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Homelessness, poverty impact student lifestyles

By EMMA McSPADDEN Staff Writer

Freshman pre-nursing student Tyler Galindo-Watts from Sanger, and freshman marketing major Ben Morrow from Tyler, stand at ease on Friday, Sept. 6, 2019, near the fountains at Texas Tech’s Memorial Circle. The two are student veterans and members of the Texas Tech Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. IKECHUKWU DIKE/The Daily Toreador

Student veterans, ROTC train Tech students for success

By AGNES WILSON Staff Writer

The student body of Texas Tech is filled with interesting communities and clubs, one of them being the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.

The ROTC was formed when the National Defense Act of 1916 was put into place by President Woodrow Wilson, according to the Tech website. The community has since remained steadfast and disciplined in giving students the opportunity to learn about the Army and study on a college campus.

Joe Juarez, a senior communications studies and chemistry double major from Levelland, joined the Army at the age of 18, two weeks before his high school graduation.

He said he grew up in the Children’s

Home of Lubbock and did not associate much with his family.

“I lived with some cousins, sometimes,” he said. “It was life changing. It motivated me to be who I was. I graduated high school on my own, nobody forced me. I was very involved in school. It was last-second, going to the Army.

Nobody told me I needed to apply for college or how to pay for it. So, I chose the military as my route to get into school.”

He went on to explain his experience in the military, the people he met and his job within the army.

“It was great, I love it for the most part. I knew what I was getting myself into. I picked an easy MOS (Military Occupational Specialty Code), just a transportation. I could get in, do my minimum time just so I

could get out and get my education.” he said, “I did my eight months of training then got stationed in Kentucky. It brought the world to me. I met people who were from all over.

Less than a month there, I got deployed to Iraq for 15 months. It was straight business. I picked my MOS because I knew I could see action without having to shoot anybody.”

When he came back from Iraq and moved into civilian life, it was difficult and hard to adjust, Juarez said, but learning and studying helped him find who he initially was.

“I was 22. I started getting more serious and trying to get the routine back. I noticed I was having trouble with mania and insomnia. So, I took care of that,” he said. “Once I immersed myself in civilian life, not

having to worry about having to be on guard 24/7. I had to change my mindset into being a civilian again.”

He said it took longer to adjust to living an everyday life.

“I went back to college when I was 27. I just tried to get a routine.

The more I went to school the more I realized who I was before the military. I found my passion for education and learning. The spark was re-ignited,” he said. “I’m trying to get my doctorate in chemistry.”

Ben Morrow, a freshman marketing major from Tyler, said he graduated high school early in order to fit in his 22 weeks of training at the Army with hopes to attend Tech on time with the rest of his peers.

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Defense shows improvement in first two wins

By MAX HENGST Sports Editor

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Junior defensive lineman Eli Howard shoves down a Montana State player during the Texas Tech vs. Montana State football game on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019 at Jones AT&T Stadium. The Red Raiders defeated the Bobcats, 45-10.

While the Texas Tech football team’s season opener against Montana showcased the Red Raiders’ fast-paced offense, the game against University of Texas at El Paso highlighted Tech’s defense.

After the Red Raiders defeated UTEP 38-3, head coach Matt Wells credited the win to Tech’s defense.

“We celebrate all wins, but it was a really, really good night,” Wells said. “The whole night belonged to our defense.”

The Red Raiders defense only allowed UTEP to score three points as the Miners nailed a 45-yard field goal in the last five minutes of the game.

Tech’s defense, under defensive coordinator Keith Patterson, gave up just 131 yards against the Miners.

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Frugality with money is a necessity for most college students.

However, some students still cannot afford some basic needs, such as rent for a place to live.

“It could be any of us that hit this spot in life,” Jerri Ann Campbell, program director of Grace Campus, said. “It doesn’t take much for someone to end up in the position of not having anywhere to go and not having the money to get on their feet.”

Younger college students who still feel the social obligation to fit in with their peers are less likely to seek help when experiencing homelessness, Chris Moore, executive director of Grace Campus, said.

“It is important for people to understand that most of our people here have jobs,” Moore said. “They look like everybody else.”

Grace Campus provides people who are experiencing homelessness the basic necessities to live each day, Campbell said. The organization provides showers, clothing, laundry facilities and laundry detergent, among other services and items.

Those at Grace Campus also have access to several modes of transportation, Campbell said. The organization provides bus passes, and bicycles are often donated from Walmart and Texas Tech.

“I don’t know the number of homeless at Tech,” Moore said, “but if we knew the actual truth, it is probably a good amount.”

Another organization that serves the homeless in the Lubbock community is The Salvation Army.

