’age 10/The Battalion/Tuesday, April 17, 1984
Pumping Iron
A&M weightlifting club has over 700 members
By ED CASSAVOY
Reporter
brunts, snorts, groans, and
inoans bounce off the walls of
I he weight room in G. Rollie
White. Every day hundreds of
nembers of the Texas A&M
weightlifting club yank, push
tmd shove the different weight
machines, searching for that
perfect body.
Steve Lumpee, vice president
of the club, looks like what the
/ice president of the weightlift-
,ng club should, sort of Conan
:he Barbarian goes to college,
j “As a high school senior I
went to my first competitive
irneet,” Lumpee says, “and I
didn’t know what I was doing.
|But I came home with a third-
place trophy, so I figured to
stick with it.”
With biceps barely controlled
under his t-shirt, Lumpee says
the 720 dues-paying members
make the weightlifting club the
largest sports organization at
A&M. The club receives only a
small amount of money from
the Intramural Office to com
pete in national meets.
“We end up charging $30
dues for the first 500 mem
bers,” Lumpee says, “and then
charge $50 for the next 200
members. If we didn’t limit the
membership, we’d have 800 to
900 members.”
A small nucleus of weight lift
ers make up the power lifting
team. Lumpee says there are
seven to ten members compet
ing this year.
“We only took three guys to
the collegiate nationals (in Villa-
nova) and placed third overall,”
Lumpee says, “we just didn’t
have the interest. I know we
could have won with a full team.
No doubt about it.”
In powerlifting, a team of 13
compete for individual titles
and total points for the overall
team winner of the tournament.
Lumpee says only two other
weightlifters went with him to
the collegiate nationals in
March. Lumpee says some Ag
gie weightlifters transferred to
other schools or had tough
work loads, leaving the power-
lifting team shorthanded.
Hiep Nguyqn, competing in
the 114 pound weight class (the
lightest), was one of the three
Aggie lifters at the collegiate na
tionals; finishing 7th overall.
“Hiep went to the Texas
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tionals,” Lumpee says,“and won
it all. But I think he was still
tired going into nationals, and
that hurt his performance.”
Robert Winsor, a pre-med
student in Temple, took 4th
place in his weight class.
“Robert did very well consid
ering he went up against guys
that don’t study as much as he
does (as a medical student),”
Lumpee says, “so they have
more time towork out.
Lumpee lifted in the 220 lb.
class and received an elite total.
In powerlifting elite is the high
est level of expertise.
Lumpee, one of the top 40
weightlifters in the nation, says
there were 13 other weightlift
ers competing in his weight
class. Overall, 130 men and 60
women showed up for the colle
giate nationals.
“I find that it is much easier
for me to overtrain than under
train,” Lumpee says,“because I
have a lot of experience, I only
have to train three to four times
a week. Of course, as I get
closer to competion time my in
tensity increases and so does the
amount of weight I lift.”
As for other ways to stay in
shape Lumpee says he has
moved up to the 220 lb. weight
class from 195 so he can eat
whatever he wants.
“But I don’t eat garbage,”
Lumpee says, “I can’t under
stand how some weightlifters
can eat cake and other junk.”
Gesturing around the weigh-
troom crammed with a confus
ing array of body building
equipment, Lumpee says most
of the money spend by the club
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goes to buying new equipment.
He estimated the club spent
$25,000 on equipment pur
chases last year.
“We are limited to just updat
ing the equipment we have,”
Lumpee says, “because we have
exhausted every means of get
ting a bigger room to add more
equipment. We are the only
club with a room of its own, so I
guess we should be satisfied.”
Lumpee, a senior Exercise
Technology major, says he is
hoping he will be picked for the
Junior World Championship
team for weightlifters under 23.
The world meet will be held in
Australia.
“If I don’t make it this year,”
Lumpee says “and get picked
for next year’s team, it probably
will be held in Houston. Just my
luck.”
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Crenshaw savors victory
in Masters tournament
United Press International
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Savoring
the grandest moment of a glam
orous career, Ben Crenshaw
could feel nothing but humble.
A noted golf historian, he
had waited 12 years for a
chance to become a part of the
game’s lore. When his moment
finally came, the elation gave
way to subdued reflection.
The sense of his own destiny
hit him as he was walking to
ward the 18th green Sunday,
knowing that the Masters
Championship was there wait
ing for him.
“It was a feeling of relief,” he
said after completing a two-shot
victory over Tom Watson. “For
some reason I started thinking
of high school golf. I just
thought of all the people who
meant so much to me and to my
career, the people who helped
me and who taught me.
“I won this tournament for
my friends. I’m so lucky I have
so many of them.”
Addressing a packed room of
media, Crenshaw made it clear
he wasn’t about to let his most
cherished success get the better
of him.
“If anyone in this room
knows golf,” he said softly,
“there’s no way a golfer can
think he is really something.
That’s when the game gets you.
I know.
“I won this tournament, but
you’ve got to prepare yourself
for the next one. There’s a lot
of tough things that can happen
in this game. This is the tough
est game to play.”
Crenshaw gave credit to his
father and to his teacher for
helping him to find himself
when he had lost confidence in
his ability.
“A year and a half ago, when
I was plaving a lot of bad golf,
two people, my dad and my tea
cher, Harvey Penick, sai-
d,‘You’ve got to start believing
without a major champiotuk
to hi# credit. Five times
viously, including Iasi ya
Masters, he was a runnenip.
At the age of 32, his chant
obviously were growing da
mer.
“There’s no question I pc
lot of pressure on myself!
win,” he said. “Today wasc
day. I was determined I wasi
going to let shots slip away.
I tried to control myself a
my golf game.”
‘There’s no way a
golfer can think he is
really something.
That’s when the game
gets you. I know. ’ Mas
ter’s Medalist Ben
Crenshaw
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Once Crenshaw tooklhela 18 virt
on the ninth hole of the fit
round, and then surged to
three-shot advantage with
magnificent 60-foot birdie pj ^ ams '
on No. 10, no one was abk:
challenge him.
in yourself again and in your
game.’”
Crenshaw continued, “You
just have to believe in yourself,
and today I did.”
Although he now has won 10
tournaments, and ranks 10th
on the all-time PGA earnings
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lallenge mm.
His final round score o(® eir c
under-par 68 gave himai
hole total of 277.
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champion, had six birdies,: l• a J' ot ' 1<
eluding one on the final hole,! a ^ j'
claim sole possession of secs co „ 1
place, but he also had threek
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never would have felt complete
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couple of bogeys early in Tits ha
day and was too far bad
catch up. I had to have w
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he entered the final round
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and his sixth place tie mndi
the sixth consecutive year ft
has finished no worse than
in the Masters.
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