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# Ra Un-sim

Ra Un-sim (Korean pronunciation:; born 2 July 1988), Hero of Labor, is a North Korean female international football player.
She plays club football with April 25 of the Korea DPR Women's League. In January 2016, she was named number one of the DPRK's ten best athletes of 2015. In the 2017 edition of the women's Paektusan Prize tournament she was the top goalscorer with 8 goals.

## International goals
### Under 19

| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
| 1. | 6 October 2007 | Chongqing Olympic Sports Centre, Chongqing, China | Myanmar | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2007 AFC U-19 Women's Championship |
| 2. | 8 October 2007 | Chongqing Olympic Sports Centre, Chongqing, China | Australia | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2007 AFC U-19 Women's Championship |
| 3. | 10 October 2007 | Chongqing Olympic Sports Centre, Chongqing, China | Japan | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2007 AFC U-19 Women's Championship |
| 4. | 16 October 2007 | Chongqing Olympic Sports Centre, Chongqing, China | Japan | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2007 AFC U-19 Women's Championship |

### National team

| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
| 1. | 24 May 2010 | Chengdu, China | Japan | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2010 AFC Women's Asian Cup |
| 2. | 16 November 2010 | Guangzhou, China | Thailand | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2010 Asian Games |
| 3. | 20 November 2010 | Guangzhou, China | South Korea | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2010 Asian Games |
| 4. | 20 November 2010 | Guangzhou, China | South Korea | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2010 Asian Games |
| 5. | 5 September 2011 | Jinan, China | South Korea | 1–0 | 3–2 | 2012 Summer Olympics qualification |
| 6. | 11 September 2011 | Jinan, China | Thailand | 3–0 | 5–0 | 2012 Summer Olympics qualification |
| 7. | 11 September 2011 | Jinan, China | Thailand | 5–0 | 5–0 | 2012 Summer Olympics qualification |
| 8. | 11 February 2014 | Yongchuan, China | Mexico | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2014 Four Nations Tournament |
| 9. | 5 March 2014 | Lagos, Portugal | Russia | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2014 Algarve Cup |
| 10. | 9 March 2014 | Faro, Portugal | Portugal | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2014 Algarve Cup |
| 11. | 20 September 2014 | Incheon, South Korea | Hong Kong | 5–0 | 5–0 | 2014 Asian Games |
| 12. | 1 October 2014 | Incheon, South Korea | Japan | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2014 Asian Games |
| 13. | 1 August 2015 | Wuhan, China | Japan | 3–2 | 4–2 | 2015 EAFF Women's East Asian Cup |
| 14. | 1 August 2015 | Wuhan, China | Japan | 4–2 | 4–2 | 2015 EAFF Women's East Asian Cup |
| 15. | 8 August 2015 | Wuhan, China | South Korea | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2015 EAFF Women's East Asian Cup |
| 16. | 2 March 2016 | Osaka, Japan | China | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2016 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament |

## Honours
### North Korea

Winner
* EAFF Women's East Asian Cup: 2015
Runners-up
* AFC Women's Asian Cup: 2010
# Jason Hooper

Jason Hooper is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played for the Illawarra Steelers, St George Illawarra Dragons and St Helens.
A former Junior Kangaroo, Hooper completed six seasons in the NRL between 1997 and 2002 before embarking on a long and successful career in Super League for another five seasons.
Having won Super League VI, St Helens contested the 2003 World Club Challenge against 2002 NRL Premiers, the Sydney Roosters. Hooper played at hooker in Saints' 38–0 loss. Hooper played for St Helens at loose forward in their 2006 Challenge Cup Final victory against the Huddersfield Giants. St Helens reached the 2006 Super League Grand final to be contested against Hull F.C. and Hooper played at loose forward in St Helens' 26–4 victory. Hooper announced his retirement at the age of 29 because of a long-term shoulder injury.
# Iraq War (disambiguation)