The organization has provided services to six Tech students within the past year, Erica Hitt, director of social services at The Salvation Army, said.

“I’ve got one who is a single father who is attending Tech,” Hitt said. “The student loans that he got basically just covers classes and materials. It’s not enough for him to sustain and take care of his children and pay the bills.”

The Salvation Army provides several services to people in their programs, Hitt said. This includes case management, prescription vouchers, transportation to and from school and work, meals and food vouchers.

“We also have our Rapid Rehousing Program,” Hitt said. “It pays for everything needed to get them in a home.”

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Mathematics anxiety creates issues in class, social situations

By ADÁN RUBIO News Editor

Math is a subject in school that many people have trouble learning. In addition to this struggle, this subject may also cause some people to tense up more than expected.

Mathematics anxiety is an issue people can deal with in or outside of the classroom, according to the University of Cambridge website. This anxiety is a negative reaction to mathematics, which can range from one getting slightly tense to being debilitated and useless.

Zhe Wang, assistant professor in the Texas Tech Human Development and Family Studies department, said people who face mathematics anxiety feel a sense of fear and apprehension when in a situation where math is involved. She said this type of anxiety could arise in many situations, not just testing situations.

Whether it be taking a math test or walking into a math class, Wang said there are a variety of situations involving math that can be anxiety inducing.

“It’s related to testing anxiety, but it doesn’t have to be tests,” she said regarding situations that cause mathematics anxiety to arise.

“They don’t feel it in other situations; they don’t necessarily have general anxiety.”

Math test anxiety, which is the anxiety one faces while taking a math exam, math anxiety in social situations, such as counting out change or dividing a dinner bill among friends, and calculation anxiety, which is the anxiety that arises while solving a math problem on an assignment or at the front of the class, all are types of mathematics anxiety Wang said people can face.

“Although there are three dimensions of anxiety, they’re usually highly correlated,” she said.

“Meaning, if you experience one, you’re likely experiencing another.”

Disliking math and having math anxiety are two issues Wang said are not similar, as someone who is good or bad at math can dislike certain aspects of the subject.

The prominence of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics fields in society is one reason Wang said mathematics anxiety is more well-known than anxiety related to other school subjects. Other factors, such as culture and levels of education, can make math more anxietyinducing for students than other subjects.

The United States being ranked low in regard to student success in math education is another reason Wang said researchers tend to focus on the anxiety towards math.

“People just think math as this categorically different thing,” she said. “It’s like another language that you can’t really learn.”

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Jian Wang, professor and Helen DeVitt Jones Chair in Teacher Education in the Tech College of Education, said typically, people who have confidence in their math skills tend to have the least amount of nervousness in math situations.

“Mathematics anxiety is kind of related with that,” he said. “People who have anxiety in mathematics usually have less confidence in what they

are doing.”

Even in the field of educational psychology, Jian Wang said confidence is a prominent factor.

“This is exactly consistent with all kinds of situations,” he said regarding having confidence in most school subjects.

Abubakarr Yillah, firstyear Ph.D student in applied mathematics from The Gambia, West Africa and coordinator of the Tech Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tutoring and Study Center, said anyone can face mathematics anxiety.

“It applies to everybody, even math majors,” he said. “Sometimes, you just have this anxiety about solving a problem, especially one that you think you don’t know how t o s o l v e . I t ’s a n o r m a l thing regardless of your mathematical background.”

Even with notes, Yillah said some non-math majors and even some math majors can face anxiety when they are unaware of how to first approach a math problem.

He said the best way to overcome mathematics anxiety

is to ask for help. “ U s u a l l y, w h e n t h e y come in, we try to help them out and calm them down to reduce the anxiety they have about taking the exam, even though there is a lot they need to know,” he said regarding students who utilize the TSC. Even though math can be difficult for multiple reasons, Yillah said one cannot improve if he or she does not make any effort to learn from class materials or ask for help.

“If you practice, seek help, read the textbook, that will help a lot,” he said.

“Most of the time, the ones that have a lot of anxiety in solving math problems are the ones who literally don’t even know anything about what is happening in the class.”

Among the various ways a student can overcome mathematics anxiety, improving one’s math skills may be the first method a person considers.

Multiple studies have looked at different methods to reduce mathematics anxiety, Zhe Wang said.

Even though math anxiety may never go away, she said working to get better at math may be a good first step.

“If their math ability or their math skills are improved, then do they feel less anxious?” she said. “The answer to that is yes.”

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ing sessions to discuss spending plans, student loan and financial aid options, how the Free Application for Federal Student Aid works and general information about credit, Hunter said.

