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Sports
Friday, March 4,1994
The Ba italion
Page 5
A&M seniors
to play last
home game
By Kristine Ramirez
The Battalion
Five Texas A&M seniors will
play at G. Rollie White Coliseum
for the last home game of their
college careers.
The Aggies vvTll play Texas
Tech University at noon Satur
day.
A&M, with a 17-8 overall and
10-3 Southwest Conference
record, is one game behind the
University of Texas.
Seniors David Edwards,
Chuck Johnson, Brett Murry,
Tony Barone, Jr. and Michael
Smith will play their last home
game at Texas A&M.
In the four years they have
been at A&M, the program has
been from probation to a major
contender for the SWC Champi
onship.
Head coach Tony Barone said
this group of seniors has set a
tremendous example for the rest
of the team.
"This group of seniors can
look back and say they have
changed a program that was at
the bottom of the barrel," he said.
"It's been a joy working with
them.
"They have stepped up and
See Seniors/ Page 6
A return to success
A&M womens head basketball coach
relishes role of building program to
national prominence, respect
William Harrison/Thl Baitauon
In her 10th season at A&M, head coach Lynn
Hickey leads the Lady Aggies to their first 20-win
season and possible conference championship.
By Nick Georgandis
The Baitalion
T wenty-win seasons are
old hat for Lynn Hickey.
In her first five years as a
head coach at Kansas State,
Hickey's teams never won
less than 23 games a season,
and averaged 25 wins a year
during that time.
Success seemed easy for
Hickey, and she sought a
new challenge.
That ambition brought
her to Texas A&M in 1984 as
the women's head basket
ball coach and associate ath
letic director.
At the same time Hickey
was hired, her husband Bill
Hickey - at the time the
head baseball coach at KSU
- was hired to be an assis
tant baseball coach to new
manager Mark Johnson.
Hickey said that leaving
KSU, a top 10 team her last
year as coach, was not a dif
ficult decision after weigh
ing her options.
"At that time it was
mostly a family move," she
said, "because I knew it
would benefit Bill just as
much or even more then it
would benefit me."
If Hickey wanted a new
mountain to conquer, com
ing to A&M must have been
like trying to crawl to the
top of Mount Everest.
The women's basketball
team had strung together
four consecutive losing sea
sons prior to Hickey's ar
rival, with a combined
record of 40-73 over that
stretch.
The performance off the
court wasn't much better
than on: No recruiting had
ever been done for women's
basketball, and tickets
weren't even sold for Lady
Aggie home games.
Hickey said the past
decade was certainly a
learning experience, but it is
well worth it as the program
is now within reach of lofty
goals.
"It was a challenge, be
cause 10 years ago people
were still trying to decide if
See Hickey/ Page 6
An open letter
from Coach Barone
To the Student Body:
We play an important
Southwest Conference game
against Texas Tech on Satur
day at noon at G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
Our final home game of
the year, it will be "senior
day" in honor of our five se
niors. 1 want to encourage
the student body to give our
seniors a well-deserved
show of support.
As you know, an unfortu
nate incident occurred after
we played Tech on Feb. 5 in
Lubbock. We want to em
phasize that the Tech play
ers, coaches and 99 percent
of their fans had nothing to
do with the incident.
I want our student body
to show everyone what class
is all about. You should
cheer and be enthusiastic as
you can be about our team.
Our seniors have changed
the direction of A&M basket
ball and 1 do not want any
thing negative to be associat
ed with their last home
game.
Our fans have been
tremendously loyal all sea
son. Please help us get back
on track by showing up in
force and cheering us on to a
big win in a classy manner.
Thanks for your support,
Tony Barone, head bas
ketball coach
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The 14th ranked Texas A&M lady softball team, com
ing off a doubleheader sweep of the Sam Houston State,
will compete against some of the nation's top teams at
the Aggie Invitational this weekend.
The Aggies, 11-7, combined solid pitching with timely
hitting to take two from the Lady Kats on Wednesday in
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Kim Gonzalez, 8-3, limited Sam Houston to one run
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See Softball/ Page 6