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    <p align="center"><font color="#008080"><b>A weekly column by <i>David 
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<p ALIGN="CENTER">Nado Natterings</p>
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<p ALIGN="CENTER">by David Axelson, Chief Executive Officer</p>
<p ALIGN="CENTER">The Islander Sports Foundation</p>
</i></font><font SIZE="3">30 August <font SIZE="3"> 2004 Issue #35</font></font><font FACE="Book Antiqua" SIZE="3"><i>
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<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&quot;An excellent hell week&quot; is a seemingly contradictory phrase, 
  but that�s precisely how Coronado High School�s Head Coach <b>Bud Mayfield</b> 
  described the Islanders traditional menu of total football immersion held 
  annually at NAS North Island. </p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&quot;We have at least 40 or 45 new kids, either freshmen, 
  transfers or new kids to the district. The Wednesday and Thursday practices were 
  outstanding and everybody seemed to get the idea,&quot; said Mayfield, who is 
  returning for his 17<sup>th</sup> season at the helm of the CHS football 
  program. &quot;We had 74 kids in camp, with 34 freshmen. If we had a normal-sized 
  senior class, it would have been our biggest camp ever. But, we only have five 
  returning senior starters and they are all two-way guys.&quot;</p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">The Fab Five, or perhaps more accurately The Top Ten if you 
  go by the total number of positions played, include <b>Jed Considine, Ryan 
    Cummins, Jon Maskevich, Jack Scott </b>and<b> Nick Shepherd.</b> </p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&quot;We think Jed is an anchor on the line, both offensively and 
  defensively,&quot; Mayfield said of Considine. &quot;He plays tackle on both sides of the 
  ball. Jack Scott is the other tackle on offense and also plays defensive end. 
  Everyone else on the line is new. Basically we�re a junior team with a few key 
  seniors, and the juniors need seasoning. The juniors played a few plays on the 
  varsity last year, but not many.&quot;</p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Cummins, who will be the team�s tailback and corner back, has 
  been a varsity starter since his sophomore year. Cummins enters the season with 
  12 career interceptions on defense and adds experience at running back. &quot;We�ll 
  probably rotate a number of backs,&quot; added Mayfield. &quot;<b>Kelcey Fisher</b> will 
  see time there.&quot;</p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">In front of Cummins on both sides of the ball will be 
  Shepherd, who will play fullback and middle linebacker. Now a solid 205 pounds, 
  Shepherd entered the Islander football program as a 160 pound freshman defensive 
  end. According to Mayfield, &quot;the off season weight program has done its job. Of 
  course Nick worked very hard at it.&quot; </p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Last season Shepherd was the blocking back that helped propel
  <b>J.T. Rogan</b> to a school single season rushing record, so he�s no stranger 
  to contact on the field. </p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Maskevich returns to play both free safety and wide receiver. 
  &quot;He�s done a great job,&quot; Mayfield said. &quot;Those five seniors are good and I hope 
  we can give them something to go out on. This is a quiet team. They don�t have 
  the vocal leaders, but they have a nice chemistry that�s beginning to come 
  together. There�s heart and spirit there because we saw that at the scrimmages. 
  Our team defense was pretty effective and we swarmed to the ball. The offense is 
  always behind the defense at this point, but hopefully the timing will be there 
  in a couple of weeks.&quot;</p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">The all-important quarterback position will be manned by 
  junior <b>David Loving</b>, who Mayfield described as &quot;an option guy who can 
  throw, which is a nice combination. He had a good camp and he will put a lot of 
  pressure on the defense.&quot; </p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">One of the problems with having a small school-sized roster 
  is that due to a lack of depth, Loving will only play quarterback this season, a 
  concept that Mayfield has implemented throughout the years. Loving was one of 
  the 2003 squad�s best linebackers, a position that he might resume playing as a 
  senior. </p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">This Saturday, the entire Islander football program will 
  scrimmage against Rancho Buena Vista and Valley Center, at the latter�s field. 
  The freshmen and junior varsity squads play simultaneously at 9 am, with the 
  varsity teams playing in the stadium, usually around 10 am. &quot;We�ll play both of 
  them,&quot; Mayfield explained. &quot;We�ll have a couple of series against each team. I�m 
  sure it will be pretty warm.&quot;</p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">To kick off the regular season, Coronado hosts Francis Parker 
  Sept. 10 at 7:30 pm to and then welcomes Mar Vista High School to Coronado Sept. 
