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New group boosting spirit at A&M soccer games
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Fan support at Texas A&M soccer games has exploded during the last few seasons. The Aggies are cur
rently No. 1 in the nation in attendance, thanks in part to a support group called the Hullabaloo Hooligans.
By Troy Miller
THE BATTALION
For the Texas A&M soccer team, there
really is no place like home. With the sup
port of the student body and the Bryan-
College Station community, the Aggies rank
No. 1 in the nation in attendance, averaging
2,283 fans per game in their first eight home
dates of the 2003 season, an increase of 669
fans per game from 2002.
A large part of the increase is due to a
group of A&M students who call them
selves the Hullabaloo Hooligans. Much like
international soccer fans, they provide
music, chants and, of course, yells at Aggie
soccer games.
“Soccer is our most successful sport,”
said freshman Hullabaloo Hooligan member
Danny Vanderhoeven. “It’s fun to watch and
it’s a friendly atmosphere. We try to antago
nize the other team, and all the fans get
energized.”
The 12th Man is not just a football tradi
tion, as the soccer team’s 8-0 home record
demonstrates that the 12th Man resides at
the Aggie Soccer Complex as well, where
the average attendance supersedes the
venue’s capacity. The contribution by the
Hullabaloo Hooligans hasn’t been over
looked by the team.
“Just the difference from my freshman
year three years ago to now is unbelievable,”
said senior midfielder Kristen Strutz. “From
the minute we step on the field from the
locker room and see the bleachers full it just
gets us really motivated and really makes us
want to play for them.”
The A&M soccer program has relied on
community support and youth teams in the
past for good attendance at home games, but
with the success of the team over the past
decade, an aura has surrounded the Aggies
as one of the best athletic programs on the
A&M campus. The success has been noticed
by the students, and now students make up
Mly half of the fans in the stands at the
Soccer Complex.
That student attendance has evolved into
the Hullabaloo Hooligans, who routinely
drum on upside down paint buckets, paint
their bodies maroon and antagonize oppos
ing teams throughout games.
The Hooligans began as a group of friends
who wanted to take in some soccer games.
“Some guys from my town started com
ing to games last year,” said senior Hooligan
founder Chad Welty. “Some of the guys
went up to (A&M coach G. Guerrieri) and
asked him what we could do, like when to
yell, and stuff like that.”
Once their numbers began to grow, the
Hooligans made their presence felt at games
away from the Aggie Soccer Complex. In
Spring, Texas, earlier this season, the
Hooligans showed up with their “bucket
band” army beating throughout the Aggies’
match with North Carolina.
The Hooligans also traveled to Dallas
and helped spur the Aggies to two wins and
the championship of the SMU Mi Cocina
Soccer Cup.
“Last year we played UCLA at UCLA
and we had more fans they did,” said junior
forward Emma Smith. “I don’t know if it’s
just because they’re so much louder, but it
seems like we have more fans than the home
team does.”
The excitement about Aggie soccer and
the atmosphere the Hooligans have brought
to the games has brought an increase to stu
dent attendance in general at soccer games.
See Hooligans on page 9
LaFrentz out, Walker in for Mavericks
By Jaime Aron
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS — The Dallas
Mavericks bulked up an already
strong offense Monday, acquir
ing All-Star forward Antoine
Walker from the Boston Celtics
in a five-player trade.
The Celtics agreed to take
center Raef LaFrentz and the six
I seasons remaining on a $69 mil
lion, seven-year contract signed
before last season.
The Celtics also get Jiri
Welsch and Chris Mills, players
the Mavericks got in an offseason
trade that also brought Antawn
Jamison from Golden State, and
Dallas’ first-round pick in 2004.
The Mavericks will get guard
Tony Delk from Boston.
“It’s not every day that a 27-
year-old All-Star becomes avail
able,” said Donnie Nelson,
Dallas’ president of basketball
operations. “We feel we’ve got
one of the most versatile coach
es in the league. To add a player
of Antoine’s ability just gives
(coach Don Nelson) more
options to work with.”
