REPORT CARD

-- Angelique Flores

Dozens of Golden West College athletes will continue their college

careers this fall at various four-year universities across the nation.

Many of the university-bound Rustlers earned scholarships for their

noteworthy athletic achievements while attending college, and all of them

will continue competing in their respective sports.

Albert Gasparian, the college’s athletic director and the women’s

volleyball coach, said the athletic scholarships received by students are

valued at about $500,000 a year.

Golden West College’s student athletes placed first in several areas

last year. Four state titles were achieved in women’s volleyball, women’s

water polo, and men’s and women’s swimming.

Other highlights include men’s volleyball, placing second in the

state; men’s water polo, finishing third in the state; and the baseball

team making the playoffs for the first time in 10 years.Rustler athletes

attending four-year colleges this fall to play baseball are Eric Archer,

Cal State Northridge; Phil Archer, Cal State Northridge; Nate Beucler,

Cal State Long Beach; Dan Candela, Concordia University in Irvine; Jeremy

Hanson, Cal State Northridge; Ty Harper, University of Alabama; Bobby

Mayorga, Chapman University; Miguel Mendoza, Cal State Chico; and Mike

Miller, Chapman University.Basketball players include Rodney Clarke,

Cumberland College; Billy Curry, Cal State Monterey Bay; Matt Horvath,

Cal State Monterey Bay; Jeff Jensen, Hawaii Pacific College; Ben Rogers,

Hope International University; Amy Pace, Missouri Valley College; and

Kelly Medlen, University of Redlands.

Football players include Ramez Ammari, Bethany College; Sila Brown,

Northeastern University; Michael Daniels, Kansas Wesleyan University;

Peter Dodosh, University of New Haven; Jon Dorenbos, University of Texas

at El Paso; Will Long, Mississippi Valley State University; Vinni Mesa,

Minot State College; J.D. Stern Olivet, Nazarene College; Eti Taula,

Arkansas State University; and Tim Thurman, Cal Poly Pomona.

Golf players include Jeff Greenfield, UC Santa Barbara, and Eric

Newman, Cal State Dominguez Hills.

Softball players are Dani Garcia, UC Riverside, and Jen McCann, Cal

State Dominguez Hills.

Swimmers include Christian Harcsas, Arizona State University; Danny

Johnson, University of the Pacific; Alyson Edoff, Drury College; Deborah

Hoyt, UC San Diego; and Kirsten Rich, USC.

Track and field athletes include Juan Columbie; Cal State Long Beach;

Beckie Sweatman, Azusa Pacific University; Kelley Saunders, UC San Diego;

Huong Lam, UCLA; and Katy Zimmon, Cal State Long Beach.

Volleyball players include Lori Daedelow, Oregon State University;

Julie Renfrow, Wichita State University; Rebecca Larsen, UC Irvine; and

Travis Nelson, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne.

Water polo players include Chris Burress, California Baptist College;

Danny Johnson, University of the Pacific; Marko Markovic, Queens College;

Nenad Praporski, USC; Peter Valovic, Queens College; Chelsea Rowlands,

Cal State Long Beach; and Jennifer Tarasut, Cal State Bakersfield.

GWC students receive scholarships

Two Golden West College students were recipients in the Coca-Cola

Two-Year Colleges Scholarship Program. Van Pham and Eva Shaffer-Brown

each received $1,000 for academic success and accumulating 100 hours of

community service in the past year.

Cell phones donated to Surf City schools

The state of California, in cooperation with Steve Dalbey and Richard

Flynn, officers in the Huntington Beach Police Department, donated 15

cellular telephones to Huntington Beach High School. The telephones will

be used for supervision, especially by coaches who will now be able to

telephone the Police Department or the highway patrol in case of an

emergency during the evening. The telephones cannot make other outgoing

calls or receive incoming messages.

Resident completes research work

Justin Kao of Huntington Beach completed work at the California

Institute of Technology as part of a group of undergraduate students who

did scientific research as part of Caltech’s summer undergraduate

research fellowships program. Kao spent 10 weeks on the Camera-Based

Obstacle Detection for Planetary Rovers on Challenging Terrains research

project.