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THEGUARDIANONLINE.COMApril 30, 2014 Issue No. 30 Vol. 50WWW.THEGUARDIANONLINE.COM ISSUE NO. 21 VOL. 52MARCH 9, 2016
News
Future
Sports
“Deadpool” reviewPage 7
Men’s baseball defeats No. 8 team in the
nationPage 10
An interview with author Cory
SeemillerPage 4
Dayton: Most gluttonous city?
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Diversity on Stage:
Barriers are being broken in Wright State’s theatre
program with the recent de-but of theatre major Nerissa Johnson.
“A Streetcar Named De-sire” was performed in early February, and the production was not only successful but marked the first time in which an actor or actress with cere-bral palsy participated.
Cerebral palsy is an in-curable disorder due to ab-normal brain development with symptoms which affect speech, reflexes and move-ment, but this hasn’t stopped Nerissa Johnson, now a junior in the program, who explained that she has been waiting for her time on stage since she was six years old.
“I used to have my mom and dad act out fairy tales, and I would know if they were doing it wrong, and I would tell them what they should do instead,” said Johnson. “So I guess from then, we all learned that I was going to become someone in the theatre.”
“A Streetcar Named Desire,” where she played a flower vendor, was Johnson’s first of-ficial performance. She stated how the entirety of her in-volvement - from being ac-cepted into the program to participating in the play - has been incredibly positive.
“I was the first and only per-son with cerebral palsy to ever try out for the program, and the department has been so welcoming, so open. “Street-car” was the most amazing ex-perience.”
She was sure to mention the acceptance and support of the cast and crew
“My cast was very open, the crew was very supportive and without them, I couldn’t be here as an example for any-one who feels that they can’t do something. I couldn’t be a role model without them. And my director, Jason, was my act-ing teacher and he believed in me.”
Though some might doubt the possibilities for any dis-abled person in the theatre and film industry, Johnson knows that with her latest production, she’s showing her true strength as an actress.
“People ask me what I’m go-ing to do with a theatre studies degree, and this really showed them [my parents] that I have the support of Wright State. They don’t doubt me anymore, and the people back home are not doubting me because they know and they see I have the support of the department and the cast and crew.”
Johnson closed with a call to action for other members of the industry to accept a more diverse range of participants in terms of ability, hoping that her example can inspire for-
ward movement for others like her.
“This year is going to affect my career. It’s going to affect the stigma that people have about people with disabilities, that we can’t become a voice, that we can’t be in this indus-try,” Johnson said. “The indus-try should be representative of every moviegoer, and I think they should take my story and replicate it, not with me, but others. If I’m a fan, I want to be
in it, so I want my story taken and replicated with me and other actors or actresses, and just open up the doors a little more.”
With only one percent of actors and actresses in the industry bearing disabilities, Johnson’s statement rings deeply true, but an inspira-tional story such as this one marks a moment of change in the diversity of the theatre program.
Nerissa Johnson is breaking barriers and calling for change
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Nerissa Johnson, Junior, played a flower vendor in her first offi-cial performance, “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
Award-winning actor Tom Hanks will visit
Wright State’s campus next month with multiple activities and events planned.
During his visit, slated for April 19, Hanks will take the time to meet with students as well as be the special guest for a private gala held at the Nutter Center. This event will help to raise money for the Tom Hanks Scholarship and
Visiting Artist Program. In the afternoon time, currently planned for 3 p.m., will be the public event where Hanks will dedicate the renovated Mo-tion Pictures Center, newly named the Tom Hanks Motion Pictures Center. The center was part of the school’s $150 million Rise.Shine. campaign that Hanks co-chaired. More details about Hanks’ visit will be available in the coming weeks.
Tom Hanks’ visit confirmed
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Dayton ranks number four out of 10 as most
gluttonous city in America along side cities in Iowa, Pennsylvania, Louisiana and Wisconsin.
Gluttony is called one of the seven deadly sins and is defined in this context as overeating leading to weight gain and obesity, heavy or binge drinking and smoking.
