DeafDigest Sports – June 7-8, 2012

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Today’s Hot DeafSports News

- a Dedication

- a deaf baseball player drafted by Cleveland Indians

- a new football coach at Model

- Kevin Cook, former Gallaudet women’s basketball coach

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JOB OPPORTUNITIES WITH GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS

Men’s Basketball Head Coach

Department: Athletics Department
Job Number: HR-12060
Date Posted: 6/4/2012
Salary Range: $56,300 to $101,200

Status: Accepting applications

Administers a competitive men’s basketball program that emphasizes
integrity and the educational welfare of its student-athletes, and strives
for excellence within the University’s mission; coordinates recruitment; prepares
reports; serves as spokesperson for the needs and interests of all male
athletes; participates in program and budget planning to assure that men’s athletic
programs are fully integrated in the overall athletics program; develops
athletic event schedules; advises and assists the director with general operations
of the department; and represents the athletic department and attends
meetings in the absence of the director.

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree required and four years related
experience. (Significant playing and/or coaching experience in the field
may be considered.)

Significant coaching experience required. Thorough knowledge and
understanding of NCAA and NEAC guidelines required. Demonstrated skills in
developing and motivating students both athletically and academically.
Strong commitment to the values of a liberal arts education and an understanding
of teacher/coach model in a NCAA Division III athletics program. American Sign
Language skills required.

To apply: www.gallaudet.edu/hrs/employment_opportunities/apply_now.html

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Dedication

DeafDigest Sports dedicates this edition to
Yafet A. Yoseph, a Tennessee football All-American
who departed us.

http://www.waltonsun.com/news/missing-9105-search-station.html 

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Gallaudet soccer

James Rummo, newspaper story
http://www.northjersey.com/sports/157690865_Rummo_set_to_help_U_S__take_on_the_world_Soccer.html

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Gallaudet women’s basketball

Kevin Cook, the former women’s basketball coach, is the
new head women’s coach at Winthrop University in South Carolina.
It is a NCAA-I program.

Gallaudet currently has three former basketball coaches that
currently coach in NCAA-I ball – Cook at Winthrop, John Becker at
Vermont and Adrian Walters, Auburn University assistant women’s coach

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Gallaudet cheerleading

Rosemary Johnson named new head coach of cheerleading squad

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Gallaudet University Athletics Department
announced today that Rosemary Johnson is the new head coach for
cheerleading club as announced by Athletic Director Michael
Weinstock. Johnson begins her new duties as cheerleading coach
immediately.

http://www.gallaudetathletics.com/sports/cheerleading/2011-12/releases/newcoach

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Fremont football & basketball

Seeking head football coach & head boys’ basketball coach

There is an exciting opportunity to coach at California School for
the Deaf as the California School for the Deaf Eagles is accepting
applicants for the Head Coach position of the Varsity Football and
Varsity Boys Basketball program.

Interested applicants should send an email of interest to Athletic
Director Kevin Kovacs at kevinkovacs@csdf-cde.ca.gov.  Questions can
also be directed to Kevin Kovacs.

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Lexington track

Final Track Report for Lexington School for the Deaf
 
We competed in Metro League championships on May 30, 2012. Both girls
and boys won the championships, it was a good feeling for our
students to win this league. As the boys won their fourth Metro
League championship in a row. The girls placed 3rd last year, then
won championship easily this year. Have a good summer to you all.
 
See you all next year!
 

Metro High School League Track & Field Championships at Astoria Park
on May 30, 2012.

Girls-Final Standings:

1. Lexington 109

2. Winston Prep 29                                       

3. TCS/Legacy 28

4. Summit 27

5. Cook1                                                                           

6. Lowell 0

 

Top 3 Lexington Performers:

Long Jump: Chelsea Hilaire 1st place- 12? 3.5?, Shariel Theodore 2nd
place- 10? 11.5?

Shot Put: Shakema Nanco 2nd place- 26?4?, Chen Liu 3rd place- 25? 1?

