Depleted Firebirds Wilt Down the Stretch in 76-71 Loss at Mercy

February 2, 2013

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Junior transfer Michael Terry led the Firebirds with 20 points.

FINAL	1	2	T
Dist. Columbia (2-17 (1-10 ECC))	36	35	71
Mercy (3-16 (2-9 ECC))	38	38	76
Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. (Mercy Gymnasium)

DIST. COLUMBIA	MERCY
Pts: Michael Terry - 20	Pts: Pope, Joseph - 21
Reb: Michael Terry - 7	Reb: Bailey, Kirk - 15
Ast: Ralph Watts - 4	Ast: Stitchell, Nate - 5

TEAM STATISTICS	DIST. COLUMBIA	MERCY
Field Goal %	44.8% (26-58 )	50.8% (33-65 )
Rebounds	33	39
Assists	11	17
Turnovers	11	12
Pts off Turnovers	16	13
2nd Chance Pts	13	15
Bench Pts	6	9

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DOBBS FERRY, NY – The Firebirds led by as many as six at the mid-point of the second half but crumbled down the stretch as they fell, 76-71 to East Coast Conference foe Mercy on Saturday afternoon.

With just two substitutes at his disposal, head coach Jeff Ruland's District of Columbia squad had three starters play all 40 minutes and one starter, senior guard Keith Brooks (Journalism – Queens, NY/Monsignor McClancy), played 31 minutes despite not being 100-percent. The loss drops the Firebirds to 2-17 overall (1-10 ECC) while Mercy improved to 3-16 overall and 2-9 in the league.

Junior transfer guards Michael Terry (Criminal Justice – Philadelphia, PA/Boston U) and Quasim Jones (Business Management – Philadelphia, PA/Johnson CC) led the Firebird attack with 20 and 19 points, respectively. Jones also handed out three assists while Terry grabbed a team-high seven rebounds. Junior transfer swing player Ralph Watts (Sociology – Peekskill, NY/UAlbany) also recorded 12 points, six rebounds and a team-high four assists, and Brooks pitched in with 10 points and three rebounds.

Joseph Pope led all scorers with 21 points on 9-of-19 from the field (3-of-6 from long-range) to go along with seven rebounds. Kirk Bailey was also a huge force for the Mavericks inside with a double-double of 18 points and a game-high 15 rebounds.

Bailey made his first two shots of the game for the game's first four points and Chaz Morrish knocked down a three-pointer to cap a 9-2 Mercy run to begin play. Terry then started and put the finishing touches on an 8-2 Firebirds surge with two three-pointers, the second of which pulled District of Columbia within one, 11-10. Twice Mercy extended its lead to five, but the Firebirds would force three ties at 17, 20 and 22 with three-pointers by Brooks and Jones and a layup by sophomore forward Florent Pontens (Business Management – Tarbes, France/Cheshire Academy). After the Mavericks regained the lead with a three-pointer by Remi Mignotti at the 7:46 mark, District of Columbia answered with back-to-back two-point baskets to take its first lead of the game, 26-25 with 6:20 to play before halftime. A tie and six more lead-changes would ensue before Mercy wounded up taking a narrow, 38-36 lead into the intermission.

Brooks buried a three-pointer for the first points of the second half, putting the Firebirds in front 39-38 nearly a minute into play when the action resumed. District of Columbia out-scored their hosts 8-2 in the opening two minutes to take a 44-40 advantage following Brooks' second trey of the half. Though the Firebirds would surrender the next four points and allow Mercy to tie the game once more at 44-all, District of Columbia never relinquished the lead for a period of 11:19, going up by as many as six points (61-55) after an and-one layup by Terry at the 10:21 mark.

But that is precisely when Mercy got a move on, beginning with a three-pointer by Morrish just before the 10-minute mark. That three-pointer ignited an 18-3 Maverick run that catapulted the hosts into a 73-64 advantage with just under five minutes to play. With little left in the tanks, the Firebirds tried to fight their way back into the game, pulling within five after a pair of free-throws by Jones at the 1:27 mark, but that was the last of the scoring on the day for either team.

