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liampionships on March 4 at the Student Rec Center Natatorium.
BY MATT LAGESSE
The Battalion
Less than four months ago, swimmer Al
fred Mansour was not sure he would ever
swim competitively again.
Today he is in Minneapolis with eight of his
teammates preparing to compete in the NCAA
Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships.
With the aid of modern medicine and a
supportive cast of doctors, parents and team-
mates, Mansour overcame the effects of a
fractured wrist which left him sidelined for a
substantial part of the season.
Mansour sustained the injury after landing
awkwardly on his left wrist in a Frisbee game
during winter tyeak in Florida.
Upon learning the extent of the damage to
his wrist, Mansour said that he wasn’t sure
how to react to the devastating news.
“When I was in the orthopedics office, and
he came in with the final X-ray and told me the
bone was cracked, I wanted to break down,”
Mansour said. “It was a very down time for me.”
Mansour said the initial prognosis indi
cated that he would be sidelined for 12 weeks,
leaving little hope for a full recovery before
the end of the season.
Flowever, with a strong work ethic and the
support of his parents and trainers, Mansour
found himself back in the water just five
weeks later.
Texas A&M men’s swimming head coach
Mel Nash said that the outpouring of support
and Mansour’s desire to retum were the key
ingredients for a quick recovery.
“It was a full family effort,” said Nash. “It
was an incredible combination of positive
thinking, commitment, focus and fate that al
lowed him to get back to where he was.”
Although he had to make several refine
ments to his technique, Mansour said that the
changes in his swimming led to positive results.
“It gets better and better every day,” said
Mansour. “I really worked hard to keep my
triceps in shape, and I have been getting a lit
tle faster every day.”
Mansour’s plane ticket to Minneapolis
was secured at the Phillips 66/Big 12 Swim
ming and Diving Championships on March 4
when he, in his first meet since the injury, an
chored the 200-yard relay team that finished
second place with a NCAA qualifying time of
1:27.19.
Nash also said that Mansour’s phenome
nal performance during the meet was a trib
ute to all of the adversity and physical battles
the junior had to face.
“It was a tremendous performance,” Nash
said. “He didn’t start that well because it was
the first time he had been in a meet in the last
six weeks, but he hopped up angry in the last
relay and almost pulled off the upset.”
Joining Mansour in Minneapolis will be
200-yard medley relay teammates Riley
Janes, Nik Tate and David Morrow.
Also on the Aggie roster are divers Jesse
Even and Adam Morgan, who qualified for the
meet at the Zone D Diving Championships
March 10-11 at the Rec Center Natatorium.
A&M will also send three first-time
NCAA participants — Patrick Kennedy, Scott
Taylor and Erik Toth.
The three-day event is being held at the
University of Minnesota starting today.
Track and field heads to LSU I No. 13 Aggies host Oklahoma, ACU
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BY JASON LINCOLN
The Battalion
The Texas A&M track and field team is stati
ng the 2000 outdoor season with highlight per-
brmances. After sweeping the team titles at the
’ollege Station Relays last week, the Aggie men
nd women will travel to the Louisiana State
Quadrangular Saturday in Baton Rouge, La. for
ts second week of outdoor competition.
The meet will feature four teams— Louisiana
itate University, Texas Christian University and
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With only three days of competition behind
hem. the team has posted five NCAA provision-
1 qualifying marks.
The men’s team owns three of those marks,
-ophomore Bashir Ramzy posted a 51 -8 1/2 pro-
isional mark in the triple jump, continuing his
' success from A&M’s indoor season. The 1,600
relay team of Ramzy, senior Johan Lannefors,
ophomore Brandon Evans and senior Travis
McAshan ran a qualifying time of 3:07 fiat. Both
Ramzy and the relay team competed in the
NCAA Indoor Championships earlier this month.
Junior Tolga Koseoglu rounded out the men’s
early season highlights with a distance of 196-9
in the discus. That mark, his season debut, was
just one inch shy of the NCAA automatic quali
fying mark with two months of competition still
remaining.
Sophomores Robyn Burkhardt and Katy Doyle
turned out a pair of consideration times for the
women’s team. Burkhardt cleared 5-11 1/4 in the
high jump while Doyle hurled the javelin 163-0.
A&M has also faired well against Big 12 com
petition. In their debut meet, the A&M men out-
performed Texas Tech University and the Uni
versity of Nebraska. The women added a win over
Oklahoma State University in addition to victo
ries over the Red Raiders and Comhuskers.
With two weeks remaining before their first
big competition at the University of Texas host
meet, the Texas Relays, A&M is looking for ear
ly motivators for what promises to be a grueling
track and field season.
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BY AL LAZARUS
The Battalion
In a one-week span beginning Saturday,
the 13th-ranked Texas A&M men’s tennis
team will take on No. 8 Baylor University
and No. 4 Pepperdine University.
So who are the Aggies most concerned
about right now?
How about No. 47 University of Okla
homa.
A&M (5-4) will battle the resurgent
Sooners (10-5) at 2 p.m. at the Varsity Ten
nis Center in the first match of a double-
header. The Aggies will face Abilene Chris
tian University in the nightcap at 6 p.m.
“The Baylor match is not even an issue
right now,” A&M men’s tennis coach Tim
Cass said. “We think very highly of Okla
homa and are not looking past them.”
The Sooners are a team on the move af
ter a recent defeat of No. 17 University of
Minnesota. The victory jumped OU seven
spots from its previous ranking of No. 54.
“We know Oklahoma has a great tennis
tradition,” Cass said. “That was an impres
sive win over Minnesota.”
Cass said the Aggies’ match against ACU
in the second half of the doubleheader should
allow them to reach deeper than usual into
their talented roster.
In the latest individual rankings, A&M ju
nior Shuon Madden jumped five spots to No.
3 in the nation. The ranking is the highest-
ever singles ranking held by an A&M play
er, but Cass said he does not expect it to be a
distraction to Madden, who last Thursday
was named Big 12 Player of the Week for the
fifth time in his career.
“Shuon’s been through that his whole life,
so I don’t think it’s very different for him,”
he said. “And his concern at this point of the
season is on the team, not on individual rank
ings.”
Junior Cody Hubbell joins Madden in the
national top 100 for the second time this sea
son at No. 90. In doubles. Madden and junior
Dumitru Caradima are ranked No. 15.
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SUSAN REDDING/Tm: Battalion
A&M junior Shuon Madden hits a forehand
against the University of Miami.
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