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He suffered calf muscle tears, shin splints and a serious flu virus, but those injuries are behind him now, he said. “I’m almost to the point now where I can say that I’m in as good a shape as I’ve ever been in,” he said. “The last time I was in this sort of shape was before I left home, when I was in high school. “Right after I left home, I started having injury trouble. But, I’d say I’m running as well now as I ever have before.” Meyer, who runs the 1,500 and 1,800 meter events during spring track season, left his country to run track and get an education in the United States. “When I was running back home, I always wanted to come (to the U.S.) to run and get an education at the same time,” Meyer said. “So, I ap plied to a bunch of schools. I got a couple of scholorship offers, and I took one to Washington State.” “I ran up there for a year and a half, but I had a bunch of injuries, and was sick for a while,” he said. “I didn’t fit in with the coaching sys tem, either.” So, Meyer decided to move to a new university. “I wasn’t happy, and decided to leave,” he said. “I wanted to come some place where there was a good track team and also a very good side of education.” Meyer said that he liked the atmo sphere and people here. “There seems to be more of a committment to excellence in every thing about this school,” he said. “The attitude around this school is very achievement-oriented. “I’ve always had that impression about this school, and I think that it’s true. When I came down to look at the place and meet the coaches, I liked them, so I decided I’d come down.” 1 Although A&M has given him a small scholorship, it wasn’t nearly as big as the full scholorship that he left at Washington State. Still, Meyer doesn’t mind. “I’ve got a small scholorship he re,” he said. “The quality of athletics is very high here. I didn’t deserve (a full scholorship) last year, really. “I’d been sick arid injured for a while and it takes a while to get healthy again. I don’t mind though, because it took a little bit of pressure off of me. Not having the pressure has allowed me to concentrate on my studies and my running at the same time without worrying about per forming to a certain standard all the time.” Still, Meyer knows that winning this Saturday’s Southwest Confer ence Cross Country championship meet in Dallas won’t be easy. Al though he’s finished in the top four runners in three of his four meets this season, Meyer hasn’t been able to win, yet. “I’d say I have an outside chance of winning, but I’m trying to low-key the whole thing,” Meyer said. “Tim Gargiulo from SMU, is run ning really well. He’s beaten me twice this year already, by almost a minute both times.” However, Meyer has no trouble putting the match in perspective. “I’m not overly concerned,” he said. “My attitude is to go in there and have a good run, and see what happens.” Meyer hails from Durban, the third largest city in South Africa with a population of around 1.7 mil lion. He said that although many Texans imagine Africa as being strictly desert, his home on the southeast coast is much like Florida. Being an international student gives him a different perspective on school and culture, he said. “It gives you a different perspec tive on life in general,” Meyer said. “American society is distinct from anything else in the world. It gives you a different angle on campus life, because you don’t know what to ex pect when you come in.” Despite all the political turmoil in South Africa, Meyer hasn’t been dis criminated against by Americans be cause of his nationality. Cross countijl competes in SWC meet .89 The Texas A&M men’s women’s cross country teams wl participate in the Southwest Con ference championships Saturdji at Dallas’ Crow Lake Park. A The Aggie men finished sev enth last season, while the Ladt Aggies were fifth. The competition will be toujli again this year. The Razorbads are ranked seventh national, and the Longhorns are ranked 11th. A&M Assistant Track Coacli, Ted Nelson said that the meet will be an educational meet for the young Aggie team, whichwii run five freshmen and only two upperclassmen. osc ling, clubl •aca •ters es o\ ind, :S- bout |Tass “We’re trying to build for tie future,” Nelson said. “Wehavei very young team, and if theystav with it they’ll improve a lot in tke near future.” The men’s race will berunona five mile course along the Trinit) River bottom, and will begin at 10:40 a.m. The women’s racewi be 5,000 meters (3 miles),andtvi begin at 10:00 a.m. best inin :rs vv ion - ers a: he ck at< “When I left home, I was told that I was going to be given a hard time, but at the schools I’ve been at, I’ve never had any trouble at all,” Meyer said. “People have always accepted me for who I am, not where I from.” If Meyer keeps running well,.1 gie cross country fans will be evti| happier to have him here. Lehmann San Antonio ready for Robinsoi (Continued from page 9) that point. A&M is, without a doubt, stronger and faster on both sides of the football than Rice. The problem is that the Aggies haven’t played very well on the road this year. They lost to Texas Tech, Wash ington and barely escaped with a vic tory over Baylor last week. “Well, the refs stole the game,” he said. “Yeah, they blew some calls, but a Cotton