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Wildcat Classic to open basketball season Friday
y TRAVIS WHISENANT
SPORTS EDITOR
Fresh from a 102-97 exhibition victory over
Angola's Atletico Pctrolcos the basketball
team officially will open its regular season sched-
ule Friday. The Wildcats will face Huston-Tillot-sbh
University in the opening round of the Wild-
cat Classic basketball tournament Friday and Sat-
urday at Moody Coliseum.
' 'Although Monday's victory docs hot officially
counting as a win on the team's schedule it gave
tlie team much-needed preparation for the regular
.Season.
1 '""The main thing it does is it gives us an idea of
what we're going to do under pressure and in a
game situation prior to actually starting the sea-
son" said head coach Tony Mauldin. "When you
s start your regular season that's not actually your
I first game even though it is that way on your
if record."
5 The Wildcats proved Monday they are a team
with considerable depth and firepower. Mauldin
fused ll different players in Monday's exhibition
cwith consistent results. The Wildcats shot 62.1
.ipercent from the field including 53.8 percent
'ifrom beyond the three-point line in an impressive
v-display of perimeter shooting and inside play.
Center Brodcrick Bobb sophomore from Nava-
sota led the Wildcats with 22 points and eight
rebounds. Returning All-Lone Star Conference
forward Corey Stone senior from Richardson
contributed 14 points.
Jim Reynolds senior from Fort Worth and
Joseph Golding freshman from Wichita Falls
also added 16 and 11 points respectively coming
off the bench for the Wildcats. Golding also led
the Wildcats with six assists in his collegiate
debut.
"We feel good about our depth" Mauldin said.
"I think the two areas we've improved is our
depth and inside play. 1 don't know if we'll substi-
tute five at a time but we'll continue to play a lot
of people."
The Wildcat Classic should provide an interest-
ing challenge for the Wildcats. Huston-Tillotson
has scored more than 100 points in its first three
games and the team presents a quick up-tempo
style.
Cameron University which left the Lone Star
Conference last season after dropping football
a prerequisite for LSC members will face ACU
in Saturday's action. Cameron split two games
with the Wildcats last season and has a seasoned
squad with several returning Icttcrmen.
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Pumpin' up
Football players Wayne Thomas freshman from Sacramento Calif. and Sergio Gomez freshman
from Citrus Heights Calif. work on incline presses during off-season conditioning. Strength coach
Cliff Felkins coordinates such conditioning programs during athletes' off-season training sessions.
Cross country standout injured
f By KIT MORGAN
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
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Mlhe men's cross country
! X team's national champi-
onship hopes suffered a signifi-
cant blow earlier this week.
Fourth man Jerome Ver-
meulen junior from Transvaal
South Africa suffered a hairline
fracture in his ankle and will be
unable to compete at the nation-
jal meet Saturday in Kearney
Neb. said Wes Kittley head
track coach.
Vermeulen has been an inte-
gral element this season for the
Wildcats. At the regional meet
Ut Canyon two weeks ago he
finished fourth on the team and
14th overall
His placing helped carry the
Wildcats to a second place fin-
ish behind nationally No. 1-
ranked Adams State College.
"We were looking at going to
nationals and finishing second"
Kittley said.
"Now we're looking at finish-
ing sixth or seventh" he said.
Vermeulen injured his ankle
while running He stepped on a
curb wrong and rolled his ankle
Kittley said.
He said doctors are calling the
injury a stress fracture and they
placed his ankle in a cast.
Peter Engelbrecht senior from
Cape Town South Africa who
was the fifth finisher for the
Wildcats at the regional meet
and 16th overall will move up
into the fourth spot.
Taking the fifth spot will be
Troy McCarter senior from
Abilene. He was the sixth fin-
isher for the Wildcats at region-
al and 49th overall.
Although the injury is a seri-
ous setback for the Wildcats
Kittley still has lofty goals for
the cross country program.
"At the national meet I really
think we can have three AU-
Americans on both the men's
and the women's teams" Kitt-
ley said.
INTRAMURAL PLAYER OF THE WEEK
I Dannett Jordan Dannett senior interdisciplinary major from Borger and member of Sigma
Theta Chi won the women's intramural picklcball singles tournament last Saturday. She beat Tri
Kappa Gamma's Jennie Light junior biology major from Hannibal Mo.
