\ —Basketball team stronger THE BATTALION Page 11 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1980 1 ' ■ By J° N heidtke I ® Battalion Staff ll£il For secon( ^ straight year, [ I A&M basketball coach Shelby ''Waif is sending his men through off-season weight lifting and con- en Zoning program under the direc- II alt nt! m of strength coach Mike Flynt. ■rst-base Metcalf has nothing but praise for ' 11 gSingltfe [program and said hiring Flynt 't safely it tnjBjjjg 0 f the smartest things the j es 'n wliitl^ool has done. The program is de- ^ HrC pied to build strength and muscu- scored on r endurance without developing ilk. mt in the The basketball team has been the miitai^ddng since Sept. 2 and will con- sing pitcbjde the off-season program Thurs- m to tie tli(!(y|t The program consists of a 35- on a 3-2 inute weight lifting session divided ils double to 14 stations. These stations work I major muscle groups in the wed offitsijj 65 ’ the seven® 6 111611 have been lifting every ived toir^sday, Thursday and Sunday, pting (71,running and agility drills round- it past Hitg° ut the program. gle. ^’ re ? 1 Flynt said he has seen a complete n and sa®y ersa i j n the attitudes of the play- oe banibit: s £ rom year, towards the prog mally wa - le bases iK; Dave Smitf to and sin the threat ram. “Last year was the first year we put it to use and the players were a little leery of it,” he said. But it is amazing what winning does. “The attitudes are completely different,” said Flynt, “and there is no team working any harder than these guys.” He said the only other unit working as hard is the football team’s offensive line. Flynt says the leadership and hard work Rynn Wright and Vernon Smith provide the new players is in valuable. “No two work any harder than they do,” he said. "The new guys are working hard because they see the other guys working as hard as they can and this creates a postive atmosphere.” Wright has just been awesome in lifting. The senior co-captin has lifted almost 40,000 pounds in the program and has averaged more than 1,000 pounds a minute. Flynt added that if the team works and dedicates themselves to the up coming season as they have to the weight program, then they will have a great year. Flynt said that at the moment, the athletes are cramped in the 5,700 square foot weight room. But next year, when the DeWare weight room renovation is over, A&M will have 40,000 square feet of weight room to work with, which Flynt says will be the best in the nation. The game of basketball has changed greatly in terms of the phy sical element in the past 10 years, and strengthing and conditioning is now becoming a key part of the game. “Basketball is much more of a con tact sport, instead of the finesse game it used to be,” Flynt said. “The finesse is still there, but strength and endurance play a key role in today’s game.” The 1980-81 Texas A&M basket ball team opens play Nov. 22 when they host the Windsor Basketball Club. The Aggies are entered in three tournaments this year; the First Un ion Invitational, in Charlotte, N.C. on Dec. 12th and 13th; Virginia Tech Invitational, in Blacksburg, Va. on Dec. 19th and 20th; KOA Classic in Billings, Mont, on Dec. 29th and 30th. 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