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When the Texas A&M softball team com-pleted a 6-2 win

against Wisconsin on Saturday, head coach Jo Evans made his-

tory. She became only the eighth active coach in Division I history to reach 1,000 wins.

In a news conference follow-ing her career milestone, Evans was the first to talk about her team’s victory rather than her ac-complishment.

“I thought our team played really well,” Evans said. “It’s fun to get it on a game where it’s a quality opponent, and

it’s a tough game and a chal-lenging situation. That’s just a more fun way to play the game every day. I thought our kids played really well. I was proud of them.”

Evans has had much success at A&M, recording 14 appear-ances in the NCAA postseason, including two consecutive trips

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Kamaria Brown started running at 6 years old. In 2014, the junior Texas

A&M sprinter is still running — to the tune of an unprecedented SEC sprint event sweep.

“I always used to ask my mom, ‘Can I do another sport?’” Brown said. “She would say, ‘OK, let’s wait until the summer,’ then summer comes and I was still running track.”

Brown, a native of Baton Rouge, La., scored wins in the 200- and 400-meter this weekend at the SEC Indoor Cham-pionships at the Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium. No male or female sprinter has

ever won both events.“For Kamaria Brown to do that is

just a huge day for her,” Texas A&M head coach Pat Henry said. “She’s a tre-mendous athlete and she’s a world-class athlete.”

Brown said the feat is difficult and ex-haustion almost kept her from achieving it.

“I was extremely tired from the 400, but I have been training very hard and I was prepared for it,” Brown said. “Dou-bling is not easy, so this is very exciting for me.”

This weekend wasn’t the first time

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DOUBLE UPBrown knots first-ever SEC championship sprint sweep Elizabeth KamenickyThe Battalion

Kamaria Brown competes in the SEC championships.

Freshman and early signee Kyle Allen takes snaps at spring practice. Allen will be among the quarterbacks vying for the starting job.

SPRING FOOTBALLAmid the sounds of nearby construc-

tion at Kyle Field, Texas A&M spring football practice kicked off Friday to the tune of Drake’s “Trophies” blasting on the loudspeakers. Although the spring is young, head coach Kevin Sumlin said he was pleased with the overall tempo dis-played by his team.

“It was a great start, weather was good, had a lot of energy which you expect from the first day, a lot of good looking [kids] — Larry Jackson has done a fine job in the off season, they’ve utilized their meeting time well,” Sumlin said. “I thought our guys un-derstood the schemes that we tried to in-stall and guys were buzzing around. Good tempo, had some good looking prospects out there too watching practice, a little DJ double-R cranking it up a little bit, so all in all I thought it was good.”

As the first two practices came to a close this weekend, Texas A&M spring foot-ball continues Monday, Wednesday and Thursday with competition brewing at all positions. Check out the recaps at thebatt.com and follows on Twitter at @battsports for the latest news.

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Brown has been noticed for her work on the track. After accumulating high school hon-ors, including three titles in the 2007 AAU Junior Olympics, Brown’s dedication paid off in the form of collegiate offers from across the nation. But to Brown, Texas A&M was the perfect fit.

“I had offers from everywhere but coach Henry and [assistant] coach [Vince] Anderson really showed me that I can not only have a coaching relationship with them but also a personal relationship as well,” Brown said. “And that’s what I really wanted.”

Prior to her weekend double victory, Brown already accumulated two SEC Athlete of the Week honors this season and holds a world record in the 200 meters.

Although track has characteristics of an in-dividual sport, Brown still demonstrates lead-ership qualities, said Shamier Little, teammate and current SEC Freshman of the Week. Little said Brown’s motivation and determination has helped her team cope under pressure.

“I like working with her,” Little said. “When we’re practicing, she helps push us a lot. She helps calm us down if we were to be nervous and doesn’t really give in to [pressure] when we’re all just nervous. I think that’s re-ally good, something that we need.”

Brown’s ability to remain calm and col-lected carries over into races, at which times Brown said she stays focused and tries to listen to her coaching.

“My main thing is I try to start the race right so that way the time will take care of itself,” Brown said. “So if I set it up right from the start, then it sets me up for a good time. I just want to make sure I’m doing everything I’m practicing and doing everything my coach is telling me because I trust their coaching.”

