paschke, who plays lacrosse and is a sprinter on 91ֱ��'s track and field team, found similar benefits. “ I always knew I wasn’t good at changing direction, so I learned the muscles that were weak and tight in my body to improve my change of direction in lacrosse,” he said. “There were plays this year that I hadn’t been able to make in years past that now I can make.”</p> <p>This course also did not have a typical final. Instead of an exam or paper, each student chose one motion or activity to improve on and were tasked with creating a program to help them accomplish it. “I really liked the final project because I got the chance to utilize what I had learned,” said first-year Kinori Rosnow, who plays lacrosse. He chose to work on his snatch lift, a difficult Olympic lift he had been struggling with during his season. For over a month, he filmed himself practicing the movement several times a week. Together, he and Vogel studied posture and form to identify weaknesses and potential improvements. “I know how to use my legs much more efficiently now without compromising my knees. I really improved,” he added.</p> <p>Vogel is one of the many professors at 91ֱ�� who believes that well-being starts in the classroom. “Your physical body is one of the best communicators and translators of well-being,” she said. “It’s important to teach students to acknowledge and recognize that they have a body that is talking to them and give them the tools to know how to respond. That is how to be fully healthy and engaged.”</p> <p>Vogel will offer this class again next fall, targeted toward dancers, but hopes to run another athlete-focused course the following semester. “I think athletes are much like dancers in terms of how they use their bodies,” she said. “I think it important we reach out to all types of performers.”</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2014-07-31T12:00:00Z">Thu, 07/31/2014 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Phoebe Hammer</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2411">Athletics & Wellness</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2415">Sports</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2379">Student Life</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25331">Dance</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/dance" hreflang="und">Dance</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Taylor Swift ’16 says she used the class to prevent injury.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Another Side of Athletics</h1> <p>Anonymous — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:04:10 +0000</p> <span>Another Side of Athletics</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2016-11-07T13:04:10-05:00" title="Monday, November 7, 2016 - 13:04">Mon, 11/07/2016 - 13:04</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>In 2012, the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) created the Branch Rickey Mentor Program. Named in honor of 1904 Ohio Wesleyan graduate Branch Rickey, who made history when he became the first professional sports executive to sign a baseball player of color, Jackie Robinson, the program provides a professional shadowing experience that matches NCAC administrators with female and minority students interested in careers in athletics.</p> <p>“This program means opportunity. It means inclusion,” says Delta Lodge Director of Athletics Natalie Winkelfoos. “This is something that our college emphasizes, and it is great to see so much coming from the athletic department.”</p> <p>This year, 91ֱ��’s Branch Rickey mentees are being exposed to invaluable opportunities and are making significant impacts in the department.</p> <p>With four of the 17 mentees, 91ֱ�� is the most well represented NCAC school in the program. Senior biology and sociology major <a href="http://www.goyeo.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=3119&path=wbball">Lillian Jahan</a> is mentored by associate director of athletics <a href="http://www.goyeo.com/staff.aspx?staff=161">Creg Jantz</a>. Head baseball coach <a href="http://goyeo.com/coaches.aspx?rc=332">Adrian Abrahamowicz</a> mentors <a href="http://www.goyeo.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=3009&path=fhockey">Hannah Christiansen</a>, a senior double-degree student majoring in violin performance in the conservatory and history and French in the college. Senior sociology major <a href="http://www.goyeo.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=3092&path=mbball">Derrick Sant</a> is working with <a href="https://goyeo.com/coaches.aspx?rc=597">Dan Palmer</a>, head coach of women’s soccer, and junior sociology major <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onB2ljklcfQ">Tiffany Henry</a> is mentored by 91ֱ��’s field hockey head coach <a href="https://goyeo.com/news/2012/4/1/FH_0401120728.aspx">Anna Baeth</a>. The students attend administrative meetings, shadow coaches and department officers, plan events, and have the opportunity to focus on a specific project.</p> <p>“I’ve always been interested in bridging the gap between the 91ֱ�� community and the college, so the focus of my year is community outreach,” says Jahan, who organized October’s <a href="http://www.goyeo.com/news/2013/11/1/GEN_1101135754.aspx">Track or Treat</a> event.</p> <p>At a time when students are starting to plan for life after college, the Branch Rickey program gives insight into careers in collegiate and professional sports. “I’m at a place in my life where I’m trying to decide what to do,” says Jahan. “I know I want to do something involved in sports or athletics, and this program gives me a feel for what I can expect in this type of career.”</p> <p>Mentees have the freedom to tailor the program to their experience to their interests “I want to apply for a graduate assistantship after 91ֱ��," says Christiansen. “I thought the Branch Rickey program would be a great opportunity to learn these skills and get an upper hand in the application process. Because I want to coach, I’m focusing my project much more on shadowing experience than administrative duties.”</p> <p>Most importantly, the Branch Rickey Program gives students the opportunity to be in the professional world as an undergraduate. “This program is about giving students real-life, professional experience,” said Jantz. “You can only learn so much in the classroom and it’s important to get outside of 91ֱ�� as well. I think a lot of people don’t realize that sports is really about business.” Consequently, Jantz has set up shadow days at the Cleveland Browns, Indians, and Cavaliers home offices.</p> <p>“For the first time in my life, when I met with community members to plan Track or Treat, I didn’t just say ‘Hi, I’m Lillian, I’m an 91ֱ�� student, and I play basketball.’ I was able to say ‘Hi, I’m Lillian, I'm a Branch Rickey athlete, and I’m here to work with you,’” says Jahan. “It was great to be an equal.”</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2014-02-11T12:00:00Z">Tue, 02/11/2014 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Phoebe Hammer</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2411">Athletics & Wellness</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2415">Sports</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Yvette Chen</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> </main></body></html>