“Lack of physical activity, poor nutrition, smoking and excessive alcohol abuse are the four leading causes of chronic disease and prema-ture death in this country,” Jennifer Turpin, assistant di-rector of fitness and wellness and instructor in the dep-tartment of kinesiology and health, said.
There are health risks to overindulging and they sometimes it can lead to
Overindulgence a problem for DaytonKelsey PowellContributing [email protected]
death.“Fifty-nine percent of
adults in Montgomery Coun-ty are overweight or obese,” assistant professor and pro-gram director of the public health education program Mary Kramer said after look-ing at the 2014 Montgomery County Health Assessment.
“One in four adults are tobacco smokers. Only 46 percent of adults get rec-ommended levels of physi-cal activity…Not only are we ranked poorly compared to other Ohio counties, but we have rates that are some of the worst in the country.”
“Much of the epidemic stems from lifestyle choices, bad habits formed in the home and lack of education about diet and exercise,” Boonshoft School of Medi-cine student Brent Schnipke said.
However, we have some tips to living a healthy and
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non-gluttonous lifestyle.“It is about balancing diet,
exercise, environment and daily choices. Everyone can improve their lifestyle by making difference choices but there is no right answer for everyone,” Schnipke said.
Turpin said there are four keys to healthy living and they consist of exercise, eat-ing five servings of fruits and vegetables every day, do something stress reducing every day and all lapses don’t have to end in relapse.
“The Get Up Montgomery County program actually breaks down all the research and data into something very simple. The healthy lifestyle prescription of ‘5-2-1-Almost None’,” Kramer said.
This ‘5-2-1-Almost None’ consists of five servings of fruits and vegetables each day, spend less than two hours of leisure time daily (Television, computer or
video games), get at least one hour of physical activity and drink “Almost None” of those sugary soda or juice-flavored drinks.
There are many things at WSU available to students looking to live a healthy life-style. Classes are offered in health and fitness, walking the long way to class and tak-ing the stairs and using the
gym also located in the stu-dent union.
“Social support is key to successful health behavior change for most people. I believe that if we focused on building healthy schools, communities and work places that value health and fitness, individual behavior would change,” Turpin said.
Tweets of the weekWurzApparently Wright State has a decent basketball team. Craaay.
christinathere are some interesting characters at wright state that is forrrrr sure
Josheph BauerI have lived in Dayton for almost 20 years (!!!) and I have never met an honest to good-ness Wright State basketball fan. They don’t exist.
ColtonLooks like I won’t be using the tunnels at Wright State this week an honest to
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Bruce HeintzWe had a blast shooting video footage on campus today. Man I love my job! #braggingWrightsJordan MavFunny how WRight State may make the tournament and Ohio State won’t! THE Wright State University!
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Generation Z (people who were born 1995-
2012) is on the up and up and they aren’t slowing down. Wright State’s own Corey Seemiller has done re-search on the generation and has recently released a book called “Generation Z Goes to College.”
We sat down and talked with Seemiller and asked her a few questions about Gen-eration Z and her book:
Q: What made you want to write a book about the up and coming Generation Z?
A: I saw the shift when Generation X shifted to Mil-lennials, and we started see-ing Millennials coming to college and realized that we just have to do things differ-ently because Millennials are now here. Everyone scram-bled around and changed the way we set up programs and learning. Then Genera-tion Z showed up, and no one noticed that they came. The first class was in sum-mer 2013 and I was working at another institution doing leadership and I noticed that the students were different and in order to better serve them and work with them we better figure out who they are, and no one was really researching them at all. So a colleague and I started our own study to look at them. It was a good thing that we did that because it helped us try to figure out how to make adjustments to our programs and classes by the time Gen-eration Z came.”
Q: What inspired you while writing this book?
