A group of about 100 Newman students flooded President Noreen Carrocci’s office on Monday express-ing concerns that Athletic Director Vic Trilli might be looking to leave Newman over disagreements about the NSP curriculum and new scholar-ship guidelines.

Their message to Carrocci: Keep Trilli.

“The predominant theme was,

student by student – and they were athletes and non-athletes – Vic, we don’t want you to leave. Please stay, you mean a lot to us,” Carrocci said.

Before the students came into her office, they filled the hallway in Sacred Heart Hall all the way down to the chapel area, said Bailey McGuffey, president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.

Trilli said their fears are not totally unfounded.

Though he did not want to discuss specifics about NSP and the scholar-

ship changes, which students say would hamper coaches’ recruiting abilities, Trilli said he has applied at another school.

“I have to look out for my own personal well-being and I have applied for a position at another school,” he said. “That’s a fact. There’s a lot of opportunities out there and one I’m looking into.”

McGuffey said she heard from a few coaches who told her Trilli was

Polls for Student Body President and Vice-President open today and will close Sunday.

Students will receive a link via email to vote on Thursday and results will be announced on Tuesday at the 12:10 p.m. Student Government As-sociation Senate meeting.

This year, SGA voted to change the running process. Potential presi-dents and vice-presidents campaign together for student votes, rather than

running alone like years past. This year, two teams are running:

Brandon Gollhofer is running with Brandi Boese and Wesley Williams is running with Mary O’Neal for presi-dent and vice-president respectively.

Here is some basic information on the candidates.

Brandon Gollhofer is a junior majoring in Biology with a minor in Spanish. He is running for president He is the current Board Games Club President, a Residence Life Assitant, a General Chemistry Teaching Assist-ant, a Campus Minister and a SGA

senator. Gollhofer’s running-mate, Brandi

Boese is a junior majoring in elemen-tary education. She works for Cam-pus Activities Board and as a T & T leader. She is also a student represent-ative for search committees, a SGA senator and an Orientation Leader.

Wesley Williams is a junior major-ing in theatre with minors in history, pre-law and music.

He is currently president of the-both the Residence Hall Association and College Republicans. He also

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The Center for Hope dinner is an annual fundraising event that helps raise awareness and money for the prevention of homelessness in Wichi-ta. This year’s volunteer coordinators, Emilie Leivian and Kati Bush, are inviting students to volunteer at the dinner, which will be from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday in Newman’s Dugan Library and Conference Center.

Center of Hope is sponsored by the Adorers of the Blood of Christ (ASC) religious order. For the past 32 years, the program has helped low-income families and individuals pay their rent, utility bills and other emergency needs.

Every year, the program puts on a fundraising dinner to help promote its mission and raise money. New-man’s Director of Mission Effective-ness and Archives Sister Charlotte Rohrbach has been a Center of Hope board member for more than 10 years and describes the program as one that only gives and never takes, she said.

“One thing about Center of Hope is that, over the years, we have always said that 100 percent of all money received is given out,” she said. “We don’t use any money for operations. All of the money we receive is given to people who don’t own their homes, people who are paying rent. We work directly with landlords in helping these people out. We will help people pay their rent and utilities, sometimes we help give them some food. We also provide other supportive services. The people we help, it’s just tremen-dous to see them succeed and to help them get the support they need. It’s a wonderful thing to witness.”

In an ASC class last year, juniors Bush and Leivian were approached by Sister Rohrbach, who gave them a suggestion for the group service project they were to complete: help work, coordinate, plan and find vol-unteers for the annual Center of Hope dinner.

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Student government elections open todayBy KATI BUSHA&E Editor

VIC TRILLI LISTENS to students’ concerns about his potential resignation on Monday. Hank Griggs, Photo Editor.

Student athletes rally in support of TrilliBy MATT RIEDLStaff Writer

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The directors and the Center of Hope board members were impressed by the dinner’s success and Bush and Leivian’s ability to work well together last year, so the two were asked to work the event again the following year as volunteer coordinators.

Bush and Leivian said that the planning and coordination of this year’s dinner has been going great so far.

“We think very similarly,” Bush said of Leivian. “We both operate and think mechanically with the same thought process and tactical ideas.”