Brown will seek a follow-up to her SEC championships performance at the NCAA In-door Championships on March 14-15.

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The Texas A&M men’s 4x400 relay team set a collegiate re-

cord, and Kamaria Brown knot-ted the first-ever double victory in the 200- and 400-meter to drive a weekend for the Aggies that ended without a team championship at the SEC Indoor Track Championships at Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium.

The men finished third and the women finished second, hamstrung by a disqualification in the 4x400 that cost the team the championship.

The disqualification docked the Aggies the points they needed to top Florida, which won with 102 points after officials declared that A&M im-peded the Gators during the anchor leg of the relay. The decision was sustained after an appeal submitted by Texas A&M to the jury of ap-peals.

Texas A&M women finished sec-ond with 96.5 points. Prior to the disqualification, the Aggie women totaled 104.5 points over Florida’s 102. Texas A&M head coach Pat Henry said he was disappointed to lose in such a fashion.

“Especially on a call like that, it’s a tough one,” Henry said. “We’ll stand up, we’ll come back another day, and we’ll be ready to go. You don’t like to lose big time meets like this on a call like that, but it hap-pens.”

With a time of 3 minutes, 3.2 seconds, the men’s 4x400 team con-sisting of Shavez Hart, Aldrich Bai-ley, Jr., Carlyle Roudette and Deon Lendore topped the previous record of 3:03.5 set by Arkansas in 2013.

Brown’s double victory in the 200 and 400 made her the first SEC

sprinter, male or female, to achieve this feat. Brown bested her own re-cord she set in the 200 preliminaries Friday by .01 seconds, breaking the SEC meet record, facility record and school record.

Brown also took the title in the 400 with a time of 50.94 seconds, which broke the SEC meet record set in 2004 and made her the eighth-fastest collegian of all time, though she said she didn’t expect to set the record.

“My coach always tells me to trust in my training and take it one race at a time, so that is what I did,” Brown said.

Arkansas took the men’s team title for the third consecutive year with 121 points followed by Florida with 106 points and A&M with 83.33.

Arkansas head coach Chris Buck-nam said he was ecstatic after his team’s win.

“These guys are a special group,” Bucknam said. “It was one of the most satisfying wins that we’ve had. I’m proud of my coaches, I’m proud of my athletes. Unbelievable job.”

Other notable performances in-clude Jena Hemann, who placed seventh in the women’s pentathlon with 4,079 points and set a new A&M record.

“I’m very excited that I broke the school record,” Hemann said. “It’s awesome. But, of course, I’m disap-pointed with the place. Coach Hen-ry just told me it’s still two points for the team. Overall, though, I’m pleased.”

Lendore defended his SEC in-door title in the 400-meter with a world-leading time of 45.03 sec-onds. The men’s 4x400 relay an-chor beat his own school record of 45.15 and broke the facility record of 45.33 set by A&M’s Demetrius Pinder in 2011.

A&M teams land top-3 SEC championship spots

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track & fi eld

Men’s relay sets record, DQ trips up women

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Junior Kamaria Brown won the 200- and

400-meter this weekend at the

SEC Indoor Track Championships,

the first SEC athlete to

achieve the feat.

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The No. 17 Texas A&M women’s basketball

team finished its regular sea-son with an 83-72 victory over the Florida Gators on Sunday. The Aggies finish 13-3 in conference play, ty-ing their best-ever confer-ence record. A&M cemented a 7-1 road conference record, the best in program history.

The Aggies (23-7, 13-3 SEC) had five players post double figures in either points or assists Sunday as A&M scored a season-high 83 points.

A&M jumped out to a 9-2 lead in the first three minutes and would surrender that ad-vantage just twice the rest of the half. Junior guard Tori Scott led the scoring in the first frame for A&M with 12 points, as the Aggies took a 35-34 lead into halftime.

After the break, the Gators (18-11, 8-8 SEC) were able to keep within 10 points for much of the second half un-til a Karla Gilbert layup put A&M ahead 65-54 with just under seven minutes to play. Florida would only come within seven points the rest of the game.

Sophomore point guard Jordon Jones, fresh off a triple-double performance against Arkansas, set a career high with 14 assists. She is

just 26 away from the A&M single season assist record and is the third player in A&M history to tally more than 200 assists in a season, total-ing 205.

