tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083118571076872024-03-13T10:43:21.564-07:00The Roots of the Game: A Syracuse Lacrosse MemoirSharing Stories and playing and coaching tipsFred Opiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958132258732893040noreply@blogger.comBlogger247125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508311857107687.post-10745426367281973302016-12-15T00:30:00.000-08:002016-12-15T14:07:38.918-08:00Remembering Hobart's Ed Howard<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the winter of 1976 Ed Howard had just become the newest of a long list of, what Hobart All American and Associate Head Lacrosse Coach at the University Virginia, Marc Van Arsdale has coined, DNPs—guys who did not play in high school. “I was lucky enough to be a ball boy for a bunch of those Jerry Schmidt/Dave Urick Hobart Teams in the 70's” says Van Arsdale who grow up in Geneva, New York. “There were some ferocious, physical athletes playing defense for Hobart in those days [who] were DNP's—Tom Korn, Tom Moffitt, Bootie Gringeri (all defensive football standouts)—but Ed, once he learned the game, was a more graceful defender,” Van Arsdale recalls. “I remember his great footwork/quickness . . . maybe attributable to his hoops upbringing,” he theorizes. Howard remembers being home in Buffalo on winter break after 6 B team practices when he received phone call for then defensive coordinator Dave Urick tell him that he’s been invited to come to up to varsity. “I am looking out the window and it was a terrible ice storm and here’s coach asking me if I want to join the varsity team on spring break down in North Carolina.” Back in those days Hobart we would play Carolina, NC State, Hopkins, and Navy on spring break. “Looking at the [bitter cold] weather outside it was an easy decision.” Howard remembers telling Urick without hesitation “I am going!” As freshmen Ed played mostly on Hobart’s man down defense. He had no fear of big offensive guns he faced on man down because he had no history on the players and programs he was facing to go on. “I had the advantage,” explains Howard, I was not encumbered” by the reputation All Americans, “plus in basketball and football I was an offensive players” and could anticipate the other guys moves. “I was 6’ 2’’ 200 lbs and ran a sub 4.5, 40- yard dash—I had the advantage in my mind and it didn’t matter who you were to me,” says Howard. Lord willing and the snow doesn’t get to high, we will have more tomorrow on Ed’s first season as a Statesmen.</div>
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Fred Opiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958132258732893040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508311857107687.post-3925285007575552012016-09-22T00:30:00.000-07:002016-09-22T00:30:04.206-07:00Returning to the Game<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Following my second consecutive appearance in the NCAA Division I lacrosse finals and loss to Hopkins in 1985, I stopped playing lacrosse for a year. But after a year of coaching at the High School level I got the itch again. With encouragement with from my college coach John Desko, I returned to lacrosse playing for the first time in the Glastonbury, Connecticut Summer Lacrosse Tournament in 1986. The tournament featured some of the top Division I players from the Long Island, New Jersey, Hudson Valley, and New England regions. The competition was incredible and that’s what I thrive on—competition—I am the same way as an academic. This is where I became friends with Cornell and Calvert Hall alum Frank Kelly (Stephen's father). Frank was the first lacrosse player I met who like me made a decision during college to make the Lord Jesus Christ look good on and off the field with my life. Frank would go on to found the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) Lacrosse Ministry <a href="http://www.fcalax.com/">http://www.fcalax.com/</a></span>. </span><br />
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Fred Opiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958132258732893040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508311857107687.post-73671306497205396862016-09-05T00:30:00.000-07:002016-09-05T00:30:08.490-07:00Fred Opie talks with Ohio State Men’s Head Lacrosse Coach Nick Myers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Ohio State Men’s Head Lacrosse Coach Nick Myers, <span style="color: #333333;">Photo courtesy of
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Big Ten’s Nick Myers is starting his ninth season as
head coach for the Ohio State men's lacrosse team in 2017. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">In the Summer of 2016, Myers guided Team USA to the
gold medal at the FIL Under-19 World Championship. His brother Pat, an Ohio
State alum, served as an assistant coach on the US team. </span>Myers began his
coaching career as the volunteer coach for the Buckeyes for two seasons under
then head coach Joe Breschi. He had worked as an assistant coach at Butler
before rejoining the Buckeye staff in 2006.<span class="apple-converted-space"> Myers
played lacrosse at </span>Springfield College in Massachusetts. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Fred Opiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958132258732893040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508311857107687.post-61538453641642070822016-08-13T00:30:00.000-07:002016-08-13T03:14:00.631-07:00How Is The Lacrosse Community Doing? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have
a new book coming out in January entitled <i>Southern
Food and Civil Rights </i>(my day job is as a professor of history and foodways
at Babson College) The book delves into movements for progressive change
focusing on the 1920s through the 1960s and an afterword on Occupy Wall Street
