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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2012

By Nicole SaundersStaff Writer

While perusing a book written by a Sudanese refugee on per-sonal time in a refugee camp, the author’s message of owning nothing and sleeping on the bare earth resonated with Sarah and her husband John Tountas.

The couple met while working with Samaritan’s Purse, a Chris-tian relief organization started by Franklin Graham, the eldest son of Evangelist Billy Graham in Sudan. In their time working at these camps, the two saw a vast amount of displaced people, particularly kids in the refugee camps who died from a lack of proper sanitation.

Leaving a markSeeing the quality of life in Su-dan left an imprint on the couple. They returned to America after the stint with Samaritan’s Purse to further their careers. Sarah earned her nursing degree with the hopes of her and John return-ing to Sudan to help take care of the sick.

Unfortunately, the couple was unable to return to Sudan be-cause of an outbreak of civil war. John and Sarah began to pray and fast together to decide how to help from West Palm Beach.

Sarah explained that she has always had a passion for help-ing women and children. John, a trained agriculturalist from South Africa, built a primary health care center in rural village during his time in Sudan.

An unlikely ministryThe couple soon realized an op-portunity to help the Sudanese people could come through the distribution of soap, because it’s not at the top of the priority list for organizations that help the refugees, and they founded Bare Earth, a socially conscious soap business.

“Buying a bar of our soap can help save a life,” said Sarah. “In America we take the availabil-ity of soap for granted while in Sudan, they can’t afford the soap much less even afford to feed their family.”

According to Sarah, the goal of Bare Earth is to make the busi-ness sustainable. “For every bar of soap, which retails between five

and six dollars, Bare Earth takes those pro-ceeds over to Africa,” said Sarah. “And we buy soap from a local soap makers to stimu-late the local econo-my, and give the soap to the refugees.”

“Local businesses do not have enough money to make the amount of soap that we would want them to make,” John said. But in these instances where he cannot find local soap-makers, he trains people to cre-ate it.

“In this process we want to bring aware-ness to situations in the world that people are not aware of,” said Sarah. “We want to grow to the point where we can help refugees in the rest of the world, because we are not the only ones who are passionate about improving the

lack of hygiene.” John and Sarah estimate that

the soap is about 90-95 percent organic, depending on the par-ticular bar. “It makes us feel good knowing that it is good to for your body and that there are no chemi-cal fragrances in the soaps,” John said.

Soap in the makingThe overall process of turning 20 pounds of soap into about 50 bars takes about an entire month. For the first 90 minutes they measure and mix ingredients, let it sit for 24 hours, and let the soap cure for the bare minimum of three weeks.

“When I last made a bar of soap, it reminded me of the same feeling you get when you make a meal and people enjoy it,” John said.

This new socially conscious business venture has engrossed Tountas lives so much that Sarah quit her job in order to fully de-

vote herself to Bare Earth and her three boys, who range from ages 1-5.

Doubt trickles inFor the Tountas, the most chal-lenging aspect of Bare Earth is their lack of schooling in sales. “Originally we thought ‘What if I don’t know what is going to hap-pen to Bare Earth since neither of us are sales people and we have to sell soap?’” Sarah said.

John said, “But, as time pro-gressed the more we realized that God has given us a passion for this and He will make a way.”

Despite being a social business, meaning that they are for profit but in turn donate their proceeds to help others, the Tountas de-scribe Bare Earth as a business with a mission’s heart.

Plugging others in Jessica Cahill, a recent PBA grad-uate, is a frequent volunteer for the organization.

“God put the people of Su-dan on my heart and one day at church,” said Cahill. She met the Tountas and had an “instant con-

LOCAL NEWSCleaning dirty hands in Sudan


The Soap Ministry: “When I last made a bar of soap, it reminded me of the same feeling you get when you make a meal and people enjoy it,” John said.

PHOTO BY NAOMI WALLEN

Family First: “This new socially conscious business venture has engrossed the Tountas lives so much that Sarah quit her job in order to fully devote herself to Bare Earth and her three boys, who range from ages 1-5.