Junior forward Achiri Ade dominated the boards en route to her fourth ca-reer double-double with 14 points and 13 rebounds.

Gilbert led the scoring with 23 points while adding three blocks. She now has 57 blocks on the season and is one away from tying the single-season record of 58.

The Aggies will next travel to Duluth, Ga., for the open-ing of the SEC tournament, which begins at 7:30 p.m. Friday. A&M is the defend-ing tournament champion and will be the No. 3 seed.

Aggies get 4 wins in invitational

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softball

Gilbert’s 23 leads Aggies to victory

After outscoring opponents 51-14 over the first eight

games, the No. 17 Texas A&M baseball team scored just five runs and was swept by Fresno State this weekend.

The A&M offense struck out a season-high 14 times on Sunday — including 11 from Bulldog sophomore starter Tim Borst — who wound up with a no-decision de-spite eight innings of scoreless pitching.

Grayson Long, A&M’s sophomore starter, threw 5.1 innings and gave up four hits, walking one and striking out three. Long has yet to give up an earned run this season after 19.1 innings of work.

Every Aggie hitter had at least one strikeout on Sunday, with the exception of All-American first baseman Cole Lankford. A&M mustered just three singles throughout the game — one each from Logan Nottebrok, Troy Stein and Nick Banks.

The Aggies had a chance to take the lead in the top of the ninth inning in a score-less game. Junior leadoff hitter Blake Allemand worked a one-out walk. After a Logan Taylor strikeout, Allemand advanced to second on a wild pitch — but was stranded when Not-tebrok struck out looking.

A slow rolling ball that Taylor couldn’t handle put the winning run on base for the Bulldogs in the ninth. Fresno State’s Trent Woodward stole second after reaching on a fielder’s choice.

Senior closer Jason Jester was brought in to bail out the Aggies, but gave up a single to Bulldog designated hitter Tay-lor Ward — who was 3-for-4 on the day — which scored Woodward from second, en-suring a walk-off victory for Fresno State (9-2).

The teams played a double-header on Saturday due to in-clement weather on Friday.

The Aggies dropped the opener after an uncharacteris-tically wild outing from junior ace Daniel Mengden. Meng-den (1-2, 3.15 ERA) went seven innings, but threw three wild pitches, walked one, hit two batters and gave up five earned runs in A&M’s 5-0 loss.

Nottebrok and Hunter Melton’s two singles were the lone hits in the game for the Aggies.

In the nightcap, A&M quickly put up two runs in the second inning and then three more in the sixth to build a 5-1 lead heading to the bottom of the inning. Four straight Bull-dog singles off of Aggie starting pitcher Parker Ray (1-0, 4.32 ERA) sent head coach Rob Childress to the mound with his team now up 5-3.

Childress brought in fresh-man Tyler Stubblefield who induced a double play after giving up a single to load the bases. However, a two-out RBI single and an error from Jonathon Moroney allowed the Bulldogs to take a 6-5 lead — where the game would stay.

A&M (7-4) returns to ac-tion Tuesday when it takes on UT Arlington at Globe Life Park in Arlington. After that game, the Aggies come back to Blue Bell Park for a six-game home stand starting Wednes-day with a 6:35 p.m. matchup against Texas Southern.

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Women’s College World Series in 2007 and 2008. After A&M returned to the world series for the first time in 20 seasons in 2007, the 2008 Aggies gutted their way to the Championship Series and posted a national runner-up finish, in addition to the Big 12 regular season and tournament titles. A&M compiled the most victories in school history with a 57-10 overall record and led the nation with a .983 fielding percentage.

Evans began her coaching career at Colorado State University in 1986, where she posted a 91-67 re-cord during her four-year stint with the Rams. In her fourth season, Evans led CSU to a 37-14 record in what was a breakout season for the Rams.

Evans’ next stop was Utah, her alma mater. She enjoyed early success as the Utes reached the Women’s College World Series in her second year as coach. That season and the following year, Evans claimed Western Athletic Conference tournament titles. After a successful five years as Utah’s skipper, Texas A&M called Evans in 1996 and Evans accepted the job, excited of the opportunity to have the talent and resources that A&M has to offer.

“When I came on my visit I was impressed by the facilities and the idea of being able to practice outside in the winter as well as being able to compete in the Big 12 Conference,” Evans said. “I ultimately took this job because I thought I needed a new challenge. I was excited to get the opportunity to come here. I felt like I had done what I could at Utah and it was time to move on.”

