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Show Cihen - Wednesday, March 27, 1991 - Page 10 Citizen Athlete of the Week: Chad Spence Hy DEAN VON MEMMOTT In the American Fork Cavemen's S'x cer preseason opener at Granger recently, the Lancers' goalkeeper lost hold of the ball. American Fork's Chad Spence chipped it in for the game's first goal. It was the first goal the junior had made in his varsity career. He scored another point later to help the Cavemen win 4-0. Playing left forward, Chad began be-gan h is soccer career as a five-year-old in Vancouver, Wash. "They took it (Little League soccer) pretty serious there," he recalls. He says his younger brother .Jeremy is playing for an Alpine soccer team. Three years ago, their family moved to Highland. During ninth grade, Chad went out for the Cavemen's soccer squad, but got cut. The next year, though, he made their junior varsity squad as a sophomore. To get himself ready this year, Chad played on an American Fork indoor soccer club which competed in Salt Lake County. The outfit took fourth in a recent national tournament held in the state. The Cavemen recently finished Alumni to open tourney The Fifth Annual American Fork Alumni basketball tournament will open on April 1 and will run to April 6. Twenty-one teams will be participating in the week-long affair. af-fair. Games will be held in the main atid new gyms. The time for opening open-ing tipoffs every night will be at 5:30. Admission fees are $2 for adults and $1 for high-school age students. Concert to iielp Stoneman A benefit variety concert to raise money for Provo's Shawn Stone-nan Stone-nan will be held at the American Fork High School April 13. The concert is sponsored by the Young Americans, an American Fork -based performing group, as well as Jennifer Nakan, Miss Utah; Marie Haag, Mrs. Utah; the Bean Family of Salt Lake City, National Sweetheart Krista Blackburn and others. Shawn Stoneman, a freshman at Provo High School, suffers from aplastic anemia, a disease that destroys the bone marrow's ability to produce blood cells. He is being kept alive by transfusion, trans-fusion, and hopes to raise enough money for a bone marrow transplant. trans-plant. The cost of the transplant will exceed $2!50,000. The American Fork concert is one of several efforts beingmade to raise enough money for Shawn to pay for a bone marrow transplant. SMI I I I DRUG CO. And Your Health 24 W. Main . Am. Fork 756-3569 Craig Thomas, Pharmacist Prescription Drug Studies: Four Phases There arc four steps or phases of testing that all prescription drugs must undergo before they are approved ap-proved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for general use by physicians and other prcscribcrs. Before phase one the drug must be tested in animals. This process determines whether or not the drug is safe and effective in test animals. It may take as much as two to three years to determine drug safely in nonhu-man nonhu-man subjects. Phase one is the first testing of the drug in humans. During this phase, researchers look at how the drug is absorbed, stored, distributed, distrib-uted, and eliminated. Side effects are checked for in this phase. Phase two tests for the effectiveness and the safety of the drug in humans. Phases one and two arc conducted on groups of up to 300 individuals and may take up to three or four years to complete. During phase three, the drug is evaluated in as many as 3,000 subjects. sub-jects. This is the last phase required re-quired by the FDA. If the drug is approved, it may be promoted and prescribed. Phase four studies occur oc-cur after the FDA has approved the u. u V routine use. According to a recent study at Tufts University, it takes, on average, 12 years and S221 million to conduct the first three phases of study leading to approval ap-proval by the FDA. - : :-?- t Chad Spence preseason play with a 2-4 record. Chad said, "We weren't really concerned con-cerned with it. We looked on our preseason games as scrimmages to get us ready for region. We had one of the toughest preseason schedules sched-ules in the state." The son of Ron and Karen Spence, the junior says his team learned a lot from the practice games. He added, "Our team's pretty confident confi-dent about winningregion." American Ameri-can Fork has not won a league crown since 1985. Chad says one team he would like to play again is Brighton. "The score of that game 5-1 J is no indication indi-cation of how we played at Brighton," he comments. "We played really good. They had a few corner kicks (7 ? 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