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LIONS’ SPORTS Bowlers advance to district tourney After an impressive second-place finish in last week's sectional tournament, NDCL's girls bowling team advances to the district tournament on February 24 at Freeway Lanes in Wickliffe. The boys team ended its season with a sixth-place finish in the districts. Last week Bowlers Angie Crotty and Paul Petkosh were featured as Bowling Players of the Week in The Plain Dealer. Bernadette Dowger earned the same distinction from the News-Herald. Swimmers set personal, school records At the district swimming championships at Cleveland State University, NDCL swimmers set personal and school records that qualified them to advance to state and national competition. Senior Jimmy Ranallo finished sixth in the 500-free, Liz Adamski qualifying for states with a time of 4:41.5, a lifetime best. Senior Liz Adamski also qualified for states in the 50-freestyle with a time of 25.5 and in the 100-freestyle with a time of 55.7, both lifetime bests. Senior Doug Pilawa also set a personal and school record in the district meet. Jimmy Ranallo 20 Seasons Spring 2008 Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin
Doug Pilawa THE DIVIN’ LION Can you remember diving as a youth along with your pals at the local pool … and feeling the S-M-A-C-K as you executed a perfect belly flop That pain was enough for most of us to put the sport of diving aside. Not true for Doug Pilawa, ’08. Six-year-old Doug swam competitively at the Berkshire Swim Club in Chesterland. Eventually, Doug became proficient at the Butterfly, which is still his favorite stroke. However, it was not until his freshman year at Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin that the ever-experimenting young man decided to give the sport of diving a try. “I heard an announcement on the PA system for anyone interested in swimming and diving to meet after school in a particular room,” Doug recalls. “I always enjoyed watching diving during the Olympics and thought why not give it a try.” “I’ve always been the kind of kid who jumped off of anything. Sure, I hit my head on the diving board plenty of times, but that just made me want to get back up and get it right,” the NDCL senior explains. “I know I will fail plenty more times on the board, but even Edison tried more than 2,000 times before his light bulb worked. I have the desire to get better and better. Do you know that we are born with 27 reflexes in the human body and diving goes against 17 of these reflexes – like diving on your head,” laughs Doug. “I try to focus on what I am doing and set fear aside, but at the same time, I use fear as adrenaline.” His fearless determination is paying off. Technically, the senior Lion holds all of NDCL’s diving records: 265 points in a 6-dive meet and 432 points in an 11-dive meet (based on a 1-10 point scale). This season, Doug qualified as All American and will be competing at the AAU Nationals in Coral Springs, Florida this July. At Sectionals, Doug placed sixth out of 57 divers. This was his third year to compete at the District Tournaments. Successful diving competitors share many of the same characteristics as gymnasts: strength, flexibility, kinesthetic judgment and air awareness. Divers are judged on whether and how well they complete all aspects of a dive, the conformance of their body to the requirements of the dive, and the amount of splash created by their entry to the water (less being better). The competitive diver will attempt the highest “Degree of Difficulty” dives possible with which they can achieve consistent, high scores. Doug’s favorite dives are the inward one-and-a-half pike; front two-and-a-half pike; front one-and-a-half with two twists; and the back one-and-a-half with one-and-a-half twists. These dives represent an aggressive and lofty Degree of Difficulty for even the most seasoned divers. Doug gives a lot of credit for his diving success to NDCL diving coach Lewis Fellinger, who also coaches diving at John Carroll and for NDC (North Coast Diving). The outgoing senior admits that he has the same never-give-up approach to most things in life. “I know failure will happen, but I will take the downs as more motivation to come back stronger. I am a hard worker. I’ve achieved above a 4.0 grade-point average all year. I also love being involved at NDCL. I belong to several clubs and serve on the Executive Student Council. The Executive Student Council is basically responsible for all the big events that happens at school – like the talent show and pep rallies. I also compete in cross country and lacrosse and am usually a three-sport athlete.” In life, as in diving, a high Degree of Difficulty only increases the challenge and fun for this fearless Lion. Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin Seasons Spring 2008 21
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