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The '09 HOT ROD Drag Week, Presented By Gear Vendors, Showed Proven Combinations To Go Fast With A Reliable Hot Rod.
Punishing. That's the best word to describe HOT ROD Drag Week, presented this year by Gear Vendors. If you are new to the scene, here's what Drag Week is all about: five dragstrips in five days, racers must drive to each track with no support vehicle of any kind, and the car with the quickest average e.t. over five days is the overall winner.
To encourage a wide variety of entries, there are 11 classes that make up Drag Week, from Unlimited where essentially anything goes to Daily Driver, which finishes off the event with an index race to determine the class winner. Between those two are the following classes; here's a very brief description of each: Pro Street, for typical back-half (big tire) cars; Modified, for small-tire (no wider than 11.25 inches at the tread) cars with nonstock suspension; Diesel (for anything powered by a diesel engine); and Street Race for stock suspension entries on small tires. Pro Street and Modified are each split into Power-Adder and Naturally Aspirated classes, while Street Race is split into Big-Block Power-Adder, Big-Block N/A, Small-Block Power-Adder, and Small-Block N/A (430 ci is the cutoff between small- and big-block). Daily Driver is for any car slower than 10.80, and it's the biggest class of Drag Week.
The '09 Drag Week featured everything from a 19-second '78 Honda Civic to Larry Larson's winning 7.25-second, 204-mph Unlimited car.
Just having a fast car does not make you a winner, since you still have to make the 1,000-plus-mile drive. Attrition is a natural part of Drag Week, but it's also what makes it so interesting. Racers helping each other on the side of the road surrounded by cornfields and with Amish horse-and-buggies rolling by make this an event unlike any other. And if you finish, nobody can ever tell you again your car is not a street car. This year we started at Muncie Dragway in Muncie, Indiana, then headed north to U.S. 131 Dragway in Martin, Michigan. From there we visited Bill Bader's awesome Summit Raceway Park in Norwalk, Ohio, then went to National Trail Raceway just outside Columbus, Ohio, and back to Muncie for the finale.
So on with the show. While Wes Allison was working his photographic magic on the track, your intrepid editor was scouring the pits talking to guys about their combinations in an effort to show readers how they go so fast and keep their junk together. Here's what we found out, as well as the whole inside story on the biggest Drag Week yet. Make plans now to attend the '10 HOT ROD Drag Week. We don't' know where or when quite yet, but trust us-it's going to be the best time you've ever had with your hot rod.
Class Winner
Quickest Four-Cylinder
Jon Huber
St. Louis, MO
'79 Ford Mustang
Class: Small-Block Power-Adder
Best E.T.: 9.23
Average E.T.: 9.37
It's the little Ford that could-and does. Jon Huber's four-cylinder Mustang was racing against cars with far bigger engines but still had the field covered by nearly a second. It has run as quick as 8.90 at 156 mph, but Jon kept it in the low 9s for Drag Week, turning in a best timeslip of 9.25 and averaging 9.37 at 147 for the class win. The next closest competitor was Jeff Schmell's '08 Mustang with a 10.11 average. As you can see in one of the photos, the torque converter died just a few miles away from Muncie Dragway on the first day. A group of racers stopped and helped Jon perform a roadside fix to get him on his way.
Combo: How in the world can you make 1,000 hp and get more than 25 mpg? The Huber Performance method is a little engine, lots of boost, plenty of tuning expertise, and a little bit of light-footed driving. With the fourth-smallest engine in the entire Drag Week field (behind two Hondas and a diesel Bug), Jon's 178ci Ford four-banger made four-digit power at 8,200 rpm by using really good bottom end parts, a custom Jon-ported head, a big turbo, and a MegaSquirt EFI system. The EFI is the key: Jon had the 1,000hp tune on the track, then leaned it out for the drives. He claims the car still gets about 19 mpg with the big tuneup in it. The trans is a C4, the rear is an 8.8-inch, and the car carries its front tires to about the 330 mark on nearly every pass-very fun to watch.
Jeff Lutz
Callery, PA
'57 Chevy
Class: Unlimited
Best E.T.: 7.03
Average E.T.: DNF
Unlimited had a total of five cars entered, and all of them looked to have a shot at the overall win. But by the first day, Dave Ahokas' Willys, Shawn Ellington's Nova, and Doug Cline's Camaro had bitten the dust. The fight came down to Larry Larson's Chevy II and this bad boy, Jeff Lutz's '57. Rumors had this car already running 6s a week or so before Drag Week, so all eyes were on it. Jeff posted a 7.63 at Muncie and a 7.64 at Martin, but when he got to Norwalk, the car was hurt with broken lifters. He fixed it, did a burnout and backed up, and the starter shut them off to clean a spot on the track. Then the car wouldn't fire. In fact, he couldn't even get it to turn over with a breaker bar. Jeff figured the cam bearings were toast and were seizing the cam. His week, and the prospect of Larry having someone to duke it out with, was over. A nice thing to note is the legs poking out from under the front bumper (in the photo at the right) are Larry's, who was helping him diagnose it.
Combo: The '57 is a full-tube-chassis, no-compromises car built by Tom Napierkowski in a mere three months using a body from Fort Pitt Racing. The engine is a twin-turbo, 640ci Rat that uses a Callies/Oliver/Diamond short-block, big Brodix heads, and a 0.850-lift Bullet cam with a big 118-degree lobe separation. A BigStuff3 computer controls the EFI, and racer Mark Micke gave them the Powerglide.
Eric Yost
Mooresville, NC
'82 Pontiac Firebird
Class: Pro Street Power-Adder
Best: 7.83
Average E.T.: 9.45
Eric Yost made his second appearance at Drag Week in Jeff Pearley's Firebird. Jeff is the former crew chief on Greg Anderson's dominant NHRA Pro Stock team. The Pontiac was a solid 7-second player, but it was a long week for the him, especially when he grenaded the transmission at National Trail. Fellow racer Rick Prospero had a spare TH400 and offered it to him, but it had the wrong case, so he gutted the good one in the pits and put the parts in the Firebird trans. With the help of a big group of fellow racers and presenting sponsor Rick Johnson of Gear Vendors, he got it together and made the drive to Muncie on time-and only needed a 14-something pass to win the class. But Eric went for broke . . . and broke, coasting to a 15.38 and handing the win to Mike Roy's Monte Carlo. That's gotta sting.
Combo: With a 4.125-inch bore and a 3.75 stroke, the ex-Lingenfelter engine uses what Eric called "old" cylinder heads force-fed tons of air from a pair of 76mm turbos controlled by a BigStuff3 system. The trans is a TH400 backed by a Gear Vendors overdrive, and the former Steve Grebeck chassis uses ladder bars and big Mickey Thompson rubber. Check out the cardboard airscoop they made to prevent overheating on the road.
Randy Franklin
Gosport, IN
'64 Buick Skylark
Class: Daily Driver
Best E.T.: 12.35
Average E.T.: 12.48
Randy's Buick has run in the Factory Appearing Stock Tire (F.A.S.T.) series, so it's pretty much stock. Yeah, right. This was a fun car to watch, since on the launch it hit the tires so hard it made us take notice. But the '80s-style teal paint (done by "some mullet guy, I'm sure," according to Randy) and stock interior redone with a kit from Legendary, makes it look like your grandfather's Buick. It ran in Daily Driver with a 12.38 dial-in and lost on a breakout in the third round.
Combo: Like an NHRA Stock racer, Randy won't tell what he's done to the 455 under the hood. He claims the long-block is stock, but when we asked about the cam, he simply put down a question mark. Damn racers. A TH350 and 3.73-geared 12-bolt send power to 275/60R15 Hoosier drag radials, and the suspension consists of adjustable upper control arms, no-hop bars, QA1 shocks with QA1 coilovers, Global West upper control arms, and F-body spindles up front. Randy also won a Gear Vendors overdrive in the awards ceremony raffle.
Mike Copeland
Brighton, MI
'04 GMC Canyon
Class: Modified Naturally Aspirated
Best E.T.: 10.50
Average E.T.: 10.63
Frequent HOT ROD readers will recognize the name Mike Copeland. He works for GM Performance Division and was the man behind the amazing HOT ROD Solstice in 2006, the Reggie Jackson Camaro (2007), and the modernization of Popular Hot Rodding's Project X '57 Chevy. Mike's a true hard-core hot rodder and stepped out of the office to build his own Canyon truck with modern power. While it came in last place in Modified N/A, the thing was bracket-racer consistent with slips of 10.69, 10.73, 10.61, 10.63, and 10.50. It's a driver, and the paint is blinding.
Combo: Mike fortified a 427ci LS7 engine with a Moldex crank, BRC rods, and Diamond pistons to handle whatever he'll eventually throw at it. The heads are stock LS7s breathing through a GMPP intake and a 950 HP Holley carb. The Comp hydraulic roller cam has 0.620 lift and 270 duration with 114 degrees of lobe separation, while an MSD box sparks it and Mike's own headers and DynoMax mufflers exhaust it. It makes 703 hp and 638 lb-ft at the crank. A TH400 with a Hipster 'brake and a 4.20-geared 9-inch (with a Detroit Locker and Strange axles) complete the drivetrain. The wheels are from Billet Specialties, and the rears mount 28×11-15 Mickey Thompson slicks (carried in the bed on the street driving portion of the event). Alston ladder bars in back put it into the Modified class.
