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Seniors to be recognized Saturday before game

By MAX HENGST Sports Editor

TOP: Senior defensive lineman Broderick Washington Jr. lead the Texas Tech football team onto the field with the Texas state flag before the Texas Christian football game on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019, at Jones AT&T Stadium. The Red Raiders were defeated by the Horned Frogs, 33-31. LEFT: Senior linebacker Jordyn Brooks runs after the ball carrier during the game against Texas Christian University on Nov. 16, 2019 at Jones AT&T Stadium. RIGHT: Senior wide receiver RJ Turner celebrates on the field during the game against Texas Christian University on Nov. 16, 2019 at Jones AT&T Stadium.

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With the Texas Tech football team’s final home game of the season approaching, 17 senior Red Raiders will be recognized on the Senior Day game against Kansas State at 6 p.m. on Saturday.

“I think I learned from them, saw their toughness. I think their resiliency, their ability to adapt and change,” head coach Matt Wells said. “A lot of things we asked them to do to change.

Change habits, change the way they live their life, change the way they go to class and they lift and quite frankly how we do ball. They have bought in, and they’ve done a nice job with that.”

The senior class consists of several key starters for the Red Raiders this season, including the nation’s leader in interceptions, defensive back Douglas Coleman III, according to Tech Athletics. This season, Coleman has picked off eight passes in 10 games.

“All my success goes to the D-line,” Coleman said, “so without the D-line putting pressure on the quarterback and containing him and making him throw inside the pocket, that allows me to make plays on the ball and stay inside tight coverage.”

Another senior leader for the Red Raiders is linebacker Jordyn Brooks.

The senior linebacker leads the conference with 102 total tackles, 62 solo tackles, 10.2 tackles per game, 18 tackles for loss and two fumble recoveries, according to the Big 12. Brooks has also recorded three sacks this season.

“He’s fully bought into what we have brought here to Tech in terms of core values, the way we practice, Keith Patterson (defensive coordinator), a new scheme, a new way to do things, a new way to be coached,”

Wells said. “He cares, he’s becoming a better leader, quiet by nature, just in his personality and you guys have all seen that.”

Along with embracing the new culture and values that came with the coaching change, Wells said Brooks has stepped up in a variety of ways for the team, both on and off of the field.

“He’s really come out and I think spoken up at times and in the meetings and locker room and I respect Jordyn and I know the whole room does, the whole locker room does,” Wells said. “He continues to play at a high level because he practices at a high level and he invests time into the game plan every week and he comes ready to play mentally emotionally, ready to play every Saturday, and I just think you see it by his production every Saturday. He’s playing at a really, really high level.”

Brooks has been recognized several times this season as he has been honored as the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week, Bronko Nagurski Trophy Award Player of the Week and more, according to Tech Athletics. Along with his awards, he was named a Midseason All-American by The Athletic and a semifinalist for the Butkus Award. He has also received an invitation to the Reese’s Senior Bowl along with senior offensive lineman Terence Steele.

Steele has been a key member of Tech’s offensive line this season as he appeared in eight games after missing the Red Raiders’ first two games of the season, according to Tech Athletics. Before this season, Steele was named an All-Big 12 Freshman by Athlon Sports and earned an All-Big 12 honorable mention last season.

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PARKING

Commuter West lot dealing with closures due to weather

By AUSTIN TAYLOR Staff Writer

When freezing rain occurs, its effects are most often felt on roads and homes. However, this weather pattern may also cause a problem for students using Texas Tech’s Commuter West parking lot.

As temperatures drop and approach freezing, ice may form on the KTTZ radio tower located in the Commuter West parking lot.

In the event ice forms on the tower, it is standard procedure to close the lots surrounding the tower, Stacy Stockard, Tech Transportation and Parking Services media relations coordinator, said.

The closing of lots C-14, C-15 and C-16 was implemented when students first reported ice damaging windshields and roofs of vehicles parked near the tower, Stockard said. Portions of lot R-30 are also closed.

