THE BATTALION Page 11
THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1980
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Gymnasts competing on pride
1 Texas A&M Men’s Gymnastics
team is headed in new directions this
year. Or at least that’s what team
members want.
| “We are going to blow the top off
Mnnastics,” team member Mark
Hartwell said. “This is a rebirth of
gymnastics at A&M.’
K The team members said they will
put on an exhibition this semester
ami also hope to have more home
Beets.
I Hartwell, who was on the Univer
sity of Texas’ gymnastics team for
several years, said the A&M team
has a lot of talent this year. He said
veral team members are good
h to be on gymnastic scholar-
Ips at other institutions with a var
sity men’s gymnastics team.
«Texas A&M does not give the
en’s gymnastics team varsity sta-
but recognizes them as a club,
women’s team, however, is
jiven varsity status.
The men said they have no hard
dings about not being recognized
as a varsity team. They said they feel
ley will be given varsity status
eventually.
1 One team member said the team
is not interested in publicity or
emotion, but gymnastics and true
mpetition with other teams.
J Hartwell said the Texas Collegiate
Gymnastics Club Conference was
Binned this year so that non-varsity
Texas teams could compete with
leach other.
Mark Hartwell demonstrates a good gymnast’s
superior strength and body control, as he per
forms a human flag. Hartwell is a graduate
student from Austin and a member of the
Texas A&M Gymnastic Team.
Photo by Roxanne Smith
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Teams in the conference include
The University of Texas at Arlington,
Southwest Texas State University,
North Texas State University, The
University of Texas at Austin and
Texas A&M University.
“According to new NCAA rules
established last year a team cannot
compete on an NCAA docket unless
they are varsity funded,” Hartwell
said. “It is formal competition
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|j McHale, a rugged and versatile cen
ter for Minnesota, and Ronnie Les
ter. Iowa’s textbook point guard and
|| A&M’s David Britton are among the
11 miors whose names appear on the
|m l allot for the 1980 Pizza Hut Basket-
all Classic as West squad candi-
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^ redetermined by popular vote with
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y I The names of the top 124 seniors,
las determined by an 11-member
fiiedia panel, are listed on the ballot,
le top eight vote-getters on each
uad automatically receive invita-
ons to play in the game.
J I McHale was the starting center on
the United States team which cap-
I fiired the gold medal at last sum-
(I Bier’s Pan American Games. Lester,
vho averaged 19 points per game
I and helped lead Iowa to a share of
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prove mainly by competing and
workouts are essential. The team
works out five nights a week and
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Team president Pat Callihan said
the team also sponsors a coed gym
nastics club.
“We provide the supervision that
the university requires, he said.
“That provides a great service to the
university.”
Callihan said an example of the
upswing of gymnastics at Texas
A&M is the increase in enrollment in
the coed club this year compared to
enrollment last year.
“Last year membership topped
out at 20 people, ” he said. “This first
semester we had over 105 people
come by the gym to work out at va
rious times and sign up in the club. ”
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Britton among West seniors
Jiominated for Hut game
the Big Ten Conference title last sea
son, also was a member of that team.
While McHale is an extraordinary
outside shooter for a man 6-11, at
least two others on the West side of
the ballot can make the same claim.
Brand Branson, a 6-10 forward for
SMU, averaged 16.8 points and 10
rebounds per game and McNeese
State’s 6-11 David Lawrence, who is
agile and a good ball handler, as well,
averaged 22.4 points and 12.7 re
bounds per game as a junior.
Two other West squad candidates
who averaged more than 20 points
and 10 rebounds per game while
scoring on more than half their shots
were Centenary’s George Lett and
Portland’s Rick Raivio.
Andrew Toney of Southwestern
Louisiana and Oklahoma City’s
Ernie Hill, both guards, are candi
dates who entered their senior sea
son with career scoring averages of
20 points per game. Hill was seventh
in the nation in scoring last season at
26.6 points per game and Toney 21st
at 23.3. Also on the list is Texas
A&M’s Britton, a two-year starter.
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