Six men have been jailed for sexually

abusing dozens of children at a state-run care home after a trial lasting almost six years which has gripped and horrified Portugal.

Those condemned include a television presenter, a lawyer, a former ambassador and a doctor.

The abuse happened at the Casa Pia children’s home in Lisbon.

Carlos Silvino, a driver and gardener at the home who helped procure boys to be abused at orgies, was sentenced to 18 years.

The 53-year-old, the only defendant to have pleaded guilty, had admitted more than 600 counts of abuse and gave evidence against the others.

Carlos Cruz, a veteran TV presenter, was sentenced to seven years, while Jorge Ritto, a former Unesco ambassador, was given six years and eight months.

Six victims – now aged between 16 and 22 – punched the air and cheered when the verdicts were returned.

One of them, Bernardo Teixeira, said: “The court recognised that we were telling the truth. It’s a happy ending for us. The paedophiles are going to jail.”

The scandal emerged in 2002 when a victim accused Silvino of raping him. A year-long police investigation led to what is believed to be the longest-running court case in Portuguese history.

Some observers have said the process has highlighted the slowness and inefficiency of Portuguese courts. The judges heard 920 witnesses in 460 court sessions.

Casa Pia was founded in 1780 to help care for the hundreds of children orphaned by a massive earthquake five years earlier.

It now cares for around 4,500 orphans and children whose parents cannot care for them.

Catalina Pestana, who was put in charge of Casa Pia after the crimes were first reported, said: “The stories that I heard were the most terrible of my life.

“I think Portugal, the country, all of us, won a lot from this process. Now, when a child accuses an adult, nobody will look with the same lack of attention that they did for many years.”

In March 2006, a court ordered the Portuguese government to pay two million euros (£1.6m) in compensation to 44 former Casa Pia residents, saying it had failed in its duty to protect the children.

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Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro

on Friday completed a return to public life, leading his first mass rally since an illness forced him from the presidency four years ago.

Castro, 84, wearing his trademark olive green uniform — but without any military insignias — addressed thousands of students and others at the University of Havana, where he warned about the threat of nuclear war should the United States or Israel attack Iran.

For years after intestinal surgery that forced him to hand power to his younger brother Raul in 2006, Fidel Castro hardly made so much as a public appearance.

But in recent weeks he has emerged from seclusion, making at least eight public appearances in three weeks, culminating August 8 with an address before the country’s National Assembly — his first in four years.

Of late, Castro’s attentions have shifted from Cuba’s domestic scene and the ongoing tensions between the Communist isle and the United States.

Instead, the aging revolutionary has begun to warn of a “nuclear holocaust” and now calls for a world free of weapons of mass destruction.

Though clearly stronger than in the period after his surgery, when he was at first to frail to walk, Castro organized the Friday rally in the early morning, “before the sun is too hot,” he said.

The demonstration, broadcast live on national television, came a few days before Cuban students return to university.

Castro said he had “started to become aware of our time and our duty” while studying law in the late 1940s.

“It was at that age that I discovered my true destiny,” said Castro, the father of Cuba’s 1959 revolution, adding that he “never thought” he would be able to lead another rally at the university because of his health problems.

His Friday address again raised the specter of nuclear war, calling for “the disappearance of nuclear weapons,” but Castro also sounded the alarm over climate change, which he said “threatens human existence.”

The former guerilla, who has retained the key post of first secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party, thanked the students for their “moral support in this battle for peace.”

“I urge you not to give up fighting in this direction because… it is possible to succeed, that human life will be saved,” he told the students, many draped in the Cuban flag, who chanted Castro’s name at several points.

Student leaders participating in the rally took to the stage to demand that US President Barack Obama “not pull the trigger” and start a conflict with Iran.

The 84-year-old has dedicated his recent appearances to warning about the danger of a “nuclear holocaust,” with his speeches and writing notably avoiding any mention of Cuba’s serious economic crisis.

On August 1, Raul Castro expanded opportunities for self-employment ahead of looming government plans to slash as many as one million jobs — 20 percent of communist Cuba’s work force — from state payrolls.

The economy, 95 percent of which is currently in state hands, does not have the ability to absorb such vast numbers of jobless. Raul Castro’s move aims to try to reduce the socioeconomic fallout, but an uphill battle is expected.

In Old Havana, Fidel Castro’s return to form left some cold.

