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“Doughboy” premiered in theaters statewide this fall. In Beckley to promote the event this were ( Front from L to R) executive producer Kris-tin Siebert, director JW Myers, actress Emily Capehart, Patrick Parker of the Raleigh County Veterans Museum, actor Barrett Carnahan and writer Ty DeMartino. Back row is Josh Brooks of Raleigh County Veterans Museum.

On The Cover: Southern California na-tive Tyler Casillas who moved to West Vir-ginia while in grade school and plays mid-dle linebacker for Herbert Hoover High. Casillas was captured by master photographer Michael Switzer in his Charleston studio this fall while the backdrop was submitted by Hermosa Beach photographer Keith Kyle.

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8TRAINING TIPSStaying Fit In Season

12RSN FULL FRAMEGOLD RUSH: Featuring Ryan Switzer

14UNIVERSITY GIRL 4 LIFEA former WVU Cheerleader becomes a womens fashion entrepreneur.

16EXTRACTING GOLD IN WVTyler Casillas - A California kid transforms to Mountain State middle linebacker.

17COLIN FOLTZ Cougar Strength On and Off the Field

20WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY Men’s Basketball Schedule

21MARSHALL UNIVERSITY Men’s Basketball Schedule

22LEGACY: The Inspiration of Norma Mae Huggins

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A Wheeling Park High School sophomore made a big splash on the big screen this fall - Hollywood style!

Emily Capehart a sophomore at Wheeling Park High School, is the daughter of Robin Capehart, president of West Liberty State University and his wife Saun. She qualified for the W.Va. State Ten-nis tournament as a freshman last year, in both singles and doubles. Emily has been acting in various plays and the-ater since she was about 10 years old. But she recently landed a starring role in the feature film “Doughboy.” “I was in a Hannah Montana music video “Ordi-nary Girl” and I’ve had some background roles in short films,” she explained. “This is definitely a big step for me.” The story of “Doughboy” goes like this: “Tory Hed-derman is a self-centered, apathetic and brooding 16 year old who doesn’t really care about anyone or anything -- that is, until his family has to move from New York City to rural West Virginia. When Tory is caught vandalizing a patriotic town statue of a WWI vet, he is ordered to perform community service at a local veteran’s hospital. Through the experience, Tory meets individuals who challenge his perspective on the world. “Doughboy” is a fam-ily drama that incorporates documentary footage of real-life vets sharing their views on patriotism, young people today and how the world is changing before them.” from IMDB.com

Capehart’s character, Jill Courtney, co-stars with Barrett Carnahan, who plays Tory. “It was a great experience,” said Capehart.

“It’s changed me. It’s changed my life. It really opened my eyes to veterans and our military. I knew about it and I knew about 9/11, but I feel that it’s been over-looked. This has really opened my eyes as something that we should be talking about. It should bring us together – not tear us apart. I really appreciate the vets now. I go up to a soldier in uniform now and thank them. It’s a big part of my life now, because of this movie. I’m really excited about the movie. I think it looks good.”

Capehart’s future in film looks very bright. Director JW Myers was very complimentary of Emily’s work in “Doughboy”.

“Emily really blossomed in this film,” said Myers. “I’ve known her for a few years now – I worked with her at my acting school. This was a mature role for her. There are very deep emotions in this film. As a young actress, she had a lot to carry. Her char-acter is very interesting, very enthusiastic. She’s slightly off kilter. It’s a very complex character, and in a lot of ways, it may be the most important char-acter in the film. She did a tremendous job. She is a beautiful young lady and a good person.” “I would really hope to keep doing films with JW Myers, because he is an awesome director,” Em-ily said. “I’d really like to go out to LA and do films there if I can become established enough. It would be really cool.” Keeping up with her studies at Wheeling Park has been a challenge, but one that Emily has mas-tered. “I miss some school to go out to LA, but I always get caught up because they send me all of my homework. It’s been interesting.”

“I really appreciate the vets now. I go up to a soldier in uniform now and thank them.”

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So it’s pre-season. You’re lacing up your cleats, swinging your racket or putting on pads and you’re preparing your body mentally and physically. Chiropractic physician Dr. Steve Thaxton explains how to get into shape for the upcoming season both quickly and safely. Not only was Dr. Thaxton a former Olympic Pole-Vaulter, he is a certified acupuncturist and has served as a chiropractor for the rock group Guns N’ Roses and singer Jon Bon Jovi.

