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Come join Student Life for Ram Jam at 12pm on April 20th!

Swing by Dora`s for free food, fun, and games!

With Spring here and the Weather gorgeous, this is the perfect oppor-tunity to get outdoors and check out some of the local food trucks! � ese trucks are conviently located within 20 min of campus.

Looking for Food Trucks?

Coco Shrimp

“We use the bold, Hawaiian fl a-vor of coconuts in our signature plate to bring a small taste of Hawaii to Texas.”

What`s Cook-N Chef

Chef Javie welcomes you to come visit What’s Cook-N Chef food truck. His churrasco meat has an edgy un-expected twist that will have you craving more.

Cats make the purr-fect pets

Meet Wesleyan’s own unicyle guy!

Local food trucks that will have your mouth watering

Batman vs Superman

Patton posting a great-season for the Lady Rams

Wesleyan students celebrate the Hindi tradition Holi Festival

Die-hard dog lovers do not have all the facts. Being a cat parent is much more rewarding than most believe.

Nicholas Squyres rides his unicycle around campus and can perform many tricks while riding.

With Springtime here, check out these two parks for a tasty meal that will leave you satis-fied

It’s the ultimate showdown: Batman vs Superman. They must put their differences aside to battle a new threat.

Sophomore Jacey Patton hopes to help the Lady Rams get to the NAIA national golf tournament

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Like most other 17-year-old girls, Kaylee Skaggs enjoys “jamming out”, watching movies and hanging out with her best friend. But hiding be-hind the smile of her Facebook pro-file picture, Skaggs struggles with in-securities brought on by body image.

Skaggs, a junior at Brewer High School in Fort Worth, admits to thinking that others don’t like her because of her size, a thought per-petuated by personal run-ins with body-shaming bullies.

“When I was in intermediate school, I was just sitting at my lunch table,” Skaggs recounted. “This guy came up to me and told me I should lose a couple pounds. I just kind of looked at him.”

Skaggs tries to not allow incidents like these to affect the way she looks at herself.

“Why stress about people putting

you down for being you and for the way that you look, when they don’t know who you are on the inside?” Skaggs said.

Skaggs is encouraged by the body acceptance movement, perpetuated by activists like Ashley Graham, who was the first plus-size model to be featured in an ad in this year’s - swimsuit edition.

“The more people are just proud of who they are, the more positive it will get,” Skaggs said.

Celeste Peńa, junior psychology major at Texas Wesleyan University, has struggled with body image is-sues herself, but agrees with Skaggs’ positivity.

“Growing up, I was a really tiny kid. As I got older, I got bigger. I was conscious about it, but then I learned to love myself,” Peńa said. “I surrounded myself with positive people that told me care about your-

Go ahead and love yourself

BODY. page 3Photo courtesy of Alainee Cuvillier

Alainee Cuvillier (left) with her client Abby Morin at Morton Fitness Center.

Wesleyan first to co-teach

Photo courtesy of Dr. Jacqueline GaffnerSenior Dylan Chandler teaching first grade with her mentor Megan Hewitt.

Texas Wesleyan University was the

first university in Texas to adopt the co-teaching model of student teach-ing in 2011 and has been using it ever since.

Co-teaching is a method where student teachers, or teacher candi-dates, work together with a regular school teacher, or mentor, in an el-ementary or middle school class-room. The traditional method is when the student teacher observes the class for a few weeks. The student then teaches the class by themselves for a week while the mentor sits back and observes.

Liz Ward, an associate professor of the School of Education, said that other universities in different states have already adopted the co-teach-ing model but Texas Wesleyan was the first in its state to use it.

“We were the first to use it as a

student teaching model,” Ward said. “Baylor University, Texas A&M Uni-versity and Texas A&M-Texarkana have been through the co-teaching training. So it’s becoming a model that is being used in Texas.”

Ward said the traditional method was not very effective for the teacher candidate experience because of the lack of feedback while teaching alone. So co-teaching is becoming a new method for future teachers.

Ward first introduced the model to Wesleyan in 2010. She was inspired by the idea adopted by St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. St. Cloud State wanted to apply the co-teaching model with resources and several strategies to see if there were statistical gains in student teachers.“It was really St. Cloud State University that got a $5 million edu-cation grant,” Ward said. “So they looked at providing the co-teaching

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Squyres loves to ride unicycle

Nicholas Squyres is a self-described weirdo and performer who is known by most people on campus as Uni-cycle Guy.