“I just wish I could go to Spain and earn a living. I have to respect our Commander, who continues to fight, but for me there is no future here,” said one 34-year-old Cuban, who declined to be identified.

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A Pontuação na gramática pode fazer “muita” diferença….

Em muitas ocasiões ouvimos falar que a língua Portuguesa é muito traiçoeira. Esta afirmação é confirmada em muitas vertentes linguista seja, ela escrita ou falada. A história que revelamos neste artigo é um exemplo que ninguém imaginaria como as pessoas contrariariam-se na linguagem.

Alguém disse:

“Ele disse o que eu não disse. Mais é verdade o que ele disse é exactamente o que o outro disse.”

Tudo é possível em Português, assim como na vida dos que vivem falando a língua de Camões…

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‘Um homem rico estava muito mal, agonizando. Pediu papel e caneta. Escreveu assim:

‘Deixo meus bens a minha irmã não a meu sobrinho jamais será paga a conta do padeiro nada dou aos pobres. ‘

Morreu antes de fazer a pontuação. A quem deixava a fortuna? Eram quatro concorrentes.

1) O sobrinho fez a seguinte pontuação:
Deixo meus bens à minha irmã? Não! A meu sobrinho. Jamais será paga a conta do padeiro. Nada dou aos pobres.

2) A irmã chegou em seguida. Pontuou assim o escrito:
Deixo meus bens à minha irmã. Não a meu sobrinho. Jamais será paga a conta do padeiro. Nada dou aos pobres.

3) O padeiro pediu cópia do original. Puxou a brasa pra sardinha dele:
Deixo meus bens à minha irmã? Não! A meu sobrinho? Jamais! Será paga a conta do padeiro. Nada dou aos pobres.

4) Aí, chegaram os descamisados da cidade. Um deles, sabido, fez esta interpretação:
Deixo meus bens à minha irmã? Não! A meu sobrinho? Jamais! Será paga a conta do padeiro? Nada! Dou aos pobres.

Moral da história:
‘A vida pode ser interpretada e vivida de diversas maneiras. Nós é que fazemos sua pontuação.
E isso faz toda a diferença … ‘

 

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Patrícia Mamona na final do triplo salto

A atleta portuguesa Patrícia Mamona ficou apurada esta tarde para os três últimos saltos da final do triplo salto. O seu grande objectivo na final é melhorar o recorde nacional, como explica o enviado especial da Antena 1 aos Europeus de Atletismo, em Barcelona, jornalista Eduardo Gonçalves.

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A saltadora portuguesa Patrícia Mamona

terminou a final do triplo salto nos Europeus de Barcelona no 8.º lugar

Mamona fez o seu melhor salto logo a abrir, com uma marca de 14.07, apenas 5 centímetros abaixo do que alcançou nas “meias”.

A ucraniana Olha Saladuha, com uma marca de 14.81 metros, que passa a figurar como sendo a melhor marca do ano, conquistou o ouro.

Simona La Mantia, com 14.56 - melhor marca pessoal do ano -, garantiu a prata e Svetlana Bolshakova, 14.55 – recorde nacional belga, conquistou o bronze.

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1.º salto: 14.07
2.º salto: 13.50
3.º salto: 13.75
4.º salto: nulo
5.º salto: 13.75
6.º salto: 14.02

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Patricia Mamona, Liane Weber highlight Clemson’s individual selections.

CLEMSON, SC - Clemson produced eight All-Academic Team selections, as announced by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). Seven members of Clemson’s ACC Championship women’s team were named All-Academic, while Warren Fraser was included from the men’s squad.

To be eligible for All-Academic Team consideration, individuals had to have at least a 3.25 cumulative GPA and posted a qualifying mark for the NCAA Indoor Championships or participated in the NCAA Outdoor Championships (including preliminary rounds).

Leading the selections from the Tiger women’s team were ESPN the Magazine Academic All-Americans Patricia Mamona and Liane Weber. The latter was a first-team Academic All-American and ACC champion this past season in the pentathlon and heptathlon. Mamona was NCAA champion during the outdoor season in the triple jump, and was a third-team Academic All-American as well.

Kim Ruck was a third All-American from the women’s team named All-Academic. She was seventh at the 2010 NCAA Indoor Championships in the 5K and was also an All-ACC Academic Team member in both the indoor and outdoor seasons.

Other selections from the women’s roster for the All-Academic Team were Linda Buchholz, Stephanie Buffo, Alyssa Kulik and Amy Morrison.

