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Editor-in-ChiefTimothy Wyatt

Managing EditorNatasha Jones

Photo EditorJillian Carpenter

Sta ff WritersTylar Baker

Autumn CooneyLydia Jay

Shyann NorrisAshton Rector

Christin RottenbergerMyriah Snyder

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Dr. Taylor

An interview Mrs. Temple

A new era in sports

How to avoid #ThePlagueUPCOMING SPORTING

EVENTS

NOVEMBER 1Women’s Volleyball v.Midway College

11 a.m.

Football v. Campbellsville University12:30 p.m.

Women’s Soccer v.Campbellsville University

1 p.m.Men’s Soccer v.

Campbellsville University3 p.m.

Women’s Volleyball v.Milligan College

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Men’s & Women’s BowlingBrunswick Southern Classic

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The new film “23 Blast” is based on the true story of Travis Freeman,an adjunct professor of religion at UC, who, despite being completely blind,played high school football for the Corbin Redhounds. Freeman’s team-mates would help him to and from the huddle, line him up over the ball,and after he snapped it, all that was left was for him to block.

Being a blind football player comes with many challenges, but Free-man said, “To say it wasn’t a challenge would probably not be a true state-ment, but it didn’t feel like a challenge. It didn’t feel like a burden to me.” Freeman lost his eyesight at the age of 12 due to a severe sinus infection.However, he still went on to play center for Corbin High School. Freeman’sparticular disease, cavernous sinus thrombosis, kills 70 percent of peoplewho have it. In less than two days, Freeman went from 20/20 vision to novision at all.

Having been approached multiple times, Freeman was skeptical whennew screenwriter Toni Hoover approached him with the idea for “23 Blast.”The skepticism grew even more because Toni Hoover had never written ascreenplay. Freeman said, “This just doesn’t happen, that it gets such a

wide release that ‘23 Blast’ is getting.” Being filmed on the actual football field Freeman played on, Corbin

High School, many locals participated in the filming of “23 Blast” as ex-tras. One local teenager who was an extra, Lyndsey Antos, said, “It wassomething I’ll never forget. I felt like Hollywood was brought to a smalltown.”

The film, directed by Dylan Baker, was shown in theaters nationwidebeginning October 24, 2014. To coincide with the film, Freeman co-wrote“Lights Out: Living in a Sightless World” with Rebeca DeBoard Seitz. Thebook, which was released on October 7, tells Freeman’s life story.

In the face of fame, including his recent appearance on Fox News’“Huckabee,” Freeman still remains humble. He hopes the movie will pro-vide him with a bigger platform to share the gospel. He said, “My life haschanged, but on the other hand, I’m still Travis. I’m still a college professor.I’m still who I am.”

Photos courtesy of Online Media Spot

BY AMELIA BURNS

Guest Writer

Inspirational story of Travis Freeman featured in “23 Blast”

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CHANGING OF THE GUARD

BY TIMOTHY W YATT

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MYRIAH SN YDER

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CHRISTIN ROTTENBERGER

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Dr. Jim Taylor announced that after almost37 years as president of the University that hewas stepping down. He recommended to theBoard of Trustees that Dr. Larry Cockrum be thePresident-Elect and Chief Executive Officer “re-sponsible for all operational aspects of the insti-tution” on Oct. 16.

Taylor will live in his home in Florida forthe next year while helping Cockrum in the tran-sition. Taylor’s duties will include assistingCockrum in “fund raising” and “friend raising”by taking him out into the community and intro-ducing him to the university’s many donors andthose who have close ties to the school.

Being handpicked by Taylor as his replace-ment, Cockrum remains both honored and hum-bled. “It’s a privilege and I’m going to have verybig shoes to fill,” said Cockrum.Cockrum willbe given a seven-year contract when he officiallyassumes the role of president on Oct. 16, 2015.

However, more immediately, Cockrum will takeon the role of chief executive officer, a positionthat doesn’t hold much variance than that of thepresident itself.

The announcement of Taylor’s retirementtook many students by surprise. Sophomore Car-oline Schlansky said, “I think it’ll be sad to seehim go. I know he’s done a lot of good things forour school, but at the same time new leadershipis always good. It’ll be interesting to see the di-rection that our new president takes us in.”

