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Show DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE 10 Wednesday, April 28, 2010 OREGON PETERSON HENDERSON FIELDSTED GYMNASTICS continued from Page 7 continued from Page 7 continued from Page 8 continued from Page 7 continued from Page 9 "We're not going to take this loss into next week," Robert Johnson said. "We're going to come back with our minds right and play Utah Utes football." Even though the Utes' chances of returning to the Bowl Championship Series are unlikely after the loss, the players don't take it as a huge blow to the season and said they think they can still be successful. "We've got a lot of football ahead of us," Whittingham said. "Our first and foremost goal every year is to win the Mountain West Conference Championship, and this has done nothing to derail that. We've certainly got a lot of things to work on and a lot of areas to improve." pfieldsted@ chronicle.utah.edu all of you. Everything you do and every team you support is completely lame—with the exception of the Utes, of course. Speaking of the Utes, I never followed college sports as closely as I did while sharing office space with the sports section. And to my surprise, I love sports, so thanks for that. I now have a dozen more websites to waste time on. I appreciate the countless "hater" songs dedicated to me. And I'm sure the incessant old-man jokes aimed at this 27-year-old are really thinly veiled admissions of undying love and affection for me. Lastly, to the countless hours spent in the Chrony office eating pizza, thanks for the extra pounds along with cherished and sometimes stressful memories. And, for the record, I hate pepperoni. j.peterson@chronicle.utah.edu team members' transfers. "Some guys would bring it, some guys wouldn't, instead of just everyone bringing it every single night," Henderson said. "That did affect the team unity—we never really figured out each other. I definitely think they're moving in the correct direction now I think the unity is really forming right now There are guys there that have bought into (Boylen's program) both on and off the court. I think the guys that are still there are really coming together. I think it'll be interesting to watch." Boylen said despite the setbacks, he hasn't lost focus of his goals for the team. "My goal and my responsibility is to get this team playing 'Utah basketball,' and I look forward to leading the charge," Boylen said. "I am confident that next year's team will improve and be successful." m.mangum@chronicle.utah.edu of writing stories. But back to the lessons I've learned: One: You can't rush greatness, no matter the deadline or subject matter. Two: 12-hour car rides to San Diego will ensure you know more about your co-workers than you ever wanted to. Three: People can and will make up really lame excuses to cover their asses. Four: No matter how many times Mango tells us he's not gay, no one ever believes him. Five: Being the only girl in the room who actually knows the meaning of a safety in football, a balk in baseball or an and-one in basketball makes you feel like the shit. Six: Never ever leave your Facebook page open and unattended, or bad things will happen to your status. Last, but certainly not least, no matter how many times someone makes a "your mom" joke, it's always going to be funny. Goodbye to The Chrony and the U, hello real world: Get ready, 'cause here we come. pfieldsted@chronicle.utah.edu fell in their final team competition as Red Rocks. Marsden said he felt that after bars, the team had a little bit too much energy heading into the beam. "We were just a little too hyped up," Marsden said. "As has happened from time to time this year, we rushed a little bit and couldn't get in a rhythm, and we just tried a little bit too hard." Following the disappointment on beam, the Red Rocks recovered to post respectable scores on both the vault and floor, but in the end, it wasn't enough to put them in the running for the title. Utah was the only team to not score above a 197. "The team has to really work hard to put that behind them and be ready to compete on the other events," Marsden said. "I was very proud of the way they competed on vault and floor." Despite being disappointed with the way the season finished, Marsden said the team knows life has to go on and that the returning gymnasts will use this as motivation for next season. "It's like I told them before regionals, no matter how the season ends, we always go the same way," Marsden said. "If we'd won, we would've celebrated, but tonight we'll console each other. But in a few days we'll be home and we've missed a week of class and we've got finals coming up. The seniors are going to graduate and go on to great things and the rest of us will use this as motivation to come back and do better next year." In the individual event finals Saturday night, four Red Rocks got one more chance to compete this season. Annie DiLuzio, Bijak and Deetscreek competed for the last time as Utes, and Kyndal Robarts finished out a stellar junior season. Robarts had the best performance of any Ute, finishing fifth on the beam with a score of 9.8625. Deetscreek tied for seventh on the beam with a score of 9.8375. Bijak placed nth on uneven bars with a score of 9.8, and DiLuzio