{"id":988,"date":"2019-01-08T10:42:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T15:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/?p=988"},"modified":"2019-01-08T10:42:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T15:42:46","slug":"winter-sports-start-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/winter-sports-start-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Sports Start Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

All Teams Show Potential to Start the Season<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Hunter Langley, Caroline Surratt, Luke Randall<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Swim and Dive is off to a strong start this year. The team won the Tri-City championship, an annual meet against intra-town schools Saint Stephens Saint Agnes (SSSAS) and Bishop Ireton (BI), for the first time in TC history. SSSAS has won the Mayor’s Trophy for the last three years. TC has an entirely new swim staff this year–a change that was announced only weeks before the season began.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the battle between the Titans, BI Cardinals, and SSSAS Saints, TC took four out of six; among the 18 Individual events the Titans finished in the top three in 13 of them. All of the TC first place finishes (22 out of 26 possible) set new meet records. The Men\u2019s Medley Relay–seniors Lutfi Lasida and Brendan Huber-Wilker, sophomores Quinn Hardimon and Ronan Lauinger–broke the team record by three seconds which is also a state qualifying meet time. Hardimon said, \u201cI was like butter on a roll.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Head coach John Gullickson said, \u201c…it is an incredible and humbling experience. I wanted very badly for the Titans to achieve something together and to see their passions, support and focus to the goal is rewarding in itself.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The indoor track team hit the ground running as senior Ibrahim Bangura set the fastest time in the country for the 55 meter dash at 6.43 seconds on December 1. Bangura said, \u201cIt\u2019s a dream come true, but it\u2019s also a wake up call that now that I\u2019m on top I have to work twice as hard to stay on top.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wrestling team has also seen some early success. The team is benefiting tremendously in the upper weight classes from the addition of linemen from the football team. Sophomore Jackson Sullivan, a heavyweight, started off the season with four straight wins with pins in both the scrimmages in the first varsity match of the season. Sullivan said, \u201cAs you can see, I am quite the athlete.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with Sullivan there is junior Nicholas Winkel, another football player, who is doing similar things for the junior varsity squad. He piled up two pins including a thriller in double overtime in the December 12 meet at TC. Wink said after the match, \u201cI did it for the brisket.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The girls basketball team is having a fantastic start to their season, winning three of their first four games. Head Coach Lisa Willis, who was recently hired, said, \u201cWe\u2019ve had good days and we\u2019ve had bad days, but honestly I can say that every day we\u2019ve been together, we\u2019ve grown as a team. Even in defeat we\u2019ve gotten better. That\u2019s big for me. We\u2019re not the traditional varsity team. Our \u2018small\u2019 players are taller than our \u2018big\u2019 players. Half our team didn\u2019t even play last year. We didn\u2019t even know who would be in our program until 10 days before out first match. So, while developing skills is important, our mental toughness and capacity has a matches level of importance. We play hard, we fight until the end, we compete. I can\u2019t ask for more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senior guard Trinity Palacio has been lighting it up this season on both ends of the floor. Against Yorktown she had a monster stat line of 23 points, six assists, four rebounds, and two steals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The boys basketball team is still finding their identity. Their struggles so far owe mostly to a lack of size on their roster–especially when compared with the tallest players of their opponents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coach Darryl Prue, however, is not trying to make the players something they are not and has essentially installed \u201cpositionless basketball\u201d–winning games with well rounded, capable players, not one or two key athletes. Against a Wakefield team comprised of mostly upperclassmen T.C. was able to almost win the game, eventually losing in overtime, despite falling far behind early in the game. So far their record is two wins and two losses–already half the win total of the entire season last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junior forward Ricardo Ross has been electrifying with the ability to hit the three point ball and slam soaring dunks. Ross said, \u201cWhen adversity hits, keep going. It is going to pay off.\u201d
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Swim and Dive is off to a strong start this year. The team won the Tri-City championship, an annual meet against intra-town schools Saint Stephens Saint Agnes (SSSAS) and Bishop Ireton (BI), for the first time in TC history. SSSAS has won the Mayor’s Trophy for the last three years. TC has an entirely new swim staff this year–a change that was announced only weeks before the season began. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}