A: “I was inspired to write the book because I thought that given the fact that it was hard for me to find informa-tion on Generation Z to help higher education and people who are teaching and run-ning programs even the peo-ple who work in financial aid and housing on college cam-puses. I thought, “Wow they could really benefit from
NEWS
Buffalo Business First, sister company to the
Dayton Business Journal, ranked the nation’s best pub-lic universities and Wright State remained unranked in the article’s “Lower Echelon,” which is the catch-all for the universities who did not rank in the top 250 of the 477 schools eligible for ranking.
Six Ohio schools made it into the ranking, the highest being The Ohio State Uni-versity, at 16 on the list, fol-
WSU unranked among the nation’s best public universities
Q & A about “Generation Z Goes to College” with author Corey Seemiller
lowed by Miami, University of Cincinnati, Ohio Univer-sity, Bowling Green State and Kent State.
The schools were judged in seven categories, which are selectivity, advancement, prestige, resources, costs, diversity and community. Buffalo Business First has compiled profiles for the top 250 to see how colleges per-formed in each of the catego-ries.
A list of all the colleges and information on criteria can be found on Buffalo Business First’s website.
Cameron SummersContributing [email protected]
knowing what we know,” and I wanted to be able to share that far and wide so that I could provide information. It’s 2016 and this is really the first book on them in higher education.”
Q: What are the biggest differences between Mil-lennials and Generation Z?
A: “There are a couple things that I think about. One is the way that the learning environments are set up. Mil-lennials were and are a very scheduled learners, so if you think about Millennials when they were kids they were whisked from karate from 4-5 and piano from 5-6. They had very scheduled learning, and when they came to col-lege they liked knowing what their scheduled learning was, it was very laid out for them. Generation Z is a just-in-time learning generation. They’re so used to being able to get whatever information they need whenever they need it, they don’t have to wait until 4 o’clock on Thursday in or-der to know karate, they just get on YouTube and look up karate and practice in their living rooms. So they are on a little more of an on-demand learning.”
Q: Is there an overlap between Millennials (born 1982-1994) and Genera-tion Z (born 1995-2012)?
A: “It’s interesting because I don’t know if Generation Z even identifies themselves as Generation Z, whereas a lot of Millennials know they’re Millennials. For the most part, those dates are
fairly arbitrary. Like 1995 just seemed like a good date and was just far enough away from the last date of the Mil-lennials, so it ends up being very fluid. You’re going to see people who end up on either side of the cusp looking very similar to each other, but when you get into the middle is where you’re going to see the most pronounced expe-rience. Also, the thing with generations is they’re en-tirely shaped by the context of which they exist.”
Q: Whom would you rec-ommend read your book?
A: “Well the first nine chapters are just plain about Generation Z and who they are. There’s a chapter about motivation and a chapter about relationships, a chap-ter about social media, so anyone interested in Genera-tion Z will benefit from the first nine chapters. It’s chap-ter ten that’s written for col-leges and universities. It has around 30 recommendations that colleges and universi-ties should consider with Generation Z. We wrote it in a way that you could just go into Barnes & Noble and pick it up and say “This is really fascinating.” I’m not Genera-tion Z, I don’t know anyone Generation Z and I still really enjoy this book and find it in-teresting.”
Dr. Seemiller’s book is ti-tled “Generation Z Goes to College” and copies are avail-able at local bookstores. To contact Seemiller with ques-tions, email her at [email protected] or call at 937-775-3280.
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The university’s lat-est endeavor involves
seeking a research partner-ship with the Federal Avia-tion Administration (FAA).
It is no secret that Wright State has ties to the aviation industry. From the univer-sity’s aerospace systems en-gineering program to Boon-shoft’s division of aerospace medicine, Wright State has always been on the frontlines when it comes developing and testing the latest avia-tion technology.
The FAA is constantly seek-ing the latest and greatest research for the aerospace industry. Currently, the FAA needs research to be con-ducted in the field of human performance as it relates to jobs in the aviation industry. Air traffic controllers, aero-space maintenance workers
WSU seeks research partnership with Federal Aviation AdministrationTravis SollarsContributing [email protected]
and more are all facing in-creasingly tough jobs as tech-nology increases at a rate faster than aviation workers can be properly trained.
