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Friday, February 10, 1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Kansas freshman Lisa Beran competes in the hammer throw. The track team will compete in the "Husker Invitational this weekend.
Kansas track to run up against 'Big Red'
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KANSAN
By Robert Moczydlowsky
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas track team is in Lincoln, Neb., today for the biggest meet of its indoor season.
The annual 'Husker Invitational draws teams from the Big Eight Conference as well as other individuals from the Midwest. Several Division II schools also will compete, adding depth to the individual event field.
"This meet is really just a preview for the Big Eight meet," Kansas track coach Gary Schwartz said. "We'll compete in this meet like it was the conference championships. Everybody will line up in their best events."
During the past two weekends, several individual athletes, including Chris Gaston, Kristi Kloster and Natalash Shafer, have competed in separate events in an attempt to produce NCAA qualifying times.
ify," Schwartz said. "We did that this year, and it wasn't that successful.
"Sometimes you send people places where they'll have a good chance to qual-
"Sometimes the factors are right for fast times, but it just didn't happen. We're past that now, though. We're focusing solely on the Big Eight meet."
The Big Eight Championships annually have been Nebraska's show, and this year looks to be no exception.
"Indoors, I think that we're just not strong enough to keep up with
Kansas distance coach Steven Guyon said that the Jayhawks' outdoor
"them," Schwartz said of the Cornhousers. "We match up with them much better when the outdoor season starts in March."
Steven Guymon Kansas distance coach talking about the men's runners
team had plenty of untapped potential. Seniors Dan Waters and All-American Michael Cox are prepared to boost the Jayhawks in the outdoor season.
"I really think that our men's team is doing very well right now," Guymon said. "It could be the best men's team since we've had our current coaching staff. When the outdoor season starts, we'll just be that much better.
"Our best team hasn't even taken the field yet."
That's not to say that the Jayhawk indoor team is lacking quality performances. Thus far in the indoor season, the Jayhawk men have beaten Kansas State twice and last month easily outdistanced Missouri, 107-72.
In addition, Kansas finished a close second to K-State in one combined team-scored event.
Tomorrow's dual meet is the Jayhawks' last regular-season outing before the Big Eight Championships on Feb. 23-25 in Oklahoma City.
The Kansas women's team has two second-place finishes.
"I'm generally pleased with where we are right now," Schwartz said. "We haven't been training for immediate success. Our goal is to be in position for the Big Eight Championships."
Kansas' final Big Eight tune-up will be next weekend in Manhattan. The KState Open, held on the same track as the conference championships, will allow the Jayhawk coaches one last look at their competition.
Senior captains Marc Bontrager and Jeff Wilson are not worried about
"We'll use both these meets to assess where we need work," Schwartz said. "Then we'll focus on individual needs. We want to get gradually stronger."
Battle of the Birds: Kansas, Iowa swimming teams to meet
By Tom Erickson
Kansas sportwriter
The No. 22 Kansas Jayhawk men's swimming team will tangle with the No. 12 Iowa Hawkeyes in a non-conference meet at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow in Robinson Natatorium. The Jayhawks are eager to find out which bird is the best.
Kansas brings a record of 6-2 into the meet, including a perfect 3-0 mark against conference teams.
overlooking the Hawkeyes, who are 7-0 overall and 5-0 in the Big Ten Conference.
“It’s hard not to look ahead and past Iowa,” Bontrager said. “But we do have to focus on them. It would be nice to win it or at least give them a really good meet before conference.”
Wilson agreed that the focus was on tomorrow's meet.
"There's always a chance there, but I think we're just going to get in and use this as one last race and get ready to go." he said.
The duel will be the third time this season that Kansas and Iowa have met. The Jayhawks and Hawkeyes both swat at the 'Husker Sprint Classic' and the 'Husker Shoot Out last
Nov. 18-20 in Lincoln, Neb. Iowa won both
Bontrager said the prior meetings would be to the Jayhawks' advantage.
"We've seen them before," he said.
"So the pressure really isn't there. Win or lose, we basically want to have a good swim."
Nerves most likely will not be a problem for Wilson tomorrow.
Wilson and Bontrager will be among six seniors honored before tomorrow's meet. The class of 1995 has compiled a 26-11 record at Kansas and finished no lower than second at the Big Eight Championships in the past three years.
Last Friday, the Hawkeyes defeated No. 17 Ohio State 132-111 in Columbus, Ohio. Iowa was led by junior Krysztof Cwalina and senior Rafal Szukala, who each won three events against the Buckeyes.
"I'm just looking at it as another meet," he said. "I'm excited that my season is coming to an end, but I'm not looking much beyond conference."
The next day Kansas met with Northwestern in Evanston, Ill., and again came away with a win, 164-112. Iowa senior Jim Mulligan was a three-time winner for the Hawkeyes against the Wildcats.
talked to the team yesterday about overlooking Iowa.
Kansas coach Gary Kempf said he
"It's impossible to look past Iowa, but it's easier to be content and complacent with conferences a week and a half away," he said. "We've looked at every meet this far as a chance to get better, as a chance to progress towards our goal, and this is just another step along that way."
Kempf said that Kansas had a chance to win their first Big Eight title in 16 years.
The starting time for the meet, originally set for 2 p.m., was moved to 3:30 to allow fans attending the Kansas-Oklahoma basketball game a chance to attend the swim meet also.
Breaking the mold
Check out Kansas sophomore guard Jacque Vaughn in this week's issue of Sports Illustrated. According to the article, Vaughn breaks the many stereotypes that exist about who a student-athlete is.
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