Students should avoid walking through coned-off areas when this freezing happens, Stockard said. They can turn on TechAlert! Notifications to receive information regarding the lot.

“We know it can be frustrating on those days, but we want to make sure everybody is safe,” she said.

When weather reports indicating a freeze are given to TPS, Stockard said the department has spotters keep an eye on the tower until the amount of ice on it is no longer a threat to students or vehicles.

Typically, freezing rain occurs in Lubbock five or six times a year, Mark

Conder, science and operations officer for the National Weather Service of Lubbock, said.

Usually, the weather service can identify the weather systems coming towards Lubbock a week in advance, Conder said. However, forecasters cannot tell if freezing rain will happen until a few days before.

“Once it’s within a few days, we can say, ‘Hey, this’ll either be rain or freezing rain,’” he said.

On average, Conder said winter storms in Lubbock last less than a day, but the height of the tower means ice can stay on it until the ground temperature is above 35 degrees.

When freezing rain occurs in Lubbock, a semi-arid area, it is typically because common cold fronts from the north mix with moisture from storm systems moving in from the south, Conder said.

The National Weather Service of Lubbock also works with Tech to make sure athletic events are hosted in appropriate weather, Conder said.

In addition to regular parking and athletic events, the ice on the tower could affect other parts of campus, such as KTTZ. “The broadcast equipment is designed to work in all weather conditions, so the amount of ice in Lubbock doesn’t really affect it,” Ron Trice, KTTZ Director of Engineering, said.

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Campus program offers different approach to student support

By ELIZABETH HERBERT Staff Writer

Texas Tech Student Success and Retention is hosting a new program meant to encourage student growth and wellbeing called “Success Takes Practice.”

Josh Sills, student success manager for Student Success and Retention, said the program began when Senior Director Joshua Barron saw a need among students.

“He decided that Student Success and Retention, we needed to have interventions that were actually designed to kind of ‘head off ’ some of the issues that students deal with, like transitioning into being a college student. That’s kind of a big one,” Sills said. “We have programs for all different groups of students and classifications of students, but we don’t have anything that’s kind of a general catchall, adjust-to-be-a-college student, and so this program is kind of trying to fill that role.”

Tech has a success coach-

ing program in place, but Sills said peer success coaches differ greatly from professional coaches in their abilities and roles. He said peer success coaches are responsible for handling phone calls to students and pointing them to resources whereas certified life coaches play a more hands-on role.

“Certified life coaching is a guided process of reflection,” he said. “So, basically, it’s having conversations about who you are and who you would rather be and then figuring out how you can get there by taking welldesigned actions.”

Professional coaches meet with students regularly, Sills said. Most students get in about five to seven sessions a semester, but it varies depending on the person.

“Right now, we’ve had some students who came up to 15, 16 times across semesters,” he said. “But those sessions usually last for up to an hour, and so, those are very high intensity conversations about who

people are, what they’re learning about themselves and what they would like to do differently so that they have a better future.”

Certified life coaching is a guided process of reflection.

JOSH SILLS SSR STUDENT SUCCESS MANAGER Students may find out about professional success coaches from outreach campaigns, professors, other departments on campus or the program website, Sills said.

“Our peer success coaches conduct outreach calls based on certain metrics and campaigns and times of the semester, things like that,” Sills said. “We recently finished up contacting every incoming freshman and every transfer student as well, made over 8,000 phone calls in the summer, just kind of saying, ‘Hello, welcome to Texas Tech. I’m a peer success coach, this is what I do, this is what role we fill on the campus, you can use us this way, if you’re interested we have life coaching.”

Tech has five professional coaches who are a mix of both internal and external hires, Sills said, and they are currently working to create a program compliant with the International Coaching Federation, the accreditation organization responsible for certifying schools to then certify coaches.

“We have training that we use, we have a program which provides us with academic life coaching training,” he said. “We’re in the process of developing our own certification program and our own ac-

credited training program with the International Coaching Federation.”

“Success Takes Practice” launched in February 2018 and has been relatively unknown, Sills said. Although, it is free to all students who pay their tuition and fees.