Many students have fond memories of Tay-lor during their time at UC. Senior Dillon Proc-tor, said, “Personally, hearing that Dr. Taylorwas leaving came as a total surprise. He was al-ways the person I assumed would hand me mydiploma at the end of my college career here atUniversity of the Cumberlands. He has touchedso many lives on this campus. I can’t imagine afootball game without his wife, Dinah Taylor,

being there with her Pegasus flag waving it backand forth at every touchdown. It is going to be ahuge change to not have him here expressinglove and interest to every student within thiscampus. He will be extremely missed, but thischapter of his life is over and it’s time for newthings”

Taylor said that his departure “should be aseason of celebration.” He added, “It is a newday dawning.”

Once Cockrum officially assumes his role aspresident, some of his main goals are “to keep ahigh-quality education, to try to keep the tradi-tions alive that have been here, to stay at the mis-sion that this school started out at and hascontinued to be.”

Taylor’s tenure as president at University ofthe Cumberlands is the longest of any college oruniversity in Kentucky and is believed to havethe second longest in the nation.

Dr. Taylor announces his retirement andplans to handover role aspresident to Dr. Cockrum

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On Friday, October 3, 2014 it was announcedonline that president, Jim Taylor, would be steppingdown as president of the University and would beassuming the role of Chancellor in October 2015.President Taylor is an alumni of UC and has servedas its president for 35 years and spent many yearsbefore his presidency working with the Universityfundraising.

In his many years of association with the Uni-versity, Taylor has made quite an impact on our cam-pus and in the faculty and staff of our institution. Dr.Tom Frazier, Department chair of the English de-partment is one of Taylor’s colleagues that met Tay-lor as an undergrad.

“He (Taylor) was also working with the schoolin various positions such as admissions and a coupleother campus groups to help with the developmentof the school,” said Frazier.

After graduating Frazier went to the military andtaught high school before coming back to UC to dopublic relations for Taylor. Taylor worked with Fra-

zier on ideas that would improve and expand ourcampus. Frazier interviewed alumni for articles anddid some fundraising in his days in PR. Frazier de-scribed Taylor as a man with a development mindset, always trying to see what would work to benefitour school and how he could achieve that.

Frazier noted that as a graduate of UC, Taylorhad a very clear perception of what UC needed,since he attended here himself and knew what ourinstitution was limited with. “Taylor knew thisschool had a pretty good story and people needed tohear it and that’s why we’ve grown as much as wehave,” said Frazier.

He described Taylor as a man who has a senseof pride in this university. Frazier said, “Those of uswho have been here for a long time and graduatedfrom here understand that this place gets in yourblood. We are, as they say, UC. Jim Taylor will al-ways be remembered as someone who loved thisschool and put his life into making it grow and pros-per.”

Another faculty member who knew Taylor in hisundergrad days is Dr. Oline Carmical of UC’s his-tory department. Carmical and Taylor met on thefirst day of school 1964 and the two were randomlyselected to be roommates.

Carmical said, “I was a junior, and he was afreshmen. I remember him bringing boxes and boxesof books with him, which is unusual for an under-grad.” Carmical also remembers Taylor holdingdown at least one job, sometimes two or three whenhe was in school. He says Taylor was always veryhard working and participated in almost anything hehad time for as a student here.

Carmical says that because Taylor graduatedfrom this college he had an inside knowledge aboutwhat our school needed and had the hard work toraise the money to achieve some of those needs.Carmical says Taylor’s success has resulted from hisintelligence and an incredible amount of hard workput in over the years.

Faculty and friends respond to Dr. Taylor’s retirement

BY NATASHA JONES

Managing Editor

“Jim Taylor will always be remembered as someone wholoved this school and put hislife into making it grow and

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Can you help President Taylor make his way to Florida?

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When’s the last time you stepped on a scale?When’s the last time you did 50 push-ups? Everhear about the freshman 15? How about the soph-omore 20? Well, take all of those questions andthrow them out the door! Speaking of doors, onOctober 2, 2014 the doors of the O. Wayne RollinsCenter at the University of the Cumberlands wereopen wide, welcoming all to Dare to Compare.The annual, free event, sponsored by UC’s depart-ment of health, exercise and sports science, andthe Cumberland River Comprehensive Care Cen-ter, is a fun health and fitness educational programfor anyone and everyone. With the help of all theFitness 5 volunteers, participants could determinehow in shape they were or discover the health-re-lated things they need to work on.