After the two teams were dead even at 16 in points in the paint in the first half, the Firebirds were outscored 26-12 in the second half. District of Columbia had also shot slightly better in the first half (46-percent to 44-percent) but Mercy shot a blistering 59-percent (17-of-29) from the field in the second half compared to the Firebirds' 44-percent (11-of-25) shooting. The Mavericks also shot better from three-point range for the game (10-of-22 to 10-of-27), making up for the fact that they did not make a single free-throw (they were 0-for-3 for the entire day). District of Columbia, which was 0-for-6 from the stripe in the first half, began to make amends by making 9-of-11 in the second half, but it was too little too late. The Mavericks also had the edge in the assist/turnover ratio (17/12 to 11/11).

District of Columbia Mauls Mercy, 94-46 to End Three-Game Losing Skid

 

February 2, 2013

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Ty Abilla registered eight points, seven rebounds, a career-high six assists and four steals.

FINAL	1	2	T
Dist. Columbia (8-13 (3-8 ECC))	38	56	94
Mercy (0-19 (0-11 ECC))	17	29	46
Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. (Mercy Gymnasium)

DIST. COLUMBIA	MERCY
Pts: Janelle Junior - 18	Pts: Williams, Aysha - 16
Reb: 2 Players (#14, #11 - 8)	Reb: TEAM - 11
Ast: Ty Abilla - 6	Ast: Williams, Aysha - 4

TEAM STATISTICS	DIST. COLUMBIA	MERCY
Field Goal %	49.4% (38-77 )	25.0% (14-56 )
Rebounds	56	31
Assists	19	8
Turnovers	19	27
Pts off Turnovers	36	15
2nd Chance Pts	24	3
Bench Pts	58	3

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DOBBS FERRY, NY – Eleven different Firebird players entered the scoring column including five in double-figures as the University of the District of Columbia walloped winless Mercy, 94-46 in East Coast Conference action at Mercy Gym on Saturday afternoon.

The Firebirds put the brakes on their three-game losing streak as they improved to 8-13 overall and 3-8 in league play with today's win. This also marked their first conference road victory of the season in six tries. Mercy fell to 0-19 overall and 0-11 in the ECC.

All 12 Firebirds players made significant contributions as District of Columbia posted its highest scoring output and most lopsided win in nearly two years. Senior guard Janelle Junior(Administration of Justice – Riverside, CA/La Sierra HS) shot 6-for-8 from the field including 4-of-6 from long-distance to lead all scorers with 18 points. Sophomore guard Denikka Brent (Mechanical Engineering – Chesapeake, VA/Booker T. Washington HS) added 14 points, eight rebounds and a game-high four steals. Freshman forward Tiara Goode (Forensics – Brentwood, NY/Brentwood HS) notched season-highs of 12 points and eight rebounds, freshman forward Tatyana Calhoun(Environmental Science – Disputanta, VA/ Sussex Central HS) posted 11 points and seven rebounds, and junior guard Julissa Anderson (Criminal Justice – Greensboro, NC/Southeast Guilford HS) pitched in with 10 points.

Other notable performances came from senior reserve guard Ty Abilla (Mass Media – Galloway, NJ/Absegami HS) and freshman reserve guard Tajruba Baldwin-Kollore. Abilla did a little of everything for the Firebirds, stuffing the stat sheet with eight points, seven rebounds, a career-high six assists and four steals. Baldwin-Kollore scored eight points and grabbed three rebounds.

Mercy was led by two double-figure scorers – starting forward Aysha Williams (16 points, five rebounds, four assists) and starting guard Maria Narduli (13 points, five rebounds, three steals).