Fraser earned the nod from the men’s team after his freshman season. The native of the Bahamas recently competed for his native country in the IAAF World Junior Championships. He was also the ACC’s fifth-place finisher in the 100m dash at the conference championships this past April.

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qualificou-se para a final do triplo salto, com um novo recorde nacional. Já Edi Maia falhou a final do salto com vara.

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Patrícia Mamona: «Ainda pode sair mais na final»

PARA JÁ CONSEGUIU NOVO RECORDE NACIONAL

Um último de três ensaios de “tudo ou nada”, na qualificação do triplo salto dos Europeus de Barcelona, deu a Patrícia Mamona um novo recorde nacional, com mais 11 centímetros, e um lugar na final.

Após 13,69 metros e um “nulo”, a estudante de medicina, de 21 anos e radicada há três épocas em Clemson, Carolina do Sul, conseguiu 14,12 metros (+1,7 m/s), mesmo com uma chamada a distantes 29 centímetros da plasticina, suplantando o seu próprio máximo português, estabelecido em junho, em Eugene, onde se sagrou campeã universitária dos Estados Unidos.

“Só estava à espera de recorde pessoal… Agora parece que só respondo aos últimos saltos, quando é tudo ou nada. Com esta motivação, ainda pode sair mais na final. Tudo pode acontecer”, afirmou.

O concurso foi dominado pela russa Nadezhda Alekhina, com 14,93 metros, enquanto a representante dos Clemson Tigers se apurou na 11.ª posição, entre as 24 inscritas.  

“Preciso que me piquem. Sou muito competitiva. Até nos treinos, peço ao meu técnico para correr ao meu lado, se não fico meio a dormir”, brincou Patrícia Mamona, perspetivando a final de sábado, pelas 18.10 (horas em Lisboa).  

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The last Jump of the season coming soon.

After her sensational season 2010, Patricia Mamona enters in action this afternoon at European Athletics Championships Barcelona 2010.

She was American champion in triple jump at NCAA Outdoor Championships  2010 with a mark of 14.01m, also she was a Triple jump Portuguese Champion week ago with the result Patricia hold Portuguese Champion title for 3 years in roll and she is the first Portuguese female to surpass 14m in Triple Jump.

This is one of the most historic moment to see Patricia Mamona competing in International level. At Barcelona 2010 we will see the last Jump of Patricia for this season  in the big stage and for sure she will highlight her career as she progress from competition to competition.

LuambonaTV and LTV Sport are proud of the athlete to the intense focus in her achievement, discipline and passion in what she comes doing as student-athlete so far.

With all what we can see at this stage, no doubt that Mamona continue to pave her way toward London 2012.

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Has your relationship run its course?

Here’s how to tell

Relationships, like hot summers, often look better from a distance. Just as you forget how draining a muggy day can feel, you also forget how soul-destroying and lonely a relationship can feel when it’s not going well.

“So just end it,” right? It’s never as simple as that. Most of us have experienced that dilemma of not knowing whether to walk away from a relationship. You think that you’re being too picky, you worry that no-one else will love you this much, you don’t want to hurt someone you care about, you fear regretting it and not being able to win them back. You’ve stayed in relationships for those reasons, right? Yep, so have we.

But these alone aren’t good enough reasons to stay in a relationship that isn’t working. Ending a relationship can be heartbreaking, even if you’re dying to get away. The blissful future that you’d imagined when you first got together is now not going to happen. Thing is, is you’re unhappy, that blissful future wasn’t going to happen anyway.

If you’re experiencing a few of these 20 signs regularly, it may be time to move on. It will be difficult, but ultimately it’ll be the right thing for you both. Life is too short (and your partner’s life is too short) to waste valuable years on a pairing that’s going nowhere.

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A pioneering Australian inventor whose “black box” flight data recorder revolutionised the safety of air travel and aided countless crash investigations has died aged 85, officials said Wednesday.

David Warren, whose own father died in a plane crash, hit upon the “black box” idea while probing a 1953 disaster involving the world’s first commercial jetliner.

“Without any explanation, without any witnesses, without any survivors … (it was) a really baffling mystery,” Warren said in a 2003 interview.

Warren, who died on Monday, was the first European child born on Groote Eylandt, a remote Aboriginal island in Australia’s northeast, in 1925.

