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With only four more football
games left this season, it's time to
make other sport-spectating plans.
Better yet, instead oi merely watch
ing the games, you can get involved
with the following 29 extramural
sport clubs. Further information is
available at the intramural office.
ARCHERY — The Texas A&M Archery
Club is doing its part to promote ar
chery throughout the state, says Ke
vin Duggan, president of the club.
Right now, only the University of
Texas has an archery club against
whom the 20 some-odd Aggie arch
ers can compete.
"Frankly it's a bigger sport on the
East Coast and on the West Coast,
so were kind of struggling with it,"
he says.
The club, formed in 1977, prac
tices either behind Zachary or in De
ware. They also will host the Colle
giate Indoor Nationals here in the
spring.
"It's exciting because it's Olympic-
style archery like you don't get any
where else but at the University lev
el," he says.
THE ASSOCIATION OF HANDICAPPED
ATHLETES — This club has been at
Texas A&M for about six years, says
club spokesman Hal Spiegel. Their
numbers hold steady at about 10
members, who join the club to play
basketball or participate in long-dis
tance running with the team. It's
basketball season now and the team
practices Thursday from 5-7 p.m.
and Saturday from 1-5 p.m.
"We're trying to set up a match to
ward the end of the semester
against the University of Houston,"
Spiegel says.
BADMINTON — Badminton probably
isn't the best known sports club team
at Texas A&M but its members aren't
lacking in dedication. Every Friday
from 7-11 p.m., the 30-odd members
of the club meet to play the sport,
says Arvind Singhal, club president.
"It's sort of our purpose to promote
badminton as a sport at Texas
A&M," Singhal says.
Like many of the sports club
teams, badminton is more popular
somewhere else. Singhal says he
began playing the sport in his native
India, but he says his interest was
really piqued when he moved to In
donesia, which has dominated the
sport in world competition for years.
Singhal says the Aggie team is
made up mostly of Southeast Asians
and Europeans who have had more
exposure to the sport. Singhal says
badmitton is not a hard sport to
leam.
"But if you are to get to the profes
sional level, it takes a lot of practice
and a lot of time playing," Singhal
says.
BOWLING — If you want to travel, the
bowling club is the one for you. In
addition to four meets in Dallas this
season, the club will travel to St.
Louis over Thanksgiving and Las
Vegas over the Christmas holidays
to play in tournaments and gain ex
posure for the team.
"If they see you at these tourna
ments, you get invited to sectionals
then to nationals," says Mike Shoe
maker, club president.
Shoemaker says the prizes in tour
naments like these rarely cover the
cost of the trips but in some of the
bigger tournaments, bowlers can
win a part of $600-700 in scholarship
money if they place.
Shoemaker says six bowlers make
up a team and that the club has two
men's and one women's team com
peting right now. They play other
college teams such as North Texas
State University and Southwest
Texas but their major competition
comes from West Texas State Uni
versity.
"They actively recruit bowlers and
offer scholarships to the bowlers
themselves," he says.
BOXING — Boxing is also a sport that is
much bigger on the East Coast than
in the Bryan-College Station area,
says Jimmy Area, president of the
boxing club. And although the club
doesn't compete against other uni
versity clubs, they get plenty of op
portunities to compete during their
spring season in tournaments such
as the Houston Golden Gloves Tour
nament, the Midwestern Regionals
and 'the local Sigma Phi Epsilon
Fight Night. Area says that not only
do team members participate in the
actual boxing at Fight Night, but
they also volunteer to work as
coaches for some of the organiza
tions which enter. Last year, the
boxing team captured 11 out of 13
trophies given, he says.
On the collegiate level. Area says
the club hopes to send several fight
ers to the collegiate national cham
pionships this year for the first time.
He says the club hopes to eventually
host its own tournament.
Area says boxing isn't as danger
ous or painful a sport as it might ap
pear. Conditioning, making weight
and staying healthy are a fighter's
major worries.
"The beginning of each year, you
spout a little blood out of your nose,"
he says. "But after that you start to
get in condition."
CYCLING — A&M's cycling team,
usually found scouring the roads of
Bryan-College Station and the sur
rounding area, will be at home Nov.
9-10 to sponsor the Aggieland Stage
Race. Bruce Johnson, president of
the team, says experts, novices and
intramural teams are invited to par
ticipate in the race, which will in
clude both open-road and campus
racing.
Johnson says cyclists work hard to
get ready for an event like this, often
riding 200-300 miles per week. There
are about 60 members in the club he
says, about 20 of which are serious
cyclists who participate in the club's
daily rides. Many of them started out
as runners who became interested
in the health benefits of cycling after
participating in triathlons, he says.
"There’s not as much pounding on
your joints and muscles," he says.
"Cycling doesn't place near as
much wear and tear on you body."
FENCING — Most people get interested
in fencing from the fencing classes
taught here at A&M, says Lia Valka-
vich, secretary of the club.
"The teachers says you'll get an A
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