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Page 7 • Tuesday, April 8,
Two Aggie archers make long trip to A&M
Unlike some other sports,
there is little fanfare involved
with archery. It is not often that
the Aggies have reporters scurry
ing about practice; the team
doesn’t need fences to prevent
spies from stealing their plays
and their practice range has been
transfonned into a set of intramu
ral tennis courts. Yet the A&M
archery team has become a dom
inant force in the realm of colle
giate archery.
This season, the Aggies
placed six compound archers in
the top eight nationally and five
recurve archers in the top nine
nationally en route to their third-
consecutive combined national
indoor title.
A&M has won either the
recurve or the compound individ-
RANDAL FORD • THE BATTALION
Senior archer Dawn Chudy takes aim as she practices for her goal of earning a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.
ual title every year since becom
ing a varsity sport.
Much of the team’s success
this season is thanks, in large
part, to two athletes who, paired
together, have both styles of
archery covered. The two
women, both of 'Whom came to
College Station through the same
Pennsylvania Pipeline, are senior
Dawn Chudy and sophomore
Amber Dawson.
Hailing from Media, Penn.,
Chudy began shooting early in
life. Her aspiration was born
when she would watch her older
brother compete in 4-H archery
competitions.
“My brother was a couple
years older than me, and we did
everything together,” Chudy said.
But watching her brother from
the sidelines wasn’t enough.
After a while, she decided to step
up and take the bow herself.
In about fifth grade, Chudy
picked up the recurve bow, a bow
that is more simple than team
mate Dawson’s compound bow.
So far the bow has paid off.
Chudy has become one of the
best athletes in her sport in the
nation, and it so happens that the
only type of archery competed in
the world’s most elite stage is
with the recurve bow she uses.
“The Olympic games have
always been my goal, ever since I
was little. Actually I wanted to be
an Olympic ice skater, but could
n’t really ice skate, so there was
archery,” Chudy said.
Actually, I wanted
to be an Olympic ice
skater, but couldn’t
really ice skate, so
there was archery
— Dawn Chudy
Senior archery team member
Chudy’s protege, Dawson,
came to A&M following a similar
path. She came out of the
Northeast also, from Robesonia,
Penn., where she learned the love
of archery while bow hunting
with her father.
She picked the sport up at an
early age much like her team
mate, starting in the fourth grade.
Dawson said her move to
College Station has been a big
part of her improvement in the
sport.
“A lot of people we grew up
with have quit (shooting),”
Dawson said. “When they went
to college they just didn’t have
time for it. We both had good
years last year. We did that
because of being here.”
Though only a sophomore,
Dawson has made her mark in the
Aggie archery record books. This
year she claimed the south region
in the National Indoor Target
Championship, when she beat
teammate Mary Zom, a senior, in
early March.
Zom went on to win a bronze
medal at the 2003 Indoor World
Archery Championships in the
compound individual competi
tion and helped the United States
team to the gold medal in the
team portion of the competition.
Her score was good enough to
earn her second place in the
nation as well as a place in the
Aggie team indoor championship
alongside Chudy.
Chudy, though, went one step
further, winning the Indoor
National Championship and
reaffirming her case for a possi
ble bid for the Olympic team
early next year.
“I feel that I have a really good
chance of doing it,” Chudy said.
“I think I can get on the team.”
bp coaches to battle it out in NCAA Women’s Championship
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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the latest installment of the sport’s
hottest rivalry.
Tennessee (33-4)
has six titles but none
since 1998.
Connecticut (36-1)
has won two of the
last three champi
onships and three
overall.
Both coaches
insist they don’t dis
like each other.
But friends? Hardly. Summitt invited
Villanova coach Harry Perretta and his
team — the only one to beat UConn this
SUMMITT
season — to her house for a cookout
before the Mideast Regional in
Knoxville. The East Tennessee moun
tains would turn into flatland before
Auriemma secured such an invite.
Auriemma caused a stir when he nee
dled Perretta, one of his good friends,
over his relationship with Summitt, say
ing the Villanova coach had “dumped
me for the Evil Empire.”
Hey, Auriemma pleaded, lighten up.
He was just having fun.
“There is nothing evil about them —
unless you live in Connecticut. Her pro
gram speaks for itself and her reputation
certainly speaks for itself. Throwing
snowballs is part of what you do in a
tournament. We are just throwing a cou
ple of snowballs at each other.”
Summitt’s reaction to how she was
characterized?
“Well, I have been called a lot worse
in my career,” she said.
This is the third NCAA title game
between the coaches; UConn won the
others, in 1^5 and 2000. The Huskies
beat Oklahoma last year and are 3-0 in
national finals.
And this season, UConn has nation
al player of the year Diana Taurasi.