The Iraq War began in 2003 and involved a two-phase conflict comprising an initial invasion of Iraq led by U.S. and UK forces and a longer, eight-year phase of occupation and fighting with insurgents.
The Iraqi conflict (2003–present) that started with the 2003 to 2011 Iraq War has seen several phases of insurgency and open conflict:
* Iraqi Civil War (2006–2008), civil war mainly between sectarian militant groups and Iraqi forces and their respective allies
* Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013), the surge in violence involving the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) that occurred immediately following the end of the 2003 to 2011 Iraq War
* War in Iraq (2013–2017), conflict with ISIL that began when the initial two-year-long insurgency escalated in December 2013
* ISIL insurgency in Iraq (2017–present), low-level ISIL insurgency following territorial defeat in Iraq in 2017
Iraq War may also refer to:
* Mesopotamian campaign (1914–1918)
* Iraqi revolt of 1920 against the British
* Anglo-Iraqi War (1941)
* Gulf War (1990–1991) (referred to by some as the First Iraq War)
* Iraqi no-fly zones conflict (1991–2003)
# Andrew Mildenhall

Andrew Mildenhall (born 2 December 1966) is a current English cricketer. Mildenhall is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm fast-medium. He was born in Swindon, Wiltshire. He currently plays for the Wiltshire over 50's.
Mildenhall made his Minor Counties Championship debut for Wiltshire in 1989 against Berkshire. From 1989 to 1990, he represented the county in 6 Minor Counties Championship matches, the last of which came against Droset. Mildenhall also represented Wiltshire in a single MCCA Knockout Trophy match against Cornwall in 1990.
Mildenhall also represented Wiltshire in 2 List A matches. His first match came against Warwickshire in the 1989 NatWest Trophy, with his second and last List A match coming against Surrey in the 1990 NatWest Trophy. In his 2 matches, he scored 5 runs at a batting average of 2.50, with a high score of 3. With the ball he took a single wicket at a bowling average of 77.00, with best figures of 1/32.
# 768

Year 768 (DCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 768 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

## Events
### By place
#### Frankish Kingdom

* September 24 – King Pepin III (the Short) dies at Saint-Denis, Neustria. The Frankish Kingdom is divided between his two sons: Charlemagne and Carloman I. According to Salic law Charlemagne receives the outer parts of the kingdom bordering on the sea, namely Neustria, western Aquitaine, and the northern parts of Austrasia; while Carloman is awarded his uncle's former share, the inner parts: southern Austrasia, Septimania, eastern Aquitaine, Burgundy, Provence, Swabia, and the lands bordering Italy.
* Waiofar, duke of Aquitaine, and his family are captured and executed by the Franks in the forest of Périgord. Waiofar's kinsman Hunald II succeeds to his claims and continues to fight against Charlemagne.

#### Iberian Peninsula

* Fruela I (the Cruel), the King of Asturias, is assassinated in Cangas, his capital, after he murders his brother Vimerano. Fruela is succeeded by his cousin Aurelius, who is chosen by the nobility.
* In al-Andalus, the Berber tribal chieftain Saqiya ibn Abd al Wahid al-Miknasi leads a rebellion against the Emirate of Córdoba, in the present-day Spanish province of Extremadura.

#### Britain

* King Alhred of Northumbria marries Princess Osgifu, possibly daughter of the late king Oswulf (approximate date).

#### Asia

* The Kasuga Shrine is erected at Nara (Japan), by the Fujiwara family. The interior is famous for its many bronze lanterns, as well as the stone lanterns that lead up to the Shinto shrine

### By topic
#### Religion

* August 7 – Pope Stephen III succeeds Paul I as the 94th pope of the Catholic Church. The antipope Constantine II is overthrown at Rome, through intervention by King Desiderius of the Lombards, after a brief reign (see 767).
* Lebuinus, Anglo-Saxon missionary, founds the city of Deventer (modern-day Netherlands), and builds a wooden church on the bank of the River IJssel (approximate date).
* Archbishop Elfodd of Gwynedd persuades the Welsh Church to accept the Roman dating of Easter, as agreed by the British Church at the Synod of Whitby (see 664).

