Thursday, March 25, 1993
Seniors
Tim Cook
by Keith E. McFall
Spoils Editor
Their relationship started out a
little shaky, but eventually
blossomed into a beautiful
friendship. Who am I talking
about? None other than Stephen
Respress and Tim Cook, the only
two seniors on the men's
basketball team, who played their
last game for the Lions last
month.
"I came up here on a visit in the a good chance to win it, but failed.
spring of 1991, and I met Tim. I "When we did get there, I believe
didn't like him at first because he we could have won it all, but
was a little cocky guy. But, over Steph's ankle injury halted a lot of
a period of time we got to knoviAjngs and we lost the
each other a lot better, and startalcharrlpionship game," said Cook.
Bradley Excels
from BRADLEY on page 20
Bradley hopes to be able to
"contribute more in the field."
She credits her incredible output
in Florida to the players batting
ahead of her, "with teammates
like those who bat in front of
me, it's not hard to get slot of
RBl's."
Athletics aside, Brady.. still
shines, as is evident by her
ambition to go to a graduate
school of dentistry after she
graduates this spring.
Eventually she wants to be an
orthodontist and is looking at
Pitt, Connecticuit, and other
universities as graduate school
options. -
One of the few gripes Bradley
has about student athlete rights
is that of housing. Although
student athletes get discounts at
the Wintergarden Pizza Shop
and scheduling priorities, next
Tramptimion
to hang out more and more," said
Respress.
In fact, Cook was deciding at
the time if he wanted to play
basketball his last two years. "I
think I had a lot to do with Tim
playing. I came to the team, we
became friends, and he decided to
play," said Respress.
"Yeah, Steph plays the type of
game I like, and that helped in my
decision to play. I said, 'l'd like
to play with him' because he
plays the same style of game, and
I knew we could play well
together," said Cook.
In their first season together the
then juniors knew that they had a
good shot at going to the ECAC
tournament.
"We most definitely knew that
we had a chance. We had that
spark and we believed in each
other, so that carried over into a
productive year," said Respress.
Eventually the team did get a
bid to the tournament and they had
year's sophomores will no
longer be able to get into the
Behrend apartments. Bradley
states, "Dobbins does not
provide those of us who need to
maintain a certain diet for
training in our sport, so we need
to be able to cook our own
food." Even though it is doesn't
affect her, Bradley believes that
the new NCA regulation will
hurt more than help. She
believes that since honors
students get a housing
privilege so should student
athletes.
When May rolls around and
Darcie Bradley's collegiate
athlete career ends, she will have
every right to look back and say
that she made a substantial
contribution to Behrend.
Hopefully, future female student
athletes will foliw Bradley's
exemplary example.
Sports
say
"It blew my mind to lose that
game...lt was so hard on all of us.
I wanted to play so bad, but I was
on the bench with my injury. I
wanted to go back in but Coach
(Paulsen) wouldn't let me," added
Respress.
When asked what their
expectations were for the 92-93
season after the success of the 91-
92 campaign, the two players said
they had even more expectations
than for the previous year. "Since
we were returning eight players I
thought we would have a real
productive season again and go
far," said Cook.
Commenting on the season,
Respress said, "At the early part of
the season we lost a lot of close
games by one or two points and
that hurt. That dropped our
confidence level. I think if we had
won a few of those games, the
season would have been totally
different. With me, Tim, Byron
(Thorne), and Rob (Hunt) all
stepping up we shouldn't have had
any problems, but we did."
Many of the best times Cook
and Respress had together were
during road trips and overnight
stays. "We used to take my Sega
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on the trips to play in the hotel
rooms to relax our nerves. It
brought all of the team together.
Everyone would be in one room
and we would hold tournaments
and just enjoy the evening," said
Respress.
Cook added, "I remember one
time five of us, who refer to each
other as the 'dinner thieves',
wanted to induct a new member
one night on the road.
I'd like to leave him
anonymous, and I don't want to
get into what happened, but it was in categories like steals and free
something to remember, I'll tell throw percentage. It gave us
you that." something other than the game to
Both seniors have a different talk about and enjoy," said
view of what effects the home Respress.
crowd has on their play. "There is We really started competing the
a big difference between the road last eight or nine games. I would
and home. At home you have the say 'l'm going to catch you in
fans and they support you and that this category by a certain time,'
pumps you up," said Respress. and then we would both step it
Cook said, "I'm different than up," said Cook.
Steph in that regard. He feeds off "We always hung out together
the home crowd, but I'd rather in practice and on the bench during
play on the road because then you games and goofed off. It got us in
don't have any pressure to trouble a lot, because Steph's a
perform." funny guy and he always made me
Throughout the season the two laugh at the wrong time," laughed
players had a rivalry going in k
certain categories. "We competed
- You moved away from home?
- You had to make new friends?
- You were a freshman?
Enthusiastic
Energetic
Creative
now!
Stephen Respress
Photos by Amel Balcita
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