Media Release

Ewing, NJ…After 35 years of service as the Head Athletic Trainer at The College of New Jersey, Joe Camillone, right, (Ewing, NJ) will be retiring on June 1, 2008.

Over the course of his tremendous career, Camillone dedicated himself to the safety and betterment of student-athletes at the College. He brought both distinction and acclaim to TCNJ’s athletic department and was recognized for his outstanding skills.

In 2007, he was awarded the 2007 Presidential Award at the 2007 Eastern Athletic Trainers Association Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.

Camillone became only the second person honored with the Presidential Award, which is given to a person who shows unselfish and dedicated efforts which has advanced the EATA and the athletic training profession. Established in January 2006, the first recipient of the award was Bob O’Malley, former athletic trainer and assistant athletic director at Philadelphia University.

The Eastern Athletic Trainers\’ Association was first formed in January 1949 when a few athletic trainers in the northeast decided to gather and share information. Today, the EATA encompasses all members of the National Athletic Trainers\’ Association, who reside in either District I or District II.

The EATA holds an annual meeting and provides scholarships and research opportunities for students and certified athletic trainers who are members.
Camillone has worked at TCNJ for more than three decades with diligence, care and expertise to bring the best possible health care to literally thousands of student-athletes.

Additionally, he has played a significant role in promoting the field of athletic training and has been mentor to countless assistant trainers, graduate assistants and student trainers who have gone on from TCNJ to a career in athletic training.

In the fall of 2003, Camillone was also honored by his alma mater, the University of Findlay (Findlay, Ohio) with the school’s Distinguished Alumni Citation. He was also honored in 2007 with the All-America Football Foundation Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award.

Certified by the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA), he is also licensed by the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners. The Ewing Township resident came to TCNJ in August, 1973 after serving as a teacher and athletic trainer at Cedar Ridge High School in Old Bridge, NJ. He holds a bachelor\’s degree in health and physical education from Findlay College (Ohio) and a masters degree in physical education from Eastern Michigan University.

Camillone served as the first president of the Eastern Athletic Trainers Association from 1991-1993. He is also a member of the Governor\’s Athletic Training Advisory Committee. In 1995, he was honored by the NATA with the Distinguished Service Award for his dedication to athletic training.

Active with in the EATA, Camillone currently serves as the Chair of the Honors and Awards Committee.

At TCNJ, he is responsible for the development and maintenance of the health care program for student-athletes. In particular, he supervises the treatment of injuries and administers rehabilitative exercise. He also teaches Prevention of Athletic Injury and a Health Issues seminar at TCNJ.

Both he and his wife make athletic training a profession. Wife Lisa has served as the head trainer at nearby Mercer County Community College in West Windsor, NJ, for the past 24 years. They are the proud parents of a daughter, Andrea, age 14.

A golf outing and dinner for Camillone is planned for Friday, July 18 at Mercer Oaks Country Club. For more information, please contact TCNJ’s athletic department at 609-771-2230.

 

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Commentary by Hank F. Miller Jr. 

The rainy season or monsoon season sets in around the end of May and lasts till about the end of July and sometimes even longer in most regions of the Japanese Archipelago. 

The meeting of a high cold atmospheric pressure front over the sea of Okhotsk and a warm high atmospheric pressure front over the Pacific Ocean gives rise to this phenomenon. Because it is the time when Ume or Japanese plums ripen, the season is called baiu or tsuyu (\”ume rain\”). 

During tsuyu, rain falls on and off for a couple of weeks, or sometimes it continues to rain for days on end. The grey skies, together with the extremely high humidity of the season, mean that this is a very uncomfortable and gloomy period for almost everyone. 

It does not, however, necessarily follow that to have the rainy season is all bad, because at this time of year, farmers, with all the rain it brings, plant rice, and the rice paddies need a good deal of water. Tsuyu is a natural blessing to them. 

In fact we have rain predicted for the next three days starting tomorrow. 

So I suppose the monsoon season is upon us here on Kyushu Island. 

We also at this time of the year are well into typhoon season, and thus we\’ve already had typhoon number 4# pass by this past week skirting Kitakyushu City and dumping quite a lot of rain on us and we got some wind that all. 

Saying all that today is a very beautiful and bright day. The typhoon went along the coast of Japan in the Pacific Ocean and on into Hokkaido. 

I\’ll give you more information on typhoons at a later date and as they occur here in and around Kyushu Island where I live. 

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Warm Regards from Warm, Sunny and Beautiful, Kitakyushu City, Japan, 

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Hank F. Miller Jr. 

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GREG BEAN of the Edison/Metuchen Sentinel put into perspective the reason why the taxpayers of New Jersey should be upset over outgoing Keansburg Superintendent of Schools Barbara A. Trzeszkowski of Keansburg, who will retire June 30 after 40 years in the district, receiving a severance package of $740,926.

According to Bean, under the contract she negotiated with the board that was signed in 2003, $556,290 of that is severance, $170,137 is for unused sick days and $14,449 is for unused vacation days.

