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Carol Smith
Aggie all-America soccer player a competk
Ladies to start state
tourney with UTSA
The Texas A&M women’s
basketball team hosts the Uni
versity of Texas at San Antonio
tonight at 6 in G. Rollie White
Coliseum in the preliminary
round of the TAIAW state tour
nament.
If the Aggie Ladies defeat the
Roadrunners, they will play
Wayland Baptist Thursday in
the state tourney, which will be
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Starting for the Aggie Ladies,
who are now 8-18 for the season,
will be Kelley Sullivan, averag
ing 12.8 points a game; Romy
Gandy, averaging 4.6 points a
game; Sheryl Clark, averaging
four points a game; Kelly Kraus-
kopf, averaging 6.1 points a
game, and Janet Duckham,
averaging 5.1 points a game.
Probable starters for the
Roadrunners will be Kim Max
well, 12.7 points a game; Jennif
er Gregg, 5.5 points a game;
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Margaret Martinovich,
points a game; Cindy Paveli,
15.4 points a game, and Denise
Fritz, 4.5 points a game.
The two teams met twice ear
lier in the season, with each team
winning once. UTSA defeated
the Aggie Ladies here 67-57
Dec. 3 and Texas A&M defeated
the Roadrunners 60-51 Jan. 21
in San Antonio. UTSA has a 16-
9 record.
Admission for adults will be
$2, while tickets for high school
students and younger will be $ l.
Texas A&M students with an
I.D. and an all-sports pass will be
admitted free.
Texas A&M students attend
ing the women’s game will re
ceive a pass for early admittance
to the Aggie men’s game with
Texas Saturday. The pass will
enable its holder to avoid having
to stand in line before the men’s
game.
Pass holders will be admitted
through the athletes’ door on
the side of the coliseum starting
at noon Saturday.
by Denise S. Sechelski
Battalion Staff
Running two miles may not be
a major feat to the average soc
cer player, but to Carol Smith it’s
the first step to recovery.
The 19-year-old Smith played
for the Texas A&M women’s
soccer team with continuous
pain in her ankle, which she in
jured two years ago. Smith
didn’t miss a game during the
1981 season.
“I knew there was nothing I
could do to make it better, and I
wasn’t helping anyone by sitting
on the bench,” Smith said. “I just
wanted to play.”
She had surgery on the ankle
in January to remove bone spurs
(calcium deposits) that had
formed since the initial injury.
“I’ve been running and lifting
weights. Everything is coming
along fine since (the doctors)
fixed me up,” she said.
Smith, from Dallas, started
playing soccer when she was
nine years old.
“We never learned to play at
that age,” Smith said. “There
were no positions — you just
Carol Smith
one else was playing.”
But when Smith was 15, she
joined the Sting, a Dallas soccer
team known nationally for its
talented players.
“When I began playing for
the Sting, I started learning ab
out the strategy of the game,”
Smith said. “We really worked
on playing our positions. We
also learned to play as a team.”
Smith, a sophomore, has play
ed two years for Texas A&M.
She said playing for a college is
different than playing for other
organizations because the
athletes are representing the
school.
“You have a lot more freedom
in college,” she added. “In high
school, you’re more under the
control of your coach. You don’t
get to use as much of your own
judgement about how to play.”
The 1981 season was the first
time the women’s soccer team
played as a varsity squad. The
Aggies finished the regular sea
son undefeated and traveled to
North Carolina for the national
championship tournament.
However, Smith was not in
top physical condition for the
start of the tournament, which
included the best teams in the
country.
In the last game of the regular
season, Smith was hurt when the
Sam Houston State University
goalie kicked her in the wrist as
she was trving to score a goal.
She played in a cast during the
national tournament.
Smith said competing against
the best teams in the country was
quite an awakening.
“We didn’t have much com
petition before we got to nation
als,” Smith said. “We played
really well when we wetfi
ing people (during the)
season). When wegotti;
Carolina, though, we fc
needed more depth, tyi
pretty good bench,but*
playing schools thatcouK
three and four substlnt
still have a first-stringitj
Smith usually playsttt
forward position but wai
to the AIAW All-Nationi
nament Team for het
midfield. She was named
National Soccer Coacw
ciation to the All-Ameho
and was picked totheli
tercollegiate Women's
League team as well.
Women’s soccer m
Butts said that Smiil
agressive offense andc:
“She gets along wells
team,” Butts said. “Slit
excellent sense of hui
helps the team a lot,
ward to having herpb
next year.”
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usually lead to a
career. But opportu®
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hard to come by, Smitl
Aggie men vie for SWC title
by John Wagner
Battalion Staff
The Arkansas Razorbacks are
the favorites to win the South-
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west Conference Indoor Meet in
Ft. Worth this weekend, but
Texas A&M assistant coach Ted
Nelson says not to count his
Aggie squad out.
Nelson and head coach Char
lie Thomas are taking a full team
to the Tarrant County Conven
tion Center, and Nelson said the
Aggies are ready.
“If we run hard, we have a
chance to finish in the top 3,”
Nelson said.
“Our guys are coming
around. We were pleased with
our performance at the LSU In
vitational, because we feel like
we had a lot of kids who were
competitive,” he added.
The LSU Invitational was in
Baton Rouge, La., on Feb. 13.
Nelson said getting ready for
a conference meet takes both
team and individual effort.
“Preparing for this meet is
mental more than anything else.
A lot of coaches give the big pep
talk the day of the meet, but we
don’t work that. way. We like to
build up the enthusiasm a little
at a time. We’ve been preparing
for this meet all year long,” he
said.
Nelson said another factor in
the Aggies’ favor is the tradition
Texas A&M has of doing well at
conference meets. Last year the
Aggies won the SWC Outdoor
Championship and in 1980 they
won both the Indoor and Out
door Meets.
Five teams are expected to
have a shot at the team cham
pionship, with Arkansas being a
slight favorite. Texas, Baylor,
SMU and A&M should also be in
the running for the title.
Nelson said the Razorbacks
are favored because of their
strength in the middle distance
events, which are extremely im
portant in indoor competition.
Indoor meets have several more
middle and long distance races
than outdoor meets, so an in
door team with strong distance
runners can score points easily.
The Aggies, who are tradi
tionally strong in the field
events, are no different this sea
son. At the LSU Invitational, the
Aggies had 4 second place
finishes in the field events and
only 2 in the track events. Nel
son said the Aggies need to win
or place in several field events if
they are to contend for the
championship.
The Aggies have several
athletes who Nelson expects to
do well in Ft. Worth. The 15-
year Aggie assistant said Don
Jones, Jimmy Howard, Rob
Montgomery, Rod Richardson
and Johnny Hector all have a
good chance of wanning or plac
ing. Jones and Howard will com
pete in the high jump, Mont-
gomery in the pole vault,
Richardson in the 60-yard dash,
and Hector in the long jump.
The mile relay team of
Richardson, Vernon Pittman,
Tony Tolsen and Gan:
should perform well
son said. The quartetii
their time to 3:13.01 all
Invitational, goodenoi
second place finish.
Nelson said the mefli
tough because of the
the teams in the SWC,
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SWC schools havecomtt
gangbusters as far as
concerned,” Nelson saii|
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pionships in the 60-yas
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Classic.
The Aggies begin thei
of their 1981 outdoor!
pionship when they
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