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Sectional Track

Champions

Wolves Win

Baseball Title

Lonnie Washington

Makes History at PCS.

Summer Sports Camps.

Softball Roundup.

PERSPECTIVESAHLEICS

Joslin Girls Soccer

Growing Up

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LeadershipAcademy/High Schoolof Technol-ogy boystrack teammade history

this spring,winning therst-everIllinois HighSchool Asso-

ciation boyssectionaltrack cham-pionship for aPCS school.

Underrst-year head

track coachTerry Joneswho alsoled the PCSfootball team

to a best-ever seasonlast fallthe

Warriorswon theClass 2A Kingsectional

with 117points to 97for runner-up Phillips. Itwas the fthstraight yearthe Warriorsqualied ath-

letes for thestate tracknals

Senior LonnieWashington in the100-meter dash,

junior ChristopherHawkins in the shot

put, junior RobertWhite in the 300intermediate hurdlesand the 4x800 relayteam won sectionalevents.

Runners-up weresophomore Richlyn

Whitaker in the shotput, Washington inthe long jump, Hawk-ins in the discus and

White in the 110 highhurdles. Jones alsosingled out seniorsprinter Jimmie Wil-liams.

In the state meet at

Lonnie Washing-ton is blessed withimpressive physicalgifts and a determi-nation to make themost of them. eresult has been themost decorated ath-lete in PerspectivesCharter Schoolshistory.

e recent Per-spectives HighSchool of Technologygraduate nished

Eastern Illinois Uni-versity, Washingtonnished third in the100 in an outstandingtime of 10.93 secondsto score seven pointsfor Perspectives.

Jones team alsoexcelled last winter,winning the ChicagoPublic Schools indoortrack championship.

e PLA/Tech girlsteam continued itsstrong tradition un-der new head coachDominique Jacobs.Her top perform-ers included juniors

Willesha Love andDazhane Sinclair,sophomores Deja

Washington, VictoriaHosch, Rokyah Rob-

inson, Crystal Lackeyand

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his PCS athletic ca-reer by winning theMost Valuable Play-er award in the Chi-cago Public LeagueFootball CoachesAssociations Harold

Washington All-StarGame on June 16 atGately Stadium.

In May, he nishedthird in the 100-me-ter dash at the

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a dynasty yet,but the Perspec-

tives MSA/Joslinbaseball team hasbecome a power inthe Chicago PublicLeagues SammySosa Conference.

e Wolveswon their sec-ond straight Sosachampionship

with a 13-0 recordand also reachedthe nal four of the

CPS playos conso-lation bracket, n-ishing the season18-5 overall.

I am so proudof our young menfor their perfor-mance both on ando the eld, saidCletis Nichols, who

was in his secondseason as Wolveshead coach. ey

are equally dedi-cated to academicexcellence as theyare to athleticprowess on thediamond.

Senior AaronEaston was a Chi-cago Public Leagueall-star and an all-

conference selec-tion. Junior ChrisKatz and sopho-more Jack Prattalso were all-con-ference selections.Other top contribu-tors were juniorBrian Vinseior and

freshman GlenfordWagner.

In June, Eastonand seniors JarredElliott and Abra-ham Galvan playedin the Chicago Pub-lic Schools All-StarGame, and Eastonparticipated in thePublic League vs.

Chicago CatholicLeague All-StarGame.

e PerspectivesLeadership Acad-emy/High Schoolof Technology teamwas inexperiencedbut hard work-ing and improvedthroughout theseason. e War-riors, who startedve freshmen,

were 5-15 overalland 5-9 in the Er-nie Banks Confer-ence.

Top contributorsincluded juniorsSteven Robinsonand Michael Colyer,sophomore JasonAvery and fresh-man JuJuan Pat-

rick.

Head CoachLacey Rogers willreturn his entireteam next season,when he expectsthe Warriors tocontend for theconference cham-pionship.

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Perspectives Char-ter Schools is con-tinuing to providemore young peoplewith the benefitsof summer sportscamps.

This year PCSadded a four-day

soccer camp to sim-ilar-length campsin football, volley-ball, basketball andbaseball and three-

day camps in trackand field, softballand cheer. All wereat PerspectivesAuburn Greshamcampus

The camp seasonran from June 17through July 3. All

camps were freeand open to girlsand boys entering5th through 12thgrades. Each camp-

er received a campshirt and lunch.

According to PCSAthletic Direc-tor Vinay Mullick,220 students frommore than 60 localschools enjoyed thisopportunity. They

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Nilita Reneau andfreshman JawannaGoodwin.

e Perspectives/IIT Math & ScienceAcademy and Joslincoed track programsformed a coop teamthis season and lookforward to buildingon it next year. MSAdisplayed consistentprogress for headcoach Jesse Hardy,whose top perform-ers included juniorsAntonique Brownand Kevin Phillipsand freshman Alay-sia Hardy.

Joslin head coachTiray Jackson wasencouraged by hisathletes develop-ment in his schools

debut track season.e kids ran hardand made signicantimprovements, hesaid, mentioning

junior Ashley Adamsand sophomores LoriReeves, Kameron

Williams, NehemiahIsrael and Maurice

Young.