Red to Black also partners with the Raider Relief Fund, Coday said. This organization helps students who are working to pay off student debt and have little money to afford the cost of living.

“Money can be a touchy subject,” Coday said. “The stickier someone’s situation is, the less they want to

Alongside drug use and mental illness, monetary concerns are one of the main reasons for homelessness, Hitt said.

Organizations on the Tech campus can also aid people who are struggling with money management.

“We help other students alleviate stress around money,” Hunter Coday, student assistant with Red to Black Peer Financial Coaching, said.

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But if you spend time on it, that anxiety starts going away.

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confront it and talk about it. They think there’s no way out.”

Although organizations exist to help people who are struggling, money is often considered a private matter.

People often wait to ask for help because they feel ashamed, Moore said.

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test, class or any academic situation to unload stress is the focus of the study, Zhe Wang said. When a person thinks too much about the stress of an upcoming test or class, she said the overthinking interferes with that person’s thought processes.

“If I write about it already, then it won’t affect me when I actually have to do it,” she said regarding the logic of this study. “They test two groups of students.

One group is writing and the other is not. They feel the same level of anxiety.

But after they write, they perform better than the other group.”

Regardless of the different techniques one can use to alleviate his or her mathematics anxiety, making any amount of effort could be beneficial for some students.

“When you see a problem, even if you can’t solve it immediately, you’ll always have that fear that you will not be able to solve it,” Yillah said. “But if you spend time on it, that anxiety starts going away.”

east Canada at hurricane force most of Sunday TORONTO (AP) — The storm that already walloped the Virgin Islands, Bahamas and North Carolina lashed at far-eastern Canada with hurricaneforce winds for much of Sunday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people before beginning to weaken late in the day.

Dorian hit near the city of Halifax Saturday afternoon, ripping roofs off apartment buildings, toppling a huge construction crane and uprooting trees.

There were no reported deaths in Canada, though the storm was blamed for at least 50 elsewhere along its path.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the posttropical cyclone was centered about 65 miles (100 kilometers) west-southwest of St. Anthony, Newfoundland, in late afternoon Sunday. Its top sustained winds had slipped to 65 mph (100 kph), below the 74 mph threshold of hurricane force. It was heading to the northeast, roughly up the St. Lawrence River, at 23 mph (37 kph).

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Tutoring resources impact students’ education

By ALESSANDRA SINGH Staff Writer

When it comes to success in the classroom, students who may be struggling have access to multiple tutoring centers on campus. These resources can not only help a student with a grade, but also help with additional factors affecting a student’s success in the classroom.

Patrick Bohn, associate director of Tech Support Operations for Academic Retention (SOAR) and the Learning Center, said peerto-peer tutoring is one of the main services offered at the tutoring center.

“With tutoring specifically, peer tutoring offers students a lot of different, I can say, a variety of different ways that can help them learn. One way is that they get more individual attention than in a class, let’s say, of 500 students,” he said.

“Sometimes if you have a question and you’re in a large class like that, students hesitate to ask questions, and so when they come here, and again this assuming they are going to class, and they’re doing their homework and they’re keeping up with stuff, they come here to get that extra little bit of information that’ll help them understand what they are talking about in class.”

VETERANS CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “Boot camp was 10 weeks and my job training to become an engineer was 12 weeks. So, it was 22 weeks in total. January to July. I graduated early because I really wanted to go to Tech on time. So, I took online classes in high school and graduated early, so I could do boot camp and my training and make it to college,” he said. “It was hard. I got here somehow.”

Morrow said when he would attend classes while in uniform, he believed people viewed him differently.

“They do look at me, but they don’t look at me when I look at them,” he said. “They

Katie Ericson, manager of academic initiatives, said all of the peer-to-peer tutors are current students at Tech who have taken the same classes current students are struggling with.

“Ours is all peer-to-peer, so we are hiring students who have taken the classes and have gotten an A or B in that class themselves and so it’s not just someone who’s heard of the class,” she said.

“They’ve taken the class at Texas Tech, so they are familiar with the professors.

They’re familiar with the structure and maybe kind of the assignments.”

Katarina Kentera, a junior chemical engineering major from Sacramento, California, said peer tutoring personally benefits her by putting her

mind at ease about the more difficult classes required for her major.

“It really helps just talking to people who’ve taken the classes you’ve already taken because I had no idea what to expect going into chemical engineering classes, and so people (who have) already taken it really help put my mind at ease,” she said.

Bohn said there are not tutors for every subject or class, but rather, the Learning Center chooses classes and adjusts curriculums every semester based on the students’ demands for certain classes.

