Burinato and Dimante Headline ECC Women’s Tennis All-Conference Awards

Central Islip, N.Y. - Senior Sara Burinato (Barcelona, Spain) from New York Institute of Technology has been named the ECC Women’s Tennis Player of Year, while University of the District of Columbia's Laura Dimante (Riga, Latvia) took home the Rookie of the Year honor, as voted upon by the conference’s coaches.

Burinato, a four-time ECC All-Conference First Team selection and Preseason Player of the Year, earns the second major honor of her career after winning the Rookie of the Year award as a freshman. For the season, she has posted a combined overall record of 24-3 between singles and doubles play. Her record in ECC play is even more impressive, tallying a perfect 8-0 mark in both singles and doubles mostly at the No. 1 position.

Dimante earns the honor of the conference's top rookie after putting together a standout debut season in the nation's capital. She was the only freshman in the ECC who played more than five matches to post a winning record, compiling a 7-3 overall record in both singles and doubles against Division II competition. In ECC play, she accumulated an identical record of 6-2 in both singles at the No. 3 flight and doubles split between the No. 1 and No. 2 flights.

Alan Nagel of Queens College has been tabbed as the ECC Women’s Tennis Coach of the Year by his peers. This marks the 10th time in his 36th seasons leading the Knights and second straight season that he has been named the conference's Coach of the Year. Nagel led the squad to the second seed in the ECC Women’s Tennis Championship with a 7-1 conference record and a 9-1 overall mark in dual matches.

2014 ECC Women’s Tennis All-Conference
First Team
Sara Burinato, NYIT (Sr., Barcelona, Spain)
Didi Fatchikova, LIU Post (Jr., Sofia, Bulgaria)
Peerada Looareesuwan, District of Columbia (Jr., Bangkok, Thailand)
Yevgeniya Plevako, Queens (Sr., Astana, Kazakhstan)
Alessia Rossetti, NYIT (So., Minusio, Switzerland)
Gabriela Siembab, NYIT (So., Chrzanow, Poland)

Second Team
Cami Abdallah, Queens (So., Rabat, Morocco)
Melanie Benyadi, NYIT (So., Saint Etienne, France)
Alexandra Borgenhoff, NYIT (Jr., Alingsas, Switzerland)
Laura Dimante, District of Columbia (Riga, Latvia)
Andrea Samson, Queens (Jr., Key Biscayne, Fla.)
Angelika Sobiecka, Queens (So., Mwani, Poland)

Player of the Year: Sara Burinato, NYIT
Rookie of the Year: Laura Dimante, District of Columbia
Coach of the Year: Alan Nagel, Queens

Dirty Little Chemo Secret Exposed

by Andrew Scholberg

This is the first of two reports about the 2014 Cancer Control Society Convention and Doctors’ Symposium, held over Labor Day weekend at the Sheraton Universal Hotel, Universal City, California

One of the most compelling speakers at the Cancer Control Society’s 2014 Doctors’ Symposium was Dr. Bradford Weeks, M.D., from Clinton, Washington. He spoke on “Inflammation and Cancer.”

Dr. Weeks wasted no time exposing a dirty little secret about chemotherapy: even if chemo shrinks a patient’s tumors, the shrinkage is just about irrelevant to the patient’s survival. This will come as a surprise to a lot of cancer patients who break out the champagne on news their tumor has gotten smaller. You need to know what’s really going on. . .

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Sweating and fat loss.

Don't sweat the sweat. Its good to sweat mind you, but really all that means is that your body temperature is rising. Not an indicator of fat loss.  -Nate

Many people think that when they sweat while they're working out they're losing fat. It's not true. When you sweat during your workout you're losing water. If you weigh yourself before your workout and then again afterwards, the difference between the two is water weight, not fat weight.

How much fat you "lose" during exercise depends on several factors. These include fitness level, body mass, the duration and intensity of your workout, and when you ate your last meal. Wearing plastic pants or a fleece sweat suit won't make you lose fat weight more quickly than if you dress comfortably. Wearing excessive clothing during exercise may interfere with the body's ability to cool itself and result in mild to severe heat illness.

