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OU to add new college next fall School of Biomedical Engineering prepares faculty and courses JESSE POUND

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OU’s new School of Biomedical Engineering is on track to open next fall, and the university has already hired a faculty member and selected an architecture firm to design the new building.

The goal for the program is to have 12 faculty members hired

over the next five years, Thomas Landers, dean of the Gallogly College of Engineering, said.

Ten of these are expected to be outside hires, while the other two are expected to move to the new school from other OU departments, Landers said.

Landers said he does not anticipate having a problem recruiting faculty members.

“If they’re like me, they enjoy the challenge of starting up and building a program,” Landers said.

The college of engineering’s close relationship with health professionals at OU’s Health Sciences

Center should also entice new faculty members, Landers said.

Three more faculty hires will be made in the new future, Landers said. These three will be the director of the school, one of the professors that helps develop the laboratory and laboratory courses, and the lead faculty member in nano medicine.

The faculty members will be added as the classes they teach are offered in the program. There will be just one course offered in both the fall 2016 semester and the spring 2017 semester, Landers said.

“We do have time to do the faculty hiring and phase in the development of these courses just in time,” Landers said.

OU has already seen a lot of interest in biomedical engineering from incoming freshmen and area high school students, said Roger Harrison, the interim director of academic programs for biomedical engineering.

The goal is for the program to have over 300 students, Landers said. At first, the student population will consist of new arrivals on campus and students who switch to biomedical engineering from

similar programs that have overlapping education requirements, Landers said.

The draft of the curriculum has been sent to the State Regents for Higher Education for approval, Harrison said.

There will be 44 credits that are specific to biomedical engineering, Harrison said.

According to the draft of the

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Kappa Delta Chi sisters enjoy grilled food at the Back to School Bash hosted by AASA at the Varsity House Thursday, Sept. 3. The bash was open to all students and had free food and snocones.

Group still going strong after three decades of existence, with no plans to stop any time soon BRYCE MCELHANEY News Reporter @bryce_mac

The Asian American Student Association is celebrating 30 years of being a group that gives minority students a home on OU’s Norman campus.

The group’s vice president, Dasol Lee, said she’s excited for this semester, as it’s her first time in the position.

Lee’s role in the organization is to communicate internally and externally to members and to the campus. And the psychology junior, said she enjoys the position.

“As vice president, the role can vary year to year, depending on what the motives are as president and vice president,” she said.

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Lee said her focus is on the community, by focusing on AASA members and to reach outside of AASA by including other groups.

“We’re hoping to volunteer every month, so people who are interested can come. In a couple weeks, we’re going to OKC where they’re hosting a Lunar New Year festival for kids,” Lee said.

“It’s nice to see the Asian community come together, because as you can see, there are smaller groups coming out,” Lee said.

Smaller groups under the AASA umbrella are the Filipino American Student Association, Oklahoma Undergraduate India Society and the Vietnamese Student

“Our broader student body has been enriched over the years by these groups and their abilities to really bring forward the unique expressions that those groups each individually have, including the Asian American Student Association and others” JABAR SHUMATE , UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY VICE PRESIDENT

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NEWS BIOMEDICAL: Continued from Page One curriculum, a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering will require 132 credit hours. This is more than most majors at OU, but it will not be the most among the engineering programs, Harrison said.

Some of the classes included in the curriculum will be lab courses in bioimaging, biotransport and bioelectricity.

OU has hired Page architecture firm to help design the building, which will be built on the current site of Craddock Hall, home of the Air Force ROTC, Landers said.

Page is also the firm that handled the new Biomedical engineering building at the

COMMUNITY: Continued from Page One Association.

“All four of us are part of Asian Student Life,” Lee said.

Lee said Asian Student Life is there to sustain the groups and help them grow together.

Lee said AASA strives to be like the Campus Activities Council by including everyone and coming together by collaborating with other student organizations.

