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SPORTS IN BRIEF
Free video for NCAA
volleyball available
Free live video streaming of Texas
A&M’s NCAA first-round volleyball
match against Nicholls State on
Friday at G. Rollie White Coliseum
will be available at
www.AggieAthletics.com, A&M and
Aggie Ultimate Access officials
announced Thursday.
Users must have a high-speed
(300K or higher) connection to the
Internet to view the event.
The match, which is the second
match of a doubleheader at G.
Rollie, will begin at 7 p.m. or 30 min
utes after the conclusion of the
Arizona-Wisconsin match, whichev
er is later. Arizona and Wisconsin
are scheduled to begin at 5 p.m.
Aggie Ultimate Access will also
provide free live video streaming
Saturday at 7 p.m. If A&M advances
to the second round to face the win
ner of Arizona-Wisconsin.
Wynalda gamers All-
American selection
Texas A&M libero/defensive spe
cialist Rebecca Wynalda has been
named to the 2003 Academic All-
American volley
ball third team, the
College Sports
Information
Directors of
America (CoSIDA)
announced today.
Wynalda, a sen
ior from
Kennedale, Texas, wynalda
is a member of the
Professional Program in Accounting
and has maintained a perfect 4.0
grade-poii^t average while concur
rently pursuing both a bachelor’s
degree in accounting and a master’s
in finance.
Murphy, Hangartner,
Lewis, Appel selected
to All-Big 12 team
Junior wide receiver Terrence
Murphy, junior offensive lineman
Geoff Hangartner, freshman run
ning back Courtney Lewis and
sophomore defensive back Jaxson
Appel earned All-Big 12 honors in
2003, the league office announced
Tuesday.
Murphy was named to the second-
team offense as a kick returner. The
Tyler, Texas, native averaged 27.2
yards per kick return and broke sev
eral school records in the process.
Lewis, a redshirt freshman from
Houston, rushed for 1,024 yards on
the year to become the Aggies’ first
1,000-yard rusher since Dante Hall
in 1998.
Hangartner was a third team
selection at offensive line, and
Appel was honorable mention at
defensive back.
Ags put new rankings on the line
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John C. Livas • THE BATTALION
Texas A&M swimmer Chris Nelan competes at the Aggie Invitational in November. The Aggie men's swimming team is on
the road this weekend against Purdue and Indiana, and the women's team is staying in College Station to host Kansas.
By Pete Burks
THE BATTALION
With some much-needed rest over the
Thanksgiving holidays, the Texas A&M men’s and
women’s swimming teams will head into their last
meets of the season looking to build upon their hard-
earned successes from the A&M Invitational two
weeks ago.
After finishing second in the A&M Invitational,
the women’s team (4-0, 2-0 Big 12) was rewarded,
moving up in the rankings to No. 15 from No. 17. In
addition, freshman Rebecca Sturdy, after earning her
stripes with three first place finishes in the
Invitational, became the NCAA leader in the 100- and
200-meter backstroke, as well as the 200 medley.
“Rebecca had an outstanding meet, no question,”
said Aggie women’s coach Steve Bultman. “She’s
very talented and is doing a great job training, which
shows up in the results at the meets.”
Meanwhile, the men’s team (3-0, 1-0 Big 12), fell
two spots to No. 15, even though it finished first in the
A&M Invitational. All was not lost, however, as sen
ior Matt Rose became the NCAA leader in the 50-
meter freestyle, while ranking second in the 100-
meter freestyle and sixth in the 100-meter backstroke.
When the men hit the road to face Purdue and
Indiana today and Saturday, respectively, the team
.will be looking to show that its success at the
Invitational was no fluke.
“We were real pleased with the results of the
Invitational, seeing as how we swam better than we
thought we would,” said men’s coach Mel Nash.
“Purdue and Indiana are pretty good, so it was good to
catch some rest over the break. Purdue has been sur
prisingly good this year, and they are much more bal
anced than we thought they would be.”
As for Indiana, heading to Bloomington will be a
homecoming of sorts for Nash, as he was a member of
the Indiana swim team that won six consecutive
NCAA championships.
“Indiana has had a slow start this year, but they are
a team with a really strong swimming tradition,” Nash
said. “Getting to go back up North is always fun, but
especially when you’re facing your alma mater.”
While the men are on the road this weekend, the
Aggie women will face conference foe Kansas in the
friendly confines of the A&M Student Recreation
Center Natatorium. The women will be looking to
continue their recent successes but to do so, they will
have to fend off a vastly improved Kansas team.
After a slow start to the season, the Jay hawks have
rebounded mightily, finishing first in the Minnesota
Invitational, which included No. 10 Wisconsin and
No. 25 Minnesota.
“Kansas is doing well right now, and they’re sure
to be some good competition,” Bultman said. “They
definitely are a team that we have to be ready to face.”
On the road again
Texas A&M sophomore Antoine Wright
controls the ball against Prairie View
A&M on Nov. 29. The Texas A&M men's
JP Beato III • THE BATTALION
basketball team will complete its two-
game road swing Saturday against
Oakland in Rochester, Mich., at 5 p.m.
A&M to continue home
slate against North Texas
Staff & Wire
THE BATTALION
The Texas A&M women’s basket
ball team continues a seven-game home
stand on Saturday by
hosting the North
Texas Mean Green
(3-2) at 2 p.m. at
Reed Arena.
Entering the game
on the heels of the
best opening night
crowd in the six-year
history of Reed blair
Arena, the Aggies (3-
2) will be facing North Texas for the first
time since November 1999.
A record 1,802 fans were on hand for
the home debut of the coach Gary Blair
era as the Aggies beat Arkansas-Little
Rock by the score of 54-45 this past
Wednesday night.
After being tied at halftime, the
Aggies used 10 second half points from
senior Lynn Classen to take an early lead
they would not relinquish.
Classen finished with 12 points, six
rebounds and a career-matching best
five blocked shots.
Senior guard Toccara Williams just
missed a triple-double after posting a
game-high 17 points, nine rebounds and
seven assists.
She is the Aggies’ leader in scoring at
14.4, assists at 7.4 and steals at 3.2.
The Big 12 active career leader in
steals and assists, Williams is the
nation’s returning leader in steals per
game after ranking No. 1 last season for
10 weeks.
Williams is the all-time A&M steals
leader and the Big 12 active steals leader
with 357 while ranking No. 3 all-time in
the league in career steals.
She is one of two Big 12 players ever
to record 900 points, 500 assists and
300 steals.
Williams needs 47 points for 1,000.
She has a school-best 357 steals, while
ranking second with 569 assists.
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