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Show 8 Friday, April 13,2007 Take Note: The womens' tennis team lost to Boise State yesterday, 5-2. 797-1761 sports@statesman.usu.edu Unfinished business Down I Line [SjDorts Notes;___ j Aggie hoops signs another JC big man Team looks forward to next year at awards banquet Hilliard, team manager Jon Eccles and team doctor Jim Davis - handed out team awards. The USU hockey team's To kick things off, Will season-ending banquet at Winsa, Terry Camp and Hamilton's on Wednesday Ryan Hammonds were was part award ceremony recognized as members of and part farewell to three the 3.0 GPA Club. Walter seniors, but mostly it was a Voisard was then recogspringboard for next season. nized for achieving 4.0 The evening's theme GPAs. Hashimoto was could have easily been recognized as an honorary "Unfinished Business." member of the 4.0 Club. Although the Aggies The team's vote for Most rewrote their record books Valuable Player resulted in and had players lead the a tie between goalie Greg nation in goals, assists and Finatti and wing Kent points, and although the Arsenault. Finatti was a team had its best record wall in net this year, while ever, the season's defining Arsenault scribbled his moment was the crushing name all over nearly every home-ice loss to Colorado major offensive statistical University at Regionals. category. Assistant Coach Ned Freshman Terry Camp Hilliard delivered a stirreceived the Most Improved ring speech, vowing to be Player award, which tougher on the players and Crossley said he locked up to whip the team into shape by scoring a breakaway goal next year. Head Coach Jerry against BYU on March 1. Crossley also told the team Jordan Francom was the they should not be satisnext player to receive an fied with where they ended award, walking away with up, sitting at home for the a new hood ornament, the ACHA Nationals. Raging Bull award, which Crossley noted two teams is presented annually to the — Eastern Washington and best blood-and-guts player. Colorado State - that USU Francom also won the Best tied and beat respectively, Defenseman award. made it to the ACHA final Arsenault swept the four. next three awards, winning "We got through this plaques for Most Goals, every year," Aggie right Most Points and Rookie of wing Robert Hashimoto the Year. said. "At the end of the Commenting on the banquet they always talk crowded field of rookies about next season. I'm who played for USU this really excited about next year, Hashimoto said, "If season because they've Geer would have come last got sophomores coming year, he could have gotback and great leaders. It's it, if Mickea (Filander) never about the present, it's ten would have come next year always about the past and he could have gotten it. So future of USU hockey." many good players are comAfter a meal, the USU ing back next year. There's a coaching staff- Crossley, strong foundation." BY ATHLETIC M E D I A BY C . CHRISTOPHER TERRY Senior Writer 6. ChmtopherTerry/grahomsiccusv.edu USU ROOKIE WING KENT ARSENAULT accepts one of his team-high five awards from Team Manager Jon Eccles. Arsenault received the Rookie of the Year, Most Points/Goals, Best Forward, Most Valuable Player, and a Record-Breaker award. The two Swedish forwards, Michael Filander and Will Winsa, split the Utility Player award after both skated on the top line, played penalty kill and power play all season. "What I noticed is, Swede and I weren't getting scored on a lot this year. We probably have one of the best plus/minuses on the team this year. It's because of Swede and Mickea playing great defense. Swede playing center helped a lot because he blocked the front of the net," Hashi said of his Swedish linemates. Hashimoto won the Assist Leader award after leading the nation in assists. Arsenault won his fourth plaque with the Best Forward award. Next Francom, Finatti and Hashimoto received Record Breaker awards for rewriting the USU records for points by a defenseman, saves and assists respectively. Arsenault's team-high plaque collection also continued to pile up as he was honored for breaking the single-season goals and sin- gle-season points records. "Kent deserves all five of those awards..He worked hard this season," Hashi said. Hashimoto, the ace student and model citizen, was the recipient of the Coaches Award, after all the prizes had been distributed but one. Hashi said this award from the coaching staff meant the most to him because "every year only one • UNFINISHED see page 9 Aggie sprinter looking to enter restaurant business pointed because I messed up my first part of the race and I could have run faster had I Utah Statesman: What had a clean race. But to run does it mean for you to be that fast this early is just named Athlete of the Week? amazing. I don't even know DJ Smith: It's a good what the future has for me. feeling. It just shows that all US: Does that time that hard work that I put in qualify you for Nationals or the first semester and secRegionals? ond semester paid off. DS: It qualifies me for US: Track is a team Regionals, but if I do poorly sport. However, you all at Regionals, that time compete in separate events. could get me an at-large How much into nationals. do you focus US: What on what the is the qualifyteam is doing ing time for as opposed Nationals? to your indi- fitNetejifthe Week DS: It is vidual events? 