try became vulnerable -- the day the earth stood still. Not to detract from the emotional loss of the collapse of the World Trade Center or the understated effort put in by New York City’s finest to preserve their city and help those in dire need, but sports is the unofficial glue of this country. When times get tough, you always have your team to rely on. Being down for the count was not an option. A ninth inning rally of patriotism, support and unity flooded the gateways that paved the way, even against the odds. America needed its sports back. And it came back more passionate than ever. Before the Sept. 23 game against the New England Patriots and New York Jets (a longtime rivalry) both sides were hold- ing hands during the iconic Star Spangled Banner, a site that may never be seen again. Watching Mike Piazza of the New York Mets donned in NYPD logos slam a game-winning home run in the eighth that Friday night gave even Yankees fans a reason to cheer. Moments of silence were practiced at events across the country. It was an era of a rekindled identity forever unmatched. A decade later, the daily work days con- tinue to pass as we go about our business. We still acknowledge and support the war efforts abroad and the work of our local heroes. But there’s something in this 10 year span that sports of- fered to our nation: a stadium to mourn our loss- es, a place to com- mend the bold and a venue to believe in a bright- er fu- ture. www.arbiteronline.com Issue no. 10 Volume 24 September 12 2011 The Arbiter arbiteronline.com INDEPENDENT STUDENT VOICE OF BOISE STATE SINCE 1933 Boise, Idaho First issue free JOHN GARRETSON Online Sports Editor Sept. 11, 2001. 8:15 a.m. The day seemed almost too perfect. A cloudless, bright blue sky composed with the breezy autumn weather that swept into my small hometown of Cranford, N.J. But some- thing was off. My teacher broke down in tears in the middle of class when the school’s secretary whispered in her ear. That moment in time still resonates in my head. The World Trade Center Twin Towers were hit this morning, we were told. “How could that be possible?” I thought to myself. Every time I went to “Take Your Child to Work Day,” I would gaze at the two monumental structures from my dad’s 60th floor office across the street. Built with steel that looked like it touched the sky, it was the centerpiece of New York City, the roots holding it down in its concrete jungle. The national travesty did not sink in until later that day, when television sta- tions controlled the channels with instant coverage of the rubble and wreckage, the debris-filled smoke plaguing every street corner in a 20 block radius, victims lay- ing helplessly in the streets waiting for the next available paramedic. Thankfully, my dad had entered our front door without a scratch but there was this draining sense of anguish in him that no father wants his son to see. I needed a distraction, something to take my eyes off the devastating attacks. There had to be a baseball or football game on ESPN, there’s always some sporting event on. Continuing to flip through the channels, there was no sight of jerseys, referees or fans, just continu- ing coverage of the hijacked planes and the victims they took with them. There had never been a day without sports, at least from what I could remember. That was the day our coun- Tales, triumphs, tragedies, of a difficult decade Tales, triumphs, tragedies, of a difficult decade
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try became vulnerable -- the day the earth stood still.
Not to detract from the emotional loss of the collapse of the World Trade Center or the understated effort put in by New York City’s finest to preserve their city and help those in dire need, but sports is the unofficial glue of this country. When times get tough, you always have your team to rely on.
Being down for the count was not an option. A ninth inning rally of patriotism, support and unity flooded the gateways that paved the way, even against the odds. America needed its sports back. And it came back more passionate than ever.
Before the Sept. 23 game against the New England Patriots and New York Jets (a longtime rivalry) both sides were hold-ing hands during the iconic Star Spangled Banner, a site that may never be seen again.
Watching Mike Piazza of the New York Mets donned in NYPD logos slam a game-winning home run in the eighth that Friday night gave even Yankees fans a reason to cheer. Moments of silence were practiced at events across the country. It was an era of a rekindled identity forever unmatched.
A decade later, the daily work days con-tinue to pass as we go about our business. We still acknowledge and support the war efforts abroad and the work of our local heroes. But there’s something in this 10 year span that sports of-fered to our nation: a s t a d i u m to mourn our loss-es, a place to com-mend the bold and a venue to believe in a bright-er fu-ture.
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John GarretsonOnline Sports Editor
Sept. 11, 2001. 8:15 a.m. The day seemed almost too perfect. A cloudless, bright blue sky composed with the breezy autumn weather that swept into my small hometown of Cranford, N.J. But some-thing was off. My teacher broke down in tears in the middle of class when the school’s secretary whispered in her ear. That moment in time still resonates in my head.