Girls? 4 x 100m Relay: Shariel Theodore, Nicole Ceron, Chelsea
Hilaire, & Nayrani Seerattan- 1st place- :59.8

Girls? 400m: Nicole Ceron 2nd place- 1:21.2

Girls? 100m: Nayrani Seerattan 1st place- :14.7, Chelsea Hilaire 2nd
place- 14.8

Girls? 800m: Nicole Ceron 2nd place- 3:40.1, Fatou Sankanu 3rd place-
3:41.7

Girls? 200m: Nayrani Seerattan 1st place- :31.97, Chelsea Hilaire 2nd
place- :32.22

Girls? 1500m: Fatou Sankanu 2nd place- 8:24.0, Chen Liu 3rd place-
8:48.0

Girls? 4 x 400m Relay: Shariel Theodore, Nicole Ceron, Chelsea
Hilaire, & Nayrani Seerattan, 1st place- 5:48.0

 

Boys-Final Standings:

1. Lexington 130

2. Winston Prep 24                                       

3. Lowell 23

4. Summit12                                                                          
                     

5. Stevenson 18

6. TCS/Legacy 2

 

Top 3 Lexington Performers:

Long Jump: Elquon Jones 1st place -18? 4.5?, Raymond Devarez 2nd
Place- 17? 8?, Guillermo Burgos 3rd place- 16? 4.75?

Shot Put: Madine Meftah 1st place- 37? 6.5?, Jia Cheng Huang 3rd
place- 34? 9.5?

Boys? 4 x 100m Relay: Raymond Devarez, Guillermo Burgos, Andy
Espinal, & Satish Thapa 1st place- :48.7

Boys? 400m: Elquon Jones 1st place-:58.9, Evans Seraphin 2nd place-
1:01.5

Boys? 100m: Jesse Odoi 1st place- :12.05, Guillermo Burgos 2nd place-
:12.11, Satish Thapa 3rd place- :12.32

Boys? 800m: Raymond Devarez- 2nd place- 2:28.8

Boys? 200m: Guillermo Burgos 1st place- :25.1, Satish Thapa 2nd
place- 25.19, Jesse Odoi 3rd place- :25.92

Boys?1600m: Christian 3rd place- 6:00.2

Boys? 4 x 400m Relay: Andy Espinal, Evans Seraphin, Satish Thapa, &
Raymond Devarez 1st place- 4:13.0

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Model football

Jimmy Gardner is the new football coach at Model. He replaces
Mark Burke, who is focusing on rugby.

As a Gallaudet quarterback, he operated the Triple Option so
well that Gallaudet shocked the nation in 2009 with a 6-4
winning record.

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Kenya track

Deaflympics record holder David Kipkogei won the men’s 5000m
in 14:47.6 on the final day of national Deaf Athletics
Association of Kenya (DAAK) trials

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Deaf Collegiate Athletes

Nick Hamilton, Kent State University, sr, baseball

(see below, elite)

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Deaf Elite Athletes

Nick Hamilton was drafted by Cleveland Browns

http://www.cleveland.com/pluto/blog/index.ssf/2012/06/kent_states_nick_hamilton_has.html

(editor’s note: DeafDigest Sports editor contacts all sports
information directors in all colleges, asking them if they
have deaf and hard of hearing collegiate athletes. Kent
State University NEVER responded even though they had a
deaf baseball player. And Kent State University has one of
the nation’s best Deaf Education programs. You go figure!)

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Deaf Sports Trivia

Q. What was Dr Leonard Elstad’s famous comment?

A. Dr Leonard Elstad served as Gallaudet president,
1946-1969. He loved sports with a passion, and
as a young man, while attending graduate classes
at Gallaudet, he coached the Gallaudet baseball
team. He made a comment that DeafDigest Sports
editor never forgot. Elstad said:

Football is very important to Gallaudet because
this sport trains football players to become
coaches at schools for the deaf.

How true!

Past Gallaudet football players currently coaching at:

Florida – Eric Lefors
Maryland – Joshua Doudt
Michigan – Phil Endicott
Model – Jimmy Gardner
Riverside – Rantz Teeters
Texas – Kelvin Etkie
Wisconsin – Mike Eldred

There are also a few other Gallaudet graduates coaching
football at deaf schools but they did not play football
at Gallaudet.

The Maryland-Model game will be very interesting
because Doudt and Gardner were teammates on Gallaudet’s
recent successful football seasons

Elstad was a newly installed president when a group of
students approached him, wanting football to be
restarted as a Gallaudet sport (no football teams 1938
through 1946). Elstad gave the students the green light!