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Show SPORTS B7 Volleyball's Stevens has 'no regrets' Men's golf striving for consistency By Collette Crystal Shane Maryott/UVU Review Senior Kathleen Stevens puts the ball up for her team in last weeks match against Houston Baptist. Senior Kathleen Stevens dominates in the Libero position. By Kira Terry leader that I felt like Kat, even during those years, really helped complement what Allyce was doing and Allyce was complementing Kat at the same time." Sports Editor Last week, Kathleen Stevens played her last home match as a UVU volleyball player. Looking back, she doesn't regret anything. "The past four years have gone by super fast," Stevens said. "It's kind of bittersweet to be done, to kind of move-on in life, it's been a good four years though; I have no regrets." Stevens excelled in soccer, as well as lacrosse, but choose volleyball to take her through college, in part because of her friends from a young age and in part because of her love of the game. "In seventh grade, a bunch of my friends were going out for the volleyball team, so my friends took me and we flew," Stevens said. "It [volleyball] was just something that I had fun in and when I went to practice, I enjoyed playing, so it was just really something that I just liked." As a college freshman, Stevens started playing as a defensive specialist and since then has held that position. For her final year, Stevens followed a legend, Allyce Jones, by taking over the libero position. "With Kat it was just a matter of time," Coach Sam Atoa said. "For her to follow someone like Allyce — and Allyce was just such an excitable person and a past four years have gone by super fast. It's kind of bittersweet to be done, to kind of move on in life. It's been a good four years though; I have no regrets. J 5 - Kathleen Stevens Shane Maryott/UVU Review Kathleen Stevens holds UVU's career record in service aces with 129 going into last Friday's game. The libero is crucial to the team. "It's an interesting position because we have different rules and it's kind of hard, in that if you don't get the ball up, you can't run your offense, so it puts pressure on you that you need to get the ball up and you need to pass well so the offense can be run," Stevens said. "It's really just an emphasis on the team sport that if you don't pass well, we can't hit well." Atoa praises Stevens for her work over the last four years, saying, "Kat's had an opportunity now to be able to help secure that position for us and has done a fabulous job. It's great to be able to see Kat continue to excel." Stevens is like most collegiate volleyball players in that she began playing volleyball when she was young, but she is the opposite when it came to her course of a major. A lot of athletes choose to major in exercise science, but for Stevens, Building Construction/Construction Management was her choice of study. "Since I was little, I've always been kind of interested in the building process," Stevens said. "My family sort of made fun of me for a bit since I didn't really play with dolls; I played with those Lincoln Logs and Legos." After graduation, Stevens hopes to find a job on the design side of residential construction. Follow us on our Facebook page: to win," Curran said. "You have to play all 18 holes at Sports Writer the top of your game." The thing that is comWith the men's golf mon in all sports, howfall season wrapped up, ever, is practice. It's the the team will now take this winter to improve and most important part to build on what was a season becoming better, which is why the team is going to of highs and lows. do all they can this winter "We struggled to be off-season to help improve consistent this year," the individual aspect, as Coach Chris Curran said, well as Lhe collective part "but we will work on it." of the game. The Purple and Red This offseason is the Invitational in Layton this first year that they have season was a perfect exhired a strength and condiample of what Curran said. tioning coach for the playIn the second round of the tournament, the team was ers to help strengthen their on fire. They collectively core, flexibility and endurshot their best round of the ance. "People think we get year, a 287. "This showed potential to ride around in golf carts of what we had," Curran and drink our Gatorade said. "It proved that we and then go hit a ball," could compete to not only Curran said. "But on a 36our competitors, but to hole day, we can walk up to 8 to 10 miles in the dead ourselves as well." The next day, however, heat while carrying our the team shot its highest golf bags. It can be mentally and physically drainround of the year, a 307. "We had a solid group ing." Not only will the playof guys every tournament, said junior golfer Nick ers be doing core and Tarasiewicz. "The scores strength training during didn't show, but we got their off-season, they are better as the year went on." encouraged to individuAndrew Carlin, also a ally play in tournaments junior, agrees that this year in the winter to work on was a year for improve- their weaknesses as well as their strengths. ment. Even though the result "No one played to their of the season is not what potential," Carlin said. they hoped for, they were "But we all definitely imable to make it enjoyable proved," Curran speculates that regardless. "This season was a lot the mental aspect of the of fun," Tarasiewicz said. game is what hurt them "We just need to have the this season and that one of the most important ways same motivation in the they can expect to get bet- off-season as we did in the ter is to control their emo- fall" We can expect that the tions. players will work hard this "Golf is different than off-season to be ready to most other sports, whereas maybe you can get away pick back up in the second with playing a bad second half of their two-part seaquarter and coming back* son in February. Wrestling gives fans a first look at this seasons roster UVU Wrestling held an intrasquad duel last Wednesday splitting up the roster into a green team and a black team. The black team consisted of Logan Wilson, Sam Mecham, Paul Johnson, Glenn Terrano, Phillip Sorensen. Josh Wilson, Dustin Olsen, Derek Malaij. Jeb Clark, Brad Darrington and Justin Morrill. The green team consisted of Avery Garner, Jorden Osbon, Colby Christensen, Sean Porter, Eric McAllister, Abner Cook, Colby Barlocker, Flint Ray, Monte Schmalhaus, Trevor Rupp and Wyatt Ray. The black team took the win 24-18, Results were as follows: . . 141-Avery Garner vs. Logan Wilson Garner wins by D e c , 11-10 ,. .-i v •! 141 - Jorden Osborn vs. Sam Mecham ;.,: ,;>V-s . Mecham wins by Fall (2:40) \"l ' "s ; : 125 - Colby Christensen vs. Paul Johnson Johnson wins by D e c , 7-4 141 - Sean Porter vs. Glenn Terrano Terrano wins by D e c , 5-3 ;.;/' '^} - ' J Hwt/197 - Eric McAllister vs. Phillip Sorensen McAllister wins by Fall (1:26) ,j\_ ../".;'•»;' 157/149 - Abner Cook vs. Josh Wilson J. Wilson wins by D e c , 2-1 \*.v"-s%" "- * ' " "**^ (; ' './ J C?165 - Colby Barlocker vs. Dustin Olsen % ? ' ; , . , , ; : . Barlocker wins by Major Dec, 12-4T ., *; UVU Review Sports Section 133 -Flint Ray vs. Derek Malan i-i-rt^-.-::- F. 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