The World Trade Center Twin Towers were hit this morning, we were told.
“How could that be possible?” I thought to myself. Every time I went to “Take Your Child to Work Day,” I would gaze at the two monumental structures from my dad’s 60th floor office across the street. Built with steel that looked like it touched the sky, it was the centerpiece of New York City, the roots holding it down in its concrete jungle.
The national travesty did not sink in until later that day, when television sta-tions controlled the channels with instant coverage of the rubble and wreckage, the debris-filled smoke plaguing every street corner in a 20 block radius, victims lay-ing helplessly in the streets waiting for the next available paramedic.
Thankfully, my dad had entered our front door without a scratch but there was this draining sense of anguish in him that no father wants his son to see. I needed a distraction, something to take my eyes off the devastating attacks. There had to be a baseball or football game on ESPN, there’s always some sporting event on.
Continuing to flip through the channels, there was no
sight of jerseys, referees or fans, just continu-
ing coverage of the hijacked planes and the victims they took with them. There had never been a day without sports, at least from what I
could remember.That was the
day our coun-
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Tales, triumphs,tragedies, of a difficult decade
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DAMASCUS, SYRIA --- Bashir al-Assad, president of Syria, has agreed to a series of measures that will ideally reform the political system in Syria.
These measures will be intro-duced to the Arab-League at their meeting on Sept. 13 in Cairo.
That same day, at least 18 more citizens were killed in protests.
According to Bloomberg news, activists will stage further protests after burying a protestor killed yesterday.
BANI WALID, LIBYA --- Ne-gotiations failed as the Saturday deadline for a peaceful surren-der of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s loyal town, Bani Walid, passed with no word from the town elders. Shots were fired the day before, pushing the assault timetable up. Forces from the Na-tional Transitional Council had been preparing to attack the town for the past weeks but citizens of Bani Walid have so far been able to hold them off. Fighting erupted on Saturday and was recently sus-pended.
It is believed that important
members of Gaddafi’s regime, including his two sons, might be in the town. Two major sticking points in the negotiations were demands that the rebels (NTC fighters) enter the town unarmed and not search houses, as well as a blanket pardon for all loyalists. The NTC wants to prosecute loy-alists responsible for bloodshed.
Bani Walid is one of three ma-jor towns that remain loyal to Gaddafi. The other two are Sirte and Sabha.
While the Bani Walid assault was put on hold, NTC troops ad-vanced on Sirte.
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MERIDIAN --- Master Cor-poral Fred Rice of the Idaho State Police was proven not guilty of allegations by the Ida-ho Supreme Court that he lied during a testimony in an El-lington 2006 road rage case. He was placed on administrative leave earlier this year, when in
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BOISE --- Herbert Gunder-son publicly thanked the Idaho Army National Guard and the Elmore County search and res-cue crews who rescued him on Sept. 2, the Idaho Statesman reported.
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PHOENIX, ARIZONA --- A religious operation was recently shut down for prostitution.
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BANSTROP, TEXAS --- Of-ficials announced that fires near the Banstrop area north of Houston were 40 percent con-tained but homeowners are still not allowed into the area to see what is left of their homes.
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PENNSYLVANIA --- Tropi-cal Storm Lee, the latest of this year’s hurricane season, is ex-pected to continue to dissipate over the Ohio River Valley.
Operations that were put on hold becausse of the storms, in-cluding closed roads and evacu-ated oil rigs, are expected to open today.
Saturday more than 50,000 residents were allowed back to their homes in Pennsylvania in order to assess the damage. It is estimated that the damages are in the tens of millions of dollars
range for the most effected coun-ty, but levees along the Susque-hanna River held and kept damages below the worst case scenario of more than $3 billion in damages. Residents further north, mainly in New York and Maryland, are still waiting to be allowed back to their homes.
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Patriot Day Politicians create holiday to honor lives lost and heroes of a new generation
Erin KruitboschJournalist
Sept. 11, 2011 marks the ten year anniversary of what is known as the deadliest ter-rorist attacks ever launched against the United States. It is now a day dedicated to the memory of those whose lives were lost on the same day in 2001, through the introduction
of Patriot Day.This symbolic day of remem-
brance means that the United States’ president issues a di-rective for flags to be flown at half-mast and activities such as memorials or other tributes are encouraged.