Strong relay per-formances sparkedthe middle-schoolteams at PerspectivesMiddle Academy andPerspectives/IIT Math& Science Academy.

Top perform-ers for PMA headcoach Tristan Rocheincluded 8th-gradersRobert Dupont,

Brandon Johnson andAlston Phillips.

MSA co-head coach-es Todd Holbein andNada Hallaj hope tobuild a strong trackprogram and got asecond-place nishin the girls 4x400-meter relay in theSouthside Invitationalmeet. Nicole Fieldsand Felicia Buchanan,both 8th-graders,were among MSAstop contributors.

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Te Perspectives Rodney D. JoslinCampus high school girls soccerprogram had a successful debut in2012, even though it didnt win a game.But the team checked victory o its to-do list this season, nishing with a 1-1-3 record behind junior Kiya Hamptonand freshman Alexandra Rendon.

Kiya is the backbone of the team,head coach Rachel Urista said. Sheprovides support to all players onthe eld and in the classroom. Alexdominated as our sweeper.

We have grown so much thesepast two years and hope our progresswill continue into next year. We aregrowing together as a family.

e Joslin Middle School team alsogot its rst victory, nishing 1-3under head coach Kenneth Borre.Top performers included 7th-gradersAndria Ellis and Evany Corral and 6th-grader Briana Berry.

Barry Temkin authors Perspectives Athletics

newsletter (unless otherwise noted) and

volunteers with the Perspectives athletics

department. He retired from the Chicago

Tribune in 2008. He spent his last 20 yearsat the Tribune writing a high school sports

column that covered hundreds of schools,

including Perspectives.

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Class 2A state trackmeet at Eastern

Illinois Universityin 10.93 seconds.

Washington is theonly Perspectivesathlete ever to scorein the boys statetrack meet, alsoaccomplishing that

with a fourth-placenish in the Class 2A100 as a freshman.

He qualied for thestate track meet allfour years in the 100and three times inthe long jump.

As a running backand cornerback, he

helped lead PCS toa 7-3 overall recordand a spot in thestate playos for

the rst time in theve-year history ofthe varsity footballprogram. He ran for1,960 yards, scored23 touchdowns andwas selected as theoensive and team

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PCS student-athletes worked ascounselors. JevonMamon was campdirector for the sec-ond straight year,and the Chicago

Youth Sports Alli -ance again servedas sponsor.

We are one ofthe few organiza-tions that offer afree camp such asthis in the area and

are very gratefulfor CYSAs support,Mullick said. Thecamps are a greatoutlet to keep stu-dents busy duringthe summer andlearn the funda-mentals of their

sports of choice.They are structuredand safe and areled by coaches whoprovide qualityinstruction.

Lonnie Washington sportinghis third place medal at theState track meet.

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We hope to growthe program nextyear by offeringmore sports.

CYSA is a not-for-profit corporationthat uses athlet-ics and fitness toimprove the so-cial and academicdevelopment ofdisadvantaged

youth. Its president,Eric Kieras, praisedPerspectives campsand said his organi-zation looks for-

ward to continuingits support of theathletic program.

Chicago YSA be-lieves in the impor-tance of providingpositive opportuni-ties to children inthe communityduring the summermonths, he said.Whether it is learn-

ing a new sport orsimply competingwith friends andcoaches, the campsprovide students a

continuation of thesocial developmentand values Perspec-tives teaches duringthe school year.

MVP.

Terry Jones hascoached Wash-ington in both hissports and attributes

his stars successto competitivenessas well as athleticability.

He is unbelievablyfast, said Jones, whoalso coached Wash-ington in the footballall-star game. Hehas an unbeliev-able focus whenhe is competing.

You could see hispreparation before agame.

He has the samefocus in track. Hewould rise to thelevel of the competi-tion.

Washington, ateam captain in bothhis sports, leads byexample.

Hes alwaysworking hard, Jonessaid. Hes a gym rat;

he loves the weightroom, loves thepractices. at helpshim get strongerand faster.

Hes an unbeliev-able talent unbe-lievable.

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and sophomoresShekinah Rich-mond and AlyssaSanders.

We will havemore playersplaying for a sec-ond year in a row,head coach SusieMazur said of nextseason. We arelooking forwardto continuing togrow our girls

softball program.

e Perspec-tives/IIT Math &Science Academy

and Joslin coopteam nished 1-5under co-headcoaches Saman-

tha Mondro andAmanda Yost.

In the Perspec-tives CharterSchools 16-inchCo-Ed MiddleSchool SoftballLeague, MSA wonthe champion-ship with a 5-0

record. Helpinglead the way forhead coach FloydUrrutias teamwas 8th-grader

Supreme Malik-Clark and 6th-grader JaydenGatby.

Joslin and Per-spectives Mid-dle Academyalso participatedin the league.Eighth-graderDestiny Gard-ner, 7th-graderBooyae Jacksonand 6th-grader

Yamaiyah Joneswere among thetop performers forJoslin head coachJonathan Daniels.

young play-ers in theprogram

makesthe futurebright.

Top per-formersthis seasonincluded sen-

iors India Al-len and Dia-mond Noble

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Leader-ship Acad-emy/HighSchool ofechnologygirls soft-ball teamfinished

4-14, butthe largeamount of

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