“I think working together, putting both (group) names out there, means a lot more than putting a show together,” Lee said. “I think that’s a better intention.”

“We have meetings every two weeks, and we have a social event every month for our members to enjoy,” Lee said.

The first social event of the semester was a Sept. 3 Back to School Bash pool party with the Hispanic American Student Association, Society of Asian S cientists and Engineers, and Multicultural Greek Council, hosted at

OVERDOSE: Continued from Page One “That way the physician can have an idea of how many times that patient has been to other physicians or see a little bit more on their history,” Dukes said. “They can see what’s being prescribed and what’s been tried before and what is or isn’t working.”

In Oklahoma and the U.S., overdose is the leading cause of injur y-related death.

Oklahoma was ranked eighth highest in the nation for drug overdose deaths in 2013, according to the press release.

More overdose deaths involve prescription painkillers than alcohol and all illicit

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University of Texas-Dallas, which is nearing completion, Landers said.

Landers said he and his team have also toured biomedical engineering schools at Rice, Georgia Tech, Ohio State and the University of California-Davis.

The laboratory components of the program are modeled off of Ohio State’s Harrison said.

The contractor has also been selected and will be up for approval by the OU Board of Regents this semester, Landers said.

The designing phase for the building is expected to run through next summer, with construction beginning late in 2016, Landers said.

The building is expected to be completed in 2018.

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University Community Vice President, Jabar Shumate, said the campus cultural organizations, like AASA, are a welcoming feature to new and current students.

“Those groups do a great deal of work on our campus to (expose) the rich, cultural diversity that exists here,” Shumate said.

He said the student organizations are a big retention piece for many students who are under-represented.

The groups are essential to pushing students toward whatever their goals may be and enriching the campus with diversity, Shumate said.

“Our broader student body has been enriched over the years by these groups and their abilities to really bring forward the unique expressions that those groups each individually have, including the Asian American Student Association and others,” Shumate said.

Lee said there are usually more events in the spring than in the fall. For more information about AASA, visit their website.

drugs combined, according to the release.

O S D H H e a l t h Commissioner Terry Cline said the monitoring among law enforcement will also be improved to help prevent overdose deaths.

“Some of the funding will be provided to the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control to enhance Oklahoma’s Prescription Monitoring Program,” Cline said.

Dukes said prescription drug overdoses don’t necessarily stem from criminal interests though.

“I think most of it is with people who truly do suffer with chronic pain,” she said.

“Maybe they’re at their wits’ end just trying to get relief.”

Mosley lecture focuses on stereotypes’ impact LGBTQ people of color face various obstacles in life MARY SMITH News Reporter @AnnaMay136

The OU LGBTQ c o m mu n i t y gat h e re d Monday at the Oklahoma Memorial Union to listen to a lecture on the issues that LGBTQ members of a minority ethnicity may face.

Sterlin Mosley, a lecturer on women’s and gender studies and human relations, spoke o n “A d d r e s s i n g t h e Damaging Stereotypes of LGBTQ People of Color,” an event hosted by the Women’s Outreach Center through the OU LGBTQ program.

Mosley reviewed the definitions of stereotypes and archetypes and the roles they play, both good and bad, as well as how they affect people on a psychological level. “(Stereotyping) helps eliminate social uncertainty or anxiety, so whenever we stereotype things, it helps us to understand people more,” Mosley said.

However, people do inadvertently play into a

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Sterlin Mosley, a lecturer in women’s and gender studies, speaks at Wednesday afternoon’s lecture on LGBTQ people of color and intersections of identity. The event was the hosted by LGBTQ Programming through the Women’s Outreach Center.

society’s stereotypes, and stereotypes are what play into archetypes, which are more universal and specific, Mosley said. The power archetypes have over people and what they identify with can ostracize those who don’t fit a single label, and if someone doesn’t easily fit a stereotype, then it can limit others’ understanding, he said.

“Do I identify more with my racial identification or with my sexual identification, and what do I do when they come together?”

Mosley said.