On Oct. 25, 2001 Vito Fos-sella, a republican from New York, presented a bill to the U.S. House of Representatives to make 9/11 a holiday of re-
membrance. Joint House Reso-lution 71 was co-sponsored by 22 other representatives from New York, Virginia, Pennsylva-nia and Illinois and passed by a vote of 407-0.
This is not listed as a federal holiday. Consequently when it falls on a weekday, school is still in session and all govern-ment buildings are still open. A moment of silence is directed to be observed on this day, gen-
erally at 8:46 a.m. EST. This marks the exact time the first airplane hit the World Trade Center.
Because Sept. 11 fell on a Sunday this year, some insti-tutions, such as schools, will observe the memorial today instead. Some have expressed that for an event of this magni-tude, this level of tribute isn’t enough.
“This is an extremely rel-
evant holiday to our generation and I believe that we should observe it as a federal holiday to truly remember the lives that were lost,” Kimberly Cox, a senior human resource man-agement and general business major, said.
But John Freemuth, Ph.D., professor of political science explained, “There has been an undercurrent of ‘no more holi-days’ if it affects the workday,
so we use it as a day of remem-brance, but symbolically only.”
Boise State University did not officially observe the me-morial.
Different parts of U.S. remember 9/11stEphaniE casanova
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Where the twin towers stood ten years ago, victims’ families are now able to honor loved ones by seeing, inscribed in bronze, the names of those who lost their lives in the memorable attack. The 9/11 Memorial opened to victims’ families on the 10th anniversary of the attacks and opened to the public today.
Maritza Rios, 21 year-old se-nior communication major from Burley, Idaho visited the site while it was under construction and saw a smaller scale memorial there.
“There were these little tower things and they had pictures of kids and families and pictures of that day, of firemen…and it had stories and names,” Rios said. “There was (a picture of) this little girl with a teddy bear … she
just looked so lost … she prob-ably looked about 4 years old … just so much fear in her eyes.”
Nearly 3,000 lives were lost on 9/11. The names of these almost 3,000 men, women and children, along with those whose lives were lost the Feb. 23, 1993 attacks, have been inscribed in bronze on the walls that support two me-morial pools. The two pools are set where the towers stood, with waterfalls cascading down all four sides of the pool.
Surrounding the memorial pools will be a plaza with oak trees and a Callery pear known as the Survivor Tree, which was nursed back to health after the attacks.
“Just the silence in itself says a lot there,” Rios said. “The sound of the water is just going to be very, very peaceful in recognizing all the innocent people that were killed on that day.”
Across the United States, other
memorials have been erected in honor of 9/11.
Liberty Park in Jersey City ded-icated a memorial called “Empty Sky” on Saturday. The 208-foot walls have 746 names of victims from New Jersey inscribed on the inner faces. The reflective steel-plated walls are directly across the Hudson River from where the towers once stood.
Other towns around New York have smaller memorials, such as the one in Wayne, N.J.
“(The memorial is) in a circle and in the middle is a replica of the twin towers made out of ce-ment and around are pillars with the people that died on them from our town and a little story about them,” Arrielle Dreher, 21 year-old junior construction management major from Wayne, New Jersey, said.
During school-year breaks, Dreher lives about 30 minutes from Manhattan.
“It’s weird, because definitely when you look at the New York skyline, from the Jersey side, you can see the gap where the World Trade Center used to be,” Dreher said. “It’s just really weird because I worked at a summer camp, try-ing to explain to the kids what 9/11 was because they weren’t alive (in 2001),” Dreher said.
On Sunday at 1 p.m. a ceremo-ny was held at the Sept. 11 Me-morial and Fallen Heroes Plaza in Coeur d’Alene allowing northern Idahoans to pay their respects. The memorial was built in 2009 and dedicated that same year on the 9/11 anniversary.
In Boise, a number of memo-rial events were held throughout the day in honor of the 10th an-niversary of the attacks. From the Idaho Fallen Firefighter Memo-rial in Riverside Park at 8 a.m. to a tribute at the statehouse steps at 4 p.m., our community was sure to honor not only the lives lost
on Sept. 11, 2001, but also the he-roes who’ve risked everything in the ten years since the event that changed American’s lives forever.
