Since I was the Sports Editor and got to cover the majority of the sports here at Cabrillo I thought I'd create a list. Sincel I'll be taking off to Fresno tomorrow to soon start school at Fresno State I wanted to leave a list of the Cabrillo's top 10 athletes of '08. I want to congradulate y'all of your success and I wish nothing but the best for everyone.
#10 Frank Knights (football) (Golden Gate All Conference OL) full ride scholarship to Southeast Missouri State
#9 Men’s Water Polo Team on having its best season in coach Josh Thomas' 9 seasons at Cabrillo
#8 Peter Barnard (basketball) (Cabrillo Classic All Tournament Team) 6-foot-8 center who will attempt to help Cabrillo pick up its third Coast Conference South title in as many years
#7 Miguel Lizarraga (football) (Golden Gate All Conference DL)
#6 TJ Swedelius (football) (Golden Gate All Conference LB) led team with 14 tackles for loss
#5 Nick Wanner (football) (13 TD passes in the very tough GGC to only 5 INT’s) including finishing tied for first in team GPA with a 3.75 GPA always commendable
#4 Ari Logan (volleyball) (All Coast Conference Selection) the power and muscle that helped lead Cabrillo to its second straight CCS Title. The second straight season in undefeated fashion.
#3 Tony Gallo (basketball) (Cabrillo Classic All Tournament Team) leads the team with over 17 points a game including a career high 34 points in Cabrillo's host tournament
#2 Taylor West (football) (Golden Gate All Conference DB) led team in tackles with 109 which ranked second in the state, 4.5 tackles for loss, eight pass deflections and blocked five kicks on special teams to lead the state. West' steller player lead to him receiving a full ride scholarship to Southeast Missouri State
#1 Leah Anthony (volleyball) (2008 All Delta Tournament Team, Coast Conference South Most Valuable Player, finished '08 season as the #2 ranked junior college player in Northern California, first team all-American)
Monday, January 5, 2009
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Its Finished So Long, Sienara
Sorry Folks haven't been on this in awhile. Been really wrapped up with school work and covering a lot of Aptos High boys basketball team for the Register Pajaronian. As for our Cabrillo newspaper "The Voice" we finished our sixth and final issue last week and man the progress we have made since the first one is simply incredible. That's what is going to happen once you get some experience under your belt and it showed. As for my usual pages of 8 and 9 I decided to change things up a bit.
I did a feature article on Leah Anthony a volleyball player here at Cabillo. It made most sense because she was Cabrillo's best player and was named Most Valuable Player in the Coast Conference and she was named all-America. I had a great story because she isn't your typical volleyball player. She is only 5'0 tall and for here to get these kind of awards tells how great of athlete she really is. It sounded easy but trying to get her to do an interview was tough but she was surprisingly very shy but I was able to convince her to do it and I got in done in plenty of time.
I alson did a small piece on the rest of her teammates because they deserved some ink I felt after having such a great season. Posting a 24-6 mark and winning conference for the second straight year in undefeated fashion. I'm not the biggest volleyball fan but I always give credit where credit is due.
Tanya did here piece on ultimate frisbee and did a real good job. There were some tweaks that could of been made but hey what can you do. As for the rest of the paper I feel we did a pretty job and honestly I am sad to say that I won't be back next semester to continue being the head sports editor. After 3 1/2 years at Cabrillo its finally time to move on and that's what I'll be doing. I'm gunna miss this class, it had its time and as well as I at Cabrillo but my time is now and now means getting myself ready to become a Fresno State Bulldog.
I did a feature article on Leah Anthony a volleyball player here at Cabillo. It made most sense because she was Cabrillo's best player and was named Most Valuable Player in the Coast Conference and she was named all-America. I had a great story because she isn't your typical volleyball player. She is only 5'0 tall and for here to get these kind of awards tells how great of athlete she really is. It sounded easy but trying to get her to do an interview was tough but she was surprisingly very shy but I was able to convince her to do it and I got in done in plenty of time.
I alson did a small piece on the rest of her teammates because they deserved some ink I felt after having such a great season. Posting a 24-6 mark and winning conference for the second straight year in undefeated fashion. I'm not the biggest volleyball fan but I always give credit where credit is due.
