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► The A&M Volleyball
Team posted its first
sweep over Texas since
the 1978 season.
By Ross Hecox
The Battalion
The last time the Texas A&M Volley
ball Team swept the University of Texas
in three games, it was Oct. 13, 1978, and
Lady Aggie outside hitter Stacy Sykora.
was 15 months old.
After being dominated by the
Longhorns 43-11 since 1976, A&M got
the monkey off its back Wednesday
night by defeating the University of
Texas, 16-14, 15-2, 15-12 before a
screaming crowd of 2,380 at G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
The Lady Aggies’ victory was their
first regular season win over Texas
since Oct. 30, 1991, in College Station.
“It’s a match we’ve been waiting for a
long while,” A&M Head Coach Laurie
Corbelli said. “I’m glad to be a part of it,
because my folks are Longhorns.”
With A&M leading 14-12 in the
third game, the Longhorns lost
serve after freshman middle blocker
Sarah Butler’s serving error. Defend
ing the ensuing A&M serve, Texas
sophomore outside
hitter Katie Austin hit
a spike attempt just
out of bounds to the
right, giving the Lady
Aggies the victory.
“It’s a dream come
true,” junior outside
hitter Kristie Smedsrud
said. “I did not expect a
three-game sweep. It’s
the most awesome
feeling ever.”
Junior outside hitter
Stacy Sykora said the
team’s ability to keep
the match’s momen
tum throughout was
the key to the victory.
“When we had two or three mis
takes, we didn’t get down,” Sykora
said. “We were always at that level.”
In the beginning of the third
game, A&M fell behind 6-2, but slow-
“A lot of people
didn’t believe
we could win.
Mentally, we
had to prove to
ourselves that
we could do it.”
Laurie Corbelli
A&M Head Coach
ly pulled even at 6-6 with senior
middle blocker Page White’s shot
down the Texas left line. A Butler kill
attempt was long, giving the Lady
Aggies the lead 7-6 and Texas was
never able to regain the lead.
A&M was successful
in setting the ball to
the left side and the
middle. Middle block
ers White and junior
Cindy VanderWoude
combined for a .375
hitting average and 20
kills.
In the second game,
A&M jumped out to a
commanding 11-1 lead
on a Smedsrud kill that
deflected off the Texas
blockers. Texas was un
able to run a diverse at
tack throughout the
match and made several substitutions.
Sykora made the score 14-2 when
she spiked the ball off Barnes’ shoul
der. The Longhorns failed to score on
their next possession, and Austin’s hit
ting error let A&M go up two games
to none in the match. The team hit for
a .323 average in the game.
Corbelli said it was encouraging
to see the Lady Aggies play so well in
the second game after struggling this
season in the second frame of sever
al matches.
“I was very proud of game two,”
Corbelli said. “[The players] came
back really strong.”
Texas took an early 4-0 lead in the
opening game, but A&M quickly re
sponded with a 7-0 run to go up by
thiee. Extending their lead to 14-9, the
Lady Aggies let the Longhorns back
into the game with a combination of
net violations and a kill by Butler.
But after Texas tied the game 14-14,
Sykora recorded three kills to help
A&M close the set.
“A lot of people didn’t believe we
could win,” Corbelli said. “Mentally,
we had to prove to ourselves that we
could do it. What I’m most proud of is
the players have believed and trusted
in the coaches.”
Pacing the Lady Aggies was Smed
srud with 14 kills, while White and
Sykora added 13 and 11 respectively.
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The Battalion
While the Texas A&M Football Team
ent last week concentrating on beat-
[the University of North Texas, the
piversity of Colorado had a week off.
The Buffaloes utilized their time by
tidying A&M’s game film while lick-
htheir wounds from their 20-13 loss
the University of Michigan two
ieks ago.
“It was a good week off for us,” Col-
ado senior linebacker Matt Russell
d. “It has given us a chance to look
■some things and get together a good
me plan.”
Second-year Head Coach Rick
uheisel said a week off provides both
ises and minuses for a team.
“It’s good that you can heal from
juries more, and you have more
lie to fix mistakes,” Neuheisel said.
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“But you also worry about (losing)
your game tempo.”
The 12th-ranked Buffaloes (2-1)
rumble into College Station this week
end to open Big 12 Conference play for
both A&M and themselves.
Colorado senior wide receiver James
Kidd said after an idle week, he is ready
to take on the Aggies.
“When you lose a game, you want to
get back out there as soon as you can,”
Kidd said. “We’re ready to play.”
Russell, an All-American last year
who is second on the team with 35 tack
les, said the team used the extra week to
become familiar with A&M plays.
“We’ve been working on what we’ve
seen [A&M] doing,” Russell said. "If
they do something one time, we do it
15 times.”