In 2012, a museum will open at
Ground Zero to educate people on what happened that fateful day in 2001, why it happened and how the event has impacted the future of the United States.
bEn MacKOpinion Editor
Sept. 11 is the watershed moment of our generation.
It’s the moment that will, in all likeli-hood, define the first half of the 21st cen-tury, an event unparallelled in scope af-fecting us like nothing since World War II.
The weeks and months after the 9/11 attacks were a time of shock, apprehen-sion and fear. Anthrax attacks in the mail. War in Afghanistan. Sudden evacuations of public places. Suspicion all around.
Gradually, fears receded and now, emerging from a decade-long tunnel, we should acknowledge that much has gone right. Few would have predicted that there wouldn’t be any further major attacks on American soil. The occasional patdown aside, most people have adapted well to living with greater precaution. There have been significant victories against al-Qaida. Osama bin Laden is dead, and so are most of his closest advisers. Afghanistan is free.
But the national sense of security re-mains fragile. Terrorism is now just one of many threats that can destabilize life in the United States. Super-viruses, hurri-canes, climate change, political deadlock, economic recession and sovereign debt defaults are all legitimate threats to our se-curity and way of life. The fear of terrorism may have receded, but fear itself remains, although in different forms.
But there is one aspect of that tragic day in 2001 that is absent today. After 9/11, Americans unified like almost never before. That collective spirit -- that sense of pride, patriotism and concern for one another’s well-being -- no longer seems to strike the same chord among us. The war in Iraq, which began just a year and a half after the destruction of the World Trade Center and bombing of the Pentagon, di-vided opinion and set off a draining debate about the reasons for war and the lessons
we learned from 9/11. With President Obama’s withdrawal of troops the debate has petered out, but the war’s controver-sial legacy remains. It divided us in ways eerily reminiscent of the Vietnam War.
National crises are supposed to bring out the best in people. Through almost five decades of the Cold War, Americans endured periods of extreme fear and pro-found disagreement. But they remained aligned for their own system of govern-ment, one of freedom and tolerance. We wanted to be seen as a clearly visible al-ternative to the Soviet Union, then ruling much of Europe and Asia with an iron fist of brutal repression.
For a while, it seemed that terrorism would do the same. America’s commit-ment to freedom and openness would be the foil to al-Qaida’s violent extremism. Just as the Cold War sparked a renewal of our core values, Americans of the post-9/11 years would go forth in a spirit of unity and appreciation for all the things they shared.
But it hasn’t happened that way. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down, and people wake up to the real cost of political stasis at home (see: economic crisis), there remains within us a shared memory of grief and commitment.
National unity isn’t defined merely by the absence of our disputes. Just because we’re unified doesn’t mean we’ll ever agree on taxes, Medicare or the border. Unity is not a virtue that can be claimed by just one group or individual. It’s something that’s felt in all of us. It’s a sense of identity. It’s a reservoir of our strength.
What national unity brings is the confi-dence that, at the very end of the day and all the debate and bickering, we all remain bound to one another by a commonality of shared purpose and goodwill towards others.
Right now, we need more of that kind of unity.
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Every year it is hard to re-member Sept. 11 and the trag-edy America felt. Every day, young adults are joining the military and coming home from war.
Veterans are given a G.I. bill which pays for a post second-ary education if they choose to go. Still, a lot of veterans don’t go back to school. But now, with the outreach and help of Wya-kin Warriors and Veterans Up-ward Bound, veterans are find-ing it easier to go back to school.
Veterans Upward Bound (VUB) is a TRiO organization that works within the center of Multicultural and Educational Opportunities on campus to
provide veterans with help and support to further their educ-tion. This organization offers classes and special workshops. Mark Heilman, project direc-tor, explained that not only does VUB help Boise State stu-dents, but it also reaches out to students at College of Western Idaho and other local colleges. For the 2010 - 2011 school year, over 64 veterans completed their VUB education plan and 26 other veterans are continu-ing in the VUB program for this year. Helping approximately 120 first generation veterans a year, VUB reaches out to veter-an students to become involved and go further with their college education.
The Wyakin Warrior foun-dation is another organization
that helps veterans succeed in college. This foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides training packages for wounded and injured veterans.