Bean writes, \”Why should you care about how much severance a school superintendent in Keansburg gets? Well, because Keansburg is one of the state\’s Abbott districts. Those districts get a lot of money from the state because they\’re allegedly too poor to pay for education on their own. Because of that, the courts said we all have to chip in. Keansburg gets 81 percent of its school budget from the state, our tax dollars.

\”No matter where you live in New Jersey, some of your tax dollars will be going into Barbara A. Trzeszkowski\’s severance package.

\”Is this a messed-up state, or what?\” Read entire article

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Media Release May 28

Ewing, NJ… The College of New Jersey senior Karen Doane (Bridgewater, NJ/Bridgewater-Raritan) has been nominated by the Board of Collegiate Women Sports Awards as a candidate for the 2007-2008 Division III Athlete of the Year representing lacrosse.

This spring, Doane led the Lions’ women’s lacrosse team in scoring with a career-high 67 goals and 81 points as the team finished their successful season with a 17-2 record and advanced to the NCAA Division III semifinals for the 23rd time in the 24-year history of the tournament. She was also named to the 2008 NCAA All-Tournament Team.

Doane, a marketing major with a 3.39 grade-point-average, is a three-time All-American and capped her career at TCNJ fifth in goals scored with 192 and sixth in points with 248. She is a candidate for her fourth All-American citation with those teams being released later this week. The midfielder is a four-time all-region selection and was the 2007 ECAC Metro Player of the Year. Doane was a key member of TCNJ’s back-to-back national championship teams in 2005 and 2006 and was selected to the 2006 NCAA Division III All-Tournament Team.

She also excels academically being named 2008 CoSIDA’s ESPN The Magazine All-District At-Large First Team and now moves on to the national ballot and is a candidate for the National College Division Academic All-America Team, which will be announced on June 12. She earned second-team honors in 2007. Doane is also a four-time TCNJ Scholar-Athlete and was named to the 2007 IWLCA Division III Academic Honor Roll.

The Collegiate Women Sports Awards program has completed its 32nd year and recognizes the top woman collegiate athlete in each of 11 sports in Divisions II and III as nominees for the Division II and III Athletes of the Year. The program also honors the recipients of the Honda-Broderick Cup and the Honda Inspiration Award.

Divisions II and III athletes are nominated by national coaches associations for each of the 11 sports: basketball, cross country, field hockey, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, track and field and volleyball. The athletes are placed on ballots emailed to all Divisions II and III Senior Women Administrators in June every year and the Athlete of the Year for each division is determined by the outcome of the voting.

In addition, the 12 Division I Honda Sports Award winners are determined by balloting throughout the year to all NCAA senior woman administrators for each of 12 sports. These Division I athletes are also nominated by national coaches associations. After balloting for each sport, the winner of each of the 12 sports is a nominee for Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year to be given the Honda-Broderick Cup. The ballot for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year completes the balloting and takes place later in June.

The Inspiration Award winner is determined separately by a call to all NCAA Sports Information Directors for nominations, making a total of 15 award recipients in the program.

The awards program is sponsored by American Honda Motor Co., Inc. and to celebrate these awards American Honda Motor Co., Inc. donates $1,000 to the women’s athletic fund of each Honda Sports Award nominee’s university and each Division II and III nominee’s university. The Division II and III winner’s institutions, along with the Honda-Broderick Cup and the Inspiration Award recipients’ schools receive $5,000 each.

A press conference will be held June 23, 2008 at Columbia University in New York City to announce and present The Divisions II and III Athletes of the Year along with the recipients of the Honda-Broderick Cup the Honda Inspiration Award.

DIVISION III ATHLETE OF THE YEAR RECIPIENTS
1987-1988 Jessica Beachy, basketball (Concordia College)
1988-1989 Anna Prineas, track and field (Carleton College)
1989-1990 Yvonne Grierson, swimming (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
1990-1991 Ann Gilbert, basketball (Oberlin College)
1991-1992 Kim Oden, track and field (Nebraska Wesleyan University)
1992-1993 Jennifer Carter, swimming (Kenyon College)
1993-1994 Carla Ainsworth, swimming (Kenyon College)
1994-1995 Amy Albers, volleyball (Washington University)
1995-1996 Shelley Swan, volleyball (Washington University)
1996-1997 Turena Johnson, track and field (Luther College)
1997-1998 Tiffany Speckman, cross country (University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh)
1998-1999 Kelly Schade, softball (Simpson College)
1999-2000 Alia Fischer, basketball (Washington University)
2000-2001 Tasha Rogers, basketball (Washington University)
2001-2002 Julia Bergofsky, field hockey (Middlebury College)
2002-2003 Libby Hysell, softball (Central College)
2003-2004 Mary Ellen, Gordon tennis (Emory University)
2004-2005 Missy Buttry, cross country (Wartburg College)
2005-2006 Megan Silva, basketball (Randolph-Macon College)
2006-2007 Liz Bondi, tennis (Depauw University)