Tuesday, May 11, 1976
KU seeks 10th title
By GARY VICE
Sports Writer
When the University of Kansas track team travels to Lincoln, Neb., this weekend it will be tried to uphold a tradition that has been carried nearly a decade of Jayhawk track squads.
The team will be seeking KU's 10th consecutive Big Eight Outdoor Track and Field Championship. The Jayhawks have boarded the conference outdoor tie 21 out of 34 games. Their championship came with a runaway point spread over second place Kansas State. 158-101
Entering the meet, the Jayhawks boast in leader in seven individual events, and both are members of the National Team.
Except for those two relays, the running events will be in metric distances at Wier Stadium for the first time in the meet's 48-year history.
FOUR JAYHAWKS WILL also be returned from last year to defend their conference championships. They are seniors Randy Benson in the 400, Larry Jackson in the 100, Roger Hammond in the 80, and Chris Cromwell in the 400 intermediate hurdles.
Asked whether anyone could upset the favored Jayhawks for the title, head coach Bob Timmons said, "Not if we run well. If we don't run well, we'll think we'll repeat as conference champs.
"However, I won't be complacent about it because I thought we had by far the best team at the indoor championships and we didn't win."
"I KNOW K-STATE and Oklahoma will be fired up to knock us off." he said. "At the end of this season, you have to play."
Jackson, who coupled his victory in the 108-yard dash with a third-pace finish in the 220 last year, said, "We're going to win it. We don't no doubt about it. We've got it made."
"ten straight," Benson said. "We've got
to be sure it'll be revenge for losing
people."
The Jayhawk trackman have already tagged K-State with a 94-50 dual-muet stumping two weeks ago in Memorial Stadium, and the Idaho's upset victory for the indoor title.
Some of KU's top competition won't come from the other Big Eight teams, but from within, pitting teammate against teammate.
SUCH WILL BE the position of KU's "Mod Squad" shot put to Steve Stone, Jim Podrebarac and Rudy Guevara. Three have been conference leaders at
Podrebariac, a junior, has a 60-8% best this season and Guevara, the reigning indoor champion, has a best of 59-10. Guevara, the holder of two conference indoor shot put titles, put the 16-pound shot 62 4% in 173 to finish second.
Another internal battle will be the 400, where Benson will be fighting off the challenges of Jay Wagner and Waddell Smith.
various times this season with Stone now leading with a 61.3% toss.
BENSON, THE SCHOOL record holder and conference leader in the event with a 46.2, said, "I'm going to win it. There's no reason not to win!" Jay beats me, I'll have to eat my words."
Both Wagner, who ranks second this year at 46.5, and Smith, who was runner-up last season, have led the pack.
"It's going to be close between us," Wagner said. "I don't like to lose, but you know it."
Smith, who hasn't been running as well as he did last season, said, "I think I ready now. I feel mentally strong. I think I might break the school record."
In the javelin, Mark Kostek, Brian Todd and Hammond rank an impressive first, but he was right. The 264-4 top toss this year equals the meet record of 264-4 set by former Jayhawk Sam Colson in 1972. Hammond, victorious last year with a 34-5 loss to Todd and Todd, a freshman, has a 22-6 loss.
THE 100-AND 200-meter dashes could shape up into a battle between Laverne Smith and Larry Jackson. Jackson, the defending champion in the 100, has a top mark of a wind-aided 10.2, and 20.3 in the two events.
Smith, who has qualified for the Olympic trials in both events with 10.1 and 20.5 clockups, said that he and are going to out. We show him one and one long as one of us wins it all right with me.
The three other KU track men who lead the conference are Cromwell, in the 400 intermediate hurdles, 49.74; Bill Lundberg, in the 4,000 steppechase, 38.86; and Anken, in who is hired with Oklahoma's Harry Smith with a 13.7 windbed 110 hurdles.
Obviously the Jayahaws seem to be the team to beat, with top performers in nearly every event. An upset by either the Wildcats or Sooners seems unlikely.
K-State's best opportunity to pick up points will be in the middle distances, behind the strength of half-milker Bob Prince Jefferson Jillem Schermel and Keith Palmer
Oklahoma is strongest in the spirits with John Garrison and in the pole vault with John Lacey.