The tutoring resources can also act as supplements to professors’ office hours with the flexible hours provided for students to come get help.

“We are a supplement to the teaching,” he said.

“Sometimes, a student can’t go to office hours because they may have class when the professor’s office hours are, or they have some other issues or something else like ‘What else do I do? I want to go to office hours, but I can’t miss my other class to do that.’

They can come and use this.”

Kentera said her own personal struggle with office hour attendance and need for further help on her studies is

walk by and don’t make eye contact. I don’t feel different, but I think other people see me as different. I can’t help how they look at me, but it’s different.”

Morrow said it felt different being a veteran on campus because his interests changed while he was in the army. Before he wanted to join the Army, he said he was interested in Greek life, but now he does not feel like he would fit in to that lifestyle.

“You see a lot of people who haven’t been away from home, and you can tell.

But I feel like boot camp has helped me with that,” he said. “They don’t have discipline or can’t organize.

Those are some things that

you learn in training that you benefit from.”

Tyler Galindo-Watts, a freshman Kinesiology major from Sanger, went through basic training and is a part of the ROTC at Tech. He said being a part of the ROTC gives insight and basic understanding of what it would be like to be a part of the military.

“Right now, we are learning a lot of things I already know because I did basics.

A lot of people in ROTC hasn’t done basic training and aren’t a part of the Army yet,” he said. “They have no commitment, no contract, to the Army and can drop that class whenever.”

Galindo-Watts said his

It also gives students a unique learning experience because they’re the ones who are kind of driving what they want to get out of it.

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A group of students meet with a tutor to get help in their studies. The Learning Center has multiple resources available for students to receive help and is located in Drane Hall room 164. what motivated her to start going to the tutoring centers.

“Usually I can’t make my teachers office hours, or they just don’t explain it well and these people have taken the classes, so they really can give you insight on like how it goes,” she said.

The tutors are not only trained in helping students attain academic success but also in seeing what is going on beyond students’ class loads that may be affecting training has affected his studies in a positive way. He said it holds him accountable, and he learned a lot of good characteristics that made him more responsible with his work. Most importantly, he said he enjoys it because he gets to be a part of something bigger than himself.

Initially, Galindo-Watts said he went into the army to pay for college, but his reasoning soon changed.

“I did it to pay for college,” he said. “But then at boot camp, I fell in love with it. It was one of the coolest things I have ever done. I just want to make a career out of it.” @AgnesWDT

their grades and working to find resources outside of tutoring to help, Ericson said.

“Do you maybe need to talk to the counseling center?

Do you need to get involved in student (organizations) on campus? Do you need to see an academic adviser because maybe you’re like ‘This isn’t my major, I don’t want to do this,’” she said. “And so, obviously our tutors are trained with how to tutor and the subject specific they’ve taken

those classes, but also what else can affect a student.”

Tutoring can give students an important learning experience since it is a selfdriven practice, Bohn said.

“It also gives students a unique learning experience because they’re the ones who are kind of driving what they want to get out of it,” he said. “And so, it teaches them how to do their self-directed studies.” @ASinghDT

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IT: Chapter 2 faithful to Stephen King’s original story

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ot many of you know me, but those who do understand the genuine excitement and love I have for horror movies, old and new. When it was announced that Stephen King’s novel “It” would be getting another live-action adaptation, I leapt out of my seat with excitement. Three years later and here we are: the end of the line. Let us return to Derry...one... last...time. “ I t : C h a p t e r Tw o ” was released on Sept.

6 and was directed by Andy Muschietti with a screenplay written by Gary Dauberman. This film had quite the all-star cast with James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain and Bill Hader joining Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan and Andy Bean as older ver-

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sions of the Loser’s Club.

Sharing the screen with their older selves are all of the original cast of “It: Chapter One” (2017) to fill in any flashbacks that the older characters have and, of course, Bill Skarsgård returns to continue his terror in the town of Derry, Maine.

The story takes place 27 years after the first film and tells the story of the Loser’s Club coming back to Derry after a new string of murders starts showing up as Pennywise the Clown has returned after his hibernation.

They must traverse their old hometown in search of forgotten memories and use them in their final showdown with the monster. It is then up to them to finally put an end to IT’s killings and hopefully stop him once and for all.

As per the format of any movie review, I will begin by covering the pros of the film and where it is strongest and then go into the cons at the end to cover where it lacks.

The best thing, in my opinion, that this film

has running for it is the excellent casting job by Rich Delia and his department. When I tell you that these actors and actresses look like the children versions of their characters, I mean it. The casting department did such a good job of finding people with mannerisms and characteristics that are nearly identical to the children in the first film.

