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Tony Gutierrez
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Mean Green sees mixed results in Houston
Long break and
hard practice
fatigues team
By Miguel Artiga
Intern
After a five-week break from
competition, the Mean Green
Women's Swimming and Diving
team were back in action Friday
and Saturday, Jan. 13-14, in
Houston.
NT lost to the University
of Houston by a score of 240-
105 and to New Mexico State
University 170-169, but managed
to topple Florida International
University 215-123.
Head coach Joe Dykstra said
he isn't worried about wins
and losses so much as he is
about preparing his team and
teaching them to battle through
adversity.
"Nothing brings out the
flaws in your race strategy or
in your technique like trying to
execute it when you're in a state
of fatigue," Dykstra said.
Prior to the Houston meet,
the team last competed in Little
Rock Arkansas Dec. 1-2 at the
UALR Invitational. With such a
long period between competi-
tions, Dykstra worked the team
for two weeks intensely during
practice.
"I knew that we were going
to hurt a little because the girls
were not going to be feeling
well," Dykstra said.
One swimmer who managed
to fight through the aches and
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The NT swimming and dive team defeated Florida International
University at the swim meet Saturday in Houston.
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first part of it, so I was kind of
dreading it," Hale said.
Hale participated in the 400
IM, the 100 freestyle and the
200 free relay consecutively to
end the meet.
"That is an extremely diffi-
cult thing to do," Dykstra said.
"Very few athletes have that
kind of capability to repeat like
that."
Hale said she knew her team
needed her and gutted it up for
the last few laps.
"I just kept telling myself,
'OK, you're down one stroke,
you're almost there, after this
you're done,'" Hale said.
Freshman Emily Floyd also
notched a personal-best time in
the 1,000 freestyle with a time
of 10:34.26, notching the second
best time in school history for
that event.
Freshman Nicole Leslie
recorded a 53.93 in the 100 free-
style, which was a season best
for her.
Weather cancelled NT's meet
against the fifth-ranked Texas
A&M Aggies Sunday morning.
Dykstra said that he was disap-
pointed to not have a chance to
compete against such a stout
squad, but is realistic.
"I'm not kidding myself; we
would not have had a chance
to win that meet, but it would
have been a fun opportunity,"
Dykstra said.
Hale said she was excited
about the A&M meet because
she was going to get to compete
against one of her friends. Not
all was lost as Hale got to spend
the morning with her parents.
The Mean Green will be back
in action Jan. 24 in Denton
when it takes on Texas Christian
University and Incarnate
Word.
reshman will be crucial
to upcoming track season
Richard C. White
StaffWriter
The NT track and field team
begins its indoor season on
Saturday Jan. 20 in Lubbock at
the Texas Tech Invitational. The
meet will be the first event for the
18 new freshmen on the team,
who have a lot to adjust to at the
college level.
"It's hard for a freshman
because our season is so long,"
said head coach Rick Watkins.
"It's nine months of competition,
where in high school they're used
to going two and a half to three
months."
Seven of the 18 freshmen are
sprinters, who Watkins said he
expects a lot out of, but admits
they can be a wild card at
times.
"Our sprints are going to be
young," Watkins said. "We think
they'll be competitive but you
never know with a younger group.
Most of them have never run
indoors, so it's going to be a new
experience for them."
Watkins said he has high hopes
for the freshmen and understands
there will be a learning curve for
them at the Division-IA level.
"We have high expectations
here, and they're going to make
some mistakes because indoor is
almost a different sport," Watkins
said. "The number one thing is to
get them up to speed on what the
collegiate track season is like."
Sophomore jumper Brandi
Stanfield knows better than most
how to handle a fresh man season.
In 2006 she made All-Conference
in long jump and triple jump
and was named NT's first ever
indoor Ail-American. She capped
off the year as the only NT track
athlete to qualify for the NCAA
Championships.
Although she made leaps and
bounds during her freshman
season, Stanfield knows not every
newcomer will experience the
same results. She warns that there
isn't much of a social life for a
collegiate athlete who wants to
succeed, as the daily grind can
be overwhelming at times.
"[First you] wake up in the
morning to do practice, then you
eat breakfast, and you go to study
hall in the morning, and then
class after that, and you get out of
class, and go back to practice, and
you come home to study, and then
you wake up and do it all over
again," Stanfield said. "It's a very
long, complicated schedule."
Senior jumper Mark Lee,
who made All-Conference for
high jump in the 2006 indoor
and outdoor seasons, said he
considers Stanfield as a model
for how to best make the transi-
tion to college.
"She has a really good work
ethic, trains hard and has a lot of
natural talent," Lee said.
Lee said he realizes that the
duration of a long track season
can be grueling for freshmen.
"It's going to break down their
bodies," Lee said. "Hopefully
they'll be able to make it through
the season."
Even though Saturday is just
the first meet of the season,
Watkins is aware of what it repre-
sents.
"We have to be able to raise our
intensity up," Watkins said. "It's
got to be at a much higher level at
the Division-1 track level because
there will be people qualifying for
the national meet the first rattle
out of the box, and we have to
match that intensity."
Lee said he is looking forward
to the Texas Tech Invitational,
having had great success in past
seasons.
"I took second there last year
[in the high jump] and won the
year before," Lee said.
Meanwhile, Stanfield said she
is relaxed and confident about
Saturday's meet.
"Texas Tech isn't a big worry,"
Stanfield said. "We're going to
practice through this meet same
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