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Interested in being
a Class Agent?
To Qualify as a Potential Candidate:
You must run in a team of 3 people that are enthusiastic,
motivated leaders wanting to serve the Class of’99 until 2004.
Requirements for Intent to Run:
■ One member from each team must contact Shannon
Crockett ’93 at 845-7514 before NOON on February 15.
■ At least 2 of the 3 candidates from each team MUST
ATTEND a mandatory information meeting on Monday,
February 15,1999 at 5:30 p.m. at the Clayton Williams,
Jr. Alumni Center.
Class Agent Responsibility:
Will act as liasons between the Class of ’99, The Association
of Former Students, and Texas A&M University.
Class Agents will be elected
March 31 & April 1
in the 1999 Spring
Student Body Elections
Page 14 « Thursday, February 4. 1999
Sports
Caradima, Madden to pair off in tour
Aggie tennis duo to compete against nations best at Rolex Tennis Chan
BEN WESTBROOK
The Battalion
TWo Aggie tennis players will face off against the best
in the nation when the Rolex National Intercollegiate In
doors Tennis Championship kicks off
Thursday in Dallas.
The tournament at the Brookhaven
Country Club features the best 32 sin
gles players and the best 16 doubles
teams from around the nation.
This year two sophomores, Shuon
Madden and Dumitru Caradima, will
represent A&M.
Madden, an all-Big 12 selection in
both singles and doubles last year, will
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compete in both events in the tournament. Madden,
who will face 60th-ranked Rob Cheyne of Fresno State
University, enters the tournament ranked 30th national
ly with a 11-2 singles record.
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gles last season.
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Continued from Page 14
‘‘We said we wouldn’t take an
other guy if we [signed] him.”
One year after signing only one
defensive player (redshirted line
backer Brian Gamble), A&M scored
what Burton said is one of the best
classes in the country.
“I think the linebacker class
probably is as impressive as it gets,”
he said. “They also got a couple big-
timers in the secondary.”
A&M managed to pluck five
players from out of state: Weber, de
fensive back Sean Weston (Garde
na, Calif.), defensive back Everett
Smith (Compton, Calif.), linebacker
Brian LeDoux (West Monroe, La.)
and defensive lineman Brian West
(West Monroe, La.).
“Texas will always be the heart
of our recruiting basis,” Slocum
said, “but we will supplement our
classes with key out-of-state guys.”
“Monroe is as close to us as a
whole lot of places in Texas,” he
said "I also have some contacts [in
California]. 1 coached out there,
and we know our way around, and
we think we can pick some guys
and have a reason to come here. I
think it’s another step up in our
evolution into being a national pro
gram.”
Continued from Page 11
The Aggies ventured out of
state to sign West, one of the top-
rated linemen in Louisiana.
The linebackers in this year’s
class are big, strong and fast,
things the Aggies look for.
The secondary also got a boost
as the Aggies signed two of the
top defensive backs in both Texas
and California.
With the recruits signed on de
fense, the “Wrecking Crew"
seems set for years to come.
But despite the Aggies’ success,
the University of Texas Longhorns
seemed to have an even better re
cruiting year, having the consensus
No. 1 ranked class in the nation.
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Texas’ No. 1 ranking comes
from signing the USA Today offen
sive and defensive players of the
year Chris Simms and Cory Red
ding and signing some of the top
players in Colorado.
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horns was Simms. The 6’5” quar
terback from New Jersey originally
committed to national champion
Tennessee but had a change of
heart and switched his commit
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