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McFalls
named to
USA Team
Former Texas A&M All-
American shortstop Jennifer
McFalls has been selected to
the USA Softball National
Team. The team will compete
in a pre-Olympic matchup be
ing promoted as Superball
Classic ’95 as a member Aug. 3-
6 in Columbus, Ga.
McFalls recently competed in
the U.S. Olympic Festival ’95 as
a member of the silver-medal
winning East squad.
The USA Softball Women’s
National Team will be putting
its 105-game winning streak on
the line in the competition
which USA Softball representa
tives say will feature the
toughest international assem
bled this year.
The event will include five
teams already qualified for
the 1996 Olympics softball
competition.
McFalls, from Grand Prairie,
is the Lady Aggies’ all-time
leader in runs scored, hits, bat
ting average, doubles, triples,
total bases and walks.
In her junior season of 1993,
McFalls became only the ninth
player in A&M history to be
named a first-team All-Ameri
can. In that season, McFalls led
the team in runs, hits, batting
average runs batted in, triples,
total bases, slugging percentage
and stolen bases.
Last season, McFalls fell
slightly off her All-American
production level, but the team
was better. The Aggies
were defeated by eventual-na
tional champion Arizona in the
championship of the Central
Regional. McFalls hit .367,'
scored 51 runs again and led
the team in hits and stolen
bases as well.
National teams scheduled to
compete in the tournament in
clude Australia, China, Chinese
Taipei, Fiierto Rico and Japan.
The first-ever U.S. softball
Olympic team will be announced
following the USA Softball Na
tional Team Camp Sept. 5 in
Oklahoma City.
Stew Milne, The Battalion
A high school student at the Texas A&M Softball Camp practices her sliding techniques in a mud pit outside of Clements Hall Wednesday after
noon. The camp, organized by Texas A&M Head Softball Coach Bob Brock ends today with games at the Aggie Softball Complex.
Players get down and dirty at softball camp
□ Campers have the op
portunity to play at the
Aggie Softball Complex.
By Nick Georgandis
The Battalion
When a Texas A&M softball
camper completes the camp, she
receives two rewards. The first is
the opportunity to play at the
Aggie Softball Complex. The sec
ond is the chance to take a dive
in the mud.
This year’s Texas A&M Soft-
ball Camp has an enrollment of
130 girls who are either learning
or enhancing basic softball skills.
Texas A&M Head Softball
Coach Bob Brock is overseeing
the camp and said he is extreme
ly pleased with the week.
“It’s been going all right, and
everyone’s having a bunch of
fun,” Brock said.
The campers, who range in
age from 13-18, are staying in
Cain Hall and have practiced at
Kyle Field, the Polo Fields and
at the Anderson Track Complex
during the past week. The
camp concludes today with sev
eral games at the Aggie Soft-
ball Complex.
Brock said the direction of the
camp has changed this year be
cause more and more high
schools are beginning to field
women’s softball teams.
“There has been such an
emergence and explosion of soft-
ball at the high school level,”
Brock said. “In years past, we’ve
had mostly girls who have partic
ipated only in summer leagues.
But now are getting a lot of girls
that play in high school and sum
mer leagues. So now, we’re get
ting the best of both.”
Brock has been head softball
coach at A&M for the past 14 sea
sons. In that time, he has coached
six College World Series teams
and won three
national cham
pionships. He
came to A&M
from Baylor,
where he di
rected the
Bears to re
gional champi
onships and
the Division II
College World
Series in both
1980 and 1981.
Brock is
used to coaching this age group of
players. He coached the Texas
teenage girls’ state champions in
1979 and also coached a senior
league girls’ state championship
Brock
team in 1977.
“Coach Brock is always very
involved in everything he does,”
former Texas A&M pitcher Kim
Gonzalez said. “It doesn’t matter
if it’s a summer camp, a practice
or a World Series game.”
On Wednesday, the campers
had one final sliding drill, this
one on a grassy strip outside of
Clements Hall.
Known simply as “the mud
slide,” the drill involves the
campers getting a running start
before diving headlong into a
basepath consisting of mud and
water. Brock said the slide is
always one of the highlights of
the camp.
“It’s one of the things (the
campers) always hear about
when they come here,” Brock
said. “We try to make everything
about the camp fun, but this is
something extra.”
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