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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1981
Sports
Four-time Colombian champion
Fernandez leads Aggie tennis team
By RICK STOLLE
Battalion Staff
In two years, Liliana Fernandez
has gone from a small, scared Col
ombian tennis player who had been
ready to quit after one week of prac
tice to the number one spot on the
women’s tennis team at Texas A&M
University.
Fernandez, a sophomore finance
major, is currently listed as number
one despite an attack of bursitis in
her shoulder and back that left her
out of the final two matches of the fall
season.
She is recovering nicely with the
help of the Texas A&M training room
and medicine. Fernandez said she is
taking three pills plus aspirin each
day to combat the stiffness and sore
ness and so far, it is working.
The bursitis does not bother her at
all on warm days, she said. And even
on cold ones, she is only a little stiff
and sore.
“I would take a hundred pills a day
as long as I didn’t have to get a shot,”
she said. “I don’t like needles or doc
tors and the two always seem to go
together.”
Women’s coach Jan Cannon said
the bursitis attack may have actually
been a blessing in disguise. It gave
the coaches a chance to correct her
serve, which had been fundamental
ly bad.
Cannon said she hated to change
the serve before the bursitis attack
because even though it was bad, it
was working. But, afterwards, they
were forced to change it.
“The toss on my serve was the big
part of the problem,” Fernandez
said. “But I haven’t had any trouble
since I changed it.”
She had been tossing the ball and
hitting it behind her causing her to
stretch and reach behind for each
serve. Now, with the new toss, she
hits the ball in front, Fernandez said.
In Cali, Colombia, (population
approximately one million) Fernan
dez said she had only practiced on
Fridays and Saturdays. Before a big
tournament, however, she would
practice three of four straight days to
get ready.
“There was just no competition,”
she said. “We have four or five good
tennis clubs in Colombia but to play,
you had to belong.”
She said she usually practiced for
about an hour, seriously, with the
tennis pro, and would then go and
talk to her friends. Sometimes they
would take off to get some ice cream
or just go home.
“There was just nobody good to
practice with,” she said.
Besides, Fernandez added, soccer
is more popular in Colombia.
The four-time Colombian national
Liliana Fernandez
champion said there were four
athletes who would always meet in
the .finals of every national tourn-
ment. Sometimes she won, some
times not.
Fernandez won the 14-and-under
division once and came in second
another time. In the 14-to-16-year-
old division, she won the champion
ship twice and then twice more for
the 18-and-under division.
The Cali native said she goes home
in the summer and at Christmas to
see all her relatives. She said she
plays in the summer tournaments
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Her first week at Texas A&M last
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going to collapse. The humidity,
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“It doesn’t bother me as much
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“We didn't know what we were
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Latin baby on our hands and we were
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“But now I’m certainly glad she
persevered through it all.”
Cannon agreed.
“She absolutely will not give up,”
she said. She said Fernandez’s
perseverance is her best quality.
The coaches have a great deal of
confidence in Fernandez. They said
she has great determination, some of
the best ground strokes around and
is a team player that fits into their
plans for the future.
Cannon said Fernandez will play
number one until someone on the
team beats her out.
“Liliana has a great, low shot,”
said Cannon. “Her opponents have
to hit up at her and she just puts
them away from the net.”
Cannon said she had been worried
the layoff Fernandez got after her
bout with bursitis had hurt her tim
ing. But her timing is coming back,
said Cannon, and she is also hitting
the ball harder than ever.
Fernandez said she considers her
self one of the top four players on the
women’s team. Any of the four could
win the top spot on any given week,
she said.
“Amy (CIoss), Maylen (Hooten),
Pam (Hill) and myself are the top
four,” she said. “But, with the talent
the team has, anyone with a very
good week could take the top spot. ”
Fernandez said the goals for the
team will be tough but she believes
they can be reached.
“We want to get into the women’s
top 20,” she said, “and improve our
play as a team.”
She said she knows everyone will
improve, they have been working
too hard not to.
The desire to be the best was evi
dent following the workout Tuesday.
Fernandez was one of the last to get
done with practice and do her laps.
She asked coach Cannon if the
running would really help her to be
come good and if it was worth it.
Cannon looked at Fernandez for a
second and then said, “Yes, Liliana,
but I don’t want you to be good at the
end of the year, I want you to be
great.”
Sambito signs 5-year pact
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lief pitcher Joe Sambito Thursday
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tract one day before an arbitration
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regulars under contract for 1981.
Nine players on the 40-man roster
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Men’s track
The men’s track team will be in Oklahoma City Saturday for ikj
Oklahoma Indoor Classic.
Last week, several members of the Aggie team participated in ilit|
Dallas Times-Herald Invitational in Dallas’ Reunion Arena. In I
meet, Randy Hall won the pole vault with fewer misses, leaping li|
feet.
Several personal and season bests were recorded at the meet also |
Jimmy Howard jumped a career-high 7-4'A, and Leslie Kerr recordedj
a season best 47.99 in the 440-yard dash.
Mike Glaspie, competing in the 60-yard high hurdles, ranateaal
season high 7.31 race. In the mile relay, the foursome of Leslieanil
Larry Kerr, Floyd Furlow and Bart Daniel recorded a 3:15.68 race j
also a season best.
Freshman Rod Richardson equalled his season best in the60-yaiil|
dash at 6.18.
Hall and Howard will be in New York’s Madison Square Gardal
tonight for the prestigious Milrose Games, but will join the Aggiet]
Saturday in Oklahoma for the Indoor Classic.
Women’s basketball
The Aggie Ladies won two and lost two to finish seventh in the fit),
SWC women’s basketball tournament in Houston last week and»!
play Texas Tech at G. Rollie White Saturday.
Tipoff of that game comes at 12:15 p.m., as a prelim to the Aggi®
Tech TV game at 2:40.
The women opened tournament play with a 69-59 win over TCI'
with Kelley Sullivan leading the scoring with 22 points. Next theyWj
to Texas Tech, 62-51, as Sheryl Clark netted 10 for high honors. Hit
Ladies then fell to Arkansas, 80-62, witli Cathy Fuller scoring 19, anil
in the seventh place game Texas A&M beat Rice 69-63, as duRaeCl
scored 20. Clark had 12 steals during the four games.
The women now have a 6-17 season record.
Men’s basketball
The Aggies, slowly recovering from a year-long drought, taketothe
G. Rollie White court again Saturday at 2:40 p.m. to take on the Tern
Tech Red Raiders, 5-5.
The game will be regionally televised.
At halftime of that game, candidates competing in the Miss Tern
A&M Beauty Pageant will be introduced to the Aggie crowd.
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and two in relays. Tracy Johnston won the 50-yard backstoke, 100-yait
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