“Anybody who is struggling with the adaptation to college, anybody who is interested in growing in a personal way, anybody who feels like they’re just not getting enough out of what they’re doing, this is the kind of place where they would find trained professionals whose entire focus is to help them make small adjustments, or big adjustments, that they choose to make in a way that offers a professional viewpoint on planning, accountability, setting out metrics, criteria, time frames, all kinds of things,” he said.

Jeffrey Rammage, student success coach for Student Success and Retention, said he was an academic adviser for the College of Architecture before joining the professional coaching team and underwent formal training to prepare for the problems students may be facing.

“We went through that first nine months, ten months, whatever was our training, and obtaining the certification and all that stuff, and then in February is when we started seeing the students,” he said.

Academic advising and professional coaching demand different things, Rammage said. His job now involves delving a little deeper into issues.

“Here, it’s much more abstract,” he said. “There’s not really those tangible problems to be solved. It’s more of, ‘I’m coming in, I’m missing my parents…’ or something like that and so, a lot of it is helping them work through their emotional

problems, helping them gain perspective on why they do the things that they do, helping them establish their value system and prioritize their life and their habits and those kinds of things.”

Before meeting with students, Rammage said he looks at their academic information as well as the intake survey they fill out to get a feel for where they stand.

Although the program has not been in place for long, Rammage said those involved are always looking to improve and will probably look at results after the program has been performing for a year.

“I’m sure in February, we’ll look at all of the data of students who completed the program, students who, you

know, did it improve their GPA, did they stay did they persist in college or did they go back home and things like that,” he said. “So, we’ll look at all those kinds of things and I’m sure it’ll always be a process adjusting and making changes.”

Alexis Vera, a sophomore education major from McKinney, said the biggest problem she thinks students face involves time management and balancing the wants, needs and demands of college life, something “Success Takes Practice” helps students work through.

“I didn’t know about it,” she said, “but I think if I was in need of any of that, that’d be definitely something interesting to go to.” @EHerbertDT

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“Sometimes people go through bad days. But because you don’t have that person that looks like you, a person that you can talk to that can relate to it, you don’t really know how to explain it,” said Kayla, 16. “So it feels good to have a teacher that you can go to, and you feel comfortable with, because you’re not going to be deemed the girl in class who doesn’t know anything.”

More than half of the students in American public schools are minorities, but the teaching force is still 80% white, according to statistics from the U.S. Education Department. As mounting research highlights the benefits minority teachers can bestow on students, the gap has received renewed attention, including from Democratic presidential candidates who have endorsed strategies to promote teacher diversity.

Sen. Kamala Harris, who spoke at a September debate about the importance of black teachers for black students, has proposed spending $2.5 billion for teacher-preparation programs at historically black colleges and universities. Other leading Democrats have also called for investment in those schools, as well as mentorship programs, assistance for teacher aides and new requirements to promote transparency around teacher hiring.

The Waterbury school system has taken steps to close the racial gap following complaints from the NAACP. Its limited success so far highlights some of the challenges of addressing the problem, which some see as rooted in teacher training programs and barriers that date back to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling that led to desegregation.

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Clarke finds role as two-way bench threat

By ELEANOR GUINAN Staff Writer

Texas Tech men’s basketball team graduate transfer Chris Clarke is a new addition to the team, having transferred from Virginia Tech.

In the past three games he has played, Clarke has proven he is a valuable member of the 2019-20 roster.

At Virginia Tech, the Virginia Beach native averaged 9.2 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game, according to Tech Athletics. He was also recognized as the No. 8 graduate transfer and is the only player in Virginia Tech program history to record a triple-double.

This season, Clarke is averaging 2.7 points, 6.3 rebounds and 5.0 assists per game, according to sports-reference. com. Clarke has also made four of his seven free throws this season while averaging 5.1 defensive rebounds.

Clarke said his experience at Virginia Tech has made him a better player for the Red Raiders.