Witnessing the sanitation problems in Sudan, one couple created a business making and distributing soap

nection” to their heart for Sudan.“In America we have so much

and we forget about people who don’t have necessities includ-ing soap and water,” Cahill said. “Bare Earth is an example of how we should care about the world and remember them ev-ery single say.”

“The biggest blessing for us is that God has a hand on our busi-ness a little bit more every day,” said Sarah. “We don’t have the connections to promote but God is prompting people to reach out to us and we are amazed at how positively God is moving and making Bare Earth work.”

Bare Earth is looking for people called to help its ministry with Sudanese refugees. Specifically, the company is looking for those skilled in but not limited to:

•Small business expertise

•Website design

•Graphic design

•Marketing

Contact John at [email protected] or call (561) 847-0323 to learn how you can help.

Be a part of Bare Earth

PHOTO BY NAOMI WALLEN


LOCAL NEWSBy Becca StripeStaff Writer Enter a walled city constructed to look like Bethlehem as it ap-peared 2,000 years ago and im-merse yourself in the history of Christmas.

This Christmas, Community of Hope Church, located at 1401 Okeechobee Blvd., is holding a Back to Bethlehem outreach event open to the public Dec. 7 - 9.

Event Coordinator Trish Zenc-zak says that the church’s mission is to “tell the story of Jesus’ birth in an interactive, authentic and engaging way that inspires non-believers to want to learn more and believers to reaffirm their faith, elevate the true meaning of Christmas and live into our responsibility to tell others about Jesus Christ.”

The authenticity is what the

church volunteers are striving most to achieve. They want all the guests to feel like that they are re-ally walking through Bethlehem 2,000 years ago.

Actors in the city aren’t allowed to wear eyeglasses or make-up. If they want to have snacks, they must be “period approved” such as nuts or figs and food can only be in containers that was available during that time period.

There are nearly 150 actors who have speaking and non-speaking roles, and nearly 100 more help with logistics.

“We started in August with our meetings and begin coordinating with the team leaders,” Zenczak said. They have eight team leaders that work on specific areas such as construction, drama, parking, hospitality, costumes, marketing, prayer team and of course admin-istration.

The hard work starts with the

construction phase, where they build the layout of the market-place. Every year brings along more changes, so they always want to get better and make the experience fresh every year.

Creative Arts Pastor Billy Lang-ley served as a soldier posted at the guard tower over the city gate as people enter Bethlehem.

One of the responsibilities in the role of a soldier at Back to Bethlehem is to move the crowd along at the appropriate times.

When visitors arrive at the event on Dec. 7, they will first be harassed by Roman soldiers and will register for the census after hearing from the Rabbi. They then will explore the marketplace amid the 150 actors and shops with live animals such as sheep, goats, chickens, a cow and a don-key.

Finally, they hear the Gospel from the Angel Gabriel and see the Holy Family. This then leads guests to an area where they can pray alone.

Community of Hope Church leaders hope that through this outreach opportunity they can

touch the lives of the people who attend.

“I hope people pause and re-member why we celebrate,” said Liz Petruzzi, event marketing di-rector. “I hope God touches their heart and they have a personal encounter through this event and that people who wouldn’t normally enter a church come to a free Christmas event and hear

the Gospel.” Petruzzi says that the church

typically sees about 4,000 to 5,000 people during the weekend event and that every single person who walks through the city hears the Gospel.

“That’s amazing to me that 4 to 5,000 people hear the gospel in a very non-threatening, non-preachy way,” Petruzzi said.

Palm Beach on display

By Cash W. LambertLocal News Editor Gazing at the blank walls inside the 3,600-square-foot room, workers with the Palm Beach Photographic Centre have their work cut out for them. Preparing for the upcoming exhibit titled “Album,” workers begin meticu-lously placing 28 works from well known photographers – all from the Palm Beach area - on the walls, bringing the dull room to life with photos from across the globe.

A second exhibit, titled “Mem-ories of Palm Beach,” will also be on display, blending the photos from “Album” with a rich photo history of the city. Both exhibits are set to open Nov. 20 and will remain on display until Jan. 5.