When first walking into the doors of theRollins Center for Dare to Compare you would begiven a sheet to fill out basic information. Whenyou opened the doors to the gym you were greetedby the warm sound of laughter filling the entireroom, along with the sound of Cupid’s “CupidShuffle.” But amongst the crowd of participantsyou would find the “fitness five.” The fitness fiveare the different levels of fitness as participantswould go from one table to the next, discoveringeach level.

The first level of fitness five was the CardioRespiratory Endurance. This level of fitness can

be determined by a step test, where participantswould be evaluated by the three-minute step test.Participants would for three minutes step up anddown on boxes and rest for 30 seconds to discovertheir cardio respiratory endurance. The secondlevel was height/weight percentage of body fat,including the BMI (body mass index). Partici-pants would receive their height and weight andthen receive their percentage of body fat. The im-portance of knowing all three is to see if yourbody is measured in a healthy balance. The thirdlevel was muscular strength, participants wouldhave one minute to see how many half sit- upseach individual could accomplish. In relation theywould also have to complete the push-up test,where participants would perform push-ups untilexhaustion. The fourth level was muscular en-durance; each individual would hold the stance ofa front plank for 60 seconds. The fifth and finallevel was flexibility. With this level participantscould test the flexibility through the sit and reachtest.

Each level of the “fitness five” helps partici-pants discover areas in their fitness that need im-provement or no improvement at all. The amount of participants since last year’s eventhad doubled, showing the large amount of supportthat both staff and students represent at the Uni-versity the Cumberlands. Amongst the crowded

room students and staff were participating in eachlevel discovering more about their fitness.

Shannon Mitchell, a freshman attending UC,was completely shocked at the flexibility level. “Iwas a cheerleader in high school,” said Mitchellwith a laugh. “I have all of the levels I thought thiswould be the easiest, but it turns out I’m not asflexible as I thought.”

Jason Daniel, a senior at UC, had a differentresponse. Daniel said, “I have attended dare tocompare for the last three years, and each yearI’ve kept my results. Discovering after this year Ihave improved greatly each time.” That’s exactly what Dare to Compare strives for.The desire for the Dare to Compare program is forthe participants to change their health status inorder to gain wellness in the world we live in.

Dr. Glenda Warren, a professor of health atUC, was found greeting people toward the en-trance of the event. When asked about the Dare toCompare event, she easily and quickly responded,“It’s always a great time.” Warren added, “It’s always great to see so manyparticipants taking results to actually see whatthey need to improve on. It’s a great way to seewhat you can do for yourself.”

If you were unable to join us at this year’sevent there will be another Dare to Compare eventheld in the spring.

Only you can prevent... Fitness!

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UC student participates in Dare to Compare.

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The days are starting to get colder, the leaves are changing, the days aregetting shorter, and the weeks are getting more stressful. With all thesethings coming into place, it's about time for common illnesses to start mak-ing their entrance. With the weather changes, and the high stress levels thataffect every college student, no one is safe from at least the common cold.The problem is, getting sick is the last thing you need when it comes to stay-ing on top of classes and other things you may have on your plate. However,you can stay mostly bug free as long as you take a few precautions.

Try to maintain general health. This can be in little aspects that don'treally take up that much time or effort. Try to eat a healthy diet, meaningstay away from junk food at least most of the time. Drink the right amountof water, and drink water at meals instead of a soft drink. If you have thetime, make sure to get some exercise in, even if it's a simple as taking awalk or going for a short jog. The exercise will boost your immune systemthat much more. Take Vitamin C like your parents told you to as a kid.Once again, your mom was right about something. Vitamin C helps boostyour immune system, and at this time of year, we all need any help we canget!

Health also includes mental health. At this time in the semester, withmid-terms coming up soon, it's difficult not to be stressed. However, themore stressed you are, the more dysfunctional your immune system become.This is why it seems like some people get sick from stress. In a way, theydo, but stress isn't a bug that causes problems. It's just the gateway that lets

the real problems attack your immune system. So, try to plan and completeyour class work and other commitments in a way that is the least stressful.Meaning, don't procrastinate!

Don't eat or drink after others. We've heard it a million times before,but this one is a big problem. One of your friends might be sick, but theyhaven't started showing symptoms yet. Even if they don't feel sick yet, theycan still get you sick, especially if they took a drink out of your water bottleat practice. You don't have to shoo them away with a forty-nine-and-a-halffoot pole, but you also don't have to share your drink with them.

