2007-08 - Blog 2

The students might have moved into their dorm rooms and classes might have started, but the school year doesn’t seem to really start for me, until the first weekend of athletic events. It is at that time that I seem to get into a routine, a set schedule, which seems to include athletic events every Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.

The first football game of the year saw our Cowboys play a very solid team from Wisconsin-La Crosse. While the coaching staff is disappointed with the outcome of the game, we do not have to worry about our season ending on the same day it started. Automatic qualification allows the conference champion to secure the berth into the NCAA Playoffs, so the season is still very young. HSU would like to join the list of teams who have stumbled out of the gate, but regained their footing in time for the stretch run during the months of October and November. The road to recovery began the day after the La-Crosse game as the Cowboys prepare for perennial power, Linfield, in Oregon on September 15.

Remember the, Creedence Clearwater Revival song ‘ Who’ll stop the rain?” popular during the 1970’s? Many of us in Abilene asked that same question as we had a record breaking summer of rain, which helped put us behind on several building projects The soccer/ track fieldhouse, which we had originally hoped to have finished for the Fall semester, should now be completed by January. While it is disappointing that the building is not complete, we should all remind ourselves that the rain and floods from the summer caused major problems for many people in our area. There are many families, farmers and ranchers who suffered much more than we did because of the record setting rain.

Congratulations to former volleyball player, Virginia Aguilar who recently was named one of thirty National semi-finalists for The NCAA Woman of the Year Award. Aguilar joins former Cowgirl basketball standout, Kendra Anderson, who was also a semi-finalist for this award in 2003. Aguilar will receive an all-expense paid trip to Indianapolis in October for the Women of the Year Banquet. The banquet is one of the NCAA’s major events and will provide Virginia a chance to meet some of the top student-athletes in the nation from Divisions I, II and III.