The cast of photographers whose work is on display in-cludes Alexander W. Dreyfoos, who founded a photo production company in 1963 and is an Acad-emy Award winning inventor of digital imaging process equip-ment, Tommy Morrison, who worked with legendary French fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier and Lucien Cape-hart, a social photographer who opened his own studio.

“Our goal is to enhance life through the photographic art here at the Palm Beach Photo-graphic Centre,” said treasurer Joan Goldberg.

Through the double exhibition, the centre wants to highlight peo-ple in the who have been very in-strumental in development of the community, and who are known to be very talented local photog-

PHOTO COURTESY OF COMMUNITY OF HOPE CHURCH

Stepping back 2,000 years: “I hope people pause and remember why we celebrate,” Petruzzi said. “I hope God touches their heart and they have a personal encounter through this event and that people who wouldn’t normally enter a church come to a free Christmas event and hear the Gospel.”

On Display: Avram Glazer’s photos will include a glimpse into the city life in New Orleans, including a fair in Lousiana, above. The work is untitled. Jean Matthews, Jean Matthews, the current vice chairman for photography at the Garden Club of America, will showcase her perspectives, such as her Bethesda-By-The-Sea photo, left.

Reliving the Christmas storyA Loxahatchee church is hosting an in-teractive Christmas story event that will place guests in front of the manger

PHOTO BY CASH W. LAMBERT

The Showroom: Both “Album” and “Memories of Palm Beach” will collide to produce 3,600 square feet of Palm Beach talent and history.

raphers,” according to Goldberg.Since its inception, the centre

has aimed to bring the top tier of photographers to their location on Clematis street to show off their work. Photographers also teach one of the 300 classes the centre offers, from how to take a portrait to learning the intricacies of Lightroom and Photoshop.

“We were able to showcase Adam Stoltman’s photos from the Summer Olympics in October,” said Goldberg.

Stoltman has covered 11 Olym-pic games and was the former deputy photo editor for Sports Illustrated Magazine. “We’re continually expanding, trying to reach wider audience in South Florida.”

“Album” will display the versa-tility of Dreyfoos, who is known for his photography interests in water activities, such as scuba div-ing and deep sea fishing.

Avram Glazer’s photos will in-clude a glimpse into the city life in New Orleans and New York City.

Although Capehart passed away last February, his photos continue to draw publicity. The “Memories of Palm Beach” exhi-bition will showcase the social life of the wealthy from Capehart’s eyes. The Palm Beach Post called him “society’s photographic sto-ryteller.” He traveled extensively throughout the globe for clients, and when he traveled with his family, he always had his camera handy.

A reception for the double ex-hibit will be at the Center Tues-day, Nov. 20 from 5:30 to 7:30. For more info, visit www.workshop.org.

PHOTOS COURTSEY OF PALM BEACH PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTRE

The Palm Beach Photographic Centre will host a double exhibition featuring the talent and history of the town


By Carlie MorleyCampus News Editor

Beginning the trek back down to the Jeep, Jeff Ard basked in the pride of taking down the animal that his father had always want-ed, the African Koodoo. Having just spotted the animal from 240 yards below, Ard’s guide told him to take the shot. “It was such a rush; it being so quiet and shoot-ing it perfectly, and then watch-ing it run only 30 or 40 yards be-fore falling down,” said Ard.

Hunting in TallyGrowing up in Tallahassee, Fla., Ard said his father instilled a love for hunting in him since he was six years old and it is something he has done ever since. “When I got to be in sixth grade, I finally killed my first deer,” he said. “My dad taught me how to use a gun properly and how to hunt, with that you learn firearm safety, how to clean it, and how to work it.”

After Ard killed his first deer, his father taught him about all the different animals to hunt and the seasons when they’re game. Some of the seasons overlap, but a lot of them are at different times of the year. For instance, deer season is through the winter, and dove hunting is in the fall. Tur-key hunting, however, lasts from Thanksgiving time through the spring.

