Friday, June 29, 2012

USC Salkehatchie Sports Information Center gets new sign to promote "USC Salkehatchie Athletics"

The USC Salkehatcie sports information center located on the West campus in Allendale, South Carolina recently added a new sign out front to promote USC Salkehatchie athletics! If you are on the west campus make sure you check it out! Great things are happening within USC Salkehatchie athletics and we are excited about the upcoming seasons!

Go Indians!! Start Here, Go Anywhere!!!

New USC Salkehatchie baseball pressbox underway!


The new USC Salkehatchie baseball pressbox is underway and on schedule to open by this fall. The pressbox is a welcomed addition to the Indians baseball program and we are excited to see it finished in time for the fall schedule. I will be posting updated photo's of it's progress throughout the construction process, so be sure to check back often for updated pictures!!

Go Indians! Start Here, Go Anywhere!

NJCAA honors four as ‘Academic Student-Athletes’

Dana Crews, Nicole Lewis, Laura Maule and Jermale Paige have been honored with NJCAA 2011-12 Academic Student-Athlete Awards.



Crews, who competes in womens soccer and softball for USC Salkehatchie received the Superior Academic Achievement Award. Recipients must earn a cumulative 3.80 to 3.99 GPA to be honored this level.


Lewis, who competes in womens soccer and softball, Maule, who competes in softball, and Paige, who competes in baseball, each received the Exemplary Academic Achievement Award. Recipients must earn a cumulative 3.60 to 3.79 GPA to be recognized at this level.



Only 1,680 NJCAA student-athletes met the requirements for individual academic honors. Nearly 60,000 student-athletes competed in the NJCAA for the 2011-2012 academic year on over 3,500 teams in 28 different sports.



For more information about these awards, visit the NJCAA website-
http://www.njcaa.org/

Friday, June 22, 2012

Press and Standard's sit down with USC Salkehatchie head basketball coach Travis Garrett

(Photo by Drew Trip)


By DREW TRIPPsportsdesk@lowcountry.comThe Press and Standard


Travis Garrett, now in his sixth year as the head men’s basketball coach at USC Salkehatchie, has worked steadily to build the team into a perennial winner since essentially resurrecting it in 2007. Garrett led the Indians in the 2011-12 season to a 21-12 record and a runner-up finish in the NJCAA Region X Tournament, which was statistically the best season in program history. Building and maintaining a successful program is never-ending work, but Garrett was able to take time out of his busy schedule this weekend to speak with The Press and Standard’s sports editor, Drew Tripp, about his career, what he likes to do in his free time, and his plans for the future.

Question 1: Describe yourself as a coach. How did you form your style?
Garrett: I take a little bit of my style from everybody I’ve played for and coached with — guys like Rudy Keeling (former head coach at Northeastern University in Boston, Mass.) who I coached under at Northeastern, and Glenn Wilkes, my college coach at Stetson. And, really, it goes back to my high school days when I played under Ben Trapp, and all the influences he had on me as far as trying to mold me as a basketball player and as a person, as well as playing for George Glymph, who is a legendary head coach in South Carolina at Eau Claire. Then, there was Monte Towe, a legendary player who won a national championship at North Carolina State and who’s in the college hall of fame. He gave me my first coaching job at Chipola Junior College in 1995.
I’m an intense coach on the court and in practice. I want guys to play at their optimum level, and make sure that they’re giving me everything they have, because I’m going to give them the same in return. That’s my personality as a coach. I’m much different off the court than I am on it. I’m very intense and passionate about what I do. In spite of what some people might think, I take this job here at USC Salkehatchie very seriously, whereas most people might not care about it the way I do. This is what I do for a living, and it’s what I love to do. I’m very passionate about it.

Question 2: You’ve been involved with basketball for a long, long time. What are some of your most outstanding memories from over the years from being both a player and a coach, good or bad?
Garrett: Playing in championships, or having chances to play in championships. As a coach, we won the (NJCAA) Region X Tournament Championship in my first year at Clinton Junior College. But, I’ve experienced a lot of heartaches in this game, too, and even though during most of my playing career my teams won a lot of games, I’m a lot like Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing and Carl Malone — we won a lot of games, but we didn’t win the big ones. In high school at Eau Claire, C.A. Johnson beat us in the state championship. That was definitely a low point, because we were favored in that game. Then, when I played at Stetson, we lost in the conference tournament finals to Central Florida with a chance to go to the NCAA Tournament on the line. Those are some of the things I constantly think about, especially when March Madness comes around, and I see teams we used to play against making the NCAA tournament.
There have been a lot of ups and downs, even here at USC Salkehatchie. When you’re building a program from scratch like we’ve done here, you don’t have the resources a lot of programs do, so you have to work harder and be creative in order to try and be successful. I think that us playing for the region championship last year is a good example of that hard work paying off, so I take a lot of pride in what we’ve been able to do. I wouldn’t trade my basketball experiences for the world. Basketball allowed me to get my education and get a degree, and I’m proud of what I’ve done.