Class Winner
Steve and Gary Satterlee
Hickory Corners, MI
'90 Ford Mustang
Class: Big-Block Naturally Aspirated
The Ford guys will hate this, but Steve (driver) and Gary (dad) Satterlee's Fox body has a 632ci Chevy in it. Brand loyalty be damned, it was fast enough to win the Big-Block N/A class. This was the third Drag Week for the Satterlees but "the first time in a fast car," according to Gary. They built the car in only 90 days, starting on it after they got the motor.
Combo: The 632 was built by Nye's Automotive and Racing Engines in Muncie, Indiana, with an Eagle/JE bottom end, BMF 385 cylinder heads, a 0.715-lift Erson solid roller cam (272/282 duration at 0.050), Dynatech headers, and an MSD 6AL ignition. It makes 834 hp at 6,000 rpm and 758 lb-ft at 5,600. With a Coan TH400, 3.50 gears in the 9-inch, and ET Street 28×11.50 rubber hooked up by UPR and AJE stock suspension bits, it ran as quick as 10.04 and averaged 10.15.
Earl Schexnayder
Arnaudville, LA
'71 Ford F-100
Class: Pro Street Power-Adder
Best E.T.: 9.41
Average E.T.: 9.62
Earl's Radar Blue truck was a big, back-halved baddie packing a turbocharged big-block and running in Pro Street Power-Adder, theoretically the second quickest class of Drag Week. We saw Earl and his buddy working on the truck at a few tracks, so they had a long week. They suffered from a broken rocker stud boss, fuel pump issues, electric fan issues, and a few other small problems, but they made it. Earl also built and tuned on the engine in Chad Noel's Mustang, which also finished.
Combo: Earl's engine displaces 550 ci and makes a big 1,200 hp (at 6,800 rpm) and 1,400 lb-ft (at 5,000) thanks to a pair of Precision 88mm turbos mounted under the bed. Ford Motorsport Cobra Jet heads and a pair of carburetors take in the air, and a Bullet 0.600-lift cam (with 250 degrees of duration at 0.050 and a 116-degree lobe separation) open the valves. The trans is a C6, and a 9-inch with 3.60:1 gears puts the power to big Hoosier slicks. The truck has run as quick as 8.90 but was in the mid-9s on Drag Week.
Shawn Ellington
Mustang, OK
'69 Chevy Nova
Class: Unlimited
Best E.T.: N/A
Average E.T.: N/A
Nicknamed the Murder Nova online and at the event for its sinister flat-black paint and all-black engine, this one had everyone's eyes open to see what it would do. The Unlimited car was a proven mid-7-second ride, which meant it could be in the hunt for an overall win. And it just looked . . . mean. But on an 8.20 pass the first day at Muncie, one of the pistons decided it was time to give up, and the Nova packed it up for the week. Will it come back next year? We hope so.
Combo: The engine is a 598ci big-block Chevy with an Ohio Crankshafts crank, Oliver rods, and Diamond pistons. Dart 380cc Pro II heads and a carburetor handle the ridiculous airflow from a ProCharger F-3 blower, and a Comp cam described as having "big" lift and "a lot" of duration (though they did admit to 115 degrees of lobe separation) actuates Jesel rockers. When asked about power, Shawn was equally secretive, saying simply "a lot." A Powerglide trans and Mark Williams 9-inch hammer the big Hoosier slicks. Suspension is a ladder bar setup.
Dennis Ayers
Marion, IN
'96 Pontiac Firebird
Class: Daily Driver
By far the biggest bummer of Drag Week was when Dennis Ayers' Firebird caught fire in the staging lanes on the first day. The LT-1 car had a dry nitrous system and the fuel line popped off, spraying gas on the headers. You can guess what happened next. The fire crew was on the scene right away, but it still took about 30 seconds to completely extinguish the flames, by which time the car was obviously done for the week. It's repairable, and Dennis was in a surprisingly good mood, but the high-10-second car looked awful.
Danny Morrison
Springville, AL
'66 Ford Fairlane
Class: Small-Block Naturally Aspirated
Best E.T.: 12.11
Average E.T.: 12.23
Along with Norm Tanahill, Vince Rasch, Jay Brown, and Tom Hogshead, Danny Morrison has been to all five Drag Week events, the last two in this really cool Fairlane. He has a blast running the restomod machine in Daily Driver, and though his 12.23-second average didn't get him into the index race on the last day, Danny stuck around till the bitter end, encouraging his fellow Drag Week competitors. This guy, Pops Morrison, and their buddies are what Drag Week is all about.
Combo: The 'Lane runs a 351W with a stock short-block, World Products heads, a mild Comp cam, and a Proform Edelbrock RPM-style intake with a ZEX nitrous system. The car is a driver, so Danny doesn't have any power numbers. The trans is an AOD (overdrive, just for Drag Week), and the suspension uses Total Control parts up front and CalTracs bars in back.
John Hughes
Amita, LA
'69 Chevy Nova
Class: Big-Block Naturally Aspirated
Best E.T.: 10.18
Average E.T.: 10.27
A former Spirit of Drag Week winner, John Hughes won that honor by constantly breaking his car but persevering to fix it and continue regardless, all with a good attitude. This year, he and twin brother James (we started calling either one Jimmyjohn since we can't tell them apart) made sure the car was bulletproof and would finish, and it did, even during slow-speed running trying to pass the Amish buggies of Ohio and Indiana. Running in Big-Block N/A, John finished Third behind Brent Bowman's '69 Camaro with an average of 10.27 at 130 mph.
Combo: A 548ci big-block with an Eagle crank and rods and JE slugs uses Edelbrock Victor 24-degree, Pat Musi CNC-ported heads and a Victor Jr. intake, a Cam Motion cam (0.730 lift and 273 duration), an MSD 6AL ignition, and Hedman 2 1/4-inch headers to make 773 hp and 658 lb-ft. A TH400 with a Gear Vendors overdrive and an Ultimate Converter 4,800-stall converter works with a 3.73-geared Moser 12-bolt and 28×12.50-15 M/T ET Streets. The suspension uses South Side bars and a Wolfe Racecraft antiroll bar in back.
Class Winner
Mike Wood
Wichita Falls, TX
'94 Ford Mustang
Class: Diesel
Best E.T.: 9.71
Average E.T.: 10.08
When you're paying attention to fuel mileage, it's almost cheating to stick a big Duramax diesel into a lightweight Mustang, but the end results speak for themselves. Mike Wood, the owner of Nitrous Express, debuted this car at the '08 HOT ROD Drag Week and came back this year running quicker. He was racing in the Diesel class against some big, heavy trucks (and one VW Bug), so the Mustang had a fairly easy time winning. It's also reliable, as Mike drives this thing everywhere, including on long-distance sales calls. The car used 81.22 gallons of fuel over 3,128 miles (from home to Drag Week, during the event, and then back home), which averaged to 38.51 mpg. As Mike says, "Not bad mileage for a true street-driven car that ran a 9.71 at 147.88 mph."
Combo: The Duramax short-block uses a stock crankshaft, Crower rods, and Mahle pistons topped by ZZ Custom Fabrication/Auto Shop Machine Service heads. The cam is a secret grind by Bullet. An Industrial Induction 71mm turbo crams a ton of boost into the motor, while a Nitrous Express direct-port system adds more to the fire. On a Dynojet chassis dyno, it showed 810 hp at the wheels, and that's through a Chevy 4L80E automatic trans with a Gear Vendors overdrive and a 9-inch with 3.25:1 gears. It hooks via Mickey Thompson Drag Radials (325/60R15) and a David Wolfe stock-type rear suspension with Anthony Jones Engineering coilovers and K-member in front.
Mike told us, "Thursday evening we discovered why the car was not responding to our tuning changes. We are using a new, very smart ECM, and it was restricting fuel supply by limiting the fuel pressure to 21,000 psi. When we modified the fuel restriction table, we were able to achieve 26,000 psi, which allowed us to run the 9.71. That pass only had a 1.65 60-foot compared with our best of 1.35, so we left a lot on the table on that run. I did not make another pass because I still had 1,000 miles to drive to get home. The pump will make more than 32,000 psi, so we have a lot of room left for improvement."
Clark Rosenstengle
Fremont, MI
'95 Chevy Camaro
Class: Pro Street Naturally Aspirated
Best E.T.: 10.38
Average E.T.: 10.45
Clark is a multitime Drag Week participant, and last year his car suffered a broken axle. This year, he blew up the transmission, but thankfully, it happened on the final night at Muncie. The better news is that it was his best pass ever, a 10.38 at 133 mph, putting him Third in his class with a 10.45 average.
Combo: A Dart Big M 540 runs Dart Pro 1 heads and a Pro Systems 1,050 Dominator carburetor, a big Comp cams roller, Crower rockers, an MSD Digital 6 Plus ignition, and Hooker Super Comp headers and makes 647 hp at 5,800 rpm and 639 lb-ft at 4,800. A 'Glide with a brake and a 4.30-geared 9-inch (with 35-spline Strange axles this time) spin 32×18 Mickeys.