“I would have to go back to my early coaching,” Clarke said. “All my training, all my years of playing basketball, I’m really good at seeing things. Picturing what could come next.”

Tech head coach Chris Beard said Clarke’s low scoring average is not because he cannot shoot the ball, but because as an unselfish player, he chooses to pass the ball rather than shoot it.

“The two common things I think with passers, you have to have unselfishness to you,” Beard said. “Some guys come down the court looking for a bucket, some guys come down the court looking to make a play and that’s Chris (Clarke). He has more than enough ability to score the ball. I’ve already projected that it’ll

be sooner than later when he’s had a 20 point game.”

While Clarke has only averaged 2.7 points per game this season, Beard said he predicts the graduate transfer will have a breakout game in scoring soon.

“Right now I think he’s done a great job taking what the defense gives him,” Beard said.

“That value of passing and that way to look at the game is always where it starts.”

Clarke has not disappointed anyone in the three games he has played, Beard said. Although he is not a starter, Clarke has worked hard and has helped the team immensely.

“I think the stat sheet says it best,” Beard said.

He’s one of the best players in college basketball,” Beard said. “He has a three-year body of work in the ACC, it’s not like he showed up here and has been dropping dimes. He’s

been doing this for a long, long time. He’s a big-time player because he can score on all three levels.”

Clarke and the rest of the men’s basketball team will continue their season at 7 p.m. on Thursday as the Red Raiders take on Tennessee State in United Supermarkets Arena. For fans who cannot attend the game, it will be televised on FOX Sports Southwest Plus.

“He can pass the ball, then on the other end, he can defend multiple positions,” he said. “I think it’s (Clarke’s value) easy to see, but it’s the intangibles we’re most proud of. He’s really buying in. He’s playing Texas Tech basketball in this early season.”

Clarke and the rest of the team will continue the season with a game against Tennessee State at 7 p.m. on Thursday. @EleanorGuinanDT

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Senior guard Chris Clarke dribbles down the court during the Texas Tech basketball game against Eastern Illinois University on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, in the United Supermarkets Arena. The Red Raiders defeated the Panthers, 85-60, in the 2019-20 season opener.

SOCCER

Tech set for second round of NCAA Tournament

By ARIANNA FLORES Staff Writer

The No. 15 Texas Tech soccer team avoided ending their season by defeating Pepperdine in a penalty shootout victory in the first round of the NCAA national tournament.

In the game against Pepperdine, Tech scored two goals in the first half for an early 2-0 lead. However, Pepperdine retaliated and scored a goal in the last five minutes of the first half and once again in the second half.

Senior defender Gabbie Puente said she and her teammates responded well to Pepperdine’s change in formations after halftime and was glad the defense could keep the score 2-2 for a chance to win in overtime.

By the end of regulation, the game was declared a draw, and a series of penalty kicks would determine which team would advance to the next round. During the shootout, the Red Raiders were up 4-3 and only needed one more save to win the match. Freshman goalkeeper and Big 12 Freshman of the Year, Madison White, successfully recorded a save to send Tech to the next round.

After seeing one missed shot from junior midfielder Jordie Harr, White said she knew she only had to save two balls to keep the team in the tournament.

“There was never, ‘OK let’s go to 10.’ It was always we are going to five, we are winning this cause these seniors, there is no way. This is their last game,” White said. “The only thing in the

back of my mind was these seniors, and I just knew I had to save it just so I could see them keep playing.”

This is the fifth time since 2012 the Red Raiders have moved past the first round and made an appearance in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, according to Tech Athletics.

“It was really scary, being in my last (game) but the feeling was indescribable,” Puente said. “With these girls, it was a scary but fun way to go, so I will definitely remember those emotions forever because that game was just awesome.”

Head coach Tom Stone said during this tournament, a good team knows

how to deal with the moments when their opponent makes a good play.

He also said a good team will keep their heads up knowing it could be their last game.

“I think you just have to have this kind of mindset that you don’t have time to dwell on something that didn’t go right,” Stone said. “You’ve only got the next play in front of you.