Squyres, a 25-year-old senior mu-sic major with concentration in voice with a specialization in composition, is an eccentric man who is recogniz-able because of the blue and gold unicycle he rides around campus.

“It was just a faster way to get around and because it’s not big like a bike you can just carry it in and don’t have to lock it up,” Squyres said. “Riding it around campus was kind just a natural thing because I wanted to ride more.”

Squyres started at Texas Wesleyan in 2011 after transferring from Tar-rant County College.

Squyres said he learned to ride a unicycle around age 11 at a boat dock. However, at age 14 he stopped because he couldn’t afford a durable enough unicycle.

“My voice teacher, Dr. Gordan Page from TCC, died so that’s how I got ahold of my friend Maddie Tor-res and she goes to drum circles,”

Squyres said. “So I’m like this [ex-perience] kind of makes me want to

get back into unicycling.” Squyres said he bought his blue-

and-gold unicycle after starting at Wesleyan because it’s the school’s colors. While on his unicycle he can car-ry anything he normally can while walking and even eat, but drinking is more challenging.

“I can sing on the unicycle, I just can’t sit still and sing on the unicycle, so I can’t really perform,” Squyres said.

Squyres’ talents and interests go far beyond just unicycling.

He was on the Wesleyan dance team in 2012 and has been amateur wrestling through various agencies since last fall under the name Opera Man.

Lewis Wall, a Wesleyan alumnus who works at the Texas Wesleyan University Bookstore, remembers meeting Squyres as he walked into the bookstore in 2014 carrying his unicycle and that seemed odd.

“My honest impression was this guy has an individual character in a sense that’s unique because you don’t see anybody often doing that,” Wall said. “When I went to Texas State for a short time I don’t think I even saw anybody there riding a unicycle.”

Photo taken by Rowan LehrSenior Nicholas Squyres stands by the clock tower holding his unicycle.

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Thumbs up to upcoming SGA elections.

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Thumbs down to waking up for early classes after a week-long break.

Thumbs down to lack of vending machines on cam-pus.

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Cats make the purr-fect partners

Police lives should matter tooEDITORIAL

Cartoon by Jonah Park

Dalise DeVos Content Producerdndevos@txwes.edu

26: Let that number sink in for a moment. That’s the number of police officers nationwide that have been shot and killed in the line of duty since the beginning of this year, accord-ing odmp.org.

According to a report published by NBC News in February, there was a total of 41 of-ficers shot and killed in the line of duty in all of 2015. We’re not even halfway through 2016 and we’ve already almost matched that figure.

This is ridiculous and something has to be done. Log on to social media and it’s almost a guarantee that you will see some sort of post bashing local law enforcement. It’s sickening.

Are there bad cops out there? Absolutely, but so what? A handful of professional athletes have violent criminal histories, but we under-stand that those cases don’t represent pro ath-letes as a whole. In this case we understand that labelling an entire profession due to the negative actions of a few is stupid. The same goes for police.

Take Fort Worth Police Officer Matthew Pearce for example: March 15th started out as a normal day for him as he went out on patrol to keep our streets safe. He got a call to con-duct a traffic stop on a man who had several warrants out for his arrest. The pursuit ended in a gun battle and now Officer Pearce is in a fight for his life.

How can we live in a world, where police of-ficers are getting shot and killed every day, how are we supposed to feel safe? They still put on the badge every day and they still go out and protect our streets to keep citizens safe. Some-thing has to be done and it’s going to have to come from the bottom.

People need to stop thinking they’re above the law. If you break the law by speeding, shop-lifting, robbing someone or whatever, be an

adult and face the music. People want to sit back and bash cops and

say what horrible human beings they are be-cause they used force on little Johnny because he resisted arrest when they caught him trying to rob a department store.

We’re so influenced by today’s society and the powerful influence the media and social media have on people’s opinions.

Yet people still feel the need to talk crap

about police and say that they’re horrible peo-ple. People that do that are a special kind of stupid.

Ever talked to a police officer? Just gone up and said hi to them and thank them for their service? You tell them that and there’s a good chance that they’ll sit there and talk to you. Police officers are human beings just like you and me.

