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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1977
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Al Reyes’ body is bent from a
life-long battle with cerebral palsy,
yet he earned and proudly wears a
Southwest Conference cham
pionship ring denoting Texas
A&M’s basketball supremacy last
year.
Tlie crippling birth defect took its
toll on Reyes’ body, but it left him
with a big heart and powerful de
termination.
“I am glad that I had cerebral
palsy instead of somebody else, be
cause I can deal with it,” Reyes said.
“I can see a lot of people who cannot
cope with their ‘normal’ problems,
and they surely could not handle
something like cerebral palsy.”
Reyes’ body will not let him play
basketball or any other sport, but it
does not keep him from participat
ing. He is a student manager for the
Aggies and has won the praise of
coach Shelby Metcalf.
“We have all benefited from Al’s
outlook on life,” Metcalf said. “He
carries his load of the work and is
given no special consideration.
“In addition to being a member of
our program, I consider Al a good
personal friend. He is a very intelli
gent young man, and he is espe
cially enjoyable to be around be
cause he has a great sense of
humor.”
Reyes and Metcalf have a mutual
admiration society.
“Coach Metcalf is an outstanding
human being and has made me feel
like a contributing element in his
program,” Reyes said.
Metcalf is not the first coach to be
impressed by the determined young
man. Beginning in the eighth grade,
he worked football under Tommy
Runnels at Fort Worth’s O.D.
Wyatt High School before Runnels
joined the staff at TCU. Runnels’
successor, Rudy Mauser, also put
him to work, as did the school’s
baseball coach, Ted Harris. In fact,
Harris sent him to a baseball camp
in Oklahoma to develop his under
standing of the sport and made him
a student assistant.
Reyes was transferred to Ar
lington Heights High School at the
start of his junior year and soon
hooked up with Larry Wood, the
baseball coach. In addition to mak
ing Reyes team manager, Wood as
signed him as student coach of the
ninth grade team.
A problem quickly developed:
Reyes could not run infield practice
because he was unable to throw the
ball up in the air and then hit it. The
problem was just as quickly solved
when coach Wood made him a bat-
ting tee on which he could place the
iball and then bit it.
“That’s where I learned that no
matter how you accomplish a task,
the important thing is getting the
job done,” Reyes said. “That is the
theory I will always use. If there is a
difficult task that I can’t manage,
just give me a chance to figure out
how to do it another way.”
Reyes emphasizes that all four of
his high school coaches had one
thing in common: their attitude to
ward him.
“They taught me that even
though I have a physical handicap,
not to let that get in my way of doing
what I wanted to do in life,” Reyes
said. “I really owe a lot to these men
because, if it were not for them, I
would have quit a long time ago,
and certainly would not be going to
Texas A&M today.
“Through them I came to realize
that, in order to be something in
life, a positive attitude is the key to
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Reyes does not need much help
these days, but he has lots of friends
and understanding professors who
are happy to provide what little as
sistance he does require. For exam
ple, since he has difficulty writing,
classmates take notes for him, and
his professors make special arrang-
ments for him to take tests.
While Reyes is studying for a de
gree in recreation and parks, the
same field in which Metcalf recently
received a Ph.D., what he wants to
be is a coach.
“I know wanting to be a coach is a
high goal for me,” he concedes,
“but I once heard coach Billy Tohill
say, ‘If you don’t have high goals,
you have no goals at all’.
“My dream is to be a coach,”
Reyes concludes. “You better not
bet against me.”
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