With the win, the Red Raiders are set to play again in North Carolina as they will take on Michigan at 3 p.m. on Friday in the second round of the national tournament.

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Redshirt senior Gabbie Puente kicks the ball during the NCAA soccer match against Pepperdine at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019 at the John Walker Soccer Complex.

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Despite the stress, keep asking questions about mental health

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hen I look back on my experience in college and graduate school this time of year in the fall semester — the last few weeks leading to finals — and try to consider what it is like for college students now, I often think about just how little I understood about mental health as an undergraduate in 2011.

I do not think I ever truly realized the emotional weight of stress, anxiety and loneliness I was piling

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on internally as I was shotgunning scalding-hot ramen noodles at 3:00 a.m., ignoring texts from a girlfriend or close friends because I was “busy” and studying for classes whose subjects I knew well, but whose finals exam I was deathly afraid of because I am truly terrible at exams. Even as I somehow found myself in these situations every year for a whopping five years in college, I never took the advice of better time management, or whatever it was my college advisor said and my mental health took a toll. I never fully comprehended the emotional weight I piled on myself while making poor decisions in college.

These are decisions that seem silly and absurd to me now six months after graduating law school; decisions like waiting to the last minute to study, skipping class and especially being so hard on myself anytime I felt like I didn’t do well enough - which was all the time. If you had approached me at 3:00 a.m. in the library two years ago, with every hair on the back-of-myhead sticking straight up, physically shaking from the amount of energy drinks I had consumed, I would tell

you that this is just what being a student was about.

Honestly, from what I remember when I was truly stressed, anxious and sleep deprived in college, there was not a word any person — even those closest to me — could say to get me to realize anything. You could not get me to realize what I already knew but, like most difficult emotions, had buried deeply in the back of my mind — that the lack of sleep, anxiety, pressure I put on myself and strained relationships with close friends and family were detrimental to my health and well-being.

This is all what I felt internally — you wouldn’t know it if you saw me at work, if we hung out or if we studied together. I loved college and law school, but the private battles I fought in my own head often left me exhausted, stressed and uncertain in ways I only know now I didn’t have to put myself through.

My personal experience was being too stubborn and proud to ask for help in counseling or therapy, too much in that stressful anxiety-driven-survival-mode to understand the way I handled difficult emotions — the avoidance I developed from growing up being told to “suck it up” without ever receiving genuine advice dealing with feelings of stress, anxiety, loss and grief — was detrimental to me.

If I’m being honest, stress,

anxiety and loneliness — even with supportive friends and family —just seemed like what it was to be a student. I was fully resigned to accept that I both deserved and was destined to feel as miserable privately as I often did during that part of my life.

I didn’t know what I do now about mental health.

If I buried my emotions without addressing them, like deep anxiety and grief or trauma, I was burying them alive. They piled on as weight until they spill out of that buried spot in the back of my head. And maybe I could have lived my whole life weighted down by these buried emotions, stressed, strained and not knowing.

But I am very grateful I do not have to imagine a world as privately miserable as I could make for myself in college and graduate school.

If I did not write this, you, most of my close friends, even my family, would not know I would grind my teeth worrying about grades in law school so hard from stress they broke, that I have a great deal of gratitude for counseling services and therapy for getting through my final years of school.

What I should have been taught much earlier, something that I learned at 24 in law school, is there was nothing more important for me to learn than a sense of emotional intelligence —

knowing how to handle and understand my emotions as they come, rather than when they begin to negatively affect my life from being unconsciously buried.

Because what I understand now is that the emotional weight did not come from the naturally stressful aspects of this time of year in college, near finals — the natural stress just so often would be the tipping point for the emotional aspects of my life I had always ignored addressing.

There is a reason I write a column like this almost every year, a reason I put my stubborn pride to look strong and confident aside to describe to you my experience in college and graduate school.