Not to mention the acting of this film would be a sin in and of itself mostly because of the performances to come out of this movie. James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain kill it, as per usual, but the stand-out performance of the entire movie was Bill Hader as Richie Tozier, the foulmouthed class clown of the Losers’ Club.

Hader is funny, we all know this, but how he was able to dip into the deeper emotions of the character was the main reason I mentioned him. I can't say much about it because of spoilers, but I ask you, no, beg you, dear reader, that you pay attention to him on-screen because he will make you both laugh and cry.

I know that the story was originally written

by Stephen King, but the overall story of the film was one of my favorite things to come out of the

movie. This film did great in staying faithful to the source material and how it portrayed the story on the big screen, something that the 1990 mini-series lacked. It is not that they did not tell the story well, it is how they told the story that bothered me.

Though the miniseries had told the story the exact same way as the novel, the structure seemed very jumbled and confusing at times which really threw me off. The “IT” duology structured the two films in a singular and coherent way that both stayed loyal to King’s original work and kept it simple for the audience to follow along.

To pick up where I left off, while the CGI was quite good in some cases, there are some instances where it falls into a place called “the uncanny valley.”

The computer-generated imagery is going to be included in both the pros and cons in this review, mostly because I am torn between the two ways it is used.

To cover the best, all of the CGI used for Pen-

nywise and the monsters that it takes the form of is the best I have seen in a while, not counting “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” because a majority was practical in that film. There is this eerie and terrifying feeling that I associate with the monsters that show up in this film which would drive me under the bed if I ever came in contact with them in the real world.

Now that we have talked about the good to come out of this movie, the bad still lingers over me as I type these words down. It is not that there is more bad than good, but it is the fact that there is “a bad” to this film. I was really disappointed with some aspects of the film because I had built it up so much in my head, but as a reviewer, it is my job to point out where there are flaws in a movie even if it hurts (I am actively crying).

To pick up where I left off, while the CGI was quite good in some cases, there are some instances where it falls into a place called “the uncanny valley.”

According to the Chicago Tribune, “the uncanny valley” is a “phenomenon identified by a Japanese robotics professor in 1970 to explain why a notquite-perfect represen-

tation of a human is so unnerving.” This phenomenon spans into film when CGI is used to either deage an actor or revive a character when the actor has passed away.

This feeling happens when CGI is used to deage a couple of the child actors as they have aged since the filming of the first film in 2016. I understand that this effect is needed so that the characters look the same, but I wish that it would look a bit better.

With this film being the sequel to the horror movie that scared me senseless, I expected it to be at least twice as scary as the original film. This expectation was sadly shot down after viewing this movie when I asked myself, “was that actually scary?” Unfortunately, this film was not as scary as the original, but still has a handful of pretty good scares.

At the end of the day, this is still a great movie with a fantastic story, cast and effects that will continue to amaze no matter how many times I see it. This film is a great presentation of how clowns were man’s greatest mistake and children’s greatest fear. @MGutierrezDT

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Despite unorthodox journey, Mooney made it work

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his past Wednesday, former Red Raider basketball guard Matt Mooney signed an exhibit 10 contract with the Memphis Grizzlies.

An exhibit 10 contract is a one-year deal worth the minimum salary.

This signing, of course, is a huge accomplishment for the former all-Big 12 hero of Texas Tech.

When looking at the bigg e r p i c t u r e , h o w e v e r, this is also a bigtime accomplishment for Coach Beard and the Red Raider basketball program.

Prior to the Chris Beard era, Tech was not known for producing NBA talent. In fact, Tech struggled to consistently produce tournamentbound teams. It is undeniable that this has changed under Coach Beard, as Tech has boasted a winning percentage above .500 in each of his first three years, including two deep March Madness runs, and produced four NBA players in Zhaire Smith, Keenan Evans, Jarret Culver and now, Matt Mooney.

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With that, the Red Raider Basketball program has seen a quicker rise in the college basketball ranks than any other program in the last two years.

The Grizzlies sign ing Mooney, who was a grad transfer from the University of South Dakota, will add to the national upbringing of the Red Raider basketball program as other grad transfers will see Tech as a symbol of opportunity and hope.

At South Dakota, Mooney was a talented player as he was named to the First-Team AllSummit League in his two years there. While his per game averages dropped at Tech, his stock rose due to the growth of exposure and the coaching of Chris Beard and assistant coach Mark Adams.

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ing the Atlantic Coast Conference for the most talented college basketball conference of the decade, the platform for players to build their stock is enormous.