This year’s Center of Hope din-ner will include a live auction, raffle, and a treasure chest full of 50 keys, with just one key that opens the chest revealing a prize. The event should be a successful one as long as more students sign up to volunteer, Leivian said.

“We need 35 volunteers and we only have about 15 so far,” she said. “Any help would be appreciated.”

The event requires volunteers to work from 4 to 10 p.m. and wear black slacks and white shirts. Volun-teers can work only part of the time if they give prior notice. They will help with selling raffle tickets, serving din-ner and appetizers, delivering prizes, and set up and take down before and after the event.

The event is not only a great way to receive credit for service hours, but it’s also as an opportunity for the students of Newman to give back to the ASC sisters, Bush said.

“It’s really cool to become involved with the ASC sisters who are so involved in giving back to the com-munity,” she said. “It’s amazing to witness their generosity on this level. I like helping the sisters out because they are like mentors to us students.

They give so much to us and so by volunteering and helping out, we are in little ways giving back to the sisters themselves.”

The Center of Hope dinner is a humbling event and one that is important to volunteer for, Leivian said. Students will witness how for-tunate they are and realize that they shouldn’t take things for granted, she said.

“People should volunteer because you meet a lot of people and you can begin to make connections. You should volunteer because it’s for a good cause,” said Leivian. “It’s very rewarding because I think you begin to realize how blessed you are by volunteering at this kind of event, because you do see the families that don’t have anything. The Center of Hope gives them hope so that they can keep living and keep their fami-lies going,” she said.

serves as secretary of the Newman Theatre Club and an Orientation Leader. He is also a member of the Newman University Troubadours.

Williams’ running-mate, Mary O’Neal is a junior double-majoring in criminal justice and history. She is an ASC Community Leader Scholar, a Troubadour and a former Orienta-tion Leader and SGA Senator She also coaches high school debate.

A total of 68 Newman students were pre-polled at random and the results are located to the right.

Applications for SGA senate are due by noon April 24 in the Student Life office. Elections will take place online April 27-29 and results will be announced May 1.

Student Life polled 68 students about who they were going to vote for with 52 percent saying Gollhofer and Boese, 32 percent Williams and O’Neal, and 16 percent undecided.

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From “Hope,” on Page 1

Charity Week Events

Several events are tak-ing place today and Friday as part of SGA’s Charity Week.

From 1 to 5 p.m. today, the Jets for Life Club will be hosting quilt tying in the Landing. Newman Univer-sity has its monthly Lord’s Diner volunteer night.

Students have the op-portunity to volunteer at the Silent Auction through-out the day Friday.

Contact Elaine Schmei-dler at schmeidlere@new-manu.edu for more infor-mation on the Lord’s Diner and Silent Auction service opportunities.

From “SGA,” on Page 1

leaving “due to frustrations” and that she, as SAAC president, should “intervene and do something to show him the support and how much he is truly valued on this campus.”

McGuffey and other student-ath-letes have expressed concern that the scholarship changes to be implement-ed in the fall will have an adverse effect on coaches’ ability to recruit.

“Especially in some of the lower-scholarship-offering athletics, unless an athlete is given a full ride, an ath-lete is going to choose to go to anoth-er school if they only get an academic scholarship,” McGuffey said. “College is too expensive not to have a stacked scholarship. That’s one of the reasons I came to Newman – stacked scholar-ships.”

Carrocci said she does not think that will be the case.

“As far as I can see on the reports, we are signing freshmen and transfer athletes for next year,” Carrocci said. “We don’t need as many for next year because this was a very large class of freshmen and transfer athletes, and we retain our athletes well. So, there won’t be as many recruits for next year and we’ve been planning that all along, so scholarship changes have nothing to do with that either.”

Chantel Smith, a junior on New-

man’s bowling team, said she takes issue primarily with the NSP curricu-lum.

“In the education program, they’re pushing away one of our best teach-ers, and now they’re pushing away the best AD, so that’s pretty ridicu-lous,” Smith said. “On the bowling team, we’re afraid it’s going to go down, because Carrocci doesn’t sup-port it and Vic gives us all the support in the world. We’re pretty nervous.”

Carrocci said the recent changes made to the NSP curriculum should allow any student – freshman or transfer – to graduate on time from the university.

