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Symposium looks at the past

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The 2016 edition of the Faye C. Goostree Women’s Symposium is taking a look at Texas Wesleyan’s past.

Dr. Brenda Taylor Matthews, the Pate Professor of History and chair of the Social Science Department, and Dr. Elizabeth Alexander, the A.M. Pate Professor of Early American History, will describe what the phrase “becoming Texas Wesleyan” means, Matthews said.

“This year Dr. Matthews and I will be showing slideshows and talking about the role women played at this college in the early 1900s,” Alexander said.

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Bill Hailey was named Alumnus of the Year.

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Fifty years after he started teaching full-time at Texas Wesleyan, Dr. Bill Hailey was given one of the univerCampus sity’s highest honors.

Hailey, 81, was named Alumnus of Sweep your valentine off the Year at the Alumni Medal Dinner his or her feet in November 2015.

“I told the audience at the awards es lin dinner that we were celebrating our p u 125th anniversary, and the scary thing is, I have been there half that time,” Hailey said. “Some very kind Valentine’s Day people said it’s about time. If you survival guide hang around long enough, they have to do something.”

Everything you need to know Hailey was chosen because of his to make this Valentine’s Day contributions to the university as special. a student, employee and alumnus, DeAwna Wood, director of alumni relations, wrote in an e-mail.

“His years of dedication and service merit the honor,” Wood wrote.

Hailey said he started at Wesleyan ARE YOU in 1953 as a student, graduated in CAMERA READY? 1957 with an undergraduate degree 2016 1920 in social sciences and began working at the university the next year in the admissions office.

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Where do you hide your wings?

I am writing a term paper on the finer things in life and I was wondering if I could interview you?

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Because you have fine written all over you.

Do you happen to have a map?

I seem to have gotten lost in your eyes.

I am Mr. Right. I heard you were looking for me?

If you were a library book I would check you out.

Can I tie your shoe?

Because I can’t have you fall for anyone else.

Can I have a kiss on the cheek? I want to be able to say a gorgeous girl kissed me on Valentine’s Day.

I just noticed you noticing me and I am just giving you notice that I noticed you.

I bought you 12 roses for Valentine’s Day - 11 real and 1 fake. I will love you until all of them die and wilt away.

My feet are getting cold . . . because you’ve knocked my socks off.

I’m not a photographer but I can picture us together.

Hi, I have big feet.

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Alumnus receives highest honor

Alumnus of the Year

Is your dad an art thief?

Because you’re gorgeous.

The symposium is 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Feb. 16 at Martin Hall and is free and open to the public. There is a luncheon at Lou’s Place afterward.

Matthews, Alexander and university archivist Louis Sherwood have written a book, The College on the Hill: Texas Wesleyan University, 125 Years of Tradition, 1890-2015. The book is expected to be available by Feb. 16 so it can be purchased at the symposium.

Wesleyan was originally Polytechnic College and opened in 1890, Matthews said.

“The whole area around the college became Polytechnic Heights,” she said.

Around 1910, the Methodist

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The Finest Hours, based on a true story, details the Coast Guard’s daring rescue of trapped oil workers.

leyan,” he said. “Between my junior and senior years I worked as an admissions counselor, as an outside salesman, recruiting students. My admissions job included a room on campus, and my first married apartment was on campus.”

Hailey ran the admissions office for three years. He was the only fulltime employee there, and his assignment was to recruit enough resident students to fill two newly-built dormitories.

He left his job and started graduate school at Texas Christian University. In 1961, he took a job teaching fifth grade at Glencrest Elementary School in Fort Worth because he needed to be working.

At the time, his wife, Barbara Ivy Hailey, taught high school mathematics in Fort Worth and Arlington.

“We learned my wife was going to have a baby, so I had to get a job,” Hailey said. “She was a teacher and I went to school. In those days once you knew you were pregnant you had to resign.”

Hailey returned to Wesleyan, graduating in 1965 with a master’s in education. That year he was hired as a member of the education faculty.

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“The first semester I had five classes to teach and was expected to be working on my doctorate, so I was going to North Texas,” Hailey said.

“At the first faculty meeting, the dean of the college said he was going to

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Angel Martinez has played soccer, football and tennis most of his life – but he didn’t think he would ever become a college tennis coach.