His father was among 12 people on board the “Miss Hobart” mail plane that vanished over the southern Bass Strait in 1934, one of Australia’s earliest air disasters.

Then just nine years of age, Warren was left with his father’s last gift to him, a crystal radio set, which he used to listen to broadcasts after lights-out in his boarding school dormitory.

Building radios soon became his schoolboy hobby, but a World War II ban on amateur radio led Warren to dump his nascent ambitions as a “radio ham” in favour of chemistry, his ultimate career path.

He first hatched the idea of cockpit voice and data recording while investigating a 1953 crash of the Comet, the world’s first commercial jet, basing his design on a miniature pocket recorder he had seen at a trade fair.

“I put the two ideas together,” he said.

“If a businessman had been using one of these in the plane and we could find it in the wreckage and we played it back, we’d say, ‘We know what caused this.’

“Any sounds that were relevant to what was going on would be recorded and you could take them from the wreckage.”

After an initial lack of interest from authorities, Warren built a prototype “black box” in 1956. It was able to store four hours of voice recordings and instrument readings.

The idea was slow to catch on, with Australia’s Department of Civil Aviation advising Warren that his “instrument has little immediate direct use in civil aviation”.

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Military authorities went further still, with the Royal Australian Air Force dismissing it as unnecessary and likely to “yield more expletives than explanations”.

It took a lunchtime demonstration of the device to a visiting British official in 1958 for the potential of his design to be recognised and christened the “black box” — a reference to its technical mastery.

“One of the people in the discussion afterwards said, ‘This is a wonderful black box’,” Warren said. “A black box was a gadget box. You didn’t have to understand it but it did wonderful things.”

It was 10 years before black boxes — in fact brightly painted to make them easy to spot at crash sites — were made mandatory in Australian aircraft.

Their modern equivalent is now used in passenger aircraft around the world.

“Dr. Warren’s flight data recorder has made an invaluable contribution to safety in world aviation,” Australia’s defence department said in a statement.

Warren is survived by his wife, four children and seven grandchildren.

“Our driving force was air safety so we felt that it’s succeeded in that regard,” he said in 2003. “(It’s) a very satisfying feeling.”

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Genetics experts have been amazed by the birth of a blonde, blue-eyed white baby – to a black couple.

Doctors insist tiny Nmachi is not an albino and neither of the parents has any mixed-race family history.

Dad Ben Ihegboro, 44, a railway customer services adviser, said: “We both just sat there after the birth staring at her for ages – not saying anything.

“The first thing I said was ‘What the flip?’.”

Nmachi, whose name means Beauty of God in the Nigerian homeland of parents Angela and Ben, was born at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup, Kent.

Doctors there told them she is not an albino.

“She doesn’t look like an albino child anyway – not like the ones I’ve seen back in Nigeria or in books,” Ben told The Sun. “She just looks like a healthy white baby.”

Ben added: “Of course, she’s mine. My wife is true to me. Even if she hadn’t been, the baby still wouldn’t look like that.

“We don’t know of any white ancestry. We wondered if it was a genetic twist. But even then, what’s with the long curly blonde hair?”

Professor Bryan Sykes, head of Human Genetics at Oxford University, said: “In mixed race humans, the lighter variant of skin tone may come out in a child – and this can sometimes be startlingly different to the skin of the parents.

“This might be the case where there is a lot of genetic mixing, as in Afro-Caribbean populations. But in Nigeria there is little mixing.”

He said that both parents would have needed some form of white ancestry for a pale version of their genes to be passed on.

“The hair is extremely unusual,” Prof Sykes said. “Even many blonde children don’t have blonde hair like this at birth.”

Some form of unknown mutation was the most likely explanation, he added.

The couple, of Woolwich, south London, have two other children, four-year-old Chisom and sister Dumebi, two.

Mum Angela, 35, told the paper: “Nmachi’s colour doesn’t matter. She’s a miracle baby. But still, what on earth happened here?”

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Clemson Women Claim ACC Team Championship.

For the first time in school history, the Clemson women’s track & field program swept the indoor and outdoor ACC championships in the same season. The Tiger women won the 2010 ACC outdoor crown on April 17.

It was Clemson’s first ACC outdoor title in women’s track & field since the 1999 season. The Tigers won by a wide margin, posting 177 points to Florida State’s 124. Thus, the Tigers won the indoor championship by a margin of 52.5 points and the outdoor crown by a total of 53 points.

