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Pre-Yell at Mangos """ Roger Creager & Chris Wall Free Shuttle Friday * Nov. 24th First Beer FREE with Maroon To the Game from Mangos Six Clubs in One! 1 jNivKRsrrv I i I i 1 i HI J .L X. 1 1 lll^ Amenities * fill l v Itit nishcd * on shuttle unite * rec room &" (itness eentet * dkmn systems * lull st/e washer A dryer * 2 swimming pools \ a hot tub * in O)0/p clS4 , n lumisbed t bedrooms t’s/peisi>n Page 8 SPORTS rHE BATTALION History in the makin Women harriers in NCAAs for By Diane Xavier The Battalion Texas A&M cross country coach Dave Hartman said he will never forget the first season he trained the young, inexperienced Aggie women's squad in 1998. “I didn’t know what to expect at that time,” Hartman said. “I wasn’t confident in how we would race and finish with all the fresh new faces I had to work with back then.” The 1998 team has blossomed into one of the strongest teams in the nation by becoming A&M’s first women’s cross-country team to win the NCAA South,Central Re gional on Nov. 11 in Denton. The victory allows the Aggie women’s team to com pete at the national meet in Ames, Iowa today for the first time in school history. The women’s 6,000-meter race is set for 11 a.m. “Winning regionals and qualifying for nationals is a tremendous accomplishment for us,” Hartman said. “All those years of training have finally paid off for the women’s squad.” The victory boosted the women’s ranking to No. 16 after upsetting heavily favored Arkansas at the NCAA South Central Regional meet. Despite the team’s recent progression in the polls, Hartman said he believes his team still does not get enough credit. “We should be ranked higher,” he said. “We’ve beat en teams that are ahead of us in the polls, like 15th-ranked Brown University. I really don’t understand the polls.” Despite having its strongest season ever, A&M has received low rankings. For example, in the A&M invitational that the women won, the team was dropped three spots in the rankings from No. 18 to No. 21. Also, after A&M took fourth at the Big 12 championships in Boulder, Colo., the school’s highest finish at a conference meet since 1991, the na tional poll dropped A&M three spots to No. 24. Nevertheless, Hartman said his team is not going to worry about where his team stands. “In this race, anything can happen,” Hartman said. “If only one girl fails behind, then that puts our whole team back. There is a lot more pressure to perform well because one little mess-up can cost us the race.” BERNARDO GARZA! Jennifer Whatley and the rest of the women har ^ compete in the NCAA Championships todayii Brian Tijf Batta Scott 1 * Station \ Harges ol wlu-n his |Bth a Ya ^ie of the old Jon all flood. Te: Hatfiel ■ to the < tei after The squad is led this year by Melissa Gullia nemneed < drea Bookout. Gulli was the team's topfinisheriniffl Barrov 12 meet, the A&M invitational, and the lonaao. ;had.just p invitationals. k Hents wl Gulli earned her second all-region honorsa$H®cplorer. ing seventh at the NCAA meet. in the vel "I think people have trouble behevine inukuscious. B said. “They won't believe in our team unless wer^ehicle o ourselves. ftth Coll Bookout. who placed fourth at regionals.alsoeiM Bamv her second consecutive all-region honors. qqq | “We have been proving everyone wrong Ik "’kiHii s.iid " And ssc plan lc dudui againam. Y, The low rankings uv Ikiyc Iven receiving all yeaf|liB , tivate us to perform better." : : B 6 ™ intoxicat blood ale NCAA Showcase Team Victory Continued front Page 5 A&M’s top performance of the weekend was in the last event of the meet. The men closed out the competi tion in style by cruising to a victory in the 400-yard freestyle relay with an NCAA automatic qualifying time of 2:55.32. That time will send the relay team, composed of Matt Rose, David Morrow, Riley Janes and Keven Kehlenbach. to the NCAA Championships, which A&M is hosting at the Student Recreation Center Natatorium in March. Overall, the relays in the invitational belonged to the A&M men. They won four of the five relays and fin ished second in the 800-yard freestyle relay. In the four relays in which the men did not reach the automatic time, they still made the NCAA considera tion times. That means that all of A&M’s relay teams could end up at the NCAA Championships. “Our strength is definitely our relays,” Nash said, “That is our claim to fame ... the last few years, and they are pulling some individual swims out of our guys.” Continued fromk particularly had some good swims, and that isec for the future.” Bultman listed a number of walk-ons who hag weekends, but the one who had the best meetr marie Durso who finished in the top eight in £ events, including a third-place finish in the 1,65(14 freestyle. Depth was not the only thing that the A&M had going for them—Clara Ho, Sharisse Blau and Slif ! non Steel all had top performances in the meet Ho had A&M women's the best performanci ning both the 100-yard butterfly and the 200-yard terfly. Both of her times in those events barely the NCAA consideration times. She also finish? top eight in three other events. 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