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THE BATTALION
Soccer set for Big 12
CHAD ADAMS/The Battalion
A&M junior midfielder Amber Childers, right, is looking to continue the Aggies' past domi-
e of Big 12 soccer in 2000.
By Reece Flood
The Battalion
After running a gantlet of non-con
ference games, the Texas A&M soccer
team and the rest of the Big 12 is set to
begin conference play this weekend.
Each team in the conference will
play 10 conference games — one
against each team. The eight teams
with the best conference record at the
end of the season are accepted into the
2000 Big 12 Tournament, which be
gins Nov. 1.
As in other sports, the Big 12 has
proven to be an impressive force in
soccer with two teams in the top 25.
Nebraska’s undefeated 8-0 record has
earned it the No. 3 spot in the nation
while A&M (5-3) is at No. 10.
“I think the Big 12 right now is one
of the top three conferences in the
country along with the ACC and the
PAC 10,” said A&M soccer coach G.
Guerrieri.
Guerrieri said the Aggies are striv
ing to win the conference title this year.
If history is any indication, the Aggies
are in good shape.
A&M won the Big 12 regular sea
son and tournament title in 1997 (the
first Big 12 Championship in the
school history) and has finished near
the top of the conference every year
since its inception in 1996.
Guerrieri said that, if the team is go
ing to win the conference again this
year, it will have to focus on playing
well defensively.
“The cliche ‘defense wins champi
onships’ is fact,” Guerrieri said.
“When we won our championships in
the past, it was because of great team-
defending and timely goals, and we’ll
be looking for those things again this
year.”
The Aggies have proven to be a
force in the Big 12 with an unbeaten
all-time record against seven confer
ence teams: Colorado (4-0), Iowa State
(5-0-1), Kansas (4-0), Missouri (4-0),
Oklahoma (3-0), Oklahoma State (4-
0) and Texas (10-0). Add to that a 5-1
all-time record against Texas Tech, and
it seems A&M has conference compe
tition well in hand.
But then there are Nebraska and
Baylor. These two teams have a ten
dency of standing in A&M’s way of
success. Nebraska kept A&M from
winning the Big 12 tournament twice
(’96, ’98) and defeated the Aggies in
the 1998 NCAA Tournament and the
1999 NCAA Women’s College Cup.
The Cornhuskers hold an all-time
record of 7-3 over the Aggies.
Guerrieri said Nebraska is the
cream of the Big 12.
“They’re clearly the team to beat,”
Guerrieri said before pointing out Ne
braska’s 8-0 record and No. 3 ranking.
“The table is set for them. It’s up to us
to disrupt the party.”
Baylor also leads the A&M series
3-2 and has a tendency for playing the
Aggies close, including two overtime
games in the five-game series.
This may present a problem for the
Aggies as they will have to face both
Baylor (Oct. 1) and Nebraska (Oct. 8)
on the road this season.
But A&M will have more time to
prepare for those two tough road
games. It will get the Big 12 portion of
its schedule kicked off Friday at 7 p.m.
against Texas Tech at the Aggie Soccer
Complex. Colorado will visit the Ag
gies on Sunday at 1 p.m.
Other Big 12 teams traveling to
College Station to take on the Aggies
are Kansas (Oct. 13), Missouri (Oct.
15) and Texas (Oct. 26).
In addition to taking on Nebraska
and Baylor on the road, the Aggies will
travel to face Iowa State (Oct. 6), Ok
lahoma (Oct. 20) and Oklahoma State
(Oct. 22).
ATHIC SCHNEIDER :
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ggie’s vacation pays off with Olympic silver medal
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V ictor Wunderle became the first Aggie
v,in a medal in the 2000 Sydney
lympics on Wednesday, he took the silver
!men’s individual archery competition.
(Wunderle, a wildlife and fisheries sci-
cls major from Mason City, Ill., took a
ar off from studies at Texas A&M to
lip in Chula Vista, Cal., for the Games.
He followed the same procedure in
1996 for the Atlanta Olympics, but came
away empty handed.
Frank Thomas, coach of the A&M club
team, said he was proud of how Wunder
le performed.
“Victor has done well for himself in
Sydney,” Thomas said. “Getting through
that field was impressive.”
According to Thomas, Australia’s Si
mon Fairweather, the man who beat
Wunderle for the gold, probably had a
distinct advantage over his American
counterpart because his fellow coutry-
men were cheering him on.
“When we were down in Atlanta in
1996, it was pretty crazy,” Thomas said.
“I’m sure the Australians were just as vo
cal as we were.”
The silver is the latest in a long string
of accomplishments for Wunderle.
He is the only person to ever be a two-
time Junior World Champion, and he is
also a three-time College Division Na
tional Champion. He also has won the
National Championship, (over every
archer in the country) twice.
“One of the things about archery is
that you can do it forever,” Thomas said.
“One of this year’s team members is 60
years old.”
If that holds true, then the 24-year-old
Wunderle could be hitting targets for a
long time to come.
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