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Athletes
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ment, to make sure they progress to
ward an academic degree.
Since Sherrill has taken over as
athletic director, more emphasis has
been placed on academics by the ath
letic administration as well as the
academic administration, Hunt says.
Some of the policies enforced by the
athletic department are mandatory
class attendance and study hall for
freshmen and other athletes below a
2.0 grade-point average. These indi
viduals, as well as any other student-
athlete that needs help, are assigned
tutors.
“Another thing Coach Sherrill has
tried to emphasize is what we call
continued aid past eligibility,” Hunt
says. “As long as a young man or
woman is making a conscientious ef
fort to get a degree, and making
progress toward this degree, we pro
vide them with financial assistance,
but after five calendar years they
have to provide some type of work
service for us.”
Hunt rates the graduation rate of
athletes at Texas A&M as high com
pared to other schools.
“Of the 17 young men in football
who will be completing their eligibil
ity, we feel 14 will graduate in the
next calendar year,” he says.
Hunt estimates the number of
football players graduating is up
about 50 percent, from two or three
years ago. The graduation rate
across the United States is between
55 percent and 60 percent.
Comments of athletes at A&M:
i
Gary Lewis — basketball:
For myself, and people who are
serious about academics, it’s pretty
rough. I spend a lot of time prepar
ing for practice. I think basketball all
the time. The coach says you have to
think about this, this and this, on
and off the court. I find myself
thinking about this paper I have to
write, while I’m on the court practic
ing. People like myself, who are se
rious about academics, have to have
a lot of discipline to survive. When
you first come to school the coaches
and counselors tell you academics
come first, but the bottom line is
you’re here to represent your school
in athletics. Don Hunt (academic
counselor for the Athletic Depart
ment) and the other counselors are
always available for help, but it de
ends upon the individual athlete if
e wants help or not.
Kelly Keahey — baseball:
To be a student-athlete, you have
to budget your time. I come in from
working out and sometimes I’m too
tired to study. It’s tough. Lack of
time can be considered a problem,
but, if you get your priorities
straight, you can do it. Separating
athletics and school can sometimes
be a problem. You can’t take aca
demics on to the field while you’re
competing, or vice versa. Keeping
athletics and academics separate
keeps problems from arising. The
Athletic Department is helpful to in
coming freshmen and transfers to
keep problems like this from arising.
They give them tutors to get them
started off, until they can demon
strate they have adjusted to the
change.
Lisa Langston — basketball:
Being a woman student-athlete is
different from being a man student-
athlete. The men have more prob
lems with emphasizing academics
because they have the chance of be
coming a professional athlete. I am
here primarily to get an education,
but also to play basketball. Basketball
gives me the chance to take some of
the pressure off my academics. It
also helps me budget my time
accordingly. If I know I have to
ractice at a certain time, it means I
ave to study at a certain time. When
spring comes around, I find it
harder to budget my time for aca
demics because of all the free time I
have.
Sherri Brinkman — volleyball:
Being a student-athlete is some
times hard, but in ways it helps me
with my academics. When I’m not
busy with volleyball I find it hard to
budget my time, but, when things
are busy, I tend to budget my time
better. When I’m on the court, I
don’t think about school and when
I’m in the classroom I don’t think
about volleyball. The traveling and
time it takes to be a student-athlete
sometimes leaves time for little else,
but that’s what it takes.
Rod Richardson — track:
Being a student-athlete is very de
manding. Demanding in the sense
that you make a choice that you want
to split your time into being an ath
lete and a student. You have to know
when to cut some slack in one or the
other. You can’t be a total student or
a total athlete. You have to combine
them very carefully. I have been able
to maintain a very healthy medium
between the two because of my per
sonality. I have the opportunity to
continue in track after college, but
right now I am more concerned with
getting my degree in journalism. I
am not just limiting myself to athlet
ics. The one big problem within the
system comes from coaches not
really stressing the academic side of
college life the way they did when
they were recruiting. When they gel
you here, they seem to stress athlet
ics first, then academics. I don’t
really think my track coaches can tell
what my major is or what my plans
are for the future. If the coaches
would show a little more concern for
an athlete’s academics, it would
probably improve relations.