Bowl team has to be able to dominate enough to overcome bad calls,” I said. He burped and pondered that for a minute. I explained that Rice hasn’t beaten the Aggies since 1980. Hey, the law of averages, you know. “But Rice doesn’t have any run ning game,” he said. “How are they gonna move the ball?” “Hollas is a great athlete, and if A&M doesn’t move the ball better than they did last week, Rice won’t have to score a lot.” “True,” he said, his eyes glowing with logic, “but the Baylor defense is a lot better than Rice’s.” Good point. “Yeah, but this is the Southwest Conference, and weird things happen here. Arkansas was ranked No. 6 last week, and Texas didn’t have any running game ei ther, but the Horns won.” That stopped him cold. I took ad vantage of his silence to mention some of the more bizarre happen ings in the SWC this season, like the Texas upset last week. How about Texas Christian beat ing Air Force last week? The pre viously 3-3 Frogs thrashed the for merly 18th-ranked Falcons 27-9. How about Houston? When they smell blood, they win big. Like the 95-21 slaughter of SMU. SAN ANTONIO (AP) — To San Antonio basketball fans, it was like being told they had shore leave com ing— in two years. Now that 7-1 center David Robin son has finished his two-year stint in the Navy he can begin earning his $26 million basketball keep. And San Antonio is abuzz over the pros pect of Robinson’s first regular-sea son NBA game and the new-look Spurs. “They know that there was just all this hype about me. I think espe cially the people here in San Anto nio, and I guess the people around the country, are just curious about how I’m going to be,” Robinson said after a recent team practice. A little pressure, would you say? Not really, contends the cool- headed 24-year-old. “I think because of the guys that we’ve brought in this year, they’re taking a lot of the attention away from me,” Robinson said. “It gives me a chance to really relax a little bit and play my own type of game.” He’s sharing the load with veter ans like Maurice Cheeks and Terry Cummings — acquired in off-season trades with Philadelphia and Mil waukee — and rookie Sean Elliott. “I don’t feel the pressure of hav ing to shoot, having to score,” Robin son said. It’s a switch from the Naval Aca demy, where as a senior Robinson averaged 28.2 points, 11.8 rebounds and 4.5 blocks and said he “had to be great every night” for the team to win. Between Navy and the Spurs, Robinson was on the U.S. Olympic team, scoring 19 points and grab bing 12 rebounds against the Soviet Union in the gold medal game which America lost. Though one of the Spurs’ leading scorers in preseason contests, with 17 points against Milwaukee and 22 in one game against Boston, Robin son warns that too much shouldn’t be read into that. “The way that I’m going to make this team win is defensively, on the boards. That’s where I’ve got to dominate,” he said. “I need to get 10 or 12 boards a game.” Robinson isn’t the only Spur ad justing to a new role. Only Willie An derson, Frank Brickowski and Ver non Maxwell remain from last season, when the team finished 21- 61, its worst season ever. Rookie Jens-Uwe Gordon, from Santa Clara, and Zarko Paspalj, play ing his first NBA season after three years as a pro jn his native Yugosla via, are part of the team’s new look. And the Spurs acquired David Wing ate and Chris Welp in the Cheeks trade with the 76ers and signed free agent Caldwell Jones. Coach Larry Brown, in his second year with San Antonio, said last sum mer that he felt his team was too ing the Spurs, has been trying pb ers at various positions. Elliott an Anderson, for instance, have beti tested at guard and forward. Elliott, the No. 3 overall draftpitl| from Arizona and PAC-10 scom record holder with 2,555 points, signed a five-year, $9 contract two days before the teamil first preseason game. Though Elliotf has been playing catchup, Browl said he isn’t having much troubleair| justing to the pros. “He was terrific against Boston' Brown said after the first preseaso loss. “Right now we’d like toseelt play small forward and guard s body at that position.” Young players say Cheeks, the NBA career record in steals, Cummings, 11th in the NBAin ing last season, have become te; leaders. young. In exhibition games the Spurs have defeated the Dallas Mavericks 108-106 and the Milwaukee Bucks 105-96, but suffered two losses at the hands of the Boston Celtics, 111-99 and 115-97. Brown said he has looked to Bos ton and players such as Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish as examples and confidence-builders for his young players. “I told David (Robinson) after the game he ain’t going to play against many guys better than McHale, Par ish and Larry Bird,” he said. Brown, who guided Kansas to a national championship before join- An 11-year veteran point guan Cheeks was less than thrilled in At gust when the 76ers traded him, he foresaw “good possibilities” the new Spurs, although he said I might take a while for the team gel. Just when that might happen anybody’s guess. lene' , Plash J0H/ ivernr at pe; Fans have set preseason attet- dance records hoping to find out : § e an And Spurs owner Red McCombs ha 1Ve he promised, at the least, a unique yet ) e h re of basketball. 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