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By Tammy I
Gamecock S
Togetherness to Becky Park
lifestyles from a small Tenm
capitol of South Carolina to kec
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Gamecocks, basketball team,
family moved from Maryville
could watch her play ball.
"I had followed her all these
to choose here, we decided to n
her," Becky's mother, Ruby,
her play ball."
PARKER SAID her family's
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Bv David Wnoton
Gamecock Staff Writer
One of the most challenging ?
exciting sports organizations
fered at. Carolina is I
Parachuting Cli
With a current membership
approximately twenty peop
including ten seriously competit
jumpers, the club practices aim
every week-end in Lugoff, S
Funded by the safety council,
members are offered equipmen
roHnpor) P P c
"We train students to jump tw
a semester with safety c
sciousness as the number*
priorty,' according' to c
president, Jay Ellis."The n
training session will follow <
upcoming meet in Marcl
The club is a member of a n
collegiate conference based
North and South Carolina knowr
Carolina Council. Farticipa
strive for excellence in the area:
style, accuracy, and ovei
performanc<
ALTHOUGH THE club does
- presently engage in collegi
acuvuy, one ineinuer nas
celkled in both local and natio
parachuting competition. S
Whiting, a junior at USC, star
jumping two years aga because
was always something I'd alw;
wanted to do." After taking
course in parachuting, he joii
the club and preceeded to ju
about ninety times during his fi
y e a r
Whiting steadily perfected
skills and in December of I
linn** Uft IIIAM r*
jrcai , nc: wwn mc dlA lll III VIS
of the Collegiate Internalio
Competition in Arizonia with f
jumps totalling only seven c
timeters from target, center.
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;er's family means changing ^all,
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p the family unit together.
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, Tenn., to Columbia so they t^at'i
years, and when she decided
love here so we could be with Aft
said. "We wanted to watch the U
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