“It is not an issue for anybody who starts here as a freshman to finish in four years,” Carrocci said. “It has been an issue to be able to finish in two years for a transfer in business, education and nursing, and they have been working to address those issues. There’s plenty of room for the New-man studies. Whether people want to take those courses is another matter.”

Members of SAAC have been sup-portive of Trilli over Twitter for the past week, using the hashtags #Ath-letesForTrilli and #Athletes4Trilli.

“Newman University athletes support Vic Trilli in any decision” he makes, SAAC tweeted on Friday. “However we’d be devastated to see him leave.”

For freshman Shaylee Wewe, the first few weeks of her collegiate career would have been impossible if not for Trilli’s assistance, she said.

One week before the fall semester began, Wewe sustained a compound fracture at a Newman cheer camp. She was in the hospital for a while and was unable to attend orientation events.

“He offered to drive me to class in the golf cart if I needed it or if I couldn’t find anyone to help me,” Wewe said. “It made my mom feel a lot better too if I knew where I was going.”

Trilli said Newman is still a “good fit” for him.

“At the same time it’s a good fit, I need to make sure about what we’re doing with my program, our coaches, our student athletes – 315 of us – that should be important,” he said. ““Let’s have a discussion. Where is athlet-ics? What do you want to do with this thing? What is the next five-year plan? I think that’s fair.”

Carrocci said the rumors that Trilli would leave Newman are “not true.”

“He’s not going to talk about his personal situation, because that’s between the two of us, and we’re in a good space,” she said.

From “Trilli,” on Page 1Instrumental Ensemble performance

Newman University’s Intstrumental Ensemble is presenting the performance “A Musical Trip through TV Land” at 3 p.m. Sunday in the DeMattias Perform-ance Hall.

The ensemble will play arrangements of classic tel-evision theme songs from shows such as “Mission Impossible,” “The West Wing,” and “Alfred Hitch-cock Presents,” and many others.

Admission is free. The show is open to the public.

The aroma of fresh coffee grounds mix with an old yet familiar One Re-public ballad about living like you’re dying as junior Kati Bush prepares for the first rush of the day.

It’s only 7:30 a.m., but Bush is al-ready moving fast behind the counter.

She’s skipping to the filters.She’s spinning around the mocha

makers.She’s hopping up to meet and greet

every new and familiar customer with a smile.

For the past six years, the central hangout spot for many Newman stu-dents has been the Scooter’s Coffee shop that is located in the heart of the Dugan Library. Bush is one of the many employees working there, and she describes the job as the best one she’s had during her college career, she said.

“Before working here, I worked re-tail for three years,” Bush said. “But this has been the best job I’ve had. Tolli (Rasmussen) is really great. She has become almost like a mom to all of us working here. It’s an environment

where we all get along really well. We’re kind of like a family.”

Owner Rasmussen said she hasn’t been around much this semester be-cause she has taken on a few other responsibilities within the Scooter’s franchise, such as building new loca-tions in Wichita. She said she’s had to rely on her employees to keep the store running.

“I’m so lucky because I get to pick the best of the best,” Rasmussen said. “I trust them with everything I have.”

Senior Marquis Cuyler, another Scooter’s employee, agrees that their boss is the best, saying Rasmussen helps create a good atmosphere.

“Tolli is the best boss I’ve ever had and I’ve had three to four jobs on cam-pus,” Cuyler said. “She just always seems happy and in a good mood. It kind of brightens your day. And if she can help you in any way she can, she will.”

It’s important for the employees to have such an understanding boss be-cause most of the Scooter’s workers are balancing many activities, Bush said.

“Marquis is a basketball player, I’m working for the Vantage,” Bush said.

“Then we have someone who wres-tles, and others who are in the nursing program. So it’s really awesome hav-ing Tolli because she understands that we are students and that we’re busy.”

Rasmussen said she develops a close relationship with each of her em-ployees and is sad to see them leave at graduation.

“We’re a family whether we’re cele-brating something good or something bad,” Rasmussen said, “It’s an un-likely boss-employee relationship. I’m more than just their boss. They’re like my kids. I’ve adopted all of them. It’s the only place I’ve wanted to be since I opened the store. It’s not work. It’s not a job. It’s just somewhere I enjoy being. I hate when they graduate. I go through withdraw. I get sad.”

Every Monday through Friday at 7:30 a.m., a barista arrives and pre-pares the shop for another day.