Clemson won three individual championships – April Sinkler in the high jump and long jump, and Liane Weber in the heptathlon. The Tigers also won their first conference crown in the 4×100m relay since 2001 when the group of Michaylin Golladay, Stormy Kendrick, Kristine Scott and Jasmine Edgerson ran a time of 44.36 in the finals.

In addition to the conference champions, Clemson displayed its depth with 12 All-ACC performances. Among the most notable, Kendrick was runner-up in both short sprints (100m, 200m) and Patricia Mamona was All-ACC in the triple jump and heptathlon. Kim Ruck earned All-ACC status in both the 5K and 10K. 

Women’s Team Finishes 18th at NCAA Championships
For only the sixth time in Clemson history, the women’s outdoor track & field team finished in the top 20 at the NCAA Championships. It was Clemson’s first top-20 team finish in women’s outdoor track & field since the 2001 team finished in seventh place. The team scored 15 points over only two events. However, one of the events was Patricia Mamona’s individual NCAA crown (and 10 points) in the triple jump. The other five points came courtesy of the 4×100m relay team, which finished in fourth position.

Six Tigers Earn All-America Distinction
When the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) released the official list of 2010 outdoor All-Americans the Monday following the NCAA Championships, Clemson boasted six student-athletes that combined for seven of the honors. April Sinkler once again led the way with a pair of accolades. Her best finish was 10th in the long jump. Mamona earned her second career All-America award by virtue of her first-place finish in the triple jump. The four members of the 4×1 also earned All-America accolades, with all but Jasmine Edgerson earning the award for the first time. The first-time All-Americans were Michaylin Golladay, Stormy Kendrick and Kristine Scott.

The seven All-Americans tied for second-most in Clemson history for women’s outdoor track & field. Only the 2001 team had more selections with 12. The 1991 team that tied for 12th place also boasted seven All-America performers.

Mamona Brings Home a Gold Medal in Triple Jump
Clemson standout Patricia Mamona showed at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March of 2010 that she would be a factor on the national level in her best event, the triple jump. However, she took her performance to a new level on June 10 at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, OR. The indoor runner-up in the event, Mamona had a solid mark of 45′3.5″ and wrapped up the win prior to her last attempt.

The Lisbon, Portugal native was loose and with a capacity crowd behind her, Mamona went out and put together the greatest jump of her life. She hit a school record and jumped 45′11.75″, which sparked a massive personal celebration for the 11-time All-ACC athlete. It was the eighth women’s track & field NCAA crown in school history, and first since Gisele Oliveira won the indoor triple jump in 2005.

Mamona Named ACC Field Performer-of-the-Year
Following her national championship performance in the triple jump, red-shirt junior Patricia Mamona was named ACC Outdoor Field Performer-of-the-Year for the 2010 season. The honor was determined by a vote of the conference’s 12 head coaches. It was a fitting end to a brilliant all-around season for the Tiger jumper.

Mamona was also the ACC runner-up in the triple jump and third-place finisher in the heptathlon. Not only did she compete in both events in April at the ACC Outdoor Championships, but she also scored in the open long jump and competed in the 100m high hurdles final as well. She was an integral piece of the puzzle to Clemson’s dominance (+53 over Florida State) at the outdoor league meet in Tigertown.

Johnson Repeats as ACC, Southeast Region Coach-of-the-Year
Clemson’s Director of Track & Field Lawrence Johnson was named ACC Coach-of-the-Year and Southeast Region Coach-of-the-Year by the USTFCCCA for women’s outdoor track & field in 2010. Johnson led the Clemson women to their first ACC outdoor championship since 1999, and to the first-ever indoor/outdoor sweep in the school’s history. He also led the Tigers to an 18th-place finish as a team at the NCAA Championships, just the sixth top-10 finish in program history. He coached seven Tigers to All-American honors this outdoor season, including multiple honoree April Sinkler. His student-athletes established eight women’s outdoor event school records in 2010 alone.

Johnson is the first coach in Clemson women’s track & field history to be named ACC Coach-of-the-Year both indoor and outdoor in the same season. He also accomplished another double in 2010. He was USTFCCCA Southeast Region Indoor Coach-of-the-Year in March, giving him a pair of honors from the coaches organization this season.