District of Columbia's Anderson made two three-pointers in the opening 2:11 to help the Firebirds to an early 6-2 lead. Then, following a Danielle Losee three-pointer to bring Mercy within one (6-5), District of Columbia raced out to a 12-1 run highlighted by two consecutive three-pointers by Junior, and the Firebirds, who made four of their first six three-point attempts of the game, had an 18-6 lead with 13:40 to play in the first half. Mercy scored the next two consecutive baskets to cut the deficit to a manageable, 18-10 at the 12:38 mark, but that was as close as the Mavericks would get the rest of the way. District of Columbia, already ahead by 13 (30-17) with 4:18 left before intermission, closed out the half on an 8-0 run to take a commanding, 38-17 lead at the break.

A little over a minute-and-a-half into the closing frame, Mercy's Nardulli connected on a three-pointer to pull the Mavericks within 19, 42-23. But the Firebirds' shut-down defense held their hosts to two points over the next 6:18 while they went on a 25-2 surge and put the game out of reach with a 69-27 lead at the 11-minute mark. Head coach Lester Butler, Jr. emptied his bench in the second half, and still the Firebirds maintained a lead of 40 or better for the final nine minutes of regulation. Abilla would score all eight of her points, Baldwin-Kollore six of her eight, and juniorSnezana Blagojevic (Business Management – Kragujevac, Serbia/Towson Catholic HS) knocked down both of her two three-point field goals, all in the second half as the Firebirds' bench totaled 41 points in the second half (58 for the game).

District of Columbia out-shot their hosts 49-percent to 25-percent from the field and dominated on the boards, 56-31. The Firebirds outscored the Mavericks, 46-14 in the paint, and they turned 23 offensive rebounds into 24 second-chance points while holding Mercy to just three second-chance points. District of Columbia was also the much more efficient passing team (19 assists/19 turnovers), forcing Mercy into 27 turnovers while the Mavericks posted just eight assists.

BOWIE STATE HOLDS OFF DIVISION LEADING ELIZABETH CITY STATE 70-68

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BOWIE, Md. – Seniors Byron Westmorland (Baltimore, Md.) and Najee White (Jamaica Queens, N.Y.) recorded a game-high 22 points each to lead Bowie State University to an exciting 70-68 victory over the Northern division leading Vikings of Elizabeth City State University.

Westmorland was 6-of-18 from the field and 7-of-8 from the free-throw line while White was 8-of-17 from the floor and 6-of-7 at the charity stripe. White pulled down a game-high 12 rebounds and senior Bryan Wilson hit 5-of-7 field goals to round out the Bulldogs double figure scorers with 12 points.

The Bulldogs (9-11 overall, 5-6 CIAA, 2-3 CIAA North) opened the game with a 5-0 advantage on a free throw by junior Ray Gatling (Oxon Hill, Md.) and a pair of free throws and jumper by Westmorland.

Elizabeth City State used a 7-2 run to pull even at the 16:44 mark of the first half on field goals by AJ Johnson (Holly Springs, N.C.) and Deon Rice (Detroit, Mich.) and two free throws by Ade Barek (London, England).

A lay-up by Bowie State sophomore Joel Clemmons (Forest Heights, Md.) gave the Bulldogs their first double-digit lead at 25-14 with 9:02 left in the opening period. The Bulldogs lead grew to 45-30 by halftime on 15-of-38 shooting (39.5 percent) from the floor and 12-of-15 shooting (80 percent) from the free throw line.

The Vikings came out of a chilly A.C. Jordan Arena locker room with an 18-2 run to take their first lead of the evening at 48-47, primarily behind the hot shooting of Glenn Patterson (Red Springs, N.C.) and Angelo Sharpless (Plymouth, N.C.).

Elizabeth City State (13-8, 6-5 CIAA, 4-1 CIAA North) made four 3-pointers to start the second half while Bowie State turned the ball over five times during that stretch.

Bowie State senior Dameatric Scott (Hagerstown, Md.) shifted the advantage back over to the Bulldogs, only to have a Sharpless 3-pointer give the lead back to the Vikings.

Elizabeth City State experienced its largest lead at 56-50 following a pair of free throws by Rashaad Sneed (Durham, N.C.).

