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Athletes of the Week Feb. 10

February 10, 2017

Randy Rickards

A 6-foot-5 fluid forward who can shoot it and dunk it, he’s better on the move than standing at the free throw line. “I don’t get nervous. There’s something wrong with my technique, but we’re working on it,” Randy said. Randy had a double-double, 24 points and 12 rebounds, in a come-from-behind 70-69 win at Dover Feb. 7. “We hadn’t won at Dover since coach [Steve] Re has been here, so we wanted to win it for him,” Randy said. The team was down 13 with 3:39 to play, then threw the beach blanket over the Senators, turning them over six times. Randy, who just completed the semester with As and Bs, is never a behavior problem in the classroom. “I’m too easy to find at 6-5,” he joked. Randy got to the foul line for three shots, making the first, but missing the second. Cape trailed 69-68, and he missed the last, but it was tipped in by Ian Robertson for the game-winner.

Sarah Spicer  

A senior on the Cape girls’ swim team that has posted a dual-meet record of 51-1 over the last four years, Sarah specializes in the 100 fly and 200 individual medley, but she can also swim the 200 free and and often swims on the point-producing 200 medley and 200 freestyle relays. He grandfather was Dr. Spicer, an orthopaedic surgeon before the proliferation of medical professionals in the Cape Region. Sarah takes AP and honors classes, and is a member of the Honor Society, Green Club and Leo Club. She is a member of the Sussex County Youth Philanthropy Board that receives a $10,000 grant from Delaware Community Foundation and then disburses the funds to local nonprofits. Sarah is looking toward Delaware, Maryland and Pitt, and will major in science.   

Molly Weeks

In Molly’s four years as a swimmer at Cape, the girls’ team has lost only one dual meet, at Easton last year. Cape beat Easton Feb. 7, 94-76, to move the regular-season record to 10-0, as they move toward the Henlopen and State Championships over the next two weeks. Molly broke the school record in the backstroke against Easton with a time of 1:01.15. She also holds records in the 100 freestyle,100 fly and 500 freestyle, and is on the 200 medley and 200 freestyle relays that hold school records. A stellar student in the Honor Society and Leo Club, she plans to attend Wake Forest University or the University of South Carolina. “I’ll stay fit through club sports and find new friends,” she said with an easy smile.

James Wells

This 5-foot-11, 147-pound eighth-grader plays basketball at Mariner and moves up and down the court like a track kid. During the last track season, coached by Kenny Riedel, James reached 5-feet-9 in the high jump, 15-feet-5-inches in the long jump and ran 2:38 in the 800 meters. In front of a Big House crowd at Cape last week, James came off the bench and executed a block of a Beacon player on a fast break that instantly thrust him into single play legendary status. “I know coach Hazzard jumped into the air and was just shaking his head back and forth,” James said. James was only 5 years old when he was in the back seat during a head-on vehicle crash that broke his femur when the front seat was pushed up against his leg. There was an operation, a rod was inserted, he missed school time, another operation to remove the rod, and 10 years later he jumps off that left leg into legendary status. He scored two points in the Beacon game, his first two points on the season.

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