finished seventh on the floor with a score of 9.875o. pfieldsted@ chronicle.utah.edu BOYLEN continued from Page 8 improve. Injury, newness, youngness are all factors—not excuses, but factors. We'll be new again and we'll be young again, but that can't be used as an excuse. People want us to win— that is what we're here for. I do think you're going to see a better offensive team this year." Boylen said the situations that led Matt Read, Jordan Cyphers, Carlon Brown and Marshall Henderson to leave the team were different. For Cyphers and Read, it was a matter of getting more playing time. "Carlon Brown, you saw his quotes—he wanted to explore all his opportunities," he said. "He's not going to play that way here. Henderson didn't want to be accountable for what happens off the court, and that's not how it's going to be here either." Boylen said all the drama that has surrounded the team following the season has made the players who are staying even more dedicated to the program. "It's hardened them, hardened their resolve, hardened their belief in this place and how we do it," Boylen said. "They've built stronger relationships. When a guy says, 'It's not a basketball decision,' and guys can read between the lines that he wants to do his own things off the floor, I think guys get that they know better than we do what's going on. Being a teammate is a conscious decision—it doesn't just happen. You have to consciously decide, 'I'm going to support my teammate and help us win whatever it takes.' We had some reluctancy of guys to assume those roles and share the ball, and that will be ELLIOTT continued from Page 9 Wicijowski said the team is confident in what the assistant coaches can do for the team. "Obviously, it's a really hard blow to us because we did all come to play for coach Elliott," Wicijowski said. "But at the same time I think that we are all still confident in the coaches that we will have next season, and we know that they will continue to make us better and everything will stay similar to how it was with coach Elliott." Stepping in as head coach will be Elliott's righthand man since 2007, Anthony Levrets. Levrets has 14 years of coaching experience from five col- different this year." Boylen also said that with some players leaving, it has given his team a chance to play Utah basketball the way it is meant to be played. "I think it strengthened our team and gave us a chance to play the right way, perform the right way and play Utah basketball," Boylen said. "Utah basketball is sharing the ball, trusting each other, playing defense, the golden rule—open man gets the ball. We didn't do a good job of that last year. We didn't do a good job of sharing the ball or trusting. Utah basketball is 16 to 18 assists a game—it's representing the school with toughness, grit and competitiveness." Despite what has gone on in the month and a half since the season ended with a loss to UNLV in the Mountain West Conference, Boylen said the team is leaving everything behind. leges. His enthusiasm for the game is something that refuses to go unnoticed, as he has often been seen as the emotional spark for the team on the bench. His outgoing attitude and passion could prove to be a nice change of pace for a roster with so many youngsters. "I think he is going to do a great job," Wicijowski said. "I am really confident and really happy that he's stepping in to take the head coaching job. I think he is going to have a lot of energy with us and bring a lot of intensity, and I think he will continue to make us a lot better next year." To fill the shoes of someone with a résumé like the one Elliott has built during her 31 years at Utah will be quite a challenge. In 27 years as head coach, Elliott has had 26 winning seasons, 15 Laundry Service Dirt Cheap! 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"I've got a together team—a team that cares, a team that's committed. We're going to move forward and get better, grow. We've added shooting, we've added scoring, which we need. I'm encouraged. I've never been more encouraged, I've never had a more together team. I've never had a team of guys that cares for each other as much as this group of guys, and that's important to me." Boylen said he is positive about what is in store for his team in the coming year and that he is expecting them to play good basketball. "I'm excited about our team," Boylen said. "I've never really felt better than I do right now about the guys we have, how hard they've worked, how much they care and the guys coming in. We've got talented, skilled guys coming in." pfieldsted@chronicle.utah.edu NCAA appearances—including an Elite Eight appearance and two Sweet Sixteen appearances-14 conference championships and is the Mountain West Conference's all-time winningest coach, with a record of 582-234 (.713). Levrets is well aware of these almost unfillable shoes and said he is not trying to replace Elliott, but will simply embrace the program she has built at Utah and do his best to carry on the tradition. "I was so honored to be hired by Elaine as an assistant when I first got the job here three years ago," Levrets said. "What she has done here, what she has accomplished here in this program is unbelievable— to be somewhere for 31 years. 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