As people, empathy isn’t one of our strong

suits. Make it one. Put yourself in their shoes. We’re not perfect and neither are they. They’re just doing their job.

So next time you think that you’re above the law, just remember:

26 and counting. That’s the number of offi-cers that will never be able to see their families again because some stupid punk decided to get cute and think that they’re above the law.

An age-old debate has been dividing the hu-man race for thousands of years – tearing apart families and turning best friends into enemies.

It always starts with one simple question: Are you a cat person or a dog person? While I’m happy to say that I am truly an all-around animal lover, as a cat owner, I felt like it was time I defended my furry feline companions to all those die-hard dog people out there. There are several reasons why cats make purrr-fect pets.

First, cats are typically much cheaper to own than dogs. According to the ASPCA, cat owners save a minimum of $300 to $800 per year compared to dog owners. As dogs are generally larger than cats, they often consume much larger amounts of food. They also tend to require more toys, supplies and services than cats, including crates, leashes, collars and training classes.

Routine veterinary costs also tend to be higher for dogs than for cats. And the ASPCA tally doesn’t even factor in expenses such as boarding or dog-walking when the pet owners

are away, expenses which are often much more for dogs than for cats.

Second, cats are better for the environment. In 2009, The New Scientist reported on a book by Robert and Brenda Vale titled “Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Liv-ing,” in which the authors estimated the car-bon footprint of various common household pets. They argued that a medium-sized dog has a carbon footprint twice that of your stan-dard SUV, while a cat has a carbon footprint equal to that of a small Volkswagen. This was based solely on the amount of meat each pet consumes in an average year. Meat requires a notoriously large amount of both land and en-ergy resources to produce. Cats, being smaller and therefore eating less, are a much more sus-tainable pet.

Third, cats are neater than dogs in more ways than one. According to a study conduct-ed by researchers at Princeton University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, cats are much more efficient at drinking than dogs.

Dogs violently plunge their tongues into the water’s surface with a force up to eight times that of gravity, splashing and creating a mess. Cats, on the other paw, delicately dip their tongues into water with a force up to twice that of gravity, neatly lifting up a column of liquid to swallow.

Cats also use those tongues to clean them-selves, saving their owners both time and

money on bathing. And as cats don’t require much housetraining, their owners also save time in both training and cleaning up acci-dents. All any cool cat needs is a clean litterbox in a place they feel safe.

Finally, owning cats can be good for your health. It has been suggested that cats’ purrs are therapeutic to the human body. A cat’s purr ranges between 20-140 Hz, a frequency range

which has been suggested to be medically ben-eficial. In a study conducted by the National Institute of Health, previous cat owners were also found less likely to have a heart attack than those who never owned a feline friend.

So the next time you’re on the hunt for a cuddly addition to your home, consider a cat. Because I’m not kitten around, they really are the cat’s meow!

Photo by Dalise DeVos DeVos’s two cats: Rodeo (right) and Kitty (left) love to cuddle all day long.

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self, and don’t think about what others think about you.”

Peńa has recently started focusing on her health and attending fitness classes offered at the Morton Fitness Center, but tries to remem-ber to keep loving herself in the process.

“Love yourself,” Peńa said. “If you do want to better yourself, don’t begin to hate yourself in the process, or you’re never going to be com-fortable with the way you look.”

One of the classes Peńa frequents is High Intensity Interval Training, taught by Alainee Cuvillier, a Spring 2015 graduate with a degree in political science.

Cuvillier believes that society is moving in a positive direction when it comes to body im-age, with movements like Mattel’s releasing of Barbies with varying body types earlier this year.

“I think that society is moving in positive direction by trying to embrace different body images,” Cuvillier said. “I feel that within the past year especially people are starting to be more aware of their health.”

Cuvillier has been on her own health jour-ney for the almost two years, losing nearly 100 pounds. since having her son in May 2014, and advises women to focus on how they feel ver-sus how they look.

“As I was making every step in a progression towards a healthy and active lifestyle, I never once hated my body, I embraced my body,” Cuvillier said. “That’s what I think every wom-an needs to focus on – how they feel versus how they look.”

Cuvillier, who is certified in both Zumba and personal training, embraces this concept in her own fitness studio in Benbrook by not having any mirrors or scales.

“We get so obsessed with our body image, and I think that’s driven by the scale,” Cuvil-lier said. “So many people want to focus on a number, instead of focusing on how they feel, inches they’re losing or positive health.”