Weightlifting club
trims Aggie flab
By MARCY BASILE
Reporter
Once upon a wimpy time, Texas
A&M had no muscles. Oh, it had a
football team, true, but it had flab in
the non-athletic sports area.
No more though. For the last five
years A&M has been developing a
weightlifting club which now boasts
over 650 members.
“Membership is down a little bit
because of (local gyms),” Skip Gjol-
berg said, president of the Texas
A&M Weightlifting Club and a
member of the powerlifting team.
“I’m sure that membership will be
down a little bit in the spring. Maybe
down to 620 or 610.”
This siphoning of members
doesn’t faze the club officers. They
know their club offers something
most weightclubs don’t — atmo
sphere.
“You make a lot of friends in here
— good friends,” Gjolberg said dur
ing a workout in the club’s weigh-
troom. “There’s an atmosphere in
here. It’s more competitive.
“If you go to other gyms, they
don’t have that. . .it’s like you go in
there and it’s real blah. It’s more
electric in here.”
Mike Breslin, treasurer of the club
and Gjolberg’s spotter during this
particular workout, pointed out an
other aspect of club membership.
“There are parties every semester,
which are free to club members,
where you meet a lot of other peo
ple,” Breslin said. “We also have a ski
trip every year that costs the mem
bers $300 for' a week in Winter
Park.”
The A&M Weightlifting Club has
no need for membership drives, al
though they do gather club dues in
an unusual fashion.
“The first 300 members that sign
up pay $30 and the next 200 pay
$60,” Gjolberg said. “After that, the
rest all pay $90. The reason we do
this is tha; we can only have so many
members because of limited space.
This way, we give people who want
to join bad enough a chance and it
deters enough people to keep the
membership down.”
Convenient location, good hours
and low membership dues appeal to
even the most fickle of lifters.
“Some others (gyms) are good,”
Breslin said. “We just have more
equipment. Besides that, they’re
more expensive than us.”
“For the serious weightlifter,”
Gjolberg said, “our gym is the best.
We are a lot more convenient and we
are definitly a lot cheaper.”
As if to prove his point, Gjolberg
sauntered over to the squat rack and
did 6 squat repetitions with an in
credible amount of dead weight; so
much that the bar bobbed with each
squat-lift.
High membership allows the club
to purchase new equipment.
“Almost everything in here is new
as of last year,” Gjolberg said.
“There are only two or three pieces
of equipment that were in here, say,
three years ago. Everything else is
new.”
Although the club boasts a well-
equipped weightroom the club also
maintains a library of weightlifting
and powerlifting books hnd mag
azines. Members are allowed to
check out articles from the library as
a way of learning more about their
sport. Unfortunately, the library is
not as large as it once was.
“People checked-out stuff near
the end of the summer and never
brought them back,” Breslin said.
“Now we need to think of a new sys
tem for checking out the books.”
As Gjolberg proceeded to go
through another set of squats, the
strain on his face emphasized the
physical challenge weightlifting of
fers.
“There is a weightlifting attitude,”
Breslin said. “If you lose your con
centration, you can hurt yourself
really bad. At the powerlifting level,
you have to be very within yourself
and totally concentrating when you
are lifting something very, very hea-
v y-
Mirrors surround the weigh
troom, giving the lifters a way of
measuring their progress. The mir
rors also allow the lifters to check
their lifting form, which maximizes
the benefits from each exercise.
“People think that people who lift
weights always like to see themselves
in mirrors because they’re vain,”
Gjolberg said. “They don’t realize it’s
the same as if you were a track run
ner who is measured with a stop
watch.
“If you lift weights, the only way
you can measure yourself is by
looking in a mirror. Otherwise,
you’d never know. You can look at
the scale and see you have gained
five pounds, but you never know if it
was muscle or gut.”
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