I WEDNESDAY, Dec. 5, 2001
Men's basketball 'wishes to
start new home win streak
From BASKETBALL, Page 13.
Despite the lack of size and 0-6
record, Lehigh has somehow managed
to out-rebound its opponents by more
than four per game. Compare this to
Penn State's minus-eight rebounding
margin, and it could spell trouble for
the Lions.
Penn State head coach Jerry Dunn
had stressed the need to improve the
team's rebounding from last season as
one of his biggest priorities and has yet
to see results.
One area where the Lions are see
ing increased, production is from is
behind the three-point line. Four differ
ent Penn State players (Chambliss,
Jamaal Tate, Tyler Smith and Brandon
Watkins) have led the team in three
point shooting in a game. The balanced
long-range attack seems to have a dif
ferent Lion step up each game, with
Chambliss the most recent, against the
Owls.
In addition, Penn State gets a boost
with the addition of 6-11 freshman Jan
Jagla to the active roster. The big Ger-
Nebraska football uses Olympic lifting
From WEIGHTLIFTING, Page 13
should mimic the action on the field.
Accordingly, a baseball player would not
include bench press in his routine, since
he rarely, if ever, makes that motion on
the baseball field. Instead, he would
concentrate on core movements in his
hips, the muscles he uses to turn quick
ly on a pitch.
That is not to say that an action in the
weight room can somehow replace
practice or duplicate a skill.
"You must take into account what you
are training for," says University of
Pittsburgh strength coach Buddy Mor
ris.
"It's scientifically proven that if you
train slow, you'll be slow"
Morris is referring to the HIT prac
tice of restraining from explosive free
weight movements in favor of controlled
motions based on constant resistance.
A very generalized Olympic-style pro
gram consists of four days a week,
cycling through a period of concentra
tion on strength and a concentration on
speed. Eply explained that his program
trains slow (with high weights and low
reps) and explosively (less weight with
man import who missed the first
four games as a precaution against
NCAA violations and will be making
his home debut
should help with
rebounding and has
a soft outside touch,
hitting both of his
three-point
attempts at Temple.
The Mountain
Hawks are led by
guard Matt Logie.
The junior leads the
team in scoring with
13.3 points per game after a 20-point
outburst Saturday in a loss to Vermont.
Although Lehigh is 0-6, the Lions
would be wise not to take the Mountain
Hawks lightly. Lehigh has an average
margin of defeat of 6.2 points and has
not lost a game by double digits.
In addition, the last time these two
teams met (to open the 1999-2000 sea
son), Penn State only pulled away late
after being tied at halftime in a 69-56
victory.
more bar speed) for two days each
Morris said the Panthers train
dynamically, emphasizing strength
speed on Monday and Tuesday, and
speed strength on Thursday and Friday.
Monday, a Pittsburgh player will do
limited sets of bench press with weight
close to his one rep max. Tuesday, he
will do the same with squat. Morris
refers to these as max effort days. Other
exercises are filled in to work the rest of
the body.
Thursday, the player will reduce his
bench press significantly (by as much
as 50 percent) will work more on bar
speed and moving the weight at higher
velocity for more sets.
The same happens the next day with
squat.
Simply stated, the program operates
on a cycle between intensity (heavy
weights) and volume (amount of sets
and reps).
Both Nebraska and Pittsburgh rely
on cycles throughout their training. It
not only varies throughout the week, but
it is periodized so that an athlete per
forms a different regimen every two to
three weeks.
Rose not happy with way season ended
From VOLLEYBALL, Page 13.
On paper, the Lions' season doesn't
look bad at all. They finished third in
the Big Ten, without question one of the
toughest conferences in volleyball.
With their 21-8 record, they continued
their streak of 25 straight seasons with
20 wins or more, which began in the
program's second season. They spent
the entire season in the ¶bp 25, and fin
ished rated No. 16 in the nation. Their
loss at NCAA came at the hands of
UCLA; the No. 8 seeded team in the
country, a program with one of the rich
est traditions in collegiate women's vol
leyball.
However, things were supposed to be
a lot better this season for the Lions.
They were ranked No. 3 in the presea
son poll, and voted as the favorite to win
the Big Ten. They took a big hit early,
losing junior middle blocker Robyn
Guokas, who led the Big Ten in blocks
in conference play last season, but they
still had two solid middles in sopho
more Cara Smith and senior Nadia
Edwards.
