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lallfream breaks into Big 12 Conference
lay tonight against its biggest rival as
niversity of Texas rolls into G. Rol-
hite Coliseum at 7.
Jhe Longhorns bring a 6-2 record
flMaNo. 5 ranking into the contest,
■ the Lady Aggies said they are ex-
Bing Texas to be as strong as usual.
“|UT] is a really big team, probably
best blocking team we’ll see (this
on)," A&M junior outside hitter
[tie Smedsrud said. “They don’t make
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UT has dominated A&M volleyball
cent years. Since 1976, the Tong
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es. A&M has not beaten Texas since
Southwest Conference Tournament
ifinalsin 1994.
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vkonthe first match in five games.
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ing to serve them tough, and we also
have to get our blocking going.”
A&M owns a 9-2 record this season
and a five-match winning streak after its
15-0, 15-6, 15-12 victory over the Uni
versity of Texas at Arlington last week.
Through 11 matches, the Lady Ag
gies have improved as a team through
experience against strong competition.
In the season-opening University Park
Holiday Inn Clas
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20th-ranked Loyola
Marymount, and at
the Inntower Clas
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to Wisconsin by
only two points in
the fifth and decid
ing game. The Bad
gers are now
ranked 11th.
Junior setter
Farah Mensik said
A&M’s tough sched
“ (Playing Texas)
will raise our in
tensity. Beating
t.u. is a big thing
for A&M.”
Farah Mensik
Junior setter
20 ranking.
“We lost two matches and knew how
close we were to winning them,” Cor
belli said. “I felt we achieved a top 20
level of play against Wisconsin, Illinois
State and UTA, and on a given night
.anyone in the top 20 can beat anyone
else (in the top 20).”
UT’s strength lies in three players —
senior middle blocker Sonya Barnes (34
total blocks, 70 kills), freshman outside
hitter/middle blocker Sarah Butler (90
kills,74 digs), and sophomore
outside hitter Demetria Sance
(144 kills, .325 hitting average,
100 digs). Texas as a team is hit
ting .251 and averages 4.7
blocks per game.
Mensik said playing Texas
can only make the Lady Aggies
play harder.
“I don’t think (playing UT]
will change our confidence,”
Mensik said. “It will raise our
intensity. Beating t.u. is a big
thing for A&M.”
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“We’ve had strong competition (this
season) and it has prepared us for the
opening of the Big 12,” Mensik said.
“Our past few matches, we came out
real confident and intense.”
Corbelli said A&M has earned its top
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have a clear-cut home court advantage
over the Longhorns.
“Obviously, just being at home helps
us,” Smedsrud said. “We want people to
come out and be loud. That really
pumps us up, and we’re going to play
our hearts out.”
It’s going to be big.
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Post Oak Mall/Lady Aggie Invitational on Sept. 13.
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Beahm
By Jamie Burch
The Battalion
'arvey Beahm was a professional
tennis player in Dublin, Ohio,
.when his daughter Julie was
born. Julie Beahm, now a senior on the
Texas A&M Women’s Tennis Team, fol
lowed in her father’s foot steps, learn
ing the fundamentals of the game at
the age of three.
Beahm’s dad instructed her until the
age of six while operating his own ten
nis club. But after several years of fa
ther-daughter disputes, the tandem
split up.
“He started me out,” Beahm said.
“Later on, we got in so many fights and
I’d leave the court crying. I ended up
getting my own coaches.”
Beahm began her victorious career
by winning her first USTA tournament
at the age of seven. Two years later, she
captured her first national champi
onship at the 1984 McDonald’s Invita
tional in Lexington, Ky.
Beahm played professional tennis
player Mary Pierce in the 14-and-un-
der age bracket growing up in the ju
nior ranks.
“I played her twice,” Beahm said. “I
played her once at the Fiesta Bowl, los
ing 7-5, 6-2, and again at the National
Clay Court Championships in Planta
tion, Fla. She won both of them, but I
think I held my own.”
After her first college recruiting trip
in high school, Beahm said she knew
where she wanted to go to college.
“I went on four recruiting trips,”
Beahm said. “Texas A&M was my first
one. I just fell in love with the school. I
took the other three trips, but after the
first dne, I knew this is
where I wanted to go.”
Since Beahm decid
ed to make Aggieland
her home, she has con
tinued to dominate the
game of tennis. As a
freshman, Beahm
teamed up with former
A&M standout Lonna
Logan to win the
Southwest Conference
No. 3 Doubles Champi
onship with a 6-1 con
ference mark.
The next season, Beahm led the
team in singles victories (21-11), while
capturing the SWC No. 6 singles crown
with a 5-2 record in conference play.
She also won the No. 3 doubles title
once again, this time with junior Moni
ca Rebolledo.
Beahm said she enjoys playing dou
bles play more than singles, even
though she spent the majority of her
youth playing solo.
“When I was in juniors, I really did
n’t play much doubles,” Beahm said.
“So I really enjoy playing doubles now.
It’s fun having a partner. You can talk to
them and joke around when there’s a
lot of pressure.”
As a junior last season, Beahm made
history in capturing the No. 6 singles
crown for the second
straight season and the
No. 3 doubles title for
the third straight sea
son. Her fourth and
fifth career titles made
her the only five-time
SWC individual cham
pion in A&M history —
male or female — and
only the second in SWC
history.
She finished her ju
nior campaign ranked
second on the team with a 29-7 overall
singles record, and third for doubles
wins at 22-7.
After three successful years, Beahm
has a tougher road ahead of her this
season. The senior is recovering from
back surgery in July.
“This summer, I hurt my back in a
tournament,” Beahm said. “So I
haven’t been playing a whole lot. I
just started playing within the last
week or so.”
Beahm played in her first tourna
ment since the injury last weekend,
when the Lady Aggies hosted the Texas
A&M Five-Way Invitational. Beahm
posted a 2-2 record in singles play and
2-1 mark in doubles.
Beahm said she was concerned
about her back before the tournament.
“Going into it, I was a little ner
vous,” Beahm said. “My game is a little
off since I haven’t been playing that
much. But considering the problems
I’ve been having with my back, I
thought I did pretty well.”
A&M Head Coach Bobby Kleinecke
said the team is cautious concerning
Beahm’s health.
“There is a concern because you
don’t want it to get worse,” Kleinecke
said. “I haven’t seen it hamper her any.
I’m sure it is, and I’m sure she’s in some
pain where she can’t go all out.”
Kleinecke said that regardless of the
circumstances, Beahm will usually find
a way to win.
“She’ll compete through anything,”
. Kleinecke said. “It’s strictly her competi
tive nature. She’ll find a way to win the
match. Sometimes you’re wondering
how she did it, but she finds a way.”
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