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DWC tries to focus on the present - Courtesy of the Nashua Telegraph Sept 14, 2016
DWC tries to focus on the present - Courtesy of the Nashua Telegraph Sept 14, 2016
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
DWC tries to focus on the present
By TOM KING
Staff Writer
What a difference some 31 months can make. And not a good difference at that.
Back in February, 2014, the Daniel Webster College athletic department announced plans for a bold expansion. The school was adding men’s varsity hockey and wrestling as well as women’s varsity hockey.
Now, with the school’s future in doubt, the future of those programs and others are murky
Athletics certainly is impacted. While teams are currently competing in their fall schedules, winter programs could be impacted now, with the thinking they may not exist in a few months depending on who buys the college from ITT.
“The approach isn’t any different right now,” Eagles athletic director Chris Gilmore said recently. “We are day to day, doing our business as usual.”
Recruiting is basically on hold, it would appear.
“Right now? Maybe a little bit, but we’re not in that full ramped-up mode right now,” Gilmore said. He added the school has taken a minor hit with athletes leaving, but he admitted that the measuring stick is yet to be determined.
“There could be some fallout,” he said. “I tell (the coaches) to work hard every day, to go day-to-day with their kids. I guess the best way to say it is keep an even keel. Don’t go to far up and down with the ebbs and flows. I think that’s the biggest thing.
“There’s always ups and downs. Each situation is different for others. We try to keep an even keel with what we’re doing. … No one can predict the future. Right now, it’s keep an even keel, try to concentrate on doing the things we can do and manage the things we can manage.
“Right now I’m doing the same things every day. Same thing as the coaches. Just do your job day to day. That’s all you can do.”
Reportedly women’s ice hockey, which barely had enough to put a team on the ice last season, has lost numerous players to the issue, and it would have a hard time staying viable for this season.
Other winter and spring sports are fragile as well, wondering if the athletic department would still exist after the first semester under a new owner. One student athlete,a member of the men’s basketball team, sent an anonymous letter to officials at one of the most prominently mentioned potential buyers, Southern New Hampshire University, as well as other schools and media outlets, including The Telegraph.
“My teammates and I made a financial and personal investment into this school and its offerings in September,” the letter stated. “This includes our ability to enhance ourselves through athletics. A significant portion of our financial commitment to this school was based upon the fact that we are investing that money in our ability to benefit from the character development being a student athlete. … “ We merely ask that our financial contribution help fund our season out as it had been originally planned to when we made our commitment here.”
Men’s varsity ice hockey players and coaches are also just waiting things out, but right now plenty of players are still on campus.
“Some of them are nervous, a large portion are optimistic,” Eagles coach Eric McCambly said. “We should have plenty of horses in the stable. We’d like to hear something within the next 48 hours so we can tell them we are going to have a season. We’re hopeful and we think we’re going to have a pretty good group this year.”
Meanwhile, for the fall season, teams are conducting business as usual for the most part. The women’s volleyball team just played a match at Nichols College on Monday, winning 3-0.
“We don’t really feed into it too much, especially on the field,” soccer player Michael Ottman said. “We’ve read the articles, we know about it. We’re looking positive.”
“We’ve dealt with this last year, too,” soccer standout Marcos Vieria Filho said. “We didn’t let it affect the season. It’s completely out of our hands.”
“Who knows,” McCambly said. “It might end up being better than it was before.”
For a team that doesn’t have a permanent coach officially hired, the Daniel Webster College women’s volleyball team has started off pretty well at 4-3. Last week Madeline Roulier of Pittsfield, Mass.was named NECC Player of the Week after her efforts over the weekend.
Roulier, a senior outside hitter, averaged 2.67 kills, a team-best 4.83 digs and added five service aces, three assists and one block as the Eagles started their season 2-0.
The Eagles for the two matches were under the guidance of Ramim Bhuyia, who is regularly the school’s men’s cross country coach and assistant men’s basketball coach.
Assisting him has been volunteer Karen McNulty, a former head coach at UMass Lowell.
Rivier, meanwhile, also had a strong start to its season. The Raiders swept the New York University Invitational, with four match wins while losing just one set, and then this past weekend won four matches in the Granite State Invitational.
At NYU, sophomore setter Hayley Macken of Clifton Park, N.Y.was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player while senior Lauren Silverman of Chelmsford, Mass. Was named to the All-Invitational team.
For her efforts, Macken was a week ago was named the Great Northeast Athletic Conference’s Offensive Player of the Week while junior Bethany Trevino was named GNAC Defensive Player of the Week after she had 63 digs in the tournament. It’s the fifth time she’s won that award.
Then the Raiders made it two weeks in a row for GNAC honors as Silverman was the conference’s Offensive Player of the Week after helping the Raiders to the Granite State title with 3-0 wins over Colby Sawyer, Keene State, DWC and 3-2 over Plymouth State.
She averaged 3.29 kills per set and 1.71 blocks were set while hitting .494. She had 16 kills and eight blocks in the close win over PSC.
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One thing the Daniel Webster men’s soccer team appears to have a knack for, given the early results, is winning close games, although the Eagles at last look had fallen to 2-2.
A bright spot has been the play of freshman Kevin Herrera, who is originally from Metapan, El Salvador. He’s had two game winning goals and last week was named NECC Player of the Week and Rookie of the Week.
