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THE BATTALION
Running Into the Future
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ijnior Brandon Beasley is the men's lone returning top-seven runner
By Cayla Carr
The Battalion
The 2000 Texas A&M cross coun
try teams are composed of newcom
ers and veterans, and both groups
will be called upon to contribute to
the teams success.
The men are looking at a rebuild
ing year after their success last sea
son. The women are looking for im
provement over last season and a
chance to qualify for the NCAA
championship meet as they bring
back all seven starting runners from
last year's squad.
For the men's cross country team,
1999 was the first time in 17 years it
made its way back to the NCAA
meet. After finishing 22nd in the na
tion last season, the men have a lot to
live up to this fall. After losing All
Americans Scott Lengefeld and
Stephen Erath to graduation, senior
Bryan Oubre and transfer senior Ja
son Koop from Baylor said they hope
to become this year’s leaders and
take their team back to nationals.
After losing four runners to gradu
ation, A&M coach Dave Hartman said
he thinks this will be a challenging
year for his young, but talented, team.
“When you lose all but one in
your top seven heading into the sea
son, it is going to be a rebuilding
year,” said Hartman.
The lone returning top-seven
member is junior Brandon Beasley.
With newcomer Jason Koop and all
of last year’s freshmen returning,
Hartman said he feels confident his
runners will be able to compete.
“We aren’t starting from scratch,
but we’re definitely starting in a
hole,” Hartman said. “If they do the
right things, they have the talent to
accomplish what we did last year.”
Hartman said the men are looking
forward to having Colin Campbell, a
sophomore transfer from the Univer
sity of Arkansas, and Joe Lanzillotti,
a freshman from Bossier City, La.
Hartman said that the Aggies will
face some challenging races this year
due to the runners who have red-
shirted. Senior Mike Hummel and
sophomore Tommy Bonn, one of last
year’s highly touted recruits, both
plan to redshirt this season.
Hartman made a similar decision
in his first year as head coach two
years ago. That was another rebuild
ing year, and he chose to redshirt
Erath and Lengefeld to save them for
the next season, when they would
have a deeper roster to back them up.
Most of the members of last year’s
women’s team are returning. The
women are looking to follow in the
men’s footsteps on their way to the
NCAA championship. Hartman said
he expects them to be in the Top 25 be
fore the season is done. Andrea Book-
out and Melissa Gulli, both juniors,
established themselves as two of the
better runners in the Big 12 last spring.
Gulli broke two A&M school
records in the spring, provisionally
qualifying for nationals in both the
3K and 5K runs. Bookout, running in
the 1500 meters, was less than one
second short of qualifying for the
NCAA meet last spring.
See Running on Page 3B.
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[ggies, Sooners should be worthy opponents for the vaunted, untested UT lineup
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The Longhorns, ranked No. 6 by
the Associated Press, have stirred
up big expectations for the season
with some of the hottest offensive
prospects the country has seen in
years. With a mix of old and new,
Texas appears to have returned as
not only a Big 12 force, but a na
tional one as well.
However, it is two weeks into the
season, and Texas has yet to play in
anything besides an intersquad scrim
mage. That scheduling is a dangerous
gamble by UT coach Mack Brown.
Any team promising such a
high-powered offense will need
time to tweak and rest during the
course of a season. The Longhorns
will get no such luxury, playing 10
straight games starting Saturday
against Louisiana-Lafayette.
The team’s only Saturday off
will be on Nov. 18, a week before
UT plays Texas A&M in what
could be a decision game for the
Big 12 South’s division crown. By
that time Texas will be either riding
high on success or so exhausted that
a late-season drop-off is inevitable.
Meanwhile, the Big 12 South’s
two other early contenders, A&M
and Oklahoma, will have to spend
another week guessing about the
UT offense. Will Chris Simms or
Major Applewhite throw to the na
tion’s best lineup of wide receivers?
Will the “Big 3,” Texas’ trio of the
nation’s top wide receiver recruits
have an immediate impact? Will
Hodges Mitchell still be able to run
through Big 12 defenses?
Nothing is for sure until Texas’
expected star lineup actually plays a
game together. Until then, it is just a
nice-looking depth chart.
During the time Texas is polish
ing its offense, the rest of the Big
12, already strong in defense, will
be building offensive attacks that
could spell disaster for the Long
horns toward the end of the season.
Oklahoma returns Josh Huepel,
the Big 12’s leading passer in 1999.
See Big 12 on Page3B.
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