Thursday, April 20, 1978
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Hurdles no obstacle for Lowrey
By CARLOS MURGUIA
Sports Writer
Lorl Lortrey has accomplished a lot in less than a year at the University of Kansas
Lowrey, Norwich freshman, not only has proved herself on the track in her event—the hurdles—but also in the classroom and as a team leader.
Lowrey did not lose a race during the 8m. Eight indoor season competing in her specialty, the 60-yard hurdles. She won the 10-meter title in the hurdles in a time of 8.0 seconds.
HER ALLY LOSS was at nationals where she finished third. Despite her third-place finish, her of 7.67 at nationals set a Big Eight and a RU record.
Lowey has been beaten only once in the outdoor season. She has the KU record and one of the best times in the Big Eight this year. Her hurdles. Her best is 14.2 in that event.
Lowrey, the student, is enrolled in 16 hours. Last semester she made the honor
"Getting good grades is very important to me," Lowrey said, "probably because anything that I'm going to be associated with, I want to make a good impression.
"THAT IS ALSO why I try to do well in track."
Lowrey said preparation and concentration were two of the keys which enabled her to win races. She said that before she ran in a meet she concentrated on technique, but that once the race started, her running became almost automatic.
"When the race starts, I tell myself just to go hard and fast," she said. "If someone palls ahead of me, I tell myself I'd better pick it up.
"I enjoy winning the most when I'm running against tough competition," she said. "Besides being happy because I won, I also feel relieved that the race is over."
LOWREY SAID she didn't know what type of track competition to expect when she first started to compete against collegiate athletes.
"I knew how well I could run," Lowry said, "but I was apprehensive about how
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good the other hurdlers in the Big Eight were.
"The competition was tough in the 60-year hardies, but now that we're outdoors, it's not as difficult."
For the first time in her track career, Lowrey has been competing in the 400-meter hurdles. In the second meet of the indoor season at the Nebraska Invitational, Lowsey set the KU record in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 63.21.
"I had never run the 400 hurdles before," she said. "I's more exhaucing than the 100 hurdles, but I'm starting to get used to it. If I want to team learn goals, then I'm willing to run it."
LOWREY'S DIVERSIFIED talents can be traced back to her high school days. While she was in high school, Lowrey tennis and volleyball, basketball, tennis and volleyball.
"We had a really good basketball team at Norwich," she said. "My junior year we came in third at the state tournament, and I made the 1A state basketball team."
Lowrey said that the choice of playing basketball or running track at KU was a
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"IF I DON'T do well the rest of April, I'm going to ask Adrya. Murty not to pay me for the month." Bostock said Tuesday in Seattle. "I want to give him money to produce. I want to give him his money's worth. If he won't keep the money I'll ask him." In a kind of organization that can use the money."
"I guess I could have been pretty good as a basketball player," Lowrey said, "but after considering high school, I thought I had better chance of doing better as a harder."
The 27-year-old outfielder—a proud, sensitive man—is so upset by the slump that he benched himself before Tuesday night's game against the Mariners. And he says he's thinking of asking owner Gene Autry not to pay him.
Tuesday night, he talked of the problems of the next previous, a game typical his short.
IN HIGH SCHOOL Lowry ran the 100,242 yards hurdles and the mile and medley relay.
Bostock hit 338 last year for the Minnesota Twins after a 323 season in 1976. Feeling underpaid at $2,000 a year, he was involved in a bitter dispute with Twins' owner Calvin Griffith and signed with the Angels for $450 a year.
Lowrey won state titles in the 100-yard hurdles in her freshman, sophomore and junior years. Her time of 14.3 as a national hurdler in the 110-yard hurdles was a national record.
ANAMEIM, Calif. (AP)—When the California Angels signed Lyman Bostock last winter, they picked up one of baseball's most expensive free agents. They also thought they were getting one of the game's finest hitters.
But Bostock has opened the 1978 season with the worst stump of his career—two hats in four. He made it three more times.
She said she ran so many events because the size of the track team was limited by the school's small enrollment, and many of the athletes had to compete in different events.
"IMIGHT HAVE SNAPPED at the plate last night," he said. "The adrenaline was so high and the tension so tight, it was like blowing up a balloon as tight as you can, then
With Lowrey's help, her high school won the state title during her freshman year and finished second during her sophomore and junior years.
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LOWREY SAID an injury during her senior year stopped her from competing in the state meet and most of the other track meets that year.
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"I DEVELOPED a stress fracture of my ankle during the basketball game." Lowry
"I realize that I do have some talent and not want to waste it. And, not meaning to brag, if you've got it, you've got it, so why not use it?"
Lowry will be competing at the Kansas- Oklahoma Relays this weekend in Emporia, Iowa.
Bostock feels pressure
"This summer I want to try out for the "Junior American team that will participate in track meets in Europe," she said. "The team is going to be held at UCLA."
Lowrey said she hoped to win the Big Eight outdoor titles in the 100 and 400-meter hurdles. She also wants to qualify for nationals in both events.
Lowey said that although she received other scholarship offers she chose KU because of three factors—the campus, KU's academic reputation and the women's track program.
"I didn't want my parents to have to be burdened with the cost of my college expenses, so I was looking for a good scholarship offer," she said.
said. "I couldn't run track and I even had
justriddle just wake, I didn't start running
again until last semester when I was getting
ready for the Big Eight indoor season."
"ALSO, I KNEW KU was going to have a young track team and I wanted to help build a team instead of going to a school which already was an established power."
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