This immense exposure can make or break a player as they are going toe-to-toe with some of the best talent in college basketball. Mooney took full advantage of that as he was able to hold his own offensively with slick playmaking and consistent three-point shooting and dominated defensively as he became one of the best defensive guards in all of college basketball.

This is due, in large part, to Coach Beard and Coach Adams and the culture they established in the basketball program. Under the two coaches, Mooney learned from the team-oriented, hardworking culture.

This led to his growth as he looked to pass more than he did at South Dakota under Coach Beard’s motion offense and learned to play offball which allowed him

to grow as a catch-andshoot player.

Additionally, the defensive-minded culture that Coach Adams established caused Mooney to evolve from a respectful defender in a mid-major conference to a game changing defender in the Big 12. Mooney’s improvement in these three areas opened the eyes of NBA scouts and front offices as passing, shooting and defending are the three most crucial abilities in the NBA today.

Tech’s appearance in the tournament extended and raised the exposure for Mooney, who once again took full advantage of the spotlight, being named to the Final Four All-Tournament Team.

Mooney earned this accolade with two clutch performances, most notably against Michigan State. This undoubtedly skyrocketed Mooney’s stock as an NBA player as hundreds of scouts attend and watch the Final Four.

Before he arrived in Lubbock, Mooney’s chanc-

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es at making a NBA roster were slim to none.

With the guidance and exposure of the Red Raider basketball program, his stock rose, allowing for his new contract with the Memphis Grizzlies.

His journey will act as an example of why Tech is a great destination for other grad transfers.

Under Coach Beard and Coach Adams, players can grow in key areas that NBA front offices look for while playing in arguably the best conference in college basketball under a team who has made a deep run in March Madness in back-to-back years.

With the grad transfer market becoming a key part of the success of college basketball programs, this will add to the q ui c k r is e o f Re d Raider basketball. Grad transfers will see opportunity and hope with Coach Beard and Tech as their chances of making an NBA roster will rise with the basketball program from West Texas. @BradFernandezDT

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Four seniors lead tennis program

By ELEANOR GUINAN Staff Writer

On the men’s team, Bjorn Thompson, Parker Wynn and Jackson Cobb are the only seniors on the team and Reagan Collins is the only senior on the women’s team, according to Tech Athletics. Each player has earned awards and helped Tech throughout their careers.

Thompson is the only senior who was redshirted in his career after suffering an injury in the 2017-2018 season, according to Tech Athletics. The Birmingham, United Kingdom native, came to Tech his sophomore year after finishing high school at IMG Academy.

Thomas ended his sophomore season 22-7 in singles play and 14-3 in duos, according to Tech Athletics. Thompson and former Red Raider Connor Curry recorded 27 doubles wins as a pair, which is the third-most in program history.

After his injury in his junior season, Thompson and Wynn won 29 doubles play, according to Tech Athletics. The pair competed in the NCAA Doubles Tournament, finishing as the runner-up in the ITA Fall National Championship and also earned All-Big 12 First Team in

Doubles honors.

Individually, Thompson won 12 singles matches and won two consecutive games at the ITA Texas Regionals, according to Tech Athletics. He also earned All-Big 12 Academic First Team in his 2018-2019 season.

Thompson’s duos partner, Wynn, spent his freshman and sophomore seasons at Louisville before transferring to Tech for the 2018-2019 season, according to Tech Athletics. During his time at Louisville, Wynn earned All-ACC Third-Team selections twice and went to back-to-back NCAA Doubles Championships.

Wynn helped lead the Red Raiders to a 16-8 record in dual matches, according to Tech Athletics. He also kept himself in the top-100 all season and earned an All-Big 12 Second Team honor for singles play.

Cobb came to Tech as a true freshman and finished with a 9-19 record in singles play, according to Tech Athletics. The Austin native earned his first collegiate award in his freshman season as he was named to the All-Big 12 Academic Rookie Team.

In the fall season, Cobb and former Red Raider Nikolas Moceanu lost all four of their doubles matches, according

to Tech Athletics. Cobb came back in the spring and posted a 9-9 record with former Red Raider Alex Sendegeya as his doubles partner.

Cobb finished his sophomore season with a 12-16 singles record, including a 6-6 record in dual action, according to Tech Athletics. Cobb also went on a five-match winning streak in January. In their second year of doubles play, Cobb and Sendegeya were ranked No. 29 to begin the spring season and finished No. 89 in the ITA final rankings.

At the beginning of the 20182019 season, Cobb won four singles matches and went 1-1 in dual action, according to Tech Athletics. In the spring season, Cobb gave Tech its only perfect match with a 6-0, 6-0 win against Nebraska’s Alvaro Moreno Lozano. Cobb also earned a spot on the All-Big 12 Academic Second Team during his junior year.