They start the machines, wipe down the counters, rinse out the grinders and make sure that everything is set, clean and prepared for the first cus-tomer to walk around the corner.

During the day, countless lattes, teas, smoothies and specialty drinks

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SHOTS! SHOTS! SHOTS!

Coffee shop staffers share special bond with ownerELLEN HEALYStaff Writer

For the second year in a row, the Board Games Club was named “Club of the Year” for its consistent attend-ance count and partnerships across campus, officials said.

Each year, Student Government Association awards a club on campus with this title. The decision is made on an application-basis.

Board Games Club attracts 20 to 30 students every meeting. On top of its regular meetings, it has held a couple larger events, partnering with differ-ent clubs and organizations on and off campus such as Campus Activities Board at Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Brandon Gollhofer, Board Games Club president, said he thinks collab-oration is the key to a successful club.

“By cooperating and working with other clubs and organizations on campus, Board Games Club has suc-cessfully integrated its love for games and socialization,” Gollhofer said.

Board Games Club will be hosting Kansas’ first-ever national Settlers of Catan tournament at 12:30 p.m. Sat-urday in the Mabee Dining Center. Registration is $10. Gollhofer said the proceeds will go to Project Sonrisa, a project also sponsored by the Spanish department, helps to provide dental services to children in Guatemala by donating new toothbrushes, Gollhof-er said. The toothbrushes will go to the children of La Labor, an unders-erved community in Guatemala City.

Other clubs that were nominated were the Chemistry Club, Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), Hispanic-American Leadership Organization (HALO), Jets for Life and Newman University Medical Professions Club (NUMPC). Every club submitted its nomination explaining as to why it was deserving of the award. The win-ner is decided by SGA on a voting ba-sis.

Board Games club meets every oth-er Thursday from 7 p.m. to midnight in the Student or Alumni Center. Its next meeting will be on April 23. For more information contact Gollhofer by email at gollhofer273411@new-manu.edu.

Board games club wins again

AN ESPRESSO SHOT is ran during a shift this week. Scooter’s is located in the Dugan Campus Center. Kati Bush, A&E Editor

By TRE’ BLOUNTStaff Writer

See “Scooter’s,” on Page 4

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will be handed from employee to cus-tomer, along with countless break-fast burritos, salads, sandwiches and wood-oven pizzas, chocolate muffins and cookies the size of your face.

The most popular drink among Scooter’s caffeinated customers, is the “Carmelicious,” which is made using espresso, caramel sauce, steamed milk and whipped cream.

But some employees say that it’s more exciting when someone orders something different, Bush said.

“It’s more fun when people come in and they say, ‘What’s good?’ or ‘Just make me something,’” Bush said. “Then, you get to make something that’s not just another white mocha or something that’s always being or-dered, which can make it kind of bor-ing. Weirdly, we take joy in that, be-

cause then it’s like, ‘Yes! We get to do something different!’”

Most Scooter’s crew members know the drink recipes by heart and can re-member what drink what customer wants.

For Bush and Cuyler, practice make perfect, they said.

“It’s kind of freaky how many drink orders I know,” said Bush “There’s this one woman who comes in every day, and as soon as I see her walking in, I start to make her drink. The more you work, the faster you pick up on it. There’s a lot of drink orders that I know because I work 20 hours a week. It’s something you have to work at to perfect because everything has to be done a specific way, like how to pull a shot or how to hold the milk at a cer-tain angle when steamed. ”

Memorization took a long time for Cuyler, he said, but he’s become more

confident as he’s gained more experi-ence.

“It took me a whole year to do drinks,” Cuyler said. “I did nothing but food here my first year. I didn’t know anything about coffee. I didn’t even like it. But after working here so long, I now know most customers and their drink orders, almost automati-cally really. I mean after a while, they get the same thing and it becomes kind of easy. It just takes time and practice. For some people it’s like I don’t even know them all that well, but I do know their favorite drink and I know how to make it.”

There are pros and cons to any job you take, but for most employees at Scooter’s there is more good than bad. Scooter’s employees not only get a 20 percent discount and make friends with their fellow employees, but they also have a chance to be social and in-

teract with the rest of Newman’s com-munity. For Cuyler, the social aspect of the job is the best part, he said.