Although the university’s primary area of research will be human performance, the Wright State Research In-stitute may be collaborating with the FAA on a number of other studies including un-manned aerial vehicle, drone and navigational technology. Whichever areas the univer-sity researches must have
the approval of the FAA.Wright State, along with
other universities in the area, plans to partner with the FAA and to complete the neces-sary research.
“The whole idea is to bring together government, indus-try and academia to better support the aviation, train-ing and human performance needs and improve the next generation airspace,” said Jennie Gallimore, the asso-ciate dean of research and graduate studies at Wright State’s College of Engineer-ing and Computer Science, in an interview with the Dayton Business Journal.
Wright State’s Research In-stitute has already submitted the proposal to the FAA, but will not receive a response until September of this year. If Wright State lands the deal, the university is expecting to pull in several million dollars for research over the next few years.
“The whole idea is to bring together govern-ment, industry and aca-demia to better support
the aviation, training and human performance
needs and improve the next generation air-
space,” Jennie Gallimore said.
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6Whiskermen: Local beard care items from a WSU grad
Dayton’s not Dead: Butter Cafe
Women in Motion conference
Beards are popular yet again, and if you want
to keep that neck-forest smooth and soft, you are going to have to lube it up. Whiskermen Beard Co., a lo-cal business selling all-natu-ral beard oils and products has been founded by two Wright State alumni.
Co-founder Ryan Black, as well as his partner Chris Paxton, graduated from WSU with a degree in Informa-tion Technology. Black, after taking a job at WSU, then re-ceived his Master’s Degree in Business Administration while working at the univer-sity.
After becoming irritated by the itch and dryness that accompanies unconditioned hair, Black decided to use his wife’s oils to treat his beard.
“I was going through that itchy dry stage and I would wear a black shirt and have beard-druff all over it,” Black said, “so I started doing a lit-tle experiment with the oils that my wife had, but I didn’t care for the scents. I started crafting a few of those myself and I was blown away by the effect. It took the itch away immediately and there was no beard-druff.”
Black then called Paxton
Looking for a brunch spot that offers gluten
free and vegan options? Look no further because the But-ter Café on Brown Street of-fers clean, organic entrees that will satisfy your dietary needs.
Opened more than five years ago by Amy Beaver, this eatery offers a fresh take on the traditional brunch experience and is one of the few local businesses in the area that exclusively serves breakfast and lunch. The cre-ation of the café stems from Beaver’s passion for cooking and food.
“My business partner and I would travel to a lot of differ-ent cities and eat out at dif-ferent restaurants,” Beaver said. “We got inspired by all the different places that we traveled, and just thought we would like to bring a little bit of everything that we liked in other cities here.”
The menu items offered are not necessarily diverse as one may think. It is basically
and began working toward a business that would craft oils and products targeted to help make beard growth a more pleasant experience.
Working primarily online, Whiskermen Beard Co. has sold to every state in the na-tion, and is sold in stores and barber shops in Columbus, Centerville and Vandalia.
Products include eight scented or unscented beard oils designed to benefit the hair and skin. That also in-cludes beard soap clean your whiskers, and beard butter and whisker tamer, designed to control your chin rug. All the products are handcraft-ed, all-natural and mostly lo-cally sourced: a few ingredi-ents are simply impossible to purchase within Ohio.
In addition to selling beard products, Black and Paxton host beard and mus-tache compe-titions across the state.
your standard breakfast and lunch joint, however what makes Butter Café stand out is its commitment to cleaner food options and the adher-ence to the farm-to-table concept. These two elements are what makes the restau-rant what it is according to Beaver.
Another element that sets the café apart is its alterna-tive dietary options. Beaver, who has both dairy and glu-ten allergies, provides sever-al gluten-free products to her customers as well as vegan options.