## Births

* Han Yu, Chinese philosopher and poet (d. 824)
* Konstanti Kakhi, Georgian nobleman (d. 853)
* Song Ruoxin, Chinese scholar, poet and lady-in-waiting (d. 820)
* Xue Tao, Chinese poet (d. 831)

## Deaths

* August 20 – Eadberht, king of Northumbria
* September 24 – Pepin the Short, king of the Franks (b. 714)
* Dub-Indrecht mac Cathail, king of Connacht (Ireland)
* Fruela I, king of Asturias
* Li Huaixian, general of the Tang Dynasty
* Pagan, ruler (khagan) of the Bulgarian Empire
* Toto, duke of Nepi
* Waiofar, duke of Aquitaine
* Winibald, Anglo-Saxon abbot
* Yaxun B'alam IV, ruler (ajaw) of Yaxchilan (b. 709)
# 1986 Southwest Conference men's basketball tournament

The 1986 Southwest Conference men's basketball tournament was held March 7–9, 1986, at Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas.
Number 5 seed Texas Tech defeated 2 seed Texas A&M 67-63 to win their 3rd championship and receive the conference's automatic bid to the 1986 NCAA tournament.

## Format and seeding

The tournament consisted of the top 8 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament.
| Place | Seed | Team | Conference | Conference | Conference | Overall | Overall | Overall |
| Place | Seed | Team | W | L | % | W | L | % |
| 1 | 1 | TCU | 12 | 4 | .750 | 22 | 9 | .710 |
| 1 | 2 | Texas A&M | 12 | 4 | .750 | 20 | 12 | .625 |
| 1 | 3 | Texas | 12 | 4 | .750 | 19 | 12 | .613 |
| 4 | 4 | SMU | 10 | 6 | .625 | 18 | 11 | .621 |
| 5 | 5 | Texas Tech | 9 | 7 | .563 | 17 | 14 | .548 |
| 6 | 6 | Houston | 8 | 8 | .500 | 14 | 14 | .500 |
| 7 | 7 | Arkansas | 4 | 12 | .250 | 12 | 16 | .429 |
| 9 | 8 | Rice | 2 | 14 | .125 | 9 | 19 | .321 |
| 8 | - | Baylor | 3 | 13 | .188 | 11 | 16 | .407 |

## Tournament

| Quarterfinals Friday, March 7 | Quarterfinals Friday, March 7 | Quarterfinals Friday, March 7 | Semifinals Saturday, March 8 | Semifinals Saturday, March 8 | Semifinals Saturday, March 8 | Finals Sunday, March 9 | Finals Sunday, March 9 | Finals Sunday, March 9 |
| 1 | TCU | 78 | | | | | | |
| 8 | Rice | 59 | | | | | | |
| 8 | Rice | 59 | 1 | TCU | 67 | | | |
| | | | 5 | Texas Tech | 71 | | | |
| 4 | SMU | 40 | 5 | Texas Tech | 71 | | | |
| 5 | Texas Tech | 45 | | | | | | |
| 5 | Texas Tech | 45 | | | | 5 | Texas Tech | 67 |
| | | | | | | 2 | Texas A&M | 63 |
| 3 | Texas | 78 | | | | | | | 2 | Texas A&M | 63 |
| 6 | Houston | 62 | | | | | | |
| 6 | Houston | 62 | 3 | Texas | 47 | | | |
| | | | 2 | Texas A&M | 55 | | | |
| 2 | Texas A&M | 67 | 2 | Texas A&M | 55 | | | |
| 7 | Arkansas | 51 | | | | | | |
# Muteb Al-Mutlaq

Muteb Al-Mutlaq (Arabic: متعب المطلق, born 10 December 1997) is a Saudi football player who plays as a right back.

## Career

Al-Mutlaq started his career at Al-Nassr's youth teams. On 27 January 2018, Al-Mutlaq joined Al-Raed on loan. On 1 August 2018, Al-Mutlaq's loan to Al-Raed was renewed for another season. On 27 August 2019, Al-Mutlaq joined Al-Raed on a permanent deal. On 30 October 2020, Al-Mutlaq joined Al-Sahel on loan. On 7 July 2022, Al-Mutlaq joined Al-Shoulla.
# Phi Un-hui

Phi Un-hui (Korean: 피은희; born 2 August 1985) is a North Korean footballer who played as a goalkeeper for the North Korea women's national football team. She was part of the team at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. At the club level, she played for Amrokgang in North Korea.
# Barclay Prime

Barclay Prime is an upscale steakhouse located in Philadelphia on S 18th St near Rittenhouse Square. The steakhouse was founded by restaurateur Stephen Starr and owned by his company STARR Restaurants.