Mosely said he has found that within the Latino and black gay communities, the pressure to pick one role over the other can be an issue. He said some may expect a gay Latino man to identify more as Latino or gay because the individual stereotypes may clash with one another or prevent the other stereotype from being fulfilled.

“If you’re a Jewish, Native American, gay transgender woman, you don’t have … anywhere to really go.

So you do your best to find something so you’re not just

a complete alien,” Mosley said.

Stereotypes also carry sexual connotations that can reduce gay and lesbian men and women to merely sexual beings.

“Fetishizing and exoticisizing removes a person’s humanity,” Mosley said.

Being conscious of these archetypes in society and being aware that people are just people, regardless of their stereotype, can result in more acceptance overall, Mosley said.

Grant gives hope to patients Gene research to study possible ataxia treatments DAYTEN ISREAL News Reporter @daytenisrael

An OU researcher secured a grant from the Mu s c u l a r D y s t r o p h y Association for research into potential therapies for a genetic disease.

Researcher Sanjay Bidichandani, the CMRI Claire Gordon Duncan Chair in Genetics at OUHSC, is a professor of pediatrics at the OU College of Medicine and has worked at OU in the field of genetic research since 2000.

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Sanjay Bidichandani, a professor of pediatrics at the OU College of Medicine, has secured a three-year grant of $300,000 from the Muscular Dystrophy Association for research into potential therapies for a genetic disease.

research into promising therapies for a neuromuscular disease known a s F r i e d r e i c h’s a t a x i a , Bidichandani said.

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inherited defective gene, according to the Mayo Clinic website.

Fr ie dreich’s atax ia is a devastating, incurable condition and the most common inherited ataxia, Bidichandani said.

Bidichandani’s research will evaluate the effectiveness of a new drug class known as HDAC inhibitors, Bidichandani said. HDAC inhibitors help genes that are packaged too tightly within cells, which is called an “epigenetic defect,” to loosen up so that the genes can be read.

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the Friedreich’s ataxia gene 20 years ago, and now that the cause of this condition is known, geneticists are at a point where they can actually work on potential therapies, Bidichandani said.

Bidichandani will test pre-existing HDAC inhibitors in reversing the specific epigenetic defect in Friedreich’s ataxia and compare their effects to the more efficient versions being developed by his collaborators, Bidichandani said.

“We hope to find a drug or several drugs that can eventually become approved therapies for this disease,” Bidichandani said. “This research has the potential for other therapies to combat this incurable condition.”

The MDA received 350 grant applications this year, and Bidichandani’s research was one of 36 new grants funded and the only one in Oklahoma, Bidichandani said.

Th e g ra nt i s g i ve n t o leaders in muscular dystrophy who offer therapeutic potential to fight these neuromuscular disorders, Bidichandani said.

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Staying on POINTE Following in her mother’s shoes freshman ballerina is “learning how to leap” on to main stage CHLOE MOORES A&E REPORTER | @CHLOEMOORES13

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hiara Ruff stands out from most students as she walks to class clad in a black leotard, pink tights and a diligently braided bun fastened on the top of her head. Ruff is one of just 10 freshman ballet majors at OU and misses picking apples in the orchard behind her house in La Crescent, Minnesota.

While most high school students watched football games on Friday nights, Ruff devoted 12 to 14 hours a week in the dance studio — 32 hours a week if she was involved in a production.

In high school, she participated in an early release program that allowed her to be in class until noon and then devote her afternoons to study the art of ballet.

“I may have missed out on going to typical football games or staying up until 4 a.m., but I’m winning. I’m winning because I get to do what I love,” she said.

Ruff ’s infectious passion for ballet runs in her blood. Her mother was a ballet major at UT, “the rival school,” Ruff said, and enrolled Ruff in ballet at 3 years old.

Ruff then quit soon after enrolling, due to the influence of her three older brothers. She is the fourth of five children.

