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Thursday, March 27, 2003
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Aggie men heading to NCAA’s in Aust
By Jeff Allen
THE BATTALION
Last week the Texas A&M
women sent nine swimmers to
the NCAA Championships in
Alabama, but things didn’t go
quite as planned. The women
came back empty-handed, but
perhaps they learned a bit about
why men’s swimming and div
ing Head Coach Mel Nash holds
the meet in such high esteem.
“It definitely is the most
stressful meet of any you’ll
find,” Nash said. “Everyone I’ve
talked to who’s been in the
Olympics and the NCAA meet
says that the NCAAs have more
electricity. With eight teams and
32 guys all back in the lanes, it is
really an electric atmosphere.”
This weekend, the No. 14
men’s team will get its crack at
the nation’s best as it heads to
Austin for the third time this
month to compete in the 2003
NCAA Championships, hosted
by the University of Texas. The
men will go into the meet carry
ing seven swimmers and two
divers, equaling the size of the
women's contingent exactly, but
Nash and the men are hoping to
draw from their recent success
at the meet in cracking the
goose egg off the scoreboard.
“The difference for us is
that we have Matt Rose, Scott
Mueller, Dan Blanchard and
Alfredo Jacabo, who have all
been there and scored at the
meet and know what it’s like.
Plus we have a real track
record of going to the meet and
scoring,” Nash said.
The men set off this year
with hopes of making a march
toward the nation’s Top 25,
despite the fact that this year
had already been dubbed a
rebuilding year by Nash. The
definition came early in the
season as the men set out bot
tom-heavy, having only four
seniors on the roster, compared
to 13 freshmen.
“Seeing as we are so incred
ibly young, we needed some of
our freshmen to become sopho
mores, and they did the job and
did very well,” Nash said.
The Aggies are heading
back into Austin devoid of any
of those four seniors on their
NCAA roster, but that doesn’t
mean the Aggies are lacking
any experience.
The squad will be led by
junior Matt Rose, who will be
swimming in the 50 and 100-
yard freestyles as well as the
100-yard backstroke. Rose
will also be swimming on the
Aggie relay teams, one of the
most crucial aspects of the
meet. The relay races count as
double toward the team points,
which are tallied at the end to
place the teams.
The placement of the teams
at the meet is the team’s final
ranking, regardless of what it
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Rose, Mueller, Blanchard
and Jacobo will be joined by
freshman Andrew Sullivant,
sophomore Calvin Zielsdorf
and junior Chris Nelan. The
team is also sending two divers:
freshman Christian Picard and
junior Adam Morgan.
The Aggies are eligible to
compete in all five relays, but it
will be a game-time decision
about whether they will act
ly compete in all of them,
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The meet begins i
the Lee and Joe Jamailfe
Swimming Center, and
continue through Sunday,
Cardinals sign Emmitt Smith
SPORTS IN BRIEF
IRVING (AP) — Emmitt Smith will
return to Texas Stadium this season, but he
won’t be wearing the familiar blue and sil
ver uniform that has marked his career.
Smith, the NFL’s leading career rusher,
agreed to terms with the Arizona Cardinals
on Wednesday, moving from one of the
league’s most storied franchises to its most
downtrodden. Next time No. 22 takes a
handoff in Irving, he will be wearing red
and white.
Smith was released Feb. 27 by Dallas in
a salary-cap move agreed to by the
Cowboys and Smith. The Cardinals were
the only team the 33-year-old Smith visited.
“Emmitt will start,” coach Dave
McGinnis said, adding that he will also help
break in Marcel Shipp, who led the Cardinals
in rushing last season in his second year.
The Cardinals said Smith got a two-year
contract, but did not disclose terms. It was
believed to be worth about $4 million a year.
The Cowboys had no immediate com
ment on the signing.
The Cardinals will visit Texas Stadium
during the regular season, but the date has
not been announced. Dallas plays a presea
son game in Arizona during August.
A starting job was one of the things Smith
had sought and one of the things the Cowboys
couldn’t guarantee when they released him
after 13 seasons and 17,162 yards.
But Smith’s other desire — winning
again — may not be so easy. Arizona fin
ished 5-11 last season and has been one of
the NFL’s consistently losing franchises —
it has one playoff victory since 1947.
Smith contributed to the Cardinals’
woes over the years. He scored 25 career
touchdowns against them, his highest total
versus an opponent.
Overall, Smith ranks No. 1 in NFL his
tory with 153 rushing TDs.
Smith, who will turn 34 on May 15, failed
to reach 1,000 yards this
season for the first time
since his rookie year in
1990, gaining 975 yards.
Smith rushed for over
100 yards in only two
games, including the one
with Seattle on Oct. 27 in
which he broke Walter
Payton’s career rushing
Aggies lose to Baylorin
critical Big 12 matchup
record of 16,726 yards.
The Cardinals plan to formally intro
duce Smith on Thursday.
“I’ve always been very confident in my
abilities,” Smith said right after being
released by Dallas. “I think I’m a 1,300-
yard back, and I will be out to prove that.”
“I am not a guy that is afraid of compe
tition,” he said. “I walk up and face it full
throttle. I will help someone’s organization
get to the Super Bowl, get back to the
Super Bowl or win the Super Bowl.”
Rod Graves, the Cardinals’ vice presi
dent, and Bill Bidwill, the team’s owner,
said they believed that Smith’s presence
alone would enhance the image of the
Cardinals, both locally and nationally.
McGinnis, who was an assistant with the
Chicago Bears when Payton was finishing
his career there, said he expects Smith to
make the same contribution to Shipp and
other Cardinals that he saw from Payton.
“Walter was a great example to every
one who was there at the time,” he said.
“Emmitt will do the same, on the field and
in the locker room.”
The Cardinals entertained Smith lavish
ly when he was in Arizona for his visit.
Bidwill said that when they took him out to
dinner, they made sure he sat where he could
have a view of the entire Valley of the Sun.
“He turned to me and said: ‘You made sure
I sat in this seat, didn’t you?”’ Bidwill said.
The Texas A&M women's tennis lei?
fell to the No. 44 Baylor University Be®
on Wednesday evening at the
Tennis Center.
The No. 29 Aggies (10-7, 5-2) start
off strong, taking two of three doubfe
matches and won the first match ins'
gles when junior Jessica Roland dam*
a 6-4, 6-1 victory on court one.
However, Baylor (8-8, 5-1) bouncet
back to claim the next four singles
matches to clinch the victory.
The Aggies had held a perfect 8-t
record at home this season before Iff
loss and were within a half game of tlie
Big 12 leading-University of Texas comiiii
into the match.
A&M was also 9-0 this season when tie
team was able to claim the doubles
point.
Baylor has now won five of the lasts#
meetings between the teams and hoi
second place in the Big 12.
Football team continues
spring practice schedule
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The Texas A&M football team
ued with its spring practices this week,
and Head Coach Dennis Franchione
said he has seen progress.
"We are building a foundation,
have been pleased with the attitudesol
the players," Franchione said.
On Wednesday, the
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