Nelson struck the deal with
Danny Ainge, who became
Boston’s head of basketball oper
ations in May. The two are close
friends, with Nelson having been
an assistant to Ainge in Phoenix.
Between his jobs with the
Suns and Celtics, Ainge was a TV
analyst and he said on the air he
did not like Walker’s game. Since
joining Boston, he’s said he had
no intention of trading Walker.
Now Walker, a three-time
All-Star who averaged 17.3
points and 8.7 rebounds last sea
son, goes from playing along
side one high scorer in Paul
Pierce to being joined by four:
Dallas’ nucleus of Dirk
Nowitzki, Steve Nash and
Michael Finley, plus Jamison,
who was added in August.
The Mavericks, the NBA’s
highest-scoring team the last
See Trade on page 9
By Jon Sarche
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EAGLE, Colo. — Kobe
Bryant must stand trial on a
charge of sexually assaulting a
19-year-old
resort work
er, a judge
ruled
Monday,
clearing the
way for a
celebrity trial
the likes of
which hasn’t bryant
been seen
since OJ. Simpson.
Eagle County Judge
Frederick Gannett said prose
cutors presented enough evi
dence Bryant might have com
mitted the crime June 30. The
Los Angeles Lakers guard
could face a life sentence if
convicted.
His next appearance, in dis
trict court, is set for Nov. 10.
Bryant has said the sex was
consensual. His attorneys sug
gested the woman’s injuries
came during sex with other
men in the days before her
encounter with Bryant at a
posh resort in nearby Edwards.
The defense can appeal
Gannett’s ruling, but such
appeals are rare, legal experts
said.
Bryant practiced with the
Los Angeles Lakers at their El
Segundo, Calif., facility on
Monday and it wrapped up
about two hours before the
judge issued his ruling.
Bryant was asked then
about the decision that would
be coming out of the Colorado
courtroom.
“What courtroom?” he
said.
At Bryant’s first appearance
in state district court he will be
advised of his rights, of the
charge and of the possible
penalties. He could enter a plea
during that hearing.
Unless Bryant waives his
right to a speedy trial, the trial
would be scheduled within six
months of his plea.
Prosecutors in Colorado
almost always succeed in per
suading a judge to order a trial
after a preliminary hearing
because the standard of proof
required is relatively low.
Allegations are usually enough
to advance the case to a higher
court for trial, where the stan
dard of proof is much higher.
Bryant’s hearing was hardly
a quick proceeding: It lasted
for nearly two days and includ
ed graphic testimony about an
encounter prosecutors say
turned violent after flirting by
both Bryant and his accuser.
Sheriff’s Detective Doug
Winters testified the woman
went to Bryant’s room at the
Lodge & Spa at Cordillera
shortly after checking him
and his two bodyguards in to
the resort.
The two chatted and began
kissing. But a few minutes
later, Bryant grabbed the
woman by the throat, bent her
See Kobe on page 9
SPORTS IN BRIEF
A&M volleyball
climbs to No. 21
The Texas A&M volleyball
team climbed one spot to No.
21 in the USA Today/American
Volleyball Coaches
Association Division I Coaches
Poll, released Monday by the
AVCA.
The Aggies (14-5, 6-3 Big
12), who are in fourth place in
the Big 12, made the jump
after extending their winning
streak to four with victories
over Kansas and Oklahoma
last week.
Defending national champion
USC, Hawaii, Florida and
Georgia Tech continue to hold
down the top four spots.
A&M will host
2005 NCAA tennis
Texas A&M has been select
ed by the NCAA to host its
Division I Men’s Tennis
Championships in May of 2005
at the school’s newly named
George P. Mitchell ’40 Outdoor
Tennis Center, the school
announced Monday.
A&M, which served as host
in the 2002 season, will
become the second school to
host the men’s tennis champi
onships more than once since
the current format was adopt
ed in 1977. The University of
Georgia has served as host for
23 of the last 27 champi
onships.
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