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Five Year's Time: Melo Center Enhances SU Basketball Programs on Court, in Recruiting (DO; Blum)
Scoop Jardine was the tour guide. Carl Arrigale, his high school coach, just followed him in amazement.
The new locker rooms, championship trophies — from the national championship, Maui Invitational and much in between — and the shiny, freshly waxed courts. When Jardine first came to Syracuse in 2007, the main practice facility was one Manley Field House court.
Two years later, Jardine had the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center to show off.
“He took us around like a proud pop that day,” Arrigale said.
The Melo Center opened in September of 2009. It’s a $19 million practice facility that has offered a recruiting tool for both the men’s and women’s basketball teams. It has a weight room, training room and video room in a centralized spot. For the athletes, it offers a place to work out 24 hours a day.
The product of its amenities can be measured in wins. In the five years prior to the Melo Center opening, the men’s program averaged 24.6 wins per season. In the five years since, it’s jumped to 29.8. On the women’s side, the number has jumped from 14.2 to 23.8 wins per year, with postseason appearances in each season.
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Courtney Lapresi, Former Stripper and Upstate NY Native, Wins 'MasterChef' Grand Prize (PS; Herbert)
Move over, Travie McCoy and Gym Class Heroes. There's a new celebrity from Geneva, New York.
Courtney Lapresi is the newest "MasterChef" winner, taking home the grand prize on the season five finale Monday night. The 25-year-old stripper-turned-chef beat 21 other home cooks for the grand prize of $250,000 and her own cookbook.
According to People, she impressed judges Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich and Graham Elliot with her caramel-coated croquembouche, a sumac duck breast and even a dozen delicious donuts.
"I'm not just a girl wearing high heels, I'm a girl that can cook," Lapresi told the New York Daily News.
The Daily Mail reports the 2007 Geneva High School graduate left Upstate New York for dance school in Philadelphia where she worked as an exotic dancer at Delilah's gentlemen's club to help pay for tuition at Philly's University of the Arts. The "aerial dancer" performed under the name Winter and won competitions there, too, twice being named Entertainer of the Year.
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Five Year's Time: Melo Center Enhances SU Basketball Programs on Court, in Recruiting (DO; Blum)
Scoop Jardine was the tour guide. Carl Arrigale, his high school coach, just followed him in amazement.
The new locker rooms, championship trophies — from the national championship, Maui Invitational and much in between — and the shiny, freshly waxed courts. When Jardine first came to Syracuse in 2007, the main practice facility was one Manley Field House court.
Two years later, Jardine had the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center to show off.
“He took us around like a proud pop that day,” Arrigale said.
The Melo Center opened in September of 2009. It’s a $19 million practice facility that has offered a recruiting tool for both the men’s and women’s basketball teams. It has a weight room, training room and video room in a centralized spot. For the athletes, it offers a place to work out 24 hours a day.
The product of its amenities can be measured in wins. In the five years prior to the Melo Center opening, the men’s program averaged 24.6 wins per season. In the five years since, it’s jumped to 29.8. On the women’s side, the number has jumped from 14.2 to 23.8 wins per year, with postseason appearances in each season.
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Other
From State Street Looking Southeast
Different Views of the Carrier Dome (PS; Nett)
Courtney Lapresi, Former Stripper and Upstate NY Native, Wins 'MasterChef' Grand Prize (PS; Herbert)
Move over, Travie McCoy and Gym Class Heroes. There's a new celebrity from Geneva, New York.
Courtney Lapresi is the newest "MasterChef" winner, taking home the grand prize on the season five finale Monday night. The 25-year-old stripper-turned-chef beat 21 other home cooks for the grand prize of $250,000 and her own cookbook.
According to People, she impressed judges Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich and Graham Elliot with her caramel-coated croquembouche, a sumac duck breast and even a dozen delicious donuts.
"I'm not just a girl wearing high heels, I'm a girl that can cook," Lapresi told the New York Daily News.
The Daily Mail reports the 2007 Geneva High School graduate left Upstate New York for dance school in Philadelphia where she worked as an exotic dancer at Delilah's gentlemen's club to help pay for tuition at Philly's University of the Arts. The "aerial dancer" performed under the name Winter and won competitions there, too, twice being named Entertainer of the Year.
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