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» AZ athletes bask in ASU basketball spotlight
By Grant Landrice | Published 11/16/2008 | Basketball (Boys) | Unrated
  
       A handful of former local high school athletes are sitting on ASU men's and women's basketball rosters, enjoying the ride to national prominence for both programs.
   The Nov. 17 regional cover of the Sports Illustrated College Basketball Preview features Sun Devils Briann January and James Harden.  Harden is an All-America candidate who averaged 17.8 pts last year as a freshman, and January is a projected WNBA draft pick.  SI ranks the men's squad 16th nationally, and the women 15th.
    The men's team, which opened its season with a convincing 80-64 win over Mississippi State, has included a quartet of home-grown players in its building plans for the future of a program that won 21 games last season, if you include a couple in the pre-season NIT.  Ty Abbott is a sophomore guard from Desert Visa HS, Trent Anderson is a redshirt freshman from Ironwood Ridge HS that plays forward, and Taylor Rohde and Stephen Rogers are stepping right from high school onto the college hardwood this year.  Both freshmen are forwards, Rohde from Pinnacle HS and Rogers from Mountain View HS.
   
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» Nominate A Deserving Coach for National Award
By Grant Landrice | Published 11/14/2008 | Other | Unrated

    Do you have a favorite coach that deserves some special recognition? 
    You have until Nov. 30 to get your nomination in for the Double-Goal Coach Award, presented by the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA), a national non-profit organization that has helped create a positive character-building youth sports environment for more than 3 million youth sports athletes since 1998.
    A PCA Double-Goal Coach is someone who wants to win, AND has a second goal: to help players develop positive character traits so they can be successful in life.  While winning is important, helping players learn "life lessons" is more important to this kind of coach.  Does that sound like someone you know?
   You can go to www.positivecoach.org to get an online form to submit your nomination.  Winners will receive a commemorative certificate and an expenses-paid trip to PCA's 8th Annual National Youth Sports Awards Ceremony in April.  
    Award finalists will be notified in January and eventual winners will be notified in February.
   

 

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