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Show The Park Record -Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, July 2-5, 2005 B-3 Getting their kicks PHE-GHAHD OPEHIHG Park City fared well at the national Year-end tournament presented by Excel Karate League on June 24-25. AylaJo Mason, left, won a national title in girls black belt point sparring, fifth in black belt forms and third in continuous sparring. Jessica Goodwin won the title in girls intermediate advanced point sparring. Anna Amici obtained a fifth in forms and a third in intermediate advanced sparring. Sensei Marcia Mason took the crown in black belt women's fighting , runner -up in traditional and contemporary forms and third in self-defense. Students train at Wasatch Jlu Jitsu and Boxing and Sliver Mountain Sports Club under Mason and Sifu Seth Kitsmiller. COURTESY OF MARCIA MASON Utahfirstto claim top picks in NFL, NBA the state and the University of Utah," Smith, Utah's first Heisman Trophy finalist, said in a prepared statement Tuesday night. SALT LAKE ( T I Y (AP) Utah The state school at the loot of the athletic director Chris Hill can hoasl Wasatch Mountains east of downa lilllc to his colleagues who have town Salt Lake City is perhaps an much bigger budgets arid higher pro- unlikely candidate to turn out both file programs. top draft picks. Places like Texas and None of them have ever had the Ohio State with rich athletic traditop pick in the NBA and NFL drafts tions would sound more plausible. but it hasn't happened _ anywhere. in the same year. "It's a pretty amazing thing to Only a few places have come close. have both of our players go No. 1," Notre Dame had the top picks Hill said Wednesday. one year aparl when Austin Carr The teal became official Tuesday went first in the 1971 NBA draft and night when the Milwaukee Bucks Wall Patulski was No. I overall in the selected Andrew Bogut first overall NFL draft in'72. in the NBA draft. Bogut follows Illinois had two top fives in 1990: Alex Smith, the former Ute quarter- The Indianapolis Colls picked Jeff back who was selected by San George No. 1. while the Charlotte Francisco wiih the top NFL pick in Hornets took Kendall Gill fifth. April. Derrick Cole man of Syracuse was "Usually we get the kids that arc the top NBA pick that year, making good athletes, talented and just work him the first Orangeman to top very, very hard." Bogul said either draft since Heisman Trophy Wednesday in Milwaukee. "And I winner Ernie Davis went first to think that's really happened with Washington in 1962. myself and Alex. We both worked Michigan's Chris Webber was the hard in the weight room, worked first pick of the 1993 NBA draft, but hard in the classroom, worked hard a Wolverine hasnt gone first in the on the court and the field." football draft since Tom Harmon in - Several schools have had players 1941. taken fir^t in both drafts, but never in And basketball power Kentucky's the same year. only top pick was a football player _ "Il is great recognition for both Tim Couch in 1999. Bogut follows Smith as No. 1 selection "As the days have gone by, I've come to appreciate it more and more," Hill said. Just two years ago. Smith and Bogut were hardly known. Smith was the Ihird-slring quarterback, a gangly sophomore struggling to learn new coach Urban Meyer's spread offense. Bogut. meanwhile, had yet lo play a college game. The 7-foot center had led Australia to the 2003 world junior title, but nobody could predict how he would flourish at Utah. Bogut was The Associated Press college player of the year and the highest Ute taken in the draft since Keith Van Horn went second in 1997. Gelling top players to come to Utah, well known for being headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, hasn't been easy. "People who go to thai school aren't always the best recruits because, you know, obviously its a very hard city to recruit in." Bogut said. "Compared lo the North Carolines of the world, you know, if a kid's thinking about going lo North Carolina or Utah, you guys know where he's going to go." A member of the Mountain Wesl Conference, the Utesjusl don'I have the name recognition others enjoy. It SPA SALE TREASURE MOUNTAIN S SPAS COMIHG SOON TO QUARRY VILLAGE CNEXT TO HEW ALBERTSOHS) CALL TODAY 513-15G2 wasn't until recently that they slipped past rival Brigham Young as the states highest-profile college program. "We are in the Intermountain area and we're not in a big TV market. And that makes il all the more enjoyable," said Hill, who is in San Francisco this week for NCAA basketball committee meetings. " I t s pretty incredible and it shows it can happen from the University of Utah." Smith lopped his sophomore year by leading Utah lo a perfect 12-0 season as a junior, ending his college career with a rout of Pittsburgh in the Fiesta Bowl. The Utes were the first team from a non-Bowl Championship Series conference to get one of the eight elite BCS bids. Once football was done, Bogut and the basketball Utes ran away with the Mountain West regular season title. And Bogul was a clear favorite to be the top NBA pick if he left school early. "I think its about time the school got credit too," Bogut said during a return visit to Salt Lake City this month. " I t s a great school. I think our football and basketball are very good programs here. 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