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Show Page 4 Times Newspaper Thursday, December 28, 2000 LaVell Edwards speaks at Orem High football awards banquet BY PATRICIA KNOELL Times Reporter There were many predictions of gloom and doom for the world in general as the year 2000 began. None was gloomier than what Region 3 coaches projected for Orem High School's football program pro-gram and first year coach Alex Jacobson. The region mentors picked Orem to finish seventh in the seven-team league. But Jacobson didn't accept that for a second, and, after a season-opening season-opening loss, his charges didn't loose again until final regular season sea-son game and then made it to the state quarterfinals, before getting nipped by the eventual state champions. This was the team that was honored last week at the annual Orem High football awards banquet. ban-quet. Jacobson wanted to make the banquet for this group a memorable memo-rable one, and he did just that bringing in newly retired legendary legend-ary BYU coach LaVell Edwards (a graduate of Lincoln High School, the forerunner to Orem High) to speak to the group prior to giving out the team awards. Edwards talked about his Orem ties and mentioned that the school should be proud of the fact that his successor, Gary Crowton, is also an alumnus of the school. "If Gary coaches for 30 years, we'll have a combined 60 years of Orem graduates coaching BYU," he said. "That's amazing. It shows the quality of Orem." Edwards went on to say that he was proud of the great tradition of Orem High football and was excited to see Jacobson become the latest in a long line of great coaches. "I can't tell you how many times Alex came over to talk to me after he got this job," Edwards said. "And I know he's worked with others as well. He works hard and really wants to learn." Edwards went on to say speak of two ways he used to turn BYU from a loser into a winner. "When I was hired as head coach at BYU after being an assistant as-sistant for eight years, they called me into a meeting and told me all the reasons that BYU couldn't win the main one being that it never had. So the first thing I did was set about to change the image im-age the team had of itself. I started to emphasize what we did have instead of what we didn't and I got the team thinking in those terms as well. "The second thing I worked on was to get the players to think in terms of team. Championships are not always won by the most talented teams, but by the ones that play as a team. They're the ones that learn how to trust each other and support each other." Edwards added that championship champion-ship squads also had to learn how P wr if Su in -' - ' 1 r ' ft: -ii i --" - i- s --- -- " (From left): Jay Hinton of the Deseret News presents Brandon Bran-don Hale, Brandon Henrie, Jonny Harline, Eric Freeman and Josh Terry Deseret News All-State honors at the recent Orem High football awards banquet. i '"7 r-Ti J r v i il ' TW... ( It ...i ; -I- 1 Salt Lake Tribune All State Honorable Mention and Second Team honors went to (from left): Martin Heimuli, Brandon Henrie, Kevin Norris and Bob Thomas. r -r't .. hr.-A . ' III v- - i ,n r-mlft: to deal with adversity and setbacks. set-backs. "There's always something that goes wrong," he said. "You can't prevent problems, what determines deter-mines a champion is how you deal with thosa problems." He illustrated that point with a story of a quarterback who was blindsided by one of h is defensive teammates during practice. Groggy and shaky, the player asked to remain in for the next series of plays. "We called the same play he got hit on," Edwards recalled. "And we watched him closely. If he had taken his eyes off down field and looked to see if the tackle was coming through again, he would never have been our quarterback. If you take your eye off the focus, you'll never be able to do the job. Ten Star All Star basketball camp applications being evaluated Applications are now being evaluated for The Ten Star All Star Summer Basketball Camp. Boys, ages 8-19, and Girls, ages 10-19, can apply. Players are selected se-lected by invitation only. i Past participants include: Michael Jordan, Tim Duncan, Vince Carter, Jerry Stackhouse, Grant Hill, Bobby Hurley, Antawn Jamison, Christian Laettner, Tom Gugliotta, and Trajan Lagndon. Camp locations include: Redlands, CA; Thousand, Oaks, CA; Sackville, N.B. Canada; Babson park, FL; Gainesville, GA; Champaign, IL; Macomb, IL; Greencastle, IN; Atchison, KS; Midway, KY; Hillside, MI; Saint. Paul, MN; Fayette, MO; Rochester, Roches-ter, NY; Boiling Springs, NC; North Canton, OH; Lock Haven, PA; Bristol, RI; Lebanon, TN; commerce, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Blacksburg, VA; and Olympia, WA. The great players are the ones who get knocked down and get back up again." Following Edwards' remarks, Jacobson gave the Orem High Football Distinguished Alumni Award to Crowton before turning the time over to members of the print media to announce the players play-ers receiving all-state and all-valley honors, as named by the three daily papers who cover Orem sports. The Deseret News First Team All-State honorees were, kicker Josh Terry, offensive lineman Eric Freeman and wide receiver Jonny Harline. Second team honors went to defensive back Brandon Henrie and academic acknowledgment acknowledg-ment to Brandon