The Rampage Spring 2019

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The Rampage

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“My most proud accomplish- ment, whether it be as an athletic director or coach, is helping student athletes in the classroom or in their chosen sport,” Coach White said. BC sports information director (SID) Bob Redd agrees. “I believe he (Coach White) would say his biggest accom- plishment is helping develop student leaders,” Redd said, “and developing players into men.” While AD, Coach White also developed the idea and helped launch a new broad- cast service for Rams athletics that provides web broadcasts of all of home and most away

games. Redd said Coach White was “instrumental” in implementing the broadcast program. Coach White has also helped expand the Athletics Department with more workers for efficiency. Redd said he used to manage SID duties by himself for games, but now he has a team that helps him. “Just in my department, I went from having just myself to having an assistant and a group of students that work with me every game and throughout the year to get sports information out,” Redd said. they checked into their hotel before an afternoon of practice at the ESPN Sports Complex. “Once we went through the routine a couple times, we knew that we were going to be good, but one of the UCA instructors came over and told us that we were not allowed to throw a back-tuck basket with a girl as the back spot,” said junior Autumn Williby. “This threw off everything and the stress level went up. We had to change the baskets and make sure they were perfect before the next morning when we competed.” Back at the ESPN Sports Complex on competition day in front of thousands of spectators, the BC cheerleaders said they were prepared to give everything they had and to leave it all on the mat. And that, they did. The team placed 19th in the nation in the category for Open Co-ed Game Day. Their routine, they thought, “was perfect. The stunts hit and the dances. Everyone was clean,” they said.

Focusing just on baseball now, Coach White will enter his 14th season as head coach of the Rams this spring—the school’s longest tenured coach on staff. “I appreciate Dr. (David) Olive (president of BC) and Dr. (Marshall) Flowers (vice president for academic affairs) having the confidence in me to serve in the (AD) role during this time,” Coach White said. “It has afforded me the oppor- tunity to grow both personally and professionally. The Athletic Department at BC is in a great place, and I look forward to continuing to serve the college as its head baseball coach. Go Rams!”

BC Cheer Goes to Nationals

by Andre Cardamone

Graphic Communication Major • 2019

“I’m still on a high,” Coach Goodson said. “I am so proud of my team. Competition cheerlead- ing is a difficult sport because you have three minutes to hit a solid routine, and that determines your placement. I was confident in my team because we had a good morning practice and a great warm up prior to performing. I wasn’t nervous for them, but excited. I am thankful for this team and the opportunity to make history at Bluefield College. This is a great group, and I look forward to next competition season.”

T he Bluefield College cheer team traveled to Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL, in January to compete in the Universal Cheerleaders Association (UCA) National Championship — a first for Bluefield College and its cheer- leading squad. “I was very nervous and scared going to a big cheer competition like Nationals.” said sophomore Destinee Coleman. “I wasn’t sure what to expect. I felt that we were going in blind, even though Coach Sara (Goodson, head cheer coach) prepared us with our routine.” The team flew from Charlotte to Orlando on January 16. Once they arrived, they took the Magical Express bus to Disney World where