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THE BATTALION
Aggie netter battles opponents,
heat in NCAA Championships
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Shuon Madden advanced to round of eight in NCAA individual championships. Madden and
teammate Dumitru Caradima were forced to drop out of competition due to exhaustion.
Matthew L. Thigpen
The Battalion
Texas A&M junior Shuon
Madden, the second Aggie tennis
player to reach the Elite Eight of
the 64-man NCAA Champi
onship, ended his near perfect
season with a 6-2, 6-4 defeat by
Kentucky's Carlos Drada.
Madden survived five match
es in three days and several visits
to the University of Georgia's
medical facility for intravenous
fluid due to heat exhaustion.
Continuing the storied rivalry,
No. 3-ranked Madden faced off
against No. 36-ranked Brandon
Hawk of Texas. The first set be
longed to Madden, as he defeat
ed Hawk 6-4, but Hawk re
bounded and won 13 straight
points to take a 1-0 lead in the sec
ond set.
After losing the second set 7-
5 to Hawk, Madden came back to
defeat Hawk 6-4 in the third and
final set. The victory was the 20th
straight victory for Madden in
singles play. Both players were
taken in for IV transfusions after
the match.
“You are seeing fatigue here
because of four letters: N-C-A-A
and the emotion that goes with
playing here," said coach Tim
Cass. "I have never seen so much
emotion being spent by two play
ers. It's not because it's Brandon
Hawk and Shuon Madden play
ing, it's because it's Texas playing
Texas A&M."
After his match against
Hawk, Madden advanced to the
round of 16 players to face
UCLA's Jong-Min Lee. Madden
defeated Lee in three hours and
23 minutes.
In the second match of the
day. Madden faced Kentucky's
Carlos Drada. Drada took advan
tage of Madden's fatigue and de
feated the four-time All-Ameri
can 6-2,6-4. *
As the highest-ranked singles
player ever at A&M, Madden
“In 28 hours
he (Madden)
played 11 sets
and had sev
eral IV bags.
It's just not
possible”
— Tim Cass
Texas A&M
men's tennis coach
also shined as a member of the
nation's No. 6-ranked doubles
team. Teamed with Dumitru
Caradima, the two entered the
NCAA tournament with a 15-
match winning streak and a 22-7
record for the season.
In the first round of the dou
bles tournament, Caradima and
Madden defeated Auburn in
three sets to advance to the sec
ond round.
After Madden's singles match
against Drada, the tandem was
forced to default due to Mad
den's condition. They finished
the season 22-8.
After the tournament, Cass
described what is asked of the
players in the tournament.
"This is the most ridiculous
day in college tennis," Cass
said. "Ask any coach. It's unfair.
No tournament in the world
asks kids to do this. In 28 hours
he (Madden) played 11 sets and
had several IV bags. It's just not
possible."
Next year, the NCAA has vot
ed for the tournament to last an
extra day, allowing players more
time to recuperate after matches.
For Madden and his team
mates, the most successful season
of Aggie tennis is over, but the
team has plans to make a run at
the championship next year.
Good Knight!
University of Indiana penalty too lenient for Knight’s violent actions, poor ethics
Sports in Brief
Goodbye, Long-
I Distance Bench-
I Chair Throwing!
Au revoir, old
Bobby Knight!
Say hello to the
must-be-good, all
new Indiana Uni-
SHAUN
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nr and neighbor of Brazil's. f | ketball coach Bob Knight. The new Bob
rly Saturday, Brazil!, weani | Knight must apologize for past griev-
iece khaki jail uniform, his vf ahhes and be "on good behavior" at all
led, appeared before PalmBH times. He must adhere to the "zero-tol-
ty Circuit Court Judge erance" policy set forth by Indiana Uni-
ga and a courtroom packed ; | versity officials or face his release as
as and reporters.
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coach. This policy comes in response to
the fact that he choked former Indiana
basketball player, Neil Reed, amongst
other allegations. If Coach Knight fails
on any count, he will ultimately be re-
J llieved of his coaching duties.
A videotape of an Indiana practice,
I obtained by CNN/Sports Illustrated, re-
1 veals that Knight did hold Reed by the
I throat for two to five seconds. Even
Jwith clear proof in hand, Indiana Uni
versity officials handed down an ex
tremely lenient sentence.
Knight claims this is just part of his
coaching style. Some current and for
mer players support Knight, saying his
coaching style
helped to develop
them into better
basketball players
and better hu
mans. These are
the results people
want to hear. But if
a literature profes
sor slapped a stu
dent on the back
of the head for not
knowing the
meaning of a cer
tain Shakespeare
an sonnet, what
would happen?
Most likely, the
words "investiga
tion," "firing" and the ever-popular
"lawsuit" would be heard.
University systems need to prevent
athletics from becoming above the law.
The reason this particular situation is so
touchy is that Bob Knight is held in high
regard in the coaching profession. His ac
complishments speak for themselves —
Four-time National
coach of the year,
three NCAA titles,
numerous All-
Americans and in
duction into the
National Basketball
Hall of Fame
(1991). Still, these
achievements
should not over
ride what occurred.
Victories and
awards do not sub
stitute for poor be
havior and bad
teaching ethics. Af
ter all, Knight is a
teacher and should
be held to the same standards as all other
faculty members. If this does not occur,
the university system will begin to slowly
deteriorate. Punishments should be the
same across the board.
Hopefully, the NCAA and all univer
sity governing boards will start to deal
with abuse of athletes, so these incidents,
such as that involving Reed, will not oc
cur. The initial steps will be small, but at
least they are steps toward change. Bob
Knight was given a chance to re-examine
his life and how he affects the lives of oth
ers. He should be grateful for the lenien
cy of his punishment and strive to help
other coaches with similar problems.
Opinions on the matter may vary
from complete disgust that Knight was
not immediately fired, to complete dis
gust that anyone should question his
coaching style.
Whatever your opinion is, think on hu
mane terms. Try not to judge Bob Knight
the person, look at Bob Knight the coach
because they are probably two different
people. And know this, the only justifi
able punishment would be for Coach
Knight to run the bleachers!
Shaun Fitzpatrick is a junior
English major.
Aggie rider
appears in S.l.
Texas A&M sophomore
Quincy Cahill was selected to
be one of Sports lllustrated’s
“Faces in the Crowd” for the
week of May 29 after an im
pressive performance at the
Intercollegiate Horse Show As
sociation (IHSA) National
Championships.
Cahill earned the individual
championship in the top two
western events of the IHSA na
tional show and the open rein
ing class. She also won the
American Quarter Horse As
sociation High Point Rider
class where she had to com
pete in both reining and horse
manship classes against the
nation’s top male and female
riders.
These victories make Cahill
the top collegiate western rid
er in the United States.
Other Aggies with first-place
performances at the IHSA
were juniors Jessica Rogers
and Rubin Marshall. Rogers
won the intermediate western
horsemanship crown in the
team race, and Marshall won
the individual intermediate
western horsemanship class.
Senior Jamie Wells ended
her collegiate riding career
with a fourth-place finish in
open western horseman
ship which helped the Texas
A&M equestrian western
team finish fifth overall in
the competition.
Stars to take
on New Jersey
After defeating the Colorado
Avalanche 3-2 in game seven
of the Western Conference
Championship Saturday night,
the Dallas Stars will head to
New Jersey to take on the New
Jersey Devils in the NHL finals.
Mike Modano and Sergei
Zubof scored two power-play
goals in the first quarter of their
final game of the series to help
give the Stars their game-sev
en victory.
The Devils are coming off a
seven-game-series victory over
Philadelphia in the Eastern
Conference Finals.
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