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Another common myth about sweating is that it rids the body of toxins. Sweat is nothing more than water, salts, and ureas. The body isn't detoxified when it sweats; the only thing it gets rid of is water and a few salts.

Your ability to sweat is not a measure of your fitness. Sweating is nothing more than the most efficient factor in your body's temperature regulation ability. Some people sweat more than others.

The most effective way for you to keep your "sweat mechanism" healthy is to drink plenty of water before, during and after exercise. Then you don't have to worry about overheating, dehydrating and feeling awful after you work out!

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Tendons, Ligaments And Bones

Remember when you strengthen muscle, you also have the opportunity to strengthen connective tissue. Thus, as you are getting stronger, you are also reducing the chance of injury.  -Nate

At both ends of every muscle, the fascia covering the muscle tapers to form a strong, rope-like length of connective tissue called a tendon, which is connected directly to one of your bones. One end, which connects to a relatively unmoving skeletal part, is the origin of the muscle. The point where it's attached to a moving bone is the insertion of the muscle. (The bicep's insertion is in the forearm, near the elbow.)

When a muscle contracts, it pulls its origin and insertion closer together. Often a muscle is attached to two adjacent bones whose ends are joined together in a closed, fluid-filled capsule known as a joint (your knees, elbows, shoulders and knuckles are all examples of joints). Contraction of the muscle creates movement around the joint, allowing the pushing and pulling motions that make up physical movement.

Most often, this movement involves a shortening of the involved muscles, such as when you lift a heavy weight off the ground. This is called a concentric contraction. If the opposing force is greater than the muscle force however, the muscle may actually lengthen as it works to contract. For example, when you lower a heavy weight down to the floor, your bicep muscle lengthens even though it's tensing. This is called an eccentric contraction. Finally, if the muscle doesn't change length at all during the contraction, when you push against a stationary wall, for instance, the result is an isometric contraction.

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Other types of connective tissue also help to create smooth, controlled movements. Ligaments are tough, elastic bands that connect the bones together and help stabilize a joint. The best way to think of ligaments is as tethers that hold the bones together at the joint. The ligaments help guide how the bones move in relationship to each other. Nerve receptors in the ligaments and tendons also send information to the brain, to help regulate the intensity of muscle contractions. Fluid-filled sacs, called bursas, cushion and lubricate your tendons as they slide back and forth over your bones.

Because tendons, ligaments, bursal pads and joints all take longer to adapt to activity than muscle fibers, these connective tissues are particularly vulnerable to inflammation, tears or other injury, especially from any type of repeated movement, whether it's walking, hitting a tennis ball or typing at a word processor. Avoiding such overuse injuries is one of the keys to maintaining a lifelong exercise routine.

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Volleyball Posts 3-2 Non-Conference Win at Cheyney

CHEYNEY, Pa. (October 21, 2014) - The Bowie State University women's volleyball team posted a 3-2 (21-25, 25-21, 22-25, 25-19 and 16-14) non-conference win over Cheyney University of Pennsylvania on Tuesday night in Cope Hall.

Junior Yaje Ngundam (Bowie, Md.) and Sophomore India Mason (New Orleans, La.) hit .135 and .059, with 15 and 10 kills respectively for the BSU Lady Bulldogs (6-19). Sophomore Brook Archer-Simpson (Bowie, Md.) had a team-high 19 assists and added 13 digs. Redshirt junior Marissa Martinez (Albuquerque, N.M.) led five Bowie State players in digs with a match-high 32 digs to go along with three kills and four assists.

For Cheyney (1-22), Breanna Joseph finished with a double-double of 14 kills and 25 digs and led both teams in service aces and solo blocks with five each. Kennetha Wallace also contributed a double-double, recording had a match-high 22 assists 17 digs for the Lady Wolves.

The Lady Bulldogs return home to the Leonidas S. James Complex (A.C. Jordan Arena) on Monday (October 27^th) for a 7 pm CIAA division match against the Lady Panthers of Virginia Union University.

