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Wednesdav. November 5,1975
University Daffy Kansan
Wilcoxen chooses soccer
By JOE RADCLIFFE
Sports Writer
At first glance, Terry Wilcoen looks like a fairly normal type of guy. The only thing that might make him a little different is that he plays for the University of Kansas soccer team.
But even that isn't really strange unless you consider that he was born in the United States.
States. An American starting for the KU soccer club is a rare creature.
Wilcoxen is from St. Louis, a hotbed for soccer in the U.S. Wilcoxen said his first exposure to soccer was in the fourth grade.
"IPLAYED FOR A BAY'S Club team until seventh grade," he said, "then for two years on the St. Louis Kickers, sort of a farm club for a senior men's league."
When Wilcox was a high school sophomore, his family moved to Lake St. Louis, a town 40 miles from the city. His career was delayed for at least two years.
Photo by CHARLIE BROWN
"I couldn't play on the team anymore, so I had to play on my own," he said. Anyone who has tried to play soccer by himself would know that Wilcoxen didn't play much soccer during his high school years. Instead, he pursued other sports.
"HOCKEY WAS MY MAIN interest, so I joined the Rainbow Rockets, a private club that was sponsored by the St. Louis Blues," he said.
During the 10 months Wilcoxen was
the player he was also the top singles
tenner player at age 24.
"I used to compete as a water skier," he said. "I'd do trick sking exhibitions in amateur ski tournaments around the Ozarks and other places."
"Soccer skills are lost," he said. "I just wasn't developing them."
While all this doesn't exactly sound like a perfect training program for a college soccer player, Wilcoxon said he wasn't worried.
WILCOXEN GRADEMATED FROM high school a year early and came to KU at the end of his junior year. Now be an 18-year-old student in architecture and interior design.
"The goalie job was, too hard on my hands," he said. "I kept breaking my fingers and broken fingers aren't a good idea in my field."
He came out for the team as a goalie last year. But because of class conflicts, he was unable to play some of the games that fall. The conflict was solved last spring, and he played in the nets until this fall, when he was switched to midfield.
When he first started on the team, when his team's foreign players a problem leagues him.
Soccer player Terry Wilcoxen
"IHADN'T PLAYED in three years, and
I had trouble playing with them," he said.
"I was not able to play their level of soccer.
"But after a while I realized that the type of soccer I played—aggressive—was different but good. I was lucky because I was taught the fundamentals early by
Wilcoxen said that he had learned a lot by playing on a team with so many countries.
"I used to be less controlled," he said.
"I'd kick long, risky passes while the Europeans would play a very controlled game, using their passes and keeping them out of the ball."
WILCOXEN SAID HE didn't think any
WALKER in the team between
unfairing nakedness.
"Everyone has their own customs and they have basically different ways of living that may clash with ours," he said. "I have no problems."
As for his playing, Wicoxen said he felt better about it pow.
"In the past," he said, "the players would be reluctant to pass to a new player. But that's all changed. We all play as a team now."
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