“I went through a tomboy phase,” she said. “I gave up on ballet because I thought

it was such a girly thing.”

After catching her mother dancing in the kitchen, Ruff picked ballet up again at 11, an age she said is “really, really late to start dancing for real.”

“There is something captivating about the movement of ballet,” Ruff said about watching her mother dance.

“She was, of course, playing ‘Nutcracker,’ and I thought, ‘I have to do this, this has to be my life.’”

“Ballet is beautiful, and the world could use more beauty,” she said. “Ballet is a pure, untainted art form.

What more do you need in life?”

In response to being one of 10 freshman dance majors at one of the best dance programs in the country, out of hundreds that auditioned, Ruff repeatedly said, “I’m just happy to be here.”

Ruff said she prepared for her audition at OU two months in advance because OU was her dream school.

Ruff remembers her audition in November of last year vividly.

“Black leotards, pink tights and bun heads everywhere. The place was crawling with them,” she said.

In the middle of a bunch of “gorgeous girls, super skinny, with feet like bananas,” Ruff said she felt intimidated but imagined herself to be stronger than she felt and reminded herself that

“everyone is just a person.”

Ruff encourages girls who are beginning the audition process, as she did a year ago, to give 100 percent effort.

“Sometimes it’s good to be prudent, but you can’t half-heartedly jump. You have to go full-on,” she said.

Ruff left Minnesota for the summer session at OU and hasn’t seen her family since.

“I really miss them,” Ruff said.

She said she wouldn’t be where she is without the support of her parents.

“The sacrifices they’ve made are incredible. I’m eternally grateful,” she said.

She hopes to see her family again at Christmas.

Ruff ’s biggest transition from Minnesota to Oklahoma was the heat. She was embarrassed that she Googled places to pick apples in Oklahoma, and was shocked to discover the lack of orchards in Oklahoma.

Picking Fuji, Granny Smith and Haralson apples with her friends a few streets over from her home in La Crescent was a hobby of

hers.

“I make a mean honey crisp pie,” she said.

Ruff ultimately hopes to be apart of a professional ballet company, such as The American Ballet Theatre or Miami City Ballet, after graduation.

“These companies are top of the line, and it’s a bit of a jump — actually it’s more than a jump, it’s a leap. But I’m in ballet, so I’m learning how to leap,” she said.

Ruff is confident that her time spent in the OU program will prepare her well for the next step into professional ballet.

“The ultimate goal is for

me to be the best ballerina I can be,” she said. “OU is very professional. All of the teachers push you to your max, and then the next day, you have a new max. I’m only two or three weeks in, but if I keep doing what I’m doing here, I know I can make that dream a reality.”

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Modern Dance Performance freshman Julie Russel performs a tilt jump.

Ballet is special in that a performance have the ability to hold the attention of the audience or a group of people, she said.

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Meacham Auditorium is Showing Jurassic World on Friday September 11.

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eacham Auditorium in the Oklahoma Memorial Union will show Colin Trevorrow’s “Jurassic World” Sept. 11 at 6 p.m., 9 p.m. and midnight, and Sept. 12 at 1 p.m.

Simply saying the name of the movie would lead

anyone who has heard of the original “Jurassic Park” to already know the plot of the movie. In the previous three, it was more or less the same story line: dinosaurs break loose, and they must be stopped. “Jurassic World” is no exception.

The plot revolves around two brothers sent to the park by their soon-to-bedivorced parents, forced to entertain themselves while their Aunt Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard), the park’s operations manager, works.

As they explore the newest and most intelligent beast which was to be the new attraction — more clever, more dangerous and larger than the Tyrannosaurus

Rex — it breaks free of its cage, throwing the entire park and its prehistoric inhabitants into a frenzy.

As chaos takes over, Owen (Chris Pratt), the park’s Velociraptor trainer, and Claire must work together to save the park and the people from complete destruction while preventing other organizations, including the military, from using, abusing and modifying their dinosaurs.

