Senior catcher Jimmie Pharr is the new starting catcher for the baseball team, and has the task of replacing an All-American.

Last season's starter, Bryan Holaday, won the Johnny Bench Award for the nation's best catcher in 2010 before being drafted by the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball.

Holaday hit .355 with 17 home runs to help lead the Frogs to their first College World Series appearance in the program's history. He also committed just seven errors in 68 games.

Pharr said he is ready to step up to the plate for the Frogs this season.

About 45 students, faculty and staff members met Friday with representatives from PepsiCo and Waste Management about the benefits of recycling and how it can be rewarding with the Greenopolis Dream Machine.

Jordan Mazurek, a sophomore political science and sociology double major, said representatives discussed the concept of the machine, its purpose and how it works. The machine is a state-of-the-art recycling kiosk that provides recycling incentives in the form of coupons and gift certificates for local businesses, according to an article from greenbiz.com

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The TCU swimming & diving team set 22 new school records this weekend at the Mountain West Conference Championships in Oklahoma City, Okla.

The myriad of broken records was led by junior Edgar Crespo's performance in the 100-meter breaststroke, and sophomore Sabine Rasch's 1st-place finish in the 100-meter freestyle.

Crespo's time of 53.35 seconds in the 100-meter breaststroke currently ranks him ninth-best in the nation in the event. He finished second in the event at the MWC Championships.

Renovations on the dance building forced changes on students of the School for Classical and Contemporary Dance.

Classes and offices have been relocated to a temporary dance studio in the GrandMarc, multipurpose rooms in the university rec center and an office suite in the Rickel building.

Freshman ballet major James Vargas said the main difference he experienced was a rush to move from classes in the GrandMarc to classes in the rec center.

"In the old building we had a little more time to have a break before we get to the next class," he said.

Junior Victoria Lee and senior Kelsey Huffman both claimed MVP honors Sunday, but No. 5 TCU dropped a 7-5 decision to No. 8 Baylor on the final day of competition at the fifth annual Best in the West Tournament.

The Horned Frogs, who moved to 5-3 on the season, lost a 3-3 decision in Hunt Seat, falling to the Bears in overall points, 463-415. TCU won Equitation over Fences, 2-1, but could only manage one point in Equitation on the Flat Sunday at Fresno State's Student Horse Center.

Though some American colleges and universities are making standardized tests an optional part of their applications, TCU does not plan to change requirements as of now.

On Feb. 17, DePaul University in Chicago announced it will adopt a test-optional alternative for freshman applicants starting in fall 2012, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Applicants are responsible to submit their high school transcripts but they now have the option of submitting either their standardized test scores or answer a few open-ended essay questions, according to DePaul.