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Gorgone headed
to Torino
Named to Olympic
snowboard team
By David Curran
dcurran@barnstablepatriot.com
TORINO-BOUND - Michelle
Gorgone of Dennis and The
Home Depot in Hyannis was
namedSundaytothe U.S.Olympic
SnowboardTeam that willcompete
in the 20lh Wintoer Games in
Torino,Italy next month.
Feb. 23 is the big day -the
day Michelle Gorgone will
get her shot at an Olympic
medal.
The Dennis resident, who
works at The Home Depot
in Hyannis under the home-
improvement retail chain's
Olympic Job Opportunities
Program, was named Sunday
to the U.S. Olympic Snow-
board Teamthat willcompete
at the 20th Winter Games in
Torino, Italy next month.
Gorgone is one of three
members of the team who
will compete in the parallel
giant slalom, the Olympic
snowboard event that best
suits her taste and talent.
In the PGS, two competi-
tors race through identical
downhillslalom courses,with
the winner advancing to the
next round.
"I'm a racer. I just like
speed,"she told the Patriot in
an interview last fall, adding,
"I always liked to kind of race
(against) somebody."
She also allowed that she'd
"like to try" snowboardcross,
which is an Olympic event
for the first time this year,
and the only one in which,
in Gorgone's words, "you hit
each other."
SBX widely is likened to
motocross on snowboards:
several competitors race on
a course with banked turns,
jumps and other obstacles, all
the while jockeying to cross
the finish line first.
Gorgone, who at age 22 has
managed to remain free of se-
rious injuryinher nineyears as
a snowboarder, said, "it'skind
of late" to begin competing
in SBX, adding, "It's just so
dangerous."
The other Olympic Snow-
board event, the halfpipe , is
all about tricks. Competitors
repeatedly ride down one
side of a half-cylinder and up
the other, each time launch-
ing into complicated mid-air
flips, twists, spins and other
maneuvers to score points.
That's just not Gorgone's
thing.
"I couldn't really care about
hitting jumps," she said.
But she no doubt will root
for her teammates. She and
fellow Sudbury native Tyler
Jewett are two of the three
PGS specialists on the 16-
member U.S.team.The other
is Rosey Fletcher of Alaska,
who was also on the 1998 and
2002 U.S. teams. The only
other member of the team
with Olympic experience is
women'shalfpiper Kelly Clark
of Vermont, who was on the
'02 team.
The team named Sunday-
is subject to confirm ation by
the U.S. Olympic Committee,
which also sanctions and ap-
proves participants in The
Home Depot jobs program.
Individual honors for a team player...
CONTINUED FROM PAGE A:10
terms. She played basketball
as a freshman and sopho-
more at the school, but said
entering the very same gym
for volleyball was an entirely
different experience. And she
made it crystal clear she was
not talking about the differ-
ent nets.
"It'sthe whole aura,walking
into the gym.... It's the group
of girls. It's all of us together,"
she said.
After a moment, she added ,
"I'm not putting any other
team down. It's just unique
and it'sdifferent. I don't know
how to explain it. You've gotta
be a part of it to understand
it."
Newton has been through
a lot with the BHS volleyball
team. Four years of demand-
ing practices that the players
take part in not just willingly
but with enthusiasm. Three
unforgettable years with the
varsity, leading the team in
kills in all three state cham-
pionship games in which she
played.
"She always plays at a high
level," Turco said, "and rises
to the occasion in the big
game."
She has that Tom Brady
quality: the bigger the game,
the better she plays. The
numbers prove it, said the
coach.
"When tournament time
comes around , they just get
higher and higher and higher,"
he said.
But she's also self-effacing,
another trait she shares with
Brady.
"The humblest kid you'd
ever want to meet ," Turco
said. "She's just a nice kid.
Nice, hardworking kid."
The team also helped her
through one of the most
wrenching experiences any
teenager can face: the death
of her brother. Danny Biron ,
Barnstable High School Class
of 2000 , three-sport athlete,
was 21 when he died unexpect-
edly Aug. 16. 2003, days before
volleyball tryouts.
"(Turco) stood really behind
her through allthat,"said Phil
Newton, her father. "He was a
tremendous help. I don't know
if it was part of what gave her
the determination to go on. It
certainly helped."
"That year, it was a very
special year," Carly said. "Ev-
eryone had their stuff going on
but I just remember I always
had (the team) to talk to, to
support me.
"They were there for me,"
she continued. "I was going
there to play... Without a
routine, I don't know... I can't
explain how much they 've
done for me. I especially want
to point out Liz Auger. She's
done a lot for me. They were
so supportive and helped me
a lot."
She's grateful to have come
under Turco's influence.
"He has definitely done a
lot for me,"she said. "I'm sure
he knows it, but the support
he's given me... He pushes his
players - he keeps it strictly
player-coach , not friends. I
don't know how he does it
but he turns us into deter-
mined , want-to-get-where-
we 're-going type players "
- and people.
"He'sa pretty amazing guy,"
she said.
Now, one of just 150 High
School All-Americans out
of the 400,000 that play the
sport , she is looking forward
to playing in college.
"It gets me excited because
I have so much love for it,"she
said. "It's a fun thought."
An honor student, she has
been offered a full scholarship
- part volleyball , part aca-
demic -by Southern Wesleyan
University in Central South
Carolina. But she plans to
visit Eckerd College in St.
Petersburg - "They have a
great academic program,"she
said, describing the area as
"beautiful " - before deciding
where to go.
But she'll never forget her
time with BHS voDeyball.
