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The Texas A&M men’s tennis
team will open the spring season
with some tough competition to
day at the Ryder Invitational in
Miami, Fla.
The unranked Aggies face No.
12 Miami today at 12:30 in a dual
match.
Saturday A&M will take on No.
9 Arizona State at 7:30 a.m. and
will follow with No. 24 Clemson
at 7:30 a.m. Sunday.
A&M head coach David Kent
said the competition at the tour
nament will feature some of the
Aggies’ most Fierce opposition all
year. But Kent said he is confi
dent A&M is ready for the chal
lenge.
“This will be some of the
toughest competion we’ve ever
faced this early in the season,”
Kent said. “But we’ve been work
ing on match play this semester
and we had a good fall season.
“I think we’re ready to tangle
with these guys. Regardless, it will
be a learning experience for the
team.”
The Texas A&M men’s and
women’s swim teams will travel to
Austin today to take on the Texas
Longhorns in a dual meet. The
meet will be held at 4 p.m. in the
Texas Swimming Center on the
UT campus.
The Aggie men, ranked No. 17
in the country, are 6-1 in dual
meets and the women are 4-5.
Both Longhorn teams are ranked
No. 1 in the country and have
identical 4-0 records.
Swim coach Mel Nash said he’s
looking forward to competing in
the meet.
“This meet is very easy to pre
pare for,” Nash said. “Texas has
the best teams and facilities in the
nation. We hope to swim some
fast times since this is the same
pool we will swim in during the
SWC Champioships.”
Nash said he’s been a little dis
appointed in the women’s team
but the men are doing great.
“The men are swimming well,”
he said. “I see us as a solid No.3
behind Texas and SMU in the
conference. I feel that right now
we’re where we should be.”
Pils
Continued from page 5
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toward the endzone —they did so by
crushing the quarterback before
anything like that could happen.
They were Johnny “The Rock”
Holland and William “Willie T”
Thomas, quarterbacks turned safe
ties. And they each turned into two-
time All-Southwest Conference line
backers.
The similarities among the three
are striking and abundant.
• Size — Holland came to A&M
at 6-2, 200 pounds; Thomas was 6-3,
190 pounds and Preston is 6-2, 187
pounds.
• Timing —Holland’s career
stretched from 1983-86, Thomas’
from 1987-90 and now Preston steps
in for the 1991 season.
• Awards —All three' were All-
Distict selections at quarterback,
while Preston is undoubtedly the
most decorated of the three.
Thomas was also an all-state safety.
• All were winners — Holland
led his Hempstead team to a 6-3-1
record; Thomas’ Palo Duro team
was 25-5-1 in the three years that he
played, including going 10-0 his se
nior year before falling in the first
playoff game; Preston led Consol
idated on a two-year tear through
Class 4A.
After Holland was named first
team All-American in 1986, he was
drafted in the second round of the
NFL Draft in 1987 by the Green Bay
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He said Scott was on his officii
visit and Johnson was here forthtj
job interview. Davis said the tripl
were coincidental and the fact thi
the two were picked up together k
economically feasible for the baske
ball program and the school.
Davis also denied paying Johnso:
asmuch as $2,400 to work at a suit
mer basketball camp in Idaho las
June, and denied the use of Univer
sity credit cards to pay for calls ailed
gedly made by Johnson.
“There’s no question in my mine
that we will be cleared on both in
stances — on credit cards and tin
camp,” he said. “It’s all documentedl
through the business departmen
exactly what he made. He did no;|
make $2,400.”
“No money ever exchanged handi!
between myself, Tony Scott and Rot
Johnson,” Davis said.
Scott is attending classes at A&.\|
after missing the first week of tht
spring semester.
Davis said it is in Scott’s best inter
est to concentrate on academia
rather than the end of the investiga
tion.
Davis added that he and his stafi
have cooperated fully with the inves l
ligation, and are confident it will be
f reat benefit to to his staff, the has
etball program and the University,
Hill
Continued from page 5
It is a role she said she has filled
most of her athletic career.
Transferring to A&M from Blinn
Jr. College last year, she feels her
outspokenness is what earned her
respect and put her in a leadership
role.
