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SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2008
SWIMMING & DIVING
KANSAN FILE PHOTO
After losses earlier this season, the Kansas swimming and diving team has won five straight meets and improved their record to 6-2. Kansas last victory was against Iowa State. Their next meet is today at Iowa State.
Winning streak continues
Jayhawks on path to Big 12 Championship after fifth straight win
BY TAYLOR MICHEL NYE
tnye@kansan.com
The Kansas swimming and diving team continued its roll into a championship season with a victory against Iowa State.
The Jayhawks defeated Iowa State by a score of 144-89. The team improved to 6-2 and recorded its fifth straight victory.
"We did very well for the challenge put before the team," Coach Clark Campbell said. "As a staff, we felt the team responded well."
The meet was held at a neutral site in Columbia, Mo., on Jan. 26.
Sophomore Ashley Robinson had a big day, winning the 1,000-yard freestyle and placing second in the
The Jayhawks started the day with a victory in the 200-yard medley relay and placed well in both of the meet's diving events, led by freshman Erin Mertz and junior Hannah McMacken's one-two finish on the one-meter board.
500-yard freestyle.
Juniors Danielle Hermann and Maria Mayrovich continued their impressive seasons, recording three victories each.
"Danielle and Maria are at a new level this year," Campbell said. "Both have very big goals and are well on their way to accomplishing them."
Hermann won the 200-yard individual medley and the 200-yard backstroke. Mayrovich swept the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle events. Both swimmers were on the first-place relay team.
"I have definitely picked up momentum as the season has gone on," Hermann said. "The past few meets I have been faster than my in-season goal times, which makes me really excited for conference."
The Jayhawks haven't lost since the beginning of November, and Campbell credits that to relentless preparation.
After a few early season losses the team has really stepped up and
hit the end of the season," Hermann said. "Putting together our streak of dual meet wins gives us great confidence in entering this championship part of our season."
As the Jayhawks conclude dual meet season the team is busy preparing for championship season.
"We need to polish up a few things like relay starts, but were on track for an awesome Big 12 Championship," Campbell said.
Kansas will be in Ames, Iowa,
tonight, for a road test against Iowa
State (5-3) in the final dual meet of
the season.
The Layhawks have won the last four meets against Iowa State.
"It's our last opportunity to race before the Championship season," Campbell said. "Each event will be important because we need to continue to sharpen things up."
Edited by Patrick De Oliveira
WOMEN'S TENNIS
Jayhawks fall after two matches Arkansas, Tulsa defeat Kansas in weekend away meets
BY ALEX DUFEK
adufek@kansan.com
Former Kansas women's tennis player Lauren Hommel hit the ball in one of the Jayhawks many matches. *Kansas* lost 5-2 against Arkansas Saturday and 4-1 to Tulsa Sunday.
KANSAN FILE PHOTO
The road wasn't friendly to the Kansas women's tennis team last weekend.
The team slipped to 0-2 in dual match play after dropping both matches. The Jayhawks fell to No. 39 Arkansas 5-2 Saturday, and they suffered a tough defeat against No. 43 Tulsa, 4-3, on Sunday.
"For our first match it would have been great to win, but I was pleased with some of the performances. We still have a lot of hard work to do," coach Amy Hall-Holt said. "We were disappointed with the outcomes of some of the matches, but the girls realize now what we need to do every time we step out on the courts."
Highlights from the weekend included an impressive victory from the duo of senior Elizaveta Avdeeva and junior Edina Horvath over the 45th-ranked double's team in the country, Arkansas' duo of Maryori Franco and Nanar Airapten. With another win the following day at Tulsa, Avdeeva and Horvath are now 4-1 overall in the spring season.
Freshman Magdalena Torarczyk also looked impressive, emerging victorious in both of her singles matches, improving her overall singles record on the year to a perfect 5-0.
"I'm very proud of Magdalena's performance. I'm very proud of Edina and Liza playing doubles," Hall-Holt said.
Torarczyk, a late signee from Poland, said she was enjoying the conveniences playing tennis at the University allowed her.
"Here the opportunities to play tennis are great because I have two great coaches and when I played in Poland I didn't have my own
coach," Torarczyk said. "We have a good team and a lot of girls who I can play with."
This Sunday, Torarczyk and the rest of the Jayhawks will attempt to rebound from the road losses with matches on their home courts in Lawrence. Kansas faces Illinois at 10 a.m. and St. Louis at 3 p.m. at Firstserve. 5200 Clinton Parkway
that first match against Illinois, knowing that it's going to be a tough match, and we gotta stay focused and learn from what we had from this last weekend and build on that," Hall-Holt said. "The girls are excited about being home for the next two weeks."
"We have got to be focused on
Edited by Jared Duncan
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