However, it’s rare for people to go see a movie because of a story they already know, so what’s left?

The visuals, the action and the actors.

Needless to say, the computer-generated imagery

and animation is much better than the original trilogy, but it’s almost too good.

With ever-advancing technology, some people may believe that the dinosaurs are actually real, which they’re not — they’ve made four movies about why dinosaurs being real is a bad idea. The interaction that the actors have with the animated creatures is incredible, almost seamless.

Each transition is relatively smooth, and there aren’t any noticeable issues. There are some things that aren’t completely explained, but it leaves an opportunity for the audience to make their own conclusions. Whether someone

likes that or not is completely up to them.

The actors portray their characters well, too. The two brothers, played by Ty Simpkins and Nick Robinson, share a co-dependent bond that’s only strengthened by the actors.

There doesn’t seem to be any barrier like there is when there are child actors, but Simpkins and Robinson do not disappoint. Howard did well as Claire, showing the massive amount of development that her character goes through.

From being stubbornly independent and high-strung to more dependent and trusting, the audience begins to like Claire — that is,

if they didn’t like her from the beginning. And then, of course, there is Pratt, who is the perfect Owen. He is reliable, optimistic but logical, and humorous. These traits definitely characterize Pratt’s current niche.

“Jurassic World” is definitely worth the watch, even if it is predictable. If you want to see bone-shattering action, impeccable CGI and, uh, Chris Pratt being awesome, go check this out.

Siandhara Bonnet is a University Freshman focusing on journalism.

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Persevere through the pain SCOTT HINEY

Soccer Reporter @scotthiney

A human’s natural inclination is to turn from what causes pain. The brain registers pain to prevent the body from being hurt further. No one goes back to the fire after it burns them.

Then there’s OU soccer junior Liz Keester.

Soccer means too much to her to give up, no matter the pain it causes.

Keester, who transferred from Texas A&M at the end of her sophomore year, was raised amongst former Sooners in Tulsa. Her parents, Mike and Sue, and her three siblings, Jessica, Brian and Colleen, all went to the university.

Even the OU jersey runs in her family.

Colleen, her oldest sister, played soccer for the Sooners from 2004-07, appearing in 73 games, scoring two goals along with four assists.

Keester uses soccer as her release for troubles in her life. But when the thing she MATT WESLING/THE DAILY loved most was causing her Junior forward Liz Keester dribbles toward the goal in the Sooners the most pain, what was she game versus Oral Roberts on Friday, September 4, at John Crain Field. supposed to do?

The game was canceled due to a power outage at the field.

Keep playing.

“I love playing soccer,” Keester said. “I love to compete, I love being a part of a team and being in a team environment. My teammates continually have been my best friends for my entire life and getting to compete with them and play soccer, doing the thing I love the most.”

Keester said she has been battling injuries as long as she’s been playing soccer — MCL tears, stress fractures in her foot and ankle reconstruction surgery.

“It was always worth it,” she said.

D e s p i t e i n ju r i e s t hat would end the careers of most athletes, her love for the game has been unhindered, largely because it’s her coping mechanism.

It was her outlet in 2005 when both her brother and mom lost their best friends.

Sam Shannon, her brother’s best friend, died after being struck by lightning and Carol Gastel, her mom’s best friend, passed away from breast cancer when Liz was 10. Liz’s best friends from soccer helped her through that time — friends she never would’ve had if not for the sport she loves.

“Soccer had always been

my outlet,” she said. “I just remember always being able to turn to my soccer teammates during the hard times.”

While the emotional trauma in her life has racked up, physical injures have always had just as big of an influence.

She wasn’t going to let those stop her either.

“I’ve always really imagined myself coming back,” she said. “It’s just been another hurdle to go over. An injury was never big enough for me to be like ‘okay, I don’t want to work to come back.’”

She doesn’t think she’s injury prone, but rather her injuries stem simply from how hard she plays. Several times in her career, she’s played through injury, including during her freshman season at Texas A&M, where she scored 10 goals en route to a SEC Tournament MVP award. “I got to the point where my legs were hurting all the time,” she said.

