Page 14/The Battalion/Friday, January 26, 1984
TANK MCNAMARA
by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds
Women run at LSU meet
By KAY MALLETT
Sports writer
Sandra Cooper will be lead
ing the rest of the women’s track
team to Baton Rouge, La., Jan.
28 for the two-day Louisiana
State University Invitational.
Cooper, who competed in the
d ii
But more importantly, the
meet last weekend gave Cooper
practice on an indoor track.
Practice that the rest of the team
won’t be able to get because the
indoor track season will be en
ding after only two practice
meets and Southwest Confer
ence championships.
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see last weekend, has a jump on
the rest of the team in more than
one way.
In Tennessee, she qualified
for the NCAA championships
with a time of 55.09 seconds in
the 440-yard dash.
That time put her into the
Texas A&M record book by
breaking the previous school re
cord by more than two seconds.
Coach Bill Nix said there will
be eleven teams competing at
LSU, including two from the
SWC, the University of Texas
and Rice University.
in the Tarrant County Conven
tion Center.
Another Aggie, Suzanne
Sheffield, will lie looking for a
NCAA bid during the next few
weeks.
Sheffield competes in the
880-yard and mile runs and last
year she placed third in the
NCAA’s.
With Sheffield and Cooper as
team leaders, coach Nix said he
is hoping the team will place in
the lop four at the champion
ships.
Next week, the team will be
on the road again for the Okla
homa Track Classic Feb. 11. The
team then travels on to Fort
Worth Feb. 17 for the SWC
Championships. They’ll be held
“Our real (goal) this year is to
get third,” Nix said, “but we
would be happy if we got fourth.
We just want to place in the top
four because last year we got
fifth.”
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the popularity of profes
football.
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