Sports
Capitol’s athletes are school’s ambassadors
Hob’s
Reaction
A Sports Editorial
by Rob Rejmaniak
In the past year, Capitol sports
have brought a number of plea
sant suprises to campus.
Last Fall, the cross-country
team competed as a varsity sport
for the first time since Capitol
has been in existence, and won its
conference.
This year, the team has already
repeated as conference champs
and has one runner, Joel Hager,
who has a chance at “Academic
All-American”.
This past Spring, the baseball
team had its finest season,
finishing with 17 wins and 12
losses while making the play-offs
for the first time in its five-year
history.
The baseball team proudly
honored senior Mike Skurko, who
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made “Academic All-American”,
and Head Coach Ron Melchiorre,
who was named “Coach of the
Year”. The team also had four
players named to the first team
All-District, two players to second
team All-District, and one player
who received honorable mention.
The tennis team, winless in the
1982 season, tied for first place in
their conference last spring. The
team placed second in district
competition and had two players,
Randy Owcar and Randy Nelson,
who were invited to Nationals.
The team’s coach and Captain,
Frank Caparell, not only went
undefeated during the season, but
was named District 19 “Coach of
the Year”.
The soccer team has made its
debut as a varsity club this year
and has already shown signs of
becoming a prideful part of
Capitol Campus. „
Adding to all of these ac
complishments, the basketball
team, under Head Coach Charles
Bowen, made it clear at the end
of last season that the team was
not to be taken lightly, winning
three out of their last six regular
season games.
Okay, you say, what does this
mean to the rest of the students
at Capitol Campus?
It means, as Head Baseball
Coach Ron Melchiorre put it,“the
whole campus is upgraded by
these accomplishments.” But it
goes further than that. The
records of these teams are not as
important as the teams
themselves.
“Capitol Campus is in good
standing with other schools
because of our athletic program,”
says Athletic Director Bud
Smitley,“we have established our
academic reputation through
athletics.”
That’s right, these teams in
themselves are important, the
athletes are your campus am
bassadors, your representatives of
a sort.
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I, for one, think students
should know one of the main
reasons Capitol has a good
reputation with other schools is
because of the way our athletic
teams conduct themselves at
games.
These people experience long,
hard practices, travel hours just
to play games, and win or lose,
show the kind of sportsmanship
that will hold you, the students
here at Capitol, in high regard
with other schools.
The athletes are as much
representatives of our school as
Olympic athletes are represen
tatives of our nation. To look
down on these individuals as mere
glory-seeking jocks is absurd.
Each one of these teams comes in
direct contact with between ten
and twenty-five different schools
every season.
“The students who participate
in sports are the best or worst
allies this school has,” says
Smitley.
So the next time the kid with
the calculator on his belt tells you
about the immaturity of a person
who likes to run around chasing a
ball, ask him when the last time
was that he represented Capitol
Campus in such a direct, positive
way.
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