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The Battalion Sports
May. 6, 1982 Page 17
lockey at A&M?
\ggie team skating toward
irst season of competition
>ge
t'ings miglil
ne third,
rty said
ated in
ted such
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ane being* Battalion Staff
Jwer Cot f lv e McDonald was walking
Daughf'fough a building on campus
hatisneedtffi on g a g° when he saw a
can besti P ce on tbe wa ^- Someone was
safely
porous
l aquifen when
st —- iWnswered the call. He’s now
(eof about 15 Texas A&M stu-
anof Kavtrijts who will make up the first
's expla jgie ice hockey team when its
he coraptason starts in October.
The 20-year-old sophomore
:r. Thetipm Houston called the num-
trate that *r on the flyer, went to a meet-
•e used in s g, and was elected team secret-
as well j|. He and the other members
Pie team are busy now trying
t frL_* • tie up the loose ends that
1 that, ina( • » .
mpressed ,me Wlth startin g a new ven -
ed
ire'such as this.
6 “We’re mostly tr
mie largr** 8 ^ ^
use the pit-ft.
i ' !>n t
lupplyoi
eumaticea
costs,
. , l t he
i rrhV’ tl
Uioustoi
O toies.
d for ^
to raise
d. “We
expect to receive any
mds from the University since
lis will be our first year.
“In the years to come, we
to receive money from the
niv rsity, but right now we
My have private donations and
iiind raising to count on,” he
A/Q i lid -
V dll’. Because there are no ice rinks
glthe Bryan-College Station
the Aggies will travel to
louston for their practices and
McDonald said they they
! ill use the Sharpstown Ice Cen-
1 f pT 11 ^ as tbe i r home rink.
That’s one reason money is so
nportant to McDonald and the
, .Bribers of the team. Besides
e er Kcost of traveling to Houston,
. , ijHtime at the rink is $100 for
‘V nt i in h an hour and a half.
" : ul! 1 McDonald said the team
. irsl '! /ould like to practice at least
inFebrua We a week, but he added that
^ylab missiacticing that much will prob-
:e walks idbly be unlikely because of the
ithemooi'Wst
inding. lt| As of now, McDonald said,
ver done Be team’s budget is a minimum
Ik. >f $2,000 for the 20-game sea-
id the asilon, which will last from mid-
instrateitDctober through March,
e extraif The Aggies will be members
, putting)>f the Southwest Collegiate
through
Hockey Association, a league
that features six teams. Besides
Texas A&M, the SWCHA in
cludes Tulane, LSU, SMU,
Texas and North Texas State.
Each team in the league will
play every other team four times
during the season, with two of
the games being at home and
two being away.
McDonald said the Aggies
learned of the SWCHA during
one of their practices in
Houston.
“When we were at Sharp
stown practicing, a man came up
to Steve Mathiason, our presi
dent, and gave him the number
of a professor at SMU who was
involved with the league. Steve
called him, and found out about
the league. It was then we com
mitted ourselves,” he said.
Mathiason, a freshman from
Houston, said the possibilities
for the team are endless.
“It (being president of the
team) takes up a lot of my time,
but I’m real excited about the
team. I think it can be a really big
thing, something that can grow
every year,” he said.
Most of the team members
from northern states played as
youngsters, then moved to
Texas with their families, McDo
nald said. That’s how they
wound up at Texas A&M, and
that’s how they are familiar with
hockey.
The idea for forming a hock
ey team came from several
members of the lacrosse team,
which also has a large number of
players from northern states.
Most of them had played hockey
also, and after talking about
their hockey days, Mathiason
said, the idea was born.
After distributing the flyers
around campus and holding a
couple of meetings, the team
grew to its present size. Political
science professor Mike Levy, a
former lacrosse player at Brown
University, agreed to be faculty
sponsor for the team, which in
cludes several people who have
played collegiate hockey before
at schools such as Penn State.
McDonald said the team
members are confident they can
compete in the SWCHA, espe
cially if they can get sufficient
practice time. But until October,
all they can do is practice and
raise money. The latter, he said,
is not going well.
The team had a money
raising project last weekend,
with the players cleaning the
shuttle buses owned by Trans
portation Enterprises. But it
didn’t pay too well.
“We only made $60,” McDo
nald said.
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