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nts, but Ashe approaches his shooting
inc-high I ot the rille range in the
i Bubba ijitiry Sciences Building,
points on >d(| Woodard begins to make
j. e usual preparations,
ttothinvl EN r y s l lot should be the
tie, says Woodard, captain of
Jennings exas A&M Rifle Team,
how out ou ' iave to malee some adjust-
hesaid ;n,s f° r t l le target moving
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s (Tech] As he sets the rifle on the sup-
had sonTt I stand in front of him,
| ^Bard looks toward the
get fora unmagnified view of
^nrget card that hangs 33
IT in front of him. Standing
th nips parallel to the card of
i bull’s-eyes, Woodard takes a
fl| breath, closes his eyes,
>ens them and pulls the gun
jnijthe support stand toward
s chest.
I". Da'' While looking into the gun’s
21. (Vi- r(iti, he leans back slightly to
' ; ' . low ihe rifle to rest on the up-
■rpart of his chest. Woodard’s
es play focused on a tiny “10”
sM( the center of the bull’s-eye at
</ hich he’s aiming.
Koncak li All around the 10 circle are
Is 7> yvil her rings with the numbers
Icih UiSie through nine. But
<) Twji ’ood.ird’s attention is centered
i one ring and one number.
Twenty seconds later, a shot is
P :ard and a small pellet flits the
nilfs-eye.
1 Where did it hit?
1 “That’s a nine at 6 o’clock (on
I ) ( |( e lower part of the nine-ring),”
i savs. Then after looking into
. telescope-like object beside
l 1 L d til Woodard discovers that his
lot was better than he’d
:h-seeilt£ ought. "No, that was a 10 at 3
s baskd clock. [ didn’t think I had a 10
-seeded * 1 ! that one.”
the firSf Woodard shoots twice more,
iwest < ice calling the shot a nine and
dnghekfe other time an eight. But a
he Uni' f bser look revea|s that he’s shot
in An' 1 Hither pair of 10s.
diminaW Woodard, the senior member
ives eatlr Texas a&M squad, makes a
tunit) ibit of shooting nines and 10s
>ur-da\ Si any rifle raqge he’s on. And
ie Ladi e ;xt week, when Woodard com-
leir fc 1 ites in the air rifle event at the
in thedii'CAA championships, he'll be
have v ying to pile up as many 10s as
,s defeat#; can.
the Sl'f The competition will be held
70-60 dul Xjavier University in Cincin-
eason > Hi next Friday and Saturday,
vettevilk In the sport of riflery, shoo-
Ladie rsconcentrate on hitting num-
inSWCpjfld rings on a bull’s-eye,
TCUid hich hangs 10 meters in front
son. them. In the air rifle event,
alters impetitors shoot 40 times with
ill befo^ie highest possible score being
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400. That would mean hitting
the dead-center 10-ring 40
times.
Each card of 10 bull’s-eyes is
worth a potential 100 points,
and a shooter will go through
four cards during his 40 shots.
Woodard, the first member of
the Texas A&M team to qualify
for the national competition
since the Aggies became an
NCAA-recognized squad four
years ago, has a match average
of about 369 and a practice aver
age in the 378-380 range. He
said he hopes to shoot between
380 and 383 in the champion
ships.
“If I were to shoot four cards
of 98," Woodard said, “I would
‘‘Shooting’s a simple
sport. You’re really just
trying to stand still, and
when you do that,
you ’re training your
body to do something it
doesn’t do well. Rifle
Team captain Todd
Woodard.
win the NCAAs. But I don’t
think anyone can shoot a 392. I
expect to shoot about a 383. I’m
pretty convinced I can’t shoot
390 because I haven’t paid my
dues. I’m not in good enough
physical shape and I would have
to revamp my mental approach.
“I’m comfortable shooting ab
out a 380 (95 for four cards). I
know I can shoot those any day
of the week. In shooting, you
have to have a comfort zone at
which you won’t experience
much tension. I’m used to shoot
ing about 380, so I think a 383
will be a good performance.”
Woodard said a 383 might
place him among the top 15 or
20 shooters in the nation. But,
he said:
“If ... no, when I shoot a 380,
I’ll be happy with my perform
ance. There’s no sense in saying
I might do it, because then if I do
it, there would be no planning
involved and it would be luck.”
Woodard, who has collected
12 medals, trophies and plaques
while shooting in air rifle and
.22-caliber competition, said it
takes body control to be success
ful in the sport of riflery.
“Shooting’s a simple sport,”
he said. “You’re reallyjust trying
to stand still, and when you do
that, you’re training your body
to do something it doesn’t do
well. A track runner explodes
from the starting block, a foot
ball player moves laterally and a
shooter must train himself to
stand still.
“Everything’s mental. You
have to train yourself to relax
and be totally balanced.”
Another key, Woodard said,
is concentration. There’s a time
limit of 2 minutes for each shot,
so competitors can’t waste time
in preparation.
“When I’m preparing to
shoot, I’m concentrating on the
sight picture and I look to see
how the target looks in the front
(sight),” he said. “I fill my mind
with the target — my mind is
completely occupied with what I
call a program ... and nothing
else enters my mind. It’s a mat
ter of automatic responses. If
you don’t have those it’s very
tough to shoot.”
For Woodard, making a trip
to the national competition
means the achievement of a
goal.
“I had goals 2V? years ago to
make the NCAAs,” he said. “I
just cut it a.little too close and
didn’t work hard enough. I can
look back now and take the
blame for that myself. I could’ve
come out and practiced more,
but I didn’t.
“But I am happy with my
technique. And learning a bad
technique is probably worse
than not shooting enough.”
Since the sport requires such
intense concentration, Woodard
said, shooting above 390 is near
ly impossible.
“I’ll shoot five or six 10s and
I’ll start getting goosebumps
and think to myself, ‘Man, am I
shooting great,”’ he said. “Then
I start getting edgy about shoot
ing another 10 and end up
shooting a nine. The discipline is
to just let the shot get there. As
for shooting better scores, I’m
just not there yet. I’m not shoot
ing real good scores.”
Woodard said preparation
for each shot may be the most
crucial aspect of the sport.
“The preparation is actually
more important than breaking it
(shooting), because if you pre
pare right, then all the ex
traneous things around you just
disappear,” he said. “So all you
have is a weight on your chest
and a little black dot that you’re
trying to hit.
“There’s no tension involved
in a good shot. When you have
to think about it, it’s going to be a
bad shot. Your right finger
senses when you’re (centered) in
the 10-ring.
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A&M-TCU game Thursday
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some for the Frogs.
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To say that Arkansas has
“good" fan support at the South
west Conference tournament
would be like saying the No. 1-
ranked Houston Cougars have a
“good” basketball team playing
in the tourney.
Houston may have Phi Slama
Jama, but Arkansas has its own
fraternity of sorts — Stomp,
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And just to show TCU they
mean business, the throng of
Arkansas supporters did one of
its “Pig Sooie” yells just as the
Horned Frogs were leaving the
floor after defeating Texas
A&M 65-53.
No ice was thrown and the
Hog-Wild Band wasn’t there,
but the sea of red and the Hog
calls made many a TCU player
think of an echo chamber in
Fayetteville, Ark., where the
Razorbacks play basketball.
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Rock’s Champ Crawford said.
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past eight years and said he
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voice still intact,” he said.
“There’s no pressure on the fans
to produce at a game like this.”
Produce?
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Laura Moorman, a high
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Ark., said the Razorback sup
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same,” she said. “We came to this
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Arkansas team wherever it goes.
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Hogs,” he said. “I know they can
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