Sinkler Honored by USTFCCCA, ACC for Outdoor Accomplishments
Clemson jumper April Sinkler earned another pair of accolades in 2010 for her outdoor accomplishments in the field events. She was named ACC Most Valuable Outdoor Field Event Athlete at the conclusion of the 2010 league meet, when she took home her first-ever outdoor ACC crowns in the high jump and long jump. A few weeks later, she was voted Southeast Region Outdoor Field Event Athlete-of-the-Year for women’s track & field. Sinkler won both honors during the indoor season as well.

Sinkler competed at the NCAA Championships in two events and earned All-America honors in both. She finished 10th in the long jump at the national meet with a solid mark of 20′4.25″. She also won the honor in the triple jump as one of the top eight American finishers. Sinkler also broke the Clemson record for the high jump (6′1.25″) during the 2010 outdoor season.

Kendrick Named ACC Outdoor Freshman-of-the-Year
Clemson rookie Stormy Kendrick was named ACC Freshman-of-the-Year for women’s outdoor track & field, as determined by a vote of the league’s 12 head coaches. Kendrick, the school’s first outdoor ACC Freshman-of-the-Year since Erin Nett in 1999, earned All-America status after helping the 4×100m relay team to a fourth-place finish at the NCAA national meet in Eugene, OR. Kendrick also competed at the NCAAs in both the 100m and 200m dash events. Kendrick a native of Gastonia, NC, was runner-up in both short sprints at the ACC Championships. She also led the 4×1 to its first ACC event championship since the 2001 season.

Kendrick Runner-Up at USA Junior Championships
Kendrick had an outstanding postseason during her inaugural campaign with the Tiger track & field program. She advanced to the finals of the 100m dash and 200m dash at the USA Junior Championships in Des Moines, IA. Kendrick was runner-up in the 200, earning a spot in the event at the IAAF World Championships in late July. She was the first Clemson female to earn junior All-America status in two events since April Sinkler (high jump, long jump) in 2008.

Relay Team Matches Best-Ever NCAA National Finish
Arguably the best storyline coming from Clemson’s top-10 team finish at the 2010 NCAA Indoor Championships was the all-freshman 4×400m relay team. The group finished in fifth place with the youngest squad at the competition, following up on an outstanding ACC championship run by the group a month earlier.

The outdoor season brought about a similar feel-good storyline in the relays. Clemson’s women won the ACC championship in the 4×100m relay, the first claimed in the event by the Tigers since the 2001 season. The team of Michaylin Golladay, Stormy Kendrick, Kristine Scott and Jasmine Edgerson went on to finish fourth at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, matching the program’s best finish (2001) ever in the event.

Edgerson was the common link between the two All-America relays. Not known as a short sprinter, she solidified the relay during the outdoor season in the absence of fellow freshman star Brianna Rollins, who red-shirted the outdoor campaign due to injury.

Moss Sets Clemson Decathlon Record
Red-shirt junior Miller Moss had a breakout season in 2010. He established the school’s heptathlon record at the ACC Indoor Championships, then followed with an All-America eighth-place finish at the NCAA national meet in March. His outdoor season was just as special. He broke a nine-year old Clemson record in the decathlon, scoring 7,628 points over the 10 events at the ACC Outdoor Championships in front of a home crowd.

Moss finished as the ACC’s runner-up in the event and was doing well in the competition at the NCAA Outdoor Championships before a series of unfortunate fouls in the discus throw ruined his chance of scoring for the men’s team. He showed toughness by responding with a fourth-place finish at the USA Championships in Des Moines less than two weeks later. His performance resulted in a berth on the U.S. team for the 2010 Thorpe Cup, a prestigious multi-event competition pitting America against Germany in a head-to-head competition.

Weber Wins First ACC Heptathlon Crown with Conference Record
Clemson’s Liane Weber has set a standard within ACC women’s track & field that will be tough to follow. When she won the heptathlon at the league meet on April 16, she laid claim to ACC records in both the indoor and outdoor multi-event competitions. She had established the pentathlon record during the indoor season, when she won the ACC for the third time. This time, the Wangen, Germany product totaled an impressive 5,928 points over the seven events to hold off Maryland’s Kiani Profit. It was her first-ever outdoor championship and fourth overall in her fine career.

Weber entered the NCAA competition with the nation’s No. 2 point value in the heptathlon, however she could only compete in the opening event. She had been injured since the ACC meet, and was unable to perform anywhere close to the best of her ability. Though it was a disappointing end to her season, Weber was still the top multi-event athlete in the ACC when healthy.