Martinez, who coached at Grapevine High School for 16 years, was contemplating retirement before being hired by Texas Wesleyan in 2014; the women’s tennis team returned to play after a 13-year absence last fall.

He was offered the job by Athletic Director Steve Trachier, who he worked with at Grapevine.

“When he (Trachier) left, we became more than athletic director/ coach,” Martinez said. “We became friends. We have a very similar philosophy, what we want out of our student athletes. When he took the job at Wesleyan, he said when we get a tennis program at Wesleyan I’d be on his list.”

Trachier said Martinez is as good as they come.

“He’s a kid magnet, and a man of integrity,” Trachier said. He’s good for kids. He cares about them, builds re-

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lationships with them, their families, and he exemplifies everything we want in a coach.”

The irony is, tennis wasn’t even Martinez’s main sport when he was growing up as a self-described Army brat. He moved around living in Germany and El Paso, but he spent almost all of his childhood in Madrid, Spain.

“I absolutely loved the culture in Spain,” Martinez said. “Definitely different than it was here in America.

There, a lot of people are very friendly.”

Martinez said moving from Spain to America was scary because growing up on an Air Force base he lived a sheltered life, with his mom Nery working and his dad Angel working at the U.S. Embassy in Spain.

“I remember getting on a military standby flight, landed at McGuire Airforce Base and having to catch another flight to El Paso,” Martinez said.

Growing up, Martinez’s main sport was soccer. But he said, he really en-

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The media should quit glorifying murderers EDITORIAL

Today’s media is packed with stories about murderers and serial killers, which has turned these criminals into celebrities rather than monsters.

People have the right to know about these people and the horrible crimes they have committed, but is it necessary to make a full-length feature film, documentary or television series detailing their lives and crimes?

Although often entertaining and interesting, these films and programs shed light on people who do not deserve it, leaving the victims forgotten and causing their families to relive the horrible tragedy of losing a loved one.

Take Jeffrey Dahmer, Billy the Kid, the Columbine killers, Ted Bundy and Gary Ridgway.

They are all household names, yet few people remember the names of their victims.

And yes, studying Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust is important, and the victims should always be remembered and honored. But is it really necessary to keep republishing Mein Kampf and making movies about Hitler’s personal life?

These people have been so glorified in the cinema that they have become well known and often talked about.

Even O.J. Simpson, who was never convicted of murder, has a new television series devoted to his trial. Has anyone ever devoted nearly as much time and money to remembering his ex-wife Nicole and Ronald Goldman, the man who died with her?

Killers become an influence on society.

They do not deserve this attention and should not be remembered, nor talked about and “celebritized.” This kind of attention fuels the egos of the killers still alive, and some probably enjoy the glorification. They seek the fame. The ones who have died are sometimes seen as martyrs by their followers.

Also, potential criminals get ideas from

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these stories, and some become copycat killers.

Look at the people who have shot up schools and said they were inspired by the Columbine killers.

The First Amendment of the Constitution guarantees people the right to free speech, the right to express themselves freely through art,

writing and media even if what they express is violent or immoral.

But that still does not make it right. The people producing media about these murderers should take into consideration the possibility that they are turning criminals into heroes.

That they are inspiring potential killers. And

that they are influencing the minds of young people.

Every action has a reaction, and creating this kind of media pollutes our society, fueling conspiracy theories, creating new murderers and spotlighting evil human beings.

Racism in movie industry is inexcusable Ricardo Cortez Content Producer rbcortez@txwes.edu

Want to know the last five movies to win Best Picture at the Oscars?

Birdman, 12 Years a Slave, Argo, The Artist, and The King’s Speech.

Only one of them had a black leading actor.

What about the Best Actor winners? Only two black men, Jamie Foxx and Denzel Washington, have won in the last 15 years.

In fact, only 32 of 2,900 people who have won an Academy Award have been black, according to huffingtonpost.com. This is unacceptable.

In a country that pledges equality for all, the lack of black people being honored at the Oscars proves that discrimination is still implemented into the voting system, whether it’s intended or not.

This becomes even clearer when you look at the Academy itself, which is “93 percent white, 76 percent male, average age 63,” according to Darnell Hunt, director of UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.

The result is that “people are voting for

things that resonate with their experiences, and unfortunately it’s too narrow a slice,” Hunt writes.

