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Track teams hit the road for Arkansas
Meet to serve as precursor to
SEC indoor championships
By Seth Stroupe
The Texas A&M track team
(women No. 3, men No. 4) travels
to Fayetteville, Arkansas, Friday for the
Razorback Invitational. The Aggies are
hoping to ride the wave of momentum
they generated last weekend on their
home track, where they captured first
place in 17 of the 30 total events in the
Texas A&M Quadrangular Dual Meet.
“We took a good step forward,”
said Texas A&M’s head track coach
Pat Henry. “We did some things we
needed to do last weekend. We need
ed to see things happen out of specific
individuals. We needed to see where
Bralon Taplin was. Bralon needed that
opportunity to be on that stage at that
point to test himself, and the meet gave
him that opportunity. That’s just one
example. There was a number of peo
ple that were the same way.”
Taplin, this week’s SEC Sprinter of
the Week, owned the stage and made
the most of his opportunity en route to
a 45.78 second run in the 400 meters.
That mark is the best time posted in the
young 2015 indoor track season, and
the third-fastest in school history. Tap
lin also anchored the 4x400 relay team
that took first with a time of 3:07.28.
Texas A&M may need another round
of record-shattering performances
from Taplin and others if they want to
stand out in a competitive field of 14.
“If you look at the rankings, this is
probably one of the better meets this year
even though its only the third or fourth
meet of the season,” Henry said. “It brings
together a tremendous group of institu
tions and great track programs. Hve or six
of the teams are ranked in the top 10.”
There are five squads that come
into the Arkansas Invitational with a
top 10 ranking — Horida (women
No. 1, men No, 2), LSU (men No.
9), and host Arkansas (women No. 5,
men No. 3). With the SEC indoor
championships only three weeks away,
A&M will get its first look at some of
the top-level competition it has to look
forward to in the conference.
“People talk about the SEC’s domi
nance in all sports,” Henry said. “But
we’ve won more national champion
ships in track than anything else. It’s the
most dominated sport in the United
States. It’s also the toughest sport in the
SEC to win a conference champion
ship in.”
The Arkansas Invitational Meet is a
two-day event that kicks off at 11 a.m.
Friday with the women’s pentathlon
and runs until 8:15 p.m. Saturday’s
competition will run from 11 a.m.-
4:30 p.m. A full list of events can be
found on Arkansas’ team website. The
meet will be broadcast on SEC Net-
work+, which can be accessed via the
Watch ESPN app.
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will go for its sixth straight win
at Reed Arena Saturday against
Vanderbilt. Find the preview online.
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Texas Rangers Manager Jeff Banister speaks with
media from Olsen Field Thursday.
New Texas Rangers
manager visits
Aggieland Thursday
By Brandon Wheeland
New Texas Rangers
manager Jeff Banister
was in town Thursday night
at Olsen Field as part of the
FOX Sports Southwest Texas
Rangers Media Tour.
Traveling by private jet, the
tour kicked off from Arling
ton at roughly 9 a.m., making
stops in Lubbock, Oklahoma
City and College Station be
fore returning home. For the
first time, every game not na
tionally broadcast will be on
FOX Sports Southwest.
“It was a whirlwind day,”
said FOX Sports Southwest
Public Relations Director
Ramon Alvarez. “We hit
a lot of the outer markets
— that’s where a lot of our
viewer base is. Now that we
have all the games, it’s really
important to hit markets like
College Station.”
FOX Sports Southwest Se
nior Vice President and Gen
eral Manager Jon Heidtke
knows the importance of
providing their product to
fans who can’t make it to Ar
lington for games.
“There are a lot of Rang
ers fans in College Station,”
said Heidtke, Class of 1981.
“We want to make sure peo
ple get a chance to see games
and get to know the players.
Jeff Banister is a great guy...
[He] has a lot of charisma.
He’s a larger-than-life fig
ure.”
Banister was drafted by the
Pittsburgh Pirates in 1986.
He called Pittsburgh home
as a player and coach until he
was named manager of the
Rangers in October of last
year.
“Every time I put my feet.
on the floor since the cky I
was offered the job, it’s been
wonderful,” Banister said.
The Rangers open the
2015 season against the Ath
letics in Oakland on April 6.
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rise in our country.”
Bush said she thinks digital
books may help teach children
to read, giving an anecdote of 4
friend’s daughter learning to
read from an iPad.
“I think technology is going
to change the way we learn,”
Bush said. “I think if used cor
rectly and monitored, technol
ogy will change the world.”
Hall Davidson, educational
innovator in digital learning
for Discovery Education , said
a big focus is placed on making
technology interactive with
existing books rather than just
making books digitally acces
sible.
Davidson demonstrated the
interactive features of “Auras-
ma” with Rushmore. By wav
ing a phone over the pages of
the book, the user can unlock
supplemental material. With
some books, users can “go
inside” and “move around”
a virtual world modeled after
settings in the book.
Both Bush and the children
present at the reading partici
pated in creating a supplemen
tal video that can be watched
through the app when using it
on “Rushmore.”
“Let me just say that as far
as I know, this is largest col
laboration of authoring that has
ever been done. So we think
this is the world’s largest aug
mented reality authoring ses
sion,” Davidson said.
Mark Wright, KBTX Gen
eral Manager, gave the students
in attendance and watching via
video stream one last piece of
advice to get them involved in
reading.
“Reading provides you with
an exciting discovery and ad
venture,” Wright said. “You
may enhance your reading
with the AR app as Mr. Hall
talked about a minute ago.
Find a reading buddy, have fun
reading.”
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committee will discuss how to take the next step of
meeting and interacting with the finalists.
Veterinarians from the Texas A&M College of
Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences will
also nsure that the next Reveille meets proper health
conditions by checking the five current candidates.
“If any mascots arrive at the top we’ll decide
whether to bring them here or go visit them,” Reber
said. “A lot of these dogs are breeder and show dogs
too. We not only have to work around the dog’s
schedule but their family’s schedule as well. ”
Willard said the two dogs chosen from the Hous
ton Collie Rescue are both long-haired collies, simi
lar in appearance to that of Reveille VIII, but seem
to be more timid.
“The two dogs are gorgeous and both are very nice
and super sweet,” Willard said. “They love people
and other animals, but they are a little more shy.”
Alexandra Gonzalez, Traditions Council chairman
and search committee member, said the selection has
been a lengthy process accompanied by much anxi
ety.
“I’m thrilled,” Gonzalez said. “Just the fact that
we’ve narrowed it down to a few applicants and
hopefully further [Friday], it just means we’re that
much closer. It all comes down to which can adjust
to the lifestyle of being a super busy dog.”
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