## History

Stephen Starr opened the steakhouse in 2004. The head chef is Mark Twersky. The steakhouse has Wagyu beef and is known for having a menu item which offers the most expensive cheesesteak in Philadelphia priced at $120 (now $140). The cheesesteak consists of "Wagyu rib-eye, foie gras, onions, truffled cheese whiz and a half-bottle of champagne".
During the COVID-19 pandemic the steakhouse offered "40-day dry-aged rib eye, truffle mac and cheese and chilled Maine lobster cocktail" for delivery.
In 2019, Barclay Prime was listed by The Daily Meal as the sixth-best steakhouse in the United States in a list of the top 50 non-chain steakhouses saying the steakhouse was "undoubtedly 21st century, the menu is as classic as can be". In 2018, a fund-raising dinner was held for Elizabeth Warren at the steakhouse.
# Mark Milbank

Major Sir Mark Vane Milbank, 4th Baronet, KCVO, MC (11 January 1907 – 4 April 1984) was a British Army officer and courtier, who served as Master of the Household from 1954 to 1967.

## Early life

He was the son of Sir Frederick Richard Milbank, 3rd Baronet and Harriet Anne Dorothy Wilson. He was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

## Military career

Milbank commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in 1930, and served as the Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Bombay between 1933 and 1938. He saw active service in the Second World War, and was awarded the Military Cross in 1945.

## Courtier

He was Comptroller to the Governor General of Canada between 1946 and 1952, before being appointed Deputy Master of the Household. In 1953 Milbank became Master of the Household and was invested as a Member of the Royal Victorian Order. He held the position until 1967, became a CVO in 1958, and was knighted as a KCVO in 1962. Between 1954 and 1984 he was an Extra Equerry to Elizabeth II.

## Personal life

He played first-class cricket for the British Army cricket team in 1930. He married, firstly, Lady Angela Isabel Nellie Larnach-Nevill, daughter of Guy Larnach-Nevill, 4th Marquess of Abergavenny and Isabel Nellie Larnach, on 20 October 1930. They had no children, and he and Lady Angela Isabel Nellie Larnach-Nevill divorced in 1933. He married, secondly, Hon. Verena Aileen Maxwell, daughter of Arthur Maxwell, 11th Baron Farnham and Aileen Selina Coote, on 12 February 1938. Together they had two children.
On 29 April 1964 he succeeded to his father's baronetcy.
# 217

Year 217 (CCXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Praesens and Extricatus (or, less frequently, year 970 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 217 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

## Events
### By place
#### Roman Empire

* April 8 – Caracalla is assassinated by his soldiers near Edessa. Marcus Opellius Macrinus, head of the Praetorian Guard, declares himself Roman emperor.
* Summer – Battle of Nisibis: A Roman army, under the command of Macrinus, is defeated in a three days' battle by the Parthians at Nisibis, in the province of Mesopotamia.
* King Artabanus V signs a peace treaty with Rome after he receives 200 million sesterces, for the rebuilding of towns destroyed during the war in Parthia.
* Macrinus, of Mauritania, becomes the first equestrian Roman emperor.
* Empress Julia, wife of Septimius Severus and mother of Caracalla and Geta, commits suicide.
* The Colosseum is badly damaged by fire (lightning) which destroys the wooden upper levels of the amphitheater.

#### China

* Battle of Ruxu: Warlord Cao Cao once again clashes with his rival Sun Quan in Yang Province.

### By topic
#### Religion

* December 20 – The papacy of Zephyrinus ends. Callixtus I is elected as the sixteenth pope, but is opposed by the theologian Hippolytus who accuses him of laxity and of being a Modalist, one who denies any distinction between the three persons of the Trinity.
* Hippolytus begins his "pontificate" as antipope and sets up a breakaway church for Christian followers.