On Jan. 22, the Academy took an amazing leap and voted to increase the diversity within the board. That was a fantastic moment for both the film industry and the black community.

However, the fact remains, it’s 2016. Why did it take so long?

The answer is simple: Racism still exists today. Then again, we knew that. The topic has taken over mainstream American media and people are questioning the very ideology we subscribe to. America boasts equality, but in 2016, we still find the issue as intense as ever.

Only now are we starting to see cracks in our own Americana. Now those who are affected are finally getting a voice in the form of Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee, both prominent film presences.

“But, How Is It Possible For The 2nd Consecutive Year All 20 Contenders Under The Actor Category Are White? And Let’s Not Even Get Into The Other Branches. 40 White Actors In 2 Years And No Flava At All. We Can’t Act?!,” Lee wrote in an Instagram post.

Both Lee and Smith have issued a boycott of this year’s Academy Awards. This has led to backlash and praise for the boycott.

I believe this is something that will make matters worse. Why push the gap further?

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Why separate the very institution you’re trying to unite? If you want to have something recognized, why would you take it away?

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Changes are being made but the issue is still present in an ever-changing culture.

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Board of Education decided that it wanted a flagship school in Texas and Fort Worth had to battle with Dallas for the plan, Matthews said.

“Fort Worth was originally winning but Dallas edged out a win in the end, and the school that was created is now known as Southern Methodist University,” Matthews said.

Once SMU was established, Poly-

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technic College became Texas Woman’s College in 1914 and became financially strapped due to funds being used elsewhere, Alexander said.

“During that time, the school was very poor,” Alexander said. “Some students paid their tuition with produce, even some of the faculty and staff along with the president of the university lived on campus.”

In 1934, Texas Woman’s College

became Texas Wesleyan College, and men could attend. TWC ended the decade in better financial shape, Alexander said.

“At one point the president of the university placed a big neon lighted sign on top of the administration building that said ‘Texas Wesleyan,’” Alexander said. “It was a sign to the Fort Worth community that Wesleyan was here to stay.”

Chuck Greeson, Wesleyan’s photographer and videographer, took some of the pictures that are in the book.

“I took hundreds of photos for the book,” Greeson said. “As the photographer for the university, it is my job to document all the photos I take.”

Greeson said everyone involved in the book was “very gracious and had great comments about the photos

I took. I worked on the project for over a year, so it is good to finally see it in fruition.”

The Faye C. Goostree Women’s Symposium is 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Feb. 16 at Martin Hall and will be followed by a luncheon at Lou’s Place. The luncheon is $18 for the general public, $15 for faculty and staff and $10 for students; registration is available at txwes.edu.

“There was a girl who I really wanted to go out with,” Martinez said. “So I asked my mom what I should do, and she said find out her interests. Well, her interest was tennis, so I taught myself how to play tennis and asked her to play. We dated for a year. She’s gone, but tennis is still here.”

Martinez went on to play soccer at the University of Texas at Arlington, because he was a better soccer player than he was a tennis player. He still played intramural tennis because he loved the sport.

He didn’t play soccer for very long because “at the time soccer wasn’t big in the United States,” he said. But he played tennis all through college, and began coaching the sport because he loves it.

“I loved everything about tennis,” Martinez said. “I actually played football in high school and wanted

to play in college even if it was a small school. My coach did nothing for me. So I told myself that if I ever got the opportunity to coach in high school that I would do everything in my power to help the kids get where they wanted to be.”

Martinez began coaching at the high school level in 1984 at Cedar Hill High School. He was there for 15 years and started coaching at Grapevine High School in 2003.

Martinez was named the Wilson/ Texas Tennis Coaches Association 5A Coach of the Year and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Coach of the Year for the 2002/2003 season. He’s won United States Professional Tennis Association Texas High School Coach of the Year award three times and won United States Tennis Association Starfish National Coach of the Year award in 2009.

Transitioning from high school to

college has been a learning experience, Martinez said.

“I had a situation and I had handled it like I would a high school team,” he said, “and the kids got together and said, ‘Coach, really?’ And they were right, I had to back up, kind of eat crow and back up and they were right. It made our bond stronger.”

Freshman tennis player Maggie Brasher loves the way Martinez is with the players.

