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University of Pittsburgh’s Hockey Club
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This segment of WQED Weekly features a story about the University of Pittsburgh’s Hockey Club. It includes an interview with volunteer coach Lynn Barcelo and several of the club members. They talk about how the club currently operates and their goal of becoming a NCAA team.
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University of Pittsburgh’s Hockey Club
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This segment of WQED Weekly features a story about the University of Pittsburgh’s Hockey Club. It includes an interview with volunteer coach Lynn Barcelo and several of the club members. They talk about how the club currently operates and their goal of becoming a NCAA team.
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Hey, Bill, did you skate last night?
Yeah, I was going to come up and see you.
I went to bed early, skating with Car this morning.
Do you ever skate at Saint Edmunds?
Yeah.
Get the senator, hang in front of the net.
And if you can do that, why, I think you'll come out a winner.
But if you don't check these guys and they're going to run all over you, then forget it.
So pay attention.
Now, let's go out and get them.
This is the big one.
Stay on him Al!
Stay on him Al!
Stay on him Al, you got him.
Amateur is the word that best describes the Pitt hockey club.
But that's not necessarily bad.
Come over here.
We can't even speak any.
Brown.
Rowdy.
Get in here.
It doesn't mean that Coach Lynn Barcelo doesn't worry as much as Paul Brown.
Come on, baby.
And it doesn't mean that Rick Vernon number five, is not as important to this team as Tony Dorsett is to the football team.
It just means that none of the people you're looking at are paid to do what you're watching them do.
And in the modern world of big money recruiting in colleges and six figure salaries in the pros, that makes the Pitt hockey club unusual.
Good show.
Jeff.
Come on now, where to go?
Come on, pick it up.
If there's a grand old man of amateur hockey in Pittsburgh, it's Lynn Barcelo.
So when Pitt students organized a hockey club four years ago, they asked his help.
He volunteered to coach for nothing.
They practice just once or twice a week.
And only the players who don't have classes show up.
It's not easy to coach under those circumstances.
Things can get pretty disorganized.
But Coach Barcelo does what he can.
You got a Bobby.
That's the way to go.
You get the guy, Mike Come here.
Well, Mike come here, Mike and Bobby better have attraction.
Thinking about everything you've got, you've got to watch your guys and the other guys, and, that's why you, you're yelling at, like you're right wing.
Get over on your lane.
Number so-and-so, number so-and-so, get back, get back, get up, get up, take it in and fire it.
And, they know pretty much what they're doing, but I think that, I've always coached that try to give them a little help some way, whether they hear me or not.
And I think they do hear me sometimes.
Everybody knows hockey's a rough sport, sometimes even dirty, but not everybody knows how expensive it is.
Skates $135.
Shin pads $30.
Socks $7.
Pants $25.
Protective jockstrap $5.
Gloves $50.
Elbow pads $12.
Shoulder pads $15.
Helmet $20.
Stick $7.
Meet left winger and engineering major Gary Freeze.
He, like all of his teammates, must buy his own equipment.
He must also pay club dues $5 a month and must raise $50 for the club by hawking hockey paraphernalia.
Buy and support hockey how much?
$0.60 two for a dollar got a change?
I'll get it.
Fantastic.
Here.
Take this too.
No I dont want this.
Cheryl Pepper is a member of the club too.
She's one of ten female members.
She pays dues, manages ticket sales, runs the scoreboard at the games, and oversees fundraisers.
Like this three shots for a quarter event at the student union.
Kids get away!
It's easy to romanticize about the purity and goodness of this kind of athletics.
After all, nobody is giving these people big time salaries or big time scholarships or even a little big time publicity.
They do what they do because they enjoy it.
And that's what amateur sports is all about.
But the people involved aren't the least bit romantic.
They want to go big time.
And that means NCAA team status with a big budget, tougher schedule and heavy recruiting, and they're willing to fight for it at almost any cost.
Do you like a club to have team status?
Like Pitt football team, be NCAA sanctioned?
Oh, yeah.
Sure.
Why?
Because I think they would do well in it.
But that then you couldnt be in it?
Well, I don't know.
That would be up to the be up to them.
I don't know.
It would probably change my involvement because they would need somebody like myself to work with tickets or to work the scoreboard.
But you'd still rather have it as a team sport?
Yeah, just it would be better for the, you know, for the guys themselves.
Yeah.
And you play against better competition and it's better for the school, better for the players.
Better for you?
- Yeah.
Play against better people you will improve.
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