Women's trainer resigns
TEVE SCHOENEL
Associate Sports Editor
Bv STEVE SCHOENFELD
Maley, the only trainer ever hired by the department, called Marian Washington, women's athletic director, and informed her of the decision.
Irene Maley, women's athletic department trainer for the past two years resigned last night because of continual contact with the department's administration.
That there was no training room, office,
desk, telephone or other facilities for her
relationships.
Maley said she quit because of incidents that had built up over time. She said the final incident was a questioning her judgment about a policy she firmly believed in. She wouldn't elaborate on the incident. That there was no training room, office.
Maledy said Washington had promised her these facilities.
"She'll tell you next year we'll share the training room," Maley said, "but I've been promised this before. My stomach, my heart can't take it anymore. I've simply had it."
Maley said Washington didn't say anything to her about her resignation because she didn't give her a chance to respond.
"I didn't want to hear what she had to
maybe aid. I've heard that bulshit
before."
Washington was unavailable for comment last night.
Maleday she was also upset about being
last year that her budget was $1,732 and
she was not as comfortable with it.
"What happened to the rest of that money," she said, "I don't know. This is just one example of all the inconsistencies I've had to put up with."
Maledy met with Washington last week and told her she wouldn't work for $8,640—the salary she would have received for 12 months' work. Malley said that unless she was paid the same amount for nine months' work, or was paid $10,000 for 12 months work, she would resign. No decision was made at that meeting. Malley said.
One of those divers, Lauret Propt, also was KUU's only representative in the war. But her experience was
By the end of the summer, seven of KU's 10 women's athletic teams will have sent squads or individuals to the Association for Women (AIAW), national championships.
Going into the last few weeks and months of their seasons, four other KU women's basketball team is preparing to compete in national tournament softball, tennis, golf and track and field.
Sharon Drysdale's softball squad will be shooting for its first College World Series title starting Thursday in Omaha. One of the team's goals will be to avenge a loss to Iowa State, winners of the Big Eight tournament two weeks ago.
IN NOVEMBER, Nancy Bissell ran in the AIAW national cross-country championships in Armes, Iowa. Earlier this semester, the swim team sent a relay队 and a pair of divers to the national championships in Ft. Lauderdale.
ASTRIID DAKASA, THE NO. 1 KU woman's tennis player, will play in the national tennis tournament in June at Salt Lake City, to women in women's tennis coach Tom Kivito.
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In only its second year of existence, the University of Kansas women's athletic department is batting 700 as far as parachutism in national competition is concerned.
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Kivisto said Dakas, who played in the national tournament twice for Odessa (Texas) College before coming to KU, probably would make it through the first few rounds, but "we're just hoping for a good draw."
Arizona State, the defending champion, will offer the most competition for KU, will be Purman, Houston Baptist, Boeheim and the FIU teams are the other teams to beat, she said.
She wants to save her last year of collegiate eligibility for next year, when she's more experienced and able to play with doubles teammate Daksa, who also will be playing in her last national tournament.
"It all depends on how Diane Nene comes along," she said. "Our top three compare well with other top teams. Last year, KU qualified 14th, and the cutoff was 12 teams. This year, they're cutting the field to 16 teams and the top 80 individuals."
CECILIA LOPEZ, KU'S NO. 2 player,
won't go to Salt Lake City, Kivito said,
because she has played in the national
tournament three times.
Another team waiting until June to play in a national tournament is the KU women's golf team, coached by Nancy Bozer and led by her daughter. Bee Bozer.
THE KU WOMEN'S track team will be represented in national competition by Sheila Calmese, Sheri Lanter, Connie Lane and Jesse Riddle.
Three players are going for sure, Boozer said. They are Beth, Nancy Hoins and Kathy Webb. Diane Nessel's season scoring average does not make the AIAW qualifying standard of 86, but she still might go to permit KU a full four-member squad.
Gary Pepin, in his last year as women's track coach, will guide the team to Manhattan tomorrow for the national meet, and he will day on Kansas State's all-water team.
Her team's goal at East Lansing, Mich., the site of the tournament, will be to make the cutoff after the first two days of play, she said.
Freshmen Calmese and Lanter will compete in the sprints and hurdles.
"RIGHT NOW," BOZOER said, "I want to get the girls through which they can be protected."
Connie Lane will high jump and Riddle will put the shot.
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