December 15th, 2008 by satt
Left foot, right foot, hurtle and then jump, front flip then splash. She breaks the surface of the water and looks up at the red, glowing scoreboard to see the points she is awarded from the dive she just completed.
Sophomore Morgan Eisele has been diving for seven years and is now one of the top three divers in the South eastern Conference White Division. She is one of the women’s swim and dive team’s best divers.
On Nov. 7, Eisele dove in the SEC White Division meet finishing second behind Chelsea’s Lauren Dark. Eisele finished with a score of 373.75 points.
Diving can be one of the hardest sports to participate in. So many people forget about it, though, because it’s not commonly participated in. “Not many people can do it, and people that can are really talented,” Eisele said. “Diving is a sport that takes a lot of hard work throughout the season. We do a lot of ab workouts to make our cores strong in our dives.”
Eisele is one of the few divers on the team who does extra work to improve. “I come in the mornings with the swimmers to get my abs done for the day so I will have more time in the afternoons,” she said. “It really helps. I feel like I improve a lot throughout the season, and I get a lot better than the other girls on other teams. It feels great to know that all of my hard work really does pay off, but next year I will just have to work a little harder to get first at SEC.”
Eisele later competed in the regional meet in Battle Creek finishing at 11th place, qualifying for the Division II state meet in Holland. Eisele dove the first day at states but wasn’t able to place high enough to make it back for finals.
She said, “I think that going to states was an excellent experience and i hope to make it back next year.”
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December 8th, 2008 by satt
Thanksgiving has always been a time for giving thanks and a time when families come together to eat one huge feast of a meal. For my family, that’s usually what it’s like, plus a bunch of fighting and yelling at each other.
It starts with my little brother annoying me during the four-hour car ride up to my grandparent’s house and ends with my aunts and uncles arguing about who is going to bring the cranberry sauce or who has the best house for cooking the turkey and the space to fit everyone at one table.
There is always someone who forgets the item they were supposed to bring. Or, there is someone who arrives late, forcing all the starving family members to have to wait an extra 15-20 minutes before shoving their mouths with their choice of festive food, satisfying their hungry bellies.
Maybe it’s that there aren’t quite enough place setting for everyone, and one lucky person gets the honor of eating at the kitchen counter, hoping everyone else in the dinning room feels sorry for them.
And, of course, my all-time favorite conflict consists of my cousins, being only a few years older than me, complaining that they have to sit at the infamous kid’s tables as teenagers.
I would like to believe I don’t have it all that great, but I know I’ve got it made in the shade when it comes to this hectic holiday. In the end, we are all just happy to be together.
Sometimes I think about all of the families who have been somehow torn apart and how awful their Thanksgiving must be. I think how some families may be financially challenged or are going through a rough time and could be spending their evening at a local McDonald’s.
I want to know how other people spend their Thanksgiving dinners, and I would like to hope they are all as lucky as me to have such memorable Thanksgivings.
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December 1st, 2008 by satt
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