which occurred in 2011. I completed the book while
the riot in Baltimore and the </span></span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Black Lives Matter movement</span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">developed around the country. I also completed the book while Hampton University (an historical black college/university) began its first season fielding a NCAA Men's lacrosse team. In the following podcast I talk about the
presence of African Americans in lacrosse since I played at Syracuse in the
1980s. </span></span><b style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">[Listen Now 5min and 46sec]</b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/thestudytable/african-americans-in-lacrosse">https://soundcloud.com/thestudytable/african-americans-in-lacrosse</a></span></div>
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Fred Opiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958132258732893040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508311857107687.post-54459896367956099732016-08-01T00:30:00.000-07:002016-08-01T00:30:01.944-07:00The Most Important Parts of The Game<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Former NFL Kicker Matt Stoffer, Frank kelley, Fred Opie, Hank Janzyck at the annual FCA coaches breakfast held at US Lacrosse's Coaches Convention</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">About 1987 I participated in the first annual FCA Lacrosse Camp at Gettysburg College; we had about 8 players. At the camp I began a relationship with Gettysburg Men’s Lacrosse Coach Hank Janzyck (Coach J) and the late Peter Kohn. With Frank taking the lead and providing the vision, FCA lacrosse has mushroomed over the years into a dynamic ministry that is impacting the lacrosse world with huddles (bible studies), camps, teams in tournaments, retreats for college players, and coaches’ breakfasts at national conventions. All of this began when I met Frank at the Glastonbury Tournament in Connecticut. It was the start of a meaningful relationship with Frank Kelly that has lasted more than thirty years. My two children attend the FCA lacrosse camp at Gettysburg. The camp had more than 400 players in attendance.</span><br />
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Fred Opiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958132258732893040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508311857107687.post-67341783630530789342016-07-13T00:30:00.000-07:002016-07-13T07:28:32.901-07:00Fred Opie interviews Jeremy Sieverts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Fred Opie talks food and sports with University of Maryland alumni Jeremy Sieverts and the training change that made him a starter and All-Star in Major League Lacrosse. A Maryland native, Sieverts plays for the Denver Outlaws. His story of how he has risen in the ranks of professional lacrosse
is inspiring. </span><b style="color: #404040; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">[Listen Now 26min 25sec]</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><a href="https://soundcloud.com/thestudytable/the-training-table-jeremy-sieverts" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">https://soundcloud.com/thestudytable/the-training-table-jeremy-sieverts</a><br />
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Fred Opiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958132258732893040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508311857107687.post-88860848672246805472016-06-22T00:30:00.000-07:002016-06-22T03:28:22.955-07:00Hopkins Lacrosse Coach Janine Tucker on The Training Table<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Fred Opiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958132258732893040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508311857107687.post-70863916967642137162016-06-16T00:30:00.000-07:002016-06-16T11:04:02.061-07:00Versatility Is Essential On and Off the Field<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I grew up watching José Oliverio in the goal at West Point where he received All-American honors in lacrosse and soccer. His versatility was amazing! </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">This was during a period in West Point lacross history in which during his tenure, Army had consistently been a top five Division I program. I'm known as a guy who played all over the field and in part I gleaned that from José as a possibility. His coach, Hall of Famer Dick Edell, had Jose face off for the Black Knights and then sub back into the goal after beating the other team's face-off specialist. In addition, as a product of Brentwood high school on Long Island, he was a great stopper closed the door on some great players like Hopkins' All American attackman Mike O'neil. I remember the sign in the stands at Michie Stadium which said, "Only Jesus saves more than José," LOL. He ended his career as a second team All-American (first-team that year had been John Hopkins Hall of Fame goalie Mike Federico). José is still involved in the game today serving as a referee. He lives in northern Virginia.</span></div>
