THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, June 12, 1994 TAG: 9406110067
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 32 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: Lee Tolliver
DATELINE: 940612 LENGTH: Medium
In her first year as a walk-on with the Towson State University gymnastics team, Shanley did well enough to earn herself a full scholarship next fall.
{REST} And so impressed were athletic staff members at the college that they named her the Female Rookie Athlete of the Year.
That's for all female athletic programs, not just gymnastics.
``I knew I did pretty well when they let me compete, but this was sort of a surprise,'' Shanley said. ``I was just a walk-on and I didn't expect to compete in very many meets as a freshman.''
But the 1993 Cavalier graduate, who won the uneven bars in the national high school meet, competed as an all-around in eight of Towson's meets. She placed third all-around in a dual meet with North Carolina State University.
In the East Coast Athletic Conference meet, Shanley took ninth on floor and 12th on bars. She didn't place in vaulting and didn't compete on beam, because an injured beam specialist was well enough to come back and compete.
``But I still think I did tremendous, especially since I didn't even think I'd compete much,'' Shanley said.
Now with a scholarship in hand, Shanley is probably going to be cutting short her summer vacation to return to the Baltimore area school to work out with the team.
\ Virginia Beach's three-time world kickboxing champion Curtis Bush is looking to make it No. 4 when he takes on Santu Andarelli June 25 in an International Sport Karate Association super welterweight title fight in Corsica, France.
Bush is ranked No. 2 in the division with a 38-7-2 record that includes 27 knockouts. Andarelli is ranked No. 8 and has more than 30 victories.
Bush is fighting Andarelli for the vacant title because ``they are having lots of problems with the top-ranked guy, and they're letting us go at it for the belt.''
Bush also has received word that he is now the International Boxing Federation's No. 1-ranked Intercontinental welterweight - holding the IBF's Intercontinental Southern title belt.
He is scheduled to fight Kevin Hall July 28 at Club Rogue's in a 10-rounder that is not for the title.
\ Two Virginia Beach youth bowlers have qualified for all-expenses paid trips to the national Youth Bowling Championship finals in Denver, Colo. in July. At stake will be four major scholarships of $5,000, $3,000, $2,000 and $1,000.
Kristi Richards won the state title in Richmond for girls 12-and-over in the scratch division with series of 575 and 614 for a 1,189 total. She is a 173-average bowler who represented Indian River Lanes in Virginia Beach.
Dawn Brown, a first-year bowler entered from Plaza Bowl in Virginia Beach, was the girls 12-over handicap titlist. A 110-average bowler, Brown had series of 373 and 523 for 896 and a handicap total of 1,289.
A state scholarship also goes to Jonathan Hampton, a runner-up in the boys 12-over handicap division. He entered from Indian River Lanes. A 149-average bowler, Hampton is an alternate for the national finals if the champion is unable to go.
\ Mike Duckworth has been selected as a member of the west team to compete in the volleyball portion of the U.S. Olympic Festival this July in St. Louis.
Duckworth, a 19-year-old graduate of Kempsville High and a redshirt freshman at George Mason University, is only one of three East Coast volleyballers to be selected to the four-team field.
``I'll be playing with some of the guys from UCLA and other places out west,'' he said. ``It's going to be a great experience.''
Duckworth, who was a Volleyball Monthly ``Fabulous 50'' recruit after high school, made the team in a tryout at Penn State University.
\ Jimmy Whitehead and Georgia Germano were big winners recently at the Catholic High School spring athletic banquet.
The multiple-sports stars were named Male and Female Athletes of the Year, respectively. Whitehead, a junior, excelled in football, basketball and baseball. Germano played basketball, volleyball and soccer. In soccer, she was honored as the team's Offensive Player of the Year.
Adam Lewandowski, who'll go to Virginia in the fall, was honored as the Male Academic Athlete of the Year and Detrick Harmeyer received the female honor. Harmeyer is headed to Penn State.
by CNB