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    Sophomore Amanda Felzmann nearly died in 2008 after falling off a cliff in Maine during her senior year of high school. She suffered multiple broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and severe leg injuries that required multiple surgeries. Despite losing 30 pounds and needing a walker, she tried out for and made a travel softball team that fall. She was later recruited to play softball at Curry College, where she has started 38 of 40 games as an infielder for the team.

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    Sophomore Amanda Felzmann nearly died in 2008 after falling off a cliff in Maine during her senior year of high school. She suffered multiple broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and severe leg injuries that required multiple surgeries. Despite losing 30 pounds and needing a walker, she tried out for and made a travel softball team that fall. She was later recruited to play softball at Curry College, where she has started 38 of 40 games as an infielder for the team.

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    Sophomore Amanda Felzmann nearly died in 2008 after falling off a cliff in Maine during her senior year of high school. She suffered multiple broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and severe leg injuries that required multiple surgeries. Despite losing 30 pounds and needing a walker, she tried out for and made a travel softball team that fall. She was later recruited to play softball at Curry College, where she has started 38 of 40 games as an infielder for the team.

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    Sophomore Amanda Felzmann nearly died in 2008 after falling off a cliff in Maine during her senior year of high school. She suffered multiple broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and severe leg injuries that required multiple surgeries. Despite losing 30 pounds and needing a walker, she tried out for and made a travel softball team that fall. She was later recruited to play softball at Curry College, where she has started 38 of 40 games as an infielder for the team.

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    8 THE CURRIER TIMES FEBRUARY 2011