Since he usually hunts turkey in the spring, Ard hasn’t been the one to bring home thanksgiving dinner, but his dad has. “Turkey

hunting is an inter-esting thing, because they do fly. A lot of people don’t realize that,” said Ard.

Africa TrekHunting in Africa was a whole differ-ent experience for Ard than hunting in North America. “We hunted out of a jeep, which is good because if you’re on foot you don’t know what will find you,” said Ard. “When we went for the harte-beest though, which

is the fastest antelope in Africa, we would get out of the truck and hide in this brush.”

After crawling 60 yards in the brush to where they were about 20 yards away from the animal, he realized just how illusive they were. “I got 20 yards away, and I just poked my head out and they’re gone, and you have to do it all over again,” said Ard.

During his two and a half week

hunting safari in Africa in the summer of 2009, he hunted what is called planes game. “It’s like what you would see in the Lion King,” said Ard. “You’ve got these massive animals that are just moving across the ground. We saw things like zebra in a huge heard running along, or a group of lions or elephants, giraffes. You name it.”

Ard and his fellow hunters provided dinner for themselves and surrounding villagers with the animals they brought in each night. “We had a different kind of meat every night. The people there prepared it for us, and we ate everything we killed. What-ever we didn’t use was given to the villagers in our surrounding areas.”

In North America, Ard hunts many things, including hogs, dove, deer, turkey and more. Some things that he hasn’t yet hunted, but would like to some-day, include mule deer, elk, griz-zly bear and moose.

God in the tree standGroups such as PETA take on today’s hunters saying that kill-ing animals is wrong, but Ard provides a different point of view. “I think that it’s something that is necessary to do, and, if you do it for the right reasons like provid-ing food, and you have a respect for the creatures that are around you, then it is okay,” Ard said. “Hunting is something that has been important in my family, and, as a hunter, I have a respect for nature around me.”

Hunting has also been a spiri-tual experience for Ard. He has had many chances to appreci-ate the peacefulness of nature. “There’s a devotional I’ve always liked called ‘God in the Tree Stand.’ When you’re out there, you’re away from the city, you can’t hear what we hear right

now; it’s quiet, you hear the wind and that’s it,” said Ard. “It allows you time to think, and we always say we want to listen to God, and we pray and all of these things, but you’re supposed to be still.

“Sometimes you think ‘Why is God not answering this?’ Well, you’ve got to learn to listen, and hunting, believe it or not, can do that,” said Ard. “Every time you go, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to kill something. I’ve sat in a stand and not seen one deer. You sat for maybe five hours, and had some time to re-

flect and think to yourself.” During high school, Ard spent

plenty of time relaxing up in the tree stand. “Those were some times in my life when I was re-ally struggling a lot with doubt, and dealing with stuff in my re-lationship with God,” Ard said. “I needed time to myself to process things, and I felt like those times in the tree stand really allowed me to understand who God is and understand my own faith.”

Save a horse: Jeff Ard appreciates the beauty in God’s creation while carying on the fmily tradition of hunting.

Ard hunts deer, doves, turkey and hogs, but hunting is also a spiritual experience for him.

ARDJEFF

CAMPUS NEWS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2012

“I felt like those times in the tree stand really allowed me to understand who God is and understand my own faith.” - Jeff Ard

PHOTOS BY CHELSAE ANNE HORTON


Cinema TV: behind the scenes

Behind every great military man

By Megan HumanStaff Writer

As Lisa Herndon thumbs through a well worn Bible, she runs her fingers over the words of Psalms. The highlight marks and under-lining are so prevalent that it is difficult for her to settle on the passage that she means to bring up. This is the life of a military mother, the perspective of one who waits on the home front.

“Being a military mom is trust-ing in the Lord’s sovereignty,” said Lisa. “When your son goes into active military duty, you know he’s going to see warfare.”

That knowledge weighs heavy on Herndon, a mother of two and assistant to the dean of the School of Communication and Media at Palm Beach Atlantic University. Lisa’s son Nathan Herndon, a graduate of the PBA ROTC pro-gram and the ministry depart-ment, has completed active duty in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

“He is a lieutenant. He is a con-voy commander. He’s in a front- line capacity,” said Herndon.