“He’s really good, really approachable; if you need something he will do everything he can to help you,” Brasher said.

Senior Alexa Mentesana said Martinez really cares about his players.

“And that’s something different,” she said. “It’s like family – he’s almost like a dad.”

Martinez grades the fall season an A+.

“I love the way the team came together,” he said. “They’re a really tight-knit group of girls.”

Wesleyan posted a successful fall 2015 campaign, winning 57 singles matches, 31 doubles matches and winning one dual competition match, according to ramsports.net.

“If you had told me, going into the fall season, that you’re going to win a championship in every single tournament that you go in except for one and defeat some Division I and Division II schools in those matches, I would’ve said no way,” Martinez said.

Martinez said there’s one thing he has learned throughout his coaching experience “I’ve learned I don’t know everything,” he said. “There’s always places to learn. I learn from other coaches, I learn from drills, and I always learn from my players.”

tract to tear down Ann Waggoner Hall,” Hailey said.

In 1995 he stepped down as provost, but stayed on as a part-time professor for 14 years.

Barbara Hailey died of cancer in 1999. Hailey met his current wife, Linda Lee Hailey, a former director of alumni relations at TCU, in 2005.

They were married in April 2010.

Gina Phillips, director of development, said the letters Hailey sends to alumni asking for donations to the

university earn the most money.

“He is active on the alumni board, he is a Ram for life,” Phillips said.

Hailey continues to speak highly of Wesleyan and higher education in general.

“Texas Wesleyan is still a place where kids like me can find themselves and gain and create a better life,” Hailey said.

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pay me $300 to teach a freshman orientation class.”

Hailey studied educational psychology and received his doctorate degree in 1968. He became Wesleyan’s dean of education in 1972.

Hailey became provost in 1979 after being chair of the faculty council for several years. He was provost for 11 years, and was interim president for nine months in 1989 and 1990.

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2. Keith & Margo’s St. Valentine’s Massacre - Solve a murder mystery with your valentine at this fun interactive event at Keith and Margo’s Murder Mystery in Dallas.

3. Backdoor Comedy Valentine’s Day Celebration Share a laugh together at the Backdoor Comedy Club in Dallas.

4. Love is Blind haunted house tour - Take a tour of the Dark Hour Haunted House and witness a horrifying love story in Dallas.

5. Geocaching outdoor scavenger hunt - Go on a real-life treasure hunt all over Fort Worth. For more information visit geocaching.com.

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Sweep your valentine off his or her feet

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Is your dad an art thief?

Because you’re gorgeous.

If you were a library book I would check you out.

Can I tie your shoe?

Because I can’t have you fall for anyone else.

I am writing a term paper on the finer things in life and I was wondering if I could interview you?

Are you a parking ticket?

Because you have fine written all over you.

I am Mr. Right. I heard you were looking for me?

Once you go cupid, the rest are just stupid.

Let’s commit the perfect crime. I’ll steal your heart and you’ll steal mine.

Can I have a kiss on the cheek? I want to be able to say a gorgeous girl kissed me on Valentine’s Day.

Where do you hide your wings?

Do you happen to have a map?

I seem to have gotten lost in your eyes.

I just noticed you noticing me and I am just giving you notice that I noticed you.

I bought you 12 roses for Valentine’s Day - 11 real and 1 fake. I will love you until all of them die and wilt away.

My feet are getting cold . . . because you’ve knocked my socks off.

I’m not a photographer but I can picture us together.

Hi, I have big feet.

Can I borrow your phone? I want to call your mom and thank her.

No wonder the sky is grey. All of the blue is in your eyes.

Here I am. What are your other two wishes?

Can I have your number?

I lost mine.

Did the sun come up or did you smile at me?

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The Finest Hours tells a memorable story

Michael Acosta rmacosta@txwes.edu

The Finest Hours is a really good movie that is based on a true story.

The movie (117 minutes, rated PG-13) is set in Massachusetts in the 1950s and starts out with Bernie Webber (played by Chris Pine) being set up on a blind date with a young woman named Miriam (Holliday Grainger).

Fast forward a couple of months and Bernie and Miriam are engaged, but before they get to move forward with the wedding, Webber must first ask the permission of his new captain, Daniel Cluff (Eric Bana).