Cobb and his partner, former Red Raider Tommy Mylnikov, earned 20 wins and started the doubles season with four straight wins, according to Tech Athletics. The pair also made an appearance in the NCAA Doubles Tournament.

The only senior on the women’s team, Collins, won the Okla-

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homa Fall Invitational Flight Two Consolation bracket title and advanced to the quarterfinals in the singles consolation draw of the ITA Texas Regional in her first season as a Red Raider, according to Tech Athletics. Tech’s head coach Todd Petty did not play Collins in the spring season of her freshman year.

While Collins also did not play in the fall season of her sophomore year, she participated in one match in the spring but lost to Georgia’s Annette Goulak, according to Tech Athletics.

During her junior fall season, Collins went 0-2 in singles play and 0-1 in doubles play, according to Tech Athletics.

In the spring, Collins played 15 double matches and paired up with sophomore Kennedy Bridgforth at the end of the season to beat Oklahoma, Texas and UNLV. Individually, Collins had a 9-3 overall record and a 3-3 record in Big 12 play, according to Tech Athletics. Collins also earned a spot on the Academic All-Big 12 First Team, which was her first collegiate award.

The men and women’s teams will begin the 2019-2020 season on Friday at the Midland Invitational in Midland.

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LEFT: Junior men’s tennis player Parker Wynn celebrates following his win at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 14, 2019, at the McLeod Tennis Center. RIGHT: Redshirt Junior doubles player Bjorn Thomson celebrates during his doubles match at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 14, 2019, at the McLeod Tennis Center. Wynn and Thomson will be two of four seniors in the tennis program for the 2019-20 season.

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By ARIANNA FLORES Staff Writer

This season, the Texas Tech soccer team has 10 freshmen on the roster as they start their collegiate careers as Red Raiders.

Six games into the season, four of Tech’s 15 goals were made by this year’s freshmen class, with two of those goals coming from freshman defender Hannah Anderson, according to Tech Athletics. The freshman scored her first goal in Tech’s game against Oral Roberts and added her second goal of the season against Abilene Christian.

“With Hannah (Anderson’s) technique, she can hang in the air,” head coach Tom Stone said. “This is a kid that in recruiting we were like not only is she super skillful, but she is big time in the air, so it was great to see her score.”

Freshman midfielder Penelope Mulenga started in the first game of her collegiate career against North Texas, according to Tech Athletics. In her 250 minutes of playing time this season, Mulenga has recorded five shot attempts

and one shot on goal.

“The beauty of this team is if they are working hard enough, they deserve to play, and when we get the opportunity to play them, they are producing,” Stone said after the Red Raiders’ game against North Texas.

“We subbed and we scored.

We subbed, and we scored.”

Also, in Tech’s game against North Texas, freshman forward Macy Shultz scored the first goal of the night in the second half.

Shultz’s goal was the first of her collegiate career which put Tech up 1-0, giving the Red Raiders their first advantage of the game.

Associate head coach Gibbs Keeton said that every year the team changes and this year, they have assets that help them succeed.

“Our biggest assets right now are the depth of the team this is the deepest we have ever been and the most talented we have ever been,” Keeton said. “That allows us to use our big roster and allows our levels not to drop whenever we sub. And really, the practices have been so good which is a big function of improvement

as everybody knows, the better we train them the better they are.”

Another freshman scored her first goal as a Red Raider as freshman defender Marisa Weichel scored within minutes after being subbed into the North Texas game.

Weichel’s goal came off of her first collegiate touch.

“Marissa one-touch wonder,” senior defender Savanna Jones said. “She comes in and taps it one time and it’s a goal.”

Both freshman midfielders Haley Smith and Nicole Mettam have one attempted shot this season, according to Tech Athletics.

This year, 10 freshmen have contributed to the team throughout the season, according to Tech Athletics. Tech has recorded three straight shut outs at home. With this year’s freshman class, Jones said they hope to continue shutting teams out.

“They are so much fun to play with, to be with,” Jones said. “They have really helped us a lot and especially now, we really need them to step up.”

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TOP: Freshman defender Hannah Anderson clears the ball to the other side of the field during the game against Arkansas State at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019, at John Walker Soccer Complex.

BOTTOM: Freshman midfielder Penelope Mulenga secures the ball to send it forward. The Red Raiders defeated the Red Wolves with a score of 1-0.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “All the success goes to Patterson, for sure,” junior defensive lineman Eli Howard said. “As far as it being different than last year, I think (the defense is) a little bit more aggressive. I think what helps us a lot is we have a lot of experience coming back and Patterson, you know, he really knows how to get through to us and teach his scheme to us so we can play for him.