Question 3: You certainly know a lot about the game from both a players’ and coach’s standpoint, but nobody knows everything. Even as veteran coach, who are the mentors and friends you still turn to for advice on game strategy, teaching the fundamentals, or dealing with young men in general?
Garrett: I’m a big John Chaney fan. I believe in a lot of things that he does and things that he stands for. I read a lot of books on him. As far as X’s and O’s, I a lot of times will reach out to my former head coach at Stetson, Dan Hipsher, who’s the assistant head coach at Alabama now. I’m always striving to be a better coach, so I try to talk to several coaches — Bob Huggins from West Virginia, Gregg Marshall at Wichita State, Anthony Grant at Alabama — as often as I can, so I can learn from them and emulate things they do in order to find every advantage I can on the court, but when I talk to them, it’s mainly pertaining to how you deal with the youth of the day — dealing with personalities and just trying to what I can do as far as motivating kids to do the right things. I just want them to be successful. Every kid can’t play Division I basketball, but if they come to USC Salkehatchie and work on getting their degree, and give themselves an opportunity to play basketball beyond here, then I’m satisfied.

Question 4: Like most coaches, I know you can be found either at the school or out on the recruiting trail nearly every day. But, when you have some free time, how do you like to spend it?
Garrett: Movies. I love movies. I like to get together and play cards with my friends and stuff, too. But, mainly, I spend a lot of time with my sons (Travis Jr., Travonte and Denari), just having family time and doing stuff together.

To read the entire story, go to http://www.colletontoday.com/sports/salkehatchie/five-questions-one-on-one-with-usc-salkechatchie-head-basketball/article_6e134fac-ba1c-11e1-84cf-0019bb2963f4.html

Two Indian softball players sign with Columbia College

Rivero to continue baseball career at USC Aiken

New Student Orientation Dates!!!

Former Indian signs with Clafflin University

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Marcus Rodgers signs with USC Salkehatchie baseball

Parks signs with Johnson C. Smith

USC Salkehatchie gets new Athletic Complex Sign-

Smith signs with Claflin University

Robby Assemany
Former Salk baseball player now at USC Aiken is playing with the Forest City Owls this summer.

Jane Brewer and Sarah Miller went to Columbia Blowfish game to see Robby play. Nicole Bunton, Salk alum and current employee of USC Aiken baseball was also at the game.

Randall Black signs with SCSU

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Cobra diamond pair signs with USC-Salkehatchie

By Dan Brown


Berkeley Independent



Photo by: Dan BrownTwo charter members of the Cane Bay baseball program inked letters of intent to play their collegiate baseball at USC- Salkehatchie. Brandon Hall and Sean Bass have been in the dugout for all 102 Cobra baseball games played over the past four years. Picture along with Hall and Bass (seated) are Lisa Patrick and David Bass, Trina and Tony Hall, athletic director Tim McDowell, baseball coach Shane Todd and USC-Salkehatchie Coach Bubba Dorman. According to Cane Bay baseball coach Shane Todd, the Cobra baseball program lost a little bit of its heart and soul with graduation this spring.






Two of Todd’s original Cobras signed letters of intent to play baseball at USC-Salkehatchie last month. Shortstop Brandon Hall and outfielder Sean Bass will continue their baseball careers with the Indians.






“We were lucky to get a pair of ballplayers of this caliber so late into the signing season,” said USC-Salkehatchie Coach Bubba Dorman. “We got a pair of fine players in Brandon Hall and Sean Bass.”






Todd said both Hall and Bass were part of the face of Cane Bay Cobra baseball.





“These two guys were part of the Cobra baseball program since its beginning,” he said. “That’s 102 baseball games where these two guys were in the dugout. It’s going to be hard to look into the dugout or out on the field next year and not see Brandon or Sean.”






Hall is excited about the prospect of taking his game to the next level and will make the most of this opportunity. “Not many players get this opportunity,” he said. “I’m going to work really hard on the field and in the classroom to get into a four-year college.”





Bass shared his teammate’s sentiment.






“I’m excited about playing college baseball,” the outfielder said. “Not many high school athletes get this opportunity and I appreciate what playing for Cane Bay did for me.”






As part of the school’s first team, Hall and Bass brought home a pair of Region 7AAA championships and advanced to the District VII finals before losing to Berkeley.






For the spring 2013 season, the Cobras will make the jump to Class AAAA.

To see the original artice or learn more about Cane Bay go to-
http://www.berkeleyind.com/sports/Cobra-diamond-pair-signs-with-USC-Salkehatchie

Don't forget!! USC Salkehatchie youth baseballl camp next week, June 11th-14th

Don't forget the USC Salkehatchie youth baseball camp is next week, June 11th-14th. It is NOT too late to sign up! You can sign up the day of on the 11th. If you would like to view the forms below larger, please click on them.