Thaxton suggests using, realistically six plus weeks as your preparation time for getting fit. “We don’t always take that. A couple weeks in the summer of football practice and the kids are going at it hard, as these football coaches hope they have them in summer programs and the kids are coming into the season or into practice already fit. Ideally, that’s the way it should be. Football practice should carry those kids into wrestling or baseball or basketball, fitness as well.” That is kind of the hope with multi-season or multi-sport athletes. At six weeks, you are going to start getting the body adapted to the stresses that you are now going through.

Thaxton believes that the best overall training programs are programs that incorporate a whole body fitness plan, where you are looking at building an athlete not just in their event but as a whole. For example, Thaxton (also an avid mountain biker) uses cyclists, and that they tend to focus a lot just on their legs but without good core strength, they get hurt very easily, they cannot train as effectively, and their base fitness is very limited. “As the cyclist works on his core strength, his leg strength, and his upper body strength, then his overall ability as a cyclist is much greater.”

From a training program perspective, Thaxton uses the analogy of a triangle, being a strong geometric figure. He uses the three different sides of a triangle to represent training, nutrition, and explains the third side, rest and recovery, plays just as important of a role as do the others.

Thaxton explains that so many athletes get lost in the rest and recovery part. They get so focused on the training that they end up overtraining and lose site of the rest and recovery. They can’t recover to benefit from the training that they just did. “If you look at basic physiology, what training actually does is break and tears down muscle tissue with the hope that the muscle tissue will build back stronger and sometimes bigger. With more endurance, and in certain cases, larger muscle mass is the goal.”

While you may choose to take the dieting route, you may also consider supplements. Thaxton and staff at the Worldwide Chiropractic & Fitness Center use a lot of supplements. Thaxton says, “I would like to say that you get whatever you need from the foods that you eat, but in reality, I don’t know anybody that eats perfectly, and I try to do that, but not even myself, do I eat perfectly. Number two; in general, we are eating foods that have had harvests on them for the last 100 plus years. So, minerals, in particular run in veins, like you see a vein of gold if you’re looking at a topographical map and it shows where the gold is, it runs in the veins, so to speak; calcium, magnesium, and iron, they all run in veins like that, so, if you planted across those veins, so to speak, the one plant may have iron in it and the plant right beside of it doesn’t have any iron in it because their root system didn’t go into the area where the soil had iron. So you don’t always get everything that you need from the foods that you’ve harvested and because these foods have been harvested in general

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Thaxton emphasizes that before you begin training, you should visit your physician, for a general overview to make sure in particular that your cardiovascular system is healthy. Regarding training, Thaxton states that, “The first thing you need to do is consider starting very slow. Warm up and then stretch. Warming up meaning walking a lap around the track and then stretch and then start whatever workout you’re doing. Another easy warm-up for folks who like to work out indoors is shooting an easy game of basketball with a friend; you’re not running, you’re just kind of shooting from different points of the court, your blood start flowing and in 5-10 minutes, just stop and stretch, and then you can start running at it full speed.”

True or false; you get all of the vitamins from the foods that you eat. False. Thaxton believes that that is the most common myth. Another popular common myth that Thaxton believes is that there is a limitation on potential. As we just saw in the Olympics, a guy ran a 9.69 hundred meters. “Back when I was a world-class athlete that was impossible. No one could ever run that fast. A guy just did it! A young guy who’s 21 years old when he did it! He’s got an unbelievably bright future.” Soon, we’ll see several people running 9.69’s or better.

As you prepare yourself for training, Thaxton suggests something that entails cardiovascular, health, & mind for the best

overall exercise. “In general, you have to do something for 30 minutes without stopping that makes you breathe hard. It doesn’t have to be in the weight room although that’s a great way but body weight strength training is fantastic; push-ups, pull-ups, hand-stand pushups are all great. Gymnastic drills; in this country, men’s gymnastics aren’t a big part of it but as we watched the Olympics from China, we saw parks where men were doing gymnastics in these parks. Simply using strength training, it does so much good. Thaxton suggests tae-bo & kickboxing classes are great exercises as well.

Thaxton strongly suggests for people to find a variety of things they like to do because when someone gets stuck in a rut, they get bored and don’t want to bother doing it any more. Just focus on making it fun.

NOTE – Minch graduated from West Liberty State College in 1989 and attended West Virginia University; where he earned his master’s degree of science in physical education with a specialization in athletic training.