Taurasi scored 26 points in UConn’s
71-69 semifinal victory over Texas on
Sunday and is averaging 25.8 points in
the tournament.
“She is fearless,” said Tennessee’s
Kara Lawson. “I think she takes on a lot
of responsibility, but she is confident
that she can handle it.”
Tennessee has won 24 of 25 games
since losing to Connecticut 63-62 in
overtime Jan. 4. The Lady Vols are led
by senior Gwen Jackson, who had 25
points in Sunday’s win over Duke.
But to Jackson, finishing her career
against the rival doesn’t matter.
“I don’t care who we play. I just want
to win,” she said. “It’s my last 40 min
utes of college basketball.”
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Aggie baseball team taking
n Rice Tuesday in Houston
Former Cougar coach denied Hall of Fame again
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Wade Townsend who enters the game with a
perfect 4-0 record and a 1.36 ERA this season.
In 53 innings of work, Townsend has struck
out 75 opposing batters.
The two teams met earlier this season on
Feb. 11 at Minute Maid Park in Houston where
Rice defeated the Aggies 10-5.
The teams have played 253 times and A&M
holds the series lead 172-81.
First pitch is scheduled for 7 p.m. and fans
can listen to the action on 1620-AM in College
Station.
By Mark Babineck
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — Despite producing
592 victories, 14 NCAA Tournament
appearances, five trips to the Final
Four and a bevy of NBA stars, for
mer Houston coach Guy V. Lewis
again missed the Basketball Hall of
Fame on Monday.
“I feel like I should be able to get
in, but (voters) don’t think so,”
Lewis, accompanied by his wife
Dena, told reporters after hearing the
bad news from New Orleans.
“That’s all right with me.”
Lewis had the backing of several
prominent coaches and, after 17 sea
sons in retirement, was thought to
have a good chance at finally joining
basketball’s other elite at age 81.
Instead, he’ll wait another year.
Until then, he had a message for the
secretive 24-member honors com
mittee that makes the decisions.
“Hell, man, wake up!” Lewis said.
The committee did see fit to
induct former Boston Celtics center
Robert Parish, former Los Angeles
Laker forward James Worthy, former
Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark
Lemon, color-barrier breaking NBA
player Earl Lloyd, longtime
Louisiana Tech women’s coach Leon
Barmore, Italian player Dino
Meneghin and the late Chick Hearn,
who broadcast 3,338 consecutive
Laker games.
The seven were selected from a
record group of 30 finalists and will
be inducted in early September in
Springfield, Mass. None of the
men’s basketball coaching finalists
— Lewis, Lefty Driesell, Bill
Sharman, Norm Stewart and Eddie
Sutton — made the cut.
Both Lewises took note that five
of the six U.S. inductees had ties to
either the east or west coasts, sug
gesting he coached on the wrong
coast.
“I think a lot of it is that,” Lewis
said. “Elvin (Hayes) and Calvin
Murphy, both of those guys are in
there. And 1 think they’d both like
me to be in there too.”
Hayes was a star at Houston
under Lewis in the late 1960s, lead
ing the Cougars to Lewis’ first two
Final Fours, while Murphy was a
Houston Rockets star in the 1970s.
Two other Lewis pupils, Clyde
Drexler and Hakeem Olajuwon, are
likely headed to Springfield in the
coming years. Lewis, despite the
support of big coaching names like
Nolan Richardson, Rick Majerus,
Bob Knight and Don Haskins, isn’t
sure he’ll join them.
“I guess they’re mad at me or
something,” he joked.
Lewis was a pacesetter from the
beginning. He broke UH’s color bar
rier in the 1960s by signing Hayes
and Don Chaney, a major move by a
southern school at the time.
“The game was changed through
Guy Lewis,” Richardson told
Houston television station KRIV.
“He broke the barrier line for us in
that part of Texas and it kind of
spread throughout the South. For a
guy who has done that much, I don’t
understand the reasons behind him
not being a Hall of Famer.”
He also helped take college bas
ketball to a national television audi
ence for the first time in 1968, when
No. 2 Houston hosted No. 1 UCLA
before 52,693 at the Astrodome, with
the Hayes-led Cougars beating the
Lew Alcindor-led Bruins 71-69.
Lewis, who was a star player at
Houston before taking over in 1956,
did not have a losing record for the
last 27 years of his 30-year coaching
career, and his teams averaged 19
victories. He coached 15 All-
Americans, 11 first-round NBA draft
picks and is joined by only North
Carolina’s Dean Smith in having
three players on the NBA’s “Top 50”
players list (Hayes, Drexler and
Olajuwon).
Lewis, slowed physically by a
stroke but still armed with a sharp
wit, joked about what he needs to do
to win over the voters.
“I’d like to come out of retire
ment and get a few more wins,”
Lewis said.
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