“I’ve worked here three years and I’m ready to graduate and go, but it’s great working here and I will miss it,” he said.

For Bush, there are just two “set-backs.” She smells like coffee all day after a shift, she said. And oddly, her job has turned her off to coffee a bit.

“There isn’t a day, unless I don’t work, that I don’t smell like coffee beans,” Bush said. “It sticks to your hair, it sticks to your clothes. But at least it’s not a bad smell… I hope. I also used to drink a cup of coffee every day and that was the only way I could start my mornings. Now, there are some days where I’m just like, ‘I just want to drink water.’ To be honest though, I don’t really get sick of anything here because I really like my job.”

“ Question of the Week

Sophomore Lerma

How would you slay the fictional evil dragon of Keldorr?

“I would shove dry ice down its throat.”

Ruben Senior

Durant

“I wouldn’t. I’d tame it and make it my pet by feeding people.”

WillJunior

“With my sexuality! Sorry, I’ve been watch-ing ‘30 Rock’ a lot.”

Alison

“Nunchucks.” “I would use the one ring and a lightsaber at the same time. Because then I would be invisible and have an indestructible sword.”

Academic and International Advisor

Ami

JuniorDurantAustin

“Eh...I don’t know. I’d probably call in an air strike.”

David

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Senior

BRING THIS IN FOR HALF OFF ANY DRINK!

Did you know that if you have a meal plan, you also have $50 to $100 Scooter’s bucks

in your account?

Ask a barista to check your balance today!

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MEN’S TENNIS (16-9) WOMEN’S TENNIS (17-4)

Newman vs. St. Edward’s L 1-8

Newman vs. St. Mary’s L 4-5

Newman vs. CameronL 3-6

Newman vs. Bethel CollegeW 8-1

Newman vs. Kansas WesleyanW 9-0

Newman vs. St. Edward’sL 2-7

Newman vs. St. Mary’sL 0-9

Newman vs. Cameron L 3-6

Newman vs. Bethel CollegeW 9-0

Newman vs. Kansas Wesleyan W 9-0

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ScoreboardBASEBALL (15-20) SOFTBALL (12-31)

Newman vs. Fort Hays StateW 7-6, L 6-3

Newman vs. Oklahoma Panhandle State W 9-5, L 3-4, L 6-7

Newman vs. Pittsburg StateL 2-5, L 3-5

Newman vs. Fort Hays StateL 3-9. L 0-5

Newman vs. Texas Permian BasinW 10-7, W 5-4, W 7-1

Newman vs. Arkansas - Fort SmithW 8-5, L 6-17, L 8-12

Newman vs. Northwestern Okla-homa State W 12-4

Newman vs. St. Mary’s L 2-11, L 1-5, L 2-3

Newman vs. WashburnL 1-11

Newman vs. Oklahoma ChristianL 6-10, W 7-2, L 11-14

Newman athletes share knowledge through coaching

SOPHOMORE MIKAYLA MEDBERY (left) and senior Kaitlyn Buck (right) pose for a picture with their eight and under Wichita Mustangs team Courtesy Photo, Kaitlyn Buck

By DELANEY HIEGERTSports Editor

Athletes at any level always want to find a way to share their sport - their passion - with others. For some New-man athletes this opportunity has pre-sented itself in the form of coaching.

From the diamond to the hardwood to the bowling lanes, Newman has athletes out there sharing their knowl-edge and passing on their love of the game to young athletes.

BasketballSenior Jeremy Espinoza has been

coaching youth basketball camps in the summers for many years and re-cently started helping out the men’s basketball coaching staff at Newman.

Espinoza said coaching has always been in his sights and he is excited for the opportunity to become a gradu-ate assistant coach on Newman’s staff next year.

“I want to coach at the collegiate level after I get my master’s degree,” Espinoza said. “As grad assistant next year, I’ll gain a lot of experience. I’m excited to make sure my players get better every day.”

Although Espinoza is originally from Texas, he said he plans to look for coaching positions anywhere available.

WrestlingThe Jet’s wrestling team has two

members who coach and give lessons throughout the year. Freshman Tyler Mies has coached at various camps as well as the Kansas Regional Training Center held at Newman. Sophomore Dustin Reed coached high school wrestlers in Colby and gives lessons to individual wrestlers in Colby as well as in Wichita.

