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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1978
Texas tracksters
best in country
By SEAN PETTY
Battalion Sports Staff
Texans are always bragging about
everything being the biggest and
the best in Texas, well, here is
another “best” Texas can boast.
Texas has the best all around high
school track performances in the na
tion.
If a national track meet were held
and each state took its best perfor
mers, Texas would probably win.
Perhaps the most outstanding
performer is a young man from Dal
las Jefferson named Michael Carter.
Carter leads the nation in the shot
put with a best toss of 71 feet 1 inch.
This toss put Carter in third place
on the list of all-time prep shot put
ters. Only two prepsters have
thrown farther than Carter, Jesse
Stuart (71-9) and Sam Walker (72-3).
Walker is also from Texas. Carter
has thrown 74 feet in warm up but
has not yet managed to do that well
when it counts. There’s not need to
worry, as he will get plenty of prac
tice. He is only a junior.
Texas high school thinclads can
not be matched in the depth and
quality of performers in most
events.
In the 100-yard dash, there are 13
men from Texas that have run under
9.6. Bonham’s Mitchell Bennett
leads the nation with a time of 9.2
There are 12 men in Texas that
have run under 21.6 in the 220-yard
dash. Wayne Owens from Killeen
leads the nation in that event with a
time of 21.1.
Bobby Burkhalter from Denver
City, Texas leads the nation in the
440-yard dash with a time of 47.9,
with three out of the five top times
in the nation coming from Texas.
Bill Bryan from Lufkin is the top
man in the nation in the 880-yard
dash with a time of 1:52.7.
The time of 13.6 is the best in the
nation in the 120-yard high hurdles
and is held by Leonard Milburn of
Houston Sterling.
A&M freshman Mike Mosley was
in the top rankings while at Humble
High School. Mosley set the class
AAA state record with a time of
13.6, the second best time in the
nation last year.
Galveston Ball’s Anthony Ruben
leads all 330-yard intermediate
hurdlers with a time of 36.7. There
are six other Texans who are in the
top ten in the nation in that event,
also.
One of the most impressive
claims Texas can make is the
superiority it has in the 440-yard re
lay. Of the nine fastest times in the
nation, Texas has seven. Bonham
leads the nation with a swift 41.0.
Galveston Ball leads the nation in
the 880-yard relay with a time of
1:26.1. Texas also claims seven of
the top ten times in the nation in
that event.
Lufkin has the number one time
in the nation in the two-mile relay
with a time of 7:50.5.
In the four-mile relay, Texas has
the second and third fastest times in
the land.
In other field events, Spencer
Sunstrum from Richardson leads the
nation with a leap of 7 feet 1 inch.
Texas A&M-bound Ricky Hayley of
Tuluso-Midway is second in the na
tion in the pole vault with a 16-
foot-7-inch vault.
All of these results were taken
from Track and Field News and are
as current as possible on the na
tional level.
There are other events but the
point is clear. Texas is definitely one
of the top producers of high quality
track and field talent.
Did you know
Varsity soccer
By CHRIS PICCIONE
Soccer may become a varsity
team sport if it receives the required
six votes at the Southwest Athletic
Conference spring meeting this
weekend.
Six of the nine SWC schools must
vote in favor of admitting soccer for
the game to become a varsity sport.
ing the fall and competed
other SWC schools in the $|
Southwest Conference $«
League in which the Aggies
with a 4-4 record.
A sport must be recognized by
the Athletic council as a “varsity
sport before it can receive funding
from a university athletic depart
ment and compete in a National
Collegiate Athletic Association
championship event.
Presently, Texas A&M University
does not have a soccer team, but it
does have a soccer club.
The 25-member club is coached
by the club president, Dan Byerley.
It receives $1,300 in funds from the
intramural department.
The $1,300 in intramural funds
were spent on travel expenses, uni
forms and referee fees this year, in
cluding $700 last fall and $600 this
spring. The club received extra
funding through alumni donations.
The soccer club played in the
Texas Collegiate Soccer League dur-
The club also sponsored n
hibition game with the Hoi
Soccer League and organized!
cer clinic for the 680 1
Bryan-College Station $b
League.
“We’re trying to be as involi
possible because we realc;
support comes from the a
nity, Byerley said.
Dr. Charles Samson,
A&M’s SWC athletic repi
tive, said that he is going
meeting “with an open
cerning soccer.”
“The basic problem is one
nances. I would favor
additional sports if A&M
funds,” Samson said. Head
Texas A&M s resources are
“The increasing support of
recognized varsity men and
sports for next year will cam!
A&M to its financial capalij
Samson said.
The new sport in town
Battalion photo by Malcolm Moore
United Press International
DENVER — Zero Population
Growth of Colorado is offering the
gift that doesn’t keep on giving.
The group filed Tuesday with the
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Secretary of State Mary Estill
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All it takes is six votes of approval from the
Southwest Conference athletic council this
weekend, and soccer will be a recognized var
sity sport. Some members of the 25-man
Texas A&M Soccer Club are seen here play
ing in a recent tournament at the intramural
field. Varsity recognition would mean athletic
department funding for the team.
Soccer starts in commum
The Brazos Valley Amateur Soccer
League is now forming for summer
play. Men and women, age 18 and
over by June 1, 1978, are eligible to
participate. Interested persons can
uign up for the league as a team or
on an individual basis. Texas
students are urged to partiti ,
More information can be obi
by calling Ed Elmore at 846-1
Scott Stucky at 846-2197. Rei
tion deadline is May 13.
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