When someone you know does get sick, it's best to try to stay awayfrom them. I'm fairly sure texting was invented just for this purpose. Youcan still text and talk to them, just don't get too close. The worst problemwith this is within departments or athletic teams. Everyone tends to invadepersonal space, so when one person gets sick, everyone does. I see thisoften in the theatre department during a production. We all have to performand rehearse together, so when one person starts getting a scratchy throat,we all know it's just a matter of time before we're all sick. If you try to staya reasonable amount of distance from someone who is sick, it can preventyou and the people around you from getting sick.

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An interview with Ms. Temple: Her juggling act

BY MYRIAH SNYDER

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She’s a wife and mother of three, an editor for apublishing company; she works on the literary jour-nal at UC, freelance writes on the side, and findstime to teach us.

This superhero’s name is Ms. Jamey Temple.“Jamey (Mrs. Temple) is a gifted writer and fantas-tic teacher,” her colleague Dr. Laura Dennis said.“Whether she is helping students struggling to learnthe mechanics of English or guiding studentsthrough the process of publishing a poem, she isgenerous with her time, patient and kind.”

She worked for what is now the multimedia de-partment while in school and graduated from Uni-versity of the Cumberlands in 2003. Aftergraduation she worked in admissions. She beganhelping with a prospective student newsletter andtaking on other projects and eventually moved topublic relations. She stayed there until she beganteaching.

She received her master’s from Spalding Uni-versity and has been teaching full time since 2008.She divides her time between journalism and Eng-lish classes at UC.

Her students sing her praises. Former Englishmajor at Cumberlands Rebecca Branham said,“Mrs. Temple has and still is an amazing mentor.[She] really helped me find my voice as a writer andhelped guide me while I tested my writing abilities.”

Branham added, “She is such an amazingly pa-tient and understanding person who I think reallyconnects with her students. I know for a fact that mywriting and my college career would not have beenthe same without her!”

Temple began as the layout editor for Pensworthand now is the managing editor for the journal. Inaddition, she freelances for Kentucky Monthly. Inher free time, she takes classes at the University ofWisconsin.

“I need deadlines because I’ll put everybodyelse’s needs before my own. So I need that account-ability in my life,” Temple said.

She and her husband, Dr. BJ Temple who is acoach and teacher here, have three children: Jadon,7, Chloe, 5, and Declan, age 17 months. Jadon andChloe are both adopted form South Korea and De-clan is biological.

She describes being a mother, teacher, andwriter as a “juggling act.”

“They’re a big part of me and the dailies be-cause they can’t really just fend for themselves. SoI can’t be like ‘mommy’s going to write while youjust stay over there.’ It can be difficult,” Templesaid.

To find time to write, she has started writing herstories down in notebooks versus typing. “I’ve beendoing that because I have a 17 month old who is

glued to me, and it’s hard to find time to type on acomputer.”

“It’s hard for me to complete a story in one sit-ting just because of the craziness in my life so some-times I just go by scenes--just jump in and out,”Temple said.

She added, “I guess you just if you want to be awriter you just have to make it work.”

The story she is working on now is differentthan her usual writing. “There was just this littlememory I had as a kid. And you know how thingsjust float in your brain, and you just don’t know howthey’re going to come out? I just started writing inthe voice of a child. I’ve never done that before it’susually more adult so I’ve been writing that,” Tem-ple explained.

In the future, she plans on turning one of hershort stories into a novel or novella. Also in the fu-ture, she wants to explore different forms of writingfor her.

Her biggest project right now is editing and an-thology for Hopewell Publications. “It’s a print an-thology but it also has a prize for prose best newwriting. Whoever wins that award also would beprinted in the best new writing anthology.” She en-courages any student who is interested in submittingtheir work to visit bestnewwriting.com.

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Have you ever had one of thosedays where it seems like you al-ways have something to do, some-where to be, but so little time in theday to get things done? Those of usthat have those days know what Imean when I say it can make you alittle crazy. You just feel out ofwhack then things get complicatedand you find yourself developing asense that something is missing.By then, you’ve already lost sightof what is most important. Your pri-orities become out of order thenyou develop this sense of loss andno direction. Then, you find your-self not knowing how create orderin the mess that you find yourselfin. I personally know how thatfeels. It has taken sometime but Ihave finally figured out the missingpiece of the puzzle as to gettingthrough those hectic days, or anyday for that matter. It is God. Iknow that might sound cliché butits not just about God, it’s about thetime you spend with God daily.