But I think (the defense) is a lot more aggressive and everyone loves Patterson, so it’s really fun playing for him because he really cares about you and really wants you to be successful.”

Patterson’s new defensive scheme paid off for the Red Raiders, as the Red Raiders forced UTEP to punt 10 times, only allowing the Miners to convert on third down twice in their 15 tries.

“We seen everything they did, and so it wasn’t a surprise on the field and throughout our preparation. We saw everything that they did multiple times,” senior defensive lineman Broderick Washington Jr. said. “So, when we saw them line up in certain formations, like we already knew what was coming, so it was just the preparation, really.”

Each week, the defense has a set plan it follows in order to be well-prepared for the Red Raiders’ opponents, Howard said.

“At the beginning of the week, we just do corrections from the game, stuff that, whether it be alignments or missed assignments, whatever it is we work on that,” Howard said. “Then we build up the game plan and stuff like that and then around the game plan, we really try to see what we can attack and exploit and whatnot.”

While Tech’s defense prepares for its next opponent’s offense, Howard said practicing against the Red Raiders’ offense has helped him more than he can describe.

“The pace in practice is not legal at all,” Howard said jokingly. “They always have people spotting the ball before they even say ‘hut’ on the first

play. But I think its just, you just can’t put value into that because it’s just so so valuable for us. I really appreciate it.”

As the defense has to practice at a fast-paced offense, Howard said lining up against an experienced offensive line has also helped his game.

“One thing I really appreciate is our offensive line,” Howard said. “They have like 115 starts or whatever, well more than that now, but to start the season it was like 115 starts.

So, you have a lot of experience and I don’t think we’ll probably see a more experienced group all year than what we see every day in practice. Yeah, the offense is fast, but we play a really good talented group of guys as well.”

In Tech’s last two games, senior linebacker Jordyn Brooks led the team with 11 total tackles in each game.

Along with his 22 total tackles, Brooks also leads the team with 10 solo tackles and 2.5 tackles for loss. Junior linebacker Evan Rambo and Washington also have recorded 2.5 tackles for loss.

“I think (Brooks) pops off the tape,” Howard said. “He’s incredibly talented, and I think anyone can just, whether you know football or not, can just be like ‘Wow, that guy’s really good.’ I’ve said this a few times, pound-for-pound, he’s probably the fastest dude on the team.

He’s an incredible athlete, and he’s just completely bought in right now to the scheme and to just living and breathing football, and I think it’s really paid dividends for him because he’s making a lot of plays and been a heck of a ballplayer.”

After the first two games of the season, Tech’s defense has only allowed 13 points as the Red Raiders’ offense has recorded 83 points, according to Tech Athletics. With the defense in full effect, Howard said the team takes the same approach each game as conference play will start soon.

“I think more than anything, it’s a really good basis for us,” Howard said regarding Tech’s defense in non-conference matchups. “We really try to focus on what we can do and how we can improve and what we put on tape and stuff like that. I think we’ve had

some good opponents as far as Montana State and UTEP.” The Red Raiders defense has only allowed 420 total offensive yards as Tech’s offense has recorded 1,115 total yards on offense after playing Montana State and UTEP. Although Tech’s defense has forced opponents 4-31 on third down, the Red Raiders have not forced a single turnover.

“Obviously, we need to force more turnovers,” Howard said.

“We haven’t had one turnover in the past two games and that’s something we really try to pride ourselves on. So yeah, of course, you know, we do emphasize turnovers but more than anything we just try to play really disciplined and fundamental defense.”

With forcing a turnover on the defense’s mind, head coach Matt Wells said he is anxious for the team to get its first takeaway.

“I’m not going to over-dramatize it, I mean, we’re coaching the heck out of (forcing turnovers),” Wells said. “Last place we coached, we led the country in turnovers. We’re doing the same drills. We’re going to continue to coach it and emphasize it, and I truly think when they come, they will come in bunches.”

As the defense shut its opponents down in the last two games, sophomore quarterback Alan Bowman said it takes the pressure off of him while leading the offense.

“Obviously we never want to punt but to walk off the field and know, probably like they are not going to score, they are definitely not going to score,” Bowman said. “The way Jordyn (Brooks) and all them guys have been playing is huge. For them to have our back like that on offense just makes it more of, okay, we can try to make this throw because we know they are going to field and they are going to make a stop in the next possession. So, it definitely opens up a lot more for us and gives us a little bit more confidence.”

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