10.25 (seconds), DS: At this DJ Smith, but they take senior, nutripoint and the top fastest time, I focus tion major, times ran that more about year. So that Pleasanton, myself. I still should be good Calif. worry about enough time team, but (for me). I'm towards connot counting on Set the USU record in the 100ference I will it, but it should. meter dash at the Weber State start worryUS: What ing about the mmmwmmmmInvitational. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ are your perwhole time ^—• sonal goals for and worry the year? about myself less. DS: I want to break the US: You set a school school record in the 200, record in the 100-meter race be WAC champion in the with a time of 10.28. How 100, 200 and 4x100 (relay). do you feel about that? Go to Regions and place in - i>JS; It's my third record the top five. Actually I want t h a t ! have-broken, but I to win Region at 100, and have always been shoot- -~ - go to Nationals again. Alling for the outdoor 10.0,._ American is my ultimate and when I got it I couldift • goal. believe it, to be honest with US: How far off are you you. I was a little disapin the 200 from the school BY SAM BRYNER Staff Writer Photo courtesy Mike Terry MEMBERS OF THE USU SNOWBOARDING CLUB pose after they placed third at the Red Bull College Challenge in Park City Saturday. Aggie snowboarders place third at Red Bull BY DAVID BAKER * Staff Writer Basketball has the Old Oquirrh Basket to determine the best team in Utah. Snowboarding has the second annual Red Bull College Challenge. USU may not have won the Old Oquirrh Basket since the 2004-2005 season, but it did win the first Red Bull College Challenge. Last Saturday, a group of six USU students went down to Park City Mountain Resort to compete against four other schools from Utah - the University of Utah, UVSC, BYU and Weber State — in a snowboarding competition sponsored by Red Bull. USU's team was put together by the Freeride Club. There were four guys - Bryan "Jersey" LaBar, Josh Ruggles, Jason Baugh and Chan the mystery man (no one knows his last name). There were also two girls, Ashlee Cresswell and Hannah Williams. Each team was judged on two runs on jumps and two on rails. The Utes won the competition. They took home • RED BULL see page 9 Top Honors RELATIONS For the second time in the last three years USU's men's basketball team will welcome a junior college AilAmerican to its program. Coach Stew Morrill announced Wednesday the signing of Gary Wilkinson (South Jordan. Utah) to a National Letter of Intent to compete for the Aggies beginning in the 2007-08 season. Wilkinson, a 6-9, 240pound forward, just completed his sophomore season at Salt Lake Community College. He will have two years of eligibility with USU. He joins former Aggie Chaz Spicer (Indianapolis, Ind.,) as junior college AllAmericans who have signed with USU under Morrill. "Gary is an important addition to our basketball program," said Morrill. "His size and ability will give us more firepower at our post positions. "He possesses great hands and excellent touch and is a mature young man," Morrill said. "Gary has been very well coached in junior college and we are delighted to welcome him and his wife Jessica to our USU family." USU spikers sign two for 2007 season BY ATHLETIC M E D I A RELATIONS USU's women's volleyball coach Grayson DuBose announced Wednesday the signing of Kris Hymas and Jessalyn Payne to National Letters of Intent to compete for the Aggies beginning in the 2007 season. Hymas will have two years of eligibility with USU, while Payne will have three years. Hymas, a 5-11 outside hitter from Salt Lake Community College, earned first-team all-region and second-team All-America honors this past year. Payne, a 6-0 outside/ opposite side hitter, played in 127 games as a redshirt freshman at Arkansas State and averaged 3.30 kills, 1.96 digs, and 0.69 blocks, while hitting .218. During the year, she recorded a season-high 23 kills twice and hit a season-high .433 against Louisiana-Monroe. record? DS: Another tenth (of a second). US: What does it feel like to be so fast? DS: I don't even think about it like that. I am humble when it comes to my speed. When I run fast, I am happy and I show myself that I am happy and I don't really show others. I try not to rub it in everyone else's faces. I have always run fast since I was a little kid, so it's not something that is new to me. I have been around it all my life. US: How did you get into running? DS: I originally wanted BY ATHLETIC M E D I A RELATIONS to do football. I was in the seventh or eighth grade, and USU's men's basketso I joined the football team, but I missed my high school ball team held its annual postseason banquet on football team my freshman Wednesday evening, honoryear. My mom said, "Why ing the 2006-07 team that don't you do track so you posted a 23-12 record and will stay conditioned? That advanced to postseason way when the next year play for the eighth straight comes around for football, season as it participated then you will be cool." So in the National Invitation I did it my first year and went pretty far with it actu- Tournament. USU recognized its ally. I went to State my first all-Western Athletic year doing track, and I was Conference honoree in pretty psyched about that. junior guard Jaycee Carroll US: The USU football (first team), along with team could use some speed. its two players that were Has that thought crossed named to the WAC's allyour mind? tournament team in Carroll DS: No, no. (Laughing) and Chaz Spicer. US: Do you see running USU also honored Carroll for being named the PRINTER WAC's Player of the Week. see page 9 Carroll, Spicer honored at USU banquet |