Wilson’s lone 3-pointer of the game pulled Bowie State within three at 56-53 at the 12:10 mark of the second half. The Bulldogs regained the lead for good at 62-61 following a White lay-up with 7:54 remaining in the game.

A three-point play by Elizabeth City State’s Dominique Byrd (Fuquy-Varina, N.C.) and a Sneed lay-up knotted the game at 66 with 5:09 left to play.

Over the next 4:22, neither team would score until a deep triple by Bowie State’s Westmorland with 47 seconds left in the game put the Bulldogs ahead to stay.

“I have a lot of respect for them (ECSU), a lot of respect for their coach (Shawn Walker) and I really love Angelo Sharpless as player. There a tough, physical basketball team, but I think tonight we out toughed them”, said Bulldogs head coach Darrell Brooks.

Sharpless led the way for Elizabeth City State with 13 points to go along with seven rebounds. Rice and Patterson contributed a dozen points apiece and Byrd added 10 points.  Barek was the leading Vikings rebounder with 10.

Bowie State resumes play with a rematch against Lincoln University of Pennsylvania on Saturday (February 9^th) at 4 pm in LU’s Manuel Rivero Hall.

FRIGID SHOOTING DOOMS BOWIE STATE IN 56-39 ROUT BY ELIZABETH CITY STATE

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BOWIE, Md. - The Lady Bulldogs basketball team scored their second lowest point of the season in Saturday night's 56-39 loss to Elizabeth City State University. The setback drops the Bowie State University record to 6-13 overall, 3-8 in the CIAA and 2-3 in the division. 

Senior Jasmine Jacobs (Baltimore, Md.) paced Bowie State with 10 points to go along with a team-high three assists. Sophomores Channell Mackey (Clinton, Md.) and Bria Robinson (Richmond, Va.) added eight points each as the Lady Bulldogs were 13-of-45 shooting from the floor for a season-low 28.9 percent.

The Lady Bulldogs fell behind 18-9 midway through the first half and never got on track. Elizabeth City State jumped out to a 7-0 lead to start the game before junior Moriah Goodman scored BSU’s first two points at the 17:14 mark. The Lady Bulldogs went as a cold as the night air over the next three minutes until a Robinson jumper put two more points on the home side of the scoreboard.

Bowie State was able to close the deficit to 10-7 following a pair of Mackey free throws, but Elizabeth City State stretched the lead to 19 by intermission at 33-14.

The division leading Lady Vikings (18-3, 10-1 CIAA, 5-0 North) extended the advantage to 44-23 after a lay-up by Shartara Jackson (Wilmington, N.C.) with 10:30 remaining. Elizabeth City State extended their cushion to a game-high 25 points (48-23) and would not allow Bowie State to get any closer than 13 points at 50-37 with 3:58 left to play.

Stephanie Harper (Charlestown, IL) led three Lady Vikings in double figures with 17 points and tied for game-high rebound honors with seven. Jackson and Jasmine Whitehurst (Elizabeth City, N.C.) registered 11 and 10 points respectively. De’Rya Wylie (Salisbury, N.C.) tied Harper with seven rebounds and Whitehurst was the leading setup person for the Lady Vikings with a team-high three assists.

Elizabeth City State ended the night with a 41.3 shooting percentage (19-of-46) and the Lady Vikings out-rebounded the Lady Bulldogs 35-25.

Bowie State will not play again for seven days, making their next court appearance on Saturday (February 9^th) on the road against Lincoln University of Pennsylvania. Tip time is set for 2 pm.

The surprising #1 health problem in America

Getting more sleep is THE easiest way I know to reduce your cancer risk

    I'm not the kind of guy you have to lecture about getting more sleep. I LIKE to sleep and I've ALWAYS been an eight-hours-a-night guy — sometimes accompanied by gales of laughter from friends and family who think it's weird to be in bed by ten.