During his deployment, which lasted for seven months and fif-teen days, Nathan served his country abroad, while his mother and his wife served it through their trust and support at home. During that time period, Lisa rose each morning to recite the Psalms to herself while walking her dog.

“That just set my day. You can get shaken at what you can’t con-trol, but this is what you can con-trol, and it can set the tone,” she said.

Although the situation was and will continue to be challeng-ing for this military mom, Lisa is also capable of seeing the intense beauty in her son’s service.

“The greatest joy of being a military mother is knowing that Nathan is pursuing God’s call-ing in his life,” she said. “Even though there are apprehensions

as a mom with having a soldier in combat, there’s also great joy and pride in knowing that, regardless of danger, he is going to do what God has called him to do.”

The process has also been dif-ficult for Nathan’s wife, Tiffany Herndon, also a PBA grad. Al-though she struggled throughout the deployment, she also per-ceives the experience through a lens of blessing.

“The hardest thing I have done in my life is walk through that de-ployment,” said Tiffany.

“It made me dig into the Lord.

There was always this knowledge that he could get hurt, that he might not come home. There was this struggle of constantly having to give it back to the Lord. That drew me closer to the Lord. Our lives are really in God’s control. I grew during that time.

“It’s a kind of interesting how un-glamorous it feels when you’re walking through it, but I couldn’t be more proud of Nate,” she con-tinued. “It was neat to know he was one of those serving. I felt so proud that he was gone serv-

ing his country, what God called him to do.”

For Tiffany, one of the hard-est parts of having her husband gone was the not knowing.

“They had two people get killed at a base he was at,” she said. “I remember all night get-ting calls from family to see if he was ok, and I didn’t know any-thing. That was one of a couple times of very intensely knowing I couldn’t do anything.”

Proud Mom: Lisa Herndon (above) sees the photo of her son and daugter-in-law on her desk every day and cant help but feel proud of him and the way he is serving God and his country. Nathan Herndon (below) graduated from PBA’s ROTC program.

ACTION!: Cinema TV students spend the Fall and Spring semesters working on film shoots. These films are judged in competetions and showcased at the end of the year at PBA.

Trusting in God is all these women can do while their beloved son and husband serves his country after completing PBA’s ROTC program.

By Gabriella HogeStaff Writer

Palm Beach Atlantic University has a unique way to give Cinema TV students hands-on, real world experience, through the class of practicum. Jeremiah Dias, a Cin-ema TV senior in the film track, is very familiar with practicum, having been required to take this one-credit class every semester. He states that students are grad-ed on participation and perfor-mance. “There are a list of standards dic-tated by our dean regarding being professional and behaving as a Christian,” said Dias. “Obviously sets can be high stress environ-ments; we still want to be mind-ful of our core values especially in those situations.”

The unique thing about practi-cum is it puts the student in con-trol. “Everything is completely student done. Student producers do all the forms getting permis-sion for locations and screenwrit-ers are in creative control,” said Dias. “We have access to indus-try standard filming and editing

PHOTO BY CHELSAE ANNE HORTON

equipment along with the exper-tise of our professors.”

Recently the school has pur-chased its first Red camera, a professional brand of digital cameras that has been used to film recent blockbuster hits such as “The Amazing Spiderman”, “Snow White and the Hunts-man” and the much anticipated, “The Hobbit.” Dias says students are “still trying to figure it out.”

In September, all students re-ceived an announcement in their PBA inbox inviting them to come out and audition for the student films “Mallory” and “Rebuild” at the Pembroke studio. This was for the student films required for practicum. They advertised for the auditions online to non PBA actors but they usually chose mostly PBA students.

Kyra Brundell is senior and the director of this semester’s practicum film, “Mallory.” Brun-dell describes the amount of time and work that went into Mallory: “I started writing the script in the car on the way down to PBA from my home in Minnesota. It was a long process; I ended up

having to re-write it at least five times with the help of my profes-sors and other students. We had to do storyboards, come up with a schedule, talk to the produc-ers, have auditions.It was pretty much constant planning starting at the end of August until we shot in mid October.”

