At 23, his prospects for a long and productive life hinge on the operation. His doctor has given approval for his continued play and the medication he takes to regulate his kidney function required an Olympic waiver which he recently received. Considering all these very unique and interesting variables, Mike Peplinski, who is very low key and modest wants to focus on the gold for now and avoid the media feeding frenzy that could result from his very compelling story. In a recent article in the La Crosse Tribune, he made clear his Olympic determination saying, When we started playing in state junior competition, we were sixth in the state. I said, I want to be the best at this sport.
Baseball team rallies around own cause Call it a team-building exercise.
Call it an act of desperation. But any way you slice it, the Viterbo College men s baseball team pitched in to insure they would have a new field to play on come this spring. More than 30 members of the team, under the direction of head baseball coach Sean McDermott, rallied together in late October to not only raise money needed to purchase sod for the V-Hawks new home, but also did the actual work. I wanted to get the field ready as soon as possible, said McDermott, who opted to sod rather than seed that late in the year. With the timing of things and the way the weather kept pushing things back, sodding seemed like the best route to go to insure that we had a playable field in the spring.