This is Emily on Easter Sunday 2014 proudly showcasing her Easter eggs that she has found in her hunt. Her mother, Kristi, represented by the shadow in the bottom right corner follows her around, capturing every memory that she can.
Monti Report
Monday, April 28, 2014
My Photo Journalism
My name is Stephen Montisano. The focus for my photo journalism is to capture people's emotions. To get good photos of emotion you have to go looking for this and have your equipment ready at all times because you can miss your opportunity and the shot.
Monday, April 21, 2014
Easter Egg Happiness Hunt
Little Emily finds happiness on Easter Sunday 2014 by collecting Easter eggs in her basket. Her mother (represented by the shadow on the far right) follows Emily around the back yard trying to collect memories of her little girl.
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Avila University Spring Fling
Photos by: Stephen Montisano
Avila University's own, Josh Coleman gets his self portrait done by Trish Smith at Avila's Spring Fling on Thursday, April 10th.
Ben Koener takes advantage of the tricycles that Avila's Campus Ministry brought to the Quad for Spring Fling on Thurday, April 10th
Avila's Mr. Eagle Taylor Wright gets in the wrestling ring with Aisha at Spring Fling on Thursday, April 10th
Mr. Eagle contestant, Cody Miller (fourth from the left) used a candy filled piƱata to woo the crowd at the Avila Mr. Eagle contest as Taylor Wright (far right) watched.
Glenn Rodriguez plays his saxophone for his talent at the Mr. Eagle contest at Avila University. After Glenn finished his tune he fell off of the back of the stage. Nobody was severely injured.
Avila softball players (left to right) Morgan Greenwood, Laken Cagle, Sheyanna Thompson entertain the crowd at the Avila Mr. Eagle Contest, Thursday, April 10th, by playing a "guess who is lying" game.
Monday, April 7, 2014
Do Eagles Fly High in the Cold?
This is a pregame photo of part of the team before the cold day of games on a Friday. Do they show defeat?
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Do What You Love
Daryl Cronk is the head baseball coach here at Avila University . This year marks his third year here at Avila and he already has
a HAAC Conference Championship under his belt with the Eagles. But, it obviously did not all start at Avila . Coach Cronk had to have some qualifications
to get a head coaching job just the same as any other line of work. Coach Cronk’s college career as a pitcher, at
Pitt State
University in Pittsburg , Kansas
was a very successful one. Daryl Cronk
was an all conference pitcher three straight years, a two time all-region
pitcher, and an All American. He was
also voted top one hundred greatest athletes in Pitt State
history in all sports. In the Ban
Johnson summer league in Kansas City ,
he received the Championship Tournament MVP.
As a coach at Pembroke Hill High School
he got Missouri High School Assistant Coach of the year and then of course at Avila , he in his first
year led the team to a Conference Championship in his first year as a head
coach.
After Coach Cronk’s successful career at Pitt State ,
he was asked by his coach to stick around and be the pitching coach. Cronk says, “I never really thought I wanted
to coach as a profession.” He loved the
game of baseball but did not really give a whole lot of thought to coaching;
however he had one more year of school left to finish his degree, so he
accepted that role with the team as the new pitching coach without
hesitation. He played independent pro
baseball with the River City Rascals in the St. Louis ,
Missouri area during the summer for two years
and coached at Pitt
State during school. After that he moved back to Kansas City , got married, and bought into a
franchise in the gas business. He worked
that business franchise for two years and was not coaching anywhere. Cronk says he really missed coaching, “The itch to coach really in that two years
was really getting at me and so I really wanted to get into coaching at some
level. I never really dreamed that I
would be a head college coach at some point.”
He would not rule any opportunity out so he got an opportunity and took
it Pembroke High
School in Kansas City
as the pitching coach there for four years.
After that, he got another opportunity to be the pitching coach and get
his Masters degree in athletic administration at the University of Central
Missouri .
Cronk was at Central Missouri for two
years. After those two years and
finishing his Masters degree, Rockhurst
University called later
and brought him on as there pitching coach.
Avila University was looking for a new head
baseball coach so he heard about it, applied and got the job.
Coach Cronk would not have been able to start his coaching
career if he had not had his franchise and contracting opportunity with Kansas
Gas Service. He has a family to support
and being a pitching coach does not pay enough to do that. His work in the gas industry snowballed into more
work than he could handle on his own, so he was able to hire extra help to run
a successful business. That allowed him to have enough time to continue
coaching. Up until three years ago Cronk did all the work as an owner/operator
with the help of a few others as well. The business has gotten even more
successful and he doesn’t have to physically do the work because he has hired
several people to do the work with him overseeing everything.
Coach Cronk had a desire to coach because the game of
baseball is what he loves and coaching was the way to be around the game by
helping young players play. Cronk’s
advice to young students is to right your dreams and goals down. Make your dreams known and do not be afraid
to talk about them no matter how big or small you might think they are. Secondly he says to look at those who are in
the profession that they dream about and study them. Do whatever it takes to find out how they
made it to where they are, and find out as much as you can about it. Have specific goals and move towards them one
day at a time. “Have a five year goal,
have a ten year goal, and then figure out what you gotta do today to make it
work.”
Coach Cronk has a great reputation with his players. He is refered to as a “Father figure,” ‘a
great coach’, ‘really respectful guy who knows what he is doing,’ by his
players. It is fair to say that Daryl
Cronk has found his niche in life all because he followed his dream and set out
to do what he loves by coaching baseball.
Monday, February 24, 2014
February: Not just about Valentine's Day
byline: Monti says what is the point?