Randy Belehar
Detroit Lakes, MN
'70 Pontiac Grand Prix
Class: Big-Block Power-adder
Best E.T.: 10.13
Average E.T.: 10.33
Randy and his friend Dave Henrikson made their first Drag Week this year and had a great time but also encountered some problems. On the first day they lost Second gear in the TH400 on the drive to Michigan. At U.S. 131 Randy made "a crappy pass" with no Second gear, and local Bob Smith got him in touch with Cottman Transmission in Grand Rapids, which loaned him the use of its hoist and transmission jack to pull the trans. The company replaced the pump, a broken snap ring, and a clutch pack to get the car on the road, but then two coils burned up and one of the adjustable upper control arms had pulled its threads out. Both were fixed by local shops, and Randy ran his first 9-second pass, a 9.95 at 132 at Muncie to finish Third in Big-Block Power-Adder.
Combo: Pontiac fans will be pleased to know Randy didn't stuff a big Chevy in his Grand Prix. This one's a 467ci Pontiac with a good bottom end and Kaufmann D-port heads that have been CNC-ported to flow 325 cfm with 85cc chambers. A Proform 850 carb on an Edelbrock Victor intake, a demonic 0.666-lift Comp roller cam, an MSD Digital 6 box, and Hooker 1 3/4-inch headers and 3-inch MagnaFlow mufflers make room for a two-stage NOS Big Shot plate nitrous system. It makes 476 hp and 582 lb-ft at the rear tires on the motor. On a 150-shot of spray, it cranks out 590 and 724. A Jess Nelson-built TH400 with a Continental converter and 3.73 gears in the 12-bolt finish out the drivetrain, and the tires are Mickey Thompson 315/60R15 drag radials.
Class Winner
Quickest Mopar
Michael Crow
Topeka, KS
'73 Plymouth 'Cuda
Class: Small-Block Naturally Aspirated
Best E.T.: 10.51
Average E.T.: 10.54
Mike Crow was last year's Spirit of Drag Week winner, and he showed just as much sportsmanship this year, helping out anyone who needed it. His 'Cuda is also one of our favorite cars of Drag Week, since it looks pretty stock but sounds like pure evil when it makes a pass.
Combo: The engine is a 420ci small-block Mopar (4.155×3.875) with a BRC crank, Oliver rods, and JE slugs, topped by Mopar W-9 heads and a FAST fuel-injection system. A 0.670-lift, 288-duration (at 0.050) Elgin cam works T&D 1.5:1 rockers, and an MSD box sparks it. It makes 650 hp at 7,000 rpm, and when Mike shifts the G-Force G5R five-speed, it sends chills up your back. We also dig the fact that he mounted the 28×11.50 ET Streets to a set of Magnum 500 wheels. CalTracs bars make it hook to a best of 10.38 at 131 mph.
Class Winner
Mike Thompson/Jim Bailey
Loves Park, IL
'68 Chevy Caprice
Class: Big-Block Power-adder
Best E.T.: 9.54
Average E.T.: 9.64
Here's a car we all wanted to take home with us. Driven by Jim Bailey but owned by Mike Thompson (who won Pro Street last year with his yellow S10 that broke this time), this heavy Chevy yanked the wheels and ran mid-9s all week, averaging 9.604 at 141 mph. The green Caprice is superclean, and the stock interior is tasty.
Combo: It's a fairly simple 509ci Rat motor with Brodix heads, an Edelbrock Victor intake, an MSD ignition, Lemons headers, and a shot of nitrous. A Gear Vendors overdrive was bolted to the back of a TH400 to improve the highway manners. The car had supposedly never made a pass before Drag Week, but this thing just screams street racer.
Greg Taylor
Monroe Center, IL
'70 Chevy Chevelle Wagon
Class: Daily Driver
Best E.T.: 11.57
Average E.T.: 11.62
We love this wagon. One of the top five cars we wanted to take home with us was Greg's '70 Chevy, a stock-looking but very quick gold medal. Running in daily driver, it's a low-11-second ride and is grandpa-fresh inside and out. Greg ran an 11.48 on an 11.52 dial to break out in the first round, but we don't care. Cool car.
Combo: Talk about a straightforward ride, this wagon runs a 540 big-block with Brodix oval-port heads, an MSD, and pretty much nothing else. The techsheet shows a TH400 and a 12-bolt with unspecified gears, which leads us to believe that this, oh I dunno, might be a bit of a street racer. Greg wouldn't tell us anything about it other than that, so make your best guess. He did say it's run as quick as 11.16, a full half-second quicker than its dial-in in Daily Driver. Damn racers anyway.
Class Winner
Jay Brown
Rogers, MN
'64 Ford Galaxie
Class: Modified Naturally Aspirated
Best E.T.: 9.49
Average E.T.: 9.52
If this car looks familiar to you, that's because it also competed in the '08 Drag Week. If the 585ci Cammer under the hood looks familiar, it's because it is similar to the one featured in the story "Return of the SOHC" in the Aug. '09 issue. The author of that story is the same guy who built and races this car, Jay Brown. The engine in the Galaxie is a bigger and more powerful one than in the story, and it allowed the car to run 9.50s every day . . . except the last one, when Jay turned in a 9.49 e.t. He was in a heck of a battle all week with the '88 Mustang of Red Johnson, who finished a close Second with an average of 9.58 compared with Jay's 9.52.
Combo: The Cammer uses 4.500-bore CP pistons and a 4.600-stroke Crower billet crank and rods to make 585 inches, and the high-port heads are from Bill Coon. The cam is from Comp and features 0.725-inch lift, 272 degrees of duration, and 114 degrees of lobe separation-and it opens the valves with T&D rockers. Adding to the visual orgy is a Hilborn stack fuel-injection system converted to electronic. It makes 932 hp at 6,700 rpm and 820 lb-ft at 5,600 and sounds fantastic doing it. A C4 transmission with a Gear Vendors unit and 4.56:1 gears in a 9-inch get the big Ford moving on its 29.5×10.5 Hoosier slicks, and Jay sits comfortably in the brothel-like red interior.
Class Winner
Rick "Doc" Fox
Bonita Springs, FL
'67 Chevy Corvette
Class: Modified Power-Adder
Best E.T.: 8.82
Average E.T.: 9.02
As his nickname implies, Rick Fox is a doctor, and this 8-second convertible Corvette is what he uses to commute to the office nearly every day. How cool is that? Doc has competed in several Drag Weeks, but 2009 saw his first class win. Built and tuned by longtime racer Ross Stomp, the Vette has run as quick as 8.82 at 154 mph but averaged 9.02 at 149 over the five days of the '09 Drag Week.
Combo: Stomp built the 588ci Rat motor with Dart 360 heads and a Pro Systems 1,150 carburetor, then hosed it down with NOS nitrous. The car is more street driver than race car, so the engine hasn't been on a dyno-but it's obviously healthy. A TH400 sits behind it, and a four-link hooks the Mickey Thompson slicks, pulled from Doc's small tag-along trailer at each stop.
Robert Perrine
Tully, NY
'56 Chevy
Class: Daily Driver
We think it was somewhere outside Cadiz, Ohio, where Robert's '56 quit running. We ran across it on the side of the road, with other Drag Weekers stopping to help. A broken valvespring was bad in the countryside, but they thought they could get it fixed. They couldn't, but Robert hung around the rest of the week anyway-on a trailer.
Greg Miller
Acton, Ontario, Canada
'80 Chevy Chevette
Class: Daily Driver
Best E.T.: 10.82
Average E.T.: 10.97
Here's the very first Chevette to compete in Drag Week, and it's from Canada. Greg's econobox was actually really cool-ya know, for a Chevette-and definitely stood out from the crowd. He got past the first round in Friday's Daily Driver index race but then slowed way down and lost in the next go 'round.
Combo: A 383ci small-block with a Scat rotating assembly and World Products Sportsman II heads use a Crower 0.585/0.598-lift cam to propel the little Chev to high 10s (10.98 average) on probably the shortest wheelbase of Drag Week, trailing only the little Honda Civic. A TCI 700R4 trans with a Coan 4,000-stall converter and a 9-inch with 4.33s on a spool spin M/T Sportsman Pro 29×15.5-15 street tires.
Class Winner
Curt Johnson
Monroe Center, IL
'94 Chevy S-10
Class: Pro Street Naturally Aspirated
Best E.T.: 9.05
Average E.T.: 9.13
Curt battled James "Whichdoctor" McEntire's Camaro all week, with both cars running within a tenth of each other, running 9.0s to 9.2s. Curt took the class win, though, with a 9.13 average to McEntire's 9.27.
Combo: The little black, back-halved Chevy runs a big 540 with a Callies/Oliver/Diamond rotating system and heads from Race Flow Development (RFD) topped with an Edelbrock Super Victor intake (ported by RFD). A custom-ground (they wouldn't divulge the specs) Comp roller determines the powerband (which Curt also wouldn't tell us). The trans is a TH400 with a Gear Vendors overdrive built by Mike Thompson, and the suspension is a ladder bar setup with Mickey Thompson tires.
Rick Prospero
Satellite Beach, FL
'65 Chevy Nova Wagon
Class: Big-Block Power-adder
Best E.T.: 9.20
Average E.T.: 10.00
Rick's sedate-looking little wagon packed a big punch in the way of a twin-turbo big-block and low-9-second performance. Talk about a sleeper. With his buddy Scott Murray and his lovely wife riding shotgun, Rick and his wagon not only made the drive and ran fast enough (10.00 at 136) to runner-up in the Big Block Power-Adder class, but they also were always there to lend help, including when eventual winner Larry Larson broke down in the cornfield.
