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Sports February 26, 2008

Orange Park star joins Saints

By Devon Jeffreys | djeffreys@flagler.edu

Flagler soccer coach John Lynch didn’t even have to leave the area to find his top recruit for 2008 and beyond.

Lynch signed Orange Park high school’s William Frandsen last week, filling a major need at the center/midfielder position.

“He’s very athletic,” Lynch said. “Will was at the top of my list. I needed a very athletic center/midfielder who could also defend and I think in Will, we got that. He’s going to be hard to keep off the field.”

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Sports February 26, 2008

New coach, new fast-pitch program

Former North Florida softball star joins Flagler to revive softball program

By Kristin Egan | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Former Indian River Community College assistant softball coach Kristin Atkinson has been hired to start a new fast-pitch softball program at Flagler College.

“I feel honored to coach the first fast-pitch softball program in Flagler College history,” Atkinson said. “The girls we are going to have will be very competitive and are going to win. Just because it’s a first-year program does not mean that we need to build for the next 10 years. We are going to start off at a very competitive and high level.”

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Sports February 26, 2008

Women’s tennis team won’t be intimidated

By Brandonian Volbrecht | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Flagler women’s tennis is ready for just about anything this season. The Saints have already been battling some of the nation’s top-ranked NCAA Div. II schools.

The team’s season opener was in Savannah, Ga., against Armstrong Atlantic, the No. 2 team in the nation. Although Flagler went down 0-9, coach Walter Shinn was not worried.

“It was a good match because we got beat badly, but on the court we did pretty well,” he said. “We weren’t intimidated.”

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Sports February 26, 2008

Rough start no problem for eager tennis team

By Devon Jeffreys | djeffreys@flagler.edu

Opening up against the top teams in the country has led the Flagler men’s tennis team to a 0-4 start to the 2008 season, but the team believes the foundation is in place for a good season.

“The score might not show it, but each time we’ve gotten better and better,” freshman David Cotrone said. “It’s not indicative of how we’ve played. It’s helped us get better as we go along.”

Cotrone is playing at the No. 1 position at Flagler despite being one of the youngest players on the team. He has a 1-3 singles record this year against the top players in the NAIA and NCAA Div. II.

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February 26, 2008

Staying put can be a better option for surfing

Looking back on winter break: trip to Virgin Islands trumped by ‘surprising’ home swell

By Dan Greene | gargoyle@flagler.edu

It’s no secret that Puerto Rico has long been considered the western Atlantic’s partial answer to the north shore of Oahu.

The Caribbean island’s notoriety was never more apparent than during the last month of fall semester when what seemed like every surfer and their dog booked a ticket to Aguadilla.

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News February 26, 2008

A session with Warren Dreffin

By Ben McLeod | bmcleod@flagler.edu Finally! Flagler College has a great surfer who is from somewhere other than New Jersey, Maryland or Florida. Warren is from the Bahamas, so he is used to surfing great waves. Although he may seem relaxed out of the water,…

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Arts & Entertainment February 26, 2008

Flagler Theatre presents ‘Camelot’

Photo by Tad Mask
Flagler’s Theatre Arts Department will present “Camelot.” The show opens with a preview performance Thursday, March 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium.

By Amy Gray | gargoyle@flagler.edu

King Arthur is a legendary hero from medieval Britain, and he is also the lead character in Flagler College’s spring musical “Camelot,” directed by Phyllis Gibbs.

Students in the production have been working for weeks to pull the play together before the curtain goes up in early March.

J.K. Van Arsdall, a freshman who plays Sir Sagramore in the production is confident that the effort put into the play will pay off on opening night.

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Arts & Entertainment February 26, 2008

Movie Review: ‘Jumper’

By Amy Gray | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Imagine being trapped or in danger, and instead of waiting for rescue or death, you think of a safer place, and in seconds you are there, delivered from harm. This ability is what David Rice (Hayden Christensen) discovers about himself one icy winter day when he steps on thin ice and is suddenly trapped under the frozen surface of a river. The next moment, he is soaking wet lying on a pile of books in the public library.

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On Campus February 26, 2008

FEC construction on schedule for early July completion

Questions remain about security, exterior designs of dormitories

By Jennifer Swift | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Questions remain as the process of transforming two of the three Florida East Coast Buildings into dormitories remains on schedule, with a completion date set for July 10.

Before the dorms open, questions regarding security, the exterior designs surrounding the buildings, and even what the buildings will be continue to linger.

Though the new dorms will offer state-of-the-art security equipment within the buildings, the level of security offered for the seven-minute walk from the new dormitories to the main campus remains up in the air.