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Page 17 • The Battalion
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Morris Watts from Michigan
State as his offensive coordina
tor and Carl Reese as his defen
sive coordinator. These changes
have Texas A&M Head Coach
R.C. Slocum worried.
“I think it’s a major factor,
because you have to just guess,”
Slocum said. “In the opening
ballgame, one of the biggest con
cerns is the execution of your of
fense and defense. You haven’t
had time to get oiled up, and
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“We are definitely concerned
with Leeland,” DiNardo said.
“The offensive line is much bet
ter and is well-coached at A&M.
Right now, the Aggies
are where the rest of the
•country wants to be. We
are concerned with the
entire team. Leeland is
the real deal.”
A&M has had its
coaching changes as
well, with Phil Bennet
taking the job as defen
sive coordinator and
Mike Sherman becoming
the offensive line coach.
Slocum said Sherman’s
return has directly re
sulted in the offensive line’s im
provement.
“I don’t think there’s any
question,” Slocum said. “I’ll
make a bold statement right
now — we’re better on the offen
sive line. I have total confidence
in Mike Sherman. I think he’s a
plus. He knows these kids, and
he knows our system.”
LSU’s best shot for beating
the Aggies Saturday may come
with freshman running back
Kevin Faulk. Faulk was highly
recruited out of high school after
being named to numerous All-
American teams.
DiNardo said Faulk
will definitely be
given playing time
to showcase his tal
ents.
“He has played
well,” DiNardo
said. “But we have
not made a decision
yet. We are cau
tious to bring him
out too fast, but he
has intangibles
that are necessary
for freshmen. You never know
until they get into camp.”
Slocum believes that both
Faulk and LSU’s senior quarter
back Jamie Howard will be the
players that the A&M’s “Wreck
ing Crew” defense will have to
stop.
“I think he’s (Howard) a good
player,” Slocum said. “They had
McElroy
Auburn down 26-10 last year,
and Jamie Howard had a lot to
do with that. He can throw the
ball, and he can move.
“(Kevin Faulk) was a great
high school player..A lot of peo
ple thought he was the best run
ning back in the nation last
year. He was a national recruit
that could have gone anywhere
in the United States.”
No matter how much atten
tion A&M’s run at winning the
national championship is draw
ing this year, Slocum and his
team are not looking past any
one.
“I see through all the haze,
and I see them as the same
team that played us an even
game last year,” Slocum said.
“They have more of their guys
back than we do. It was an even
game last year, and we lost 11
guys who signed NFL contracts.
If they were even with us last
year with a couple of big plays
making the difference, then you
have to say they have the ad
vantage going into this ball-
game.”
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a team of All-Stars that
toured Belgium.
By Robin Greathouse
The Battalion
Belgium is not always the
first place that comes to mind
when people think about basket
ball, but for A&M center Martha
McClelland it has become like a
second home.
For two weeks in August,
McClelland and 11 other Divi
sion I basketball players repre
sented the U.S. in exhibition
basketball games against teams
in Belgium.
The all-star team included
players top ranked teams such
as Tulane, Western Kentucky
and Marquette. McClelland said
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will only make us better.”
The Lady Aggies lost only one
senior, Jennifer Bronner, to
graduation, but the loss will be
significant. Bronner averaged
3.85 kills, 10.1 assists and 2.42
digs per game.
“It’s a pretty big loss,” A&M
Head Coach Laurie Corbelli
said. “She was our go-to player
in most of our rotations. She was
very difficult to stop, and we will
miss that attack.”
Although Bronner graduated,
the freshman class may be one of
the best recruiting classes that
A&M has had. The crop of talent
includes outside hitters Stacy
Sykora from Burleson and Kim
that although the players’ styles
were so diverse, they were still
able to be a tight group.
“We worked really well togeth
er as a team,” McClelland said.
“The coach did a good job of giving
everyone equal playing time, and
we really made it work.”
The U.S. team went four and
three against Belgian women’s
professional teams as, well as
some club teams.
McClelland said that the
team’s won-loss record was not a
good indication of the its overall
performance.
“Even though we lost to one of
the top women’s team in the
world, it was only by one point,”
McClelland said. “It really made
us feel good that we could play
at the same level as the profes
sional teams.”
A&M Women’s Head Basket
ball Coach Candi Harvey said
Tipton from Arlington. Both are
expected to make an immediate
impact on the team.
“They are going to be able to
contribute right away,” Wente
said. “They are a threat to other
players on the team. They want
to play just as bad. This
keeps practices at a high
er intensity, and the
starters know that if
they don’t play well, their
spot can be taken.”
With the addition of
Sykora and Tipton, the
Lady Aggies have been
able to implement faster
and more difficult offens-
“We’re going to run
quicker and more compli
cated offenses,” Wente
said. “We’ll have three hitters in
the back row, and it will be more
that the trip was positive for the
school, as well as for McClelland.
“It was a real honor for our
basketball program,” Harvey
said. “It was also a real confi
dence builder for Martha. It gave
the girls a chance to play against
some high-caliber competition.”
When she was chosen for the
team, McClelland said she was a
little nervous.
“I had a lot of questions,” said
McClelland. “But the idea of
playing basketball in another
country was really exciting.”
A&M Associate Athletic Direc
tor Lynn Hickey said that McClel
land was a good choice for the
team because of her professional
ism both on and off the court.
“She is a great person to
send out to represent Texas
A&M,” Hickey said. “She has
really proven herself on the
collegiate level. She’s probably
difficult for the opposing defens
es.”
Sykora is perhaps the most
important addition to the team.
She is an all-around athlete who
has a 30-inch standing vertical
leap that will be a welcome addi
tion to the Lady Ag
gies.
“She’s exciting,”
Corbelli said. “She’s a
unique type of player
in her approach to the
game. I think she’s go
ing to see the court a
lot.”
This season will be
special for the three
seniors on the team,
All-American Suzy
Wente, Dana
Santleben and Andrea
Williams. Wente and Santleben
have been chosen as captains of
Corbelli
our most physical player un
der the basket,” Hickey said.
“When she gets on a role, you
just have to give her the ball,
and she’ll come through for
you.”
McClelland said that the
trip gave her an opportunity to
work on her overall game.
“It let me see where I was,
physically, in the off season,”
said McClelland. “I have been
working on some new moves,
and this gave me a chance to
try some of them out.”
The Lady Aggies will begin
their season by hosting the
WNIT preseason tournament.
This year will mark McClel
land’s final season. Last year,
she led A&M in shooting accu
racy at 58.6 percent and aver
aged 6.1 rebounds a game. She
was second in scoring for the
team with 10.9 points a game.
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this year s team.
“Suzy, Dana and Andrea will
have a big year,” Smedsrud said.
“We’re going to miss them next
year. They’ve been here for four
years and have worked hard.
They are good leaders and they
have helped the team as a
whole.”
In addition to Wente and
Smedsrud, starters Dana
Santleben, Page White and
Cindy VanderWoude will be re
turning. The Lady Aggies are
hoping to improve on last year’s
success by steadily improving
throughout the season and tak
ing it one game at a time.
“We want to get back to the
NCAA’s again,” Corbelli said.
“It’s going to be a progressive
year. We have a lot of things to
still do. I’m anticipating progress
throughout the season.”
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