    But it seems I'm in the minority. Skimping on sleep has become the American norm. And just as all the goody-goodies warned them, Americans pay a terrible price in their health, including a greater danger of cancer. By some estimates, sleep deprivation is the #1 health problem in America.

    Eating yourself to death — that I can understand. Prime rib and Black Forest cake might be worth dying for. The pleasure is undeniable. But wrecking your health because you never get enough sleep? To me, that's weird! Keep reading and find out what it's doing to you...

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The 24/7 electrified, wired world

    The wonders of our electrified world have stolen a decent night's sleep from us. Before electricity, most people went to bad when darkness fell. During the winter, that was early, and people slept a lot. Candles and lamp oil were expensive in a world where the average family made a few hundred dollars a year (if they were lucky). So the sensible thing to do was go to bed.

    Then came the electric light bulb.

    But it really took television to turn us into addicts to excitement and stimulation. It's safe to say that, pre-television, everyone got plenty of sleep. Once the tube was ensconced in every home like an altar, millions stayed up to watch the Tonight show and assorted other late-night distractions. And these days, sleep also loses out to the Internet, e-mail, and who knows what else.

    Me, I wouldn't give up an hour's sleep to watch Leno (or Johnny Carson, back in the Stone Age). But, as I said, I'm in the minority.

How sleep-deprived are YOU?

    Take this simple five-point test… suggested by James Maas, PhD, pioneer in the field of sleep research, sought-after speaker, and author of the New York Times Best Seller book, Power Sleep:

1. Do you need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning?
2. Do you hit the snooze button several times before finally dragging yourself out of bed?
3. Do you sleep in on weekends?
4. Do you fall asleep the minute your head hits the pillow?
5. Do you crave a nap to get through the day?

        Did you answer 'yes' to any of these?

        If so, consider yourself sleep-deprived.

        You're got plenty of company. Consider:

• Sleep problems are reaching epidemic levels, now estimated to be the #1 health related problem in America.¹
• 43% of respondents report that daytime sleepiness interfered with their work and other normal daytime activities.²
• In a 2002 "Sleep in America" poll of 1,000 adults, nearly a third said that they need at least eight hours to avoid feeling sleepy the next day. However, their average sleep time was only 6.9 hours on weeknights and 7.5 on weekends.³
• Young people are worst offenders. Nearly every high school and college student isseriously sleep deprived, getting an average 6 hours per night, but needing 9-1/2 hours to be fully alert.
• Falling asleep the moment your head hits the pillow is a sure sign of sleep deprivation… a well-rested person takes 15-20 minutes to fall asleep.
• A NCERx 4,000-person survey found that only 19% were diagnosed with a sleep disorder, yet 74% said they got less sleep than they needed. Forty-six percent said they missed what they needed by at least three hours!⁴

    But wait — it gets much worse than just feeling worn out.

Short-Term Consequences of Sleep Loss

    Lack of sleep has dramatic affects on your health and quality of life.

    If you lose one night's sleep, you'll be irritable and clumsy the next day. You either feel exhausted, or you feel hyped because you're running on adrenalin (and caffeine, no doubt).

    After a second night's sleep loss, most people have trouble concentrating and will make mistakes on routine tasks. Three missed nights, and they start to hallucinate and lose grasp of reality.

    If you get just a few hours of sleep each night, over time you incur a large 'sleep debt' — and you start to see the above problems, not by losing a whole night at once but by cumulatively losing a little sleep EVERY night.

    You can feel the short-term consequences of sleep loss right away. They're obvious. But it's the long term impact on your health that can be super devastating (beyond the obvious risks of drowsy driving and workplace accidents).

Hidden Long-Term Risks of Sleep Debt

    As if the above costs aren't enough, new studies show that chronic sleep deprivation is one of the biggest predictors of obesity.

    Your quality and quantity of sleep dictates the hormonal activity that regulates appetite — via leptin and ghrelin. Sleep deprivation causes your leptin levels to drop and ghrelin to rise dramatically. Leptin signals 'fullness' so if it's disrupted, you end up craving food — especially carbs. Ghrelin sets off your hunger pangs.