Mies said though he is just getting started coaching, he is looking for-ward to all the benefits of it.

“I get to help wrestlers become bet-ter individual and fulfill their dreams,” Mies said. “Not only that, but I will also become a better wrestler from coaching. Teaching is a great learning experience.”

Reed, who has been coaching for five years now, said the idea of coach-ing has always been appealing to him.

“My dad coached at the collegiate level for 11 years. Watching him defi-nitely grew my interest,” Reed said. “It’s great to be able to take a step back and see other people do the sport I fell in love with.”

Mies and Reed plan to continue to coach in the future, both saying it is a possible career option.

SoccerJunior Dallas Fiszel of the men’s

soccer team coaches club soccer for the Sporting Wichita Rojos.

Fiszel, who has been coaching for four years now, said it has been a good reminder of why he loves the game.

“Coaching young kids makes you keep in mind that you have to enjoy the game, that having fun makes eve-rything better,” Fiszel said. “Being

able to pass my knowledge on to these kids and watch them play is a great feeling.”

Fiszel, whose father started the Sporting Wichita Rojos club, plans to take over the club from him some day and continue coaching as a side job.

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SOPHOMORE EDUARDO SANTOS prepares to serve in a match earlier this season. Hank Griggs, Photo Editor

BowlingThe men’s bowling team has one

player, junior Trevor Baumgartner, who gives lessons and coaches youth in the Topeka and Wichita areas.

Baumgartner said seeing his dad coach over the years sparked his inter-est.

“I decided to give it a shot and it turned out to be something I really en-joyed doing,” Baumgartner said. “It’s taught me that helping others to reach their goals is just as good as trying to reach your own.”

Although he is not sure at what level, Baumgartner plans to continue coaching in the future. He said it has become a passion of his and now that he’s started coaching, he doesn’t ever see himself giving it up.

BaseballJuniors Garett Thomas and Nick

Middleton both coach and give les-sons to youth in Wichita and their hometowns.

Thomas and Middleton have both been coaching for more than four years now and say they enjoy watch-ing the kids grow with the game.

“The feeling you get when one of your kids succeeds at something they’ve been struggling with…it’s just an inexplicable feeling,” Thomas said. “Coaching allows you to help athletes get better. That’s priceless.”

Middleton said that coaching also is a great way for him to grow as a player and person.

“My coaches taught me more than just baseball. They taught me life les-sons,” Middleton said. “As a coach, now it’s my turn to pass on those les-sons to young baseball players.”

Thomas and Middleton both agree that they love the game too much for their baseball careers to end after col-lege and that coaching is a great way to stay immersed in the sport.

Middleton, who currently coaches 7 to 13-year-olds, plans to open an in-door hitting facility with his dad in the Kansas City area after college. Middle-ton said he want to pursue coaching as a profession and this will be a great start for him.

Thomas, who coach’s kids any-where from 9 to 16 years of age, sees himself continuing to coach out of col-lege with club teams or even college summer teams.

SoftballThe Lady Jet’s have three players

who coach for youth club teams in the Wichita area. Senior Kelsey Jones, senior Kaitlyn Buck, and sophomore Mikayla Medbery all coach various age groups for the Wichita Mustangs softball club.

Jones, who works with kids be-tween the ages of 12 and 16, said she’s always enjoyed coaching.

“Coaching has taught me a lot about myself and how much I love helping others,” Jones said. “My experiences with coaching and helping kids grow were a big reason why I decided to get my degree in teaching.”

Medbery, who coached alongside Buck on an 8 and under team, said she started coaching after her freshman year of college and was hooked.

“The opportunity to pass on my knowledge of the game to young girls is so exciting,” Medbery said. “Watch-ing them fall in love with the game I love, it’s an awesome feeling.”

Jones and Medbery both plan to continue coaching in future years, while Buck said nursing will consume most her of free time in the future.

GolfSophomore Katharina Helms on

the Lady Jets golf team gives lessons at the golf club in her hometown of Koenigsfeld, Germany.

Helms said she gave lessons over the summer and plans to coach a new age group, 8-16 year olds, this sum-mer.

“It makes me happy to see people playing the sport and having fun with it,” Helms said. “Seeing that smile on their face when they finally hit the ball long and straight, it’s a great feeling.”

Helms said she plans to start a three-year program for multiple sports at the club she currently coaches at back home.