Combo: This one ain't screwing around, with a 4.29×4.00 short-block (that's 463 cubes), AFR CNC'd 357 heads, a 0.650-lift Cam Motion bumpstick, and a pair of 75mm turbos with SFI Injection from an ACCEL system. It makes 750 hp at 5,300 rpm and 745 lb-ft at 5,500. The trans is a TH400 and the rear is a 9-inch with 3.50 gears, while the suspension is stock-type with relocated leaf springs and CalTracs bars. The car runs on Mickey Thompson 275/60R15 drag radials and has run as quick as 9.15 at 153 mph.
James McEntire
Lee's Summit, MO
'68 Chevy Camaro
Class: Pro Street Naturally Aspirated
Best E.T.: 9.17
Average E.T.: 9.27
Doc McEntire has run Drag Week for the last three years with this Camaro and finished Second out of five cars in his class to Curt Johnson's S-10.
Combo: An Edelbrock Protuner EFI system and MSD Digital 7 ignition control the Brodix-headed 555 big-block. It has a custom Goodwin cam, T&D rockers, and Lemons headers with Borla mufflers. Doc says the power is "just south of four digits," which seems right with low 9 e.t.'s. A Coan TH400 and 9-inch round out the drivetrain, and the chassis uses a four-link and Koni coilovers in back and a stock front clip with Global West control arms and QA1 coilovers in front. The Honda Red paint was sprayed by Grain Valley Auto Body.
Class Winner
Michael Roy
Middlebury, IN
'71 Chevy Monte Carlo
Class: Pro Street Power-Adder
Best E.T.: 8.54
Average E.T.: 8.65
Michael Roy is another frequent Drag Week competitor and has had such a good time over the years that he convinced a slew of buddies and their cars to join the fun. This year was also the first time Mike won his class, doing so in convincing fashion (8.65 average) after Eric Yost's Firebird ate its transmission and limped to a 15-second pass on the last day.
Combo: Mike had Larson Race Cars back-half the car a few years ago in preparation for Drag Week, using a Pro Mod-style four-link and a Mark Williams Dana 60 with 40-spline axles. The engine combination is a 540 with Dart 325 heads and a ProCharger F3R supercharger blowing into a PTE intercooler, a Cuttler intake, and a Wilson throttle body. A Crane 0.650-lift cam, Lemons 2 3/8-inch headers (with 4-inch exhaust), and LS1 coil-on-plug coils help it make a big 1,500 hp and 1,220 lb-ft. A Coan TH400 with a Gear Vendors OD make it highway capable.
Nino Porpiglia
Elkhart, IN
'85 Pontiac Trans Am
Class: Modified Power-Adder
Best E.T.: 10.08
Average E.T.: 10.15
Nino finished Second in the Modified Power-Adder class and got the unofficial happy-guy award of Drag Week. His pal Michael Roy, the winner of Pro Street Power-Adder, persuaded him to come do Drag Week and even helped build his car in the late hours to make it happen. Doc Fox had Nino covered by a full second, but it really didn't matter, since Nino was only there for the fun. He's a great guy, and we hope he comes back next year.
Combo: A Chevy 383 with Air Flow Research 190 heads and an 850 Holley on an Edelbrock Performer RPM intake take the Big Shot nitrous hit, and it makes 509 hp on the motor and 730 on spray. The trans is a TH350, and 3.70 gears are in the 9-inch out back. It's been as fast as a 9.95 at 134 but ran a quickest of 10.08 on Drag Week.
Class Winner
Spirit Of Drag Week
Geoff Dugopolski
Hazelwood, MO
'78 Chevy Malibu
Class: Daily Driver
Best E.T.: 12.16
Average E.T.: 12.32
Geoff not only won the Daily Driver bracket race, but he also scored the coveted Spirit of Drag Week award, given to the person who best exemplifies all the positive aspects of competing in the event. He brought along his two boys, and they slept in a tent at every venue. Geoff went above and beyond the call in helping out more than a few racers, including offering his spare transmission to Keith Harrison when the latter racer blew his up at National Trail.
Combo: The 'Bu runs a small-block 406 with, as Geoff says, "an old GM cast crank, used eBay rods, swap meet TRW pistons, and a used set of 906 Vortec heads." The cam is a Comp Magnum 280 and the intake is an Edelbrock RPM Air-Gap. Geoff built it himself and doesn't know how much power it makes, but with a homebuilt TH350, a 3.08-geared Buick Grand National rearend, and 255/60R15 Mickey Thompson Drag Radials, it has run as quick as 11.82. It was a consistent 12.20 car on Drag Week. He beat Bruce Cooke in the final round of the index race by a mere 0.019 seconds. Geoff also won a Gear Vendors unit in a drawing after the awards ceremony.
Quickest Oldsmobile
Sondra Senior
Beaver Falls, PA
'85 Chevy Pickup
Class: Big-Block Naturally Aspirated
Best E.T.: 12.12
Average E.T.: 12.32
What the…? A Chevy pickup as Quickest Olds. That's because the motor in Sondra's truck is a 455 Olds (check out the grille emblem). She was running in Big-Block N/A and was a good 2 seconds off the class's top pace with an average of 12.32 at 107, but it was good enough for Sixth Place out of eight.
Combo: The Olds engine is brutally stock with a factory bottom end, ported stock iron heads, and a Quadrajet carb on an Edelbrock Torker intake. An Engle 238/248, 0.540-lift cam, Hedman 1/34-inch headers, and a recurved HEI make up the rest of the engine combination, while the trans is a 4L60E, the rear is a 9-inch, and the tires are 325/50R15 Mickey Drag Radials.
Jim Neuenfeldt
Omaha, NE
'09 Pontiac G8
Class: Daily Driver
Best E.T.: 11.65
Average E.T.: 12.07
Jim Neuenfeldt lit up the first Drag Week with his stock-looking Chevy 4×4 pickup that ran 10 flat. On stock tires. He did it with a homemade turbo setup and prodigious tuning with a MegaSquirt system, a setup similar to what he brought out last year in the turbo LS1-powered Fairmont that we featured in the Apr. '08 issue. This time Jim went for comfort in the way of a new Pontiac G8 but added more power with a pair of turbos. Prior to Drag Week, he had only run the car in the eighth-mile, where it posted a 7.78 at 95. During Drag Week, the car ran an 11.65 and averaged 12.07, which put it on the ladder for the index race Friday night. A first-round red light ended his Drag Week. The car should go quicker, but Jim was holding it back since it didn't have a rollbar and was therefore restricted to an 11.50.
Combo: When we say it's stock, it's stock, man. The 6.0L LS motor has all stock parts, including the cam, but Jim replaced two of the cats with a pair of 60mm Precision turbos. Through the stock 6L60E is automatic, it sends 475 hp and 502 lb-ft to the rear tires. The engine control computer is also stock, but Jim tunes it with HP Tuners software using the dyno at C&S Dynoshop in Omaha.
Mickey Thompson Quickest Reaction Time (Tie) 0.000
Quickest E.T., Daily Driver, Quickest Buick
David Paschall
Big Sandy, TN
'72 Buick Skylark
Class: Daily Driver
Best E.T.: 10.86
Average E.T.: 10.96
With a five-day average of 10.96, David Paschall's Buick was the quickest car in the Daily Driver class, and he made the most of it, going three rounds in eliminations. His worst reaction time was an 0.091, and his wins came over Robert Perrine's '56 Chevy and Greg Miller's Chevette before losing to Bruce Cooke in the quarterfinals. David and Shaun Brackett tied for the Mickey Thompson Quickest Reaction Time on the first day of competition. David turned his timeslip in first, but Shaun got the perfect light first, so Mickey Thompson decided to award them both with winners' jackets.
Combo: Thankfully, David's Buick runs a Buick, a 455 with JE pistons, TA Performance heads, a Comp 0.608-lift cam, and a Pro Systems carb. A TH350 and a 12-bolt round out the drivetrain, and the car has run as quick as 10.81 at 123.
Bruce Merrill
Elkhart, IN
'99 Chevy Camaro Z28
Class: Small-Block Power-Adder
Best E.T.: 11.06
Average E.T.: 11.23
Bruce Merrill's Camaro may have been outpowered in the Small-Block Power-Adder class, but he made up for it with style and simplicity. This fourth-gen has a bone-stock LS1 long-block with a rear-mount STS turbo system making the power. He runs 93-octane pump gas and averaged 19.2 mpg from start to finish on Drag Week (not counting the dragstrip passes), towing a 1,000-pound Jason Industries trailer loaded with tools, tires, and spare parts, and as Bruce says, "all while hauling ass at speeds up to 100 mph on the highway. Without the trailer, we get 18 mpg in town and 27 mpg on the highway."
Combo: The car was built and tuned at Bruce's shop, Merrill Automotive & Tire in Elkhart, Indiana. QTP long-tube headers and a mandrel-bent 3-inch pipe feed the rear-mount STS turbo, which blows into an intercooler up front. Methanol injection helps make safe power on pump gas to the tune of 560 hp and 580 lb-ft at the ET Street tires. A G-force-built T56 six-speed with a Spec clutch sends it to a Strange Dana 60 rear with 3.73s on a Detroit Locker.