Keester was suffering from exertion induced compartment syndrome in her shin.

The syndrome caused a covering to form around the muscles in her leg, making them tighten up and allow

fluid to build up inside.

Keester continued to play through it, sometimes until her foot would go numb.

Strangely, Keester felt most at peace with her injuries when they were the w o rst — w h i l e s h e wa s playing.

“Soccer was the one part where I knew they were going to hurt so it was okay.”

In a strange way, she expected the pain to be there while she played soccer, so she was able to cope with it.

She knew when she laced up her cleats and stepped onto the field, it would be painful.

Since her bout with compartment syndrome, which she had surgery for in January 2014, she has transferred to OU and is finding herself a lot happier — and healthier.

“She’s the happiest that kid has been in several years,” her father Mike said.

Liz has faced injuries, and she has felt loss and a lot of pain from those things. But she’d never give up soccer.

“When I’m on the soccer field, everything is okay,” she said. “Everything makes sense. It feels like I’m where I’m supposed to be.”

OU to face nation’s best in West Coast trip SCOTT HINEY

Soccer Reporter @scotthiney

After spending the last two weekends in their home state, the Sooners head to California this weekend to take on a pair of historic teams in Santa Clara and No. 1 Stanford.

Head coach Matt Potter said he understands the quality of his opponent.

“I think Stanford and Santa Clara are recognized as two of the premier programs in the country,” he said. “One in terms in the quality of their coaches, two in terms of the quality of their rosters and three because of the tradition of winning that they both clearly have.”

While he respects his opposition, he is confident in his team.

“I don’t think that’s necessarily anything to fear or to be worried about, it’s a great opportunity for this group to show that they belong on that stage.”

Both programs have won national titles, including Stanford’s in 2011. The Cardinal comes in as the nation’s No. 1 team, according to Soccer America, and is undefeated. Santa Clara welcomes OU with its 3-2 record, including a strong schedule against Kansas, Northwestern and Notre Dame.

Senior defender Laura Rayfield, who sat out last weekends win over UTSA,

said she understands that going to California didn’t go well for this team in the past. Last year, the Sooners lost games to UC Irvine and San Diego in a late-September trip to the west coast.

“I think last year we kind of learned our lesson with a little bit of the distractions,” Rayfield said. “Last year, we went and we didn’t get the job done. So this year we’re really focused, and we’ve been talking all week about how it’s a business trip and to stay focused.”

W h i l e O U ha s p l aye d tough opposition on the road w ith No. 11 South Carolina and Oklahoma State, Rayfield knows their work is cut out for them.

“I think we’re definitely looking to build off the past two weekends where we’ve had good competition but we’ve also had competition that we were really able to work on our attack and get some goals,” she said.

“Against their defense it’ll be harder to get away with some of the things we did and we always talk about the harder you work the luckier you get so we definitely want to come out and put in a really good work rate.”

One thing is sure, Rayfield has the right mindset. “ We ’ r e t h e r e t o p l a y two soccer games. Not to enjoy some sunshine in California.”

The Sooners take on Santa Clara on Friday at

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Junior midfielder Shiloh Price heads the ball in the Sooners’ game versus the University of Arkansas Little Rock on Firday, August 30, at John Crain Field. The Sooners won in stunning fashion beating, UALR 4-0.

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Then junior wide reciever Sterling Shepard shakes of a defender in the Sooners’ game versus Tennesse last year at the Gaylord Family Memorial Stadium. The Sooners will face Tennesse in Knoxville this season.

Vols expect battle Saturday Tennessee coach Jones full of kind words for Sooners SCOTT HINEY

Sports Reporter @scotthiney

Tennessee head coach Butch Jones had high praise for Oklahoma during the SEC coaches conference call Wednesday as his team prepares to face the Sooners on Saturday in Knoxville.

