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December 9, 2009 Issue 16
GoDuke
Weekly
Duke Football Teams With N.C. Central To Spread Holiday Cheer
Chris Rwabukamba can’t wait to return to his home in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, next week for the holidays.
“I get to see my family and spend some [quality] family time,” the Duke cornerback said. “Get some snow, make some snow men, drink some hot chocolate
and sit around and watch some football.”
Bryan Morgan is looking forward to catching up with his brother, who is a junior left tackle for his high school team, and the rest of his family in Hoover,
Ala.
“We [Morgan and his brother] can’t wrestle anymore,” Morgan said. “Pops gets mad when we wrestle because we are so much bigger. We really need
to be careful. We are not mean toward each other, but we just need to be careful because we are not little kids anymore.”
But before either of them left Durham to enjoy the holidays with family and friends, they took time out of their day, along with 30 other Duke and N.C.
Central football players, to help bring Christmas to less fortunate girls in the
Durham area.
For the second year in a row, both Duke and N.C. Central joined together
with the Durham Parks and Recreation Shoebox Christmas program.
Last year, Karen Cutcliffe, wife of Duke head coach David Cutcliffe,
and Marilynn Rison, wife of N.C. Central head coach Mose Rison, got
together to bring the two Durham schools together.
“This is actually my first time doing this,” Morgan said. “I did not do this
Get the 2010 Duke Basketball last year, but I am glad I am a part of it this year. It is for a great cause, and
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it is a lot of fun.”
“Whether opponents on the field or not, it is good to mingle with players
from other teams,” he added. “It is not so much about us being from Duke
The 2010 Duke Basketball Yearbook published by
and them being from N.C. Central, we are here as a Durham community.”
GoDuke The Magazine was released last week. The 96-
The student-athletes from both schools met Friday afternoon in the gym
page edition includes a cover piece on senior Jon Scheyer,
of the Irwin R. Holmes, Sr. Recreation Center at Campus Hills. The student-
a look at preseason ACC player of the year Kyle Singler’s
athletes worked at either a scarf making station, a candy cane reindeer
move to the perimeter, a feature on junior guard Nolan
station, a card making station, a filling boxes station or a shoebox wrapping
Smith, a pictorial portfolio of Blue Devil players on cam-
station.
pus and profile of women’s basketball standout Jasmine
Thomas.
The issue also features a guest column by women’s
Ronald McDonald House Charities Duke Student-Athlete of the Week
basketball coach Joanne P. McCallie, a look back at the
opening of Duke Indoor Stadium 70 years ago this season
and an interview with former Duke great Steve Vacendak
Junior Jasmine Thomas earned this week’s award, averaging 28.5 points, 2.5 assists,
of the 1960s.
2.5 steals and 1.5 rebounds while leading Duke to victories over third-ranked Ohio State and
The yearbook includes stories by noted journalists
Southern California. The 29 points and 10 field goals made against Ohio State were both
and Duke alums Bill Brill, Al Featherston and Barry Jacobs,
career highs. On Sunday against USC, she was one point shy of a career high as she totaled
who brings readers up-to-date on former Duke star Johnny
28 points and hit a career-high 10-of-10 free throws. For the week, Thomas hit 40.0 percent
Dawkins’ basketball building project at Stanford.
of her three-point field goals and 17-of-18 from the free throw line. The two victories at home
brought Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium win streak to 19 games, which is tied for seventh
GoDuke The Magazine is a monthly production of ISP.
nationally. In two games this season against ranked opponents, Thomas has scored 29 points
The December yearbook edition is the magazine’s largest
and 26 points (Texas A&M).
edition of the year.
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