Wednesday, February 22, 1978
University Daily Kansan
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Staff Photo by RANDY OLSON
Loosening up
Michelle Brown, KU women's distance track runner, limbers up on the bench Field House. Brown, Oklahoma City, opposes hokies, opposing sophomores.
her arrival last year. Last weekend she won the mile and two-mile light Indoor Track championship U12 placed second in the meet.
Brown runs tall in small frame
By CARLOS MURGUIA
Sports Writer
Although not physically imposing, a killer of giants exists on the KU women's track
At 5-2, 59 pounds, Michelle Brown hardly has the appearance of a dominating runner. Yet she dominates the KU record books in the middle distance events.
Brown, Oklahoma City, Okla.
sophomore, holds school records in the indoor and outdoor mile runs, the outdoor 800-yard runs and the indoor two-mile run.
SHE SET two of those records last week at the Big Eight Indoor Championships in Lincoln, Neb. Her times of 4:55.55 in the third and two mile earned first places in those events.
Brown said her size had its advantages on the track.
"All it means to me is that I have to take more stries than someone who is taller than me." Brown said. "It comes in handy when I'm running behind someone bigger than me. I can use them as a wind block until I'm ready to make my move."
Brown said she was proud of the fact she had never stopped running in the middle of a race.
BROWN SAID THAT when she raced, she competed against herself as well as the men.
"A great part of running is attitude," she said. "If you tell yourself you can't run any distance, you will."
Brown said, however, that there had been during a race when she had thought about it.
"FOR INSTANCE, just last week in Nebraska, I got spiked for the first time," Brown said. "The first thing it thought was, 'it is bleeding a knee.' Should I stop?"
"But I told myself there was nothing I could do about it, so I should just run the race, relax and not worry about it until after school," she said. "And set the school record in the two-rules."
Brown said she thought she was competitive for two reasons.
"I like to prove to myself that I can win
Brown said. "I also like to show
other people."
"When I ran in high school, I rarely got beat. I'm just not accustomed to losing."
BROWN, PRIMARILY a long distance runner, said she can short distances when training.
She said that during her junior year she practiced with the boys' cross country team.
"My coach didn't think I could do it," he said, "but I ended up going to state university."
"The boys were better," she said. "I do remember I beat two guys on both sides and I heard the next day they quit the team because they got beat by a girl."
"THE HAS A positive influence on the team," Anderson said. "She's very helpful."
KU women's track coach Terl Anderson and Brown was hard-working and a team leader.
"We're not like individuals competing against each other," she said. "Since we're all good and close friends it makes us feel more like a team."
Brown said she wanted to place in the top two miles in the mile and two miles in the Bight Eagle.
"I'd love to wim but wint now I'm working on being a medal winner," she said. "I'd also like to qualify for nationals in both events."
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BY RODNEY ANDERSON
MANHATTAN—The KU women's basketball team's hopes for the Kansas Conference title ended last night when it went to Kansas State, 74-68 in Ahearn Fieldhouse.
Sports Writer
The loss was the seventh of the year for the 17th-ranked Jayhawks, who entered for the second time.
KU committed 19 turnovers and 23 fouls, many of them late in the game. The Wildcats scored seven hits, seven seconds, sunk 12 of 14 free throws in the last 5½ minutes to clinch the game and outlast the Clippers.
KU head basketball coach Marian Washington had little trouble explaining the defense.
"I feel as if we were ready to play," she said. "We just made some mistakes and got flustered. Free throws have played a big role in both of our losses to Kansas State."
K-State defeated Kansas 66-65 in the last Kansas Conference meeting between the intra-state rivals last month in Allen Field House.
Freshman Lynette Woodward paced the kansas attack with 20 points. Adrian Mitchell had 19 points.
Four Wildcats scored in double figures, led by Eileen Feeny's 14 points. Ten of Feeny's points came in the second half and blunted a KU rally.
The Lady Jayhawks, who trailed K-State most of the game, were behind at the half, but the Chiefs had won the victory.
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quarter buckets to stretch their lead to 13
quarters.
Washington said a lack of poise, not free throws, kick KU the game.
The Wildcats' victory assures them a thorn in the MWA region 6-basketball tournment.
Kansas will have to receive an at-large bid to enter the tournament. Washington said that she thought KU's chances for qualifying in regional play were good and that the loss would ultimately help the Lady Jayhawks.
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