Deafsports

DeafSports for the week ending October 18, 2009

- Gallaudet:

lost to Catholic University 38-13 in a first football meeting
of both teams since early nineties

- Residential schools:

Iowa is off to a 7-0 start in football; one more win would make it the
first unbeaten team in school’s history; next opponent is Villisca

- Mainstreamed programs:

Elizabeth Markham
freshman
Kelly Walsh HS in Wyoming

plays on the girls’ basketball team

- College:

Montclair State – Liza Offreda, sr, women’s soccer

since coming back from Deaflympics, she has played
7 games, scoring 3 goals and assisting on one, and
despite missing the first 5 games of season, is the
team’s #3 scorer

- Elite

Joe Swail, pro billiards, Northern Ireland

is currently ranked 20th best in the world in
Professional World Snooker Rankings

- Miscellaneous

Deaflympics gold medal winning swimmer Terence Parkin, South
Africa, has decided to continue with his swimming comeback,
and will be competing in local meets

- DeafSports picture

http://www.catchin24.com/

- DeafSports web site

http://www.caad.us/basketball_page.htm

- Trivia:

Q. The 1977 Long Beach State University football team was noted for one
interesting thing? What was it?

A. the coach used ASL to communicate with his quarterback even though
they were not deaf