#### Sports

* According to a tradition noted by 19th-century historian Stephen Glover, the earliest recorded game of association football (soccer) took place in Derby, England as a celebration on Shrove Tuesday, the day before commencement of the Lent season on Ash Wednesday, and 47 days before Easter Sunday

## Births

* Fu Xuan, Chinese historian and poet (d. 278)
* Hua He, Chinese official and historian (d. 278)
* Jia Chong, Chinese politician and general (d. 282)
* Wang Yuanji, Chinese empress dowager (d. 268)

## Deaths

* April 8 – Caracalla, Roman emperor (b. 188)
* December 20 – Zephyrinus, pope of Rome
* Chen Lin, Chinese official and politician
* Dong Xi (or Yuanshi), Chinese general
* Julia Domna, Roman empress (b. 160)
* Lucius Valerius Datus, Roman prefect
* Ling Tong (or Gongji), Chinese general (b. 189)
* Lu Su, Chinese general and politician (b. 172)
* Sima Lang, Chinese official and politician (b. 171)
* Wang Can, Chinese politician and poet (b. 177)
* Xu Gan, Chinese philosopher and poet (b. 171)
# Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres

The women's 1000 metres in speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics took place on 26 February, at the Olympic Oval.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
| World record | Karin Kania (GDR) | 1:18.11 | Calgary, Canada | 5 December 1987 |
| Olympic record | Karin Kania (GDR) | 1:21.61 | Sarajevo, Yugoslavia | 13 February 1984 |
The following new world and olympic records was set.
| Date | Pair | Athlete | Country | Time | OR | WR |
| 26 February | Pair 3 | Bonnie Blair | United States | 1:18.31 | OR | |
| 26 February | Pair 4 | Karin Enke | East Germany | 1:17.70 | OR | WR |
| 26 February | Pair 5 | Christa Rothenburger | East Germany | 1:17.65 | OR | WR |

## Results

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Behind | Notes |
| | Christa Rothenburger | East Germany | 1:17.65 | – | (WR) |
| | Karin Kania | East Germany | 1:17.70 | +0.05 | |
| | Bonnie Blair | United States | 1:18.31 | +0.66 | |
| 4 | Andrea Ehrig | East Germany | 1:19.32 | +1.67 | |
| 5 | Seiko Hashimoto | Japan | 1:19.75 | +2.10 | |
| 6 | Angela Stahnke | East Germany | 1:20.05 | +2.40 | |
| 7 | Leslie Bader | United States | 1:21.09 | +3.44 | |
| 8 | Katie Class | United States | 1:21.10 | +3.45 | |
| 9 | Natalie Grenier | Canada | 1:21.15 | +3.50 | |
| 10 | Erwina Ryś-Ferens | Poland | 1:21.44 | +3.79 | |
| 11 | Shoko Fusano | Japan | 1:21.47 | +3.82 | |
| 12 | Christine Aaftink | Netherlands | 1:21.63 | +3.92 | |
| 13 | Zofia Tokarczyk | Poland | 1:21.80 | +4.15 | |
| 14 | Shelley Rhead-Skarvan | Canada | 1:21.84 | +4.19 | |
| 15 | Edel Therese Høiseth | Norway | 1:21.90 | +4.25 | |
| 16 | Emese Hunyady | Austria | 1:22.22 | +4.57 | |
| 17 | Yoo Seon-hee | South Korea | 1:22.35 | +4.70 | |
| 18 | Yelena Ilyina | Soviet Union | 1:22.40 | +4.75 | |
| 19 | Ariane Loignon | Canada | 1:22.75 | +5.10 | |
| 20 | Natalya Glebova | Soviet Union | 1:22.99 | +5.34 | |
| 21 | Ingrid Haringa | Netherlands | 1:23.15 | +5.50 | |
| 22 | Noriko Toda | Japan | 1:23.49 | +5.64 | |
| 23 | Han Chun-ok | North Korea | 1:24.26 | +6.61 | |
| 24 | Nancy Swider-Peltz | United States | 1:24.81 | 7.16 | |
| 25 | Marie-Pierre Lamarche | Canada | 1:25.18 | +7.53 | |
| 26 | Bibija Kerla | Yugoslavia | 1:30.89 | +13.24 | |
| - | Song Hwa-son | North Korea | DQ | |
# Hey! It's James Moody

Hey! It's James Moody is an album by saxophonist James Moody recorded in 1959 and released on the Argo label.

## Reception

Professional ratings :
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | |
The Allmusic site awarded the album 3½ stars.

