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Applications are now being accepted for the Kids Klub After School Program at Central Park Office thru April 2 7th at 5 p.m. Employment to begin August 10th College Station ISD is an Equal Opportunity Employer For more information call: AVK Male & Female Staff needed! 764-3486 Page 12 • Friday, April 16, 1999 s PORTS he Bat' Quest for respect leads to Ausu Texas A&M track team s return to Myers Stadium for Quaii BY TOM KENNEDY The Battalion The Texas A&M Women’s Thick Team is prob ably wondering what it has to do to earn some re spect on the national scene. After a weekend in which the women broke the Anderson Track record in the 4xl00-meter relay, had 11 NCAA pro visionally-qualifying performances and set two school records, the women dropped one spot, from 14th to 15th, in the latest TTackwire Online national poll. Both the men and women will travel to Austin Saturday to compete in the Texas Quad Meet at the Mike A. Myers Stadium, where the women will get their chance to disprove the pollsters against Rice University, the University of Houston and second- ranked University of Texas. The Texas women, who trail top-ranked Louisiana State University by one point in the polls, will be running their athletes at their best for the first time this season, meaning the Ag gies will get to see where they stand on the na tional level. A&M track and field coach Ted Nelson said al though Texas is running its full squad, he will not do the same with his teams. “We’ve got some people that we’re going to hold out, probably three or four,” Nelson said. “WeTl try to be at full strength for the Big 12 [Championships]. ” The highlight of the meet could be the women’s 4x100 relay, which will send the Aggie women up against a Longhorns squad that just covered the re lay in 42.90 seconds, the fourth-fastest collegiate time ever. A&M is coming off a qualifying perfor mance of 44.69 seconds with which they placed second while breaking the previous stadium record. Nelson said he expects that competing against a faster relay unit will help the women im prove. “Tfcxas has some super sprinters on their team,” Nelson said. “We’re going to run better with them out there.” m< fai .su ailing c y their vered i y. It is in w ay. le rise f f societ wardei lected ess and S&WN’ii :om a h ith a sf ;ade: ol celeb iis !is n Thouj iucatio " peak mi risen d nei)i tl nd spol nces at ^ Astilutk SAUJ£ - 'e was t A&M senior Christine Calahan clears the bar during the women's high jump n j t Baylor Invitational March 20 in Waco. The Texas A&M Men's and Women's Track: will travel to Austin this Saturday for the Texas Quad Meet. The women also take some individual nation al rankings into the meet. Junior Chimika Carter currently is fourth on the NCAA qualifying list af ter last week’s win in the 100-meter hurdles, while sophomore Esther Eisenlauer and freshman Katy Doyle are ranked fourth and sixth, respectively, on the NCAA pole-vault list. The men, who currently are unranked, also will get their chance to go up against nationally ranked squads as fifth-ranked Texas and 17th-ranked So wl eath, h ighly c ecause Houston will compete along witti >da\ ini manheldinthe j un( rc ^ diuin !•->.a I- :are m " the f ” W hopii mi hi’s .! hrase “ the new comj l F hopes! nme( jj- (:hampionships. suallv . gi !s underway withi: ne 0 ,-' v .i m . while i mining events will s | lc t the sd UConil’s El-Amin sentenced to 1 day community sei£ let STORRS, Conn. (AP) — An emo tional Khalid El-Amin apologized Thursday to his family, his team mates and the people of Connecticut and Minnesota for his arrest on mar ijuana possession charges. The Connecticut point guard, joined by coach Jim Calhoun at a news conference in Gampel Pavilion, called the actions leading to his arrest Thesday evening “a gross error of judgment.” *T have earned the respect of this state, and 1 want the chance to prove myself,” he said. “To all the people who have supported me ... 1 am very sorry for this incident.” The 19-year-old Minneapolis na tive, a sophomore majoring in com munications, was stopped for a traf fic violation in Hartford, and a small amount of marijuana was discovered during a pat-down search. UConn scoring leader Richard Hamilton was in the car, but was not charged. El-Amin also publicly apol ogized to Hamilton on Thursday. Calhoun has sn::’p4ent since the arrest, anti: Male d him an "asset: Jneric. tv and the program.' lan r 'S Calhoun also end:: mmen non that El-Amin w in a victory par.A R om I would tie hin )0 T 011 he's on the float, jnchin .meric, No. 14 Aggie. Men's Tennis vs. No. 5 t.u. SXrarffr.ij® K jTv! 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