“A lot of our friends eat vegan and gluten-free and we just noticed that the op-tions weren’t really here,” Beaver said. “You can also reduce your carbon footprint by not eating meat, which is always good.”
The main focus of the full service eatery is involving the community in its busi-ness practices by using fresh local ingredients. Most of the produce and meat served is purchased locally when available and helps maintain the farm-to-table model.
“My favorite part is the events,” Black said. “They have absolutely been a blast. A lot of our friends come around and support us, so we get to see a lot of people we know, but we also know some of the guys that travel in and how they dress. We weren’t sure what to ex-pect and it’s not your typi-cal guys that decide to grow a beard. It’s these guys that travel to compete: they’re die-hard. The guy that won our Mustache competition had a mustache that was 13 inches long and dressed in an old fashioned golf outfit. These guys really get into it. Though I’m not one of them, I enjoy facilitating this envi-ronment. It’s very fun.”
Whiskermen Beard Co. products can be pur-
chased on their website. Stu-dents can also find them on Facebook and Twitter.
WRIGHT LIFE
The Dayton Contempo-rary Dance Company
is hosting Women in Mo-tion: Empowered by Dance, a women’s conference held Thursday, Mar. 10 to Satur-day Mar. 12 at the Schuster Center.
The conference lasts from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thurs-day, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday and 8:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday.
Tickets are available online at ticketcenterstage.com, through phone at 937- 228-
3630 or in person. Free park-ing is available for confer-ence attendees at the Dayton Convention Center multi-lev-el parking garage.
Conference workshops will be part of the event. Each workshop will examine the relationship of women to dif-ferent topics in the itinerary, such as education, finance and wealth, image and fash-ion, physical health, relation-ships and spirituality.
In addition to workshops, there will be multiple key-note speakers, including
Joyce Beatty, congresswom-an representing the third Congressional District of Ohio; Sylvia P. Flanagan, CEO of media company S.P. Fla-nagan Entertainment, LLC; Linda Rutherford, Vice Presi-dent and Chief Communica-tions Office for Southwest Airlines and Burnette Cling-man, founder of consulting, training and speaking firm Burnette Clingman Enter-prises.
For more information visit the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company’s website.Photo by Emily Nurrenbrock
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7WRIGHT LIFE
The fine arts may be an overlooked field, par-
ticularly when it comes to education, but Wright State adjunct faculty member Jim McCutcheon has brought a local and sincere appre-ciation for music and music education, having adored it nearly his entire life.
“My older sister loved the music of the Kingston Trio and the Brothers Four back in the 1950s, and let me listen to her records. She showed me how to play her ukulele and I was hooked,” McCutcheon said.
McCutcheon has received several awards, some from Wright State, and has ac-complishments ranging from hosting a long-standing
Celebrating musical talent with one of Wright State’s celebrated fine arts teachers
radio show to having pub-lished several compositions and books on guitar instruc-tion. Teaching music, though, wasn’t always his primary di-rection in life.
“I didn’t really get into teaching guitar to children until I had my own. My old-er son wanted to play when he was three years old, and that was the beginning of my training,” said McCutcheon. “Since then, I have written one method book specifically for young children and re-corded two CDs for them as well. I currently visit schools from preschool through high school demonstrating the guitar and the science of mu-sic as well.”
Originally, McCutcheon in-tended to enter the field of physics, concerned that it
would be difficult to succeed in a career in the fine arts; however, in a period of time after obtaining his first de-gree, he traveled with a band he was in and realized music was what he wanted to cen-ter his life around.
“After 18 months of do-ing music 65 hours a week, I knew that I would love a career in it and came to WSU where I was the first graduate in guitar. Simply put, I love my work. I never thought it would be possible to work this much at a career and still love what I was do-ing.”
