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Staff Writer ^
Heather Godfrey started playing
basketball when she was in the third 1
grade and the rest is no mystery. ^
She is now one of the star players 1
of the Lady Gamecocks.
"I've gotten to play against the I
best women bas
ketball players in
the country," God- "I'd HkO to
freysaid. top three
Though only a ?E? fQr th
sophomore, Godfrey .... .
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an impact repre- age." ? So
isenting use as Heather Go
guard. Slightly mod- '
est, she is happy she
has been able to play against the
best, but such players are not out of
her league. As a freshman, she led
the team with a three-point field
goal percentage of .406, her specialty,
and played in an zt games, mciua*
ing a South Eastern Conference Tour"nament
game against No. 14
"Arkansas.
? In fact, this extraordinary threepoint
shooting ability, combined with
_her previous experience, are two
ways Heather feels she can benefit
lithe team. Her outstanding perfort
mance against top ranked teams like
* Georgia, Appalachian State and Tennessee
have made her an asset to
^the Lady Gamecocks.
Godfrey's best game last year was
'against Rice, when she scored 15
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igainst Arkansas last season, Godirey
played 25 minutes and scored
line points against the Razorbacks.
Although Heather believes her
greatest moment in sports was when
she broke the North
Carolina state |9
be in tho three-point record
of tha and was chosen as
. . an AAU All-Amerree-point
ican basketball playpercent
er, her main goal
iphomore this season lies in
Elfrey the SEC Tourna- 9
ment.
"I'd like to be in
the top three of the PR|
SEC for three-point field goal percentage,"
she said.
Nonetheless, she claims there is
always room for improvement.
Td like to become a stronger defensive
player," she said.
Rut sVip dnpsn't denv its hard HI
work. The team practices every day
for three hours and Sunday if there
is a Monday game. In the evenings
the players are required to study
with tutors, and their schedules are
adjusted so they finish all their classes
in the early afternoon.
"It's really tiring," she said.
Godfrey is from Statesville, N.C., "
and is majoring in physical educa- SophomorG *
tion. Five years from now, she hopes .J" .. -h *
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UZA ANCIERNO Staff Writer
I Softball catcher Tina Plew be
gan her career in the third grad
playing on a boy's little league tean
She played baseball because i
was the only activity in her hom
town that wasn't run through th
Mormon church. In seventh grad
her father made her switch to sof
ball because he saw potential for he
to play on the collegiate level.
According to Plew, the hittin
skills and the level of competitio
were much different. She went froi
a team with "boys who wanted t
break everyone's arms to girls wh
were afraid to break their nails
Plew also felt that baseball require
more hand-eye coordination becaus
of the different movement on th
ball. She believes that softball r<
action time is quicker, therefore
requires different swings and le1
els of concentration.
Plew is a psychology major wit
a minor in exercise science. Her goa
after graduating are to attend gra<
fff uate school tor special education (
possibly coach at the college leve
- She experimented with those goa
' s by volunteering to instruct at a Nil
clinic in Asheville, N.C., Nov. 2!
She and pitcher Kim Sheridan taugi
girls from middle school throug
high school the fundamentals <
catching and pitching. Plew felt
was important to show the childre
?l? how they could "utilize their athle
ecock ic ability to further their educations
ou*" Although she enjoyed instruc
tank y1g) pieVs ultimate dream is to pli
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me and see Pre
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g for success
nff for Carolina
professional softball or make the
~ Olympic team in 2000. To accomplish
this, she feels she must dedicate
herself to her sport even more
^ and complete a few years of heavy
training. Other options include playing
with the Silver Bullets, a women's
semi-pro team or being drafted by
the fast-pitch women's league that
is beginning after the 1996 Olympics.
Plew's proudest moments were
making the regional tournament her
^ freshman and sophomore years, as
well as finishing off last year with
a 53-15 record. Her best individual
moment was her freshman year
? when she hit a two-run homer in the
^ seventh inning to win the game. According
to Plew, what made the moment
was "the excitement in the run^
ner on third's face." It was if they
had pulled together to help the team
will tuc gauic.
Her most embarrassing moment
^ involved her teammates also. Dur^
ing a recruit's visit, the team enterj
tained by playing flag football. While
Plew was covering a person, she
I tripped and fell in a mud puddle. Ac^
cording to teammates, when she
stood up, her entire body was covg
ered with mud.
^ Despite boasting a .348 batting
^ average, 12 stolen bases and 39 runs
batted in, Plew is a modest player.
She attributes her success to her
parents and tries her hardest to make
t them proud not only on the field but
in the classroom as well. This isn't
^ an easy accomplishment considering
the rigorous training involved
iy in her sport.
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