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\ggie Sports Briefs
from staff and wire reports
'ack opens 1998 Aggies span country
iason in Norman in two swim meets
This past weekend, the Texas A&M
in’s and Women’s Track Teams
aned the 1998 indoor season at
! Sooner Invitational in Norman,
la., where they competed against
;as-Ai lington, Oral Roberts, North
<as, Texas Christian, Baylor and
st Ichool Oklahoma. The men’s
irmLvent into the meet with a pre-
ason ranking of 23rd, while the
men were unranked.
TJ “We really don’t have any aspira-
ns| of running great times or
owing great distances,” Texas
M head track coach Ted Nelson
;id (before the meet. “We’re just
ing ■ >ut there to get our feet wet.”
Nonetheless, both teams con-
ded the meet in impressive fash-
1, bringing home four gold medals,
veral second-place finishes and
e st hool record.
Senior Adrien Sawyer won the
-meter low hurdles with a time of
8.16 seconds,
finishing just
ahead of
sophomore
Chimika
Carter, who
placed second
with a time of
8.60. Junior
Kelli Schrader
won the
women’s
Schrader weight throw
with a school
;ord-breaking toss of 50-5.50,
attering her own school record of
-10.75, which she set last year,
ishman Meghan Koonce also
jrted her career off on a positive
te finishing second in the shot
with a throw of 44-2.
sOver on the men’s side, sopho-
)res Jon Nance and Richard Mc-
■nald placed 1-2 in the pole vault
:h vaults of 17-1.50 and 16-7.25
;pectively. Junior Mike Lowrance
n the men’s shot put with a throw
55-1. Other notables for the men’s
)m|were second place finishes by
nior Billy Fobbs in the 60-meter
sh with a time of 6.75 seconds and
shman Mike Hummel in the 800-
3ter run with a time of 1:54.61.
The Aggies will be off this weekend,
I 1 ' t will return to action Jan. 31, when
sy travel to Houston to compete in
Houston Invitational.
The Texas A&M Men’s Swimming
Team upset the 13th-ranked Miami
Hurricanes by taking first place in
ten of the 13 events in Miami.
Two of the three defeats came
inthe diving events with the Aggie div
ing team absent from competition.
Kyle Marden, Matt Rice and Chris
Sandt took the top three places in
the 100-yard breaststroke, adding
to the Aggie margin of victory.
The Women’s Swimming Team
split their two meets this weekend
in Los Angeles. The Aggies solidly
outswam the women of UC-Irvine
with a 152-32 victory.
However, the women suffered
defeat to the reigning NCAA cham
pion University of Southern Califor
nia. Winning only three of the 13
events, the Aggie Swimming Team’s
only first place finishes came from
Stacie Karnes in the 200-yard
freestyle, Kelly Bolton in the 100-
freestyle and Tracy Evans in the
500-yard freestyle.
The women’s next meet will be in
Lincoln, Neb. on Jan. 31. The men
will face the third-ranked Texas
Longhorns at the Student Recre
ation Center Natatorium on Jan. 30.
Men's Basketball
loses sixth straight
The Texas A&M Men’s Basketball
Team fell to the Iowa State Cyclones
68-59 Saturday in Ames, Iowa. It
was the Aggies 13th loss in their last
14 Big 12 games. The 59 points the
Aggies scored were a season low.
Shanne Jones, who did not start
because he missed a team meet
ing, was the Aggies’ high scorer and
rebounder with 18 points and 12 re
bounds. A&M played without sec
ond-leading scorer Calvin Davis.
Davis was out with a strained mus
cle in his lower back. The only oth
er Aggie in double figures was junior
guard Chris Clayton who had 10
points and three three-pointers.
Iowa State held a 22-point lead
but had to fight off a strong Aggie
comeback to get the nine-point vic
tory. The Cyclones’ Marcus Fizer, the
frontrunner for Big 12 freshman of
the year, lead the team with 15
points and also snagged 12 re
bounds before leaving the game
with an injury.
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“He had said to me that it was a
humbling experience to see all of
the other patients all day long who
were in wheelchairs and were nev
er going to get out of them.”
Brown, the 1995 Aggie Heart
Award win
ner, was se
lected by his
teammates
on the basis
of his deter
mination,
leadership
and courage.
Now, al
though a far
cry from the
football field,
Brown truly
displayed
those traits which earned him the
honor.
Brown said he holds no grudges
toward his life or toward football,
he sees what happened as an acci
dent and feels lucky to be as
healthy as he is.
“I was just a casualty of war try
ing to play the game,” Brown said.
“I have no bitterness toward foot
ball, I’m just happy I got to play the
short career I did.”
For someone who enjoyed so
much success in the athletic arena,
it would seem hard for Brown to
forget all he achieved and all he
had an opportunity to achieve. But
his thoughts remain on what is
happening now, not what was in
the future for him.
“I don’t take as many things for
granted, as far as the little things,
like waking up each day and mov
ing the way normal people do,” he
said. “Going through the experi
ence of going to different hospi
tals and seeing so many injured
people just makes me look at life
a little different.”
Life seems like such a trivial
thing until we are reminded how
fragile it really is. Reggie Brown has
been harshly reminded how quick
ly a life can be taken away, or how
the life one knew can be destroyed.
He was lucky, and now has a life
ahead of him different than any he
has ever imagined.
But he still has the same char
acter, integrity and courage to lead
him through it.
“He’s going to make it,” Barash
said. “He’s going to do something
good with his life.”
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Tuesday 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
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Wednesday 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
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