He also mentioned that, though Centerville, Ohio might not be the first loca-tion that pops into some-one’s head when thinking of musical talent, Ohio has al-
ways been his home.In terms of payoff, Mc-
Cutcheon has clearly done well. He has been involved with the Dayton Philharmon-ic, received two Montgomery County Culture Works In-dividual Artist Fellowships for composition, a Parents’ Choice Foundation Silver Award for his CD “A Day with the Guitar Man,” and ob-
tained many other recogni-tions and achievements. He says that being a father of two and grandfather of six, though, is his best honor.
To find out more on Jim Mc-Cutcheon’s history, awards, or lessons, visit either of his websites or his page on Wright State’s webpage.
Superhero movies are the cash cow of the last
decade. At this point, Marvel or DC could put out a movie about, for example, a foul-mouthed drunkard with a sex worker girlfriend and make it a blockbuster - and that’s just what “Deadpool” is. (Spoiler alert: it’s great.)
It was clear that the act-ing talent of Ryan Reynolds would bring some endearing qualities to the beloved char-acter, and after over a decade of trying to produce the mov-ie, he definitely did right by
“Deadpool.” Full of ridiculous jokes, fourth wall breaks true to the comics and plenty of boyish charm, no one could leave the theatre without loving the titular character.
The side characters were definitely appealing, too. The villains were as quality as they could be while as they were subjected to relentless
Movie Review: Deadpoolmovie is doubtlessly raun-chy. With an actual montage of sex scenes, a surplus of ac-tion movie gore, and count-less jokes about every R-rat-ed topic under the sun, it’s not the kind of movie to take the family to see. However, if you don’t mind any of that, it’s worth seeing.
If there are any problems
with this movie, the only no-ticeable one would be pac-
ing. Having wall-to-wall crazy action while still
giving the origin story
for the world’s craziest su-perhero who happens to look like a mushy mozzarella stick is tough, and the backstory gets a little squished into the story.
However, these small notes are definitely worth over-looking should anyone wish to see one of the most enter-taining superhero movies to be thrown into the slew of comic book flicks that have graced the big screen lately. “Deadpool” is still in the-aters, and that is an opportu-nity worth taking advantage of.
joking insults, as were the “X-Men rejects,” a.k.a., Negas-onic Teenage Warhead and Colossus. Their particular quirks, which subtly make fun of multiple movie char-acter tropes like limitless he-roic chivalry, were surpris-ingly endearing. And if any iffy moviegoer is worried about sexist female story-lines - worry not, the writers have set up a host of killer ladies that are sure to make the sequel.
B e warned, t h e
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Be warned, the movie is doubtlessly raunchy.
It was clear that the acting talent of Ryan Reynolds would bring some endearing quali-
ties to the beloved char-acter.
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9SPORTS
For the third time in four years, Wright State
men’s basketball team made it to the Horizon League Championship game and came short as they fell 78-69 to Green Bay at Joe Louis Arena on Tuesday, Mar. 8.
“There’s eight other teams that would’ve liked to be here tonight,” Raiders head coach Billy Donlon said. “I got here 10 years ago and we’ve played in five champi-onships games since then. If you keep getting here, you’ll win.”
The Raiders were selected to finish in the middle of the pack during the preseason poll and finished the regular season with a 22-12 overall record with a 13-5 record in the conference for a second place tie with Oakland; OAK defeated WSU twice to own the tie-breaker.
After defeating UIC and De-troit in the first two rounds, the Raiders defeated the Golden Grizzlies 59-55 in the semi-finals round, while holding the top scoring team in the nation to 32 points less than their season average of
Men’s basketball fall to Green Bay in Horizon League Championship
87. Green Bay shot 47 percent
during the championship game while senior guard Jor-dan Fouse collected a game-high of 16 points.
“We went 19-6 in our last 25 games,” Donlon said. “We came here and we made it to the championship. I’m proud of what our program has ac-complished and I’m proud of what our seniors have ac-complished.”
Senior Forward JT Yoho appeared to be a man on a mission during the tourna-ment with an average of 14.5 points per game, while mak-ing many key shots when the team needed them. Yoho re-corded eight points, five as-sists and six rebounds in the finals and received honors for the All-Tournament team.
