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Thursday, November 10, 1977
University Dally Kansan
New faces key to swim success
By KENDAVIS
there will be a lot of new faces on the Kansas Jayhawks men's swim team when the squad opens its season with a meet at the U.S. Olympic training camp 7:38 p.m. tomorrow in Robinson Natatorium.
The most prominent of the new faces belongs to the new coach, Bill Spahn, taking over for Dick Reamon, who resigned last season to enter private business, will be leading the Jayhawks in a meet for the first time.
The Jayhawks, who had one of the best recruiting seasons in the country last spring, will be relying on many freshmen this season.
Spahn, who came to KU after a successful career at the Wichita Swim Club, has a big task ahead of him. He will be trying to put the dayhawks back on top of the Big Eight.
REAMON LED the Jayhawks to eight straight Big Eight titles between 1984 and 1975. In the last two conference meets, however KU has dropped to third and fourth.
If the Jayhawks are to attain the title this year, they will have to do it on the strength of their team.
great pride in the recruiting job of Kansas this past spring. He said the result of the recruiting was shown in the intrasquat deep freshmen put on an impressive showing.
"Without a doubt, they were the five most
winners. swimmers at our intrasquat
men's pool."
Those five underclassmen were Bill Crampton, butterfly, Omaha, Neb; Steve Graves, medley, Wichita; Rick Jenkins, freestyle, backstroke and butterfly, Freestyle, backstroke, freestyle, St. Louis and Brent Millett, freestyle, backstroke and medley, Wichita.
Those freshmen join 14 lettermen to make up the 1977-78 Jayhawk swimming team. Jeb Blankenship and Mark Hill will serve as captain of the team, which will be diving team will be led by Kurt Anselmi and Tom Anagnos. Both are defending conference champions; Anselmi in the three-year-old division.
Barnes, Doug Smith and Griff Docking.
OTHER RETURNING lettermen are Jesse Gray, freestyle; Jay Arnsperger, backstroke; Peter Bakkar-Arkema, freestyle; Peter Estes, butterfly and bracelet; Kris Flaas, brassiere; Velasco, breaststroke and butterfly; Rocky Vizzari, diver; and freestyling Brent
The team has been working out since September and Spain said that practices so far have been safe.
"Practices have gone real well," he said.
"But it is hard to tell how well until the first meet. I know that the guys have worked hard and have had good enthusiasm.
"The guys are really looking forward to
their next meeting. I am anxious. I think
we're ready to win委会."
Spahn said the breaststroke, the individual medley, the butterfly and diving are the strongest events for KU this year. He indicated that the distance freestyle, the backstroke and the sprint freestyle may be weaknesses...
"WE'VE GOT some potential in our weak areas." Spahn said. "We've been working hard to improve them. We'll just have to see if our guys are as good as we hope."
In the meet against Colorado, which is in a rebuilding year, Spahn plans to use some of his top swimmers in events other than their specialties. He is trying to save his top performers for next week's dual meet against conference favorite Missouri.
"I'm not really sure about Colorado," Spinut said. "I know less about it." They beat
us last year (60-53) and I think they have pretty much the same team back.
"I DON'T know what kind of recruiting year they had. I think we should win, but I might be regarding Colorado too lightly. We are getting too much for granted about our team."
Missouri has been picked to win the Big Eight this year but Spahn said that Iowa State also should be highly regarded. The Cyclones are the defending champions, and Spahn puts them ahead of the Tigers on the basis of diving strength.
Kansas has been tabbed to finish third in the conference, and Spahs says that is based mainly on recruiting. Following KU, the predicted order of finish is Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Nebraska. Kansas State does not have a swim team.
The women's basketball team will scrimmage at 4:30 to Allen Field
Cage tune-ups set
the men's basketball team will hold an intraqsuad scrimageinat at 2:30 p.m.
The KU field hockey team encountered a major obstacle on its way to the Region VI tournament in Grand Forks, N.D. this season. The team is stranded and stranded the Jayhawks in Vernilion, S.D.
Hockey squad stranded on way to regional meet
The Jayhawks left Lawrence Tuesday night on a chartered bus to be sure they would have plenty of time to make the trip. At four o'clock daytime morning, the team checked in a motel in Vermilion, after getting cut traveling speed to six miles an hour.
"I don't know how they (tournament officials) are going to manage it," KU coach Diana Beebe said in a telephone interview yesterday, "but the tournament has to be played this weekend. None of the teams has lost and go back home and make the trip again."
Beebe said she had been in touch with tournament awards in Grand Forks.
"THEY TOLD me that we were the team they'd heard from," she said, "and that everybody else was presumed to be snowed in, but nobody knows where they
Other teams trying to get to the tournament are the universities of Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
Dakota, Southwest Missouri State and Bermidji of Minnesota. The University of Nebraska team was traveling with the KU team.
If the teams can manage to reach Grand Porks, Beebe said, there are other problems to consider.
"The field we're supposed to play on is just grass," she said, "and 'I don't know how much snow there is going to be on top of it. We could be in a real mess if they can't get it cleared and the weather warms up in snow. We could be playing in a swamp."
BEEBE HAD put in a bid to hold the tournament at Lawrence, she said, but it was held at William Jewell College in North Dakota last year so the NCA gave it to North Dakota
"They should have at least scheduled it in a stadium with artificialurtt," she said. "If we ever get out of here, we're ready to play and I think we'll do pretty well."
"I don't have any idea who we'll be playing, but we're anxious to play somebody. We may be here until the volleyball team shows."
The Region VI volleyball tournament starts in Grand Forks on the 17th.
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