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Page 4 Thursday, anijary 24, 2008
Sports
Richard C. White
Sports Editor
richieatUNT@hotmail.com
Sports scene
Read updates on Mean Green
sports tomorrow.
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Timing brings cousins together on Mean Green swim team
Competition
brings positive
results
By Ben Gooding
Intern
The NT swim team tries
hard to stick together and
bond like a family. Two of its
current swimmers came to the
team with this bond already
formed.
Rosita Bado and Taryne
Cantillo are cousins from
Georgetown both of whom
joined the swim team this
season. Bado is a freshman
and Cantillo is a junior who
transferred from Centenary
College.
"There are some benefits,"
said swimming and diving
head coach Joe Dykstra. "You
want to foster camaraderie and
a family on the team."
The two swimmers
constantly drive each other
to excel, and the results
show. Cantillo broke NT's
200-yard butterfly record
in a swim meet earlier this
season at Southern Methodist
University. Dykstra said it was
a six-year-old record, one of
the longest lasting records yet
to be broken by the team.
Dykstra said he feels that
Bado, who struggled during her
senior year of high school, is
back on track as she continues
to strengthen her skills.
"Rosita is swimming with
more confidence," he said.
"She has the second best back-
stroke on the team."
The two close cousins said
they feel more
like siblings.
"It's like we
are sisters but
we go home
to different
houses," Bado
said.
Bado remem-
bers that when
they were
young, she and
Cantillo were
together all
the time. They
lived in the
same neighbor-
hood growing
up and even
walked together
to school.
"Taryne started swim-
ming before me," Bado said.
"I wasn't active when I was
little, and my mom saw that
Taryne was in it, so she put
me in it with her."
They later swam together at
Georgetown High School and
again for Texas Gold, a club
team in Pflugerville.
"I started with swim lessons
and then summer league,"
Cantillo said. "I won one event
in the summer and wanted to
do it ever since then."
Cantillo started college
at Centenary and holds the
school records there in the
100-yard butterfly, 200-yard
butterfly and 100-yard back-
stroke. She was also the team's
swimmer of the year during
her freshman
season.
Despite
her success,
Cantillo did not
like the swim-
ming program
at Centenary.
She visited NT
before Dykstra
joined the
Mean Green,
but after
visiting again,
she really liked
his style, she
Whitney said.
"He is really
positive all the
time," she said.
"It's 100 percent better" than
it was at Centenary.
Cantillo said Dykstra's
enthusiasm and tactics really
impressed Bado and her from
the start. What they respected
most was the way he focuses
more on technique and stroke
than on yardage.
"He always pushes us and
motivates us," Bado said.
At first, Bado had some
problems getting up early for
practice, but after a few weeks
and phone calls from Cantillo,
she got used to the schedule,
"Once they are
in the pool, they
are competitive.
When they get
out, they are
family again,"
Vhitnc
Tyrone
she said.
Sometimes the two even
have to compete in the same
events.
"When one beats the other,
we know not to go up to the
other person," she said. "Leave
them alone for a while and it
will be OK."
Sophomore diver Whitney
Tyrone from Pflugerville has
known Bado and Cantillo for
10 years and swam on the
Texas Gold team with them.
Tyrone is also Bado's room-
mate.
"Once they are in the pool,
they are competitive," Tyrone
said. "When they get out, they
are family again."
If one beats the other, it
makes the other one want to
win even more than usual,
Tyrone said.
"I have known a lot of swim
families," Dykstra said. "Never
have I coached two relatives at
the same time."
Being close has helped the
two integrate more smoothly
into the new environment.
While they have a lot in
common, Dykstra said they
have drastically different
personalities. Bado said
Cantillo is more laid back than
she is.
"Taryne is definitely the
goofier of the two," Dykstra
said. "Rosita is more deter-
mined and quiet."
Their swimming schedules
also vary.
Photo by Chelsey Roberts/ Intern
Freshman Rosita Bado, front, and junior Taryne Cantillo, back, are cousins and
both members of the NT women's swim team.
"She swims in the afternoon
and I swim in the morning,"
Bado said. "I have to be there
on time or 15 minutes early."
Even though Bado and
Cantillo will always remember
the time they spent swimming
together, they said they do not
plan to room together while
in college.
"We have lived close enough
for a while," Cantillo said.
Announcement on Mean Green s new
defensive coordinator to be made official
Continued from page 1
level before. Prior to coming
to NT, Mendoza, like many
of Dodge's assistant coaches,
worked alongside Dodge
at Southlake Carroll High
School.
In the search for the
new defensive coordinator,
Villarreal said previous college
coaching experience has not
been the most important factor
in Dodge's hiring process.
"[Dodge] is looking for
somebody who's shown the
ability and capability to run
defenses," Villarreal said.
"Where that comes from, I
don't think it ever really
matters. Sometimes people
can get caught up in, 'He's only
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The search for Mendoza's
replacement began earlier
in the month after a Jan. 4
athletic department press
release said Mendoza would
not be offered a new contract
extension.
"After careful evaluation of
our defense during this last
season, I have decided it is in
the best interest of this football
program to make a change at
defensive coordinator," Dodge
said in the Jan. 4 statement.