  17, also at 7:30 pm.</p>
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<p ALIGN="CENTER">Islander Girls Volleyball Preview</p>
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<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">CHS Girls Volleyball Head Coach <b>Phil Trotter</b> may be 
  limping into the new school year, as a result of being in a walking cast due to 
  a recurring problem with his Achilles tendon, but the rest of the team is 
  leaping, running and ready to take on the Eastern League and their CIF Division 
  IV rivals. </p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">The 2004 Islanders feature first rate club volleyball players 
  in juniors <b>Jacy Norton</b> and <b>Megan</b> <b>Mushovic</b>, surrounded by a 
  cast (no pun intended) of elite athletes. </p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Norton, who transferred to Coronado from Kentucky last year 
  and arrived too late to participate in the 2003 volleyball season, is a 6-foot, 
  4-inch middle blocker. At the age of 16 this past summer, she played with the 
  Epic Volleyball Club that finished fourth in the nation in the 18 and under 
  division. &quot;She�s definitely a great defensive player at the net,&quot; said Trotter 
  of Norton. &quot;She has the ability to take over a high school match. Jacy also 
  gives us a great option on offense.&quot;</p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Mushovic, who was the Harbor League Player of the Year as a 
  sophomore, returns as the club�s setter. &quot;Megan got a lot better over the summer 
  playing club volleyball,&quot; Trotter said. &quot;She�ll be our leader out there. Megan 
  understands the game very well. She�s athletic, intense, and a key for our 
  success. Ball control will be another key for us. We�ll rely on everybody 
  playing well.&quot;</p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Junior <b>Kelly Phelps</b>, a 6-foot lefthander will play 
  opposite Mushovic. Senior <b>Jamie</b> <b>Klages</b>, coming off of great 
  seasons in volleyball, soccer and track last year, will be a team co-captain, 
  along with senior <b>Deidre Kelly</b>. Mix in senior soccer star <b>Ashley Copp</b>, 
  sisters <b>Alex Vido</b> and <b>Sasha Vido </b>and senior <b>Emily Howe</b> and 
  you have the makings of a fine team. Said Trotter of Howe, &quot;Emily can play every 
  position on the floor except middle blocker.&quot;</p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Trotter expects to compete for the Eastern League title with 
  Serra, Our Lady of Peace, Point Loma, Mission Bay, Morse and Patrick Henry. To 
  prepare for the conference season, the Islanders will play in the Epic 
  Tournament, which features several of the top teams in the county, and the Beach 
  City Tournament, another strong event. Non-conference opponents include 
  Grossmont and Mar Vista. </p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">The bad news is that Coronado will compete in CIF Division IV 
  again this season, with the likes of Francis Parker, La Jolla Country Day and 
  The Bishop�s School, teams that annually comprise the strongest girls volleyball 
  division in San Diego County. &quot;They are all very good,&quot; said Trotter. &quot;If we can 
  compete with those three schools, that�s a big step up for us. Bishops is still 
  very strong and they just re-load at Parker.&quot;</p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">It looks to be a strong season for the Islanders. &quot;The team 
  is well ahead of where we were last year,&quot; said Trotter. &quot;There is a great group 
  of girl athletes at the school right now, girls that play a lot of sports. The 
  team has worked really hard so far and they seem very focused. It has the 
  makings of a fun year.&quot;</p>
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<p ALIGN="CENTER">Olympic Men�s Water Polo Update</p>
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<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">In their final match of the 2004 Olympic Games, the <b>U.S. 
  Men�s Water Polo Team</b> defeated 2003 World Championship runner-up Italy 9-8 
  to finish in seventh place. Helping lead the charge in their final contest were
  <b>Jesse Smith</b> (CHS �01) with three goals and <b>Layne</b> <b>Beaubien</b> 
  (CHS �94) who supplied two tallies. </p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">After spending the last several months training and playing 
  against the best water polo players in the world, Smith is likely to dominate 
  the collegiate water polo world when he returns to Pepperdine this fall. 
  Congratulations to those two Islanders and <b>Genai Kerr</b> (CHS �95) for 
  representing the United States on the world stage.</p>
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<p ALIGN="CENTER">College Football Thoughts</p>
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<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">It was talking college football with a good friend of mine 
  Saturday, who happens to be a Nebraska grad and Husker football fanatic. He said 
  he would be in front of the television later in the day to watch USC play 
  Virginia Tech to officially start the 2004 collegiate season. He added in 
  passing that he thought USC was overrated last year. </p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">I responded that any team that had Helix High�s <b>Reggie 
  Bush</b> as a third-string tailback last year was pretty talented. </p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">About 8 hours later, Bush had scored three touchdowns and 18 
  of the Trojan�s points in USC�s 24-13 victory over Virginia Tech, before a Hokie 
  partisan crowd in a game played in Washington, D.C. </p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">I�m not sure whether Bush is a true tailback in the Trojan 
  tradition, or a wide receiver or a hybrid something in between, but I do know 
  he�s a talent. USC Offensive Coordinator <b>Norm</b> <b>Chow�s</b> primary job 
  over the next several months is to find new and creative ways to get the ball 
  into Bush�s hands and therefore into the end zone. </p>
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<p ALIGN="CENTER">The CHS Sports Week Ahead</p>
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<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">The <b>Girls Varsity Tennis Team</b> scrimmages at Mira Mesa 
  Wednesday at 3 pm and at the Glorietta Tennis Center against San Dieguito 
  Academy Thursday at 3 pm; the <b>Girls</b> <b>Volleyball</b> <b>Team</b> 
  scrimmages at Horizon Thursday at 1 pm and Friday at La Jolla at 3 pm; the <b>
    Varsity Cross Country Teams</b> participate in the Wolf Pack Invitational at 4 
  pm Friday at West Hills High School; and the <b>Varsity Football Team</b> 
  scrimmages Valley Center and Rancho Buena Vista at Valley Center at 10 am 
  Saturday. </p>
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