“They get short excerpts from script (to read); they don’t have

to memorize them. They do what is called a cold read. We basically want to get an idea of how they are going to interpret the charac-ter. They will be paired up with somebody boy or girl depending on the scene and they will have to do their cold reads. If the director likes them enough they will have them do some improv with the scene.”

“Mallory” and “Rebuild” have joined the collection of success-ful student films recorded for practicum. Every spring there is a film showcase that gives PBA stu-dents the opportunity to gather and enjoy the best movies made by film students throughout the year. “These are the professors’ choice, only the best of the best,” said Dias.

PBA Cinema TV students tackled multiple projects this semester, including films called ‘Mallory’ and ‘Rebuild.

PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN PILCHARD

PHOTO COURTESY OF LISA HERNDON


The Road to Regionals

By Kent BerameSports Editor

While the dew dries from Magic Jack field and the halide lights in the Greene complex warm up for it’s first tastes of NCAA Re-gionals, Palm Beach Atlantic University’s men’s soccer team and women’s volleyball team prepare their mind, body, and faith for their last hurrah of the year.

Both PBA’s men’s soccer and women’s volleyball teams are led by award winning coaches. Men’s soccer head coach Juan Go-mez and women’s volleyball head coach Bob White have guided their teams all the way to the illuminated court and field of NCAA Regionals through hard work, training, and a humble reliance to God.

New stage for Lady SailfishThis year marks the first time the wom-

en’s volleyball team has made it to this level of competition.

“This might be something that can help us or hurt us,” said White. “We don’t know how big a match is since we’ve never been here [NCAA Regionals]. We talked about faith going into Regionals today at practice, and that life is full of milestones, and we have hit a milestone.

“So we took a chunk of our practice to talk about commitment and our account-ability. Now we are on a bigger stage, and this is our first time,” he continued. “No matter how we play from a volleyball standpoint, it’s important that we play for Christ.”

Women’s volleyball has been graceful on the court with a record of 32-2. Not only have they been paying their dues to God, they have been working hard to avoid be-ing rusty all season, said White. For se-nior, Player of the Year, Mariela Queseda, preparations for the postseason are not just physical but mental.

“I think about it and picture how the situations could happen in my head, and to understand my role on the court,” said Quesada. “Handling the situations for my-self, but also for the team and to help them get going no matter how the team plays.”

With an already talented team, technical play is everything for White. He is staying close to his philosophy of “serve and serve

receive” going into the NCAA tournament. “It’s a hallmark of our team. We proba-

bly practice this more than any other team in the country, and it certainly has been advantageous for us,” he said. “Our phi-losophy is that you can offset a team with better hitters or maybe even taller players with the serve and serve receive, and also with great defense.”

The Tampa Spartans have been the team to beat in women’s volleyball for the last decade winning eight straight titles. The Spartans have one of the Sailfish’s only three losses this season.

The team lost a strong group of seniors last year which were replaced by a young recruiting class. White isn’t worried about how young the volleyball team is with six freshmen competing in a very experienced field of players.

“The freshmen are so athletic, and have been playing on such high levels before that I’m not concerned about our young team,” said White. “They work very hard. The freshmen don’t think of themselves as freshmen when they are out there. They think of themselves as a unit, and we talk about it during practice.”

Going into the NCAA tournament for the first time means hard work, but it also means accomplishment. No one could be more grateful for this than Quesada.

“Actually, yesterday, one of my team-mates said that it was a very good gift to go to regionals my senior year,” said Quesada. “It’s great, but it’s not a gift. We earned it. I am thankful for how they look up to me and listen to me. I will always appreciate that and treasure that. It’s great for my se-nior year that we are doing something for the first time ever, and it wasn’t me; it was the team.”

Men focus on defenseFor the men’s soccer team, the latest

memory of tournament play was a physi-cal contest against Oakland City University which led to a sour loss in penalty kicks last season. According to Gomez, it will be a different story going into this postseason.