Jones said he finds a lot of similarities between Oklahoma running back Samaje Perine and his own back Jalen Hurd.

“They both play very big, they’re both very very powerful,” Jones said. “They have the ability to not only make you miss but to break arm tackles.”

He also spoke highly of new Oklahoma quarterback, Baker Mayfield.

“I really like the way Baker plays,” Jones said. “You can tell he has great energy and great passion. He’s kind of the gas pedal for their

offense, and I think they feed off him.”

Oklahoma linebacker Eric Striker had choice words for the SEC Tuesday.

“I don’t know why people blow gas up their ass all the time,” he said.

Jones said he doesn’t pay much attention to outside noise, however.

“We have to spend our time preparing,” Jones said.

“The game is played between the lines and on the field, so I don’t really spend much time reading it or thinking about that kind of stuff.”

Oddly enough, Striker echoed the same sentiments in a story published yesterday.

“You say that’s about your opponent — SEC they’ve got this, they’ve got that, but what you don’t understand is you’ve got to get it done in between the lines,” Striker said. “That’s all that matters.”

Jones said he was impressed with several Oklahoma players when asked about OU’s defense.

“Obviously everything starts with Striker, he’s a very talented football player,” he said. “(Charles) Tapper is doing some good things at DE, (Zach) Sanchez is one the best corners in the country and he plays like it.”

Jones went on to say that he thinks Oklahoma is underrated.

“This a very very good football team,” he said.

“Even though they’re ranked, this one of the more underrated football teams, and I think they know that.”

“They definitely have our attention. It’s gonna take everything and more to compete on Saturday night.”

Te n n e s s e e a n d Oklahoma kickoff Saturday at 5:00 p.m. on ESPN. SCOTT HINEY

scotthiney@ou.edu

the passing, but it also had a lot to do with the setters.

It’s about them making good choices for the hitters,” she said.

Drescher was chosen by soonersports.com as the player to watch in the Borderland Invitational.

She notched 10 kills against Central Arkansas for her first double-digit stat of the season and assisted on five blocks as well.

In addition to Drescher, look for middle blocker Micaela Spann to be dominant at the net. The junior leads the team on the offensive and defensive sides of the ball, hitting .384 with 1.48 blocks

per set. Outside hitters Madison Ward and Kimmy Gardiner are also expected to continue to contribute big things from the left. The two were named to the Nike Invitational All-Tournament team last week.

The Sooners’ first game aga i n s t N M S U w i l l b e available on Fox Sports Southwest Plus, and live stats updates from soonersports.com will be available for all three matches.

Oklahoma volleyball will head to Las Cruces, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas for the joint-hosted Borderland Invitational on Thursday.

The Sooners will take on co-host New Mexico State (5-2) Thursday at 8 p.m. to kick off the tournament, followed by Denver (6-1) ANN MARCELLI annmarcelli@gmail.com at 5 p.m. on Friday. Coach Restrepo and the team will then make a short drive to El Paso (about 45 minutes) to play the University of Texas at El Paso (2-3), also co-host, at 1 p.m. on Saturday.

OU is 2-4 through two tournaments and will look to boost their record this weekend.

After opening the season with the same starting lineup used in 24 of 33 games in 2014, Restrepo made a few changes during the Nike Invitational at McCasland Field House — sophomore defensive specialist Rachel Manriquez replaced Taylor Migliazzo as libero, and freshmen Audrey Alford and Madison Drescher saw plenty of playing time at setter and outside hitter, respectively.

The team also switched from a 5-1 offense to a 6-2.

“Adding more hitters gives a little more freedom for the hitter to hit against one block instead of seeing a double block, Restrepo said after the home opener against Arkansas-Little Rock, the first match with SIANDHARA BONNET/THE DAILY the new game plan. “(Our Redshirt junior offensive hitter Madison Ward spikes the ball over the hitting) has a lot to do with net for a point against UNT at the OU Field House Friday, Sept. 4,

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