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(Left) Kamaria Brown earned this week's SEC runner of the week honors, while (right) Bralon Taplin
continues to struggle with an injury.
No. 1 track poised for strong meet
at Penn Relay Carnival this weekend
By Seth Stroupe
The No. 1 Texas A&M men and
women’s track and field teams are
set to spend an extended weekend in
the Philadelphia as they compete in the
121st Penn Relay Carnival. The Ag-
gies have enjoyed recent success at the
event, claiming six consecutive 4x100
relay victories and taking the top spot in
six of the past seven 4x200 relay races.
“The Penn is a great rehearsal for big
meet competition,” said track and field
head coach Pat Henry. “There are go
ing to be 60,000 people in the stadium
and that makes for an environment that
is very conducive for [what we’ll see at]
the NCAA championships. We’re just
trying to put ourselves in that sort of
situation and that’s what [this weekend]
is all about.”
The Aggies are coming off a rain-
shortened Michael Johnson Classic in
Waco, Texas, in which several events
were canceled due to inclement weath
er. Still, the Aggies were able to notch
more than their share of victories be
fore the cancellation.
Senior sprinter Deon Lendore ran a
new season best in taking first place in
the men’s 400 meter, freshman new
comer loannis Kyriazis set a new career
best en route to taking the first place
and SEC Freshman of the Week honors
in the javelin and Kamaria Brown and
Shamier Little placed fourth and fifth in
a loaded women’s 400 meter field that
included both the defending Olympic
champion, Sanya Richards-Ross, and
NCAA title holder, Courtney Okolo.
“We accomplished a lot in a short
period of time,” Henry said. “We had
some great efforts. Our Javelin throw-
el’s looked good, Deon looked good,
Kamaria and Shamier looked real good
in the 400 meters. We got a lot done. ”
Brown earned SEC runner of the
week honors for setting a new career
best outdoor 400 time (51.76) and
running the third leg in the women’s
4x100 sprint relay. Brown’s 400-meter
time is the fifth best in the NCAA and
the second-fastest SEC time recorded
this season.
“[Her season] has been a struggle to
get healthy,” Henry said. “Now she’s
finally healthy and she’s ready to run.
She showed that last weekend. Any
time you run you first 400 in 51-plus
seconds, that’s a tremendous first effort.
I think there are big things to come for
Kamaria.”
Still, it wasn’t all rainbows and
weather delays in Waco. Last week’s
USTFCCA honorable mention na
tional athlete of the week, Bralon Tap
lin, was injured during the exchange in
the 4x100 men’s sprint relay and is still
struggling to recover. On the women’s
side, key piece Olivia Ekpone contin
ues to regain her form from an injury
that has held her out of outdoor com
petition all season long.
The Penn Relay Carnival begins
at noon Thursday in Philadelphia and
continues through Saturday, when the
action starts at 12:30 p.m. and will be
broadcast on the NBC Sports Net
work.
Vanessa Pefia —THE BATTALION
(From left) Reid Towart, Grant Hewitt and Peter Luft will compete
with Team Maroon for $180,000 total in scholarships.
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deep into the stories behind
campus through this newspaper.
I attended Muster my freshman
year, and was suitably awed. But
the names were still just names.
That all changed with this
year’s Reflections Display. As a
Muster Host I had the privilege
to watch over the items families
chose to display on behalf of their
loved ones, and slowly the names
and class years came to life. Some
led lives startlingly close to mine.
They were involved in men’s and
women’s organizations, they stud
ied and worked and had fun with
friends. Their parents visited them
on weekends. They dated and fell
in love. Our only difference was a
heartbeat.
More than anything, the Re
flections Display motivated me to
be the best Muster Host I could
be. I agonized for two hours over
a letter we would handwrite to
our families. I rehearsed the first
sentence I would say when we
met, the different conversations
I might have and what I might
do if something went wrong.
I envisioned myself as the best
comforter, a patient listener and a
model Aggie.