It’s the first time an NECC rookie won dual honors, as the conference recently changed its rules to allow rookies to win Player of the Week honors as well.
DWC tries to focus on the present
By TOM KING
Staff Writer
What a difference some 31 months can make. And not a good difference at that.
Back in February, 2014, the Daniel Webster College athletic department announced plans for a bold expansion. The school was adding men’s varsity hockey and wrestling as well as women’s varsity hockey.
Now, with the school’s future in doubt, the future of those programs and others are murky
Athletics certainly is impacted. While teams are currently competing in their fall schedules, winter programs could be impacted now, with the thinking they may not exist in a few months depending on who buys the college from ITT.
“The approach isn’t any different right now,” Eagles athletic director Chris Gilmore said recently. “We are day to day, doing our business as usual.”
Recruiting is basically on hold, it would appear.
“Right now? Maybe a little bit, but we’re not in that full ramped-up mode right now,” Gilmore said. He added the school has taken a minor hit with athletes leaving, but he admitted that the measuring stick is yet to be determined.
“There could be some fallout,” he said. “I tell (the coaches) to work hard every day, to go day-to-day with their kids. I guess the best way to say it is keep an even keel. Don’t go to far up and down with the ebbs and flows. I think that’s the biggest thing.
“There’s always ups and downs. Each situation is different for others. We try to keep an even keel with what we’re doing. … No one can predict the future. Right now, it’s keep an even keel, try to concentrate on doing the things we can do and manage the things we can manage.
“Right now I’m doing the same things every day. Same thing as the coaches. Just do your job day to day. That’s all you can do.”
Reportedly women’s ice hockey, which barely had enough to put a team on the ice last season, has lost numerous players to the issue, and it would have a hard time staying viable for this season.
Other winter and spring sports are fragile as well, wondering if the athletic department would still exist after the first semester under a new owner. One student athlete,a member of the men’s basketball team, sent an anonymous letter to officials at one of the most prominently mentioned potential buyers, Southern New Hampshire University, as well as other schools and media outlets, including The Telegraph.
“My teammates and I made a financial and personal investment into this school and its offerings in September,” the letter stated. “This includes our ability to enhance ourselves through athletics. A significant portion of our financial commitment to this school was based upon the fact that we are investing that money in our ability to benefit from the character development being a student athlete. … “ We merely ask that our financial contribution help fund our season out as it had been originally planned to when we made our commitment here.”
Men’s varsity ice hockey players and coaches are also just waiting things out, but right now plenty of players are still on campus.
“Some of them are nervous, a large portion are optimistic,” Eagles coach Eric McCambly said. “We should have plenty of horses in the stable. We’d like to hear something within the next 48 hours so we can tell them we are going to have a season. We’re hopeful and we think we’re going to have a pretty good group this year.”
Meanwhile, for the fall season, teams are conducting business as usual for the most part. The women’s volleyball team just played a match at Nichols College on Monday, winning 3-0.
“We don’t really feed into it too much, especially on the field,” soccer player Michael Ottman said. “We’ve read the articles, we know about it. We’re looking positive.”
“We’ve dealt with this last year, too,” soccer standout Marcos Vieria Filho said. “We didn’t let it affect the season. It’s completely out of our hands.”
“Who knows,” McCambly said. “It might end up being better than it was before.”
For a team that doesn’t have a permanent coach officially hired, the Daniel Webster College women’s volleyball team has started off pretty well at 4-3. Last week Madeline Roulier of Pittsfield, Mass.was named NECC Player of the Week after her efforts over the weekend.
Roulier, a senior outside hitter, averaged 2.67 kills, a team-best 4.83 digs and added five service aces, three assists and one block as the Eagles started their season 2-0.
The Eagles for the two matches were under the guidance of Ramim Bhuyia, who is regularly the school’s men’s cross country coach and assistant men’s basketball coach.
Assisting him has been volunteer Karen McNulty, a former head coach at UMass Lowell.
Rivier, meanwhile, also had a strong start to its season. The Raiders swept the New York University Invitational, with four match wins while losing just one set, and then this past weekend won four matches in the Granite State Invitational.
At NYU, sophomore setter Hayley Macken of Clifton Park, N.Y.was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player while senior Lauren Silverman of Chelmsford, Mass. Was named to the All-Invitational team.
For her efforts, Macken was a week ago was named the Great Northeast Athletic Conference’s Offensive Player of the Week while junior Bethany Trevino was named GNAC Defensive Player of the Week after she had 63 digs in the tournament. It’s the fifth time she’s won that award.
Then the Raiders made it two weeks in a row for GNAC honors as Silverman was the conference’s Offensive Player of the Week after helping the Raiders to the Granite State title with 3-0 wins over Colby Sawyer, Keene State, DWC and 3-2 over Plymouth State.
She averaged 3.29 kills per set and 1.71 blocks were set while hitting .494. She had 16 kills and eight blocks in the close win over PSC.
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One thing the Daniel Webster men’s soccer team appears to have a knack for, given the early results, is winning close games, although the Eagles at last look had fallen to 2-2.
A bright spot has been the play of freshman Kevin Herrera, who is originally from Metapan, El Salvador. He’s had two game winning goals and last week was named NECC Player of the Week and Rookie of the Week.
It’s the first time an NECC rookie won dual honors, as the conference recently changed its rules to allow rookies to win Player of the Week honors as well.
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