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By CHAREAN WILLIAMS
Assistant Sports Editor
■ These fish swim head and shoul
ders above the rest.
■ For Texas A&M sports fans, two
freshmen stars are shining just as
bright as the current spring weather.
■ Softball shortstop Liz Mizera and
baseball third baseman Scott Liv
ingstone are providing Aggies excit
ement for the present and hope for
the future. They are quite different,
but at the same time quite alike in a
lot of ways.
I Mizera grew up in Garden Grove,
Calif. She has the California looks
and the California twang. California
will always be where her heart is.
I “I lived in the same house all my
life,” Mizera said. “I will always live
in California. You miss it a lot more
■ hen you’re away.”
I Growing up in a house with three
irothers, Mizera was forced to be
tough.
I “When I was little, they beat up on
lie,” the 5-foot-5 slugger said.
I However, she said her family’s
Support played a big part in her suc
cess.
I “All my brothers followed me
I'herever I played,” Mizera said. “W-
lenever I had a game it was a family
iffair. Everyone showed up to sup
port me.
I “When we were in California over
Ipring break, my brothers drove
clown to see me play. They’ll do any
thing for me. We do get along now.”
Mizera inherited some of her ath
letic ability.
“My mom said she was very athlet
ic,” Mizera said. “She took out these
pictures of her playing basketball. I
said, ‘Mom, that’s really you?’ It’s
weird to see your own mom playing.
She also has these pictures of herself
playing field hockey.”
In the “third or fourth grade,”
Mizera began her softball career.
However, her heart was still in soc
cer.
“I was a soccer player, not a
softball player,” she said. “Soccer is
big for girls in California. Softball is
next, but it’s not as big.
“I played (softball) all year round.
We were the worst in high school (at
Pacifica High). We never placed. We
just had fun. It was the relaxing sea
son.”
Mizera lettered in track, soccer
and softball at Pacifica. She was all
league in both soccer and softball
and was MVP and Los Angeles
Times Player of the Year in soccer.
How’ever, when her senior year
came to a dose, she found her future
was in softball, not soccer.
“I didn’t want to play soccer in col
lege,” Mizera said. “It’s not a varsity
sport in a lot of places. I have played
softball since I was little, so I figured
I better get something out of it. It’s
paying for my education. I paid my
price playing for all those years. I
missed out on so much growing up.
Practice and games got in the way
sometimes.”
The offers came pouring in from
every college that had a softball pro
gram. After much thought, her sum
mer softball coach helped her nar
row' the choices to five of the top
teams.
“Athletically and academically all
five were good schools,” Mizera said.
“The atmosphere was the deciding
factor. At UCLA, everyone seemed
to be out for herself. Everyone (at
A&M) was really nice.”
So A&M it was. A&M Coach Bob
Brock is probably counting his bles
sings that Mizera signed on his dot
ted line.
Mizera is hitting .355 with 12
home runs. Her home run balls have
won numerous games for the Ags.
“It’s all luck, I swear,” Mizera said.
“Everybody always tells me I don’t
hit right and that I have the worst
style in the world. That’s why people
get upset with me because it doesn’t
even look like I try.
“I’ve done better than I thought I
would. I just hope I keep doing it.”
She is hitting so well, Brock even
moved her to fourth in the lineup.
“That makes me feel good,” Mizera
said. “I never thought I’d be third or
fourth.”
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intramural fields to end an extra in
ning game. Many present said they
had never seen a woman hit a ball
that far.
“There is one time I’ll never for-
f et,” Mizera recalled. “We were in
anta Barbara (in high school) and
Samantha Ford was pitching. She
pitched me the wrong pitch and I
clobbered it. That’s the furthest I’ve
ever hit a ball. (Ford’s) on my sum
mer team now, so she’d probably like
to strike me out for saying that.
“(The hit against Sam Houston
State) was my best since being here.”
Being the team player she is, Mi
zera wanted to talk about the team
making it back to Omaha, Neb. for
the NCAA Championships.
“I’ve never really looked ahead,”
she said. “I just want to get to
Omaha one way or another. When
we lose, we beat ourselves. That’s the
only frustrating part.”
Mizera’s baseball counterpart,
Livingstone, has encountered little
frustration since becoming the Ag
gies’ third baseman in his freshman
year.
After the first week of Southwest
Conference play, Livingstone was
leading the league in hitting and was
named Co-SWC Player of the Week.
Last week, he was second in the con
ference with a .377 batting average.
“I’ve been pretty satisfied,” Liv
ingstone said. “I can’t get down on
myself. I just have to keep it going.
“It was a little surprising that I was
leading the league. When I first
came in, I just wanted to see what I
could do.”
Being named one of the SWC’s
two best players after the Houston
series was also surprising to Liv
ingstone.
“I didn’t even know about it until
a couple of days after we got back
from Houston,” said the 6-footer. “I
was just satisfied with the perfor
mance. Maybe I will get a few more
in the future. But, that’s OK as long
as we keep winning.”
Livingstone, unlike Mizera, is 100
percent Texan. “I got a few out-of-
state offers after high school,” he
said. “But, most (schools) knew I
wanted to stay in Texas.”
He grew up in Dallas where he be
gan playing tee-ball at the age of
five.
“In junior high, everybody played
everything,” Livingstone said. “I
played football my first two years of
nigh school (at Lake Highlands). I
was hurt my junior year and felt I
better renig my senior year of foot
ball. I knew baseball was the best
route to take.”
Livingstone also received a lot of
his ability from his parents. His fa
ther, Bill, played football for South
ern Methodist from 1954-57.
“Whatever speed I have, I got it
from my mom,” he said, “at least
that’s what she tells me.”
At Lake Highlands, he used his
See Diamond , page 10
Photo by PETER ROCHA
A&M’s Liz Mizera (above) on her .355 batting average — “It’s
all luck, I swear. Everybody always tells me I don’t hit right
and that I have the worst style in the world. That’s why peo
ple get upset with me because it doesn’t even look like I try.”
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