Volleyball Box Score
BOWIE STATE VOLLEYBALL 2014
Bowie State vs Cheyney
(Oct 21, 2014 at Cheyney, PA)

	Bowie State		ATTACK				SET	SERVE		SRV	DEF	BLOCK			GEN
##	Player	SP	K	E	TA	PCT	A	SA	SE	RE	DIG	BS	BA	BE	BHE	Points
5	HARVEY,Amy	5	0	1	7	-.143	6	0	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0.0
6	TUNSTALL,Talia	5	1	0	3	.333	3	0	1	4	17	0	0	0	0	1.0
8	NGUNDAM,Yaje	5	15	8	52	.135	1	1	3	3	15	1	4	0	0	19.0
9	PERRY,Kelisha	1	0	0	0	.000	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	0	0	0.0
10	MARTIN,Kyerra	5	7	6	19	.053	0	0	0	0	1	2	4	0	0	11.0
15	TAYLOR,Valerie	5	6	4	19	.105	2	1	0	0	6	1	3	0	0	9.5
2	MARTINEZ,Marissa	5	3	3	21	.000	4	0	2	2	32	0	0	0	1	3.0
7	MASON,India	5	10	8	34	.059	1	1	2	0	4	1	2	0	0	13.0
11	ARCHERSIMPSON,Brooke	4	1	3	11	-.182	19	1	2	0	13	0	0	0	0	2.0
12	FISHER,Alexis	5	5	7	24	-.083	4	4	0	0	11	0	1	0	0	9.5
	TEAM									2
	Totals	5	48	40	190	.042	40	8	10	13	110	5	14	0	1	68.0
							TOTAL TEAM BLOCKS: 12.0

TEAM ATTACK BY SET  Set  K  E  TA  Pct  Sideout  Pct  1  7  12  42  -.119  11-25   43%  2  11  7  37  .108  9-21   42%  3  12  10  43  .047  11-26   42%  4  12  6  37  .162  13-19   68%  5  6  5  31  .032  10-15   66%            54-106  50%

SET SCORES  1  2  3  4  5     TEAM RECORDS  Bowie State   (3)  21  25  22  25  16     6-19   Cheyney   (2)  25  21  25  19  14     1-22

	Cheyney		ATTACK				SET	SERVE		SRV	DEF	BLOCK			GEN
##	Player	SP	K	E	TA	PCT	A	SA	SE	RE	DIG	BS	BA	BE	BHE	Points
3	Kilondra Davis	5	4	4	22	.000	3	2	0	4	14	1	1	0	0	7.5
5	Kennetha Wallace	5	0	1	14	-.071	22	1	2	0	17	0	0	0	0	1.0
6	Vishae Campbell	5	9	6	50	.060	0	2	2	0	15	0	1	0	0	11.5
7	Breanna Joseph	5	14	13	55	.018	2	5	2	0	25	5	1	0	0	24.5
10	Katherine Brooks	5	6	2	18	.222	1	1	3	0	6	0	1	1	0	7.5
14	Jamera Stanciel	5	0	4	9	-.444	1	0	1	1	11	0	0	0	0	0.0
2	Francesca Johnson	2	0	1	1	-1.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
18	Akia Harris	5	2	4	12	-.167	1	2	3	1	11	0	0	0	0	4.0
19	Travonya Kenly	1	0	0	1	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
	TEAM									2
	Totals	5	35	35	182	.000	30	13	13	8	99	6	4	1	0	56.0
							TOTAL TEAM BLOCKS: 8.0

TEAM ATTACK BY SET  Set  K  E  TA  Pct  Sideout  Pct  1  7  9  40  -.050  11-21   52%  2  10  9  37  .027  9-25   36%  3  9  7  39  .051  11-22   50%  4  4  8  36  -.111  13-24   54%  5  5  2  30  .100  8-15   53%            52-107  48%		Site: Cheyney, PA (Cope Hall) Date: Oct 21, 2014 Attend: Time: 1:53 Referees: Owen Railey, Neal Kenzakowski
		1  2  3  4  5  Total  Tie scores  0  3  4  7  6  20  Lead changes  0  2  3  2  2  9