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Show SPORTS Sports Briefs TRACK FROM B1 Jazz guard Ronnie Price visits camp OREM, Utah -- Former Wolverine star and current guard for the Utah Jazz Ronnie Price paid a visit to Coach Dick Hunsaker's individual summer camp on Thursday and took time to speak to campers and sign autographs. "It's always fun to come back to UVU and especially to come and help out at Coach Hunsaker's camp," Price said. "I remember some of these kids from when I was a player here and it's really fun to see how much they have matured as basketball players. It's also fun to be back around coach and the guys as well." Price spoke to campers and told them that hard work, dedication and faith will help them become better basketball players as well as better individuals throughout their lives. He also talked to them about the importance of confidence and when you are confident in your game and your abilities you will get much better on and off the court. Price is a six-year veteran of the NBA and has spent the past four seasons with the Utah Jazz. Before that he played two years with the Sacramento Kings. Price attributes much of his success at Utah Valley and in the NBA to the time he spent playing for and learning from Hunsaker. "Hunsaker is by far the best coach that I've ever had," Price added. "I learned the most that I ever have ever learned in my life about the game of basketball in my three years that I was here Volleyball announces schedule for 2011 season OREM, Utah - Utah Valley University women's volleyball head man Sam Atoa released his 2011 schedule recently and it includes two home tournaments and dates against three in-state foes. The schedule also includes home matches against big name programs such as Michigan, Cal Poly, Santa Clara and Syracuse and a full 10-match Great West Conference schedule. The season will culminate with the GWC Championships that will be held in Grand Forks, N.D., Nov. 17-19. The Wolverines, who went 21-11 a year ago, will have their work cut out for them right from the start as they'll begin the year by hosting stiff competition at the Wolverine Invitational on Aug. 2627. There UVU will square off against Illinois State, Cal State Bakersfield and Northern Arizona. The following weekend the Wolverines will host the La Quinta Inn & Suites Invitational and will battle with their Wolverine counterparts from Ann Arbor, Mich. in the University of Michigan, Cal Poly and Santa Clara. On Labor Day UVU will host Syracuse University for a matinee match and the following night the BYUHawai'i Seasiders will come to town. The Wolverines will then hit the road in mid-September for two more tournaments. The first will be at the Air Force Academy where UVU will with him Now that I am no longer a player of his, he has become a great friend. I still learn a lot from him and even though I'm a professional now I listen to ever word he has to say to me and I appreciate that he will still critique my game. It means a lot to me that I'll always have a friend in him." Price wasn't the only professional basketball player and former UVU star to stop by Hunsaker's camp this week. Former shooting great Ryan Toolson came by and spent some time with campers this past Tuesday afternoon. Toolson was a fouryear standout at UVU and has played professionally oversees the past couple of seasons in Turkey and Italy. Outfielder Benson makes all-conference 1st team OREM, Utah - Utah Valley University's Chris Benson has been named to the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Midwest All-Region Second Team for the second straight season. The senior outfielder, who led the Wolverines to their second consecutive Great West Conference regular season and tournament championships in late May, batted .400 on the year and currently ranks third in the country with 100 hits. Benson earned Great West All-Conference First Team honors in 2011 and was also named conference tournament MVP for the second WW W,WOLVERIN fOR SUMMER: consecutive year. He finished his career with .381 average, 348 hits, 205 runs, 23 home runs, 74 doubles and 22 triples. Benson also earned All-Region accolades in 2010 after batting .408 and leading the nation with 89 runs batted in. square off with the Falcons, Northern Arizona and South Carolina Upstate. The following week UVU will travel to Moraga, Calif. to take part at St. Mary's tournament. In Moraga the Wolverines will battle with St. Mary's, Kansas State and Sacramento State. UVU will then take on its first in-state foe on Sept. 20 in Ogden, when it battles with Weber State. The very next night the Wolverines will be in Pocatello to go one-on-one with Idaho State. The Wolverines will then begin their conference season on Oct. 1, in Grand Forks, N.D., with a match against the two-time defending champs in the North Dakota Fighting Sioux. UVU will then come home the next week and will welcome its first home GWC matches of the year when Chicago State and NJIT come to town. The Wolverines will also take on Houston Baptist and Texas-Pan American in home and home contests. UVU will travel to Boise to take on Boise State on Oct. 10; the Broncos will then return the favor by coming to Orem on Nov. 1. UVU will finish off its non-conference season by hosting Utah State on Nov. 3 and Southern Utah on Nov. 8. Senior day will then come on Nov. 11 for the Wolverines when UND comes to town. To view the complete schedule please visit http:// www.wolverinegreen.com/ sports/w-volley/sched/utvaw-volley-sched.html. ganization goes into things," Peterson said. The run, which was held on June 4th, was more than Peterson and Charles could have imagined. Aside from a great showing from Orem, many of Jacbos' collegiate teammates made the trip back to Utah to support her. "We had people from Texas that came to the run," Peterson said. The preregistration event was a huge success. While the duo only expected a few runners to participate, they got a much more overwhelming response. The day of the race, runners showed up to run for Jacobs by the hundreds. There were so many participants, they ran out of running bibs to give the runners. "We printed over 300 shirts for preregistration," Charles said. "We ran out." Peterson's mother also stepped in to help raise money for Jacobs, creating Camie's Corner, a booth that sold discounted, handmade jewelry and other trinkets. The duo raised nearly $10,000. All of it went toward Jacobs' treatments. Peterson and Charles admit that while the cancer is not a good thing, it helped to unite the team. Jacobs is now working with Peterson and Charles to hold another charity run next year, with all proceeds going to someone in need. "Having cancer hasn't changed her," said Peterson. "She's still the same person." Even if she has changed everyone else. For complete details on Camie's Run including how to register to participate or make a donation, search for "Camie's Run" on Facebook. ECROSSING•C RATES LEASE 1111111-1114 48 VIOURS Of YOUR TOUR, PAD INE'll TAKE. $100 OFF YOUR SECURITY DEPOSIT. P RATES ZTARTING Al REDEEM THIS AD 014 A TOUR DURING THE MONTH 1 AND GET A $10 ITUNES GIFT CARD! OF 11111 OPEN TILL 8 PM MOST NIGHTS OINI TEXT .17(.1‘11, US N FOR s-0000 TO 1 9311-43 MOPE INFO /\/\"\- • "WOLVERINE" 47464 1111 5.1350 *CALL LEASING OFFICE FOR DETAILS, SOME RESTRICTIONS APPLY. W.OREM, UT 84058 |