Tanya did here piece on ultimate frisbee and did a real good job. There were some tweaks that could of been made but hey what can you do. As for the rest of the paper I feel we did a pretty job and honestly I am sad to say that I won't be back next semester to continue being the head sports editor. After 3 1/2 years at Cabrillo its finally time to move on and that's what I'll be doing. I'm gunna miss this class, it had its time and as well as I at Cabrillo but my time is now and now means getting myself ready to become a Fresno State Bulldog.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Issue #3 and the plans for #4
Our third issue of "The Voice" newspaper came out two days and it both some good and bad. This issue had a big political feature considering this will be the last issue that comes that before we the people crown a new leader of the free world. We gave notice about all the propositions that registered voters will be able to decide upon by giving exact definitions of what each one is about, thanks Kalie. Which actually helps me because I have an idea about several of them but now I really know ahead of time about what to vote for. Kalie got interviews from other Cabrillo students about who were they going to be voting for and why and I think she did a real good job but all the interviews she did were of men and like Mr. Kava has said "get the dogs name" meaning get all the details.
She didn't have any women's views and me as a reader would like to here what both sides have to say. Especially when there is a chance that we could have a female vice president and even a possible president and I want to see what my opposite sex say about that. No real knock against her I think she did a good job she just didn't cover all her sources. That's where the controversey over this issue starts with a lack of women's opinions and leads to sort of a controvsersal attack of Sarah Palin.
I think that throughout the issue we gave an attempt to remain unbissed which I think is good because with such a sensitive topic as politics you really need to attempt to stay in the middle. Until I finished reading page 14 then I take a peek of the back cover and it has a picture of Sarah Palin in a garbage can. Emily our editor and chief says that we were in total need for a last second page to finish the paper and it was all we had. That to me made us look like hipacrits and I am not a fan what so ever of that last page (and I'm not going to voter for McCain). It wasn't funny it just made all our good unbissed research, interviews, and opinions that we had in the paper were for nothing because we flat out trash (no pun intended) Palin.
It has happened and maybe that can bring some more attention to our paper which in that is good because I have learned that there is no such thing as bad publicity. I maybe a sportswriter and the sports editor but my name is attached to an issue that I am not proud of. Once our next issue comes out hopefully this one will be long forgotten and I can continue to do my thing giving all Cabrillo students top notch sports report. That's what I do and with my basketball preview coming out next issue I want to make clear that we have a pretty serious basketball programs at this school. Then I cannot forget the volleyball team and how they have not even lost game let alone a match in conference this year so they deserve a good write up and I will do my best to make sure they get the attention they rightfully deserve with a record of 18-5, 5-0 in conference play.
She didn't have any women's views and me as a reader would like to here what both sides have to say. Especially when there is a chance that we could have a female vice president and even a possible president and I want to see what my opposite sex say about that. No real knock against her I think she did a good job she just didn't cover all her sources. That's where the controversey over this issue starts with a lack of women's opinions and leads to sort of a controvsersal attack of Sarah Palin.
I think that throughout the issue we gave an attempt to remain unbissed which I think is good because with such a sensitive topic as politics you really need to attempt to stay in the middle. Until I finished reading page 14 then I take a peek of the back cover and it has a picture of Sarah Palin in a garbage can. Emily our editor and chief says that we were in total need for a last second page to finish the paper and it was all we had. That to me made us look like hipacrits and I am not a fan what so ever of that last page (and I'm not going to voter for McCain). It wasn't funny it just made all our good unbissed research, interviews, and opinions that we had in the paper were for nothing because we flat out trash (no pun intended) Palin.
It has happened and maybe that can bring some more attention to our paper which in that is good because I have learned that there is no such thing as bad publicity. I maybe a sportswriter and the sports editor but my name is attached to an issue that I am not proud of. Once our next issue comes out hopefully this one will be long forgotten and I can continue to do my thing giving all Cabrillo students top notch sports report. That's what I do and with my basketball preview coming out next issue I want to make clear that we have a pretty serious basketball programs at this school. Then I cannot forget the volleyball team and how they have not even lost game let alone a match in conference this year so they deserve a good write up and I will do my best to make sure they get the attention they rightfully deserve with a record of 18-5, 5-0 in conference play.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Longer Day Equals Better Pay Off
Today all of us at the Cabrillo Voice got together to put together our second issue of the semester. We all knew that we would have a better issue because of all of the experience we got from our first issue. Our first issue wasn't all that bad but we knew that we had plenty of room to improve the second issue. Emily our editor and chief at The Voice made templates made for us which made life 10x easier from the first issue. It did but it made my co-editor Tanya and I more meticulous about the layout of the sports section.
Tanya's story only had one real source and she wasn't able to contact that source so that left the sports section with a bit of a whole. She sure made up for not having the story by utimately creating and being the main editor of both pages. Sure I did all the digging for my story with interviews and arranging the pictures and Thomas did his thing with his story but it was Tanya that kept the train going. We gave her the ball and she ran with it. We supplied her with all the stories and pictures and she put them all together.