    I think it's fascinating that sleep correlates with the other bad habits that are killing millions.

    In a national study of nearly 10,000 adults, 32-49 year-olds who sleep less than 7 hours were significantly more likely to be obese.⁵

    Another study of 18,000 adults found that those who regularly sleep less than four hours per night were 73% more likely to suffer from obesity.⁶

    Wow!

    So… Those who sleep the least weigh the most? Who would have thought losing weight was so easy you could do it in your sleep?

    Too little sleep also causes decreased immune function. Sleep deprivation adversely affects your white blood cell count and your body's ability to fight infections. It makes your immune system vulnerable and less able to fight off potentially cancerous cells.

    And then comes the real biggie…

Sleep Deprivation Can Cause Cancer

    New studies suggest that how you sleep may determine how well your body fights cancer.

    In fact, working the graveyard shift may increase your cancer risk.

    Recent studies indeed show that women who worked nights for years seem more prone to breast cancer. And men who work the night shift have higher rates of prostate cancer.⁷

    When animals have their light-dark schedules reversed, they're more likely to grow cancerous tumors and they die more quickly.⁸

    Several reports from the Harvard Nurses' Health Study link insufficient or irregular sleep to an increase in colon cancer and breast cancer.

How Does Insufficient Sleep Impact Cancer?

    Sleep problems affect two hormones that influence cancer cells.

    Cortisol regulates your immune system and releases certain natural killer cells that help fight developing cancer cells. Cortisol levels peak at dawn, suggesting sleep's role. (This is the same stress hormone triggered during anxiety.)

    The second hormone is melatonin, produced by your brain during sleep. Scientists think it may have antioxidant properties that help prevent cellular damage leading to cancer.

    Melatonin can only be released in total darkness, and may cause a reduction in estrogen production. Researchers speculate that experiencing light late at night may interfere with melatonin release, allowing estrogen to rise, and promoting the growth of breast and endometrial cancers.

    I read this notion years ago. Since then -- for what it's worth -- I avoid turning on the lights if I have to get up in the night. It may help avoid a disruption in melatonin production, and I can say this for sure: it makes it easier to get back to sleep. Nothing wakes me up like a bright glare of light when I've been deeply asleep and my pupils are dilated as big as saucers. If you can't feel your way around in the dark, the next best thing is using a small nightlight.

    Melatonin is also the prime suspect in the 'shift work theory'. People working in artificial light at night may have lower melatonin levels, raising cancer risk.

    Further, certain processes like cell division and DNA repair happen at regular times. If your body does something at an unusual time — like produce insulin in the middle of the night to digest food — a chain reaction of biological mistakes is set up.

    Potentially even worse than the graveyard shift is flipping between night and day shifts. Also at risk are frequent long-haul travelers and insomniacs, who experience similar sleep disruption.

    You need a dark night's sleep… eight pitch-black hours every night. So why don't people get their eight hours?

Key Causes of Sleep Troubles…

    Why is quality sleep becoming such a rarity?

    In the NCERx survey cited above, 65% of respondents named stress as a major factor in insomnia. Closely following that, 53% said they felt work or school didn't leave them enough time to sleep.