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Fred Opiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958132258732893040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508311857107687.post-22389598570576031922016-05-30T00:30:00.000-07:002016-05-30T04:36:07.811-07:00Big 10 vs ACC Lacrosse Championship Game <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Fred Opiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958132258732893040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508311857107687.post-73021854461376667702016-05-12T00:30:00.000-07:002016-05-12T02:06:44.424-07:00Remebering The 1983 NCAA Lacrosse Tournament<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In 1983 I played lacrosse at Herkimer County Community College for Hall of Famer Paul Wehrum. I had earned first team Junior College All American the year before and thought that might help me gain the attention of the coaching staff at the University of Maryland where I wanted to continue my lacrosse career. I don’t believe one of my many phone calls to the Maryland lacrosse office ever made it pass the secretaries who screened calls; nor did any of the coaches return my calls. In contrast Coach Roy Simmons Jr. reached out to me. Coach's demonstration of genuine interest in me as person and not just an athlete made positive impression on me. I'll never forget seeing Syracuse beat Maryland in the NCAA quarter finals that year in the Career Dome. I went on to watch </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">every one of the Syracuse playoff games in 1983 including SU's come from behind to win and first National championship. Shortly before the final game Coach Simmons sent me a scholarship offer which I gladly accepted. How the Lord orchestrated my scholarship to Syracuse, the defending national champions in 1983, is still a faith building memory to me.</span><br />
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Fred Opiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958132258732893040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508311857107687.post-85418205215193374832016-04-18T00:30:00.000-07:002016-04-19T01:40:30.480-07:00Hall of Famer Todd Curry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Todd Curry All Americans honors all four years at the cuse, midfielder of the year honors and was a 2 x national team player from West Genesee High school. We called Todd Bakey for his great head and shoulder fake. Todd came to cuse as a little skinny but he started lifting weights and gained definition and strength. Todd had great speed and a killer instinct you could see when he chased down an opponent on defense. In addition Todd had a rifle for a shot and the ability to pick corners on the run with both hands. Todd made the National team his sophomore year, which I believe </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">makes him the youngest player to do so. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Fred Opiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958132258732893040noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508311857107687.post-57674607996829329012016-04-08T00:30:00.000-07:002016-04-08T05:42:08.469-07:00Managing Fear <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I will never forgot the lesson I started learning back when I played in my first game as a Syracuse Orangemen. The game was against UNC and it occurred in the spring of 1984 at Loyola College in Baltimore. About 5,000. people filled the stands and surrounded the astro-turf field. I found out that day that I could work through potentially paralyzing performance fear and do what need to be done. The same nervous feeling comes across me now before: asking someone I am impressed with a question, teaching a class, and delivering a lecture as an invited speaker. I loved playing sports and at some point when I hung up my cleats, I transferred that how to manage fear and nervous feelings to my vocation as a talking head. I also learned to fake it until you make it because most folks can’t tell you are nervous unless you tell them.</span><br />
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Fred Opiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958132258732893040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508311857107687.post-78497219385196059572016-03-16T00:30:00.000-07:002016-03-16T07:21:54.907-07:00Navy's Syd Abernathy Part 3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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see Syd Abernethy play my senior year in high school in Croton and his senior year in
college at the Naval Academy in a quarterfinal NCAA playoff game at West Point in 1981. Before that
game, I had never heard of him. In addition, it was my first time seeing an African American in game, and one who clearly was one of the best players on the field and one who played my position
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Fred Opiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958132258732893040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508311857107687.post-32839528549307528762016-03-15T00:30:00.000-07:002016-03-15T02:43:23.258-07:00Navy's Syd Abernethy Part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">When Syd Abernethy enrolled in the Naval Academy, the school had a reputation for great attackman including Hall of Famers Jimmy Lewis (Uniondale 64-66), Jeff Long (Irondequoit 74-77), Brendan Schneck (Syosset 77-78), and Mike Buzzell (West Genesse 77-80). Abernethy continued that tradition going on to start at the attack position as a sophomore. After Schneck transferred to Hopkins to play midfield, Abernethy, Buzzell, and Dickie Wheman developed into a triple threat on attack before Buzzell graduated two years later. Abernethy would earn honorable mention All American honors his junior year, “the next year I just outworked everyone, coming to practice early and leaving late,” says Abernethy, and his hard work paid off. I asked him if he ever experienced racism during his high school or college playing days. “No, people in Baltimore knew lacrosse and my performance on the field spoke for itself and I never experienced it on the lacrosse field,” says Abernethy. </span><br />