“It is one of the most com-prehensive education, training, mentoring and job placement programs for wounded veter-ans in the country,” Jeffery Ba-con, founder of Wyakin War-riors, said. “Many programs for wounded warriors offer a spe-cific service. Ours takes the best of many and puts them together in one comprehensive package.”
Veterans are receiving help from these organizations and are making strides toward grad-uating from college.
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Veterans find support in campus organizations
SuzaNNe CraigBreaking News Editor
On May 2, Americans were greeted by the news of al-Qa-ida leader Osama bin Laden’s death during a covert opera-tion in Pakistan.
Only a few months before the ten-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack, which he was notorious for planning, the figurehead of the terrorist organization was dead -- but was his death really the most important outcome that day?
“His death is of particular symbolic and psychologi-cal importance ... but I think perhaps even more impor-tant is the capture of all the documents and files ... that has undoubtedly provided an enourmous amount of intel-ligence,” professor Gregory Raymond, Ph.D., and member of the department of political science, said.
Since bin Laden’s death there have been a number of top al-Qaida operational lead-ers that have been removed. In conjunction with the drone strikes, one of which recently killed al-Qaida’s second in command, it becomes appar-ent that the top echelons of the organization have been se-riously weakened.
“All of this has to be thought of as part of an interrelated set of events rather than just his death as a single event,” Raymond said. “But we don’t know for sure because we don’t know what all is contained in those documents ... I have no doubt that there is much we are doing that we as citizens will learn about further down the road, but we won’t learn about immediately.”
The effects of the Navy SEAL raid and bin Laden’s subsequent death included added tension in relations with Pakistan’s government and intelligence organizations, as they were unaware the raid was taking place due to operational
security. This has been exas-perated by continued drone strikes.
“It was prudent to conduct the raid the way we did. My in-tuition tells me that had we in-formed very many people that that housing complex would have been empty when we ar-rived ... I think it was handled very well,” Raymond said.
When asked about the af-fects of bin Laden’s death on the War on Terror, Raymond first wanted to clarify that call-ing it ‘the War on Terror’ was something of a misnomer.
“Part of the problem is that although we call it the War on Terror, terrorism is a tactic and there’s some difficulty with de-claring war on a tactic. You can declare war on an entity like al-Qaida or you can declare a war on a country ... The tactic of terrorism will probably be around for a very, very long
time, since it’s been around since antiquity,” he explained.
Though terrorism may be an option for any group that considers itself marginalized, specific organizations like al-Qaida will come and go.
“I think what this (bin Lad-en’s death) does do is give us a lot more leverage against al-Qaida than we had before, in the targeting of al-Qaida,” Raymond said.
Professor comments on af-fects of bin Laden’s death
try to identify veterans who are ready to take the next step in life,” Bacon said. “We are also trying to increase aware-ness so that other severely wounded or injured veterans can learn about it and apply.”
Services and courses offered by these organizations cater to veterans’ needs and are very
accommodating with tutoring and small class sizes.
Almost all veterans who become involved in either the Wyakin Warriors and Veter-ans Upward Bound organiza-tions finish college and earn a degree.
“It is humbling to work with young veterans who have
already sacrificed for their country and inspiring to watch them as they work to improve themselves,” Bacon said.
For more information on Wyakin Warriors visit Wya-kinWarriors.org. Veterans Up-ward Bound can also be found on the web at education.bois-estate.edu/vub.
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September 12, 2011
Lucio PradoJournalist
The men’s golf team will be traveling to Palouse Valley to tee off for the first time dur-ing the 2011-12 season at the Cougar Classic today and to-morrow at the Palouse Ridge Golf Course in Pullman, Wash.
The 54-hole, two round tournament begins today and ends tomorrow. The Palouse Ridge will play a par 71, for each round.
The Broncos will also be hosting their first invitational tournament in six years, the Boise State Dash Thomas Me-morial Golf Tournament.
The tournament will be held at BanBury Golf Club in Eagle, Idaho and will have 16 division I college golf teams competing at the two-day event starting Monday Sept. 26 and going through Tuesday Sept. 27. The BSU Dash Thomas Memorial Tournament will host teams from all over the country and fans are encouraged to go and support the Broncos.
