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Swimmers ranked No. 15
TANK MCNAMARA
by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds
By BARBARA BROWN
Reporter
The Texas A&M men’s swim
ming jumped into the Top 20
this week.
“It’s kind of odd tojump into
the rankings by getting beat,”
Coach Mel Nash said, “but that’s
kind of what happened.”
Earlier this month, the Aggies
swam in a meet against No. 7
Auburn University, and lost by a
small margin.
Auburn went on to compete
against No. 2 Texas the next
day, and beat them by the same
margin that the beat the Aggies.
Nash says, “That, combined
with the fact that some of the
times tha we have done are na
tionally ranked gave us national
recognition. This is the first time
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in mid-season that we have been
ranked.”
The ranking which is done by
the College Swimming Coaches
Association is an honor for the
team rather than a few indi
vidual swimmers.
When the A&M hosts Texas
Tech University and Rice Uni
versity this weekend, the Aggies
will have an edge — team unity,
says head coach Mel Nash.
The teams meet Texas Tech
at 3 p.m. Friday and Rice at 2
p.m. Saturday in P.L. Downs
Natatorium in the last competi
tions at home for this season.
“The oneness — the solidar
ity of purpose that we have here
— is probably worth 30 or 40
points on the conference level,”
Nash says.
For junior Melanie
Schmauch, who swam for Texas
Tech her freshman year, this
unity convinced her to transfer
to Texas A&M.
“I had seen the Texas A&M
girls at the meets and I was
jealous of the unity they had as a
team,” says Schmauch who is na
tionally ranked in the 50-yard
freestyle. “It’s unbelievable how
the constant encouragement
and support from other team
members during practices as
well as meets can make you want
to swim faster.”
“When you have the whole
men’s team lining the poolside
in the middle of the set yelling at
you, it’s really a thrill.”
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Describing the Texas A&M
swimming program as “unique,”
assistant coach Tracy Johnston
says most schools have totally
separate programs for the men
and women.
“We feel the swimmers be
nefit and work harder with a
combined program,” says John
ston, a former Texas A&M Out
standing Female Senior Athlete.
Debbie Scheider, a junior on
the nationally ranked 200-yard
freestyle relay, says the com
bined team helped the women
recover from the 1982-83 sea
son, which was plagued with in
juries and faltering momentum,
and start this season with re
newed motivation. The women’s
dual meet record has improved
from 4-8 in 1982-83 to 5-1 so far
this season.
“Our team is so close, it’s like
having a family of 40 people,”
Scheider says. ‘‘It has really
made a difference in our moti
vation.”
Nash says the team swims
around 10,000 to 14,000 yards
every day — or about 35 miles a
week. The practices are concen
trated on improvement of en-1
durance, technique, style and
speed.
With only two weeks remain
ing in the regular dual meet sea
son, Nash says the Aggies will be
ready to compete in the SWC
and NCAA championships.
“We have someone in every
stroke that either has qualified
or has the potential to qualify for
the national championships in
March,” Nash says.
Led by 1983 All-America
Chris O’Neil, the men’s team has
a season record of 5-3, with all
the losses being to top 20 teams.
O’Neil was the first Aggie swim
mer to earn All-America honors
since 1959 when A1 Harrington
qualified in the 100-yard back-
stroke.
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United Press International
NEW YORK — Poor Frank
Cashen. He took all the heat in
the kitchen, but that wasn’t
enough. Now the fire is spread
ing and someone should throw
him a ladder before he’s roasted
alive over the Mets’ loss of Tom
Seaver.
In the face of the uncommon
furor his action has caused, I
can’t help but be reminded of
that classic line from The
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Remember how it goes? The
moving finger writes, and hav
ing writ, moves on. Nor all your
piety nor wit shall lure it back to
cancel half a line, nor all your
tears wash out a word of it.
Little did Frank Cashen ever
realize how easy he had it when
he was with the Baltimore
Orioles or when he was working
in the baseball commissioner’s
office. That was before he be
came general manager and chief
operating officer with the Mets.
Sure, he had problems, but nev
er anything like this.
Now what? Should he be
thrown to the lions or simply
fired?
Somehow, 1 don’t think Nel
son Doubleday, the Mets’owner,
will avail himself of either of
these options. He has some of
that old Phil Wrigley in him. The
late former owner of the Chica
go Cubs never let himself get
stampeded by the avalanche of
suggestions he regularly re
ceived from the media. He re
sisted them magnificently. Not
only to the consummate distress
of all those who offered them,
but to that great, long-suf fering
legion of Cub fans as well. Like
Phil Wrigley, Doubleday has un
bounded patience.
One thing, though, Frank
Cashen would be prudent not to
test it much further. That’s my
advice to him, for what it’s
worth. I believe Doubleday still
has a lot of faith in him, but I also
think Cashen used up quite a bit
of his credit when the Mets
failed to protect Seaver and
allowed the White Soxtod
him foi $150,000. WhatNl
Doubleday really needs bad]
another $150,000. B
Ironically, if anything
help Cashen keep his job, in
media, by their very insisia^
Doubleday should turn thtjH^
over to someone else.
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stake, all but crucified,foria|^Mj
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Arkansas native who captained
the Razorbacks in the early ‘60s
as an all-conference defensive
back, couldn’t resist the oppor
tunity.
‘‘Leaving the Air Force
(where he was head coach five
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hardest decisions I ever had to
make,” said the 40-year-old
coach. “I had planned to stay at
Air Force the rest of my life.
“The only way I would ever
have left would have been to go
back to Arkansas. The timing of
the opening coming up made up
my mind for me.”
Holtz, now coach at Minneso
ta, left Arkansas a month ago
after a 6-5 season, claimimg
“burn out,” and didn’t leave his
successor much time for re
cruiting.
“I haven’t had much time for
anything else in the month I’ve
been at Arkansas,” said Hat
field. “It’s a different experience
than the one at Air Force.
“There, you had to recruit
nationally, looking for people
who not only wanted to play
football, but also were qualified
for and dedicated to serving in
the Air Force. There are no
athletic scholarships at the ser
vice academies.
“You don’t get many pro
prospects at a military
academy,” said Hatfield. “That’s
why we always felt if we could
incorporate something a little bit
different in our offense, spread
people across the field, we
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