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Texas A&M left fielder Cindy
Foster wears No. 13 “just for luck.”
“I had personalized plates on my
Toyota that said ‘TOY 13,’” Foster
said. “That’s why I made it through.
I was lucky.”
What Foster made it through was
the night of July 10, 1983, and the
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“I had been out of town and was
driving home on the Gulf Freeway
in Houston Sunday night,” the
Friendswood native said softly. “I
was coming over a hill in the left-
hand lane, and, I don’t remember
this, but I met a drunk driver. He
was driving on the wrong side of the
road. We met at the top of the hill.”
Foster’s car was pinned under
neath the truck and she was trapped
inside.
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Her list of injuries were numerous
— massive scalp lacerations across
her face and head; broken right arm
with the tendons leading to her arm
totally severed; broken and dislo
cated hip; internal bleeding; lacera
tions on both knees and one poste
rior cruciate gone.
She had 180 stitches all over her
body, spent O’/a hours in surgery,
three days in intensive care and 31
days restrained on her back in the
hospital.
Orthopedic surgeons told Foster
she would never walk again much
less play softball.
“I had been really down, wonder
ing why it happened,” Foster said.
“It had to have happened for a rea
son. It was a challenge sent to me,
trying to see what I could be.”
Foster accepted the challenge and
beat the odds.
“I got out of the hospital on Au
gust 10,” Foster said. “My parents
ter in the spring of ’84, Fosiei
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what she calls her best hittingve t© 111
“I knew I was going to doit,, fl u
when no one else thought I k(H H
Foster said. “I put a lot of pit \VVc
on myself — I always have. | a n 1
would be bored if it wasanyBrf
way.” in t
Now, three years later, Fostj;jlaii
a new outlook on life, mostolBC
speed back and the same oldp Will
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len as many bases as I did rayf *11
man season,” Foster said exdelun
“My speed is as good as it’s got
get which is about 95 percent.
“ I still have the pain in myhij
there’s not a day we runandl
in second. I hate to lose."
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Photo by Anthony S. Casper
A&M’s Cindy Foster, who was critically injured in a car wreck three
years ago, is trying to lead the Ags to the national championship.
told me there was no way I was going
back to school in the fall, which
started at the end of August. I said,
‘By God, I’m going to go back.’”
When the Aggies took the Field
for the First fall ’83 game, Foster was
suffering mentally as well as physi
cally.
“I could barely stand to go out to
the Field,” she said. “Right then I
thought I would never play again.
But that night I went out to Kyle
Field. I just wanted to run one lap. I
went 150 yards and I was cringing.”
But with trainer Karen Tong’s
help, Foster’s long and often painful
rehabilitation was completed. In
fact, being used as a designated Inl
and Sunday. and
Having been on the Aggie' tlf
tional championship team her : fi|k
man season, Foster wouldlilet®"'
ing better than to end her form alai
career the same way. pro'
“1 don’t think we’re goingloBf
another game,” Foster said.“1 lead
not a team in the nation thatn. Don
up head-to-head with us. I (Sf v
we’re going to win it all.” p|( 1
Following the season, the5[(J|
senior will undergo surgentnr
her an artificial hip.
“It’s at this point in the season
1 pray that we remember allth
riiices we made,” she said. 1
you think back to allyoupuii
gives you a Ixiost. Youknowioi
make it one more time.
"I know where I’ve beenanii
I can do. But you never get
point where you’re satisfied.F
now I feel about this season.In
proud about what we’ve aa
plished, but there’s a lot old
left unfinished.”
Metiers commence SWC road swing
A8dVI faces tough matches with No. 1 SMU, No. 9 Arkansas
By Ken Sury
Assistant Sports Editor
Men’s Tennis
The Texas A&M men’s tennis
team got a big confidence builder
when it knocked off No. 10 Texas
Christian Saturday, and the Aggies
will need every bit of that confidence
against No. 1 Southern Methodist
today.
A&M is in Dallas for a Southwest
Conference match with top-ranked
SMU, which drubbed No. 7 Texas,
6-3, Tuesday at the Longhorns’ new
tennis complex.
The Mustangs are 5-0 in SWC
play and have only lost five of their
last 45 conference matches.
A&M Coach David Kent knows
the Aggies, currently ranked No. 24
and 2-2 in the SWC, will be in for an
uphill battle.
“They’re No. 1 in the country.
and deservedly so, so it’ll be tough,”
Kent said. “Right now they’ve been
treating everybody like a stepchild.”
Kent said he hopes the confi
dence-building TCU win will carry
over into the SMU match.
“We’re not going down there to
lose,” he said. “We have nothing to
lose and everything to gain (by beat
ing SMU).”
A&M’s No. 1 singles player,
Kimmo Alkio, will be in for one of
his toughest matches of the year as
he takes on SMU’s RicheyR(
currently the No. 3 singlespb
the nation. Alkio isranked2Se
A&M’s weekend action
ease much Saturday as it
he Ozarks to play No. 9. 1
The Razorbacks handed the
Frogs a 7-2 setback Tuesdat
prove their SWC marktof
Iu singles play, Arkansas
1-2 punch with Joey Blake,
seventh in the nation,
Blair, who is No. 8.
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Ags need big win over Owls to keep pace in conference
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The Texas A&M women’s tennis
team is no longer calling the shots in
the Southwest Conference race, but
neither is it out of the running.
No. 18 A&M faces Rice Sunday in
Houston and needs to win seven
matches to keep pace with SMU,
which beat the Owls 7-2 Thursday.
The Mustangs are 7-0 in SWC ac
tion with a dual match with TCU re-
Women’s Tennis
maining. But Texas, which Finished
at 6-2, is in first place because the
conference standings are based on
the number of individual matches
won. UT’s match-win mark is 50-22,
while SMU is in second at 46-17.
A&M and TCU are tied for third
place with 4-1 records and a match-
win mark of 33-12.
A&M Coach Bobby Kleinecke said
it will be tough for the Aggies to win
since their remaining matenes are on
the road, but believes his team’s
depth in the singles competition is
superior to Rice.
The toughest match for the Ag
gies will he the No. 1 singbp®
A&M’s Vanne Akagi pb'S^fl
Wood, who is currently tan
13 in the nation. J|
Both Akagi and Woodarecetj
off victories over SMU’sJk
Sterling, and Kleinecke said 1|
will have to play at leastasf
match as she did against krli^
she hopes to heat Wood.
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