McKenzie Brown, senior Christian stud-ies major, agrees with Cuvillier’s emphasis on health, and sees both the positive and negative sides of the growing body acceptance move-

ment. “I think the benefit that this most recent

movement has is that it’s moving towards curves,” Brown said. “However, it still is mov-ing toward ‘image’. I wouldn’t call this body acceptance movement substantial or unless it asked ‘Are you healthy?’.”

She also criticizes the growing trend of “skinny shaming,” of which Meghan Trainor was accused of in her 2014 hit, “All About That Bass,” that seems to accompany this current movement.

“I would be critical of any person who in the name of body acceptance shames someone for being too thin,” Brown said. “That’s the ambig-uous nature of body image – there are different body types.”

Shelby Nowland, junior religion major, also criticizes the current body image movement, but for focusing solely on women, and not ad-dressing that this is a men’s issue as well.

“We need to create awareness that it’s not just a women’s issue,” Nowland said.

Nowland suggests this begins with advertis-

ing a broader view of manhood and masculin-ity, similar to what Dove did for women with their “Real Beauty” campaign that embraced women of all different sizes, ages, and races.

“As a larger guy, I’m being told by advertise-ment and the media that the only good look-ing male is a guy with a six-pack, perfectly tan skin, good hair and white teeth,” Nowland said. “That’s not the average guy that walks the street.”

Overall, Nowland can agree that when it comes to body image, health should be the main focus, and weight and health are not the same thing.

“I think we’ve made a mistake in our soci-ety by saying healthy is equated to just a size or look of person,” Nowland said. “I think we need to have a bigger discussion that equates health with being a whole person and taking care of the whole person, not with whether you wear a small or an extra-large.”

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model with training to both the teacher can-didates and mentor teachers on how to effec-tively collaborate.”

The tests at St. Cloud State had shown a sta-tistically significant gain of the performance in teacher candidates while teaching in a co-teaching classroom versus a traditional stu-dent teaching classroom, Ward said.

“If you train two people to work together then the student outcome increases,” Ward said. “It’s not shocking to say that if you teach two people how to work together that they’re going to have better outcomes than one per-son trying to.”

Wesleyan started piloting the model and sent students to elementary schools in differ-

ent districts. The School of Education has been using the model ever since.

Ward said the Burleson and Fort Worth school districts have given good feedback about the co-teaching model.

“The mentor teachers said that they feel like they’ve had a better experience with the teach-er candidate and that their teacher candidate grew more,” Ward said.

Jacqueline Gaffner, a professor in the School of Education, observes students who are co-teaching lessons to their class and videotapes their performances for future references.

“We’re not required to do it, but I do it be-cause I go see them periodically throughout the semester,” Gaffner said. “From the time I

videotape them first and the time I videotape them last, you can see their confidence has built.”

Gaffner said, that based on the outcomes of the method, co-teaching has given greater achievement for teacher candidates than the traditional model.

Stephanie Skiles, senior education major, will be starting her teaching next semester and is prepared to experience the co-teaching model. However, she has heard feedback from other teacher candidates that there are difficul-ties with the co-teaching model.

“The hardest thing I’ve heard is maybe per-sonality clashes,” Skiles said. “Some of the teacher candidates and mentors don’t really

get along and some teachers are not good at letting go of their classroom.”

Skiles said that mentor teachers are used to running their classroom a certain way so they don’t want to release it to a student.

“They would have to release the classroom to us,” Skiles said. “And we have to run it the way that we’re taught. They are to come in and tell us ‘I would do this or how about tweaking this’ but some teachers don’t want to do that. I think that’s the biggest issue with co-teachers.”

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Wall said he and Squyres have had con-versations about the different kinds of food Squyres has eaten while unicycling.

“I remember that the hardest food to eat and carry while unicycling was a whole pizza,” Wall said.

Wall said he has had plenty of other con-versations with Squyres because he has a lot of weird conversations with people.

“That is the one that sticks out to me the most though, because it was probably our most recent conversation,” Wall said.

McKenzie Brown, a senior Christian studies major and writing tutor at the Academic Suc-cess Center on campus, said she has tutored Squyres multiple times last summer.

“I saw him once before the tutoring ses-sions, it was the most recent ‘icepocalypse’ in

the spring of 2015 and he came out and played in the snow in his boxers so that was a vivid memory.”

