Life is Goodenough - June 25, 2009

Our team is having a great summer with camps, summer school, and work outs with our strength and conditioning coach, Tobias Jacobi. Coach Jacobi has a very creative and inspiring method for training which has motivated our players to get the most out of their workouts with him. This month our team has grown together through workouts, late-night bowling, going to the movies, afternoons at the beach, community service and studying together. Summer school will be over next week and the players will have several weeks to go home and enjoy some summer with their families before the fall semester begins in August.

Our last camp was so much fun! We had an awesome group of campers between the ages of 5 and 13. If anyone is interested in attending a girl's basketball camp, we have one last camp beginning this Sunday afternoon (June 28). For more information check out our website: csusports.com. For your enjoyment check out our latest camp photos!

Life is Goodenough - June 13, 2009

Camps have begun! I love this time of the summer. We have awesome campers and our players make camp so much fun. We employ our players who are in town for summer school to be instructors for our camps. Being a coach at camp affords our players a great opportunity to be teachers and mentors. The more you teach a subject the more you usually learn about it yourself. Our players really benefit from observing the game from a sideline perspective as a coach. We have two more camps in June. One begins on Monday June 15 and the final camp begins June 28. We have room for a few more campers so any girls looking for a place to improve on their basketball skills are welcome to join us for camp. The brochure is on our website. Enjoy the pictures!

Weekly Recap - June 1-7

Not surprisingly there isn't a lot to report since last week. If you check in with http://www.csusports.com/ once in a while you have probably caught most of the action.

The biggest news is that the women's 4x100m relay team did as expected and made history with a bid to the 2009 NCAA Championships starting this week. The first team in Big South history to run under 45 seconds, they became the first relay team (men or women) to make it to the Championship Meet. Dionne Gibson also made it into the 200m dash for the second-straight year and will look to improve on her 15th-place finish last year, which is the highest by any CSU athlete at the meet.

The other exciting news is that the video featuring CSU's run to the 2005 Big South Football Championship has been named a finalist for the Sports Video of the Year. The Global Media Awards for College Sports will be held this week and CSU is up against Ball State, Baylor, CBS Sports, ESPN, Ohio and Penn State for the award.

What's coming up:

Wednesday - Saturday - W Track @ NCAA Championships - Follow them here

Weekly Recap - May 25 - 31

Not a ton to report on this week as the biggest event going on was the NCAA East Region track meet. If you haven't heard about the success of the CSU athletes, just scroll down a little and you can read about them. You can also read about it here and here.

Bids to the 2009 NCAA National Championships will be released tomorrow, so make sure you check www.CSUsports.com for the latest information. There is a pretty good chance that the 4x100m relay team will become the first Big South relay team (men or women) to ever compete at Nationals.

As for our CSU Athlete of the Week, of course it was Dionne Gibson, who not only had success of her own, but also helped lead the history-making relay team.

Nothing going on this week in CSU athletics, but we are back to it next week (hopefully) with the NCAA National Track & Field Championships.