NC State Students Playing in the Snow
WRAL found these NC State students on the Court of North Carolina today, having a ball in the snow.
January 2010
NC State Alumni Helping After Haiti Quake
We’ve told you before about Doc Hendley ’04, the founder of the nonprofit Wine to Water, a faith-based aid organization that provides clean water and sanitation systems to people around the world. He’s now in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, working to distribute 500 filters that can provide 5,000 people with clean water for more than five years. He’s tweeting at @wine_to_water and reported this on Jan. 25:
In Port-au-Prince now. I’ve been a lot of places and seen a lot of things. But I’ve never seen anything like this.
Like Hendley, Michael Maximilien ’02, PhD ’05, saw the quake as an opportunity to help. A computer scientist at IBM in San Jose, Calif., he designed the Haiti Quake People Finder, a Facebook application with continuously updated features that allows Facebook users to exchange information on friends and family who may have been caught in the quake. He tells the computer science department:
“With my background in computer science, I thought the best thing I could do was to help people communicate and collect information. That night [of the earthquake], I realized most of the information I had was from Facebook friends explaining, ‘This person is fine,’ or ‘This person is trapped.’ By the next day, I had a simple application ready for release.”
If you know of NC State alumni, faculty or students who are doing something to help with the Haiti relief effort, let us know. We’d love to hear their stories.
Poking Fun at Our Rivals Down the Road
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a big basketball game at the RBC Center tonight. And, as is tradition, the students who run Technician today published their annual spoof of UNC-Chapel Hill’s student newspaper. This morning’s edition of The Daily Tar Hell caught up with former UNC star “Tiger Hansbobo,” editorialized on tuition increases and reported on a UNC player who just hasn’t been the same since the Presbyterian game.
The spoofs started in the 1950s as an April Fools’ edition that poked fun at NC State issues and people. We wrote about the Technician spoofs in our Fall 2007 issue and collected tidbits of some of the best from those spoofs. We also published a Web feature that has the full text of a handful of stories from 50 years of fake news.
The Cover Project: The 1970s
As part of our ongoing project to post all the covers from the alumni magazine’s 80-plus years, we’ve added images from the 1970s. Make sure you check out the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, too.
A Coach’s First Season: The First Rivalry Game
First-year Wolfpack women’s basketball coach Kellie Harper said she was looking forward to this night. A rivalry game: UNC vs. NC State. A large crowd in Reynolds Coliseum. Two teams ready to compete. “This should be fun,” she told her players. “This is what it’s all about.” But afterward? Disappointed. Why? Junior guard Italee Lucas scored 28 of her career-high 33 points in the second half to lead the No. 12 Tar Heels back from a nine-point deficit and defeat the Wolfpack women’s basketball team 81-69 before a crowd of 5,250 in Reynolds Coliseum on Monday night.
“We lacked mental toughness when we needed it,” Harper said. “We started the game with a lot of poise. When things were going well, we maintained that poise. When things weren’t going so well, and when they were making their run, that’s when you need it the most. That’s when you have to be at your best mentally and at your toughest. And we weren’t.”
Above are about a dozen photos from the game taken by Peyton Williams. After the jump is a game report and post-game comments from Kellie Harper and UNC coach Sylvia Hatchell. Go to GoPack.com for the AP story and a box score. (more…)
Remembering Coach Kay Yow
Legendary women’s basketball coach Kay Yow died a year ago yesterday at age 66, after a decades-long battle with cancer. We talked at length with Coach Yow in early 2007, just after she returned to the sidelines following a leave of absence for cancer treatments. I especially liked what she told us about giving to the community:
Besides just coaching at NC State, I hope I have made a difference somewhere along the way giving to the community and being part of the community. I once read that the first third of your life is about learning, the second third is about earning, and the last third is about returning. These things can overlap here and there, but basically that is what you do. There are some people who dig wells so [they] can drink from them. But there comes a time when you’ve got to dig the wells so others can drink from them.