Brown said she and Squyres bonded over opera and that he is knowledgeable about how the voice works.

“I think he’s a creative thinker,” Brown said. “I think it’s very self-evident he’s a very creative person.”

Squyres describes himself as a “whimsi-cally weird” performer.

“Work hard to live in the moment” Squyres said “That’s a performer’s life.”

Squyres’ post-graduation plans include working toward his goal of being a profession-al performer and joining a band.

“As long as I’m performing I’m happy” he said

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Come join Student Life for Ram Jam at 12pm on April 20th!

Swing by Dora`s for free food, fun, and games!

With spring here and the weather gorgeous, this is the perfect oppor-tunity to get outdoors and check out some of the local food trucks! These trucks are conviently located within 20 min of campus.

Looking for Food Trucks?

Coco Shrimp

“We use the bold, Hawaiian fla-vor of coconuts in our signature plate to bring a small taste of Hawaii to Texas.”

What`s Cook-N Chef

Chef Javie welcomes you to come visit What’s Cook-N Chef food truck. His churrasco meat has an edgy un-expected twist that will have you craving more.

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Affleck plays a great new Batman

It’s finally here. The heavyweight bout of the century. The Dark Knight vs the Man of Steel himself. March 24th, 2016 Batman vs Superman was released from its floodgates. When I heard about the movie back in 2014, I was ecstatic. Marvel has had all this success with movies like Avengers, Iron Man and Guardians of the Galaxy. Where was Detective Comics (DC)?

Sure you had the “Dark Knight” series with the amazing Christian Bale, and the recently released “Man of Steel,” but with the drop of Batman v Superman we got another surprise as well.

Ben Affleck as Batman.This killed me. Was this news that bad? Maybe or maybe

not. Only time would tell.So as time went on more rumors popped up

for the movie like a Wonder Woman cameo and hints of a Justice League movie. All con-

tinuously feeding the hype and raising a bunch of questions.

Will Affleck kill Batman? Is this a Super-man sequel or a Batman reboot? Did Jack Sny-der really cast Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor? There was no finding out on the next episode because it was starting…..

Now about the movie.Let me start off by saying Batman versus

Superman was much better than what I previ-ously expected. There some scenes that make you melt in your seat. The story is a little slow in the beginning but man does it catch as the story goes on.

Henry Cavill was reprised as Superman. I loved Man of Steel so seeing Cavill come back just felt right. Cavill continuously pushes a more believable Superman and the film ben-efits from it.

The audience gets to see the man beneath cape. Cavill helped me as a viewer relate to the Clark Kent instead of just being amazed by Su-perman.

Wonder Woman is played by Gal Gadot. Despite being given little screen time she defi-nitely makes use of it.

She plays the neutral voice for Batman and Superman. She keeps them on track all while trying to get away from the battles until she is finally pulled in for an awesome reveal.

The star in my opinion however would have to be Jesse Eisenberg for his role as Lex Luthor. The dastardly villain’s influence is felt in every scene. Like your shadow, Luthor is that black figure you just can’t shake off throughout the whole movie.

His take on Luthor is both dark and myste-rious throughout the whole movie. With just a pinch of insanity, Eisenberg takes his role to new heights.

His acting and portrayal of Luthor in turn provides the foundation that provides Batman versus Superman the strength it needs.

There are, however, some things however that I didn’t like. I’m looking at you Batman.

Notice I didn’t say Affleck. That’s because Ben Affleck in the Dark Knight’s suit is prob-ably the most visually accurate Batman in movie history.

No, see I was disappointed with lack of Bat-man. Don’t get me wrong, another turning point for this movie is that both Batman and

Superman get equal screen time. The differ-ences laid in the individual story arcs.

We get to see a deeper side to Superman. What do get to see Wayne as? Angry.

That’s it. Angry for several reasons but that’s all. That is his sole reason for finding Super-man. Why? Go watch the movie.

As I said Affleck played a good Batman. Both physically and mentally there are moments in the movie where I felt physically intimidated by both Batman and Bruce Wayne.

Affleck definitely brought a deeper cut to Gotham and Batman’s cinemaverse. Showing that Batman can be ruffled, that he is not the unbreakable steel cage he believes is proves that he is always will be slot below Superman.

