Sports

Upon graduation in May, Kendra Ryer plans on attending graduate school at San Diego State University. Ryer, a sports science major, will be back in familiar territory in Calif. She is originally from Paradise. Ryer is a senior forward on the basketball team.

An alcohol awareness program was made mandatory for all student athletes. Mary Beth Horvath invited Steve Hatzai, a victim of alcohol abuse to speak in the Widener Lecture Hall. Hatzai was a senior at Syracuse University in 1992. He was celebrating his preeminent graduation by going to multiple parties.

To come back from a major injury in the sports world, any athlete would make the sacrifices it takes to play again. Colleen Dorrian, a senior on the basketball team, did just that during her four years at Cabrini. Having played all of her life, Dorrian has had a love for the sport of basketball.

After four years of being a student and an athlete, senior year has arrived for basketball player Gary Goldman and it's time to say goodbye to so many of the friends and teammates who have become such a part of life that they're almost like family. For Goldman the long journey is almost over and the best part of being on the team for all these years has been winning championships with people he considers a big family.

The terms athlete and sports have come to be synonymous with the labels healthy and fit. What happens when athletes, trying to live up to these standards, turn to dangerous patterns in diet and exercise? A relatively new classification of eating disorder called anorexia athletica, has become a major complication in team sports.

With the sudden resignation of Chris Wrinkler from the position of athletic facility manager, the women's basketball coach was hired to fill the position. Kate Corcoran has assumed the role of running the intramurals program that Wrinkler had started. "The position fell into my lap," Corcoran explained.

Since the dawn of the Olympics, winter sports have been regal and refined. Ice-skating became an art that involved the slightest of motions to pull off the perfect maneuver in hopes of taking home the gold medal. This year, a new sport was added to the lineup.

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Newly reborn and reformed, the Varsity Club is surging to involve student-athletes in community service and with each other. Although the club has been in existence for years, it has been reactivated by student-athletes interested in doing away with "hatred among teams" and pushing for the idea of "getting together to cheer for everyone," according to Katie Kempton, junior basketball player and member of the club.

Winter sports enthusiasts can find salvation just a short trip away from Cabrini. Skiing and snowboarding are two very popular sports, now even more so after people watched the Olympics from Salt Lake. Cabrini students may not be able to make it out to Utah or Colo.