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letics a reprieve
Monday after
noon against
the Toronto
Blue Jays with
his best start in
recent memory,
allowing two
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spectacular in
nings. But how
much longer
can Tony
LaRussa's A's
play above
their heads?
1992 is the A's year of living dan
gerously, a season in which role play
ers who normally would have spent
all of their time either floundering on
the bench or laboring in Tacoma's
Triple-A obscurity have picked the
team up by its bootstraps time and
time again. Oakland's unexpected de
fiance of the Twins and White Sox, the
American League West's preseason
darlings, restored LaRussa's image as
a baseball genius, and restored the
roar for Oakland A.C. — After
Canseco.
But the challenge now for the A's
might be too much. Toronto entered
the AL championship series with the
much-deserved reputation as a team
of chokers, talented players who fold
up like aged pup tents against the
likesof Oakland and Minnesota. And
no late-season trades for people like
Mike Flanagan or Tom Candiotti have
| ever come close to changing that.
But for the team with the most tal
ented pitching staff in the majors, the
past few months have seen it go
through the only tight divisional pen
nant race, as Milwaukee and Balti-
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Michalke ends career
during midseason
Knee injury forces senior to call it quits
By K. LEE DAVIS
Sports Writer of THE BATTALION
Recurring knee injuries, pain and surg
eries have ended the career of Texas
A&M volleyball player Raychelle
Michalke.
After Michalke was unable to play in
A&M's loss to the University of Texas on
Oct. 7, she asked for a week off to recover
from the chronic pain she was experienc
ing that seemed to be getting worse, not
realizing she would never play another
game for the Lady Aggies.
Michalke said that team trainers and
head coach Al Givens conferred on Oct. 8
on her continuing injury problems, and
decided that it would be in the best inter
ests for her if she were to retire from the
game.
"Basically the situation was out of my
hands," Michalke said. "When I was told
that I should retire I was very upset be
cause part of me wanted to finish my se
nior season, which I had looked forward
to for five years."
But Michalke said that she was realis
tic enough to know that Givens' decision,
however painful it would be to her emo
tionally, was the correct one.
"Another part of me was relieved be
cause I wasn't able to play up to my po
tential, or run and jump the way I could
before the injuries came," Michalke
added.
Givens said he felt the best decision for
Michalke and her team was made, and
that he had no choice in suggesting that
she end her career.
"I had to take this decision out of her
hands, and do what was best for every
one," Givens said.
Michalke said that ending her career
was not easy to deal with, but she knew
that with the seriousness of her injury, it
was something that eventually must
come.
"Every athlete dies two deaths, and the
first death is always the hardest,"
Michalke said.
Michalke's right knee has less than ten
percent of its lateral meniscus remaining,
and the cartilage under her kneecap has
deteriorated to the point that it is rubbing
bone to bone.
Michalke said her knee problems start
ed during her senior year in high school
when she damaged it playing volleyball
for Schulenberg High.
She had her first of three surgeries
soon after the injury, and another one fol
lowed during her redshirt season at Texas
A&M.
Michalke had another surgery before
A&M's 1991 season, only recently realiz
ing there would be more problems to fol
low.
"It is probably safe to say that I will
have more problems with the knee, but I
have a lot to be happy for and a lot to
live for," Michalke said.
Givens said that a decision had to be
made for Michalke, since she would nev
er stop playing if it was left up to her.
"She (Michalke) loves to play so much
that she would never quit, but physically
it was even hard for her to walk across
campus," Givens said.
Givens added that Michalke was one
of A&M's best and most experienced
players, and said that replacing her in the
lineup would be a difficult task.
"We lose an outside attacker and a real
aggressive player in an area where we
thought we had a lot of depth," Givens
said.
Givens characterized injuries as being
an undesirable part of the game, one that
every coach and player inevitably had to
deal with.
"For any athlete, the risk of injury is
assumed, and every athlete does have to
assume that responsibility," Givens said.
Michalke, a senior kinesiology major
working on a n^inor in health, will be al
lowed to stay on scholarship and has al-
A&M outside attacker Raychelle Michalke (4) spikes the ball across the net in a
win over Lamar in 1991. Michalke is ending her career in volleyball because of a
recurring knee problem.
ready earned her fourth varsity letter this
season.
She will also remain with the team
during practice and games, but will not
play.
"I will fill whatever role is needed at
this point," she said.
Michalke will start her student teach-
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lead a normal life.
"Being part of the A&M team was one
of the best things in my life," Michalke
said. "And looking back five years ago
when I signed my letter of intent, had I
known what was going to happen, I
wouldn't have changed a thing."
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