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GOLD RUSHT he state’s Kennedy Award winner by a land slide, Ryan

Switzer possesses a very rare combination of 4.3 speed in the 40 and 4.3 GPA at George Washington High.

Ryan Switzer attended football camps at WVU, Pitt, Marshall, Ohio State, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, Florida State, Penn State, Kentucky and Ohio University.

“Being heavily recruited, it’s all pretty surreal.” Ryan Switzer

Switzer, just a junior in the fall of 2011, produced one of the top performances in WV prep football history, rushing for over 2,000 yards and scoring 192 points including 32 touchdowns in 10 regular season games for the 10-0 Patriots, which led all players in the state of W.Va.

N esha Sanghavi is not only the President of University Girls Apparel, she is also a client.

“I wear my West Virginia University clothing every day,” she admits.

The former WVU cheerleader, also a born and raised West Virginian, studied finance and eco-nomics in her days as a cheerleader for the Mountaineers. But after working for a finance firm

in Pittsburgh for about a year, she decided to follow her dreams in the world of fashion.“While in school at WVU, I had come up with an idea for a clothing line and it just kept coming back to me,” she explained. “So I took a risk and gave up that job and started preparing myself.” She went to New York City and studied at the New School for Design, learning the fashion industry firsthand. She moved back to West Virginia and today, University Girls is outfitting sports fans in great, high quality gear. “My clothing line is targeted for the 16-to-60+crowd, the working professional women, not just the campus crowd. You can support your team in style. A lot of companies have casual dress Fridays. You can wear your team colors to work and show your spirit in your everyday lives.” University Girls first two licenses were for West Virginia University and Marshall University. But coming soon, you’ll see University of Kentucky, Virginia Tech and University of Louisville clothing too, with hopes of adding many more. “It’s not just t-shirts and hoodies,” she said. “It’s something with a little more fashion, more boutique-like. But price-wise, we’re very competitive. The response we’ve had so far has been awesome.” But Nesha will always bleed blue and gold. “I got to cheer during some of the best years for Mountaineers sports (2005-2008),” she said. “We went to the Elite Eight, the Sweet Sixteen, the Sugar Bowl and the Fiesta Bowl. I was really lucky.”

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Tyler Casillas of Herbert Hoover embodies the prototypical middle linebacker.

He is always around the ball and has a knack for bringing down the opposing ball carrier.

The defensive captain for the Huskies doesn’t just hit op-ponents – he enjoys hitting the books too. As his 3.8 grade point average and his Honor Student status attests.

“I have been taking college classes,” he explained. “It’s hard balancing out all I have going on. I have a job too, work-ing as a lifeguard – at the South Charleston Community Cen-ter in the winter and at Coonskin Park in the summer.”

He concentrated on football only his senior season, after playing basketball and running track for two seasons as well.

“I wanted to concentrate on lifting weights and my agility.” He is a four-year letterman in football.

Herbert Hoover’s leading tackler in 2011, Casillas was named All-Cardinal Conference Honorable Mention for three years in a row.

Casillas is counted on as a leader on the field, receiving the signals from the Huskies coaches on the sideline and making calls and checks to his teammates right before the snap.

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“I called the coverages, ”he said. “We had a real tough schedule. We lost some playmakers (to graduation) and had a down year this season.”

As a four-year old, Casillas moved to West Virginia from Torrance, California with his family. But his future certainly looks to involve college.

“I’m looking at all of my options,” he said. “I’m definitely going to college. I have been in contact with a few college teams, D-I, D-II and junior colleges – a wide range of teams. I’d like to play football in college, but I don’t know if I will at this point. I’d like to, but I’m at least going to get an educa-tion.”

“I’m looking at business or criminal justice right now. If I don’t play football, I’ll miss it. I love the sport. I’ve grown up with it and I’ve learned a lot of life lessons from it.”

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of over 42 points per game.

The returning first team All-State signal caller completed 112-of-210 passes (59.1 percent) for 2,187yards and 31 touchdowns, threw just five interceptions in that nine game span and placed 3rd in the Kennedy Award voting.

The 31 TDs led the state, in all classes, despite playing one less game than a typical high school schedule of 10.

“Opponents respect our passing game, but it opens up our running game then,” Foltz explained. “Either way, we’re dominant. And our defense went three games without giving up a touchdown.”

In an opening round playoff win over Buffalo, Foltz threw for 213 yards and two touchdowns and ran for a third score No. 5 ranked East Hardy to victory.