Hale. The Salt Lake Tribune named Freeman and Harline to its first team, Henrie, and quarterback Martin Heimuli to its second team and Bob Thomas and Kevin Norris were honorable mention. The Daily Herald Ml Valley Team (referred to as "difference-makers" "difference-makers" by prep editor Darnell Dickson) consisted of running back Troy Sheide, Freeman and Coach of the Year, Jacobson.. In an unusual move, the coaches' award for Offensive Player of the Year went to lineman line-man Freeman. Henrie was named Defensive Player of the Year, Terry Special Teams Player of the Year, Harline overall Player of the Year and Joe Shurtz was given the Tiger PAW (Pride, Attitude and Work) Award. New BYU coach Gary Crowton (left) is given the Distinguished Distin-guished Alumni Award by Tiger coach Alex Jacobson at the Orem High football awards banquet in mid December. College basketball scholarships are possible for players named to The All-American Team. 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Karate Sessions- (thru May) Fees $8-24month Baton - (Jan-July) $30 Mem.$35 Non-mem. 10 OFF SEMI- ANNUAL PASSES Former BYU coach LaVell Edwards speaks to the Orem High football team at its annual awards banquet in mid December. Decem-ber. insfrmfors needed A chance tot each young hunters hunt-ers to be Safe," responsible and ethical awaits those who volunteer volun-teer to become Hunter Education course instructors. The Division of Wildlife Resources Re-sources is seeking new instructors to teach in the northern and central cen-tral parts of the state and will be holding Hunter Education course instructor training in January and February to certify new instructors. in-structors. Instructor training runs two night a week, for three weeks. Seminars will be held at the following fol-lowing locations: Park City - starts January 8, Mondays and Tuesdays, 7-10 p.m. at the Park City Wal-Mart, 6545 Landmark Dr. Salt Lake City - starts January 31, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 7-' 7-' 10 p.m. at the Department of Natural Resources, 1594 W North Temple. Springville - starts February 26, Mondays and Tuesdays, 7-10 p.m. at the DWR Springville office, 1115 N. Main. The instructor training is free. To be an instructor, a person must be at least 21-years-old and must be cleared through a background check. Prior experience in teaching teach-ing is not required. "In addition to getting people familiar with what the course teaches, we also teach people how to be good teachers," said Mark Bearnson, assistant hunter education edu-cation coordinator for the Division Divi-sion of Wildlife Resources. "We focus a lot on teaching techniques and how to relate to the young audience that instructors typically typi-cally teach." After being certified new instructors in-structors must teach, or assist another instructor in teaching, at least one student course each year. Instructors are also required to attend a four-hour training seminar each year. Seminars are held throughout the state. ' Those interested in attending the instructor training are encouraged en-couraged to preregister by calling 1-800-397-6999. They also may register the first night of class. Instructors aren't paid for teaching but they do receive a lot of rewards. "The biggest reward I think a hunter education instructor can , have is the knowledge that they have had a positive impact on the life of a young hunter," Bearnson said. "The information in the course is very positive and ethics and safety oriented. The knowledge knowl-edge that the instructor has i played a role in teaching a young ' hunter those things, you can't put a price tag on that." Bearnson also said that instructors instruc-tors do much to further the sport of hunting. "Throughout the course responsibility and ethics is taught and being able to tie everything ev-erything that's taught in the course back to one's ethical conduct con-duct is very, very important and something these young people will carry forever," he said. Utah Lake white bass error in Fishing Proclamation An error in the 2001 Utah Fishing Fish-ing Proclamation has left anglers thinking there is now a limit on the number of white bass they may keep at Utah Lake. Beginning Jan. 1, 2001, there will be a limit on the number of biack bass (smallmouth and large-mouth large-mouth bass) anglers may keep at Utah Lake but there will not be limit on white bass. Utah Lake anglers are encouraged encour-aged to catch and keep all the white bass they can eat. "It is not the intention of the Division of Wildlife Resources to limit the take of white bass at Utah Lake," said Scott Root, Central Cen-tral Region conservation outreach manager for the Division of Wildlife Wild-life Resources. "White bass are a very popular fish to catch at the lake," Root said. "The lake has a large population popu-lation of white bass that need to be harvested to maintain a healthy ecosystem and a balance with the other species of fish in the lake. , "As long as legal fishing methods meth-ods are used, angiers can keep any number and any size of white bass caught at Utah Lake," Root said. Beginning Jan. 1, 2001, the biack bass limit at Utah Lake will be 6 bass. All black bass over 12 inches must be immediately released. re-leased. For more information call the ' Division of Wildlife Resources' Central Region office at (801) 489-5678. IPHAT) r . 1 fl I f "V |