All in all the movie was great. Better than ex-pected. Batman versus Superman finally gives DC the the movie it needed. Both Affleck and Gadot established their roles quite well and has me asking for more. Especially Affleck.

Now if August 5th could get here already…..

I’m giving this movie a rating of 4 stars out 5. The running time for Batman vs Superman is 2 hours and 31 minutes.

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Texas Wesleyan’s Michael Acosta advanced to the national Society of Professional Journal-ists Mark of Excellence competition after win-ning the Region 8 contest for Sports Writing.

Acosta was one of five award winners from Rambler Media Group in the Mark of Excel-lence Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists Region 8 competition. Award winners were announced Saturday, March 19, at the SPJ Region 8 conference. Acosta, a senior mass communication major, won the Sports Writing for small universities contest with his story about the return of tennis to Wesleyan in the September 2, 2015 edition of The Rambler and online at http://therambler.org/2015/09/02/tennis-returns-to-wesleyan/.

The Rambler editorial board was a finalist for best regional editorial writing, and ther-ambler.org website was a finalist among the regional Best Affiliated Web Site competition.

Dr. Kay Colley, who serves as Texas Wes-leyan’s director of student media and student media faculty liaison, said she looks forward to

the group’s continued success.“I’m very proud of our students,” Colley said.

“These awards just demonstrate how their hard work and dedication have paid off.”

Two other staff members received individual awards:• BriannaKessler,seniormasscommunica-

tion major, was a finalist for Feature Writing Small schools contest • ValerieSpears,formereditor-in-chiefand

Wesleyan alumna, was a finalist for the Best Use of Multimedia contest.

Rambler Media Group faculty adviser Dr. David Ferman said he was proud of this year’s successes in the Region 8 contest.

“These awards, both by individual students and The Rambler as a whole, show our con-tinuing improvement and commitment to quality coverage of the Texas Wesleyan com-munity,” Ferman said.

The Mark of Excellence competition was part of the 2016 Society of Professional Journalist Region 8 Conference on March 18 – March

19 at the Historic Hilton Hotel in downtown Fort Worth. SPJ Region 8 includes Texas and Oklahoma. Winners from the 12 SPJ regions will compete in the national Mark of Excel-

lence Awards. National winners will be noti-fied in the late spring and will be recognized at Excellence in Journalism 2016 (EIJ16) in New Orleans, Sept. 18-20.

Rambler advances to nationals

Photo by Rambler Media Group Valerie Spears; left, Michael Acosta; middle, and Brianna Kessler: right at the Society of Profe-sional Journalists Region 8 Mark of Excellence Conference.

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The Texas Wesleyan University Rams base-ball team has been hit hard with injuries in the young season, but players remain determined to compete, head coach Mike Jeffcoat said.

Jeffcoat said major and minor injuries have hindered the team, and along the way many players have gained bumps and bruises that disrupt their play.

“Three of our top pitchers, including sopho-more Stephen Yancey, are out with sore mus-cles, and several other players are playing at about 70 percent,” Jeffcoat said.

Jeffcoat said that even with the injuries, Wes-leyan has managed a 15-13 record and a 5-4 record in conference as of March 20.

“Right now our first major goal is to make it to the conference tournament,” Jeffcoat said. “Once we get the team healthy, I can see us making a run for the conference title.”

Without the contributions of a few excep-tional players this season, who knows where the team would be due to the injuries, Jeffcoat said.

“Casey Moses has played really well at short-stop; [catcher] Garrett Crook has been solid behind the plate, and [outfielder] Blake Seaton has stepped up at the plate to provide runs,” he said.

This season Moses leads the team in hitting with a .376 batting average and homeruns with two and Crook has a .987 fielding percentage behind the plate according to ramsports.net.

From March 20-19 The Rams went 2-1 against the University of Science and Arts (OK), winning 4-2 and 6-3 with a 9-8 loss.

“Science and Arts are one of the top teams in the conference, and to play so well against them shows the determination of the team,” Jeffcoat said.

Assistant head coach Robert Garza also praised a few of the leaders on the team, in-cluding Moses and Crook.

“Along with those two, outfielder Ryan Adam has done a good job of stepping up and being a vocal leader, which the team needs right now due to the injuries,” Garza said.

Garza also said that the team never wants to settle, which is important because of the injury situation; staying away from the injury bug will help the team tremendously going forward.