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Fred Opiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958132258732893040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508311857107687.post-38216158761675903282016-03-08T00:30:00.000-08:002016-03-08T13:05:56.982-08:00Navy's Syd Abernethy Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Syd “the squid” Abernethy gained his nickname for his patented head and shoulder fake at the attack position that allowed him to blow by defensemen and score bunches of points during his lacrosse career. A lot of young players today of all stripes know nothing about him. I witnessed his game first hand and I think his story is important for serious fans and students of the game. A tall well-built attackman with powerful legs and blinding speed, Abernethy was born at John’s Hopkins University Hospital in 1958. He grew up in Annapolis, Maryland where he first played middle school lacrosse at the Key school and then later for a Hopkins’ lacrosse alum, Dave Roberts, at Annapolis High School located down the street from the U. S. Naval Academy. At Annapolis High, he excelled both at athletics and academics where he achieved high school lacrosse All-American honors. His brother, who was three years older than him, played as a walk on defensemen at the Naval Academy for Hall of Fame Navy coach Dick Szlasa. Syd received offers to play college ball at West Point, Yale, and Navy and he chose to follow his brother to Navy in the summer of 1977. More on Syd and the role he played as part of Navy’s triple threat offense tomorrow.</span><br />
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Fred Opiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958132258732893040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508311857107687.post-77975208651037912712016-02-24T00:30:00.000-08:002016-02-24T00:30:02.084-08:00Jim Brown, More than a Lacrosse <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Growing up playing lacrosse in the 1970s and 1980s, I never saw Jim Brown play. What I knew about him was based on seeing him on myriads of NFL highlight films particularly as Walter Payton came ever closer to breaking Browns all time rushing records and from my Dad. “That Jim Brown is bad!” my dad would often say, impressed by Browns black cool style and black militancy as he destroyed one color barrier and stereo-type in American society after another. Brown refused to accept racist customs and submit to white privilege and my Dad admired Big Jim for that. He like Malcolm X, Bill Russell, Ali, Kareem, and the two brothers, Tommy Smith and John Carlos, who gave the black power salute during the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Brown would not compromise his views for fear that it would hurt his career and pay check. I met Jim Brown in 1984 when we (Syracuse) played Hobart College the Div III national champions in 83 in Manhasset High School’s Lacrosse Day of Champions on the island, a great event. This coincided with Brown’s induction into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1983. More on this tomorrow.</span><br />
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Fred Opiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958132258732893040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508311857107687.post-35577294301705039662016-02-23T00:30:00.000-08:002016-02-23T08:18:00.778-08:00Helping Boys Become Men and Girls Become Women<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"> Too many club and high school coaches cannot resist the temptation to win at all cost. They let their best players get away with poor choices instead of teaching them early on how to be a responsible women or man. Coaches need to focus on developing decision making, health relationship, empathy, loyalty, and skill development. Coaches focus on transforming boys in the men and girls into women instead of your win loss record. A<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">s a coach you are hurting your players and program when you play favorites and overlook unacceptable behavior among your players. Discipline even bench selfish and unruly standout players. In the long wrong you will do more to help that player succeed in the future. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I don’t remember much from my first game in a Syracuse University jersey in March of 1984. I know we won and I held my own against UNC players. But I clearly remember the dominating play of Hall of Famer and UNC defensemen Tom Haus that day. Tom was a big thick guy, about 6’2’’ 195 and he ran like a deer. One of his college teammates tells me he was a “terrific athlete and ripped but I never saw him lift weights at UNC.” Haus wore heavy sweat pants and a pair of blue canvass Converse high tops. Haus covered Hall of Fame attackman Tim Nelson (Nellie) and stripped him of the ball and started fast breaks—I believed he scored one or two goals that day. Hause was striaght up nasty as a player! He ended his career at Carolina as a three-time first-team All-American and three-time Defenseman of the Year—still the only person to do that; Nellie did the same at the attack position. “The guy didn’t care about lacrosse and never really worked hard at it” says a former UNC teammate. “He was great at lacrosse all his life but it didn’t mean the world to him. He did not go hard in practice but he was a gamer." When UNC won the championship in 86 it was Haus that shut down Hopkins Hall of Famer Brian Wood in the semi-finals and UVA Hall of Famer Roddy Marino in the finals. He was inducted in the National Hall Fame in 2005 and UNC retired </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">his #13 jersey. </span><br />
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Fred Opiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958132258732893040noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508311857107687.post-43115659771019717192016-01-27T00:30:00.000-08:002016-01-27T02:43:12.125-08:00Passion, Practice, and 10,000 Hours <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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