“We are more experienced this year compared to years past along with a good young recruiting class which has enabled us to compete at a high level,” said Gomez. “We have been blessed.

“Ranked 10th in the nation was an achievement no soccer team at PBA has accomplished, so that was amazing,” Go-mez continued. “Ninety five percent of our schedule this year is against NCAA Divi-sion II opponents and, to get the start we had, was pretty unique.”

Sophomore and a First Team Selection defender Chris Karafilov has been excited for his team’s play leading up to the post-season also.

“It’s great to see how well we have all bonded off the field over the course of the semester and how it is showing in our play on the field,” said Karafilov. “Our team is very strong offensively, but we sometimes get caught out of position, and we need to stay focused on our defensive duties.

“We have been training hard for the last

couple weeks, including a few fitness ses-sions in the morning to get us into top shape for the post-season ahead of us,” Karafilov continued. “In practice, we have been working on a lot of strategy and pos-session-based drills to prepare us for some tough opponents.”

At the time of printing, the men’s soccer team had already started its NCCAA ven-

The Sailfish volleyball and men’s soccer teams prepare for their postseason matches. This marks the first time volleyball will head into regionals, and the men’s soccer team trains for fierce competition ahead.

ture with a dominating 7-0 win over Co-lumbia International. Kenny Hogg scored three goals, and sophomore defender Brandon Langenberg scored his very first goal of the season.

The women’s volleyball team still has 12 days before its first match into the NCAA tournament.

SPORTS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2012

PHOTO COURTESY OF LORI RICHARDSVictory: Stephany Brown (No. 3) and the other Lady Sailfish have given volleyball fans much to celebrate this season.

PHOTO COURTESY OF LORI RICHARDSStep together: Chris Karafilov, center, and A.J. Black close in on an opponent.

“No matter how we play from avolleyball standpoint,it’s important that we play for Christ.” - Bob White


PHOTO COURTESY OF LORI RICHARDSNot a couch potato: Waller leads the Lady Sailfish with eight goals, three of which were game win-ners for the season.

Court of no excuses

PHOTO BY AMY ANDRESSReady to win: Coach Eddie Shannon comes to PBA after playing basketball at the University of Flor-ida and also in professional stints.

‘A Part of Me’

By Caroline CaseStaff Writer

Philippians 4:13, a verse used many times in reference to athletics, means much more to Juliet Waller than how it is commonly used.

“Personally, that verse is taken out of context,” she said. “In Philippians, there is a great time of struggle. The verse, ‘I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength’ is meant for perseverance

PHOTO BY TAI CORNELLPhilippians 4:13: “The verse, ‘I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength’ is meant for perseverance through the toughest times,” said Waller.

Juliet Waller relies on God forperseverance throughout her final season as a Lady Sailfish

through the toughest times. So putting that into soccer context means that, when games aren’t going the way we plan, when we get frustrated, we just need to stay calm and remember that we can play our game if we refocus our-selves and work hard to work through that time because God’s given us that ability.”

Waller has one final post season before she hangs up her cleats for her senior year at Palm Beach Atlantic Uni-

versity as a forward. “It’s sen-sational stepping out on the field as a senior,” Waller said. “It’s my last season so I have to make the very best of what I’ve got left. It feels almost like a memory...like deja vu, [it is] such a blessing to be back out on the field for another time. For me it’s emotional.”

Although she is not sure how she first started playing soccer, Waller began playing when she was around four or five years old.

“I think I just told Mom that I wanted to play, and she signed me up,” said Waller. “Soccer has always been a part of me; it doesn’t define me, but it plays a huge role in my life.

“I remember one game when I was younger, our team thought we were all that, and then we got our butts handed to us,” Waller continued. “Nev-er made that mistake again. I just kept playing at the highest club level I could , and then in high school, too, which is where I was recruited to play at PBA. [I have] been playing here for four years and who knows if I’ll find somewhere out there after graduation to play, but we’ll see.”