Quickest Six-Cylinder
Scott Klepinger
Elkhart, IN
'86 Chevy Camaro
Class: Modified Power-Adder
Best E.T.: 10.59
Average E.T.: 10.83
Scott's Camaro looked like any other third-gen at first, then he popped the hood to reveal the Buick Grand National turbocharged V-6. What's cooler is that this car was built almost entirely with used parts sourced from the Internet. Scott says, "About 75 percent of the parts on this car are recycled parts I bought from www.turbobuick.com. They sold me the transmission and converter, which came from Florida, for $1,000, the turbo is from a guy who was on Pinks. That came from Texas. The injectors are from Illinois. I probably have $15,000 to $20,000 in the car, including the $5,000 initial cost of the car." As for that mileage figure? Scott says, "The worst [mileage] I got on our trip was 18 mpg, and that included some track times and the trip. My air/fuel ratios were 14.3s, which are not ideal for fuel mileage, but afterward I switched my tune for low 15s, where they should be and got 20 mpg." Pretty stout for a low-10-second car.
Combo: The V-6 displaces 260 ci and uses Webber Racing and K-1 internals, a Comp cam, a 76mm turbo, a 4-inch inlet, a 5-inch downtube, and an air-to-air intercooler mounted in front of the radiator. Scott modified the headers slightly to move the turbo off to the passenger side a little bit so the downpipe would clear the strut tower. He's never dyno-tested it, so the power is anyone's guess. It has run as quick as 10.32 at 133 mph on 93-octane gas and without any kind of water or methanol injection. The trans is a TH400, and there are 3.25 gears in a 9-inch rear. His suspension put the car in Modified since it uses old-school Southside Machine lift bars out back to plant 325/50R15 Mickey Thompson Drag Radials. Other than a bad day at Norwalk, the car was a 10.50 and 10.60 car all week, and Scott finished Third in Modified Power-Adder.
The Fastest Street Car In America, Quickest Without A Trailer, Quickest Chevy
Larry Larson
Kansas City, KS
'67 Chevy II
Class: Unlimited
Best E.T.: 7.25
Average E.T.: 7.54
Engine builder Mike Moran told him to change the lifters, but Larry thought they would be OK. After all, they'd only been in this twin-turbocharged 555ci Rat motor for three years. And it had only had to deal with thousands of miles of street driving on Drag Week for three years, multiple 7-second passes, and some occasional street driving. What could possibly go wrong?
Larry would be plagued by those old, tired lifters on Drag Week when he ate one at the second stop in Michigan. He fixed it, then had another failure in the middle of nowhere Michigan or Ohio, literally in the middle of a cornfield. Two lifters were toast, so he wired them up out of the way and drove to the next checkpoint on seven cylinders, cell phone rumbling to get new parts to the next destination. They got there, he swapped them, and his Drag Week legend continued undisputed.
All we can say is 7.25 and 204 mph. Granted, they didn't occur on the same pass, but the fact that either of those numbers came out of a car that traveled 1,000-plus miles, while we watched, over country roads and interstates that many 12-second muscle cars would have a tough time traversing . . . what more can we say?
For the second year, Larry Larson's Chevy II is the baddest-assest, most awesome, no-doubt, no-holds-barred Fastest Street Car in America.
Combo: Larry's bullet displaces 555 ci and uses a Lunati/Oliver/JE bottom end and Dart 360 heads. Mike Moran built it and used a pair of 88mm Precision Turbos mounted to Larry's own headers to make all that power. A five-speed Lenco CS2 transmission is just drop-dead cool in a street car, and Larry built his own 9-inch rearend housing-and in fact, the entire car-at his Larson Race Cars shop in Oak Grove, Missouri. The tires are 33×18.50 Mickey Thompson ET Streets, and Larry doesn't change them when he gets to the track. The same tires used on the road are also used to run 7s.


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By ODU Athletics
Oct. 29, 2010
NORFOLK, VA-- The ODU Soccer Monarchs return to action Saturday night in its home finale against the Huskies of Northeastern. Game time is 7 p.m. at the ODU Soccer Complex.
It will also be the home finale for seniors Evan Newton (Virginia Beach, Va.), Adam Roscioli (Forest, VA.) and Harry Gillespie (Jensen Beach, FL.).
The Monarchs lead the series, 4-2-1. The Huskies won last year's match in Boston, 3-0.
Leading NU in scoring is junior Mike Kennedy with six goals and two assists for 14 points. Ricardo McDonald has four goals, while Laurence Braude and Nick Lueders have three goals and two assists each for eight points. Goalkeeper Oliver Blum as a 1.25 goals against avrage with four shutouts and 59 saves.
The Monarchs 18 goals have all been scored by freshmen and sophomores. Sophomore Jordan LeBlanc leads the team in scoring with five goals, one assist and 11 total points. Freshman Gideon Asante, and sophomore Chris Harmon are next with four goals, two assists for 10 points each.
ODU is currently tied with Delaware and George Mason with 3-4-2 CAA records. George Mason is at Georgia State; William and Mary is at Hofstra; Drexel is at James Madison and UNCW is at Delaware. VCU and Towson play each other Sunday in Maryland.
CAA MEN'S SOCCER STANDINGS W&M 7-1-1 22 pts Hof 4-3-2 14 pts VCU 3-1-4 13 pts UNCW 3-2-4 13 pts Ga.St.4-4-1 13 pts N.E. 3-3-3 12 pts Del 3-4-2 11 pts ODU 3-4-2 11 pts Mason 3-4-2 11 pts JMU 3-4-1 10 pts Drex 3-6 9 pts Towson 2-5-2 8 pts


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Follow your dreams, no matter what your age
When I taught in Christian school and worked at the church, our many bulletin boards, church publications, and classroom decorations often depicted brightly colored kites, hot air balloons, and steps rising into the air. Our theme was to rise higher, accept challenges, and grow to be the "you" that you had envisioned. Some of us started on an exciting journey but got waylaid and have not had the strength or courage to start again. But as long as there is breath, there is hope.
Henry David Thoreau, who wrote about so many people living lives of quiet desperation, also penned, "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." Is this the same guy that warned us about being stuck in the ruts of life and not singing our songs? Yes, it is. People have many moods, thank the Lord, and our personalities change with our learning and growth.
I have learned that a rut is often a grave with the ends kicked out. I do not want to live my life in a rut. I try to learn at least one new thing every day and often find myself trying something I've never done before (within reason, of course, at my age). Ask my grandsons about the time in Branson that I let them teach me to ride the skateboard down the biggest ramp there. Might not do that again now, but it was fun that day. Or the time we decided to go scuba diving when we did not know much about the water or the big reefs that were in it. Thank God, we were safe.
What is that secret thing, that wish, that hope, that plan, you have harbored in your heart for years? Wouldn't this be a good time to launch out and try it? Some folks refer to the things I have described as items on a bucket list, and I personally believe everyone should have one. In fact, have two or three, if necessary. I have several things on my list that I have not yet fulfilled. And some of you would laugh out loud if I decided to share it with you. Each person has his or her own sense of accomplishment, fears and challenges.
Remember that with God, all things are possible, and He wants us to succeed much more than we want to do so. I believe God is honored when we attempt big things for His glory and not our own. Emily Dickinson wrote, "Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door."
Like snowflakes falling or grains of sand, no two stars are identical. Let yourself shine with your own light and follow your own dreams. I read this week, "It is not the journey that creates the soul of the artist or poet. It is each hurdled obstacle that enables the soul's strength to see what everyone sees but perceive something else."
Loving to read, I have often found stories of the amazing Booker T. Washington from Alabama. "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed," Washington wrote. If you know anything of his life, you realize he indeed had much to overcome. There is a museum there with much of his life's work, which started as dreams and thoughts in his mind.
Let's think of this day as the beginning of a brand new chapter in each of our lives. And let's take the time to enjoy each of our successes, no matter how small or trivial they might seem to others. We must remember, too, that life stretches before us with a variety of paths to follow and with many decisions to make. Perhaps this is the time of the year to set new goals and reach for new heights. There's a big world out there just bursting with opportunities and hope.
Brenda Cannon Henley is an award-winning journalist and writer living on the Southeast Texas Gulf Coast. Having enjoyed more than four decades in ministry, Brenda shares her columns with our readers and works with churches and faith-based programs nationwide. She can be reached at (409) 781-8788 or at brendacannonhenley [at] yahoo [dot] com.


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Various reports are saying that the Los Angeles Clippers are looking to get in touch with the 76ers about swingman Andre Iguodala. When contacted this morning, president/general manager Ed Stefanski said that he would not comment on any trade talks.
A trade of Iguodala now doesn't seem to jive with what new coach Doug Collins has been saying since his May hiring, which is that he is looking forward to coaching Iguodala and it is his belief that the 6-7 Arizona product can be one of the best defensive players in the league.
"I think this summer is such a great thing for his career," said Collins this morning while on his way to the airport to catch a flight to Las Vegas to watch Iguodala practice with Team USA. "I'm very excited about being his coach. We need him for the type of defensive team we want to be. I think he can be the best defensive player at his position in the league.