According to the Center for Collegiate Mental health, there has been a significant increase in the utilization of college counseling centers across the country. You can see that yourself now trying to schedule an appointment with Student Counseling services. A recent Cigna survey cited college students ages 18 through 22 years old as the self-reported loneliest generation of Americans today. We can call this a crisis, call the increase in seeking help for mental health a new generational problem.

But, maybe we can just call it progress.

College students are seeking help for mental health more than any gener-

ation before. They ask themselves more about how and why they want to live their life, discuss how important close relationships are and emphasize well-being in ways I wish my parents’ generation had grown up knowing before.

If you are worried about their generation, if you are worried about stress, anxiety and loneliness yourself, understand that the generation in college now is not complaining about mental health — they are acknowledging it and the world they were born into in ways that are beneficial to everyone.

They did not build the social media that stresses them, did not create the system of health care or college that can leave them struggling in debt and they certainly did not create the rigid 9-5 work week we are just beginning to question.

It is because of these questions I knew to seek help for my own issues much later in graduate school than many of them know now in college. So, to the stressed, anxious and lonely college student, know that you are far from alone in mental health. To me, the generation right before you, I am just thankful you are brave enough to keep asking the questions ourselves and the world will most only ever keep privately in the back of their mind. @DailyToreador

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Expressing gratitude: What works best?

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hanksgiving is a holiday to enjoy time with family over good food and reflect on all the things to be thankful for. This holiday is also typically associated with the stress of making tons of food for a large group and the hectic shopping of Black Friday. However, it is crucial to remember how much we have to be thankful for and how fortunate we are to live the lives we do.

It is easy to get bogged down with the stresses of everyday life and think that no one has it as hard as you. No one knows your situation more than you, which can make it hard to stay thankful. Being thankful and expressing gratitude can take some time, but it is such a wonderful skill to learn. Gratitude can be shown

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in many ways and be tailored to each person. Crafted with Love reports on ways that people feel appreciated and the ways to best express each of these.

Obviously, you know the people you are trying to thank best and should speak honestly about the ways you appreciate them, but these love languages can help you express your gratitude in a way that will have a bigger impact on them.

The first love language is simple but can be a way to absolutely make someone’s day. Words of affirmation make

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people feel noticed and appreciated. You can show this to someone by simply complimenting their outfit or by telling them one of your favorite qualities about them. This can definitely put a smile on their face and will let them know that you are paying attention to what they are doing and making them feel noticed.

The second love language is acts of service. This is one way to let a person know that you see things they need done and will make them feel understood. These things could be as simple as doing a household chore that needs to be done or something more intimate like cooking a meal for them.

The third love language is receiving gifts. Now, we might think this would be a way that all people like to receive love. I

mean, who doesn’t like getting presents? However, it is about the gifts that are received that make this act special.

Gifts that meet a need or are given with extreme thought and genuineness are the gifts the person receiving them will remember. These gifts can be like small as something as flowers, but when given with a genuine and thoughtful heart, can make a huge impact.

The fourth love language is quality time. Spending time with people is necessary in order to grow a relationship with them. Spending time interacting with them and conversing with them makes them feel understood, like their own time is not wasted in this relationship.

The fifth love language is physical touch. I know this

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is hard one for many people because many like to classify themselves as “not a hugger.”

However, giving people a hug to comfort them is a great way to let them know that you are at least there and ready to listen to them.

It is also a great way to show their efforts do not go unnoticed and are greatly appreciated.

All these things make people feel loved and understood.

Gratitude is a different emotion but can still be expressed in many different ways. We all have people in our lives that we appreciate and cherish and want to be able to provide the world for. Practicing expressing gratitude and appreciation will not give the people we love everything they want, but it can mean everything to them. @MSheffieldDT

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WOMEN’S GOLF

Garcia speaks about golf career at Tech

By ELEANOR GUINAN Staff Writer

The Texas Tech women’s golf team’s junior Sofia Garcia has been at Tech for four years after being redshirted her sophomore year. With one year left of eligibility, Garcia looks back on her time as a Lady Raider and looks forward to what is to come in the future.