There were several points during
the season when the Lions seemed
ready to make a turn towards being a
national force, but each time they were
"The body adapts to any stimulation
after a while," said Morris. "So you've
got to change the stimulation after a
while."
Olympic style programs rely primari
ly on free weights as opposed to the
machines used in HIT. The main argu
ment for this is that free weights force a
lifter to support the whole weight using
various smaller, stabilizing muscles in
his body.
"When you work out on a machine,
you're operating in just one plane," said
Morris. "But you play in multiple
planes. Machines do part of the work for
you."
Eply stated it a different way
"If you take a kid and put him on a
machine, you're taking him out of his
playing element," he said.
"If he's sitting down, he's in the
wrong situation."
MT advocates machine use because
they allow the lifter to perform more
controlled motions, reducing tension on
tendons and joints.
This is one source of criticism about
mainstream programs, with detractors
saying it is unsafe and puts undue pres-
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met with disappointment. Just eight
days after what was their most domi
nant performance to date, a 3-0 sweep
against Minnesota, the Lions were
upset by Michigan. Three days after
shocking then No. 5 Wisconsin, they
were shut out in perhaps their worst
performance against Ohio State. They
were then upset again in consecutive
weekends by Illinois and Michigan
State.
All season, Rose questioned whether
his team had physically prepared for
the season enough, and never felt like
his squad was consistently playing
together. He blamed himself for not
motivating them well enough, and
acknowledged that a lot of work will
need to be done over the offseason to
remedy some of those problems.
"I don't think anyone had a premedi
tated notion to try and ruin this team,"
Rose said. "But some bad decisions
made individually affected the team."
Rose's squad loses three starters
including Schumahcher who was
selected to the All-Big Ten team for the
third straight time after pacing the
team with 4.47 kills per game. He also
loses Edwards, who finished 10th in the
conference in hitting percentage, and
program Penn St. spurns
"The body adapts to any stimulation after a while. So
you've got to change the stimulation after a while."
Sure on the player's joints and back
from the jerking motions required to
perform the lifts. This is further empha
sized by the fact that power-lifting exer
cises often rely on momentum, which is
a necessary result of the highly explo
sive manner in which the moves are
done.
However, coaches such as Morris and
Jeff Madden, the strength and condi
tioning coach at the University of Texas,
which has its own Olympic-style pro
gram that incorporates elements of HIT
in the off-season, believe that the risks
of explosive movements can be mini
mized.
"We do fundamental lifting, we do
momentum drills, we think we do injury
prevention also," Madden said.
He employs a staff of 10 assistants,
and believes that they can properly
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
setter/outside hitter Shannon Bortner,
perhaps the team's most passionate
player. Back row player Amanda Rome,
who also got a number of starts, will
also graduate.
However the Lions do return Levy,
who recovered midway through the
season from sub-par conditioning and a
foot injury to finish seventh in the con
ference with 3.71 kills per game,
returns.
They also return Smith, who finished
third in the conference in blocks. Fresh
man Ashley Pederson will also return
after a solid first season, in which she
averaged 2.04 kills per game.
For those that return, the challenge
is to turn around a national power. They
have seen what their lack of chemistry
has done to a dominant national pro
gram, and they have until late August
to figure out how to fix it.
"I think next season starts right
now," Smith said. "We have to do a lot of
work over the summer to get stronger,
and we have to learn to pick each other
up when we're down and learn to play
as a team.
"This was not the right way to end a
season. Losing in the second round is
not acceptable."
Buddy Morris
University of Pittsburgh strength coach
supervise Texas players to make sure
the athletes follow proper technique.
"Ever time you step on the field
there's a chance you're going to get
hurt. You're pushing the body. It's the
nature of the beast," Morris said
"To say that power-lifting is going to
cause injury, that's just bullshit. Pardon
my language. If it's done right, it's per
fectly safe. And our guys never attempt
a heavy lifts unless one of us is watch
ing."
But like HIT advocates, Eply, Morris
and Madden know that the program can
only go so far.
"No matter what, your kids have got
to have high energy and work ethic,"
Eply said.
"The best way to get results is for
your players to go all out no matter
what system they're using."