“I’m pretty excited, this is
my seventh year coaching,” men’s head coach Kevin Bur-ton said. “This is probably the best team I have ever had, we have had some great players in the past but this probably is the deepest and that is what it takes for at team to succeed and do well. In college golf, we travel five players and every round you count four, so a lot of times those fourth and fifth players are going to play as big of an impact as the one and two because we have to count one of their scores, and this year out of the nine guys that I got I could easily place any one of them in that order and feel pretty comfortable that we are going to have a pretty solid round.”
The men’s golf NCAA tour-nament works like the men’s basketball tournament, taking 64 teams based on rankings.
“I researched it pretty hard and I believe that the Moun-tain West in golf is probably the second toughest confer-ence in the nation,” Burton said. “They year in year out send four to five teams to the
NCAA and you just don’t see that in many conferences. San Diego State University, UNLV and Colorado State are always in the top 20 in the country and several others fit in that next category, so it will be a tough conference.”
Burton takes pride in his program and believes that his success comes from the amount of hard work the team puts in. And he believes it is dedication to the sport that al-lows his teams to excel.
With a diverse group of nine players the Broncos are excited and ready to make a run at a conference champi-onship.
Tee times for the Cougar Classic, hosted by the Wash-ington State Cougars, begin at 8:30 a.m. today and 7:15 a.m. Tuesday. The University of Idaho and North Idaho Col-lege are also featured in the 14-team field.
Boise State will send Taek-soo Kim, Scott Spiewak, Jordan Skyles, Clayton Ko-sanocvic, and Charlie Maru-siak to Pullman.
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The Student Union proudly displays its newest print portfolio acquisition, Northwest Narratives, donated by recent alumni, Benjamin Love. The Northwest Narratives print exchange portfolio contains the work of twenty northwest artists, and demonstrates a variety of visual narrations utilizing diverse subject matter and a range of processes. The 20 invited artists represent four northwestern states: Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Montana.
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Golfers ready for tee timeLadies’ golf team heads to Coeur d’Alene for opener
Lucio PradoJournalist
The women’s golf team is set to start off the season, tee-ing off for the first time at the Circling Raven Collegiate Invi-tational today and tomorrow at the Circling Raven Golf Course in Worley, Idaho.
Consisting of 36 holes today and 18 holes on Tuesday, the three-round event will start at 8 a.m. with a shotgun start for both days.
Nicole Harris is in her fourth season as the head coach of the women’s golf team. She has suc-cessfully guided the Broncos to their first tournament title since the 1999-2000 season winning the 2008 Bronco Fall Invitational.
She has also improved the program’s stroke per round av-erage and has had two top-five tournament team finishes.
Harris has high expectations for the upcoming season.
“I expect for us to place in the top half of every field and to have two top five finishes
this fall,” Harris said. “We don’t have any freshmen ... I feel like we have a lot of experience go-ing and I feel like everybody’s been playing very well during qualifying so they’re ready.”
However, she knows that the competition is harder this year with the change to the Moun-tain West Conference.
“The biggest challenge is that golf is a lot better in the Moun-tain West,” Harris said. “There is three or four schools ranked in the top 50 whereas the WAC didn’t have any so we’re going to have to play a lot better, shoot a lot lower scores in order to be contending for the Mountain West. I’m nervous to play TCU, the head coach there is still my best friend and so it will be fun to play with them but we do a lot of the same things because she is the one who taught me, so it will be interesting.”
The players are also aware of the expectations for the up-coming season.
“I think they are the highest they have ever been,” Junior Lori Harper said. “We have a
really deep team and I think we’re looking to win an event this year and make a good rook-ie showing in the Mountain West. We have really versatile players on our team, we have players that hit fairways and greens players that can get out of any situation, everyone has a strength.”
Attitude reflects leadership and these women believe they can win because they have a great leader as their coach that has high standards for them.
“She’s literally the most uni-versal coach I have seen around here she helps on the course, off the course, with personal stuff, with anything you can think of, you can call her and she would know,” Harper said about Harris.
With the move to the Moun-tain West and a deep team, these women are hoping to make some noise.
Michelle Gooding, Hayley Young, Lori Harper, Maria San-tisteban and Katie Somers will represent the Broncos in the Circling Raven Invitational.
Junior Taeksoo Kim holds his follow-through as he stares down his iron shot.photo courtesy bronco sports
September 12, 2011
Hayley Young, junior golf athlete, says she hopes to continue her success with the Broncos. The women’s golf team competes in Worley, Idaho today and tomorrow.