“Everyone wants to win and it is because of that I believe this team can do special things,” Garza said.

Junior biology major and catcher Garrett Crook has noticed that a few of the Wesleyan pitchers have stepped up on the mound to help the Rams win a few games. Crook has played in 24 of the 28 games this season and started in 21 of them.

“Stephen Yancey and Zach Aitken have shown a lot of upside in the early part of the season,” Crook said. “Yancey is recovering from a sore muscle, but once we get him back, the pitching staff will almost be fully healthy.”

Crook also said that his job as a catcher is to

facilitate the pitchers on the mound and know what they want to do once they are pitching.

“I want to be on the same page with them as much as possible, so if I see them struggling, I slow the game down a little and walk to the mound,” Crook said.

Junior business administration major and first baseman Tanner McMahon said the team needs to reduce the sense of negativity brought on by the injuries.

“I noticed that not just me, but a lot of guys are getting in our own heads and need to focus on the mental aspect of the game more,” Mc-Mahon said. “We all know we can play well; we just have to do it and take this season one game at a time.”

The Rams will return home on Friday April 1, as they take on Dallas Christian College at the Ballpark in Grand Prairie. First pitch is sched-uled for 6 p.m.

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Photo courtesy of Little JoeSophomore pitcher Stephen Yancey throws the ball toward home plate during the game against USAO.

Photo courtesy of Little JoeShortstop Casey Moses tags a University of Science and Arts (OK) runner out when he attempt-ed to steal second base.

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Wesleyan golfer determined to win

Photo by Little Joe Jacey Patton strives to be the best golfer and student at Texas Wesleyan University, while she juggles her passions for dance and golf and she thanks God everyday for all her blessings and talent.

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Jacey Patton says that ever since she was a little girl, she has had the determination and drive to be the best that she could be.

“I have always been very driven to succeed,” said Patton, who is on the Texas Wesleyan women’s golf team. “That drive seems to carry through everything I do. It motivates me on the golf course and in the classroom. 

While I love playing golf, I know that my success after college is going to come from do-ing well in my studies now and when I attend grad school.”

Wesleyan head women’s golf coach Kevin Millikan said that Patton, a sophomore kine-siology major from Fort Worth, brings a great deal of enthusiasm to practices and competi-tions and epitomizes the concept of the stu-

dent-athlete.“She excels in academics as well as athletics,

and is involved in a lot of other activities, both on and off campus,” he said. “I consider her to be an excellent role model for the type of ath-letes we are looking for at Texas Wesleyan.”

But golf was not her first love. Patton started dancing at age two and continued for 10 years. She performed her first solo dance routine competitively at the age of five and at the age of seven was the youngest member accepted into the senior competitive dance company at her studio.

Patton said that attending a summer camp at the First Tee of Fort Worth really got her inter-ested in golf.

“I fell in love with golf immediately,” she said. “We were doing a putting exercise and coach Kevin Long complimented me on my ability to read a putt. That little bit of encouragement re-

ally meant a lot to me. I enrolled in classes at The First Tee of Fort Worth that summer.”

She won a scholarship from The Ben Hogan Foundation (BHF). The Foundation scholar-ship was offered through The First Tee of Fort Worth in partnership with Texas Wesleyan University and provides tuition, fees and books for four years.  As a scholarship recipient, Pat-ton has been assigned a mentor that follows her throughout her time at Wesleyan.

Patton also said that the First Tee inspired her to pursue golf and to give back. 

“I had so many amazing opportunities through the program that I want to be able to mentor and inspire current and future mem-bers of The First Tee,” she said.

Friends say that Patton also works hard off the course, and that she is kind, humble and caring.

“Jacey works hard in her studies and loves

what she has planned for her future,” said ju-nior education major and close friend Nicole Gillihan. “She is a great reflection of the Lord, and she shines light to those around her.”

At the University of Houston-Victoria’s Claud Jacobs Intercollegiate at The Club at Colony Creek, in February, Patton finished fifth, leading the Lady Rams with a score of 226.

Patton gives her all and she gives credit to God and her family for support.

“I know that all my abilities and talents are gifts from God,” she said. “My hope is that ultimately I use them in a way that points to Christ. My mom and my grandparents are my biggest cheerleaders. Whether it was dance competitions, golf tournaments, piano recit-als, or academic awards, they have always been there.”