One part of soccer that Waller cherishes is her team. The camaraderie makes Waller smile.

“Whatever we do, we do it together,” Waller said.“Win, lose, or tie, we all do it togeth-er, players and coaches. We make lifelong friendships with each other.”

Managing her time is the hardest part about being a stu-dent athlete, Waller said.

“Being a student athlete is very, very time consuming,” said Waller. “The variety of ma-jors we have on the team really shows how we have to manage our time in-season. We have to keep up with our work when we have away games.”

Like juggling a soccer ball,

juggling schedules is an ob-stacle that the team has to face together. She recalled one week where she and her team were gone for eight days.

“It really shows what time management we have to have,” Waller said. She has no time to waste when she is away at games. If she is not playing on the field, she is working on homework in the hotel or on the bus.

“Now I’m not the most or-ganized person in the world,” Waller said. “Ask anyone close to me, and they’ll tell you I’m awful at it, but when it comes to having to get work done on the bus, I have to do it and not procrastinate anymore.”

As the team heads into the postseason, Waller’s and the team’s goal is to get the NC-CAA National Championship.

Currently, the Sailfish are 11-4-1. The team is switching gears towards the postseason.

“We’ve had our ups and downs, but we’ve all stayed positive and worked through the toughest part of the sea-son,” Waller said. “Now all we have to do is work harder to get us a national champion-ship.”

Though she may have many supporters holding signs up for her in the stands, her num-ber one fan is God. She said that she gives all glory to Him who has given her not only the talent but also the drive to play the game of soccer.

“God gave me legs to run and the skill to understand the game so I praise Him in the good times and the strug-gles throughout each season,” Waller said. “If I couldn’t play soccer, I’d probably be the big-gest couch potato out there. Thank the Lord I’m not.”

By Kayla ViaudStaff Writer

At the age of seven, Eddie Shan-non, now the newly hired Sailfish men’s assistant basketball coach, was hit in the eye with a rock while playing with friends. The hit resulted in swelling and red-ness, and his eye was not properly taken care of, and things became worse, causing him to be legally blind.

“By today’s standards the sur-gery wasn’t successful,which led to another surgery years later,” Shannon said.

Shannon’s vision became worse, and the nerves in his eye deterio-rated. Since the incident, he no longer had clear vision. What be-gan as blurriness in his right eye developed into blindness.

Growing up, Shannon was very active, having played basketball, football, and baseball. Sports was always part of his life, and he planned to keep it that way.

“I was so successful at what I was doing, I found nothing wrong with it and maybe that was my problem,” he explained.

So focused on sports, he did not pay much attention to his eye.

“I wasn’t consciously do-ing things because I was legally blind...my body adapted,” he said.

The West Palm Beach native who went on to attend the Uni-versity of Florida was not dis-couraged. He had his right eye removed and replaced with a prosthesis the summer before his senior year at UF.

That surgery did not slow him down. A basketball player at UF, he started the Gators final 21 games of the season and became the Gators’ career leader with 202 steals.

Before coming to PBA, Shan-non played professional basket-ball in short stints in Croatia, France and Russia, then finally was signed as an limport player for the Adelaide 36ers.

Shannon has also coached at

Miami South Ridge High School. Shannon hopes to bring a sense of enthusiasm to basketball at PBA.

“We have to take everything that we’ve been working hard for and transfer that to the court,” he said.

No excuses is Coach Shannon’s motto to his life and to the players this season.

“I never made an excuse about it (his partial blindness) on the court,” he said. “Anyone can have a ready made excuse for anything. You have to hold yourself ac-countable.”

Besides coaching at PBA, Shan-non hopes to continue extend-ing his love for the game into the West Palm Beach community. He shares this love with young play-ers from ages 5 to 18. Shannon has hosted basketball camps in the West Palm Beach area for the past three years and has plans to continue it this year.

“It’s my passion,” Shannon said. “There is something inside of me that wants to help kids out.”

Though he has lived most of his life partially blind, new men’s assistant basketball coach Eddie Shannon doesn’t view it as an excuse on the court.

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