Ten Tips for Improving Your Sleep

• Reduce stress as much as possible. Don't sweat the small stuff!
• Put some quiet space between your day and your night. Get to your room 20 minutes before bedtime, and relax with light reading, meditation, or quiet music, keeping the lights low and the atmosphere relaxing.
• Reserve your bedroom only for sleeping and sex. Get the TVs, computers, and other non-sleep items out of there.
• Complete exercise at least 3 hours before bedtime.
• Get sunshine every day. Your body needs the extremes of light and dark.
• Eat properly. Healthy people sleep better. Take your evening meal at least 2 hours before bedtime, preferably 3. Never overeat just before bedtime.
• Make your bedroom pitch-black, quiet, and cool. Use black-out curtains. Use ear plugs if there's street noise or noise from other family members in nearby rooms. Run the AC if appropriate.
• Avoid stimulants within six to eight hours of bedtime… including all soda, coffee, tea, sports drinks, and aspirin. I'm convinced that caffeine has a more profound effect on people than they realize. They don't know that it affects their wakefulness 12 hours or more after they drink it. And here's a surprise: alcohol is not viewed as a stimulant, but it DOES interfere with sleep patterns.
• Set a regular bedtime and keep it on weekends also. If you can live without an alarm clock, do so. You'll wake up when your body is rested.
• Try relaxation techniques… Counting sheep really works — you bore yourself to sleep. Or imagine yourself on a beach or in the warm sun.

    You may be one of those people who have been sleepy for so very long you don't know how it feels to be wide awake.

    Let the world wait till tomorrow — not your sleep. It is a fundamental health need.

    Once you truly start sleeping again, you'll love the joy of sleep's restoration and rejuvenation, and the energy you'll have — not to mention its cancer-protective benefits.

UDC Eliminates Men's Cross Country and Women's Volleyball

February 1, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – The University of the District of Columbia Athletic Department announced that it will be eliminating the Men's Cross Country and Women's Volleyball programs effective in the fall of 2013. The decision is consistent with the university's rightsizing plan that was announced last week. The student-athletes affected will be able to remain at the university, and their grant-in-aid will be honored through their graduation date.

Director of Athletics, Patricia Thomas, had this to say about the elimination: "This has been a very difficult decision for the University of the District of Columbia. Given the cost containment environment in which we are currently operating, unfortunately we have no choice but to make some dramatic changes. We are in the midst of university rightsizing and position eliminations, and athletics has been impacted along with the rest of the university. We remain committed to the overall development of our student-athletes and to remaining an East Coast Conference and NCAA Division II member institution. We also remain exceptionally committed to gender equity as evidenced by the recent addition of women's lacrosse in fall 2013 and the future addition of women's swimming."

The University of the District of Columbia is an NCAA Division II member institution, competing in the East Coast Conference. The university announced on September 25, 2012 that it would be adding Men's and Women's Lacrosse programs for competition in the spring of 2014. With the elimination of Men's Cross Country and Women's Volleyball, the University of the District of Columbia will sponsor 10 intercollegiate athletic programs, which is the NCAA Division II minimum sport sponsorship requirement. The other sports the university offers include: men's and women's basketball, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's tennis, women's cross country, men's soccer, and women's indoor and outdoor track.

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So is this a steroid alternative? I would have to say no. Nothing really comes to the real thing but Deer Velvet Antler does show promising results with building muscles and anti-aging.

What put Deer Antler Velvet on notice was that it was showing promising results in building muscle. It is marketed as an IGF-1 precursor and helps increase natural HGH in the body, which gives us our first sign of it not being a steroid alternative. HGH products do not affect the testes like steroids or pro hormones do, though they can help with testosterone it does not function as a steroid or testosterone booster.

Supplementing with products that help boost HGH levels can be an effective way to build muscle and slow down aging. Deer Antler Velvet in particular can help improve recovery time and support joint health. If you are 30 years of age or older you may notice the best results while supplementing with Deer Antler Velvet.

WHAT FORMS DOES DEER ANTLER VELVET COME IN?

You can find Deer Antler Velvet in two forms, Spray and Pill. If you desire to take it before workouts or after you may want to supplement with the spray, if you want to take it before bed then taking the pills would be best. The reason why it is recommended this way is delivery time is quickest with spray and can enter into the system right before a workout.

Determining the best Deer Antler Velvet is really up to the person. Spray may work best for some and the pills for others. What you should notice while taking Deer Antler Velvet is that you will sleep deeper and feel more rested, faster recovery from workouts and noticeable muscle tone in about a month – with proper diet.

If you are looking for a safe way to build muscle and slow down the aging process try Deer Antler Velvet.

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