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begins today
A ll the posturing that
has gone on in college
football since Jan. 2
ends today at Texas A&M as
freshmen and newcomers to the
Aggie football team report for
the first day of the rest of their
lives.
The athletes won’t have to
face anything tougher than the
Cain Hall chicken fried steak
tonight, but on Wednesday they
will take part in their first prac
tice at Kyle Field.
Returning varsity players
will make their arrival on
Thursday, and Saturday will
mark the true beginning of
Texas A&M Football ’95 with
the first full squad two-a-day
practices.
A&M’s first game is a scant
27 days away,against Louisiana
State on Sept. 2 at Kyle Field.
The Fiesta Bowl, which will host
the national championship
game, is exactly 120 days later.
Expect A&M to win both.
To borrow a line form A&M
play-by-play announcer Dave
South, the Aggies are the best
they’ve ever been. It will take a
few seasons to determine if this
year’s freshman class is the
most talented ever at A&M, but
it is definitely the most hyped.
See GeorGANDIS, Page 4
□ In 1994, the Aggies com
piled an 8-0 mark at the Aggie
Soccer Complex. In two years
of competition, they are yet to
lose a home game.
By Nick Georgandis
The Battalion
This story is the last in a series on
Texas A&M athletic facilities.
No other sport in A&M history has
experienced the meteoric rise of the
Aggie Soccer Team.
In November 1992, A&M was award
ed full varsity status for the soccer
team after competing as a varsity non
scholarship program
for 16 years.
In its first season,
the Aggies compiled
a 15-3-1 record, and
the athletic depart
ment took notice,
building the Aggie
Soccer Complex
across the street
from Olsen Field on
West Campus.
“The Aggie Soccer
Complex is designed
to showcase exciting attacking soccer,
the style we strive for in every game
and training session,” A&M Head
Coach G. Guerrieri said.
“This is the type of facility that will
draw the nation’s top teams to Ag-
gieland for exciting NCAA play in
years to come.”
The Aggies debuted on the field last
Aug. 27 with a 5-1 rout of St. Edwards
in an exhibition game. In the first pe
riod, then-sophomore midfielder
Jamie Csizmadia scored A&M’s first-
ever goal at the new field, tying the
game at one.
After last season, probably plenty
of teams would rather not visit A&M’s
facility, no matter how state-of-the-art
it is. The Aggies compiled a perfect 8-
0 record at the Aggie Soccer Complex
in its inaugural season.
The winning streak includes a 2-1 vic
tory over the Lady Longhorns of Texas
that spanned two overtime periods.
The Lady Longhorns have never
beaten the Aggies in two seasons,
sparking an immediate rivalry be
tween the two squads.
The victory was A&M’s first against
a SWC team in the new facility.
The win against Southern
Methodist University on Nov. 2 came
when the always-strong Mustangs
were ranked fifth in the South Region.
The victory gave A&M the unoffi
cial “SWC Title.” The Aggies defeated
all the SWC teams they faced last sea
son, including UT, Texas Tech, TCU
and SMU.
“We got to play on our home field,”
senior forward
Anna Whitehead
said. “I knew we
were going to take
them.”
The 1995 SWC
soccer conference,
which was created
May 29 by former
SWC Commissioner
Steve Hatchell, will
have five schools
competing — A&M,
UT, SMU, TCU and Texas Tech. The Ag
gies will host the first-ever SWC soccer
match Sept. 18 against TCU. In 1996, the
Aggies will join the Big 12 soccer league.
From Oct. 21-23, the Aggies hosted
their first tournament at their new field.
The University of Texas, Texas Christ
ian University and Northern Illinois all
competed in the tournament along with
the Aggies.
The Aggies won their own tourna
ment by defeating both TCU and North
ern Illinois.
Besides being a graveyard for oppo
nents’ winning streaks, the Aggie Soccer
Complex is one of the finest of its kind in
the nation and is still not completely built.
"This is the
type of facility
that will draw
the nation's
top teams."
— G. Guerrieri
A&M Head Soccer Coach
Members of the 1994 Texas A&M Soccer Team play against St. Edwards on SepL ,
first-ever game at the Aggie Soccer Complex.
The complex contains press areas, a
new scoreboard and bleacher seating
for 800.
Future construction plans have the
permanent seating being expanded to
2,000. Along with the new seats, future
additions include a filming deck, covered
bench and press areas and home and visi
tor locker rooms.
The locker rooms will be part of a
three-sport training complex which will
also house facilities for the softball and
track and field teams.
Texas A&M begins the 1995 season
with an exhibition on Aug. 26 with a game
against a team of A&M alumni. The reg
ular season begins Sept. 3 against
Marquette University.
SMELLS LIKE
HOME COOKIN’
Since becoming a varsity
sport in 1993, the Texas A&M
soccer team has had great success,
especially at home. The Aggies' record;
overall and at home in the sport'sfirstk
seasons at Texas A&M.
Year
Home Record
OJ
1994
7-0
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1995
8-0
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