Garcia grew up in Asuncion, Paraguay, and said she came to the United States at the age of 16 years old.

When she came to the U.S., she decided she would not attend college, but changed her mind after receiving many offers to play golf.

In Paraguay, Garcia said golf is not the most common sport, as soccer is more popular. However, her father wanted her to play golf because women do not have a future in soccer in Paraguay.

“Soccer is mostly the popular sport for most of the men, so doing golf is a weird thing,” Garcia said. “If you go in and say, ‘I’m a golfer’ they all think you are rich, which I’m not.

The sport has grown a lot.

We have a professional player here in the U.S. and it got carried on at home.”

Garcia said one of the biggest reasons she stays in golf is because she likes the challenge the sport brings.

She also gets to travel and represent her country.

Because Paraguay is warm, Garcia said she knew she did not want to go to a college in the north. She chose Tech not just because she received a scholarship, but because Lubbock is a small town and has a warm climate.

“My dad has a friend who worked in the U.S.,” Garcia said. ”He worked on the police here and told us ‘Texas is a great state, people are really fond of sports, they love sports, I’m even going to retire over there.’ They considered Texas as a big, big place to come for sports and people. They considered big cities, but I live in the capital at home (Paraguay), but I’m not sure to move to a different country and live in a big city.”

Garcia said she had offers from Texas Christian and Baylor but did not follow through with them.

“There was a Paraguayan who went to TCU and was telling me all about it but I wasn’t interested in wearing purple,” Garcia said. “I didn’t know how important that was until I came here and started wearing red and black everyday, so even the small details were part of it.”

Six of the eight players on the team are from different countries, according to Tech Athletics. Garcia said one of her favorite things about being a Lady Raider is the diversity and uniqueness of the team.

“It is fun because of that, I mean we all come from different places but the fact that we understand we have our own things just because we are from different places,” she said. “Also when we’re homesick, and stuff like that, we completely understand that so it makes it quite unique.”

In her freshman season, Garcia had a 73.8 scoring average — the second-lowest on the team, according to Tech Athletics. Garcia also had seventh-place finish at the Big 12

Championships and received All-Big 12 Tournament honors.

Garcia suffered a seasonending injury and received surgery in the fall of her sophomore year and received redshirt status, according to the release.

Garcia came back the next year led the team with a 71.0 scoring average, according to Tech Athletics. The junior also broke her 54-hole record with a 9-under 207 at the Illini Invitational. She also broke Tech’s single-season record for stroke average by over a full stroke and won the 20182019 Women’s Golf Coaches Association All-American.

In the fall, Garcia earned three top-five finishes, according to Tech Athletics.

“My putting, it is the most mental part of the game so I try to train a lot and perform as smart as I can and try to work with it. I can have a bad stroke and I have to learn that it’s one step at a time and so I definitely try to work on my short (putting) game a lot, I try to be as consistent as possible,” she said. “The better I can, it’s mostly because I make less mistakes rather than I’m getting really good shots.

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Garcia has consistently led or has had the second-lowest scoring average since she has been on the team, according to Tech Athletics. She also has more top-five finishes than any other Lady Raider.

“I work really hard just on the golf course,” Garcia said.

“I do have a lot of experience I have played so many tournaments. I’m the oldest one as well. You need to know yourself a lot, you need to know that maybe you’re not hitting well in your warm-up, you know how to deal with it.

Sometimes this is your best part, sometimes it’s not and what to do with it. That’s one of the main things. I know myself real well and my game, so that helps me get better and try to avoid the mistakes. Also, when I did my surgery, that made me way more stronger.”

Garcia said one of her goals for the fall is to break her record for the lowest scoring average. She would also like to be All-American again and, as a team, she wants to go back to the NCAA tournament.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “I think just coming off the injury. I think he’s got a lot to prove. The Arizona game wasn’t one of his better games, which was his first live-action coming back,” Wells said. “I think he’s improved since then. You know, we’ve kind of got him settled in a little bit at right tackle, but there for a month of October, he’s kind of gone back and forth.