Evans has guided 15 All-Americans, 39 All-Re-gion selections and two All-SEC players during her career at A&M, now in its 18th season.

“This is obviously a special place, and I tell people that I’ve fallen in love with Texas A&M,” Evans said. “I consider myself very fortunate to be at the helm of this program. It’s a special place to be. It’s really fun to do it with this ball club. It’s a ball club that I really enjoy coaching. I’m really fond of them and have great affection for them. It’s nice for us to get in the trenches together and get that done.”

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Aggies outscored 12-5 in 3 games in Fresno, Calif.

Pitcher Rachel Fox consults with catcher

Nicole Morgan in Saturday’s

win against Wisconsin.

The No. 13 Texas A&M softball team (16-4) completed a four-

game sweep at the Texas A&M In-vitational this weekend.

The Aggies began with victories against UConn, 14-4, and Wiscon-sin, 6-1, on Friday. The Aggies con-tinued their winning ways Saturday with repeat victories against Wis-consin, 6-2, and UConn, 6-1.

After completing Saturday’s win against Wisconsin, A&M head coach Jo Evans became the only ac-tive coach in the SEC and the eighth in Division I to reach 1,000 career

wins. Due to inclement weather, the fi-

nal game of the invitational between Texas A&M and Texas A&M Cor-pus Christi was rescheduled for April 22, when the Aggies and the Island-ers will play a doubleheader at the Aggie softball complex. Although the attention of the weekend was on Evans and her milestone, she put the focus back on her players.

“I thought our team played really well,” Evans said. “It’s fun to get it in a game where it’s a quality op-ponent and it’s a tough game and a challenging situation. That’s just a more fun way to play the game every day. I thought our kids played really well. I was proud of them.”

Senior catcher Nicole Morgan went 4-7 with two home runs and five RBIs. Both of Morgan’s home

runs cleared the complex and landed across the street in the Reed Arena parking lot. Evans said the perfor-mance spoke volumes of Morgan’s offensive and defensive play.

“Nicole Morgan is really a special player and it’s fun to see her come into her own,” Evans said. “She’s light-hearted, she’s having a good time [and] she’s letting the game come to her. If you had asked her at the beginning of the year, she would have said, ‘Please play me at first base. I love first base.’ I finally told her, ‘We can’t do that. You’re too good behind the plate. You’re going to have to get used to it.’ And now she’s embraced it and she’s do-ing a great job.”

Evans said she was pleased with the way senior first baseman Jenna Stark played, and said her leadership

qualities are key to this year’s club.“I’ll tell you, the biggest differ-

ence in [the game against Wiscon-sin] was Jenna Stark getting up there with two outs and getting the ground ball up the middle to score a couple of runs and give us a little cushion,” Evans said. “She’s such a good leader and we want her out there on the field. We want her leadership and the qualities that she brings to our ball club, and it’s nice to see her get up there and produce.”

The Aggies next take the dia-mond Wednesday against Texas State in San Marcos, and begin SEC conference play at 7 p.m. Friday at the Aggie softball complex against Missouri.

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Morgan leads offense with 2 HRs and 5 RBIs

EvansContinued from page 1

Team effort lifts A&M over Florida Gators

w. basketball

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Aggies take ESPN: Caruso’s dunk is No. 1

Alex Caruso’s be-hind-the-back poster-ization (not pictured) of Ole Miss’ Marshall Henderson climbed to the No. 1 spot in SportsCenter’s top-10 plays after A&M han-dled the Rebels 71-60 Saturday.

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Texas A&M hosted the USA Indoor Nationals in the Phys-

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Building over the weekend. Ar-chers of all ages gathered to shoot either recurve or compound bows. Archers aged 8-20 competed in the Junior Olympic Archery Develop-ment. Archers exceeding this age range competed in the United States Archery Team.

Texas A&M Archery team member Heather Koehl, sopho-more communication major, shot

in the senior female recurve divi-sion. Koehl said recurve is similar to the traditional “Robin Hood bow,” which focuses on form, whereas the compound bow is a “pulley system,” which focuses on aim.

