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Friday, December 2, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Javhawks to host Big 8 Relays
By KENDAVIS Sports Writer
Bill Spahn, head coach of the Kansas men's swimming team, views the Jayhawk's season as really two different seasons. He sees the first season as all of the meets before Christmas and the second as the meets between January and March.
If that is the case, the Jayhawks will find out a lot about the second season in the final stages of the first season. KU hosts the 1977 Big Eight Relials this weekend in Robinson Natatorium. All of the conference teams will participate in the meet with the Cardinals at Rolla. Today's preliminary round begins at 3 p.m., and the final seats are for 1 p.m. tomorrow.
The Jayhawks, who have a 2-record in dual teams this year, will be trying to better a fifth place tie in the 1976 Reals. Spahn sees the meet as an important one but he is looking forward even more to the Jayhawks Dec. 10 against Southern Methodist.
"THE RELAYS are important in our development as a team," said Spahn. "It's a good opportunity to get all the guys together from all of the Big Eight teams.
"But we're in the real early stages of our season. We are building for a good meet this year, and we will have to build our first season. We've worked hard to build our progress, but after that we'll have to build to a bigger high in March. The Big Eight Championship meet is our most important part."
Spahn will be taking a good look at Iowa State in the relay. The Cyclones were a preseason favorite along with Missouri to win the conference title this year.
Good workouts carry gymnasts into third meet
The University of Kansas men's gymnastics team moves into its dual meet season this weekend, and for KU coach Bob Lockwood it could not have come at a better
The Jayhawks will compete against Central Missouri State University and Stout State College (Wisc.) at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Warrensburg, Mo.
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Lockwood said that this week's workouts have been the best he has ever seen and that they are the most challenging.
Lockwood's young squad has demonstrated steady improvement through its two successful seasons and last week's Midwest Open. Both meetings were held under a championship format and Lockwood is anxious to see how his team can compete in a head-to-head contest with two other teams.
A double dual meet like this one should let us see what we can do in optionals and as a team," he said. "Right now, we need this kind of competition."
KU defeated Central Missouri State last year in Lawrence, 173.55-173.15, but Stout State may present an even stronger challenge to the Jawahres.
"I know they've scored 194 points in a meet this, which is more than we've done so far."
He said Central Missouri State was led by an all-American gymnast, Eric Jayco. Jayco placed third in the all-around at the small college national meet last year.
Lockwood said that senior captain Mike Hynes was injured when he was practicing a routine on the floor exercise Monday in event, but that he would perform in all six events.
Record on line for swim team
The University of Kansas women's swimming team will put its 2-0 record on the line this weekend against eight other teams at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
Gary Kemp, women's swimming coach,
said Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado and
Minnesota would offer the most competition
in women's swimming. The top swimmers teams in the Midwest."
The other teams entered in the meet are Iowa state, Iowa, Central Missouri State, New Jersey.
Although several of Kemp's swimmers have been battling the flu this week, he said that the entire team would travel to Lincoln and that everyone would swim.
"Some of the girls are still a little weak,"
saying, "but I don't think it will hold down
their performance."
Kempt said he is expecting strong performances in Lincoln, because KU enters a young but strong team paced by two freshmen - Linda Savige and Janet Lindenstrom. Each has broken two Big Eight records already this season.
Savage broke the 100-yard breaststroke and the 200-yard second seconds and the 200-yard breaststroke seconds.
Lindstrom took seven-tenths of a second off the 100-yard backstroke record and broke the 200-yard backstroke record by three full seconds.
Adding experience to the Jayhawk's squad will be Debbie Bunker, Chesterfield, Mo. sophomore, and Laurie Propat, a Misson senior mission, and a big Top Eight diver.
"We have some outstanding swimmers," Kemp said. "I look for us to do quite well."
be the league's best team. That's not to take anything away from the other teams, but in a meet like this, this depth is extremely important and Iowa State is very deep."
KANSA HAS shown its depth of inhiture in its first two victories over Colorado and Montana. Spain has seen great success in work, but that the squad would be putting a little bit in the next few weeks. Spain hopes to rest his swimmers as much as possible until not work is delayed until after that meet.
"We're going to ease off during the finals and then work very hard, hand getting ready for the big game."
are in good shape. I let them go home for Thanksgiving but they all worked out at home. We have an advantage over the other teams because they haven't trained as hard as we have this early in the season and that is building our confidence."
Even though Spahn hopes to get a good idea of how the Big Eight Conference shapes up during this weekend's relays, he knows that things can change before the conference championships come around next March.
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"It will be hard to tell how good Iowa State is going to be even after this weekend," Spahn said.
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Oilers acquire former KU star to bolster team
Former University of Kansas free safety Kurt Knoff was acquired by the Houston Oilers yesterday to take the place vacated on the Oilers' roster when veteran safety Mike Weger was placed on the injured reserve list.
Knoff, who was selected on the second round of the 1976 NFL draft by the Denver Broncos, sat out the entire 1976 season and then finished he suffered during his senior year at KU.
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