Thoughts on Friendship
Teammates are eating breakfast together
Making memories with friends at lunch
The boys
Ladies talking about who knows what
Real friends will talk in the cold
Stephen Montisano
Intro to Journalism
2/24/14
February:
Not only about Valentine’s Day
Did
you know that it is international friendship month? Do not sweat it, neither did anyone else that
was interviewed. It seems that not very
many people know that it is international friendship month, so why is it even
necessary to declare it. The whole idea
of having a month to really devote time and effort into friends is silly due to
the fact that people always want to do something fun and they want to have that
fun with their friends. Fun is a
priority in American culture these days more so that it has been in the
past. But people do not just sit at home
and have fun by themselves all the time; they have fun with their friends.
When
I asked Mr. Montisano if he was aware that February is international friendship
month, he answered saying, “Well, I have not really checked my Hallmark
calendar, so I was not aware. I did not
know.” I then followed that question
with the question, is it necessary to have an international friendship month
and if so, why? Mr. Montisano answered
very well and said, ‘well at first it sounds unnecessary, because we should
have friendship every single day, but it is always good to be reminded of good
things like that.
I
asked Mark Montisano if he thought that he would try to make some international
friends or acquaintances in the spirit of the friendship themed month and he
said, he is not opposed to that idea of making some international friends if
that is how things play out, but he said he will probably just do what he
always does and just hang out and make plans with his friends that he has right
now. Mark Montisano said that he will
make sure to tell his friends that they mean a lot to him and that he
appreciates their friendship but he said humorously, that he probably will not
call them all on the phone and tell them to have a happy friendship month.
Being
a student at Avila ,
I walked around campus asking the same question; “Are you aware that it is
international friendship month.”
Everybody looked at me like I was being weird, annoying, or they just
nicely said that they did not know. The
funny part is that nobody knows or seems to care that it is international
friendship month. This is the reason why
I believe it to be unnecessary. Where
did international friendship month come from anyway?
It
turns out, there is not much research or literature on the international
friendship month. Some say that
international friendship month started in South American countries like Paraguay around
the year of 1958. (Wikipedia). There is
not a whole lot of official literature on international friendship month. It seems that several months have a day
devoted fro friendship and doing nice or appreciative things for your friend or
friends. So why then does February have
to have a whole month devoted to it and why do people not even know that it is declared
international friendship month?
In conclusion to my research about
international friendship month and its relevance or the need for it, I found
that there really is not a need for a whole month dedicated to friendship. It seems that the general consensus about
friendship is that most everyone does well with having friends, talking with
friends, and hanging out with friends. I
also found that social media is a great contributor to having, building, and
making friendship. People have that need
and want for support and to love and be loved by other people. We seek out friends. Friendship is not an area that the general
population struggles with therefore, I find it unnecessary to devote a whole
month to
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Marcus Smart Suspension: Was it enough?
By line: Monti gets the opinion of other athletes
What Did You Say to Me?
Marcus Smart gets T-ed Up.
Come on Ref, Did You Hear What He Called Me?
Mark Montisano's thoughts on Smart's Suspension
Stephen Montisano
Intro to Journalism
2/17/14
Marcus
Smart Suspension: Was it enough?
There
is a lot of controversy over the Marcus Smart suspension of three games. Is three games enough, is three games
necessary, does this hurt his draft potential?
Should he have to apologize?
Should the fan who said the things to Marcus Smart to provoke him have
to apologize and should he be banned from Texas Tech basketball games? These thoughts and more are running through
many sporting fan’s heads.
Anthony
Ziccorelli, an outfielder for the Avila
University baseball team
said that, it probably will never be truthfully reported, what the fan said
exactly, but because Marcus Smart is an athlete he is going to be held to a
higher standard than the fan, even if what the fan said was nasty and
hateful. But, Anthony Ziccorelli says,
there is no excuse to ever walk up into the stands and get in the face of a fan
and lay hands on them. This will hurt
his draft potential, it will hurt his team because he’ll probably get suspended,
he should have been ejected or kicked off of the team. No matter what is said to a player by a fan,
the athlete has to have enough self control to at least walk away. Anthony says, I feel sorry for Marcus Smart
because in the heat of the moment we all do stupid stuff that we should not do,
but at the same time, I do not feel sorry for him because he is responsible for
his own actions and has already thrown temper tantrums on the court this
year. You cannot be a hot head like that
and lose control and common sense like that.
Marcus Smart hurt his team.
Mark
Montisano another colligate athlete says that his jaw dropped when he saw it
happen live on camera. “I was in total
shock, when I saw it happen. He cannot
lose control like that and touch a fan; no matter what was said.” Mark Montisano is a supporter of the three
game suspension because he said if athletes are allowed to push the envelope
and not held to a standard of rules and code of conduct without bluffing of
things like suspensions and school’s/coach’s power to kick a player off of a
team, then they will push the envelope further and further and then there will
be trouble all the time. Mark Montisano
says that it is better for Marcus to learn this now, before he goes to the NBA
for the fact that fans there will haggle players even more harshly than the
college fans do. “If you want to be a
pro athlete you have to be able to handle trash talk from the opposing players
and fans. Fans say horrible and dumb
things to professional athletes at sporting event that they participate
in. If he cannot take the heat, then get
out of the kitchen.”
In
conclusion, the general consensus of athletes asked about the suspension based
on the actions of Marcus Smart is that it was well deserved. They also agree that the fan should have some
kind of punishment or suspension as well from being allowed to come to home
games at Texas Tech. These athletes made
it clear that being an athlete comes with a responsibility to behave oneself
because there is always someone watching.
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