Losing only 12 lettermen and six
starters from last season’s 10-2 squad,
the Buffaloes have much of the same
A change of scenery
Battalion File Photo
Colorado quarterback Koy Detmer (#14) pitches the ball to running back Herchell
Troutman (#5) before getting swarmed by the A&M defense last season in Boulder.
look they had during last year’s
matchup against the Aggies, a contest
they won 29-21. On offense, the team
returned all of its skill-players, includ
ing senior quarterback Koy Detmer.
Detmer has completed 74-of-114
passes for 906 yards this season, with six
touchdowns and only one interception
in three games.
Senior Rae Carruth leads the team in
receiving yards (219) including seven re
ceptions for 115 yards against Michigan.
Kidd, who has caught 11 passes for
158 yards this year, said he is confident
in the speedy Buffalo offense.
“We have a lot of speed on [the offen
sive] side,” Kidd said. “We have every
thing we need. We’re going to do our nor
mal stuff — nothing special for A&M.”
The Aggie offense has changed since
last year’s matchup, particularly with
the departure of quarterback Corey Pul-
lig and tailback Leeland McElroy.
Neuheisel said the A&M offense pos
es a bigger threat than last year.
“A&M has a lot of weapons,”
Neuheisel said. “A year ago, we had to
just focus on McElroy. But now we have
to take everybody into consideration.
[Junior quarterback Branndon Stewart]
is a better runner than [Pullig], and
they’ve got a bevy of excellent (running)
backs this year.”
Although the Aggies are unranked,
Russell said he expects the them to be a
tough opponent.
“We will take A&M seriously, just
like they’re in the top 5,” Russell said.
“Looking at the film, it’s hard to tell
that they’re 1-2.”
The game between CU and A&M is
not pitting the No. 7 team versus No. 3
like last year, but Kidd said the game
will be competitive.
“They’re a good team no matter what
their record is,” Kidd said. “We know
they’re not going to lay down. We expect
a great game, and hopefully at the end,
we can be on top.”
Neuheisel said the Aggies will be
geared up to prove their worth after a 1-
2 start, just as his team is trying to put
its loss to Michigan behind it. He said
he is not concerned about revenge be
coming a factor on the field after Col
orado bashed the Aggies’ national
championship hopes in 1995.
“I don’t think [revenge] makes as
much difference to the players as it does
for the fans,” Neuheisel said. “You’ve got
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After a late entrance into his
sport, senior power lifter Bill
Vindscheif has lifted his way
into the international spotlight
By Dennis Ramirez
The Battalion
iA Thile many Texas A&M students stay busy
[\/ trying to balance classes, part-time work
I V and other social aspects of life, Bill Wind-
Jif stays busy balancing 1,725 pounds, while
ipeting internationally for the United States
er Lifting Team.
Vindscheif, a senior kinesiology major, recently
l peted in Vaasa, Finland, at the International Pow-
fting Federation Junior Wo rid Championships,
he 5-foot-6-inch, 215-pound 23-year-old rep
uted the United States and Texas A&M excep-
ially well, earning a silver medal in the dead lift
Ian overall finish of fourth place in the junior
sion (23 and under).
hs totals for the meet were 628 lbs. in the squat
ipetition, 435 lbs. in the bench press competi-
and a personal best of 661 lbs. in the dead lift
ipetition, for a total of 1,725 lbs.
IThe event] was a great experience and offered
iereally great competition,” Windscheif said.
'Ooking back over his relatively short histoiy in
Rr lifting, Windscheif said he wishes he would
a began the sport at an earlier age.
got interested in body building (not power
Unsung Ironman
lifting) at the age of 15, after reading Arnold
Swartzinegger’s ‘Encyclopedia of Modern Body
building,’” Windscheif said.
After reading the book from cover to cover, a
motivated Windscheif took up the sport and soon
succeeded. In 1993, he won the lightweight divi
sion of the Mr. Texas A&M Bodybuilding Contest.
A short time later, while working and training at
Gold’s Gym in College Station, Windscheif met
Steve Lumpee, the owner and operator of the gym.
Lumpee, Class of ’86, was a 1984 Junior World
Champion, 1985 Collegiate National Champion,
and a member of the 1983 Texas A&M power lifting
championship team.
Lumpee, now his trainer and mentor, intro
duced him to power lifting and within a year,
Windscheif won the 1994 Longhorn Open.
His next meet was the 1995 Collegiate National
Championships, where he won second place. This
year, he competed at the United States Power Lift
ing Federation Junior and Collegiate National
Championships.
Windscheif finished second overall, and earned
an invitation to be a part of the 1996 United States
Power Lifting Team.
Windscheif’s workout schedule includes training
four days a week for a total of eight hours per week.
“You don’t need to train all the time to be big
and strong,” Windscheif said.
As far as dieting, Windscheif said he eats anything
he wants within the parameters of the Internation
al Power Lifting Federation regulations, because all
events are drug tested.
See Windscheif, Page 14
Tim Moog, The Battalion
Bill Windscheif, a senior kinesiology major, dead lifts 510 pounds at Gold's Gym Tuesday night.
Windscheif recorded a personal best 661 pound lift at the IPF Junior World Championships in Finland.