USD Magazine Fall 2015

and There are sounds distinctive to sports. When bat squarely meets baseball, crack echoes throughout the ballpark. Swish is for basketball, a shot from deep distance that makes the net dance like a grass skirt swaying in a breeze. Volleyball offers its own authentic acoustic. It’s when a player elevates, rotates the shoulders and lays palm to leather. The thwack comes not when hand meets ball, but when the ball caroms off the floor. Bounds By Leaps Things are heat ing up for junior powerhouse Lauren Schad by Don Norcross P h o t o g r a p h y b y Ch r i s P a r k

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