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Madden named
mens assistant
tennis coach
Staff & Wire Reports
Shuon Madden, the only four-time tennis
All-American in Texas A&M history, has
been named the men’s tennis assistant coach
at the school, head coach Tim Cass
announced last Thursday.
Madden fills a vacancy that was recently
created when former assistant coach Tad
Berkowitz accepted a position with USA
Tennis as the assistant coach for the colle
giate national team.
Berkowitz is also pursu
ing several head coaching
opportunities.
“I can’t say enough
about the job that Tad did
for our program,” Cass
said. “We wish him the
best this summer with the
national team and I’m
fully supporting him as he
pursues some great head coaching opportu
nities.”
Like Berkowitz, and former assistant
coach Scott Treibly, Madden is one of Cass’
former players.
“It was a simple decision for me when I
started looking for a new assistant coach,”
Cass said. “With Shuon graduating last
month, and with his extensive A&M back
ground, I knew I needed to get him as our next
assistant. That keeps with my tradition of try
ing to have former players as my assistants.”
Madden was a two-time Big 12
Conference Player of the Year, in addition to
earning All-Big 12 accolades in singles and
doubles during all four of his playing years
at A&M.
“He’s the type of player I think we all
admired,” Cass said. “His standard of excel
lence and work ethic on and off the court is
See Madden on page 4
MADDEN
Cardinals begin life after Kile’s death
CHICAGO (AP) — Some of the St.
Louis Cardinals gathered in small groups,
remembering Darryl Kile and trying to
understand how he could be dead at just 33.
Others went off by themselves at the
team hotel, preferring to work through
their grief and anger on their own.
“They’re all doing it in their own indi
vidual way,” Brian Bartow, spokesman for
the Cardinals, said Sunday. “It’ll be a long
grieving period. Especially coming so
shortly on the heels of Jack Buck’s passing.
“This was tough to take.”
An autopsy performed Sunday by the
Cook County medical examiner concluded
that Kile likely died from a blockage of a
coronary artery.
As the Cardinals mourned their friend
and teammate, they also began the process
of moving on only a day after the pitcher’s
death.
The team held a 30-minute memorial
service for Kile on Sunday morning at
the team hotel. Several members of the
St. Louis Chapter of Baseball Chapel —
including former Cardinals pitcher Rick
Horton — came to Chicago to lead the
service.
Kile’s wife, Flynn, spoke to the players
at the end of the service, and many stayed
afterward to share their memories of the
veteran pitcher.
A few hours later, they were back to
work, playing the Chicago Cubs in a game
Kile was scheduled to start.
“It’s a part of life. I understand that,”
pitcher Woody Williams told the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch. “Darryl was a special
friend and a great father. You look at him.
He’s in great health. He’s 33. How do you
explain something like that? You really
can’t. But I have faith in God and believe
he has a purpose for everything.”
Kile was found dead in his hotel room
Saturday afternoon after teammates
became concerned he had not shown up at
Wrigley Field. Hotel security forced their
way into his locked room and found him
in bed. There was no sign of a disturbance
or foul play, police said.
“It looked like he was asleep,” said Dr.
Jim Loomis, the Cardinals assistant team
physician.
Though there was some talk of post
poning Sunday night’s game out of respect
for Kile, the Cardinals voted unanimously
at a team meeting Saturday night to play
the game in his honor. A fierce competitor,
Kile spent almost 12 years in the majors
without ever going on the disabled list.
But this will not be an ordinary game.
A Cardinal loss
Cardinals pitcher Darryl Kile
was found dead in the team
hotel in Chicago. The cause of
death was not provided .
Kile throwing a pitch
during National League
Championship series
In 2000.
Darryl Kile
Dec. 12,1968 - June 22, 2002
Birthplace Garden Grove, Calif.
Residence Englewood, Colo.
Family Wife, Flynn, and three
children
Major league career
YR TEAM
’91 Houston
’92 Houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
Houston
Colorado
Colorado
St. Louis
St. Louis
St. Louis
w-L
7- 11
5-10
15- 8
9-6
4-12
12-11
19- 7
13-17
8- 13
20- 9
16- 11
5-4
ERA
3.69
3.95
3.51
4.57
4.96
4.19
2.57
5.20
6.61
3.91
3.09
3.72
S00 on pclg^e 4 SOURCE; Major League Baseball; Associated Press
AP
Former backup QB Smith to transfer to SHSU
By True Brown
THE BATTALION
After being used sparing
ly for three seasons, former
Texas A&M quarterback
Vance Smith will transfer to
Sam Houston State
University for the 2002 sea
son, according to a report in
The Bryan-College Station
Eagle on Friday.
Smith played as a backup
to starter Mark Farris last sea
son, completing l-of-3 passes
during A&M’s 31-10 loss to
Oklahoma in November.
Smith’s announcement
came after deciding he
would leave the Aggie foot
ball team in January to con
centrate on academics.
Smith is on track to receive
his undergraduate degree
from A&M in August, and
will take graduate classes at
Sam Houston.
“There were no hard feel
ings towards A&M,” Smith
told The Eagle. “I wanted to
get out on the field and play
again and have an opportu
nity to
showcase
my skills.
I didn’t
really feel
there was
a chance
for me
play
to
at
SMITH
A&M.
Coach [R.C.] Slocum was
great about it. He supported
my decision and helped me
out by making some calls
for me.”
The 6-foot-4-inch Grand
Prairie native would have
had to compete with two
other returning scholarship
quarterbacks, as well as
incoming freshman Reggie
McNeal, if he stayed for this
season.
Smith redshirted for the
Aggies during their Big 12
championship-winning sea
son and saw the first action
of his career in 1999.
Against Tulsa that season.
Smith passed for the only
touchdown of his A&M
career. The 53 yards Smith
threw for against the Golden
Hurricane in that game was
also a career high.
For his A&M career.
Smith completed 7-of-20
passes for 96 yards.
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