Sports
There is more to a great team than meets the eye. While watching the performance of a powerful team one might suppose that each member works hard on his or her particular contributing skill and making the next play, while paying little attention to anything else.
Teams, from sports to business, often use innovative methods to become winning groups. One example can be found right here at Yavapai College.
Basketball fans prepare for fast-moving action as the men and women B-ballers hit the courts. Coaches Brad Clifford and Howard Brown give an early season primer.
Defending champions,the Yavapai College men’s soccer team dominated their competition, San Jacinto College, with a 1-0 win Nov. 23, claiming the program’s seventh national title in 19 years.
Knee injuries to college athletes can ravage a team and take a heavy emotional toll on the injured players.
According to ABC News’ website, abc.go.com, there are 400,000 Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injuries each year.
The Yavapai College Roughrider soccer team just captured their twentieth consecutive Arizona Community College Athletic Conference (ACCAC) title.
The number one ranked Yavapai College men’s soccer team is slaughtering the competition one game after another.
The Lady ‘Rider volleyball team started the year with a spike. They placed second at the New Mexico Military Institute Invitational, a pre-season tournament in Roswell, New Mexico. The conference consisted of ten teams which played in two pools of five.
As many of the Yavapai Community College sports are coming nto a close and the student-athletes head back home, the coaches and athletic staff begin a whole different kind of madness.
Throughout the offseason, college coaches, with their school logos splashed across their chests, will be scurrying through airports, cruising highways andchecking into chain hotels from coast to coast as they try to reel in as much talent as possible in order to create a stronger team for next season.
You have probably seen them rushing to the side of an injured athlete, but the Yavapai Community College athletic trainers do so much more than that.
The YC athletic trainers are certified to not only heal injuries but prevent them as well. Head Athletic Trainer Terra Schmitt has been working with ‘Rider athletes since 2005.