The movie shifts gears a little bit, switching to the scene aboard an oil tanker named the Pendleton. One of the fiercest storms to ever hit the East Coast rips the ship in half, dumping tons of oil all the way to Nantucket, leaving the crew fighting to stay alive in hopes of being rescued as they take orders from the chief engineer Ray Sybert (Casey Affleck) Back on land, Cluff ’s inexperience shows when he sends a four-man crew, led by Webber, out to sea in a hair-raising attempt to bring the trapped crew members aboard the oil tanker home.

The rest of the film shows Webber and his crew struggling to get to the ship and save

the men, while Miriam is back at the base begging Cluff to bring Webber and his crew back home.

Some of the movie’s dialogue was hard to understand, but it didn’t really matter, since a good chunk of the movie was more technical stuff and action as the crew aboard the Pendleton had to do a lot of strategic things in order to keep the ship from sinking.

The movie was so interesting to me because Bernie had to really think quickly after losing his compass in the hurricane-like conditions, and he really had to think after seeing how many survivors were aboard the Pendleton and not knowing if in fact the boat that he was on would hold the survivors.

The film is packed with emotion, entertainment and even some well-timed comic relief between the characters. My only negative remark is that it didn’t really do a good job of character development and helping the audience understand the background of some of the characters.

The film brought in $10,288,932 on its opening weekend, good enough for fourth at the domestic box office, according to boxofficemojo.com The movie can be seen in 2D and 3D, but if you’re looking for great 3D features, save your money and go see it in 2D.

The Finest Hours is a very good movie overall. I loved the story and if you love true stories, go see it.

Photo courtesy of IMDB.com Bernie Webber (Chris Pine) and Miriam (Holliday Grainger) are engaged in Craig Gillespie’s film The Finest Hours, which tells the true story of a Coast Guard rescue in the 1950s.

Wesleyan profs ready for Comic Con Adkinson said of his attendance at the Dallas edition. “Last time Dr. Lynton and I went we just walked around and got to know each other. This started my first year here. We would like to make it a yearly event for faculty and even students.”

2015 marks the 15th anniversary of the Dallas event. This month’s convention includes Austin St. John, one of the original Power Rangers, Dukes of Hazard star Catherine Bach and the Stephen Amell of Arrow, according to dallascomiccon.com.

Jacob Clay Galey, a master’s degree student at the University of Texas at Arlington, says that Comic Con gives people with similar interests a chance to meet.

“My favorite part of Comic Con is the unique expression from the attendees about their passion for their respective fandoms.”

In 2015, Galey dressed (or “cosplayed”) as Marvel Comics character Mad Cap. “I don’t remember exactly how much time Photo by Kelly Hitt or money I put into my Mad Cap costume,” he 2015 Comic Con attendees dress up as Winter Soldier, Captain America and Cross Bones. said. “I know it cost more than $100 to make definitely going to the Dallas edition of the and roughly two and a half weeks to put toRowan Lehr wildly popular Comic-Con International, gether. I always like posing in costume for rmlehr@txwes.edu which is held each year in San Diego. pictures, especially with younger kids who are

This month’s event, called Fan Days, is be- experiencing Comic Com for the first time.”

Every year a group of Texas Wesleyan ing held at the Irving Convention Center on Comic-Con International, held annuprofessors get together and go to the Dallas Feb. 13 and 14. It is one of two comic conven- ally in San Diego, started in 1970 when comic, Comic Con. tions being held annually in the Dallas area; movie and sci-fi fans Shel Dorf, Ken Krueger

Dr. Eddy Lynton, an assistant professor of the other is larger and held each summer. and Richard Alf held the first comic book concriminal justice and sociology, and Dr. Cary Both events, like the San Diego convention, vention in southern California, according to Adkinson, an assistant professor of criminal focus on gaming, science fiction and comics. comic-con.org. justice, are two Wesleyan professors that are “We try and make it an unofficial thing,” The event is the “largest comics and pop

culture even tin the United States, attracting thousands of celebrities and fans of comic books, movie memorabilia and all things related to pop culture,” according to sandiego. org.

Major films are previewed, and actors and directors often show up to participate in panel discussions about them.

The event is a signature part of San Diego’s social life and brings in a huge amount of money from attendees.

