Wallace runs to Lake Placid
Tuesday, January 29, 1980
By KELLY McCARTHY
Sports Writer
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And that person will be at Lake Placid
and that person will be at Lake Placid,
for a 23-year old Heidi Wallace, a KU
graduate student in social welfare, who
on the Olympic team went to swim with
the Olympic torch by foot the 1,000 miles from Yorktown,
Va., to Lake Placid, N.Y., in just nine
Only one person from the state of Kansas has qualified for the XIII Winter Olympics.
The torch will be lit in the ancient coliseum in Olympia, Greece and then
will be brought by ship and plane to its first destination in the United States.
"The TORCHBEARER represents the 3,000 years of tradition of the Olympics," Wallace said. "Every year, the host country of the Olympics has a team of runners to carry the torch. This team will participate in the championship which will be carried in the United States."
Wallace was excited before leaving for Yorktown yesterday. The relay team begins running Jan. 31 and their Olympic duties will end about four weeks later.
"I had dreams about it a month ago," she said, flashing a big smile.
Wallace was chosen to represent the Greek community in application and then wrote several essays for the selection committee, one of which was "The Greek Concept of Life."
"The original athletes at the Olympics were judged not only on athletic ability but also on character," Wallace said. "I always try to keep a balance of mind, body and soul. I think we should be very self-reliant."
for two weeks in Lake Placid to "begin to build a rapport for the intensive, high-pressured atmosphere of the run."
WALLACE IS ONE of 52 runners, 26 men and 26 women, representing every state, the District of Columbia and Lake Placid. Last summer, the runners met
Heidi Wallace
"The runners range in age from 15 to 57 years and are from all professions and beliefs," Wallace said. "But we're all strong athletes."
"In every city that we run through, some sort of festival awaits us, parades to speeches to candlelighting to ceremonies. Everything is planned down to the minute."
"We've been told that 18 million people will be able to view us. Out in front of the stadium, we were followed by two runners with the United States team from each side. Then come thenummerners from each side, that run with us for a few miles. We are followed by four Olympic vans and the rest of the numbers."
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THE PATH OF THE torchellaurs runs through most of the original 13 colonies and some of the most historic Yorktown and Williamsburg, Va. . New York City, Washington, D.C. The country is beautiful but the weather is expected to be cold.
"Kansas is a good state to run in to
kansas for her adversity in weather."
She has been running twice a day,
she has been running twice a day to
prepare herself for whatever condition
"This report will be even more important this year than ever because the atmosphere at Lake Placid has already changed," said Katherine W. and the Summer Games in Moscow, she said.
The runners will rotate in five-mile shifts, except in the mountains around Lake Pisac where the shift will drop to four miles before resting finish their 1,000-mile task, their task is far from complete. There will be at at least eight participants at each event and at the award ceremonies.
IN ADDITION, SOME, torchbeachers will be asked to go to Greece this summer to report to the International Olympic Committee.
The spirit of the Olympics, Olympiads and Olympic begin as a religious festival of peace in which all countries came together to strive for an athletic excellence.
But politics, Wallace said, is a part of the Olympics.
dips and waivers and never out,
represents that striving and never giving
up under circumstances."
"THERE'S NO DOUBT the Olympics are a world stage and are being used as a platform to be recognized. In this point, would it be ignoring the idea of the Olympics. It is all about the challenge."
"The torch," Wallace explained, "as it
A life-long dream has come true for
Heidi Wallace as she prepares for one of the most pursued and honored competitions in the world.
But she isn't tawed by the spectacle. "It will be like one big party all the time," she said.
petitions in the world. But she isn't awed by the spectacle.
Editor's note: This is the third in a continuing series of stories about KU's ties with the Olympics. Tomorrow: The Olympics. Next spring, the jump champ, champion, starts a comeback.
Touring pro takes over golf reins
Sports Writer
By KEVIN BERTELS
College basketball teams hire basketball coaches. Football teams hire football coaches. Even track teams hire track coaches. Even doesn't the KU golf team hire a golf coach?
The KU athletic department finally decided it didn't know the answer to that question and so, for the first time in school history, KU has a full-time golf coach.
Ross Randall, a touring pro for seven years, took over the team two weeks ago. During the fall semester, the golfers were coached by Max Kenney, PGA pro at Alvamar Hills Country Club, and Jerry Carr, president of the Alvamar Carriage.
JOHN HANNA, who had coached the first year of school, late August. Working for KU with a child development grant Hannah, like Kennedy and Waugh, had little time to work with the class.
"John was as good a recruiter as we've ever had, but he just didn't have any time," Waugh said.
The 34-year-old Randall certainly has the credentials to become KU's first bona fide golf coach. A high school star in the San Diego State team, he was the first team All-American in 1967 at San Jose State. That year he finished second in the NCAA tournament, now an established star on the PGA tour.