"I cherish every minute of
it," she said. "It changed me
as a person, for the better,
absolutely. It's something I'll
never look past."
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE A:10
omore Jessi Barron had the
other two goals against West-
wood.
The shutout over Franklin
was junior goalie Natalie
Cohen's second of the year,
and the 10th of her career,
"quite a feat for any goalie,"
said Sullivan.
And it's a career with ayear
and a half yet to go.
The shutout also showed
the team is playing well de-
fensively.
"We struggled a little bit in
our own end early in the year,"
Sullivan said. "We've worked
hard on it in practice and I
think it shows."
The Raiders were more
dominant against Westwood
than the score indicated ,
outshooting the home club
by a remarkable 64-16 margin.
The game came days after
both teams moved into the
Boston Globe's Eastern Mass.
Top 20, Westwood at #14 and
Barnstable at #19. Jk
Sullivansaidtherankingsare
important, but only to a point.
She said she scheduled three
Division 2 top-five fixtures,
Marblehead (a 4-2 win in the
season opener), Wellesley (a
2-1lossJan. 16) and Winchester
(the last game of the regular
season, Feb. 22), because "We
want to go out and be chal-
lenged and when tournament
time comes, we've got some
experience against some of the
best teams in the state."
It matters little where a
team is ranked in January.
"I feel like our team has
gotten stronger every week,"
said the coach. "I think you're
going to see us continue to
climb in the rankings. It's im-
portantfor ateam to continue
to climb up and not peak too
early. We want to be playing
our best hockey come the end
of February."
That's the focus of the
whole coaching staff:Sullivan,
assistants Jill Jenkins and
Bill Loughran. goalie coach
T.C. Cleary and strength and
conditioning coach Charlene
Alger. And Paul Logan, the
general manager, takes care
of administration , freeing
the coaches to work with the
players. The staff has been
together since the fourth-year
program was launched.
"We're very fortunate to
have the experience and the
expertise to focus on each
area," Sullivan said.
While she doesn't like to
look past any opponent , Sulli-
van couldn't help but look for-
ward to Wednesday 's contest
against Canton in Hyannis. A
fellow Division 1foe, Cantonis
ranked fourth by the Globe.
"Wecan'twaitto seeCanton."
she said. "They've been one of
our rivals from day one. It's a
verytough,physicalgameevery
time we play 'em.
"You're going to have two
teams that come to play, and
it's going to come down to
heart, whichever team wants
it the mojji."
Turco to head boys V-balL
CONTINUED FROM PAGE A:10
Francis put out feelers
last fall to gauge interest
in a boys volleyball pro-
gram, 88 signed up, and a
few more have expressed
interest since, Turco said.
Between the varsity and
the junior varsity, he ex-
pects the program to have
room for 24 to 30 players,
so competition at tryouts
could be fierce.
"From all indications ,
there are some really
good athletes showing
some interest in coming
out," Turco said.
He doesn't expect to
spend a lot of time talk-
ing about winning and
losing this season. But
he 'oesn't with the girls,
either.
"We don't walk around
talking about winning."
he said. "We talk about
being prepared , physi-
cally prepared , mentally
prepared , knowing your
opponent. "
Even though the
program will be new, the
Raiders will play a chal-
lenging 16-game sched-
ule against established
programs as a member
of the Southern Alli-
ance, which cross-sched-
ules with the Big Three
- Brockton , New Bedford
and Durfe e of Fall River
- so competition will be
part of the package.
"If the kids come in
understanding this is a
varsity sport and compe-
tition's a part of it," he
said, "they're going to be
OK."
Maybe the biggest part
of the program will be
the hard work. Turco 's
girls teams are famous
for their conditioning,
and he said interested
boys can talk to players
on the girls team if they
want to know what will
be expected in terms of
behavior, commitment
and dedication , "being
on time for practice , be-
ing early for practice. "
"It's a lot of hard
work ." he said. "It' s fun ,
we love it , we love volley-
ball, but it' s a lot of hard
work.
"But you know what?
I think that' s gong to
attract some really good
athletes, some athletes
that really want to expe-
rience that..."
Experience that what ,
coach?
"Disciplined approach
to athletics ," he said.
The school has not
named a junior varsity/
assistant coach. The
deadline for applicants is
Feb. 10.
Openings at
basketball camp
Applications are being ac-
cepted for The Ten Star All
Star Summer Basketball
Camp for children ages 10
through 19. For details, call
704-373-0873.
Register soon to ride
in challenge
Pan-Massachusetts Chal-
lenge Registration is open
for the 27th annual Challenge
being held this year on Aug. 5
and 6. Call 617-269-7171 or go
to www.pmc.org.
Run to register to run
Registration is open for the
2006 Four Points Marathon ,
Half Marathon, lOKm &Mara-
thon Team Relay being held
Feb. 26 in Hyannis. A Feb. 24
Hanlon Shoe 5Km Fun Run is
held starting at Hanlon Shoe
in downtown Hyannis. Special
guest that day is four-time
Boston Marathon winner Bill
Rodgers. Onthe 25th Rodgers
signs posters and chats with
people in the ball room at the
Sheraton. For details or to
volunteer, check out the Web
site at htp.V/www.hyannisma-
rathon.com/
Junior Lifeguard
Program at Seashore
The National Park Ser-
vice offers a junior lifeguard
program at the Cape Cod
National Seashore this sum-
mer for ages 12 through 15
when participants will learn
water safety, first aid, CPR,
lifeguard training and more.
The program begins July 5
and runs Monday,Wednesday
and Friday, from 9:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. through Aug. 11.
For information, call 508-349-
3785. Free.