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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, February 26, 1999
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SPORT OF THE WEEK
Marco Cobb, San Jose Costa Rica, senior swings for the raucquetball. Cobb, who practiced yesterday at Robinson Center, is the No. 1 player on the 40-person intramural Kansas racquetball team. Photo by Augustus Anthony Piazza/KANSAN
Racquetball back in the swing of things
By Matt Tait
Kansan sportswriter
It's almost tournament time, but not just for whom you think.
Sure, the Big 12 basketball tournaments are coming up. Yes, March Madness is right around the corner. But another tournament coming up in March is not as hwed.
The Crimson and Blue Invitational, the Kansas Racquetball Club's 1999 tournament, will be Saturday, March 6 in Lawrence.
Jason Noyes, Great Bend junior, said that the tournament include about 45 players from Missouri, Southwest Missouri State and Kansas.
Each team will seed 12 players, and they will square off against each other in a round-robin style tournament.
Clark Langemeier, club president and Manhattan junior, said the other two schools coming were ton notch.
"that're racquetball's version of Florida and Florida State in football. "Lanegmeier said, "They're awesome."
The tournament is sanctioned by the United States Racquetball Association, which is providing a variety of services for the tournament.
The USRA will offer insurance coverage, first aid and safety equipment for tournament participants, and is sending a representative to run the event.
Last year, the club was not active because
"It been a lot of work, and I think it will be a success," Noyes said.
Langmeier built this year's club from absolutely nothing.
of a lack of interest and little student organization.
"We're trying to redeem ourselves because the guys in the past really soiled the racquetball club's name," Noyes said.
Several club members, including Noyes, who likely will be next year's president, give Langemeier all of the credit for restoring the club.
"I've got some pretty big shoes to fill," Noyes said. "I'm going to do my best, and it will be a lot easier since Clark has done so much of the groundwork."
James Pierce, club vice president and Costa Rica graduate student, agreed with Noves.
I knew Clark, and we played all of the time for fun, and he started talking
about starting the club up again'. Pierce said. "He's the one who took
Pierce said. "He's the one who took the initiative, and it's grown a lot." Pierce said his duties as vice president were mostly housekeeping
related. He said he got the word out about the club, went to meetings and brought in new players to make sure
Some of the club's plans for the future include attending more tournaments, forming a conference and continuing to expand the sport.
they knew what was going on.
The rebuilding of this club has been a team effort, and the members said they felt good about what the future held.
"I would really like to see some of the schools in the area, like Wichita State and Kansas State, come together and make a
conference," Langemeier said. "That's up to the next president and how ambitious he is." Noves appears ready for the challenge.
"I'm just going to follow his lead, and he's going to feed me in," Noyes said. "I've been gradually taking over."
Langemeier and Noyes have approached some schools about forming a conference, but they haven't yet heard back from them.
In the more immediate future, the club is sending a team to the National Tournament in mid-April in College Station, Texas. The executive board of the sport clubs has provided the team $1,100 to attend the tournament.
The club has submitted next year's budget for review by the board. The budget includes plans to attend more tournaments in St. Louis, Chicago, and Kansas City.
"St. Louis is a big racquetball town," Noves said.
Langemeier, Noyes and other members of the club are rebuilding the club because they love the sport.
"I started it back up for two reasons," Langemeier said. "One, was because I just wanted people to play. And two, it's a sport that so many people love, and I wanted to promote it here at the University."
Team members said the game itself provided an incredible aerobic workout coupled with fun and competitive spirit.
"It's just a lot of fun," Pierce said. "It's not just like working out, it adds something to it."
Langemeier agreed.
"When you play the game, it's a lot of fun, and I think most people do have fun playing it," Langemeier said. "It's a game you can play with your roommate or a friend, in the winter or the summer, and you can play for high competition or just for fun."
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