Students Athletes Succeed on Surf and Turf

The Clubhouse for the week of November 5th, 2009.

The scholarship athletic teams were not the only ones to have a good showing last weekend.  Students from the cycling, water ski, rugby, and soccer teams were in action on West Campus and around the country.

Drew Hochstatter of the Cycling Team placed 37^th of 70 competitors in the Mountain Bike Nationals at Lake Tahoe, California.

The Texas State Water Ski Team went to the National Tournament in Bakersfield, California where they competed against teams from The University of Wisconsin, Cal Poly, Cincinnati, Texas A&M, Kansas, Clemson, Michigan, Western Washington, and Georgia.  Overall, Texas State finished fourth in the final standings, third in jumping, sixth in trick skiing, and tenth in slalom.  Individually, Amanda Stevenson of Conroe won Women’s Slalom, finished 3^rd in tricks, and 3^rd in jumping. Bobby Hall finished 6^th in slalom, 2^nd in jumping, and 2^nd in jumping.  Lisa Gerkin finished 9^th in jumping.  More results are available here – http://www.ncwsa.com/index.php/nationals/nationals-results

The Men’s Rugby team split the weekend matches.  They lost a close one to SFA in a ‘friendly’ competition.  They came back on Saturday to win against the University of Dallas.

The Women’s Rugby team hosted a Halloween Rugby tournament and played a pair of matches with Texas A&M and Sam Houston.  According to President Mari Suarez, “the tournament turned out great! We put up a good fight against A&M.”  The second game of the weekend was against Sam Houston State.  Unfortunately, the ladies were dealing with a depleted roster and in the lost by kick, final score 12-10 in favor of Sam.

Both the Men’s and Women’s Club Soccer Teams won their Regional Tournaments in San Antonio, Texas over the weekend.  I was unable to get scores for the Women’s team, but they played against Texas, Baylor, and LSU.  Meanwhile, the Men tied their first game 1-1 against Louisiana-Lafayette.  In games two and three, they beat UH-Downtown and Lamar by the scores of 1-0.  They faced Baylor in the tournament final.  They won the game on a penalty kick shootout 3-2.  Both teams will move on to compete at the National Tournament in Phoenix, Arizona November 18-22.

The brackets have not been set yet, but you can find the list of teams that made the tournament at http://www.nirsa.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Sports/Soccer/2009_Teams.pdf.

Coming up this week,

Men’s Lacrosse will host their homecoming a week late, as they invite the Alumni back to campus on Sunday, November 8^th.  The Alumni vs. Current Students game starts at Noon.

Tennis will be traveling to Houston to compete in a Tournament, November 6 – 7.

The Buckets (Men’s Ultimate Disc) will be traveling to College Station to compete in a Tournament, November 6 – 8.

You can learn more about clubsports at — http://www.campusrecreation.txstate.edu/programs/sport-clubs.html

Chris Leman

chris@bobcatfans.com