“Coaching is where my passion is. It’s something I want to pursue a ca-reer in,” Helms said. “To be a good coach, I know I will have to learn a lot. It takes more than just knowledge of the game to be a successful coach. I’m lucky that I’ve got to experience some aspects of coaching already, and I’m excited for the challenge it presents me.”

From “Coaches,” on Page 5

When Eduardo Santos was a lit-tle boy in Maringa, Brazil, excitedly playing with his first ever toy, a tennis racket, he never imagined he would grow up to become the current No. 1 singles and doubles player on the Newman tennis team.

Santos, whose full name is Eduardo Issao Dos Santos, grew up in a family that loved tennis.

Before signing to Newman Univer-sity, Wichita had already been a some-what familiar place to Santos because his older brother attended school and played tennis at Wichita State Univer-sity.

“The main reason that made me come to the U.S. to study was my brother,” Santos said. “ He played ten-nis at Wichita State and ever since he moved here I always wanted to play college tennis as well.”

Santos was first contacted by New-man’s former head men’s tennis coach and he thought it was the perfect fit because he’d be close to his brother while also receiving a quality educa-tion from Newman.

Tennis wasn’t something that San-tos just decided to try out; he was born into a family that prepared him for it. Growing up, Santos’ mom Marina had

worked as a manager of a tennis acad-emy in his city, and the academy soon became Santos’ “daycare”.

“My dad was my first tennis pro,” Santos said. “We used to play tennis while we were waiting for my mom to get off of work.”

This season, the Newman Univer-sity men’s tennis team has a record of 16-9. Santos is confident in his team-mates, saying they’ve improved great-ly since the beginning of the season.

“We finished our regular season third in the conference, and we are looking forward to the conference tournament happening in Dallas in two weeks,” Santos said.

Individually, Santos feels like he has improved his game from previous years, this season particularly.

“I feel great. I’ve been playing my best tennis so far,” Santos said. “I’ve been able to bring some recognition to Newman tennis and that’s exciting.”

Santos has been selected as the Heartland Conference Player of the Week six times this season, and it was only awarded nine times.

The men’s tennis team ended its regular season last weekend, but will be back in action in Dallas for the Heartland Conference Tournament starting on April 24.

Newman’s Santos was born to playBy MEI-MEI SENTHAVYStaff Writer

Vic Trilli is a true asset to this uni-versity. Of all of the members on the President’s cabinet, he is the one I feel fights the most for the rights of all stu-dents.

He is willing to put himself on the line for any student, whether they are an athlete or not. He is strong willed and willing to constantly look out for the student’s needs.

I have been honored to work with Coach Trilli this year. He has gone above and beyond what I could have ever asked of him to do with helping

in developing SAAC this past year. I have learned many things from this brilliant man on how to better handle situations as they arise. His high en-ergy and enthusiasm has completely changed Newman Athletics over the past seven years.

When Coach Trilli first came to Newman, he had a lot of work to do to improve athletics. Throughout his ca-reer at this institution he has improved athletics tremendously.

With Vic Trilli we have become an NCAA Division II school competing in the Heartland Conference. Our athlet-ic teams used to be a laughing matter now they are amongst the top teams in our conference. He has brought in coaches and athletes that have contin-

ued to excel. He continues to make im-provements every year to all areas of athletics and academics.

Over this school year, he held meet-ings to encourage and find ways of increasing school spirit on this cam-pus, and not just for athletics. At these meetings representatives from CAB, SGA, Res Life, Jet’s for Life, Theatre, Chorale, Band, Nursing, the Science Department, and others were present to give advice and collaborate to ac-complish this goal.

While it is a continuing work in progress, this year has been one of the best years of school spirit in history.

Now while this can’t all be accred-ited to Vic Trilli, without his push to have these meetings there would not

have been a drastic increase of student participation on campus this year.

To see Vic Trilli leave this univer-sity would truly be catastrophic. The students would lose their advocate. However, every athlete would agree we want Coach Trilli to be happy, even if that means his departure from Newman.

Coach Trilli has given so much to everyone here on this campus. His happiness is the top priority. He would truly be missed and extremely impossible to replace.

Speaking on the behalf of all of the athletes on campus we will support any decision Vic chooses, as long as it brings him happiness.

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