He’s still a swing guy for us.

If somebody gets hurt, we can move him. But Terence is very mature. He’s been here for a while. He’s a graduate student, a senior captain, one of our captains, meets every week. He’s very mature, does a good job of bringing those young O-linemen around and teaching them.”

On the opposite side of the

line, offensive lineman Broderick Washington Jr. will also play his final home game with the Red Raiders on Saturday.

In his time at Tech, Washington recorded 89 tackles, 13.5 tackles for loss and 6.5 sacks, according to Tech Athletics.

“It kind of hit me over the weekend because I mean, after we played TCU, next game on the schedule is senior night,” Washington said.

“I was sitting on my couch thinking about it. I’m going to be emotional before the game.

I mean, it’s been a heck of a ride, so I’m just trying to finish it the right way pretty much.”

Two wide receivers at Tech, RJ Turner and Seth Collins, will also be recognized on Saturday as they are in their senior seasons. While Collins has not played this season, Turner has stepped up for the Red Raiders with the absence

of junior TJ Vasher.

Turner has recorded 34 catches for 478 yards this season, according to Tech Athletics. The senior wide receiver has had two breakout games this season as he recorded 138 receiving yards against Baylor on Oct. 12. He also recorded his first touchdown at Tech, catching a pass in the end zone twice against Texas Christian while also recording 116 receiving yards.

Although he will not play the rest of the season due to broken ribs, running back Armand Shyne is also wrapping up the final year of his collegiate career. With this being his first and last year as a Red Raider, Shyne recorded 374 rushing yards and three touchdowns in eight games, according to Tech Athletics.

Three offensive linemen, along with Steele, will be

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recognized on Senior Night as Madison Akamnonu, Bailey Smith and Travis Bruffy will play their last game at the Jones AT&T Stadium.

Tech’s offensive line has only allowed the quarterback to get sacked 12 times this season as the Red Raiders’ defense has recorded 22.

Along with Coleman, defensive back Desmon Smith is also a player in Tech’s secondary who is in his senior season. Smith has not appeared in a game since Oct. 5 after suffering a leg injury against Oklahoma State, according to Tech Athletics.

Another senior’s season was also cut short due to an injury as defensive lineman Lonzell Gilmore will not be able to finish his senior season after rupturing his bicep.

The final two senior Red Raiders who will be rec-

ognized include defensive lineman Quentin Yontz and linebacker Christian Taylor.

Yontz has played in all 10 games this season and was recently topped the Big 12 with a 4.0 GPA, earning him a selection to the Academic All-Big 12 Team, according to Tech Athletics. Taylor has not appeared in any games this season.

“They come from a lot of different walks of life, and like I said, we mentioned earlier, some of them have been here longer, some shorter, some grad transfers in there, some fifth-year seniors, guys that came in as walk-ons that have earned scholarships, guys that have been four-year starters, all that stuff,” Wells said. “So it kind of comprises a lot of different ways to get here and get to there. But I’m proud of them and the contri-

butions they’ve made.”

The Red Raiders must win their next two games to be eligible for a bowl game.

Tech’s final home game of the season will be against Kansas State at 6 p.m. on Saturday and the final game of the regular season will take place in Austin at 11 a.m. on Nov. 29 against Texas.

“So appreciative of those seniors and everything that they’ve done for this program over the course of their careers, some longer than others,” Wells said. “A couple head coaches, but those guys, they’ve stuck it out, and they’ve been winners off the field as well as on the field, and they’re going to be very successful in life, and do everything we can to send them out as winners this week. It’ll be a big game.” @MaxHengstDT

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TOP: Senior tight end Donta Thompson is tackled by senior cornerback Julius Lewis as he catches the ball. BOTTOM: Senior defensive back Douglas Coleman III walks off the field after pregame warmups. RIGHT: Senior offensive lineman Travis Bruffy gets into formation during the Texas Tech versus Texas Christian football game on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019, at Jones AT&T Stadium. The Red Raiders were defeated by the Horned Frogs, 33-31.