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The Battalion
Friday, October 27,
Coming to America
Cross Country’s Meyer is ready to win as an Aggie
By Alan Lehmann
Of The Battalion Staff
Ralph Meyer is happy to have a
second chance at a collegiate track
career.
The Texas A&M junior distance
runner from South Africa is happy
to be healthy again after two years of
nagging injuries.
Three years ago he went to Wash
ington State on a full scholorship.
However, his health soon took a turn
for the worse, and he became un
happy with the staff.
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.
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women’s cross country teams wl
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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.
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“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
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