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REED/The Battalion Volleyball players (left to right) Gehny Wood, Wente all hail from the city of San Antonio and Dana Santleben, Andrea Williams and Suzy say the area is a hotbed of high school talent. San Antonio supplies talent for Aggies By STEVE O BRIEN Sports Writer o/THE BATTALION The San Antonio River is fed by Lake Medina, located 45 miles northwest of San Antonio, and gently winds its way south to ward the beaches of Matagorda Island. On its trek, the river me anders through the small Texas towns of Floresville and Goliad before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. The geography of the San An tonio River means little to A1 Givens, but it's a safe bet he knows all about the river of talent that flows out of the Lone Star State's third largest city. Lately, the current has been flowing his way. Givens, Texas A&M's head volleyball coach, has four players on this year's squad from San Antonio, including three fresh men and one junior. Givens has tapped into one of four major recruiting areas in the state for volleyball players, and he hopes it means continued suc cess for the Lady Aggies, who finished last season 18-16. "There are certain pockets in the state that Consistently pro duce great talent," Givens said. "The Houston area, the San An tonio area, the Dallas area and the Austin area. They all produce great players, and if you can get players from all those areas you can be successful. "We have players from all those parts of the state. It just so happens that we have a lar^e group from the San Antonio area.' / The four players from San An tonio are freshmen Dana Santleben, Suzy Wente, Andrea Williams and junior Genny Wood. Santleben, Wente and Wood all went to Clark High School, while Williams ' attended Churchill. Santleben was named to Vol leyball Monthly's Fab 50 and was a three-time All-District per former. Wente was named Vol leyball Monthly Second Team All-American and was a Fab 50 recruit. Williams was named All-Dis trict three years and All-City once in 1990. Wood, a co-captain and re turning starter on this year's team, was the San Antonio Player of the. Year while in high school. She said her hometown is full of good volleyball players for a number of reasons. "I think the main thing is that San Antonio has good volleyball programs in a lot of the nigh schools, and we had a real strong program at our high school," Wood said. "There's also a very competitive club league. "It's just a really big place to play volleyball." When Wood was a senior at Clark, Santleben and Wente were on the varsity squad as sopho mores and all three became friends then. Now, three years later, they are playing together again. "I've known them for quite some time," Wood said. "I think Dana and Suzy and all the fresh men are adjusting to college play really well. Our team as a whole is really good with bringing in freshman and accepting them." Santleben, who has wen play ing with Wente since the sixth grade, said the reason why San Antonio has a large number of good volleyball players is simple "For us at Clark, we had great coaches," Santleben said. "Our team jelled together really well and went to state two years in a row. "The off-season city leagues are great." Williams, who competed against Clark when she was at Churchill, said the adjustment to college volleyball has been diffi cult at times, even with her San Antonio roots. "It really is a different style of play," Williams said. "The game is so much faster in college. I'm adjusting quickly but I'm not there yet — I think it shows. "Right now. I'm not really thinking about how much I'm going to play. Coach has said we've got a lot of talent on this team and it could go a lot of dif ferent ways." 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