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ms in foster care, inclufc;e§ior all-America Texas A&M diver Danielle Guarneri was unanimously picked as the
■rs, because nationally the y^utstanding Diver of the Year by the Big 12 Conference.
3uarneri claims Diver of the Year accolades
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2 Diver of the Year honors.
01 the five women’s awards given, Guarneri was the
.unanimous pick among the women’s coaches,
he awards come after Guarneri concluded her col-
51 a month on reserva!:* lte career witl1 lier most successf ' uI season yet.
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Guarneri finished the season with a fourth place
performance in platform diving at the 2000 NCAA
Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships.
She also dove for 12th place in the three-meter
springboard and 28th in the one-meter springboard.
She is the only female diver in school history to earn
multi-all-America laurels, being awarded the honors in
each of her sophomore, junior and senior seasons.
Guarneri will compete in the platfonn event of the
U.S. National Indoor Diving Championships on April
19-22 at the University of Minnesota.
BY AL LAZARUS
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The University of Califomia-Irvine
hoped to catch ninth-ranked Texas
A&M in a post-Texas lull.
Apparently, Longhorns and Anteaters
are all the same to the red-hot Aggies.
A&M followed up its brilliant 6-1
victory over No. 13 UT Saturday in
Austin with an equally dominating 6-1
win over the 56th-ranked UC-Irvine
Anteaters Monday night at the Varsity
Tennis Center.
“I think every coach always worries
about how their team is going to react
after a big win,” A&M coach Tim Cass
said. “But we were prepared for that
and it helped us.”
The Aggies (17-5, 5-1 Big 12)
looked sharp in singles play, jumping
to quick, straight-set victories in four
of their matches.
Playing No. 1, junior Dumitru
Caradima rolled to a 6-1, 6-3, victory
over UC-Irvine’s Brett Lucas.
Second-ranked A&M junior Shuon
Madden, who on Monday was named
the ITA National Player of the Month,
did not play because of an NCAA rule
limiting the number of matches that
can be played in a season.
Senior Juan Aramburo gave the
See Anteaters on Page 14.
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Texas A&M sophomore Jarin Skube reaches for the ball in doubles competition against the
University of Califomia-Irvine. A&M won its second 6-1 decision in as many days, Monday.
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tion’s National Player of the
Month for March.
Madden posted wins over
six ranked opponents during
the month including defending
NCAA Singles Champion Jeff
Morrison of Florida.
Madden posted an 8-0
record during the month, de
feating all but one opponent
in straight sets.
Madden is currently riding
a 14-match winning streak.
Aggie archers
excel in Austin
The Texas A&M archery
team held its own at the Texas
Shootout in Austin over the
weekend. The Aggies placed
in the top 10 seven times.
All-American Stacie Grange
highlighted the Aggies perfor
mance with a third place fin
ish in the tournament portion
of the event.
Women’s tennis readies for Longhorns
A&M looks to change history of one-sided UT victories with an upset
BY BLAINE DIONNE
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Any time the University of Texas and
Texas A&M line up on opposite sides of a
sporting contest, the stakes are high. For
the women’s tennis team of each school,
which will take to the courts of the Varsity
Tennis Center this evening, the stakes will
be much higher.
The winner of this match not only gets
the traditional bragging rights for the rest of
the year, but also keeps its hopes alive for
the 2000 Big 12 Conference title.
If the Aggies defeat the Longhorns
Wednesday and then beat the Kansas Jay-
hawks on Friday, they are the champions.
Sounds easy, right? Wrong.
Texas is not only the three-time defending
Big 12 Conference regular season and tourna
ment champions, they are currently ranked
first in the conference standings, and ranked
seventh nationally. The Longhorns are also
riding an eight-game winning streak that be
gan in mid-March.
On top of all that, Texas has three players
ranked in the national WingspanBank.com
Top 100: Janet Walker at 12, Michelle Fauch-
er at 23 and Vladka Uhlirova at 56.
According to women’s tennis coach Bob
by Kleinecke, his team will have to be at the
top of their game to beat the Longhorns.
“They are back playing strong again,”
Kleinecke said. “We’ll definitely have to beat
them, they will not lose to us. They are going
to be a very good team and I look for a typical
A&M — Texas battle.”
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