I have found that because I be-lieve in Christ; I have discovered

the importance of having Him inmy life daily. I know this firsthandbecause of how my life goes dailywhen I involve Him in my life andwhen I don’t involve Him.

I have come to the realizationthat spending time with Christevery day has an affect on a per-son’s life. Having fellowship withChrist can make a difference onhow your day, week, weekends,how you deal with things that go onthroughout every hour, second,minute, etc. I know you’re think-ing, “I spend time with God whenI pray.” That is a good thing, how-ever, there are other things that youcan do as well to have fellowship:you can read Scripture, pray, wor-ship or just talk to Him. By doingthese things you are keeping whatis most important at the top of thelist. Above all.

Having constant fellowshipwith Christ helps you to keep youreyes focused on Him and allowsHim to be a part of your life. Per-sonally, I look at this way. I am notin any way a perfect person and I

need help on a regular basis, I alsoneed someone who can be there atall times.

I know that no one can be herefor me the way I desire except forGod. So I figure, why not go toHim and develop a relationshipwith Him. And because I choose togo to Him and allow Him to takepart in my life, He has proven to mecountless times that He will comethrough and be here for me. Every time I say I can’t figurethings out, He directs my steps.(Proverbs 3:5-6.)I’m too tired. He will give me rest.(Matthew 11:28-30.)It’s impossible? All things are pos-sible. (Luke 18:27.)If it doesn’t seem worth it; it willall be worth it. (Romans 8:28.)If I can’t do it, I can do all thingsthrough Christ. (Philippians 4:13.)When I’m afraid, I remember Hehasn’t given me fear. (2 Timothy1:7.)If I don’t feel smart enough, I trustHe will give me wisdom. (1Corinthians 1:30.)

When I feel alone, I remember Hewill never leave me. (Hebrews13:5.)If I feel like nobody loves me, Godreminds he says, “I love you.”(John 3:16.)

These are some things that Ideal with daily. But He not only re-minds me of His word, He demon-strates His word in my life.Because He does this, it makes mewant to go to Him, depend on Him,and, most of all, our relationshipcontinues to go much deeper. I findthe more I go to Him and let meHim be active in my life, the moreI am able to get through each daywithout wanting to pull my hairout. I truly believe having constantfellowship with Christ, is the key tosucceeding in this thing we call life.I hope that by reading this I havecaused you to want to try to makemore time for God in your life andsee and experience the fruit of hav-ing a relationship with Christ andspending time with Him regularly.

Be blessed.

Having daily fellowship with God

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In a world taken over by technology, it’s nosurprise that almost everybody is raving overthe latest and greatest in the electronic world.Currently, the hottest things on the market arethe iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus. The newApple devices are taller and thinner than theirpredecessors, maybe even so thin that theycould be bent out of its original shape-- or sothe story goes. #Bendgate, anyone? Also, boththe iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have even morestorage space giving people the option to buy a128 GB device for all of the music, pictures, andapps they desire without facing that pesky “Notenough storage” notification.

The iPhone 6 came out about a month agoand has already made its way to UC’s campus.

Senior Mark Lewis, the proud owner of the lat-est iPhone, has a lot to say about his new phone.Lewis says, “I switched from the 4s, which Ihad for over two years and was very happy withbut the battery has started losing its efficiency.”He continues by saying, “I think even mostusers of the iPhone 5 series would love theadded features like the improved finger scanner,larger screen, and increased memory options.”

It seems that most people are pretty up todate in the cell phone world, but there are thosevery few who are stuck in what seems like thedinosaur age. Senior Amber Hipsher, who ownsan iPhone 3GS, says “A lot of my apps havequit working or are extremely slow since iOS 7and now iOS 8 have come out.” Although she

faces these problems along with not having afront-facing camera for the perfect selfie, Hip-sher goes on to say, “I’m still content with whatI have. At least I have a smartphone”. Whenasked if she wants to make the switch to thenewer iPhone, she brings up the fact that newercell phones are becoming “way too expensive”but hopes to be able to upgrade to a faster phoneor “at least one with a front facing camera.”

The new iPhones have everybody talking,whether or not they are a fan of Apple. Will yoube making the switch from your current cellphone to an iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus?