Mamona, Weber Named ESPN the Magazine Academic All-Americans
Liane Weber and Patricia Mamona from were both named to the 2010 ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America teams, released June 24 by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Weber was named to the first team, while Mamona was a third-team selection.

With their selections, Weber and Mamona became the fourth and fifth student-athletes in Clemson women’s track & field history to be named Academic All-Americans. Tina Krebs (1986) was the first Tiger female to earn the honor. Gisele Oliveira was a two-time Academic All-American (2004-05), while Jenny Barton was the program’s most recent honoree in 2006 as a third-team selection.

In fact, Weber and Mamona are the first Academic All-Americans in any sport at Clemson since 2006 when Barton was honored from the women’s team and Danny Alge was a second-team selection from the men’s track & field squad.

Ruck Strong in Distance Events for Tiger Program
Following a couple of weeks away from competition after earning indoor All-America honors in the 5K, Kim Ruck had an even busier outdoor campaign. The native of Greer, SC had a breakout season in 2010. It all started with an ACC championship in the indoor 5K. She followed with a seventh-place finish in her first trip to the NCAA Championships.

In April, she was runner-up in the 10K and third place in the 5K at the ACC Championships held in Clemson. She then advanced to the NCAA East Prelims in Greensboro, where she posted a fifth-place finish to earn automatic qualification into the national 10K field in Eugene, OR. She responded nicely with a personal best time of 33:42.88, finishing 13th against a strong field in her first-ever outdoor national competition. Ruck concluded the outdoor season No. 2 on Clemson’s all-time performance list in the 10K and third on the 5K chart.

Berg Overcomes Past Injuries with Best Year of his Career
Zach Berg has dealt with his share of adversity as a Clemson Tiger. He first encountered injury problems as a freshman, missing the 2007 outdoor season.

In 2008, he fought his way back and earned All-ACC status in the weight throw indoors and hammer outdoors. But injuries persisted the following year, when he competed in a total of just three meets between the 2009 indoor and outdoor seasons.

Finally injury-free and throwing to his fullest potential, Berg has become a force within the ACC ranks. He placed third in the 35-pound weight throw, earning his third all-conference nod in February.

Berg followed with an even stronger outdoor campaign. He placed third in the hammer at the ACC Championships to earn his fourth all-conference accolade. He broke the school record early in the season, followed at ACCs with a mark of 208′3″, and then topped that with a throw of 210′7″ at the Orange & Purple Classic on May 8.

But the ultimate satisfaction for Berg came after learning he was the 12th and final transfer from the East Preliminary Round. With the finish, Berg became the first hammer thrower in Clemson history to advance to the NCAA Championships.

Wachna Returns from Torn ACL and Finishes Runner-Up in the Javelin at ACC Championships
Clemson has had at least one All-ACC performer in the women’s javelin each of the last four years. One of them, Bethanie Wachna, is quite a success story. She blew out her knee in practice the week of the 2009 ACC Outdoor Championships in Miami, FL. One year later, she returned to ACCs at home and was runner-up in the javelin with a school-record throw of 160′8″. Wachna went on to earn a trip to Greensboro for the NCAA East Prelims.

Kennedy First Female to Surpass 13 Feet in Pole Vault
Four years of dedication and hard work paid off for senior Caroline Kennedy on Saturday, May 15 at the Georgia Tech Invitational. The Orlando, FL native established a first at Clemson – she was the first female in school history to surpass the 13-foot mark in the pole vault.

Kennedy has a pair of All-ACC honors to her name in the vault, including the 2010 outdoor meet when she tied teammate Amy Morrison for third. She was at her best at Georgia Tech two weeks ago, when she went over the bar at 13′1.5″ to establish a school record on her first attempt at the height.

Golladay, Sinkler Claim Silver Medals at NACAC U23 Championships
April Sinkler won a pair of medals and Michaylin Golladay won a silver medal to highlight Clemson’s action at the 2010 NACAC (North American, Central American, Caribbean) U23 Championships in Miramar, FL. Sinkler won silver in the high jump with a mark of 5′11.25″, while Golladay matched her personal best in the 100 hurdles after clocking a time of 13.07 in the finals. Sinkler added a second medal in the long jump, when she hit a best of 20′9.25″ to claim the bronze. She also competed in the triple jump, the only athlete in the competition to participate in three individual events.

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