“Sports are sports,” Don-lon said. “If you can’t be the champion, who would you rather be? I want to win, but we’re going to get on that bus right now with swagger and eventually we will win one. It will happen.”
The remaining post-season schedule for Wright State (22-13; Horizon 13-6) is yet to be determined.
On the road with Wright State softball
For the Wright State softball team, the first
month of the season was spent on the road in non-conference games, which provided the players an op-portunity to improve on the field and build a deeper bond.
Over the weekend the now 8-12 Raiders wrapped up their 10-game southern tour that culminated in a matchup with SEC opponent Arkan-sas. Before that trip began, the team shared some of their past road trip experi-ences and the benefits they can provide.
The non-conference slate includes several five game series, which can be strenu-ous both physically and men-tally, explained outfielder Ashton Salyers.
“By day three it’s all men-tal. You’ve got to tell yourself to keep pushing through,” Salyers said. “You’ve got to fake it until you make it. You tell yourself that you have enough energy to do this.”
“The trip is to play ball against teams throughout the country. That is the number
one focus, and being able to stay disciplined,” WSU soft-ball coach Lynn Curylo said. “Getting better everyday is another thing that keeps us on track, involved and fo-cused on the task at hand.”
Off the field, the players stay in the competitive mind-set by playing card games and their own original ones together.
The long weekend series are also a good preparation for situations later on in the season, according to Curylo.
“In terms of conference play, those are three game se-ries. It should be easier once we start playing conference,” Curylo said. “Once the regu-lar season is over, we’re right back to this type of set up in terms of tournament play and the postseason.”
Past road trips have al-lowed the players to go through unique experiences that they might not have oth-erwise had.
“Last season we had a play-er take her first plane ride,” Curylo said. “Also, in the past four years our players have been blessed with the oppor-tunity to play on legendary fields in our sport, UCLA and Arizona. We are so lucky.”
During their southern tour this season the Raiders were able to visit the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.
Over the course of the bus trips, unexpected challenges have arisen like slow Wi-Fi connectivity, and one occa-sion when water was leaking from the ceiling. Spending hours traveling together is also a chance for the players to socialize more than they might be accustomed to.
“You are forced to. You’re on a bus that is small, and if no one is talking it would be weird,” second baseman Lib-by Pfeffer said.
“You get to know stuff about people you didn’t know before and get to know them as a person. You know them as an athlete, but when you’re spending that much time together you know them personally,” infielder Jordan Kennaw said.
The Raiders have one more road series remaining this season before return-ing home against Dayton on March 23. When the home schedule begins it appears the team will have a higher level of comradery after the extended road trips.
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The Wright State wom-en’s basketball team
completed the regular sea-son with a 77-66 victory over the Youngstown State Uni-versity Penguins on Sunday, Mar. 6 at the Nutter Center.
“We really stuck to it and were committed to each oth-er,” Wright State head coach Mike Bradbury said. “I mean we really shared the ball and did a lot of good things to-day.”
The Raider Faithful came out on Senior Day to sup-port senior guards Kim Dem-mings and Symone Denham on what would be their last game on the home court in front of the fans that have rallied behind them through-out their journey at WSU.
Demmings rewrote the Wright State record book this year. She became the all-time women’s leading scor-er as she put up 27 against Lipscomb on Nov. 19, 2015, passing Jodi Martin’s 2055 which stood for 32 years.
She wasn’t quite finished though, on Jan. 16, 2016 she
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scored 17 points against Oakland to become the all-time leading scorer in Wright State’s history for either men or women, surpassing Bill Edwards.
Just five short days later on Jan. 21, 2016, Demmings scored 25 against Milwau-kee, to ironically pass for-mer Milwaukee standout Traci Edwards as the all-time women’s Horizon League scorer.