The pictures were clearer and she helped me label them with proper and clear titles. I got some good reviews for the last paper but I felt there were tons of room for improvement and I feel we really did with this issue. It took more time getting everyting put in their proper place but I fell that everything came out at least 10x better. Can't forget to thank Randi and Chad for assisting us with editing the pictures. I may be ultimately the one responsible for the section but like a good manager you are only as good as the team around you and I feel with the team I have around me we have the ability to keep moving forward in a positive direction.
Tanya's story only had one real source and she wasn't able to contact that source so that left the sports section with a bit of a whole. She sure made up for not having the story by utimately creating and being the main editor of both pages. Sure I did all the digging for my story with interviews and arranging the pictures and Thomas did his thing with his story but it was Tanya that kept the train going. We gave her the ball and she ran with it. We supplied her with all the stories and pictures and she put them all together.
The pictures were clearer and she helped me label them with proper and clear titles. I got some good reviews for the last paper but I felt there were tons of room for improvement and I feel we really did with this issue. It took more time getting everyting put in their proper place but I fell that everything came out at least 10x better. Can't forget to thank Randi and Chad for assisting us with editing the pictures. I may be ultimately the one responsible for the section but like a good manager you are only as good as the team around you and I feel with the team I have around me we have the ability to keep moving forward in a positive direction.
Monday, September 15, 2008
The Power of Positive Thinking
For quite a while I have been extremely struggling throughout most of everything in my life. My personal life wasn't going the way I wanted, I haven't been winning nowhere near as much as I had in golf, poker, and most of all the ability to live a happy life. Unable to feel comfortable in my shoes and constantly trying to figure what to do next. Being desperate I and unable to to figure out what to do next I did something that gives me great joy but also kills me when I go on losing streaks and that is gambling. I'm not shy to admit it I love to do it and when it starts going bad it really goes bad for me.
So after deciding to take a 6 week break and focusing on how to fix my life I discovered the ability of positive thinking. During the time off I started to focus on just myself and trying to make me a better person, friend, relative, and the what is becoming near the top of my list to being a student who actually wants to be one instead of one who hides in school, while attempting to dodge the real world. It has been the best decision I could of made because I got into all the classes I wanted including the ones I need in order to get my AA degree within the next year. Including becoming the sports editor of Cabrillo College newspaper The Voice. I feel very happy and honored to be and I will not let sports readers down.
While I could of just lost it and given up I decided to sit back take a deep breath and find myself by constantly believing in positive thinking. Always remaining positive throughout and day by day my self confidence started to comeback and before I knew it something just went off in my head and it said your ready to go back. Now three weeks after I starting reading and believing in the ability of positive thinking my golf and poker games are better then they have been in months. I got to become sports editor of The Voice. I am continuing to mature everyday and am just looking forward to the next day to see what kind of positive impact I can make. Today my personal, social life, and extra curricular activities life are becoming fun again and when I'm having fun the fun doesn't stop with me because I try and spread the fun around for all to enjoy.
So a happy Ryan is back and I just wanted to let you know that through the power of positive thinking I went from the lowest of depressions to being a very happy man today. If I have done anything to help lift somebody's spirts then I have done my good deed for the day. I will continue to do so as long as I can because if positive thinking can change things for the better for me they will surely do the sam for you.
So after deciding to take a 6 week break and focusing on how to fix my life I discovered the ability of positive thinking. During the time off I started to focus on just myself and trying to make me a better person, friend, relative, and the what is becoming near the top of my list to being a student who actually wants to be one instead of one who hides in school, while attempting to dodge the real world. It has been the best decision I could of made because I got into all the classes I wanted including the ones I need in order to get my AA degree within the next year. Including becoming the sports editor of Cabrillo College newspaper The Voice. I feel very happy and honored to be and I will not let sports readers down.
While I could of just lost it and given up I decided to sit back take a deep breath and find myself by constantly believing in positive thinking. Always remaining positive throughout and day by day my self confidence started to comeback and before I knew it something just went off in my head and it said your ready to go back. Now three weeks after I starting reading and believing in the ability of positive thinking my golf and poker games are better then they have been in months. I got to become sports editor of The Voice. I am continuing to mature everyday and am just looking forward to the next day to see what kind of positive impact I can make. Today my personal, social life, and extra curricular activities life are becoming fun again and when I'm having fun the fun doesn't stop with me because I try and spread the fun around for all to enjoy.
So a happy Ryan is back and I just wanted to let you know that through the power of positive thinking I went from the lowest of depressions to being a very happy man today. If I have done anything to help lift somebody's spirts then I have done my good deed for the day. I will continue to do so as long as I can because if positive thinking can change things for the better for me they will surely do the sam for you.
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