“I love being very technical with my stick and doing all the tricks you can do with it: lift the ball, sweep it, chip it,” she said. Six years later, Culp is still playing field hockey, manning a defensive role for the Sabers, either on the left side or in the middle of the defense.Ĭulp, in her third year playing at Salem Academy, loves the peculiar - to some - stick used in field hockey. In the seventh grade, attending Summit School, she was trying to figure out what sports to play to meet the school’s athletic requirement. A 17-year-old senior at Salem Academy, she’s co-president of the schools’ Black Student Union, is on the Fellowship Council and, underneath that tiger suit, is the school’s mascot.īut one time she admits being a follower has worked out pretty good, too. It was a natural progression to join the Sabers’ volleyball team when she arrived in Winston-Salem. Pare started playing volleyball in school in the third grade. “They loved me, and I loved them, right away,” she said, initiating the series of events that found her thousands of feet in the air, admiring North Carolina’s trees and grass. A native of WaKeeney, a town of 1,876 in the high plains of north-central Kansas, she was looking for a better secondary education when she found Salem. Pare, a 17-year-old senior, is in her fourth year attending Salem Academy. But her family moved to Washington, N.C., and Smith headed west, looking for a more challenging education. She had played on the golf team at Pittsboro’s Northwood High School as a freshman the team qualified for the state championship tournament. Smith, a 17-year-old senior, enrolled at Salem Academy as a boarding student midway through her sophomore year. “Over the summer, I played with my dad about every day, and I improved,” she said. “I didn’t give it any attention until my junior year.” “I have played tennis my whole life, but I didn’t play seriously until I came here when I started to play competitively,” Smith said. My teammates helped me and gave me a lot of advice.” Competition was new to me, but I got used to it very quickly. “I love running outside, but I wasn’t at all familiar with the sport, running on a team. It gradually got easier, and I really enjoyed getting out and having a stress reliever to end my day. It was a little tough in the preseason because I hadn’t done a lot of running this summer. “So I started running cross-country this year. We ran some (5K) road races, and I enjoyed that. My parents tried to get me into it, and I can run around my neighborhood. “My dad is a big runner he runs a couple of miles every day. “I have always enjoyed running, especially with my family,” she said. “Then, when I went to my first match, I lost, but the feeling was there. “For a while, learning all the basics, it was kind of ‘meh,’” she said. "When I visited Salem Academy and saw they had a fencing team, my dad and I both said, ‘Well, it’s worth a shot,’” Fitch said. Read the article on Rennie Parker December 13 A 15-year-old sophomore, Parker made the 360-mile drive from her home in the village of Hatteras on North Carolina’s Outer Banks to enroll as a boarding student at Salem. Of course, that was nothing like the adjustment she made 18 months ago. Her basketball coach, Jason Kremidas, started to split her time on the court between her natural position, shooting guard, and point guard, knowing that the Sabers’ point guard is a senior and Parker will have to handle those duties next season. Rennie Parker had a big adjustment to make at Salem Academy this year. Read more about our outstanding student athletes as highlighted by Sports Extra from The Winston-Salem Journal.
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