Archery has come into the pub-lic eye with films such as Disney’s “Brave” and The Hunger Games franchise. Bill Coady, a coach of the A&M archery team, said these films have had a “huge effect” on the world of archery, notably fe-male archers.

Koehl said she has even seen fe-male archers place “mockingjay” pins on their quivers, a Hunger Games reference.

Despite her initial skepticism of the new recruits, Koehl said the movies have had a positive effect on the sport, drawing in a lot of young girls who would otherwise not have had an interest in the sport.

“Kids these days have the men-tality of, ‘I want success now,’ and archery isn’t like that,” Koehl said. “Before the movies we did not have a good future pool for women archers, but now I think we can expect a good future.”

Koehl’s 18-year career in ar-chery, which ultimately led to her experience as an alternate for the 2012 U.S Olympics, was also sparked by interest in a movie.

“I saw Robin Hood when I was five,” Koehl said. “After that, I car-ried around a plastic bow and ar-row for months.”

Koehl said archery is a sport that requires tremendous self-discipline and endurance because competi-tive sessions can span three to four hours at a time. In training, Koehl said she focuses on “pacing” and staying calm in the face of the “adrenaline rush” that comes with the “primal” reaction to competi-tive shooting.

Despite being dependent on in-dividual performance, Koehl said teammates embrace the sense of camaraderie archery creates.

“We support each other and we want each other to do really well,” Koehl said.

Tristan Skarvan, A&M archery club president and senior biomedi-cal engineering major, said despite the competitive nature of the sport A&M archers are friendly and en-couraging to one another.

“Everybody wants to win,”

Skarvan said. “But there is defi-nitely no malice.”

Koehl said the inclusive nature of the sport is what led to the di-verse community of archers. Al-though many archers hit their peak in college, Skarvan said the sport becomes a life-long hobby. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Butch Johnson is still competing at 55.

The archery community also in-cludes shooters with physical dis-abilities, Koehl said.

“People who are handicapped compete in the U.S. Paralympics,” Koehl said. “There is a man with no arms that shoots with his feet. Archery is really multifaceted like that.”

Coady said even the divisions in skill level do not create isolation among archers.

“We have [college] kids that have never picked up a bow that get to shoot with Olympic ath-letes,” Coady said.

Koel said archery has inspired her to be a role model to show young girls that they can achieve their goals.

“They can be a girl in a shooting sport,” Koel said. “It’s not limited to boys.”

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Archers take aim at the shooting line for the USA Indoor Nationals. The target is 18 meters down range.

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The Department of International Studies hosted “The Roads We Did

Not Choose” on Saturday, a Russian play about women who were thrown into prison camps by Stalin’s forces.

The creators and performers of the play, Olga Nepakhareva and Elena Tokmakova-Gorbushina, are Russian natives.

The actresses spoke and answered questions from the audience before and after the showing. Olga Cooke, profes-sor of international studies, acted as a translator for the two women.

Nepakhareva said they pulled the dia-logue straight from the written accounts of women in the gulags, the system of prisons and labor camps in the Soviet Union, and met with several survivors while producing the play.

“Their feats while surviving the camps are what inspired us to piece together this work,” Nepakhareva said.

The play was performed in Russian with English subtitles projected on a screen behind and above the actors.

While the play focused on the trag-edies the women in the gulags faced, the actresses also pulled lighter stories from the writing and would sing poems set to music. The set was simple and there were few costume changes. Nepakha-reva said these decisions had a purpose.

“The main thing we use is the text,” Nepakhareva said. “We dispose of un-necessary props so that it wouldn’t take away from the words.”

The play has been primarily per-formed in Russia, and Nepakhareva said they had to prepare themselves for the backlash they would receive from strong Communist supporters who lived in the Soviet Union era in the audience.

“Some of the most fervent Com-munists were prepared to beat us up,” Nepakhareva said. “But they’re pretty old Communists so we could probably beat them up.”

Cooke said she first met Nepakha-reva and Tokmakova-Gorbushina while touring Russia on a study abroad trip. Cooke talked to the women about per-forming at A&M and they readily agreed.

Cooke said it is important for students to understand international history, and

this event provided an opportunity to do just that.

“Students need to learn about history, not just Russian, but about international affairs,” Cooke said. “It’s important to know about the atrocities so we don’t repeat them.”

