Thursday, April 29, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Call Calmese short; call her tiny; just call her anything except slow
By KEN STONE
Associate Sports Editor
Staff photo by DAVE CRENSHAW
Calmese says she hasn't grown an inch in two years
You won't hear her say it, but if Sheila Calmhee had a pet slogan she would probably have said, "I was a good girl."
At 4 feet 10 and 94 pounds, Calmese leads the University of Kansas women's track team with season beets (and school beetles) in the 100-meter dash, and 25.2 for the 220.
BEING ABLE TO run so fast with legs so short doesn't defy description; it bergs for it. But when asked how she manages to get to a hill, she swifty, she answers with a mutilated look.
"I don't know," said Calmese, a freshman. "How come you ask? You want me to answer that? For one thing, it's natural ability. That was a bad question you
A better question was asked. How tall are the members of her family, who live in L.A.?
"I have a sister, 15, 5 or 5-7, who weighs 170," she began. "I have a sister, 14. She's 5 and 3 and 13. My brother is 12. He's about my size.
"MY BABY SISTER is 4-8 and she's 11 and weighs 99. My mother is 2-11 and I77. My brother is 10-22."
How was Calmese able to reel off such statistics?
This "little bitty thing" can run like the wind—even if she's running into one.
Competing at the Wichita State University Relays several weeks ago, Calmese took first in the 100-meter dash with a 12.5 and seconds in the 200-meter dash and 440-yard relay, a team she's both anchored and led off.
Her time in the 200 was 25.2, only three-tenths off her best of 24.9, which she ran in
But for Calmse, the 100 time was almost embarrassing.
"Make sure you get this in," she ordered.
We were running against a 15 hour ankle hour.
"Well, I'm not going to give it up."
CALMESE OBVIOUSLY doesn't think her height is a disadvantage.
"When I go to meet and see tall people, I don't think about it," she said. "To me, it is a kind of thing that I never do."
"I ran my first track meet in the fourth grade. I was about nine. I was kind of scared."
Running for a city club in St. Louis, the Royal Knights, for the past few years, Calmeles attracted the attention of Knights coach, Mike Carr.
CARR WATCHED Calmee fly in Junior Olympic competition and encouraged her to go to a school where he knew his diminutive dart would find good coaching and good
facilities, Calmese said. Thus she came to Kansas.
Besides having to adjust to college life and collegiate competition, which she says her hands' waying, Calmine says the girl's disaffection with her marks this year.
IN A TRIANGULAR meet with Emporia Kansas State College and Kansas State College at Pittsburgh last week, Calmese full out in the muscle while sprinting full out in the cold.
"I think it's mostly a strain in the quadricreeps," she said. "You know how sprinters are; it's easy to pull a muscle in this kind of weather. But I've still been able to practice. I'm going to the trainer every day."
Calmshe will run in this weekend's Big Eight track championships no matter what. She'll enter the 100- and 220-yard dashes and possibly the 440 mile and mile races as well.
"I INTEND TO GO" she said. "It's not
that I can't run on it. It just hurts.
I don't care."
Whatever her condition, Calmese goes
On a slick track at the Kansas Relays two weeks ago, Calmese proved herself up to the level of her national-class opposition by winning the 10.8 m race she said that converts in 10.8 for 100 vards.
into the conference meet one of the favorites. She's not only the best KU has to offer, but also one of the tops in the Midwest.
"I if Train and put my heart into it, I can run a 1.0, maybe," she added.
THAT'S ADMIRABLE goal, but calmness she thinks her calling is on. She asks why she is calling.
"The 220 is more my race," she said. "I'm a slow accelerator, and the 220 gives me more time in the race to think. I can concentrate on it.
"anything over a 220 gets to me," said Calmese, who was partially responsible for dropping a baton on the last leg of KU's mile relay at the Kansas Relays.
Apparently unconcerned that the team didn't finish well, Calmese concluded, "We didn't place in the mile relay, so you don't have to publish that."
Jay Reardon, Rockhurst High School's outstanding track athlete, is close to signing with KU, assistant coach Gary Pepin said yesterday.
Track team near signing Missouri star
By GARY VICE
Sports Writer
"It's not official yet," Pepin said. "The papers are in' my hand, but we expect to see it."
Reardon, brother of Kerry Reardon, a defensive back on the Kansas City Chiefs, is one of the nation's premier jumpers with 19 kills in the triple jump and 7-0 in the high jump.
"HE'S HAD $6 scholarship offers and he’s narrowed it to Notre Dame, Colorado, Missouri and us." Pepin said. "We anxiously awaiting to see if he'll decide on
David Blutter, a spinner, and Steve Combs, a triple jumper, from Parker High School in Birmingham, Al., visited campus this week after being invited by assistant coach Stan Narewski. Both athletes are considering playing football as well as playing basketball in the 100-yard dash, was named all city-wide receiver in Birmingham while Combs
played tight end and defensive back. Combs has sailed 4-2 in the triple jump.
NAREWSKI SAID, "t think if Bluster comes we'll have a really good crew of sprinters. We've got some others interested from back east and with Clifford (Wiley) we will be real strong. We could very well be stronger next year than we are now."
Narewski said one of the sprinters from the East Coast was Keith Brown from Maryland who has run a wind-sided 9.3 in the 100-yard dash.
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Royals, Sox rained out . . .
KANSAS CITY (AP)—Rain and cold weather yesterday completed their wipeout of a two-game series between the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals.
The game scheduled for Tuesday night was also postponed.
Both will become parts of doubleheaders when the Red Sox return to Kansas City July 15 for what was to have been a fourgame series.
The doubleheaders are scheduled for Thursday and Friday nights, July 15 and 16. Single games are scheduled Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, July 17 and 18.
... Same for Kansas tennis
The KU baseball and softball teams are beginning to share their weather luck with the Knicks.
The KU men's tennis team traveled to Stillwater, Okla., Tuesday to challenge Big Eight rival Oklahoma State. But yesterday, upon observing the sky, pouring rain and the conditions of the courts, the teams decided to call off the match.
The team returned to Lawrence last night to prepare for the Oklahoma Sooners match their opponent.
It will be the last opportunity for fans of KI to tennis to see their team play at home this weekend.
Another outing rained out.
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