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Going behind the scenes of the latest iPhones

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As the school year gets underway, PeteCampbell, head coach of the men’s lacrosseteam, begins his recruiting season at UC. Dur-ing the fall 2013 it was announced that UC wasconstructing two lacrosse fields and that both amens and womens team would be added to ourathletic program. Randy Vernon, director ofathletics began looking into candidates to coachboth teams right away.

Vernon said, “He (Campbell) was very pre-pared for his interview; brought in a detailedbooklet that described how he would go aboutstarting our program, including a very detailedguide on recruiting. He was very enthusiasticabout lacrosse in general and his ideals andphilosophies fit in with UC perfectly.”

Campbell was hired on at the beginning ofJune 2014 and moved to Williamsburg imme-diately and started looking into potential play-ers for what will be University of theCumberlands first ever mens lacrosse team.

Campbell is originally from Columbus, Ohioand has been coaching lacrosse for over 10years. Before coming to UC to coach, Camp-bell was an assistant coach at a high school inMaryland, where he got into one of the toughesthigh school conferences in the world forlacrosse.

“He has been all over the state of Kentuckyand other bordering states searching for tal-ented student/athletes who we hope will be-come part of the first men’s lacrosse team inUC history. I know through Coach Campbell’shard work and excellent knowledge of what ittakes to start a lacrosse program that we willget off to a good start once our team arrives inthe fall of 2015, said Vernon”

At the moment, Campbell has five studentswho are verbally committed to playing for UCin the spring of 2016, which will be the team’sfirst main season. Right now the ground worksuch as being admitted and enrolled is being

done but signing of contracts should happenwithin the next few weeks.

The response from the students who Camp-bell has recruited and brought to tour the cam-pus has been very positive. “They’ve absolutelyloved the campus when visiting. And the facil-ities being built for the team, such as our fieldsare very exciting. Something I've been pushingto the kids being recruited is that they're goingto set the ground work for the programs (thesport) life and a lot of kids are very excitedabout that. They're going to be able to come inand compete right away,” boasted Campbell.

Campbell has been very pleased with ourathletic department, and their willingness tohelp anyway they can. He also said that ourfamily dynamic we have here on campus com-pliments his hope to build a united team. Camp-bell hopes the game of lacrosse will makestudents champions on and off the field, and thegame will help is team to grow into men.

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First year head coach Pete Campbell has his hands full starting theUniversity of the Cumberlands first men’s field lacrosse team, but hasn’thad to go far for his first recruits.

There are five students who are already attending UC that will beplaying lacrosse for the Patriots next season. This will help in the fieldwhere 10 lacrosse players are and more than double that could be on theroster. Coach Campbell expects these five to play a big part in leadingand helping the new recruits make adjustments to living on campus. Inaddition to being leaders on the field, these five students already under-stand what it takes to be a student here at UC.

One of these students, now in his sophomore year at UC, is CodyHughes. The native of Oshawa, Canada has played lacrosse in his sparetime when not in hockey season. Hughes is very excited to join the Pa-triot team. In Canada, Hughes said, they play mostly box lacrosse,which is often on concrete within the refinements of a hockey rink,which is different from the grass and open space the Patriots will playon. “I can’t wait to try and see what the differences are on grass, butthe basic principles are always the same,” Hughes said. Hughes plays

the attack position, which means he will generate most of the team’s of-fense.

On the other side of the field is defender, Justin Moffitt. Also a stu-dent at UC, Moffitt is in his second year as a Patriot and is thrilled forthe opportunity. “I am super excited Cumberlands got a team and I havethe chance to play again,” Moffitt said. Moffitt was a high school standout at Anderson County High School leading the state of Kentucky inground balls. Moffitt explained this stat as a defensive play where some-one picks up a ball that has been dropped or knocked to the ground.Much like a fumble recovery in football, it gains possession for the team.

Since the lacrosse field is still in the process of being built, coachCampbell cannot have practice with the group, but individually they canstart preparing for next year’s season. Justin Moffitt said, “I’m justworking on my own trying to get in better shape, I just want to be readyas soon as we can go.”

Overall, the UC field lacrosse team has much to look forward to asthey look for new recruits, while already having some familiar faces tobuild on.

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UC students prepare to join lacrosse teamPhoto by Grant Freder iksen. Used w ith permission.