Texas A&M Lady
Aggies (4-4 in SWC)
vs. Texas Lady
Longhorns (6-1)
Saturday 7:30 p.m.
C. Rollie White
Coliseum
catching up on sleep and I like to re
ad,” said Hill.
Sounds pretty slow-paced fot f
someone who was given the nick
name “Vonnne ’the Thrill' Hill" Iasi
season by a sports writer.
Hill said that at first she hated the
name, but it liegan to grow on het
after a friend on the volleyball team
jokingly called her ‘the Thrill’ untilii
stuck.
Ironically, Hill said volleyball is
her favorite sport, and actually whai
she wanted to play in college, but she
proved to be better at basketball.
As mid-season approaches, Hill
continues to work toward her season
goal to fill the leadership shoes for
the team.
Packers. He quickly moved in to the
Packers’ starting lineup. In 1989, he
led the team in tackles and Thomas
will assuredly follow Holland to the
NFL in this year’s draft.
The one difference among the
three is that Preston enters A&M
considered by many to be one of the
finest quarterbacks in the state. But
he enters a program that holds a
loaded deck at the signal caller posi
tion.
Bucky Richardson returns next
year for his senior season and fol
lowing him is junior Kent Petty, not
to mention Granger and Emerson.
Preston’s passes tend to fall into
the “it doesn’t look very pretty, but it
got there” catagory, much like that
of Sonny Jurgensen, the old Wash
ington Redskins’ quarterback.
So Preston could find it hard to
break into the lineup and settle for a
move that would yield more playing
time, as did Holland and Thomas.
One other coincidence about
“The Rock” and “Willie T” is that
both wore No. 11. Preston wore No.
14 at Consolidated, which is being
vacated with the departure of wide
receiver Cornelius Patterson.
I could be wrong, and Tommy
Preston could become the best quar
terback A&M has ever seen.
But should you ever hear, “and at
outside linebacker No. 11, All-
American Tommy Preston,” remem
ber you saw it here first.
“I speak and say what needs to be
said and I am not shy about it,” said
Hill.
Guiding the team as leader she
feels her main responsibilities are to
encourage her teammates and to let
them know when they are not doing
their part.
She also said that most people are
led by example.
“That’s why I have to work hard
every day in practice and not let
them see me slack off, because if I
slack off, that makes them think they
can,” said Hill.
Yvonne recognizes this intensity
as the strongest point of her game,
saying it keeps her and the team fo
cused.
“Most of the time I am so intent
while playing a game, that I can’t
hear fans yelling,” Hill said. “I guess
that’s a good quality.
“Anytime I do something,
whether it is athletics, academics or
whatever, I try to be the very best
and intensity is a major part of it.”
Hill said she can concentrate
harder when she is intense and she
realizes that some nights she’s not
going to make all the shots.
“My coach at Blinn (Wayne Wil
liams) always said that if you don’t
have a good offensive night, at least
you can play good defense, and I try
to play good defense every single
night,” said Hill.
Oddly enough, she claims defense
is the weakest part of her game.
“I’ve really been concentrating on
defense these past couple of weeks,”
said Hill. “I’m definitely not close to
being the fastest person on the team
and sometimes when they give us the
match ups I can tell they put me on
the slowest player. So, I’m really try
ing to work on (my speed).”
Her devotion to basketball leaves
little free time after her academic
obligations are met. But, Hill said
that it’s not hard balancing her
schoolwork and athletics, just merely
a matter of getting her priorities in
order.
“Most of my weekends are spent
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Senior guard Yvonne Hill
shows her defensive skill.
She said, “All the accolades aren't
really important if the team alto
gether isn’t doing well.”
She feels the team could be doing
much better as a whole, and attrib
utes their mistakes to being a young
and inexperienced team.
“We’re not getting prepared
enough for our games but that’s one
thing that is going to fall in place,"
said Hill. “I don’t think there is
really anybody in this conference we
can’t stand with.”
“We’re just through the first half
and I think we are going to do a lot
better this second half of conferen
ce.” '
If Hill and the Lady Ags continue
to improve, they will have a shot to
color the Southwest Conference
championship maroon.
: ALVIN AILEY |
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Tuesday, February 19, 1991
Rudder Auditorium
8:00 P.M.
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