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Show Wednesday, December 8,2004 Sports Sports Editor: Ryan Howe Phone: 626-7983 Lost ski ruins day on slopes I'LL TRY ANYTHING By KELLY MAW asst. sports editor The Signpost There's only one good thing that can be said about winter. It's not sledding, it's not skiing, it's not ice skating or anything that has to do with cold and snow. The best part about winter is being inside where it's warm and dry. Up until last weekend, winter was my favorite time of year. Saturday, i went skiing at Snowbasin. I thought it would be a good idea to go skiing and tell everybody how sweet it was in my column. But after Saturday - shoot, I don't even like to make snowmen anymore. The day actually started out pretty good. I woke up early at about 9:30 a.m. I enjoyed a hearty breakfast of cold pizza and flat Mountain Dew, pulled on my long Johns and threw my skis in the jeep. I picked up my friends Tyler Schvaneveldt and Justin Rogers and made it to the resort about 11. It was my first time up this year, and I still had to pick up my season pass. Basin offers a pretty good deal to students for a season pass ($495), but in order to get the discount, you have to provide proof that you've paid for spring semester. Otherwise, you pay full price ($875) and they'll reimburse you after you pay for school. So with my credit card now maxed out and my skis waxed up, we were finally ready to hit the slopes. We'd only planned to stay for a couple of hours, but the snow proved to be much better than we'd Soccer team earns academic award By posting a team grade point average of 3.18, the Weber State women's soccer team earned the 2004 National Soccer Coaches Association America/Adidas Academic Award, "We are most proud of the outstanding accomplishments of our Big Sky champions on the field of play and in the classroom," said Athletic Director William J. Weidner. Volleyball duo named Big Sky Honorable Mention Skiing and snowboarding are the outdoor recreations of choice for most Utahns. expected, thanks in part to Basin's stateof-the-art snowmaking machines. The day rolled on, and it was just spectacular. While there still wasn't enough snow to open the whole mountain yet, there was plenty of white stuff to get lost in. So we kept going until about 3:15 in the afternoon. "OK, let's take one last run and then we'll head home," Schvaneveldt said. "I've about had it." "Yeah, I've got be to work at 5, so we'd better hurry," Rogers said. Even though I was having a great time and could've easily stayed til! closing, it was definitely time to go. The other two headed down one way Lindsay Harris and Kolbie Murphey were both named to the Big Sky to look for some jumps while I headed Honorable Mention team. down a run called Powderhound. It's The team is voted upon by the usually a sweet powder run, but at this conference's head coaches. time of year it's crud mixed with fake Harris, a senior, finished third in the snow from the snowmakers. league in blocks with an average of 1.53 1 was doing fine but I could feel my legs blocks per game. getting wobbly, so I started to head back Murphey, a freshman, was fifth in the to the groomer to coast to the parking lot. conference in blocks at 1.16 bpg. I was probably a third of the way down and almost back to the groomed run WSU women host Utah when a gremlin jumped out and ripped off my ski! The Wildcat women's basketball OK, there was no gremlin. My ski tip team will take on the University of Utah got under the snow and I popped out of Thursday at the Dee Events Center in its my binding. This usually wouldn't be a big first home game of the season. WSU is 4-2 on the season. Tipoff is See Ski page 1 7 slated for 7 p.m. Experience helps team develop character By B] BECKMAN sr. sports reporter The Signpost One of the main challenges with a team that features only a few returning players from the year before is the amount of teaching that is required. Players who are new to the program must learn and adapt to a new system very quickly so that the team can progress and become competitive as soon as possible. This is the boat Joe Cravens is in right now. Over the first five games of the season, his Wildcats have had flashes of excellence but have equaled those moments with others that have left Cravens massaging his temples. Cravens knew how much work would be involved. He is working to transform a team of strangers into a family on the court, one that plays with chemistry and intensity. The team is on that long road called "progress" right now, but with a brutal December schedule ahead of them - the 'Cats play at Utah and Utah State and host BYU all in the coming three weeks - and the conference schedule right around the corner, Cravens' squad will need to get things rolling quickly. Weber State wrapped up a three-game road trip Saturday nighi, losing to Wisconsin-Green Bay by the score of 82-62. They CAPPOUNO IS CrfrririeD AS AoovtiOiHcns NOT CrRTif t o Yow11fiwt>the Treasure at the SchoUrSHW Office!!! See Experience page 17 VIOXX/BEXTRA have been (inked to h e a r t a t t a c k s a n d s t r o k e s as described in The Lancet, a respected medical journal. If you or a loved one have suffered a heart attack or stroke which may be linked to one of these drugs, call us for professional insight. J MafiesH NO FEE FOR FIRST VISIT Ryan A. Krebs, M.D.J.D. Doctor-Lawyer in Full-time IJW Pranke Timothy R. Cappolino, RC. 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