Reality had other plans.
After my introduction, the fam
ily largely kept to themselves. I
asked a few questions to break
the silence; they politely replied.
The member most affected by
their loss couldn’t stop crying. I
didn’t know what to do. After a
few minutes I led them to their
seats and pinned a corsage to the
crying member, who joked that I
probably had plenty of experience
from prom to calm my unsteady
fingers. I never found out if the
one they honored was her hus
band or brother. They were gone
before I could say goodbye after
the ceremony.
I was upset — I wanted to
make a difference, and I felt like
I had not until I realized I had
forgotten what the purpose of
Muster and being a host was.
Muster is about remembrance and
finding joy in a life fully lived.
Muster Hosts are there to serve
the honored families in any way
they need. The family I shook
hands with didn’t need me to talk
or to comfort them — they had
each other for that. I simply need
ed to show them their seats, and
keep calm and composed until we
parted. Never has something so
simple been so hard.
I wish I could say I lifted a
family’s grief or made a difference
in their lives, but I didn’t. I simply
stood by their side for 15 minutes,
showed them their seats and whis
pered ‘here’ for their loved one.
It was the least I had and the most
I could do, and I hope to do the
same when Muster is once again
called April 21, 2016.
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community has helped foster Team
Maroon’s success.
“The competitive environment at
A&M has been around long enough
we kind of bred a lot of good talent,”
Callaghan said. “And now it’s becom
ing bigger and when we take it on a
national level, we’re top four.”
Trent Jones, economics senior and
team member, said the
team will not get to
practice as much as it
wants to, but the players
still feel confident.
“We have finals and
tests coming up so its
going to be tough to
get as much practice in
as we can,” Jones said.
“But as long as our team
synergy stays and we are
fresh on the champions
we play we’ll be ready
to play.”
Hewitt said the team
often does better when
all the members take
a short break from the
game to get revitalized and back in
the mindset. Hewitt said the most im
portant mechanism for doing well is a
positive atmosphere and focusing on
one game at a time.
Jones said the team tries to have fun
in games, especially when doing well,
by yelling war cries, making jokes and
“breaking out the radios.”
The finals will take place in Barker
VP RESIGNATIONS
CONTINUED
typical when leadership roles change.
“It is common for new presidents to
form an administrative team to lead the
university in a manner they feel is best
suited to their leadership style and the
success of Texas A&M,” Hinckley said.
“The directive from the Chancellor re-
Hanger at Santa Monica Regional Air
port in front of a live audience. Hewitt
said the team knows numerous Aggies
will be watching them play both in the
audience and online.
“I think a cool aspect too is that a
bunch of our friends from the univer
sity are flying and driving down so they
are going to be in the audience cheer
ing for us,” Hewitt
said. “It’s just going
to be a really good at
mosphere. ”
Reid Towart, en
gineering senior and
team member, said he
is not overly worried
about playing in front
of the crowd.
“Even pros, still,
they talk about how
they have nerves or
jitters before thq game
but once the game
starts you’re just go
ing,” Towart said.
Hewitt said he
thinks the team will
do fine once they start playing.
“I was nervous before the Georgia
Tech game, Hewitt said. “But as soon
as I got into the game, honestly, I for
get everything — all that matters is that
one game for me.”
Team Maroon will play May 2 and
3 against the University of Connecti
cut, Robert Morris University and the
University of British Columbia.
affirms what is generally understood to
be a normal sequence of events when a
new president is selected.”
Student Body President Joseph Be-
nigno said although he has been reas
sured this is not a concern, there is a
chance it could affect SGA as a whole.
“We have a working relationship
with the vice presidents, so this certain
ly could effect as as SGA and therefore
the student body,” Benigno said.
V
"The competitive
environment at A&M
has been around long
enough [that] we kind of
bred a lot of good talent.
And now it's becoming
bigger and when we
take it on a national level,
we're top four."
Stephen Callaghan, English
Senior and team coach