Anne Arundel County Public Schools, MD Athletes N Action, 23 Mar 2018

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From YouTube: "Athletes N Action" featuring the 2017-18 Annapolis High Unified Bowling Team

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

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Strikes and spares all is fair when it comes to the Anne Arundel County unified bowling championships, hi I'm, Wylie Baker with another edition of athletes in action at Annapolis Bowl. Let's go claw in with the Annapolis Panther unified bowling team and head coach Amanda Weis Gerber. What got you interested in bowling in general.

B

It wasn't really until my junior year that I started to get involved with the special ed kids and in the unified bowling program and then once I started with the unified bowling. I became more familiar with the kids and started with unified, bocce and then now I'm a peer, but at school. What.

A

Do you like the best about Ellie she, a good bowler, yep, ah very good, and did she get a lot of strikes, yeah.

C

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Lot of spares too yeah tell me how strong you are.

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B

Unified sports program actually means a lot to me and I'm gonna, be so sad graduating and not be able to see them every other day, but they helped me kind of decide what I want to do in college being on the unified sports teams has wanted me to major in special education and further my academic career. That's.

A

So awesome tell me about your team a little bit: Moises they're good team. How good are they.

B

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That true, tell us that, are you the best in the county, yeah.

C

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Know to be a bowler, you have to be a good student. Are you a good student yeah.

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Look: what grades do you get hazed all right, so you're, smart guy, yeah.

C

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How many strikes are you gonna get today? Do you think, what's your goal hundred a hundred strikes, if you get a hundred strikes, you're, definitely going to be successful today, I think.

D

It's really just creating a relationship with students that we don't see all the time every day because we're not in the same classrooms as students like Marcos. So it's a nice way because we also have other Unified sports to meet them outside of the classroom and build a relationship with them.

D

So it's like Marcos, for instance, we've pulled a lot together even last year, so he and I have developed a relationship not only playing it if I bowling, but even when we see each other in the hallways, we're able to say hi to each other and just see familiar faces self to school. Well,.

A

Mark has talked to me a little bit about this guy Winston here he's a pretty cool guy, it seems like is that true, yeah.

C

He's good at bowling, he likes to say hi any case. Give me pounds and I. Have him a pike talk in a bowling game if he misses some bowling things.

C

They won't give up and never get confused and let them try their best and having fun this. Why isn't Miss Birmingham they're kind of nice? They watch us and they see how we're doing, and they say good job to us. They're, wonderful teachers.

A

Just like every other sport, you guys have to have the good grades. Yeah.

D

Still a challenge, sometimes especially if you have a lot of things, do that week, sometimes like I've know, I've had to miss one practice, because I had so much stuff to do just saying Marcus in the hallway, though, is it's the thing and, like I said it's a familiar face and someone you can say hi to and when he has a smile on his face, it makes me feel better too so and his pep talks.

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It's not even funny I kid you not last game, I was doing horrendous and for some reason, he's like alright pep talk and I improved, so much better and then I said back to Marcus I'm like hey. We got to do this together. We got to do very, very well and that's what we did so what.

A

Did you say in that pep talk there Marcus wincing.

C

Tried to get in the middle of the strike and then line and then try rolling with your right hand and going like this and try on the left. If the ball turns right, it can get to the middle of the strike, but you can do it and never give up on me. My.

E

Team is absolutely amazing: I adore them and during school I, actually coach. Most of them too so I get to see them here and at school, and it doesn't seem like working or coaching at all because they're they're funny. We laugh every practice because they they come with such character.

F

It's getting a chance to coach. In my opinion, the best athletes at Annapolis high school is like a Madison. It's it's not work at all. It's just fun. We.

E

Have fun we might not necessarily have the most skilled bowlers, but we are definitely going to have the most fun bowlers gosh, the kids I can't tell them how proud I am of how much they actually value their friendship over there playing I mean they they're more concerned about who they're gonna play with and who they get to sit with and what's score, they're gonna get so I really love how they bring that every game too. You know just excitement for each other. It's.

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The collaboration between the athletes and partners is one of the most fun things we have seniors who genuinely are excited to like move on, but they want so bad to stay just for the unified sports and that's what unified Sports is all about. Is the partners working with and having fun with the athletes and giving them friendships that will last seriously will well beyond bowling season thanks.

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