"These decisions are never
easy, but ultimately I have
to take the steps necessary
that I believe will help build
the football program at the
University of North Texas."
All NT assistant coaches are
serving one-year contracts,
which are renewed annually at
Dodge's discretion. Villarreal,
who is a member of the NCAA
Division I Management Council
and Football Committee, said
the practice was "pretty much
the norm" for college football
assistant coaches.
Even though Dodge's first
season did not live up to his
own high standards or the
great expectations fostered
by the fans, Villarreal said
he likes where the program is
headed as evident by the deci-
sion to let Mendoza go.
"I'm excited because [Dodge]
recognized there was a situa-
tion that needed to be fixed,"
Villarreal said. "One of the
things that we felt when we
hired Todd was that he was a
guy who would always do the
right thing, always make the
decisions that were best for
the program and the student-
athletes."
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Mean Green Athletics in Action!
N s weekend sports schedule
MEN'S BASKETBALL:
On Sunday, the men's basketball team (12-6, 3-4) will oppose Sun Belt Conference rival
Middle Tennessee at 2 p.m. in Murfressboro, Tenn. The Mean Green will return to play three
consecutive home games in the Super Pit following Sunday's road trip.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL:
On Saturday, the women's basketball team (9-10, 4-3) will oppose Sun Belt Conference rival
Middle Tennessee at 7 p.m. in Murfressboro, Tenn. NT is hoping to win its fourth straight
conference game.
TENNIS:
On Friday, the tennis team begins play at 3 p.m. against Stephen F. Austin University in
Nacogdoches.
On Saturday the tennis team continues its weekend road trip at 3 p.m. against Rice
University in Houston.
TRACK:
On Friday and Saturday the track and field team will compete in the highly competitive
Razorback Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark.
1 rack team prepares for prominent Arkansas meet
By Si-ierrelle Banks
Intern
Coming off two intense,
successful days of competi-
tion in Lubbock last weekend
at the Texas Tech Invitational,
the Mean Green track and
field team will be on the road
again, this time on Friday
in Fayetteville, Ark., for the
Razorback Invitational.
Making its mark on the
track last weekend, NT placed
first in six events. Those
events were the women's
triple jump, women's 4-by-400
relay, the women's 200-meter
run, the men's high jump and
a tie for first in the women's
long jump.
The men and women of
the track and field team are
striving for an even better
meet this weekend in what
will be a much stronger field
of competitors.
"Last weekend we had a
very good meet, so I'm hoping
that everyone builds on that,
goes out and really makes a
statement for North Texas
and represents the university
at a high level," junior high
jumper Toby Edwards said.
"I think it will happen this
weekend!"
Edwards is currently two
inches away from his goal of
meeting the provisional mark
of 2.14 meters, or seven feet
and a quarter inch.
"I am going to practice this
week and fix what I need to
fix," Edwards said. "Hopefully
I can increase my jump by
a couple of inches and get
my provisional mark this
weekend."
Although NT is prepared,
the team members said they
feel they will have to reach
a higher level of success in
the Razorback Invitational
since NT will oppose several
teams from prominent confer-
ences, such as the Big XII and
Southeastern Conference.
"The competition is just
going to be a lot stronger,"
head coach Rick Watkins said.
"Some of the best athletes in
the country will be there, so
the competition level is a lot
higher."
Junior jumper Brandi
Stanfield, one of the many
track athletes who experi-
enced success last weekend,
said she is always hungry for
the next meet, always ready
to improve for herself and
her team.
"I hope to get back up to
the potential that I know
and the level that I know I
need to be competing at like
every track meet so that my
teammates can depend on
me better when it comes to
conference time," Stanfield
said. "I'm hoping to really
help the school make a name
for itself and help me make a
better name for myself."
Dallas Cowboys lose more coaches
MIAMI (AP)- New Miami
Dolphins coach Tony Sparano
hired three assistants
Wednesday from his former
team, the Dallas Cowboys.
Joining Miami were Paul
Pasqualoni as defensive
coordinator, Todd Bowles
as assistant head coach
and secondary coach, and
Kacy Rodgers as defensive
line coach. All worked in
Dallas with Sparano, who
was the Cowboys' assistant
head coach before taking the
Miami job last week.
New Dolphins executive
vice president of football
operations Bill Parcells and
new general manager Jeff
Ireland also formerly worked
for the Cowboys.
VMI head coach Jim Reid
accepted an offer to become
the Dolphins' linebackers
coach, the school said.
"v
Reid had a 3-19 record in
two years trying to rebuild
VMI's program. He was on
Pasqualoni's staff at Syracuse
in 2004.
David Corrao, who coached
linebackers at Mississippi in
2007, joined Miami as defen-
sive quality control coach.
Pasqualoni was head coach
at Syracuse from 1991-2004,
leading the Orangemen to a
record 107-59-1 record and
nine bowl appearances. He
spent the past three years
with the Cowboys as tight
ends coach and then line-
backers coach.
Bowles has eight years of
experience as an NFL assis-
tant, including the past three
in Dallas, where he was
secondary coach. He was an
assistant with the Cleveland
Browns in 2001-04.
Rodgers spent five seasons
with the Cowboys, including
the past three coaching the
defensive line.
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