Below, we’ve excerpted a portion of our interview, where she reflected on the challenges of that season and looked forward. You can read the entire Q&A here. This year’s Hoops for Hope game is Sunday, Feb. 14 at 5:30, when the Wolfpack takes on the Miami Hurricanes.
Why was it so important for you to return this season, even as you continue your treatment?
Basketball — my players and my staff — is one of the loves of my life. It is one of the things that I enjoy; it lifts me up. I felt like it would be an encouragement to me and to my players and staff if I could return. That’s the goal that I’ve (more…)
A Coach’s First Season: Pack Sinks Deacs at the Buzzer
Redshirt junior guard Amber White made a 11-foot fade-away jumper along the baseline as time expired to lift the Wolfpack women’s basketball team to a 51-49 win over Wake Forest Friday night in Reynolds Coliseum to snap a two-game losing streak. With the win, the Wolfpack improve to 12-8 overall and 2-2 in the ACC as they head into their Monday night matchup against rival UNC, ranked No. 14 in the nation, at 7 p.m. in Reynolds. Fast-forward to the 57-second mark of the video above to see the game-winning shot. And check out the photos in the gallery below that Tim O’Brien of NC State Student Media took at the game, including this shot of the moment after White’s winning basket:
Go to GoPack.com for a game recap and box score. Coach Kellie Harper’s post-game comments are after the jump. (more…)
Alumnus Drummer’s Band on Tonight Show, in NY Times
The Austin, Texas, rock band Spoon released its seventh album, Transference, on Tuesday. The band’s drummer, Jim Eno ’89, is an NC State grad, a former electrical engineer and a full-time musician since 2006. Here they are on Wednesday on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic. The critically acclaimed band played The Tonight Show on Tuesday (fast forward to the last segment) and were featured in The New York Times last week.
A Coach’s First Season: Interview with Freshman Marissa Kastanek
Marissa Kastanek, left, with junior guard Amber White during a practice. (Photo by Peyton Williams)
The Wolfpack women’s basketball team returns to Reynolds Coliseum Friday night at 6:30 to face Wake Forest and try to snap a two-game losing streak. NC State (11-7, 1-2) fell 83-66 to Boston College and 74-71 to No. 16 Florida State in its past two games after opening ACC play with a 73-45 win over Maryland. As part of our ongoing series “A Coach’s First Season,” we sat down with freshman guard Marissa Kastanek to talk about the past couple of weeks, moving forward and her background. She was named the ACC Rookie of the Week last week after scoring a game-high 18 points in the loss to Florida State. She averages 10.8 points a game and has scored in double figures in 10 games so far this season.
On dealing with the past two losses
The biggest thing right now is what Coach Kellie says and that’s “You have to keep getting better.” Another thing she said that really motivated me is that “Sometime this season you are going to make a statement and coming close to Florida State, losing by 3 points, isn’t a statement. Pretty soon, we’re going to have it where we all are going to click and we’re all going to be on the same page.” When we do that, we’ll see what we can truly be. . . .As far as team concepts gp, everybody has gotten the concepts down. But it’s like Coach Kellie says, “Nobody can have a bad game. We don’t have to all 14 players having a great game, but nobody can have a bad game.” That to me is everything, because if I come out and have a bunch of turnovers and miss a bunch of shots, I’m not doing my part for the team and helping the team be successful. So the team aspect, we know what we have to do. So right now our focus is more on the individual and what we have to do to make everyone on the court better. . . . Once we get on the same page, individually and as a team, we’re going to be good. We have the talent; we just need to get all the pieces of the puzzle together. (more…)
Thirty Years of Wolfpack Hoops Publicity Shots
If you’re a regular reader, you know from our Photos of the Day that NCSU Libraries’ Special Collections has some really terrific material. Photos of buildings, professors, students. But, as a basketball fan, I get a kick out of these publicity shots of Wolfpack players from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s. Not only are they fun, they do a remarkable job of capturing the different eras of hoops at NC State. Kudos to the photographers who shot them over the years.
These are just some of my favorites. There are many more here (A-H), here (I-P) and here (Q-Z).
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