As a junior, Foltz established a new individual and team record during the preliminary-round games by throwing for 464 yards in a quarterfinal loss to Wahama.

As a baseball player, Foltz led the Cougars to the 2010 state tournament by smacking a go-ahead homerun in the region-al finals and hit for a .373 batting average on the season. He is a second baseman in the spring and a shooting guard/point guard in the winter for the East Hardy basketball team.

But the best statistic that Foltz owns is 4.0 – as in his grade point average.

“I hate getting Bs, ”Foltz said. “I’ve always worked hard in class. It’s sometimes challenging, with homework late, after practices. I’d like to play football in college, but it depends on what happens and what schools talk to me.”

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That’s one way to describe Kollin Foltz, a 5-foot-11, 175 pound senior quarterback for East Hardy. It’s been in-stilled in him all of his young life and he has taken that

drive and transferred it to success in the classroom and the athletic field.

“I work hard,” he said. “I always try to be the best that I can be.” Foltz credits his work at his family’s turkey farm in the summers and fall weekends as making him the person he is today.

“We do a lot in the summer. We have a lot of cleaning up to do and a lot of grass to mow.” The turkey farm is massive – with approximately 56,000 turkeys in eight turkey houses – sometimes as many as 10,000 birds per house.

“Our whole family works in it,” he said. “Most nights I have practice, then homework to do in addition to the work on the farm.

East Hardy cruised through the regular season undefeat-ed, at 9-0, qualifying for the Class A playoffs. It was the first ever unbeaten season for the Baker, W.Va.-based East Hardy football program.

“In the beginning of the season, we knew that we would be all right,” Foltz admitted. “But I never thought about being undefeated. It’s crazy how much better we got each week.”

Foltz, decked out with his green and gold jersey with the #8 on the front and back - paced the high-octane Cougars of-fensive attacks to post big numbers on the scoreboard –44, 55, 30, 72, 42, 20, 27, 35 and 65 to be exact – for an average

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“I called Bob and told him we had to do something for cancer.”

Moores, an artist from New York who attended WVU, had sold T-shirts during Mountaineer games. He worked with Bradford and the coach in starting the Huggie Bear line, which features autographed items and several themed baskets.

“The idea for the baskets came from when we were young,” Brad-ford said. “My mom would put clothes baskets on the stairs and my brothers would practice shoot-ing into them.”

“Our website is up and running,” Bradford said. “It is huggiebear-products.com.”

Bradford added that cancer strikes everyone in one way or the other.

“To help in the fight against cancer has been a passion for me,” she said. “I prayed to God to help me find a way to help the cause and it’s wonderful to come up with an idea like this as a start.”

A portion of every product sold will go to the Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Research Endowment Fund at WVU’s Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center.

“Our motto is ‘Our mom was one in a million, so let’s raise $1 million for cancer,” Bradford added.

RSN Sports president Dana Ferrell ran across Deb-bie Huggins at the Friends of Coal Auto Fair in Beckley this past July while she promoted her line

of Huggy Bear Products.

Ferrell, a Marshall University alumni and supporter, quickly bonded with WVU basketball coach Bob Hug-gins’ sister and her passion to raise money for cancer research. “I learned a side of Bob Huggins and his family that touch-es everyone” stated Ferrell. RSN Sports will certainly make every ef-fort to help their cause.

When Debbie Bradford saw for-mer West Virginia University stand-out Da’Sean Butler lying injured on the floor during last spring’s Final Four semifinal game against Duke, she had thoughts of her late mother.

One of the first persons to com-fort the senior standout was Bob Huggins, who looked more of a fa-ther tending to his injured child than a head coach try-ing to win a game.

“That was mom coming out in Bob,” said Bradford of her older brother. “You could see the emotion and concern he had for Da’Sean. My mom was the same way, she was a giving person and always had a smile on her face.”

Norma Mae Huggins passed away from colon cancer in May of 2003. To pay tribute to her mother, Bradford came up with an idea during WVU’s NCAA Tournament run.

“I had met Jeff Moores during the second round of the tournament and we shared some stories of how cancer had played a part in our lives.

LEGACYThe Inspiration of Norma Mae Huggins

West Virginia coach Bob Huggins rushes to aidof injured Da’Sean Butler

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Pictured are Norma Mae Huggins with her husband Charlie and seven children: Judy Mathias, Linda Huggins Burr, Karen Huggins Monacio, Larry Huggins, Harry Huggins, Debbie Huggins Bradford, & WVU head basketball coach Bob Huggins.

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