Jeff Venegoni Jeff senior human resource management major from Waco was the high bowler
for bowling champions GSP-I in the men's intramural bowling semifinals and finals last Monday
and Tuesday. Againsjt Frats-Spare in the semifinals he bowled two games of 223 and 169 for a
' score of 392. AgainstTitans in tlie finals.'he bowled 154 and 163 for.ftotal oT3l7
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Fellow LSC member Angclo State also will par-
ticipate in the tournament. However Angclo State
will not face the Wildcats because of the classic
format that predetermines which teams will play
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ench nnnlher.
"It will be a cood test for us" Mauldin said. "It
will be a good weekend for some people that want
to come out and sec some good basketball."
Athletes becoming better with Felkins
By KIT MORGAN
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
To more than 200 ACU ath-
letes Cliff Felkins Is a
major key to enhancing their
performance on the playing
field court or track.
A record-setting former ACU
athlete Felkins is in his third
year as the strength coach in the
athletic department. He devel-
ops strength and conditioning
programs for athletes for both
on and off-season.
He works specifically with
men's and women's track and
field football men's basketball
and both men's and women's
tennis.
Not a theoretical coaclrwith '
little actual playing experience
Felkins holds ACU track and
field records in the discus and
hammer throws. He has won
four national championships
including the NCAA Division I
discus thrcrtv in 1987 which he
threw for 200 feet and one inch.
That particular feat was
impressive because it prompted
Division I coaches to bar Divi-
sion 11 schools like ACU and
their athletes from national
competitions.
Felkins a progressive in his
field speaks enthusiastically
about the training practices he
prescribes. He preaches the
power of anaerobic workouts
the values of periodization and
the benefits of recovery.
He said he believes in work-
ing athletes anacrobically
instead of acrobically to devel-
op short explosive movements.
An anaerobic workout may con-
sist of a series of 40-yard
sprints while an aerobic one
would be a long-distance run.
"You can't dp aerobic work
and get strong. You're only
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'ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
training your athletes to be
slow" Felkins said. "You must
know how to train anacrobical-
ly. In football you must train to
be explosive. Each play lasts
only four to seven seconds."
Felkins practices yearly peri-
odization throughout the year
for his athletes.
"Basically there is a time to
prepare the body to be big and
strong and a time to prepare the
body to be fast and explosive"
he said.
"That's how you train athletes
and its where most coaches
mess up. You can't do both at
the same time."
Felkins said he emphasized
the importance of giving time
-fonhc-bodyto recover from
intense workouts.
"Most people miss out on
recovery but it's important"
Felkins said. "That's when the
body gets bigger faster and
stronger not during the actual
workout. You can't go hard
more than three days in a row.
We'll go hard on Monday and
Tuesday take Wednesday off
go hard again on Thursday and
Friday then take the weekend
off."
Felkins has the training regi-
ments he has developed down
to a science science he has
proven.
For instance in head football
coach Ronnie Peacock s final
season as head coach in '92 22
knee injuries occurred among
football players.
The next season Fclkin's first
as strength coacli there was
only one.
"Coach Peacock was running
them to death" Felkins said.
"They were running something
like 60 40-yard dashes a day.
That's ridiculous. Eight to 10 is
a better number. You've always
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got to be thinking recovery."
Felkins has a unique perspec-
tive of the human body.
"The body is like an automo-
bile: Everything has to be a cer-
tain temperature a certain prca
sure" Felkins said. "It's like 1
truck: If it's a two-wheel drive
and you work it like a four-
wheel drive it's going to break
down." ..
Felkins works to keep up witlF
the latest developments in his
field to slay on the cutting edge.
"Most coaches today arc
idiots. They're using a 70s-style
lifting program based onh
steroids enhancement. It used to
isolate a muscle three times a
week. That's fine if you're on
the juiccHn;ivcs the-muscles
more time to recover" FelUns
said. 'W
Felkins does not advocate
steroid use in any environment.
He simply points out that dated
conditioning programs must fee
altered now that steroids arc
banned.
A solid conditioning program
does not slop at the body. The
mind just like a muscle mti
be developed.
"You must train to success"
he said. "When a kid can actual-
ly see that he's getting fnsfUr
and stronger his confidence is
being built. He becomes more
loose and relaxed."
"A lot of coaches run thew
kids to failure. They train their
kids to failure and they drill
their kids to failure. And it's the
failure that makes them quit"
he said. & j
"Never tell a kid to run arid
not tell them where the end is"
he said.
"You tell them to run six 40$
and they sell the farm for you.
You've got to give them a
goal."
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