"During the practices, my son Chris (who is helping out for head coach Mike Krzyzewski) said that Dre had defended four different positions yesterday. There were situations where he defended the four (big forward), because in International play, the four is often a smaller guy. I think he's in a great place. Even since my first conversation with him out in California after I was hired, things have been terrific. I think things are headed in a real good place."
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Hey everyone! Long time NLSC member here and for those that don't remember me, I'm one of the first people to ever create a college mod and basic editor for NBA Live back in the day!
I'm excited to announce that I've published a new college basketball coaching sim game for mobile devices, entitled College BBALL Coach.
With this year's college basketball season in full swing, and entering the holidays, I thought it was the perfect time to release this game. It's a combination of coaching simulator, where you set your lineups, recruit new players and simulate games based on easy-to-understand player matchups. Between games, you can either simulate or play any of the 20+ mini-game style practice situations that I created to give your selected player a boost heading into the next game. Pretty easy mechanics but some interesting strategies to consider for sure!
In truth, I started this game as more of an experiment on how well a simulation engine could work on a mobile device (I've probably built no less than 7 different game simulation engines, in actuality). I started with a larger, more complex simulation, but found that an easy way to start out would be with what I wound up with for this release of College BBALL Coach. I think it strikes the perfect balance of experiencing the challenges of college basketball, with an easy-to-pick-up-and-play style of mobile game that makes them so popular. After this, I'm very much interested in releasing a more in-depth version of this style of game for a deeper experience!
I packed some great features into College BBALL Coach:
* Manage your team roster order and gameplan to determine the most effective player matchups for every game.
* Games are simulated based on easy-to-understand player matchups, ratings and abilities.
* Simulate or play any of the 20+ practice drills to improve your players and give them a boost for their next game.
* Practice drills are quick 30-60 second mini-games where you can challenge yourself with agility courses, three point shootouts, progressive shooting drills, running suicides (because everyone loves suicides!!), passing drills and other challenges.
* Progress through a 32-game regular season that culminates in your conference tournament or even the national championship tournament!!
* A full recruiting simulation after every season! Find the next breakout star to add to your roster and challenge other schools in exciting recruiting battles.
* View a full range of stats and historical records for every player and team.
* Track your career progress, contract status and coaching achievements to ensure you are hall-of-fame material. Oh, and by the way, if you aren't able to find success, you could very well find yourself out of a job, too!
* Thumb through a 15-page digital college basketball preview magazine at the beginning of every season!
I've also made this game one of the more customizable basketball games in the marketplace, with the ability to unlock some great in-game upgrades:
* Choose Any Team to Start - unlock the ability to choose any team to begin your coaching career.
* Conference Editor - modify the name of each the conferences in the game.
* Court Editor - customize and edit the courts for every team in the game.
* Player Editor - edit the names, attributes and ratings for every player in the game.
* Schedule Editor - customize your team's schedule and create your own big matchups!
* Team Editor - modify name, color, reputation, region and state for every team in the game. You can also utilize "quick codes" to easily modify all teams very quickly!
Initial responses to my app have been positive and full of overwhelming excitement:
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I'd love it if you would take a few moments and grab this new game that I'm so very proud to share with you all!
College BBALL Coach is now available on iTunes, Google Play as well as the Amazon App Store:
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/college-bball-coach/id1182969424
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Date: March 5, 2014 / Source: South Dakota State University
Summary: Fewer medical interventions, fewer hours in labor and increased satisfaction with the birthing experience -— that's what national statistics say a doula's support during labor and delivery means to women and their partners. A doula is a trained woman who provides non-medical support during labor and delivery.
Fewer medical interventions, fewer hours in labor and increased satisfaction with the birthing experience — that's what national statistics say a doula's support during labor and delivery means to women and their partners. A doula is a trained woman who provides nonmedical support during labor and delivery.
In 2011, Brookings Health System became the first hospital in South Dakota to offer the services of volunteer doulas for labor and delivery at its New Beginnings Birth Center and, in 2012, the first in the nation to offer volunteer doulas for postpartum support–free of charge. The services of a doula can cost a couple anywhere from $350 to $1,000, according to doula.com.
A team of four South Dakota State University researchers gathered feedback on the volunteer program from patients and their partners, doulas and health care professionals at Brookings Health System. They also evaluated the effectiveness of its promotional materials. Their research was funded in part by the Women and Giving Foundation at the SDSU Foundation and in part by the Rural Health Research Center at SDSU.
"This was an opportunity to learn about our program and better serve the needs of area women," says Brookings Health System Director of Obstetrics Mary Schwaegerl. Only an estimated 3 percent of mothers who deliver in Brookings opt to use the services of a volunteer doula. Schwaegerl and her team hope to increase participation based on the results of this research.
Calming expectant parents
Assistant professors Jennifer Anderson and Rebecca Kuehl in communication studies and theatre, Sun Woo Kang in counseling and human development and Hilary Hungerford in geography interviewed parents, expectant parents, doctors and nurses regarding the doulas' effect on the birthing experience. In addition, they questioned doulas about the effect the program has on them and evaluated the program's promotional materials.
The SDSU team interviewed 11 parents and 20 expectant parents. Only a few had prior knowledge about or experience with a doula.
"If they had a positive experience with a doula, they wanted to have one again," Kuehl says. One respondent said she would never have a baby without a doula.
Those who had a previous negative birth experience felt that a doula would improve the quality of their experience, according to Anderson. Their experiences with doulas were overwhelmingly positive.
Surprisingly, some expectant mothers chose a doula as a means to help their partners cope, Kang explains. "If the laboring women see their partners as more comfortable in the room, that's going to be a support for them."
"A doula helps the husband know how to navigate the situation," Anderson adds. Couples felt the doula brought them closer together.
Doulas interviewed emphasized this, saying, "my job is to help them have the best birth experience that they can," reports Anderson. "This is not a women's issue; it's a family issue."
Based on these responses, Kuehl–a persuasion expert–recommended that doula promotional materials also describe ways in which doulas benefit fathers. In addition, the team suggested that information on the doula program continue to be distributed at birthing classes.
When considering the differences between births with and without a doula, the 14 Brookings health care professionals interviewed pointed out how calming the constant presence of a doula was, not just to the patient but to everyone in the room, Kuehl explains. "That speaks very highly of the doula program here and how well coordinated it is."
In addition, the Brookings facility allows doulas to go into the operating room with moms who must undergo a cesarean section, according to Schwaegerl. Marilyn Hildreth, CEO of JM Birth Consultants, PLLC, explains this is something many hospitals will not do even when moms request it. The certified doula and approved doula trainer has been instrumental in starting doula programs nationally and internationally.
Anderson reports that women *facing a C-section said that they needed their doulas even more.
Moms can begin skin-to-skin contact with their newborns immediately following the birth, regardless of the type of birth they have, Hildreth explains. This, in turn, leads to greater breast-feeding success.
"Postpartum doulas are especially helpful for mothers who are recovering from a C-section," Schwaegerl says. Brookings Health System Doula Coordinator Emily Delbridge, marketing and public relations director Julia Yoder and Schwaegerl were an integral part of this collaborative project.
Statistics from the Doula Organization of North America show a 25 percent decrease in length of labor, 50 percent reduction in C-sections and improved mental health and infant care for mothers who use doulas. At Brookings Health System, the C-section rate in 2012 was 12 percent, far below the national average of 33 percent, but Schaegerl explains this has been consistently low for the past five years.
In addition, the moms require less medical intervention, adds Anderson. That translates to lower health care costs.
The Brookings program has also become a template for other hospitals in the region. Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines is developing a similar program and Hildreth has received inquiries from other South Dakota hospitals on how to implement such a program.
Enriching doula experiences
Brookings Health System has 26 trained doulas who volunteer either for one 24-hour shift or two 12-hour shifts per month, according to Schwaegerl. Of those, 18 are SDSU students. Brookings Health System pays the doula's training costs in return for her volunteering for one year.
The nine doulas interviewed in the study described their experiences as "transformative and fulfilling," Anderson explains, noting that it is "a rich emotional experience to help bring another life into the world."
All felt that the training Hildreth provided had given them the skills they needed. "They were fired up and excited to provide the services," Kuehl says. "Doulas want to be called," Anderson adds.
Obstetrics director Schwaegerl is now using the volunteer doula's first shift as an orientation to the unit whether the doula gets called or not. This step already helps doulas feel more connected to the staff, she says.
The doulas interviewed who are SDSU nursing students said the additional training and work in an obstetrical setting made them "standout candidates for their first job," reports Anderson.
In her first year as a doula, SDSU nursing student Breanna Spartz helped with one birth. The labor lasted five to six hours and this was the woman's first child — the national average is 12 to 18 hours, according to birthmidwife.com
"It was the greatest experience," Spartz says. "It brings all the things together that we're learning in class." Her nursing professor, Lois Tschetter, encouraged her to get involved in the program.
As a volunteer doula, Spartz says she was able to focus more on the patient and her care. The role of helper "gives you a different outlook."
Anderson says that nursing students reported that they applied doula techniques to calming patients in a clinical setting and even to calming themselves during stressful situations. Through the doula training, students learn physical and emotional comfort measures that nursing programs don't have time to teach, according to Hildreth.
