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Lutnberjack Sports Page 7 Alpena Community College October 1, 2002 Lady Lumberjacks Shape JOBETH JOHNSON Sports Editor This year's new volleyball team will see a big improvement over last year. Six sophomores have returned bringing a year's worth of experience and guidance to the four new freshmen. The team lost a few players at the beginning of this season, butthe remaining ten are doing well. matched up against larger and more dominant teams. Starting on September 27, the team gets very busy with away games. The volleyball team is strongest in their defense, but needs to develop a setter. Dana LaBar, the volleyball coach, stated that slow since they have been because some changes in Since the team's meets so far have been scheduled weeks apart from each other, the team has had more time than usual to prepare and strengthen themselves for the upcoming matches. The team started ACC'snewvolleyball team Photo Courtesy of Authier Photography p for New Volleyball Season rules have been made, the team is doing better. One of the rule changes allows teams to have a libero. This is a defensive specialist who can be substituted in the back row for any person at any time. LaBar said this would help the team and definitely make a difference. The new volleyball team actually has two liberos, Mandy Vekaryase and Alicia Kleiber. This rule has already been in effect in Canada and has made a difference in their playing as well. "This year I'm looking for a highly competitive team with an overall winning record I think we may get it." LaBar said. Show your support for ACC's star volleyball team and take note of their schedule. They have a lot of prormse. Volleyball Team Players PLAYER JERSEY# POSITION Alicia Kleiber 2 Libero Erin Riopelle 3 Setter Julie DePerkel 4 Outside hitter, back row Mandy Vekaryase 5 Libero KimHepburn 6 Middle blocker, Outside Elaina Meharg 7 Back row Mackenzie Houle 8 Middle blocker, Outside Lynne Gralewski 9 Setter Mari Meyers 11 Outside hitter Jennifer Noffze 12 Outside hitter, back row Volleyball Team Schedule Thursday, Oct. 3 ACC at Sault College Saturday, Oct. 5 ACC at Henry Ford Thursday, Monday, Friday, Tournament Oct. 10 ACC at Sault College Oct. 14 ACC at Delta Oct. 18 ACC at St. Clair Tournament Saturday, Oct. 19 ACC at St. Clair Thursday, Saturday, Tournament Oct. 24 Wayne CCCat ACC Oct. 26 Mott CC at ACC Saturda , Nov. 2 State Tournament 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. 4:00p.m. 1:00 p.m. Carpenter Kicks Back JESSICA TIIlEM camping, but his favorite Mackenzie Houle Contributes on Court, Donates off Managing Editor pastime is going to concerts. ACC sophomore, T.J. Carpenter, is much more than a soccer player. He does enjoy sports, but doesn't completeJy live for them. This education major can be described as a fan of the wild outdoors and an This winter he plans on going to see Rusted Root, the rest of The Grateful Dead, and Phish. JOBETH JOHNSON Sports Editor An active participant in sports here at ACC, Mackenzie Houle is no slacker. Before corning to ACC, Mackenzie was active in her high school in Manistique, (upper Michigan) and was also a big role player in the American Red Cross. During her two years of participation she was made President ofFundraising and President of Public Relations. Public Relations consisted of going to various businesses in the community and inviting them to donate items the Red Cross would need in case of emergencies. They would be reimbursed for these items later. Also while working with the Red Cross, Mackenzie was a team leader and recruited other students from the high school and adults in the community. She helped organize classes Cross. Most people people needed to become automaticallythinkyouneed certifiedAmericanRedCross to have a degree in some members. kind of medical area. Mackenzie stated that many people don't think This is not the case. Anyone can join and the Red Cross provides programs to Photo By Jay Walterreit Mackenie Houle prepares to jump in as fellow teammate Kim Hepburn aims for the ball NORTrIERN EXPOSURE Inside The Drugstore Singles Doubles $ 7.99 $ 8.99 Pree roll of Agfa 200 speed, 24 exp, film with procl\\tssing. PHOTOGR...APHY STUDENTS Black ~nd White Developin.g Only Black and White Proces.sing $ 3.00 $ 5.00 ------ - ---- get you certified. She also said that the Red Cross is one of the best and most helpful sa er relief programs ainly because it is rldwide and has such a lo g history. Besides working for tlre Red Cross, Mackenzie spent her summer doing manual labor at a limestone quarry, Port Inland, in her hometown of Gulliver, Michigan. She decided to come to ACC mainly because she has friends in the area and it's pretty close to home. She enjoys oldies music and hip hop, and is one of the staff writers for the Lumberjack. You will see more of Mackenzie as she scores some serious points,on the volleyball and basketball teams. Volleyball Coach Dana Labar stated, "Mackenzie is a great asset, not only to the game but also to the other players." In the future he sees coaching as a possible past time, since he has been involved in sports for a good portion ofhis life. Ifhe were avidconcertgoer. to coach a sport it would The best moment in definitely be hockey. his hockey sporting career was his junior year ofhigh school. His team, Alpena High School Wildcats, went to the state finals and he can still vividly recall the overall experience of that final game. Carpenter enjoys Carpenter considers himself an easy-going guy, which is one of the reasons he feels he would be a good teacher. 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