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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, April 24, 2000
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Past Jayhawk greats return for Relays
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Branson competed in a special division of the pole vault rather than in the women's event where the winner jumped only 11-11. In her event, Branson shared the runway with two unattached women's pole vaulters as well as the top six finishers from Friday's men's pole vault competition, which included Kansas junior Greg Steele, who placed third, and freshman Vadim Gvozdetsky, who placed fourth.
The women were given a handicap in which feet were added on to adjust their heights to a male equivalent. After the handicap Branson won the event, bettering second place finisher Jake Pault of Northern Iowa by two inches.
Branson said watching the men jump and then having the bar moved down for her was especially motivating.
"You look down and see the bar and you think 'I can jump that; the guys just jumped so much higher,'" she said. "I wasn't even thinking about the height levels."
All American threw Scott Russell was a bit more concerned with the marks he was turning in. The junior was trying to throw his javelin 275 feet for a Canadian Olympic bid, and therefore was a bit perturbed by his 239-foot performance in Friday's javelin competition. But despite his disappointing throws, Russell won the event by 12 feet just a day after winning the hammer competition.
Kevin McGinn, Emporia senior, ran in the decathlon Saturday during the Kansas relays. Photo by Brad Dreier/KANSAN
"I can't be unhappy with how I did today," Russell said Friday. "It's always nice to win, especially the javelin. This has always been the one I love."
The same could be said for Charlie Gruber, who was going for a sub-four-minute mile Saturday evening. But when race time rolled around, the
Junior All-American found himself fighting the day's strongest winds. He won the race with a 4:06, and promptly sat down with Kansas mile legend Jim Ryun. Ryun attended along with other former Kansas Olympians, including Billy Mills and Mark Lutz.
And it was the presence of these greats along
with the outstanding performances that proved to make the meet special for newcomers to the Kansas Relays, especially after the meet's two-year hiatus.
“There's three classes who have heard how great this thing is and now they know,” said Kansas coach Gary Schwartz. “People walked out of here feeling good, and that's what you want them to do.”
And those who attended had reason to feel good about the home team, as the 'Hawks came away with nine first-place finishes.
Team captain and junior Jabari Wamble, who earned one of those first-place finishes as part of the sprint medley relay, said he was impressed with his team's performance as well as the atmosphere at his first Kansas Relays.
Track notes:
"I was impressed with everything — the high school performances, the collegiate performances and the post-collegiate performances," Wamble said. "And I was really impressed with the whole team's effort. I thought that the team did a great job representing KU."
The Relays became the site of several miniature family reunions as many close relatives of Kansas athletes traveled to Lawrence for the first home outdoor track meet in nearly two years. Some family happenings of note:
Branson rose early Friday to cheer her younger sister, Michelle, a junior at Shawnee Mission East high school, in the 8 a.m. girls' pole vault competition.
Russell's father, Dan, drove more than 14 hours from Windsor, Ontario, and watched his son win the hammer and lavelin competitions.
**Grubber's mother, Lorraine, caught her son for a picture as he chatted with Jim Ryun, five-time world record holder and Olympian, on the sidelines.**
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