"The SDSU nursing program is outstanding, above any I am aware of in the United States," says Hildreth. These nursing students and the Brookings doula program can have a far-reaching impact on health care in the state and beyond.
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Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Don't wait for them to come to you! Organise before they rise!
With artwork Ibraim Robertson and written by Max Brooks, Recorded Attacks is a multi story jaunt through zombie attacks across known history. There's the untold story about the French Foreign Legion attack in North Africa and the surprising end for its survivors. And includes some new details on that 'other war' that was fought in ancient Rome.
The artwork reminds me of an artist from 2000ad who I used to think of as a 'smooth' artist. The texture of the penmanship is too clean for this kind of rendering. It has way too much white in the pages, and due to careful positioning of the characters, some body parts are not shown. If it's going to be a comic based on zombies, it has to go all out to catch my attention.
Some of the panel cuts are impressive; one particular which is the most noticeable is where a stoneage man is being held by a zombie on the ground. The stoneage man has his head to the side and you see him looking into the 'camera'. The next panel is ever so slightly pulled away and you see he's looking at a large rock.
I also really liked the way the writer has kind of merged the fantasy with what sounds like probably fact, case in point: the Egyptian method of mummifying, which changed to include removing the person's brain.
When will publishers learn, to view the artwork properly, you can't have the comic book bound with a hard spine; it doesn't allow you to open the pages fully flat to appreciate, uninterrupted, the double spread artwork without pressing flat and breaking the spine.
Oh yeah, and the maps which start each story off should be smaller, complete waste of space. I don't read zombie comics for a geography lesson.
It was, on the whole, an enjoyable read, but which was over way too quickly, being only 146 pages. I read it in someone's lunch break (not my lunch break, go figure), and came away thinking it was an interesting and somewhat different perspective on what we've seen of zombies so far.
Worth being a gift if you can get someone to shell out 12.99, other than that, borrow it.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office said on Friday that if the Republican-led House of Representatives can pass a "clean" debt ceiling increase, the Democrat-majority Senate "will be happy to consider it."
"It is reassuring to see Republicans beginning to back off their threat to hold our economy hostage," Reid's spokesman Adam Jentleson said in a statement.
The statement was issued after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a Republican, said the House would consider a bill next week to extend the U.S. debt limit by three months.
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Ten Kate Honda officially became Castrol Honda at the 2011 launch of the team in the UK today. Though Jonathan Rea and Ruben Xaus were confirmed as riders in November 2010, the return of a Castrol Honda team to World Superbike was kept pretty well under wraps until today's launch. Naturally the livery is very different from last season, with the previous yellow-green color of previous sponsor Hannspree completely removed in favor of a Castrol green, red, and white and a bit of Honda's wing logo.
"When our world championship racing adventure was first beginning, many years ago now, Castrol Honda was the one team in the paddock which everyone looked up to, whose professional and performance standards we all wanted to achieve. It is an honour for us now to be racing under this famous and historically successful banner and we are privileged to be following in the footsteps of the team we admired so much in the past," said team manager Ronald ten Kate. The factory Honda team sponsored by Castrol won three superbike championships: John Kocinski, 1997, and Colin Edwards, 2000 and 2002.


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Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah:
Some of the CIA officers who helped hunt down Osama bin Laden were no match for Nicole Kidman's security detail at the Sundance Film Festival.
Greg Barker, director of the Sundance documentary "Manhunt: The Search for bin Laden," came to the festival with three ex-CIA operatives interviewed in his film — Marty Martin, Cindy Storer and Nada Bakos. While heading into a building for an interview, Barker and his CIA companions "were mowed down" by Kidman's guards.
"Suddenly, all these heavy guys ... are like, 'Get out of the way!' And they started pushing them, pushing them, forcing them through this narrow opening. It's Nicole Kidman, you know," Barker said, laughing. "So clearly, we're here talking about taking out bin Laden, and the CIA, it does not matter compared to Nicole Kidman. I get it."
"Now I know where we stand in the totem pole," joked former CIA analyst Bakos. "'Thank you for your service, but get out of the way, because Nicole Kidman's gotta come through.'"
Kidman was at the festival for her upcoming film "Stoker."
Martin, a top CIA official who led the search for bin Laden after the Sept. 11 attacks, quipped that he may have shared a moment with Kidman.
"Just for the record, I was not intimidated by the beefy guys at all," Martin said. "And I also think they were a little concerned, because Nicole was probably eyeing over and thinking, 'Hey, I don't know who that guy is, but hello.'"
— David Germain
Shia LaBeouf couldn't be happier about making his first trip to the Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of "The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman," in which he stars opposite Evan Rachel Wood.
"It's an honor to be here, for me especially, coming from a different world," he said. "In a strange way, it's vindication. In a strange way, in a small way."
The "Transformers" star said he's "been making a certain type of a movie for quite a while, and it's nice to work on other things."
So what about the fourth installment of the shape shifting-robot franchise?
"I know that they're going to work their best to make the best movie that they can, and I know there's a lot of talented people involved," he said. "I'm quite happy with who they cast. And I think they're going to kill it, really. I think it'll be an awesome movie."
— Ryan Pearson, Twitter: www.twitter.com/ryanwrd
Deals keep coming at the Sundance Film Festival. The latest: Daniel Radcliffe's "Kill Your Darlings," which has the festival buzzing over the "Harry Potter" star's explicit gay love scene.
The film has been picked up by Sony Pictures Classics for distribution in the United States and a handful of other territories.
Directed by John Krokidas, the film features Radcliffe as young Allen Ginsberg in a dark story of desire and murder involving him and fellow future beat writers Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs.
The film co-stars Dane DeHaan, Ben Foster, Jack Huston, Michael C. Hall and Elizabeth Olsen.
— David Germain
Kevin Pearce had mixed feelings about a return trip to Sundance. A top contender for the U.S. snowboarding team at the 2010 Winter Olympics, Pearce sustained a serious brain injury while training in Park City on New Year's Eve in 2009.
Director Lucy Walker's documentary "The Crash Reel," which premiered at Sundance this year, chronicles Pearce's long recovery and his attempts to get back into snowboarding.
This wasn't Pearce's first trip back to Park City. He also attended Sundance last year and felt anxious about returning to town.
"It was a lot worse last year. It's still there a little bit," Pearce said. "I haven't been back up snowboarding on the mountain yet. I don't know when I'll be ready for that, but it's not right now. I've kind of just been trying to take it all in and just kind of understand that it went down and I've got to live with it, and just try to deal with it the best I can."
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Since the job forums have been pretty inactive for awhile, I thought I'd start a new topic in each devoted to things you'd like or wish that Square Enix would do with each job. They can be legitimate things you'd like to see, or they could be absurd, and, while they can be, they don't have to be any serious or groundbreaking changes you think each job needs, just something you think would improve them a bit in some form. Just try to keep the topic clean and drama free (emphasis on try). Just have some fun with this and let your ideas soar.
It'd be nice if Paladin had some way of incorporating their shields into weaponskills (likely one or two weaponskills using the shield specifically rather than retooling all weaponskills for Paladin to take the shield into account or not). Shields were historically used not only as defensive, but also offensive tools, being used to strike and bludgeon opponents similarly to Shield Bash. However, outside of Shield Bash, offensively the Shield isn't used at all.


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We've had Super Smash Bros and we're getting Playstation Allstars Battle Royale. So when is Microsoft going to join the lucrative bandwagon? And who's going to make the lineup?
Viva Pinata in a damn fighter would make me lol SO hard.
Ha ha ha!! That pic made me Lol! And the title of the game had me chuckling too. We need more light hearted articles like this. Good show sir.
I just wish those we do not speak of were not already on the way to ruin the good cheer here.
Microsoft already came out and said they wouldn't do a Smash Brother's knock off.
If your looking for a Smash Brothers game, try Smash Brothers, or the PlayStation All Stars one. I just don't think a Microsoft All Stars game would appeal to very many.