A 2015 poll by the San Diego Union-Tribune found that the event is more important to San Diego residents than the city’s National Football League team, the Chargers, according to forbes.com.

Jeremy Shelton, a Wesleyan senior history major, is, like Lynton and Adkinson, planning to go to this month’s event.

“I have been going to Comic con since I was in middle school,” Shelton wrote in an email. “I started attending mostly so I could get more comics and see the comic artists and the writers. I got to meet Stan Lee last year.

That was one of the most significant events of my life.”

Dallas Comic Con: Fan Days will be held Feb. 13 and 14 at the Irving Convention Center.

A single-day Saturday pass is $40 in advance and $45 at the door, and a single-day Sunday pass is $30 in advance and $35 at the door. A two-day gold pass is $129.

All advance passes are available at dallascomiccon.com.

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February 18, 2016 FoWM Chamber Series: Imperial Brass 7:30 p.m.

February 28, 2016 Join the Texas Wesleyan Department of Music as we celebrate 70 years with the Fort Worth alumna chapter at the Sigma Alpha Iota American Music Competition at 3:00 pm, located at First Presbyterian Church of Fort Worth (1000 Penn St.).

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Baseball, softball teams look to improve

Photo by Jared Rabye The Lady Rams finish a recent intersquad scrimmage in Fort Worth. The team finished with a 17-28 record in 2015 and is currently ranked fifth in the Sooner Athletic Conference.

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This season the softball and baseball teams plan on improving on their play in 2015.

Head softball coach Shannon Gower wanted her team to work on chemistry and to be a lot more efficient during the off season, she said.

“We added two new coaches, Amber Marlett and Felix Esparza, and they will help with managing practices so we will be more efficient during practices,” Gower said.

During the off season two key aspects of the game the team worked on were endurance and working hard in the weight room, Gower said.

The Lady Rams’ roster this season is almost split down the middle between upperclassmen and lowerclassmen, Gower said.

“We only lost four players from last season’s team, and we are gaining 10 new players from transfers and freshman, so I want the

girls to always think to win and embed yearly goals every day,” Gower said.

The Lady Rams, who were 17-28 last season, are ranked fifth in the Sooner Athletic Conference this season and on Feb. 2 won their first game of the season, beating Howard Payne University 6-2.

The team’s next home game is Feb. 12 at Gateway Park in Fort Worth.

Sophomore athletic training major and first baseman Kayla Prachyl said she set personal goals of hitting above .350 and having a 3.5 grade point average at the end of the semester.

“This year we had a one-word policy about how we approach the season and my word was ‘purpose,’” Prachyl said.

Junior criminal justice major and center fielder Dani West, like Prachyl, has set high goals for herself by attempting to strike out less than 10 times throughout the season and hit .350, she said.

“My word of choice for the season was

‘dare.’” West said. “I want to dare myself to do better every day, and to hustle for everything to become better.”

Head baseball coach Mike Jeffocat said he wants his team to improve on the mistakes they made last year. The team was 20-28 last season and is ranked fourth in the SAC Preseason Poll. The Rams’ next home game is a doubleheader against Avila University on Feb. 13 at Fort Worth’s Sycamore Park.

“The team as a whole needs to execute situations a little better than we did last season if we want to improve,” Jeffcoat said.

The team has been rebuilding for two years after winning 40 games three seasons ago, and still needs a little more of an offensive and pitching presence, he said.

“Last season we would play well during the weekend games but struggle during the middle of the week because we lacked depth at pitching,” Jeffcoat said.

This season the Rams have a good mixture of returning players and new players, and

added depth at a lot of positions, he said.

“Our goal for the season is to win 40 games, win the conference, then win the regional tournament to get to the NAIA World Series,” Jeffcoat said.

Senior business management major and third baseman Jake Davis looks to improve on his great junior season with more determination this season, he said.

Davis played in every game last season and hit .326 with two home runs and 20 RBIs, according to ramsports.net.

“I hit well but I feel I need to improve my fielding a bit and commit less errors to help the team win,” Davis said.

Junior exercise science major and pitcher Avery Sullivan just wants to help the team win, he said.

“As a pitcher I could really care less about personal goals,” he said. “Every pitcher wants to have a 0.00 earned run average, but if I can just do what the coaches want me to do on the mound it will help the team.”

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