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Texas Wesleyan table ten-nis once again took a Na-tional Title in the 2010 Col-legiate Table Tennis National Tournament, giving them 38 of 52 national championships in the past eight years.

The Rams opened up their season this year by hosting an open tournament the week-end of Sept. 18.

Competitors were sent to Wisconsin for the Badger Open the weekend of Sept.

18-20, where head coach Jasna Rather said she hopes to promote the program and prepare her players for the feel of collegiate events.

“Recruiting is a very im-portant part of what we do,” Rather said.

Table tennis consists of both a varsity and junior var-sity team. Both teams prac-tice together and participate in stamina and reflex training as well as short- and long-dis-tance running.

“There’s good competition at practice so it makes you

get better,” said Jose Barbosa, sophomore transfer from Lindenwood University. Lin-denwood was runner up to Wesleyan in last year’s Na-tional Championship.

Barbosa is one of this year’s players to watch, Rather said. He brings with him a two-time Brazilian Champion-ship in singles, a two-time Latino Team Championship and a doubles win in last year’s national championship.

Rather said another player to watch is Diego Walsh, freshman business major

from El Salvador. Young in age but not experience, Walsh said he came to the Wesleyan team with a Junior Champi-onship win in the 2009 El Sal-vador National Tournament and was part of the Latin American National team.

“I am really excited to see how I perform for the Wes-leyan team and on a colle-giate level,” Walsh said.

Wesleyan has another op-portunity to do well this sea-son, Rather said.

“It’s all about staying fo-cused,” she said.

Chutchian pitches his way to semi-prosShauna Bankssbbanks@mail.txwes.edu

From a Gopher to a Ram to a Colt, Matt Chutchian has moved up the competitive base-ball ladder in his high school, college and now professional career.

After playing baseball for the Grand Prairie High School Go-phers, Chutchian was recruited by coach Mike Jeffcoat at Texas Wesleyan. He spent five years as a business management ma-jor, playing baseball for four of them.

Chutchian came to Wesleyan on an athletic and academic scholarship, recruited by Jef-fcoat off of a recommendation from Chutchian’s high school coach. Although he started as an outfielder for the Rams, Chutchchian soon moved to relief pitcher.

“The first couple of years I didn’t play that much,” Chut-chian said. “The last two years were awesome. I was our team’s closer. Whenever they needed someone to get someone out, I came in.”

Jeffcoat was the head coach for Chutchian’s entire time at Wesleyan, where his pitching skills were further advanced and honed.

“I think Jeffcoat is a very smart coach,” Chutchian said. “He’s been around, and he al-ways asks a lot of questions so he can learn himself. With all those questions, he’s actually teaching us.”

During his senior year with the Rams, Chutchian signed with the San Angelo Colts. He played with the Colts for two months this past summer after graduating from Wesleyan, ex-periencing the professional end

of baseball. “I loved it. It was kind of like

a dream come true,” Chutchian said. “That’s what I was working towards, playing pro ball, and I finally got there.”

Jeffcoat said in addition to Chutchian, last year’s team ended up having five other players who signed with profes-sional baseball teams, including Hayden Lackey, Ryan Reyn-olds, Jerry Fisher, Mikey Horn and Adam Resendez. The base-ball program has had 19 players total within the past four years who signed with pro teams.

“They were an integral part of our team’s success the last couple of years,” said Kevin Millikan, athletic director. “They achieved great things and helped set the expectations higher for the players that fol-low them, in terms of individual and team performance.”

Both Jeffcoat and Millikan have worked with the scholar-ship money available for this year to recruit new players for the upcoming season. Jeffcoat said he thinks they may now have the best team yet.

“Any time you lose such a talented group of seniors, there is an opportunity for others to step up and fill that role,” Mil-likan said. “Coach Mike Jeffcoat has done a great job recruiting and developing players to fill the gaps left vacant by guys like Chutchian and Horn, and I ex-pect that our winning tradition will continue, with sights set on the NAIA College World Series in 2011.”

Chutchian is currently living in the Arlington area, looking to work in the sports industry and hoping to play baseball again in late spring and sum-mer next year.

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Ian Leggat and Danny Mijovic, former Texas Wes-leyan golf players, will join the ranks of the National Association of Intercol-legiate Athletics Hall of Fame at this year’s NAIA

National Golf Champion-ship.

“This will mark the first time since 1994 that some-one from Wesleyan has been inducted into the hall of fame,” said athletic di-rector Kevin Millikan.

Leggat transfered to Wes-leyan his sophomore year,

majoring in sports man-agement.

Graduating in 1989, Leg-gat took with him two All-American awards on top of his numerous collegiate tournament wins.

Leggat finished second in the 1999 National Gold tournament to his team-mate Danny Mijovic.

Mijovic, a four-year busi-ness administration major, was the only one in NAIA or NCAA to win the na-tional championship four years in a row, Millikan said.

He also won nine colle-giate tournaments and was a four-time All-American in the NAIA national tour-nament.

“Danny had an excellent work ethic,” said head golf coach Bobby Cornett, “at the same time, I don’t know that anyone has worked harder than Ian since I’ve been a part of the program.”

These two Canadians

continued their golfing ca-reers winning various PGA Tours, Cornett said.

Mijovic, currently 49, is now preparing for a PGA champions tournament.

Leggate recently gave up his golf clubs and took a job as a sport agent where he travels between South Carolina and Fort Worth,

Cornett said.“Both Canadians brought

some really good attention to our program,” Cornett said.

Mijovic and Leggat will be inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame at the Nation-al Golf Championship in Silvas, Ill.

Mijovic and Leggat will

both receive awards and are set to give speeches at the function.

“This is something that should have happened a long time ago,” Cornett said. “It’ll be great to see these men interact with the college athletes there and share some of their knowl-edge.”

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