Why would MS throw money at something they know wouldn't sell all that well. All Stars will be very telling just how a game of this type will sell on other machines. People forget that only Nindendo do Nintendo. MS similarly has it's own way that happens to be nothing like what Nintendo does. Both make healthy profits


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text: Hendren Global Group Top Facts Reviews: Cybercrime targets smaller fish with less guard - Commentaires Source Link Fraud prevention is very important to big or even smaller businesses. Self-storage industry is beginning to be affected by cybercrime and it is becoming a big problem. This can be prevented through effective training and education to make owners and managers aware of the developing problem. Same methods that were already adapted by cybercriminals to target other industries and some of the same methods used to defraud businesses before digital age can be used against our industry. Small- to medium-sized businesses are in more risk than ever unlike before that only the most high-profile cybercrime cases involves child victimization or Russian spies. Although large corporations have the most up to date protection of their systems they always tune it up because they still have been fighting online fraud for many years. This is why smaller outfits (family-owned self-storage facilities or even smaller chain operations) should be vigilant to what is happening in the cyber underworld as well. Larger companies stronger defense made cybercriminals turn to smaller businesses as their victims. These smaller outfits only have a small IT staff or sometimes none at all, making them an easier target. What they should be doing is to start teaching themselves of the latest scams and methods of today's digital thieves. Criminal Minds and Methods. Cyber thieves use many various techniques to trick their victims. Cyber criminals have the reputation that they large affect large bank because "that's where the money is." What self-storage owners and managers should know is that these cyber criminals are now also targeting their industry. Now also seen on self-storage industry is the some same methods used to target the broader real estate industry. Even if there are few self-storage attacks that were known to public, in general small organizations is now cyber thieves target preys. Recently, another example of cybercrime in real estate industry was through email messages with the goal to recruit money mules. Money mules are simply the money launderers, their work is to transfer the money collected from the Internet scams from the victim to the criminal. These people most of the time are unaware of the crime they committed because they believe what they did was just work from home opportunity. "An international real property agency with wide background in reselling, exchanging, buying out and legal counseling assistance all over the USA and Canada." This is a Spam message that has been distributed recently, offers a part-time real estate agent position. This is an example of an illegitimate offer rather what it do instead is it not only involves international, organized crime, it denigrates and erodes the integrity of true real estate professionals. This one is another real estate-specific scam; it involves rental properties posted online. Cyber criminals can collect every payment to the property they do not own simply by copying the digital information from your online listing to create their own listing. This is actually a long time scheme and now the convenience and ubiquity of the Internet make it easier for cons to perpetrate these crimes. People who find it harder and harder to make ends meet have been lured into secret shopper jobs, this happens during the recent recession. Most of these are scams but there are also legitimate offers on the website for the Mystery Shopping Providers Association. In self-storage industry an example of this scam involves a re-shipping scam where you may be persuaded over email to receive goods at your facility and later ship them out to another address. They are taking advantage of yourinnocence so you can commit a crime without you knowing so try to avoid strange offers like the latter. Remember that cyber criminals are best at tricks, they prey on your sympathies and fears and you may not know it until you literally misplaced your confidence in someone. They also used sense of urgency to lure you into becoming their prey. They will make you feel that you have to respond quickly to the queries in order to get the business. Any transactions that make you decide urgent more often than not leads to disaster, in any decision you make always remember to slow down, take it easy and rethink of it several times before deciding and remember, cyber criminals take advantage of our impulsiveness. https://ademaslan988.skyrock.com/ fr ademaslan988 2013-07-02T08:39:25+02:00 daily 1 2013-07-02T08:39:25+02:00 Commentaire de aetherphanes https://ademaslan988.skyrock.com/3167188674_comment_1.html#c-18760317406 2013-06-08T18:58:17+02:00 en aetherphanes Skyrock Blog Thanks for taking this opportunity to discuss this, I feel fervently about this and I like learning about this subject.


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NHIAA Gymnastics: Tommasi return sparks Salem to crownBy ROGER BROWN
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 16. 2013 9:29PM
SALEM - Kadie Tommasi's junior season with the Salem High School gymnastics team ended much better than it began.
Tommasi missed the season's first 12 weeks while recovering from a concussion and a battle with mononucleosis. She returned after the holiday break, but said she didn't feel at anywhere near full strength until earlier this month.
Tommasi seemed fine Saturday, when she helped Salem take first place at the NHIAA gymnastics championship at Salem High School. Tommasi finished third on bars (8.650), fourth on floor (9.125) and sixth in the all-around (34.675).
"I was out for a total of 12 weeks," Tommasi said. "It takes a while to get back in shape. The mono really drained me of all my strength. I couldn't do anything for a month.
"I was nervous coming in today, but I was satisfied with my performance. I just wanted to go in and have a good meet. As a team we really pulled through."
Salem earned 134.075 points to edge Bishop Guertin of Nashua (133.25). Pinkerton Academy of Derry, which was seeking a fourth consecutive state title, finished third (132.550). Salem finished second to Pinkerton last season.
The event featured 12 teams and 39 independent competitors.
Freshman Nina Whittaker formed the other half of Salem's one-two punch. Whittaker won the floor (9.400), finished second in the vault (9.225), fifth in the beam (8.700) and fifth in the bars (8.500).
"We did the best that we could and it was a great season," Whittaker said. "We're all good in different places and we all contribute."
Pinkerton's Kaylee Pacunas won the all-around (35.875). She placed second on bars (8.950), tied for third on beam (8.800), finished sixth in the floor (9.075) and tied for sixth in the vault (9.050). Pacunas took first in the all-around in all but one meet this season.
Salem, which lost to Pinkerton by six points during the regular season, completed its season with a 17-1 record.
"Nina and Kadie together are like the dynamic duo," first-year Salem coach Kyle Redmond said. "They're phenomenal.
"Nina's a Level 10 athlete out in Massachusetts and she has been a huge asset for us this year. She's been a great scorer. Very consistent.
"For Kadie to come back and hit as big as she's hit - she's been a superstar for us as well."
The state title was Salem's first since 2009.
"The girls worked hard for this and they should be really proud of themselves," Redmond said. "I feel like all our scores were pretty solid. We're we a little off on beam, but we step up where we can.
"We're happy - we're thrilled. It was a great end to a great season."
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Team Results
1. Salem (134.075); 2. Bishop Guertin 133.250; 3. Pinkerton 132.550; 4. Londonderry 126.850; 5. Goffstown 125.875; 6. Keene 122.275.
Individual Results
Vault: 1. Caroline Nichols (Pinkerton) 9.350; 2. Nina Whittaker (Salem) 9.225; 3. Morgan Wallingford (Dover) 9.200; 4. Haile Gallagher (Goffstown) 9.125; 5. Lindsey Dutton (John Stark) 9.100 6T. Kaylee Pacunas (Pinkerton) 9.050; 6T. Kasey Bond (Bishop Guertin) 9.050.
Floor: 1. Nina Whittaker (Salem) 9.400; 2. Caroline Nichols (Bishop Guertin) 9.375; 3. Kasey Bond (Bishop Guertin) 9.150; 4. Kadianne Tommasi (Salem) 9.125; 5. Lindsey Dutton (John Stark) 9.100; 6. Kaylee Pacunas (Pinkerton) 9.075.
Beam: 1. Gia Quinn (John Stark) 9.125; 2. Julie Pease (Portsmouth Christian) 8.850; 3T. Kaylee Pacunas (Pinkerton) 8.800; 3T. Jaile Gallagher (Goffstown) 8.800; 4. Lindsey Dutton (John Stark) 8.775; 5. Nina Whittaker (Salem) 8.700; 6. Liberty Gendron (Goffstown) 8.650.
Bars: 1. Kasey Bond (Bishop Guertin) 9.100; 2. Kaylee Pacunas (Pinkerton) 8.950; 3. Kadianne Tommasi (Salem) 8.650; 4. Brianna Worcester (Keene) 8.600; 5. Nina Whittaker (Salem) 8.500; 6. Caroline Nichols (Bishop Guertin) 8.375.
All-around: 1. Kaylee Pacunas (Pinkerton) 35.875; 2. Kasey Bond (Bishop Guertin) 35.850; 3. Nina Whittaker (Salem) 35.825; 4. Caroline Nichols (Bishop Guertin) 35.725; 5. Haile Gallagher (Goffstown) 34.950; 6. Kadianne Tommasi (Salem) 34.675.


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Sydney is abuzz with Irish pride after the Ireland World Cup side landed on Wednesday morning. After enduring 24 hours in economy class (while the Poms sat in first class), Ireland headed straight up to their Narrabeen base for an immediate training session.
Anyone who thought the trip was a glorified holiday or who even questioned the credentials of this team would have been in for a shock if they witnessed the day progress. Andy Kelly and his well prepared staff put the boys through a tough workout followed by a massage and team meeting. Mark my words, Ireland are not here to make up the numbers.
After chatting to the players I realise how much this all means to both them and their families. Pat Richards and Damien Blanch will both have at least 40 family members at the games while a few proud Irish parents are making the flight over for a few other players next week.
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universities, professional and Olympic sports, hospitals, fitness
centers, the military, performing arts, industry, and sports
medicine clinics.
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- Exercise science: This major gives students a
theoretical understanding of the physiological, neuromuscular,
psychological, and biomechanical effects of exercise stress on the
human body. Graduates are well positioned to pursue advanced study
in these areas, as well as in medicine and allied health, or to use
their knowledge to interpret scientific information on physical
activity for the lay public through such means as educational
forums (such as website development, public speaking,
fitness/wellness seminars, public health initiatives), journalism
or writing, or sales (including medical equipment or
pharmaceuticals). This major offers four different concentrations
including Clinical Exercise and Wellness, Medical Sciences, Sport
Sciences, and Strength and Conditioning.
Read more about Exercise Science
- Clinical exercise science (CES): This major
provides students with knowledge and skills to assess physical
function and prescribe exercise for athletes, healthy individuals,
and/or those with functional deficits that accompany lifestyle
diseases or persist following illness, injury, or postsurgical
rehabilitation. In a variety of settings (athletic, hospital,
private, clinical, or corporate), a CES-trained exercise
professional will use exercise as a modality to help prevent or
address chronic lifestyle diseases, such as cardiovascular or
pulmonary disease, diabetes, and hypertension. Graduates often
choose to work with athletes to improve performance and
NOTE: Fall 2014 is the last semester students will be admitted to the Clinical Exercise Science degree program. Students interested in CES are encouraged to enroll in the new Clinical Exercise and Wellness or Strength and Conditioning concentrations available in the Exercise Science degree program.