Denham, a two-year start-er and three year player at WSU, was a transfer from the University of Michigan. She started in 63 games over the past two seasons, averaging 5.9 points a game this season she nearly doubled that with 11 on Sunday as she played her final home game in front of her friends, family and fans.
The Raiders have gotten way more than they expect-ed from freshman guard Em-ily Vogelpohl scoring 11.8 points per game on the sea-son. Vogelpohl battled an in-jury over the last two-games of the season, but looks to be ready to go this week when the team travels to Green Bay
for the opening round of the Horizon League Tournament.
“We fully expect Emily to be full go and ready to go here in the not too distant fu-ture,” Bradbury said.
With stellar play from ju-nior forward Antania Hayes, averaging 12.6 points a game and 7.8 rebounds and junior center Richelle van der Keijl averaging 8.9 points a game and 8.7 rebounds, the Raid-
The Wright State base-ball team recently re-
turned home from a nearly two-week trip to North Caro-lina and Georgia where they beat the No. 8 ranked NC State Wolfpack.
The Raiders went into North Carolina State carrying a 4-0 record, they would win the first game at NC State 10-8, but ended up coming up short in the final two-games.
Raider head coach Greg Lovelady seemed pleased with his team’s performance against NC State.
“We had bases loaded twice I believe with less than two outs and we didn’t score any
Baseball road-trip review: Defeated the No. 8 team in the nation
runs,” Lovelady said. “One big hit and we could have taken two from them.”
“It showed our guys and it showed us that we have the ability to hang with those kind of teams,” Lovelady said. “As you get into the regionals and what not you got to play those type of teams and you got to beat them.”
The team played a mid-week, two-game series against High Point Univer-sity, dropping both 4-5 and 6-11.
“I tried to hopefully not have a letdown in a trap game having those two big series (NC State and Geor-gia),” Lovelady said. “They just played better than we did and I felt we came out a
little flat and didn’t play as well as we should have.”
“They got the big hits and made the pitched when they needed to,” Lovelady said. “It was disheartening, I felt like we were on a roll and were going well.”
“They (High Point) were tough, a tough minded group,” Lovelady said. “Their head coach is a really tough guy and it rubs off on their players.
WSU finished the road trip
at the University of Georgia as they took on the Bulldogs in a three game series. They came up a run short in the first one 3-4, won the second 3-1 and dropped the rubber game 1-5.
“It was good, obviously the SEC is probably always the best conference in the coun-try,” Lovelady said. “It was a little bit disheartening, be-cause over the years we’ve pretty much taken a game every weekend when we go and play these big teams.”
“It was a little disheart-ening, but at the same time we understand it’s about the process and we showed to ourselves and probably showed to the country that we’re a team that people
need to make sure they know about,” Lovelady said. “Be-cause if they don’t we’re go-ing to come get them at the end of the year.”
“We got a game against Xavier this week and three games this weekend and one more against Louisville and then it’s go time,” Lovelady said. “All these games are ir-relevant if you can’t win your conference, we will be ready to go.”
Wright State will be back in action Friday, Mar. 11 as they take on the Dayton Flyers (1-8) at Dayton and then return home to play a doubleheader at Nischwitz Stadium against Eastern Michigan (4-8) on Saturday, Mar. 12. First pitch is at 1 p.m.
ers look to be in good posi-tion heading into the Hori-zon League Tournament.
An emotional Bradbury shared a story about former Raider standout Taylor Min-go tweeting “Wright State Made”.
“I mean this is a kid that was a top 25 player in the country and that’s why this place is special and that’s why people continue to come
here,” Bradbury said. “That’s what makes me proud.”
Wright State (22-9; Hori-zon 12-6) will go up against the UIC Flames (12-17; Ho-rizon 3-15) in the opening round of the Horizon League Tournament on Thursday Mar. 10. Tip-off will be at 6 p.m. at the Kress Events Cen-ter and will be broadcast on ESPN 3.
“It showed our guys and it showed us that we have the ability to
hang with those kind of teams,” Lovelady said.
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