11.07.2009 | by Cherry Crayton | Filed under Sports | Comments: No responses |
Amber White (Photo by Peyton Williams)
As part of our ongoing series “A Coach’s First Season,” in which we’re following Coach Kellie Harper and the Wolfpack women’s basketball team throughout the season, we plan to sit down with each member of the team for extended interviews. Up first is point guard Amber White, who had 10 points, six assists and three steals in NC State’s 87-44 exhibition win over North Greenville Monday night. The 5-foot-6 redshirt junior missed all of last season due to an Achilles injury. Below is the interview we conducted with Amber Thursday afternoon following a press conference with Coach Harper. Read an edited transcript of that press conference here.
On making the most of the injury
Sometimes you would get frustrated by not being able to play. But when I was sitting on the bench, I looked at everything going on and tried to learn from what the point guard was doing and how to handle different situations. (more…)
It is important that people recognize NC State as the economic driver and leading research institution that it is. We need to let people know about all the great work going on at NC State – and an active NC State community is the key to spreading that good news.
The idea is simple: when you see some great news about the university, share it with someone. Tell your family about it over dinner, talk to your co-workers about it at the water-cooler, email your best friend from college. If you’re a student, tell your parents about it – it will give them something to brag about.
“Who doesn’t love a parade?” So asks Kellie Harper, the Wolfpack women’s basketball coach and grand marshal of the 2009 Homecoming Parade. It begins today at about 6 p.m. and will travel along Hillsborough Street. Come out and join Coach Harper and us for some fun! “It’s a time when everybody is excited about their university and what is going on,” Coach Harper says. “To rally around the football team – I love it.” The lineup will feature NC State coaches and athletic teams, cheerleaders, the university dance team, The Power Sound of the South and other local bands, student-sponsored floats, vintage cars and more.
NC State’s home page also has a lot of great coverage of Homecoming, including the above video of Cassius Williams ’69, former president of the Alumni Association Board of Directors who was instrumental in bringing back Homecoming to NC State.
In the early ’70s, the Homecoming celebrations that brought Cassius Williams ’69 back to campus were “great fun.” “Homecoming back then was a big deal,” Williams said. . . . Then it all stopped — and strangely, nobody seemed to know why. But ask how Homecoming returned, and you’ll likely hear “because of Cassius Williams.”
And don’t forget the Pack Howl Pep Rally and Concert tonight, which will feature the band Roman Candle and the CollegeHumor Live Tour. It begins at 7 p.m. on Harris Field.
After the jump, check out the photos that we’ve taken during Homecoming week so far.
NC State fullback Scott Wade '77 heads around the corner after taking a handoff from quarterback Johnny Evans '84 in a 1976 game against Maryland. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
The N&O has a fascinating story today about the N.C. Program for Forensic Sciences, which is run out of NC State and is featured in the above video. The bodies of six women have been found in rural Edgecombe County since 2005. Investigators, who suspect that the women might have been victims of a serial killer, hadn’t been able to identify one set of remains. They turned to the forensic sciences program for help. Here’s what happened:
It was a copy of a 2002 CAT scan that finally put a name, a face to the bones and mummified remains found eight months ago among the decaying leaves in a thicket of woods north of Rocky Mount, where six women have been murdered.
Elizabeth Jane Smallwood, 33, of Rocky Mount was no longer a lost person, thanks to a world renowned expert and a program at N.C. State University that is pioneering the use of forensic science in crime scene investigations. Using specialized computer software, forensic anthropologist Ann Ross was able to match the unique features of the weathered skull to Smallwood’s old CAT scan - a three-dimensional X-ray.
The program, writes The N&O, “has been called upon by the United States military to develop new technology that would find underground graves in Iraq. Back home, it has been called upon to assist in 60 homicide cases across the state.”
“I can’t tell you everything that we do,” said veteran archaeologist Billy Oliver, who co-directs the program with Ross. “But I can tell you that we are on the leading edge of the new technology.”
11.04.2009 | by Cherry Crayton | Filed under Sports | Comments: One response |
Check out the above photos that Peyton Williams took during the Wolfpack women’s 87-44 win over North Greenville in an exhibition basketball game at Reynolds Monday night. We’ve added extended captions that include information from the game and quotes from Coach Kellie Harper and players Amber White and Bonae Holston, who had 19 points and 11 rebounds in the scrimmage. For a complete game recap and box score, go to GoPack.com. Wolf-TV, NC State’s student-run TV station, also has video highlights below.
After the jump, we’ve got a few notes from the scrimmage, some random notes, and a preview of an upcoming Q&A with Coach Harper. It’s our fourth installment in our ongoing series, “A Coach’s First Season,” in which NC State magazine is following Coach Harper during her first season as the head coach of the women’s basketball team.
Harper’s quick evaluation of exhibition
It went a little better [than I thought it might]. These first few games, you have no idea what to expect. But we were poised. I was proud of our poise to begin the game. The kids definitely had fun out there, and that was important to me.
Doc Hendley ’04, founder of Wine to Water, will speak tonight in the ballroom of Talley Student Center as part of this week’s Homecoming activities. His Boone-based nonprofit works to bring clean water to needy people around the world.
Hendley was recently named one of CNN’s top 10 heroes for 2009. You can view a video about his work and vote for him here.
NC State zoology professors Frederick S. Barkalow (left) and Reinard Harkema (right), in 1950, holding a fur coat while standing behind display of furbearing animals used to make clothing. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
11.03.2009 | by Chris Richter | Filed under Sports | Comments: No responses |
I spent some time with C.J. Williams the other week and came away from our chat thinking exactly what Dan Wiederer writes this morning in The Fayetteville Observer: Williams, just a sophomore, could emerge as a team leader this season.
Lowe now wants his sophomore shooting guard to showcase his heightened confidence to not only become a reliable playmaker but an energizing force for the whole team.
“C.J. knows the right things to say and the right things to do, there’s no question about that” Lowe said. “Now will he emerge as a leader? I’m not sure yet. He absolutely knows the right way. But the other part about being a leader is you have to do it the right way every time. As a leader, I can’t tell you not to take that bad shot if I’m taking bad shots. I can’t tell you to stop turning it over if I’m turning it over. If you’re going to talk the talk, you better walk the walk.”
We’ll have an article on Williams in the Winter issue of NC State magazine. h/t to Pack Pride poster rcaseyf.
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