Anne Arundel County Public Schools, MD Athletes N Action, 19 Jun 2015

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From YouTube: "Athletes N Action" featuring the 2015 Broadneck Bocce Ball Team

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Host Wiley Baker highlights student athletes, coaches and various sports programs from county high schools. This month, the Broadneck High School Bocce Ball Team is featured.

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I've got my maroon and grey on and I'm ready to go. Bachchan hi, I'm, Wiley Baker with another edition of athletes and action is that the growl of the Bruin ba Cheers here at the County Championships on the old male high school turf, hey, let's go bowling with the broad neck. Bocce ball errs and head coach, Greg Baron the broad neck bocce ball team is Bruin with enthusiasm.

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Thing about bocce ball is that it's it really is a level playing field. Disability or not. The dotted game can change on a time. Some of my players with disabilities cannot roll my other players any day of the week. We're.

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Mostly sophomores and juniors, we have a few freshmen and we have five or six seniors, but we're all kids I really enjoy doing this. So it's a lot of fun. It's.

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Actually, a through coach that I heard about bocce, he suggested he suggested people join up and join up, but um he's really he's really. He was really close to all the team members. He you know he always comes up access. Howard Day is always comes up and helps us with our technique. A.

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Fun I'm not playing on the team. What.

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What what's, what's so much fun about bocce? You.

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Meet all in new flay I've.

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Been playing for the past four seasons now and I, just love being with my team they're family to me, amongst.

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Adversity, the broad neck ballers have struck closer friendships, a big.

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Part of it is the partnership and the friendship that you get when you're working with anything like in unified sports, because you become like a family. As for your.

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Team, it really is about building friendships and you meet all these new people and you'll see them around school and you'll, say hi to them, and it's really you just build relationships here.

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Our teams are really close, it's all about like learning each other's names, supporting each other, we're always here to cheer each other on, and even if someone has bad role, it's just like high-five move on. We.

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Make a lot of new friends- and we play like especially its kids and other kids like we just all get along, and we support.

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Each other I love having my teammates around me at all times, they're just a bunch of fun and we're all supportive of each other. We're like a family. My.

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First, two years of high school I did lacrosse and coming into my junior year, I was looking for something more of a community, feel something more of an environment and I I definitely found that in bocce we're all kind of together all the time. We do everything together a.

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Multi-Talented sleuth of Bruins find a way to accomplish success on and off the turf, they're.

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A busy bunch and yes, they do have to qualify. They they need a state eligible with the right grade. Point average do.

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Your homework do all of your classwork get extra help. If you need try doing extra credit to keep your grades up. We.

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Don't practice too much, so it's it's easier for me to keep my grades up and we do we help each other out with things it's.

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All about going respect and same ground reasons to show like no one's any different than you and we should treat people like people. What.

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Do you do so you can keep your grades up. Do.

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Your home look very.

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Good anything else in school, math.

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Very important that we communicate to the team that studying homework going see teachers staying ahead of everything always comes first and then it's the team and that's that's great and it's what makes makes us a family. You know helping each other and our grades and schoolwork the.

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Ability to stay prepared and focused makes the best bocce ball er. It's.

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More about your technique than anything else, you want to have the nice role you get going and keeping calm and just study the entire room, sweet.

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Always have to team up together talk the strategy out. We just talk technique all the time to.

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Put a defining call print on there season just.

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To have a good time for everybody to appreciate the sport and appreciate each other, make.

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Sure that we all actually had a lot of this season, we haven't won all that much, but I think we've all mostly had fun with it. For.

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Me it would definitely be everything that we do. It would be walking down together, setting up together, even if it's not playing it could be just simply helping one another put something like the courts together.

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I think everyone just working together and getting things done, even if we don't win it's mostly just being together and making it work, successful.

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Season is definitely not about the winning it's a successful team season to me is I'm meeting all the new people that come in and the people that I've been on the team for two years now and did all have been even closer relationships with everybody making.

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Friends having fun not anything about winning just having fun I.

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Don't think success is about winning or losing the season is almost over and we haven't won many games, but it's still successful because we had a lot of fun and we made a lot of new friends thanks.

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For tuning in I'm, Wiley Baker I'll talk to you on the court on the field or on the air with another edition of Anne Arundel County Public Schools athletes in action.

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