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•v ontinued from page 10) s.ud but what > rs ai so have improved over as mayhKar. • D . The return of Mike Glaspie < R ‘game, j c| ia ppelle Henderson has ! as, ' M ' playedvenMas thinking positively ab- II . <> . M . toofil the Aggies’ chances in the un r t l, ‘ 111 ^ antfe r y, hurdles, (ilaspie, a senior, III l< , en( -f' It’s ’ n t he event in the Sooner Re- - u e v e all talked; s j|ast year and Henderson " ! 1 dunksomeol a lified for the finals in the 11 111 us that wentT;)c [indoor meet last year be- ! 1 |'.g ,()l *nd and e pulling a muscle. • things like that H Thomas praised his team’s 1 1 »s year’s Sot ^outs this year. Despite the me lonuat, onl ;^ nt ()Ut b re ak of bad weather, • us \i.V.M s H sa j ( j j t ’ s been better overall '! " Kl ^ e n it was last year, so the team < gai said some )U ld be in better shape for this m ' lN H ' apprt bend’s meet. nee games w ., r , . ittitude. He said some °. tlie otlier ■participating in the Soon- Relays have already entered a t oi us are thinki , et thi s season and could have ally counts is theSJnip on the Aggies. But he nference, sheasi he’s not really concerned know. Some of tlul die outcome this time saving those gai: lim d. nmt on our Sol “Xhc first track meet is usual- mce record realli® Charlie Thomas’ Aggies competing in Sooner Relays ly just to enter everybody and get them to do some indoor run ning and give them competi tion,” Thomas said. Competition will be tough in the SWC this spring, Thomas said, with Arkansas the likely favorite. SMU and Texas should also finish high. But while Thomas is over loading the bus this weekend, women’s coach Bill Nix is hop ing big things can come in small packages. “We only have 12 girls on the team right now,” Nix said. “And we’re only running eight girls this weekend. The foyrth-year coach said he’s not concerned about his team being small in numbers. Nix favors quality over quantity. Although having only 12 mem bers probably means the Aggie Ladies won’t score enough points to finish higher than third in the Southwest Confer ence meets, a talented few could mathematically earn Texas A&M an NCAA championship. As a matter of fact, capturing third place in the SWC is Nix’s goal for his team, he said. Nix’s emphasis isn’t on team victories in small tournaments. Instead, his sights are on out standing individual perform ances that will give Texas A&M points in the big ones like the NCAA meets. Each first place finisher earns 10 points for her team in that meet. Three of the eight competing this weekend will be high hurd lers. Sophomore Chanda Phil lips, junior Pam Biesenbach and junior Deanie Palmer make dp a fourth of Nix’s roster, but they’ll be entered in the same event this weekend. For the 60-yard dash, Nix will use sophomore Novaita Samuels, who last spring finished second in the 200- meter dash and third in the 100- meter dash at the AI AW nation al meet. She was an all-America last season, and Nix said she’ll also compete in the 300-meter dash in this weekend’s meet. Nix is also looking for some positive output in the 600-yard run from junior Jana Graves, who last year posted the nation’s 12th fastest time indoors in that race. In the 880-yard dash and the mile run, Nix will depend on junior Suzanne Sheffield. The coach also will be de pending on a lot of youngsters to come through this spring, he said. He’ll have a chance to test freshman Debbie Noel in the mile and freshman Paula Odom in the 2-mile race. Despite their youth, the coach said he’ll be looking for team leadership from veterans like Sheffield, Graves, Samuels and Phillips. “Those four will probably end up being the big guns on the team. They have the biggest opportunities for qualifying for the NCAA championships in doors,” Nix said. Nix said his team won’t parti cipate in field events. He’s out for top-notch performance in the running events. He’s the Aggie Ladies’ lone mentor, and he said splitting his time be tween track and field could low er his team’s chances of success in either category. “I don’t have an assistant coach, and it’s very difficult to coach everything and do a good job at it,” Nix said. “So we’re going to do one thing right, and that’s run well.” they do. Even 1 don’t care if lii ty doesn’t counu nee — it counts» ord. den’s, women’s swim teams ‘meet’ LSU ■ Aggie men’s and neh’s swimming teams will ipeie against LSU tonight at i Baton Rouge and against ane Saturday morning at 1 1 tew Orleans. s \ 4~ vQ h e fexas A&M men’s team, I chi has a 2-3 record on the iot), has lost to three squads ked in the national Top 20. :women’s team has compiled returner for the K c X d of 1-2. luring the semester break, e doctor has Pjniii’s squad defeated West m (Richardson)) ginia 65.39 in a (iual ineel 1.in working out.'[ t| ie WO men topped the hind, llioma.' tintaineers by a score of 76- ily worked out a.M nach Me | Nash - s men - s n lost to Southern Illinois may miss all ol ivehity, ranked No. 14 in the ison. We’ll just ion, by a score of 45-37. The t by ear and seeX not decided until the ly to run.” event, which SIU won by a oach said he also [-o^ margin, ings from his milt- d his pole vaulten! Aggies’ distance TRACK page’ Both the men’s and women’s squads will swim against Rice in Houston on Tuesday at 6 p.m., and both will compete against Texas Tech and Northeast Louisiana Jan. 29 at 11 a.m. Several Aggie team members are ranked among the top swim mers in the nation, including senior Rick Walker, who has the No. 9 1,900-yard freestyle time at 9:24.85. Bob Salas is 13th in the 2()6-yard butterfly at 1:51.70. Two Texas A&M relay teams are ranked in the top 12. The 400-yard medley relay, which includes Kevin Londrigan, Mark Viminitz, Chris O’Neil and Peter Gatchell, is ranked 10th with a time of 3:26.37. The 400-yard freestyle relay team (John Heldenfels, Clark McDo nald, Peter Gatchell and Craig Buchmann) is ranked No. 12 with a time of 3:06.74. There are eight meets sche- Thousands put their fingers on it. doled for both the men and women this spring, and the NCAA championships (in March) will be the ninth meet for those who qualify. 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