The two women have performed the play together for 10 years and have acted in diverse venues, from a stage three-square-meters wide to one the size of a conservatory. Tokmakova-Gorbushi-na said the content of the play has not changed much over the years but the environment of the performance has.

“The first year, we changed the show a lot because we were taking different excerpts and different works,” Tokma-kova-Gorbushina said. “We’d include something and take things out. But for the subsequent eight to nine years, we didn’t change much. Now the play changes because we always have differ-ent spaces, which have different feels.”

Lara Henney, sophomore interna-tional studies major, is studying Russian

as her focus and plans to take a study abroad trip to Moscow for the summer.

“I think it’s significant for getting stu-dents to branch out and get to experience a small part of Russian history,” Hen-ney said. “Not many students here or in America as a whole have much knowl-edge of Russia outside of what they hear in passing and it’s events like these that help develop a deeper understanding of Russia and interest in the country’s com-plicated and fascinating history.”

Joe Rodriguez, chair of MSC LT Jordan Institute of International Aware-ness, a sponsor of the play, said the event enables students to learn about cultures they know nothing about and may never even visit.

Cooke said she hoped the audience took away a message of action.

“The message is to be very zealous about defense of freedom,” Cooke said. “Never allow a dictator to incarcerate, murder and torture 30 million people like Stalin did. Don’t stand by. Do some-thing.”

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Olga Nepakhareva and Elena Tokmakova-Gorbushina act out a woman’s condemnation to the gulags Saturday evening in the Stark Gallery.

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Aggie lawyers from across the state came to College Station this weekend as the

Texas Aggie Bar Association hosted its 15th annual conference at the MSC.

A day of networking events and lectures from law practitioners concluded with a ban-quet Saturday at which TABA scholarship re-cipients Neal Larson, Megan McKisson and Hao Nguyen, along with Aggie lawyer of the year, Fidel Rodriguez Sr., were honored.

TABA president Dan Price said the associa-tion honors individuals each year to promote excellence in the legal community and said the competition for TABA scholarships continues to rise along with the quality of the Texas A&M School of Law.

“We had a very difficult time deciding on these scholarship award winners because there are so many excellent candidates,” Price said. “We’re really proud of these well-rounded individuals that [were] honored at the recep-tion.”

McKisson, a scholarship recipient, com-pleted fellowships in the offices of Sen. Jane Nelson and former President George H.W. Bush, and is working full time as a paralegal.

“I put myself through college during my undergraduate studies at Texas A&M Uni-versity and am very grateful to receive the financial assistance as I prepare to enter law school,” McKisson said. “I am so grateful that Texas A&M has provided me with so many wonderful experiential opportunities and can-not thank the Texas Aggie Bar Association enough for continuing to invest in my future.”

Speakers at the conference covered various aspects of Texas law.

Tim Newman, lawyer and Texas A&M Class of 2005, shed light on cyber law, a rela-tively new area of law he said affects all in-dustries.

“It’s something that everybody is going to

have an issue with at some point,” Newman said. “Law firms have important data that they should do their best to protect, retailers have payment card information, banks have finan-cial information, healthcare companies have protected health information so every indus-try is going to be impacted in some form or fashion.”

Price said one of the biggest changes to the TABA conference this year is the involvement of the new Texas A&M School of Law and the subsequent increase in membership. TABA bylaws originally recognized Aggie lawyers if they completed their undergraduate degree at A&M, but now past and present students of the A&M law school, acquired from Texas Wesleyan, can be recognized.

“Those individuals are eligible if they grad-uated from the law school,” Price said. “Of course we have student memberships also, so if you’re an undergraduate student in pre-law or LEGALS, at A&M or a student at the law school, you can become a student member of the bar association.”

Brent Doré, first-year student at the Texas A&M School of Law, is a new TABA member and is part of the first class of students who will complete the entirety of their law education under the facility’s new name.

“As a first-year law student, I get to be part of the first class that was part of A&M’s law school for the entire time, so I’ll be a fully in-doctrinated Aggie lawyer from start to finish,” Doré said. “I think it’s an honor to be part of something brand new like that.”

Price said he welcomes students to join the association and participate in the conference next year.

“I encourage the students interested in go-ing to law school or becoming lawyers to get involved in Aggie Bar Association and take ad-vantage of the Aggie network and learn what it’s really like to be a lawyer,” Price said.

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