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College Station, Texas -- The Texas A&M womens basketball team announced that Alyssa Michalke (Schulenburg, Texas), who was the Commander of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets in 2015-16, has been added to the roster as a walk-on. Michalke was the first female to be Corps Commander in its 140-year history.I am thrilled to be able to add Alyssa to our team, said Texas A&M head coach Gary Blair. She has a real passion for the sport of basketball, and her experience in the Corps gives her great leadership skills that she will bring to the team. We already had 11 players on our roster, so she is truly our 12th Man.Michalke, who was Corps Sergeant Major as a junior, was a member of the Ross Volunteers and the O.R. Simpson Honor Society while in the Corps. She was the Most Outstanding Freshman and Most Outstanding Sophomore for her company and her brigade. In addition, she played on the Corps softball team and was a player-coach for the Corps basketball squad.Alyssa Michalke is a leader in every aspect of her life, said Brigadier General Joe Ramirez (U.S. Army-Ret.), Commandant of the Corps of Cadets. Whether leading cadets as the first female Corps Commander at Texas A&M, leading in the classroom, or leading on the basketball court - she excels at all that she does, and knows how to inspire others to follow her lead.She is a tireless worker and a standard setter in all that she does, and she strives to be the best in every endeavor that she undertakes - including sports, added Ramirez. She is the kind of leader who leads by example and instills confidence in all who work with her. She is a superb leader, an exceptional student, and an outstanding athlete. She is one of our very best who will go on to great success in all that she does in the future.Michalke is an Ocean Engineering major, who is a member of Omega Epsilon - the National Honor Society for Chemical Engineering, the Texas A&M Marine Technology Society (MTS), and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME).In addition, Michalke has been involved with Sports for Kids - a Texas A&M student organization that encourages involvement in youth sports.A four-sport athlete at Schulenburg High School, Michalke was a Texas Girls Coaches Association 2A All-State selection and District 28-2A MVP as a senior in 2012. She was a two-time all-district selection in basketball, helping Schulenberg to a regional semifinal appearance in 2012, and district championships her junior and senior year, as the Ladyhorns lost only one district game during those two seasons. 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Its been a rough year for the Idaho football program, but the Vandals are ending it on a high note.Idaho (8-4) has qualified for a bowl game in what is its second-to-last year playing major college football.The Vandals were unceremoniously kicked out of the Sun Belt Conference earlier this year, and the administration decided it had had enough of FBS football and chose to become the first program in modern times to voluntarily drop to the FCS ranks.In two decades as an FBS program, Idaho has qualified for a bowl only three times. The Vandals will face Colorado State on Dec. 22 at the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in Boise, Idaho. Their other bowl appearances have been in Boise as well.Coach Paul Petrino acknowledged it is sweet vindication to reach the postseason.It was a great feeling, Petrino said. Thats one reason Im so proud of our players. Theyve been kicked out of a conference and told they were going to change divisions. They never worried about that. They worried about playing one game at a time.Idaho won six of its final seven games to finish with a 6-2 mark in the Sun Belt, a collection of teams in the southeastern U.S. whose closest member is 2,000 miles from the Vandals campus in tiny Moscow, Idaho.The Sun Belt found that it didnt need Idaho or New Mexico State any longer in order to host a conference championship game and gave both the boot earlier this year.Idaho President Chuck Staben decided the two-decade experiment as an FBS program was producing only high expenses, with few wins and few fans to compensate. The Vandals averaged fewer than three wins per season as an FBS program since 1996, with eight 10-loss seasons.Crowds were sparse in the 16,000-seat Kibbiedome, a giant wooden stadium built in the shape of a Quonset hut.After next season, the Vandals will return to the FCS Big Sky Conference, a league they dominated in the 1980s and early 1990s.That will mean lower overall costs, especially with 22 fewer scholarships to provide, and lower travel costs.Staben said there was no chance the decision will be revisited now.In the long term, this well-deserved bowl invitation doess not change factors that informed our decision to join the Big Sky after the 2017-2018 season, versus pursuing an unsustainable future as an FBS independent team, Staben said.ddddddddddddRight now, were focused on celebrating the accomplishments of our student-athletes, Staben added.With all the turmoil surrounding them, you might have thought the Vandals would resume their losing ways, and at first they did.They opened the season with a victory over Montana State then were blown out by No. 4 Washington and Washington State of the Pac-12. They improved after that and finished the season with a four-game winning streak.We played two tough Pac-12 teams and got our butts whupped a little bit, said Petrino, the brother of Louisville coach Bobby Petrino. Our guys just kept fighting. Our kids got better and better. They found a way to win games.The Vandals are led by junior quarterback Matt Linehan, a son of Dallas Cowboys offensive coordinator and former Vandal quarterback Scott Linehan.Matt Linehan said the Vandals were pleased to be headed to Boise, a city where they have a lot of alumni and are likely to draw a big, friendly crowd.It didnt matter what bowl we were going to, Linehan said. There was just a sigh of relief that we knew we were going.Linehan has thrown for 2,803 yards with 15 touchdowns and 10 interceptions this season. Five of his receivers have caught passes for at least 350 yards.Vandals players expressed satisfaction that the game will be the only televised bowl game on Dec. 22 and will be broadcast nationwide on ESPN.This is my first time ever playing in a nationally televised game, said defensive back Jayshawn Jordan. Its a great way to end my college career.Linehan and other Vandals players have endured some lean seasons, and appreciate the success now.Weve gone through enough adversity to fight through it, Linehan said. Were happy to be here at this point.---More AP college football: www.collegefootball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25 ' ' '