## Track listing

All compositions by James Moody, except as indicated
* "Stella by Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) – 3:06
* "Indian Summer" (Al Dubin, Victor Herbert) – 2:36
* "Don't Blame Me" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 4:29
* "Last Train from Overbrook" – 2:36
* "Please Say Yes" (Tom McIntosh) – 3:59
* "Blue Jubilee" (McIntosh) – 6:16
* "Woody N' You" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 3:12
* "Trouble in de Lowlands" – 2:27
* "Summertime" (George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 2:30
* "Tali" (McIntosh) – 2:49

## Personnel

* James Moody – tenor saxophone, flute
* Johnny Gray – guitar
* Eldee Young – bass
* Clarence Johnston – drums
* Eddie Jefferson – vocals – (tracks 4 & 9)
# Mohammed Al-Saeed

Mohammed Khalifah Al-Saeed (Arabic: محمد خليفة السعيد; born November 14, 1996) is a Saudi football player who plays as a winger and left back for Al-Okhdood.

## Career

On 28 June 2016, Al-Saeed joined Al-Fateh on a five-year deal. On 25 October 2020, Al-Saeed renewed his contract with Al-Fateh.
On 17 July 2024, Al-Saeed joined Al-Okhdood on a free transfer.
# Ri Hyang-ok

Ri Hyang-ok (Korean: 리향옥; born 18 December 1977) is a North Korean association football referee and former footballer. She played as a midfielder and was a member of the North Korea women's national football team. She was part of the team at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup and 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup. Since 2005 she has been a FIFA listed referee, and was chosen to officiate at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France.

## International goals

| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
| 1. | 7 October 2002 | Changwon, South Korea | Chinese Taipei | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2002 Asian Games |
| 2. | 9 October 2002 | Busan, South Korea | South Korea | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2002 Asian Games |
| 3. | 14 June 2003 | Bangkok, Thailand | Singapore | 15–0 | 16–0 | 2003 AFC Women's Championship |
| 4. | 24 February 2004 | Brisbane, Australia | New Zealand | 3–0 | 11–0 | 2004 Australia Cup |
| 5. | 18 April 2004 | Hiroshima, Japan | Chinese Taipei | 2–0 | 5–0 | 2004 Summer Olympics qualification |
| 6. | 20 April 2004 | Hiroshima, Japan | Hong Kong | 6–0 | 9–0 | 2004 Summer Olympics qualification |
| 7. | 26 April 2004 | Hiroshima, Japan | South Korea | 3–1 | 5–1 | 2004 Summer Olympics qualification |
| 8. | 26 April 2004 | Hiroshima, Japan | South Korea | 4–1 | 5–1 | 2004 Summer Olympics qualification |
# Richie Bancells

Richard L. Bancells (born November 11, 1955) is an athletic trainer who was the long-time Head Athletic Trainer for the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1984 to 2017. Bancells has been widely credited with helping Cal Ripken Jr. achieve his record-breaking streak of 2,632 consecutive games played. In 2011, he was elected to the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame. On October 1, 2017, shortly before the Orioles final game of 2017, it was announced that Richie Bancells was retiring at the end of the season. At the time of his retirement, he was the longest-tenured member of the Orioles organization.

## Education

In 1978, Bancells graduated from Miami's Biscayne College (now St. Thomas University). Richie received his master's degree from Eastern Kentucky University in 1981.

## Professional career

Bancells started his professional athletic training career in 1978 with the Bluefield, West Virginia, Orioles, the major league team's single-A rookie club. His first day on the job coincided with Cal Ripken Jr.'s first day of playing professional Baseball. In 1980, he joined the staff of the Rochester Red Wings, then the Triple-A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles located in Rochester, New York. In 1984, he was promoted to Assistant Athletic Trainer of the major league team and assumed the head athletic trainer position in 1988. His long-time assistant athletic trainer has been Brian Ebel. Bancells has served 3 terms as the President for the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society, and currently serves on the executive committee as Past President.

## Marriage and children

Richie lives in Parkton, Maryland, with his wife, Carol. They have three children, Christopher, Andrea, and Timothy, and seven grandchildren.

## Awards

* 1995 Major League Training Staff of the Year
* 2011 Major League Training Staff of the Year
* 2011 Orioles Advocates Herbert E. Armstrong Award
* 2011 NATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award