University Daily Kansan
Freshman makes big splash for Jayhawks
By KENDAVIS Sports Writer
It has been almost a year since Dick Reamon resigned as head coach of the University of Kansas men's swimming team. At that time, the KU swimming program was in the midst of a two-year slump.
Staff Photo by DONALD WALLER
The Jayhawks had won eight consecutive Big Eight championships under Reason's leadership but dropped to third and fourth in the conference his final two years.
Freshman swimmer Steve Graves shows the form that has made him one of KU's most dependable swimers. Graves has won at
Watery Graves
Ball Spah, a highly successful AAU coach from Wichita, was named Reaman's successor last April. Spah immediately injected new blood into the men's program by bringing several highly regarded high school swimmers with him from Wichita.
Leading this group of Wichita freshmen is Steve Graves, Graves, Brent Miller, Craig Penzler and Mark Cole. KU's rest star competed with KU to the lower competence of enjoyed two years ago.
GRAVES WASTED little time at the beginning of the season, showing his value to the Jayhawks in both the sprints and the distance events.
Against Colorado in the season's first dual match, Graves won the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 9:58.8 and placed second in the women's event, but has not been beaten by a Jayhawk this year.
least one event in every meet but one this season. He has shown himself running the freestyle, butterfly, breaststroke and relay this year.
Graves was even more impressive against the Missouri Tigers in the second meet of the year. A 5-10, 158-pound swain had a 7.9 yard finish and finish tape led KU to an over upset MU.
Graves not only won two events against Missouri, but also set two KU freshman records in the process. He lowered the 100-yard breaststroke record by two-hundredths of a second to 59.9 and beat the freshman 200-yard individual time, recording with a time of 1:59.4. His third victory against the Tigers was in the 200-yard breaststroke.
The versatile Graves has won at least one event in every meet this year except the Southern Methodist meet with David Fulton, who also participated on two victorious KU relay
teams in the big Eight Relays in Robinson Gymnastics.
GRAVES HAS firmly established himself as a winner for the Jayhawks. He had been expected to perform well, but no one knew how long it would take him to become a leader.
"I're really pleased with the way I've been swimming," Graves said. "I've had a lot of fun, and I think I've been doing pretty good.
There are two AAU teams in Wichita, and Graves was not on the same team that Spahn coached. The two knew each other, though, and Spahn was greatly interested in bringing Graves with him to KU when Spahn was appointed coach.
"COACH SPAIN PLAYED a big part in my decision," Graves said. "He was probably the main reason I came here. But I also learned that people need the program would be good this year."
Spain said he was fortunate to have convinced Gravens to come to KU.
"When I was recruiting," Spahn said, "Steve was the kind of guy that I knew it."
"But I didn't realize until just recently how much I really wanted him. He's a good competitor, a good student and a hard worker. He'll swim anything you ask him to without complaining. He's just able to ask or should ask for in a student athlete," he said.
Graves said that the success he enjoyed the season had made him work harder during his internship.
"ITHINK my teammates expect me to do a good job every time," Graves said. "I'm always a little afraid that I'm going to let them down. But I don't mind a little pressure. It makes you work a little harder."
"State is the team to beat." Graves said. "But we have a lot of good freshmen who are anxious to do well in their first year, but not enough to do well because this is Bill's first year."
"That's our team goal this year—to win the Big Eight. Then next year we can work toward the nationals. That's a big step. You are swimming in yourself, in your most of swimming is mental."
Graves said he thought the Jayhawks' chances of regaining the Big Eight swimming title this year were very good. He said that if all the KU swimmers swam well, KU had the potential to win the conference championship meet March 24 in Lincoln, Neb.
But not all of it, Graves said one of the touch transitions he had to make at KU was
the adjustment to longer and more difficult practices.
SWIMMING DEMANDS a lot of practice time and the KU tankers are just beginning to taper their workouts from four hours to three hours a day. That leaves little spare time or study time for Graves, who is majoring in chemical engineering.
"You just have to have a little harder in your study," Graves said. "Once in a while, if we have an out-of-town meet, it makes the burden even a little harder.
Graves has set an individual goal this season of placing at the NCAA Championships March 23-28 in Long Beach, Calif. He will compete with tough chore first the step was to qualify
"Steve was a good swimmer to begin with." Spahn said. "But he's doing a lot of things better this year. There's no doubt that he's going to be a lot, better."
Women's team seeks victory against Mules
After winning the first two games of a current six-game road trip, the KU women's basketball team travels to Central Missouri to play in a game at 7:30 tonight in Warrenburg, Md.
Kansas, 15-6, crushed the Miles, 112-73, last November, but the Lady Jahyawns never have defeated Central Missouri State in regular season play.
Marian Washington, KU head basketball coach, said that despite the lopsided victory, a KU win would not be as easy to attain tonight.
"THEY HAVE A LOT of experience, and I would expect they're going to be mentally prepared to meet us," Washington said. "If we have a weakness to our advantage, we can beat them."
Washington said she expected Central Missouri State to deliberately slow the tempo of the game against the high-scoring Lady Jayhawks.
The Mules enter the game with a decided height advantage over Kansas. Central Missouri State is anchored by 8-5 center Candy Carlsen and 10-5 guard-forward Marlin Carlson.
CENTRAL MOSQUIER STATE won the Missouri Conference title last year and has many players who returned from that squad.
Through 20 games last year, Rangel was
murdered in Missouri's state's leading score
and was charged with murder.
The Lady Jayhawks, however, will encounter Lynette Woodard and Adrian Mitchell. Together, these backline players are bagging 51 points a game and 26.2 rebounds.
CHERLYB BURNETT, another Kansas player averaging in double figures, will not play in tonight's game. She is suffering from an ankle injury she received in the semifinals of the Lady Jayhawk classic two weeks ago.
The game with Central Missouri is the 18th-ranked Lady Jayhawks' third road contest since they beat Kansas State in the finals of the Classic, 76-63.
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