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Page 2S7The Battalion/Monday, August 27, 1984
Athletics vs academia
an often debated issue
By Leslie Heffner
Reporter
The debate over whether Texas
A&M University Athletic Depart
ment puts more emphasis on athlet
ics rather than academics started
long before the million dollar coach,
Jackie Sherrill came to Texas A&M.
But since his arrival to Texas A&M
the debate has become more heated.
Reporters, broadcasters, critics
and spectators criticize the money
put into Texhs A&M athletics. The
hiring of Sherrill as football coach
and athletic director seem to re
inforce the criticism. Sherrill signed
a 10-year contract worth nearly $3
million.
The Express-News, a San Antonio
newspaper, says Sherrill’s contract
makes him the highest paid univer
sity employee of any kind anywhere
in the nation.
Freshman athletes have it
even tougher. They must
adjust to playing their Fa
vorite sport under a kind
of pressure they have
never experienced before.
Intercolligiate athletics is a big
business.
But it’s ironic, the same people
who constantly criticize the emphasis
Texas A&M puts into athletics are
usually the same people who pay $15
to spend a hot sweaty afternoon in
Kyle Field, cheering the Aggie foot
ball team on to victory. It’s like the
man who condones the behavior of
Vannessa Williams but is the first
person at the newsstand to buy the
current issue of Penthouse ^
azine.
If there is a problem with In
A&M’s athletes struggling to sutij
in the academic world, pastandj;
sent athletes don’t acknowledged
An over-all opinion of the atklf;
seems to be that those whom wan
succeed in academics will. Pastj;
letes as well as present onesap, |
that most of the coaches stress
demies as much as they stressatfe
ics.
Dr. Steven O’Neal, Texas All
football team star punterfrontlS
to 1968, says, “It’s not only uptoj
athlete to handle athletics ands I,
demies, but it’s also up to them |
to stress athletics and academia: f
and off the field.”
Having good intercolligiate?
(See ATHLETICSpagefi) j
Ag tennis team ready for’81
By JUDY OLIVER
Reporter
The Texas A&M men’s and wom
en’s tennis teams have about 13 re
turning players for the 1984-’85 sea
son as well as some promising new
ones. David Kent, head coach for the
men’s team, says he looks for the
best team Texas A&M has ever had.
He says they have upped the quality
and quantity of the team.
Kent says the two goals of the
men’s team are to win the Southwest
Conference title and to place in the
top ten in the nation.
Returning players will include
Greg Hill and Grant Connell. Hill
and Connell were the first Aggies in
history to make the All-American
list.
Connell, a sophmore from Can
ada, was a finalist in the Canadian
Men’s Championship this summer.
He placed 47th in the nation last
year.
“Grant Connell’s future is unlimit
ed,” Kent says.
Hill was a 1984 All-SWC team
member and placed 31st in the na
tion last year. This summer Hill
played in three large tournaments in
Kentucky.
Alkio Kimmo, who played for
A&M for two years, will be returning
after spending a year serving in the
Finnish army. Kimmo is the national
tennis champion of Finland.
Other returning players include
Russ Simmons, who won the Lake
Conroe tournament; Mark Smith,
who won the National Amateur
Tournament in Tyler; as well as
Dean Goldfine, from Florida; Vos
Marcel, from the Netherlands; and
Rafael Delgado, from Mexico.
The men’s team will have three
new freshmen this year — Matt Ak-
Grant Connell
man, of Canada; Chris Stanich, of
Houston; and Dean Johnson from
South Africa who arrives in January.
Kent says he is excited to have
Johnson joining the team because he
is a super player. He says Johnson
played well this summer and im
proved his volley.
“There will be good intra-rivalry
on the team,” Kent says. “It will be a
dog-fight to see who will make the
top three.”
“Our goal is to crack the top 20
this year with the women’s team
Kent says.
Three new players are Gretchen
Torres, Shelly Spiller and Stacey
Noles.
Torres, of New Mexico, won the
State Championship of New Mexico.
Kent says she is a terrific athlete in
tennis, as well as volleyball and
softball.
Spiller, of Junction Texas, won
the Class 3A singles championship in
Junction. Kent says she has had
much success this summer.
Noles, of Chicago, was among the
Greg Hill
top Juniors in the Chicagoareai I
is on academic scholarship k I
Kent believes she will be a Digfla [
for the girl’s team.
Three new players coming in Je !
nary are Helen ChristiaanseandH
nata Arnold, of Canada; andfci
Labuschangne, of South Afria j;
Nandini Rangaraja of Indiad
l>e returning. Kent says she wasif I
number one player last year.
Vanne Akagi is returning alir
winning six major tournamenu:'
Hawaii this summer.
“We look for Akagi to reallyki |
threat this year," Kent says.
Other returning players are Cait
Nutt, of Missouri City; GayeL®
Gensler, of Houston; and LauraL
ong, of Singapore.
Kent says the men’s and womti
teams have a good mixture of ft
riegn and American players. Frc
out of 1 1 players on both teamsac
foriegn students.
“Everyone has foreign played,
Kent says. “You better get them:
win.”
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