    Sickened but
    Still Skating
    page 7
    Standing Tall
    Sports
    By Nick Ironside
    Amanda Felzmann didn`t immediately
    return home aIter a Iamily vacation in Maine
    nearly three years ago. Her next trip was to the
    hospital.
    She says she doesn`t remember much oI
    what happened shortly aIter Ialling oII a cliII
    overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. In August 2008,
    the summer beIore her senior year at Bellingham
    (Mass.) High School, she remembers hearing
    her Iriends` countdown as she stood over 'The
    Point. Her Iamily was leaving the next day and
    it was Felzmann`s turn to jump. As they neared
    'one, she lost her balance and Iell.
    'I remember waking up in wicked pain
    with water coming over me, and my dad`s
    Iriend was trying to get me into a kayak, says
    Felzmann, now a sophomore at Curry. 'I just
    kept screaming, My leg`s broken!`
    It was a lot worse than a leg injury, though.
    AIter an ambulance took her to the nearest
    hospital, she was transIerred to Maine Medical
    Center in Portland. She stayed Ior seven days.
    'I had a collapsed right lung, six broken ribs,
    my Ieet got torn on the bottoms because the
    rocks were sharp, Felzmann explains. 'I
    gashed the back oI my head open, and I had
    been complaining that something was wrong
    with my right leg.
    Shortly aIter being discharged, she learned
    the reason behind her leg pain. Hospital
    personnel didn`t notice that her leg had become
    badly inIected. Felzmann was soon transported
    to her third hospital oI the summerUMass
    Memorial Medical Center in Worcester
    where she had surgery on her right leg. AIter
    a 10-day stay, Felzmann fnally returned home,
    but only Ior two days because the leg was still
    hurting. AIter an ultrasound, doctors Iound a
    blood clot that required another surgery to fx.
    Despite losing 30 pounds in the hospital
    and having to use a walker during parts oI her
    senior year oI high school, Felzmann tried out
    Ior a local travel soItball team, the Central
    Massachusetts Thunder. She had played on the
    team beIore, but all players were required to
    attend tryouts Ior Iall ball. Felzmann says she
    was nowhere near her best because oI muscle
    weakness, and she didn`t make the squad.
    'She fgured she wasn`t going to play
    soItball again, says Amanda`s mother, Kelly
    Felzmann. 'Her Iather convinced her to go try
    out Ior another team.
    Felzmann made another travel team, the Bay
    State Cardinals, that same Iall and managed to
    impress at shortstop and second base. Curry
    head soItball coach Bruce Weckworth took note.
    'She was a kid that I liked Irom the day
    that I met her, Weckworth says. 'She`s a very
    desirable kid as a middle infelder and speedy
    leadoII hitter.
    But Felzmann almost didn`t come to Curry.
    She verbally committed to attend Southern
    Connecticut State University in New Haven,
    which has a Division II soItball program, but
    changed her mind aIter visiting Curry during
    an 'Accepted Students Day. As it turned
    out, Felzmann`s tour guide that aIternoon had
    transIerred to Curry Irom Southern Connecticut
    State and talked about the many ways Curry
    was a better school. Felzmann was convinced.
    'I had to call the other coach back and tell
    him I wasn`t going to come and play Ior him,
    she says. 'He was wicked pissed, because he
    had told other people that they couldn`t make
    the team because I was on it.
    Felzmann, who started 38 oI 40 games Ior
    Curry last season, hit .294 as the team went
    19-21 (13-11 in The Commonwealth Coast
    ConIerence).
    Weckworth says he is hoping his Colonels
    fnish atop the conIerence standings this
    spring, and believes this year`s pitching core
    oI Janelle Mayo, Amanda Peters, JenniIer
    Lundstrom and Chelsey Munsey can lead the
    way. 'Pitching is such a key Iactor, he says.
    'II we give them a run or two to work with,
    they can do the rest.
    As Ior Felzmann, she sees a bit oI herselI
    in many oI her teammates: they reIuse to
    give up. 'You take one look at our team and
    predominantly see a lineup oI young Iaces,
    eager to start and get on the feld, she says.
    'Every single player has an intricate role
    that will contribute to what I see as a hopeIul
    upcoming season Ior Curry soItball.
    Sophomore infelder Amanda Felzmann
    bounces back Irom near-Iatal Iall
    By Zachery Weiss
    As the winter sports season winds down across the
    nation, some oI Curry`s teams are packing up while
    others are hoping to play on.
    The women`s basketball team had a good regular
    season, particularly against non-conIerence teams. The
    Lady Colonels fnished with a 17-8 overall record (13-
    2 at home), but just 6-7 in The Commonwealth Coast
    ConIerence. Curry would go on to lose in the conIerence
    tournament quarterfnals, Ialling to Salve Regina
    University, 66-44.
    Among the leading perIormers this season were
    sophomore Julia Scrubb, who averaged almost 11 points
    per game, senior Danyel Cousins with 10 points per
    game, and senior Cortney Robinson, who led the team in
    rebounds with 8.6 per game.
    The men`s basketball team`s season came to an end
    on Feb. 19 versus Endicott College, an 85-75 loss. The
    Colonels won just Iour games, going 4-21. The team
    played well at the start oI its conIerence schedule, winning
    its frst two games, but it would go on to lose its next and
    fnal 12 contests.
    Sophomore guard Sedale Jones led the team in scoring
    and rebounding, with 19.2 points and 6.7 rebounds per
    game. Junior Jarrell Jackson, who played only about
    halI the season, fnished averaging 16.3 points per game.
    Chris Bonadies, a senior, averaged nearly 4 rebounds per
    game, second highest on the team.
    The hockey team had a strong regular season, fnishing
    with a record oI 14-8-3, 10-2-2 in conIerence play. The
    Colonels earned the No. 1 seed in the Eastern College
    Athletic ConIerence tournament and will open play on
    Wednesday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m.
    Senior Ryan WarsoIsky led the team with 26 points
    this season (9 goals, 17 assists), Iollowed by junior
    Christopher Atkinson with 25 points (10 goals, 15
    assists). Junior captain Peyden Benning led the team with
    13 goals, to go with 10 assists. Time in goal was largely
    split between sophomore Robert Dawson (3.04 goals-
    against average) and Ireshman Travis Owens (2.89).
    Coach Rob Davies was named the ECAC Northeast
    Coach oI the Year, while WarsoIsky was selected as a
    semifnalist Ior the Joe Concannon Award, given to the
    nation`s best American-born Division 2 or 3 college
    hockey player.
    Winter Sports Season Comes to a Close
    Sophomore Amanda
    Felzmanns softball
    career nearly came
    to an end three years
    ago after she fell off
    a cliff in Maine.
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