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PAGE 16 THE RETRIEVER SPORTS December 12, 1995 Artificial T\irf is Still Coming A Team Player, Cicak's Role Has Despite Delays, Plastic Grass is on the Way Evolved What would be the improvements a soccer ball takes on artificial ketball team doesn't get much sup- difference in the world when it comes! Blair Morse turf would change the style of From LISA, Page 15 port and the women's team gets even Retriever Staff Writer for a UMBC Stadium with artificial down to a close game. We would love- turf besides the fact that other teams play. Throw-ins would dominate less. Does that bother you? if they'd do something like that for Artificial turf at UMBC would would be dazzled by the sparkling the game as the ball bounced out They showed right from the begin- C: It does. Most of the time when us, but we'll see if it happens. sure make us look like the big- green, fake field? Apparently it of bounds every 30 seconds. ning that they were ready to come you see students at games, it's other time, wouldn't it? Unfortunately, would allow the surface to be cleared The rubberized-surface track and step in. They knew that there athletes. The athletes support the ath- R: What would you consider a sue installing artificial turf on our sta- for play and practice on those rare that is scheduled to arrive with were positions available for them in letes but you can't get other people. cessful year at the end of the season?! dium field may not be the smart- occasions that the Baltimore metro- artificial turf is another story in time. I definitely think both of them We went around before the home C: Definitely over .500. I think for est choice. politan area gets loads of snow. Ice itself. Apparently, the school had have created time [on the floor] for opener and put up flyers around cam- us, a reasonable goal would be to fin- For a few years now, the storms wouldn't make any difference a chance to get the whole com- themselves. Everything they've done pus. A couple of the girls on the team ish at least third in the Big South UMBC athletics department has because ice would be just as hard to plex started last summer, but nar- coming in as freshmen and not know- were putting up flyers in Hillside and which I know that we can do. been talking about installing a take off of turf as it would off grass. rowed the contracting bid down ing anything about they system. this one guy says, "I didn't even We just have so much potential on; state-of-the-art track and to one contractor who turned out In my sophomore year, the first know we had a women's basketball our team and it just seems like it'sj an artificial turf field to to put in a bid that was year Coach Solano was here, she team." waiting there. I'm tired of hearing th& replace the field now in- ... too high. The track has came in and the system was new to Hello! How could you not know? comparisons to last year's team. Ob side the stadium com- "Having to soak your sore legs every- long been an on-going everybody. It took until we were five We have to do more things to get viously Eunice was a great player - a] project for the school, weeks into practice to put in plays. people to come out to games because great friend, I love Eunice to death —; piex. The turf would be day is not my idea ofa good field." used for soccer and la- ———————^^—^^—^^^^^—^^^^^^ considering that runners Everything else was breaking down. they are fun. but Eunice isn't here anymore. This is; crosse games and the track team who are fifth-year seniors Last year, it was the same ^^^ ^^^ the team we have and we' ve! would have a track of their own UMBC's Head Lacrosse Coach, heard the same, "We're ready to thing when she had six got a good team. I think with which to train and hold in- Don Zimmerman, is adamant about build a nice track complex that freshman coming in. It was "Obviously Eunice was a great player we'd be selling ourselves vitational meets that could raise the turf issue, citing that the team is should be ready in a couple of all starting from basics. This ... but Eunice isn't here anymore." short if we didn't come out; money for the team and the unable to practice "a lot" during the years" recruiting spiel that the year she just went off. We and finish at least third and school. preseason on the grass fields. school gives — the same one new were into plays the second at least over .500. Although artificial turf would Zimmerman also tells a story about recruits are still being told. week of practice and Monica and I thought it was great on Monday usually be considered a step in the losing a recruit that was considering "Some of the girls on the Kathy learned so fast. They just all the people they had for the men's R: What are your plans after sports world of the past couple of Syracuse, Cornell and UMBC be- [track] team didn't even realize picked up on everything. game. I don't know if the key is giv- UMBC? decades, it isn't necessarily an cause when he arrived for his Janu- we didn't have a track," says That really impressed me be- ing out 4,000 free tickets or free food, C: I'm going to teach. My major improvement for UMBC. First of ary visit to campus, the lacrosse team sophomore Adrienne Tunstall, a cause my sophomore year my head but it definitely got people in. here is in political science and I all, over the past few years, many was forced to hold practice in the member of the women's track was spinning. I thought I knew every- It's a huge change for me. In high have a major in psychology — I medical studies have shown the parking lot due to field conditions. and cross-country teams. thing there was to know about the school, my team was always in con- wasn't sure what I wanted to ma harms of artificial turf. "A Division I program needs an The new track would raise game from playing for as long as I had, tention for states and we always had jor in, and I've taken a lot of up- Knee injuries almost triple for artificial turf surface to get things money from Maryland State meets and then to come in and have Coach huge crowds. Then to come here and per-level electives and my athletes playing violent sports, done in the preseason," says held there and would include pits Solano teach you this new system with to see that there weren't as many fans. concentration is in history. I'd like! such as lacrosse and soccer, and Zimmerman. for high and long jumps. things you didn't know. I walked into the gym for the first game to teach high school history. But the turf is much more unforgiv- On artificial turf, lacrosse would Overall, the idea for a turf and Being a freshman on a college team and was like, "Where are the fans?" I the thing is that here you can't ing on the legs than natural grass. be played at a faster pace and help- track complex that the school is definitely an eye-opening experi- could actually hear my parents. major in political science and get The turf would not require as ing propel shots harder and make the hopes to start building within a ence. Everything's new to you. It's your education certificate, so I've much work as natural grass, but game faster and more hard hitting. year-and-a-half may be well-in- so hard trying to balance everything. R: How Would you feel about the ath- already been looking at other it would come with a high initial "Quicker, stronger and faster players tentioned, but according to many In high school you had a set time and letic department doing the same kind schools closer to home where I can cost (actual figures were not have an advantage over less-gifted who will be competing on it, it now you have all these extra hours of push for support for your games as go and get my education certifi- available) and a future cost to the athletes," says Zimmerman. might be an idea that may do in the day to do whatever — to study, they did for the men? cate, and that will take a year of health of its athletes. But by the same token, the bounces more damage than good. to watch TV, to take naps. It's a huge C: We would be ecstatic. We felt kind classes and a semester of student An even greater risk of injury adjustment and a lot of people can't of shafted when they all went out and teaching. belongs to female teams, where make that adjustment. When Amy everything they did for the men's team. I've also been looking at different not only has turf been shown to and I came in, there were five kids in For any person who is competitive, colleges to find GA positions [Gradu- cause greater injury to all, but our recruiting class - we're the only when they get into an atmosphere like ate Assistant Coach] because I also women also have a much higher two left.

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