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Show - 'i -4"- Page 12 .. 8 >; 9 — . „.__.. ; j._ _ . *. _ i. ': it •' ,i (LEFT) THE JUMBO TRON T(_)//r//Base sits atop the new north end zone Facility of Romney stadium. One of its key features will be instant replay for fans. (Right) The view inside the second floor of the facility, which will not be completed until next year. SAMMY HISLOP Ag spikers take third game at Wildcat Classic BY USU ATHLETICS photos New building a credit to t Colonel Utah State's volleyball team recorded its first win of the 2007 season on Saturday with a four-game win against Eastern Washington (30-26, 26-30, 30-27, 30-21) in the final day of competition at the Sheraton Four Points Wildcat Classic in Tucson, Ariz. USU finished the tournament in third-place with a 1-2 record, while EWU was fourth with an 0-3 mark. Senior opposite side hitter Amanda Nielson (West Valley City, Utah) led USU as she recorded her first double-double of the season with 21 kills and 13 digs, both of which are season-highs. Aggie lineman repeat as Truck Pull champs BY USU ATHLETICS With "pull hard" as the common theme echoed throughout the group, a team of Utah State offensive linemen successfully defended their State Truck Pull Championships title, an event that benefits the Special Olympics here in Logan. ; The competition, consisting of pulling a 40,000-pound , truck 20 feet in a timed event, was held on a closedoff street between the Cache Valley Mall and Home Depot. (TOP MIDDLE) THE VIEW OF THE FACILITY FROM THE 50YARD-LINE inside Standings Romney Stadium. Only the first floor has been finished. (Left) A portion of the back part of the building, now named the Dale Mildenburger Sports Medicine Complex. Mildenburger has been USU's head athletic trainer for 33 years. (Right) The new football locker room. Each locker lists the player's name. The entire squad moved in on Aug. 12. WAC Women's Volleyball Louisiana Tech Boise Slate New Mexico Slate San Jose State Hawai'i Idaho Utah State Nevada Fresno Stale WAC o-o OVERALL 1-0 2-1 2-1 2-1 1-1 1-2 1-2 0-1 0-2 00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 ;*i RECENT RESULTS |j SATURDAY, AUGUST 25 a Utah State del. Eastern Washington, * 3-1 (30-26,36-30,30-27,30-21) Now in hisfourth year, Randy Spetman is the man behind the $12.5 million structure A1//Standings By SAMMY HISLOP sports editor When you walk into Romney Stadium Thursday evening'to witness the USU football season opener, you shouldn't be surprised if you have the same reaction that much of the team themselves had when they first saw it Aug. 10. With the team dressed in their uniforms without pads for pictures on Media Day, an awed silence came over much of the the players as they looked toward the top of the new north end zone facility to the new jumbo tron as it played crystal clear Aggie football highlights from 2006. "It's the quietest I've ever heard them," third-year Aggie Head Coach Brent Guy said. The new $12.5 million structure has made the 27-year-old home of the Aggies look, by a general consensus of anybody who has been around the program for a long time, a whole lot . better. "It means a lot," Aggie senior wide receiver Kevin Robinson said. "It means they're trying to make a change in this program. It's only going to bring in more people that want to play for this gonna be amazed at the amount team and contribute." of money he had.to work with, The man to thank for the and what he put up." much-needed addition to Spetman gave a handful of the good of the entire athmedia a tour of the 50,000letic department is the direcsquare-foot building Aug. 10 tor of athletics himself, Randy - including the back half of it, Spetman. which has been named the Dale Spetman, who is called Mildenburger Sports Medicine "Colonel" by ^^^^^^ Complex those he works in honor of with thanks to his Mildenburger, long career in the who has been military, is now the head trainer "He shocks you in his fourth year at USU for 33 as the Aggie AD. every day. (The years. He has been the north end zone Only the first moving force to facility) is a testa- floor, which getting the edifice houses team from a lot of talk ment for what he locker rooms, an stands for. He talks equipment and planning to room an actual buildthe talk and walks and the sports ing. the walk." medicine area, is Just ask Guy. completed. "I don't think n sit i ^ . The second Brent Guy, Head Coach and third floors, anyone in their wildest dreams which now would think that we could get a feature only naked concrete and building of that magnitude up scattered tools, will one day house coaches' offices and team with the amount of money we meeting rooms for all 16 univerhad," Guy said. "I know of no sity sports. other AD in America that could have got done what's been done Despite the fact that those in that building. I don't say that floors were empty and bare, Spetman explained with ease because he's my boss; I say that and at length which rooms because it's the absolute truth. would be where. When people see it, they're Speak U p i Spetman credited the good will of donors and volunteers in the community as being the major reason the department has been able to have such a building built. Tens of thousands of dollars have been saved, Spetman said, from volunteer work, which includes a group of 50 people who came into the facility in early August to help clear and hang many of the doors. "We've hung every door ourselves in this building," Spetman said. "That's part of the savings ofthisl building." Spetman also noted the winSPETMAN dows are salvaged glass from the Crossroads Mall in Salt Lake City, which saved the program more tens of thousands. Spetmen said the track and field Head Coach Greg Gensel personally painted part of the first floor as his donation to the building, saving perhaps $1,000 in labor costs. "The community has contributed a lot," USU senior running back Aaron Lesue said. "We need to go and show them, 'Hey, you've done a lot for us. We're gonna lay it on the line every weekend for you/ We've had an older facility for a long time. It's nice to feel good and go into a nice locker room." The kind of leadership that radiates from Spetman makes sense when one finds out he is an Air Force Academy graduate with a 28-year career in the military, which featured him in the role of chief of bomber planning in Desert Shield and Desert Storm as well as chief of Command and Control Division, and operations directorate at the U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany. "He shocks you every day," Guy said. "I'll say it this way: Time will still judge me if I'm the correct man to straighten this program out, but he's already been judged. That's evident." One Sunday over the summer Guy said he came early to check on some things in the building and found Spetman sweeping an area by himself. "Colonel, what are you doing?" Guy asked. 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