AFTER GRADUATING from college in 1988, Randell earned his PGA tour card and set out to make his million playing golf. He went on the tour but never found his fortune.
"I played well enough to keep my tour card, but there weren't many years when I made more than I spent." "Randall said."
He helped as a pro at Winged Goat Golf in 2015. He was a prefective clube in the United States, and then became head pro at the Ames Country Club in Ames, Iowa. He was first asked to play golf in 2013.
Long involved with the golf team, which practiced at Alvamar Hills, Waugh had a part in the hiring of Randall during a six-year second- year stint as assistant athletic director.
"I WANTED U to have a good golf game," suggested he and the bill. We interviewed and considered a lot of people, but Ross was best qualified to do what we needed.
What the KU athletic department wanted was an established pro who could coach the squad and handle most of the teaching at the school. Then the KU will bill the bill, he was also interested in the job.
Randall takes over a good team, with all the players back from the squad that finished last season. There is, however, a black cloud hanging over his head, and he knows it's
"I enjoy teaching very much," Randall said. "I enjoyed college golf a great deal. This seemed like a combination of things I liked the most."
"I DIDN'T REALIZE how dominant Oklahoma State had been in the Big Eight until I got here," he said.
But none of this fazes Randall.
If dominant is a good word, awsome may be better. In fact, as Randall readily pointed out in the last 22 conference titles and runners-up in last year's NCAA Championships.
"I've been involved in a good college football game," he said, where generally in the top 30. In 66 we runners-up in the NCAA," he said. "Of course, Oklahoma State is our main obstacle."
"I haven't really looked at our players. We'll have to get motivated. It'll be interesting to see if we can make a run at them."
RANDALL'S CONFIDENCE is have spilled over to his players. Mark Crow and Mark Steiner, seniors, who were the captain of the season, echoed their own coach's sentiments.
"He's already recruiting the good players and he's someone who can help us with the finer points in the game," Crow said.
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First, the bad news. KU's gymnastics squads lumped home from the weekend with two dislocated elbows, a sprained knee and a set of jammed toes.
Gymnasts limp about after weekend spills
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By TRACEE HAMILTON
The men's team won a quadrangular tournament made up of 20 players, led by junior Brad Foerr, all-around competitor, scored 229 points in outdistancing FHays State, Northern Iowa.
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FOERCH WON the all-around competition with a 48.85 score. Next were teammates Ron Ortman and Marshall Kelley.
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"My score should have been higher," Foerch said. "I broke concentration before the long-horse vault."
Ortman jammed his toes during the floor routine. Snow did not know when he would be able to compete again.
Larry Kaplan sprained his knee during the floor exercise and will be out for two or three weeks, according to Coach Ken Snow.
"IT WAS A good meet, but there were a lot of accidents." Snow said.
Foerch agreed, adding, "It's easy for some of the guys to get psyched when they see someone get hurt."
Another KU swimmer, Mary Kay Fitzgerald, who said she was worried about NU breaststrokers Caroll Hall and Sherie Hairwax, also farmed well.
"I ALWAYS HAVE trouble getting my races going, especially the first 50 yards," she said. "With her there, I didn't have that trouble."
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Fitzgerald won the 100- and 200-vard breaststroke, while teammate Ann Fields took second place in the same events.
"We probably would have beaten Memphis State had Cindy not been hurt," Snow said. "The other girls were shaky on the ground after the accident. It was a weekend event."
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POSHOMORE KATHY Ross, fifth in all-around competition, scored an 8.95 on the balance beam for second in that event.
THE DWINDLING WOMEN'S team, competing in a triangular meet in Stillwater, Oka., Sunday, finished behind her opponents and lost yet another gymnast to injuries. Cindy Barnard, freshman all-around competitor, fell as she dismounted the uneven parallel dislocates both of her elbows. Her teams KU with only three healthy gymnasts.
Lindstrom credits Jodea Eckstrom of Nebraska, who placed second in the race, with pushing her to the win and to break her record.
The women's team will face Washburn in a dual meet Saturnay at Robinson.
The 'Hawks will meet the Oklahoma Sooners Friday. Oklahoma, defending Big Eight champion, finished second in the NCAA Championships last year.
Overall, KU captured first places in all but four events.
"We will continue to compete, even though we do not have a full roster. We will concentrate more on individual performances."
Lindstrom's individual medley record is 2:10.8. The previous record of 2:10.9 was shared by Lindstrom and Lanny Schafer.
Women swimmers swamp Nebraska over weekend
While Janet Lindstrom was rewriting the 200-yard individual medley record at Robinson Natatorium Saturday, the KU women's swimming team was sinking.
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The Cornhuskers captured the top spots in the 100- and 200-yard backstroke and in the one-and three-meter diving.
Ortman and Foerch shared top honors on the parallel bars, each scoring 8.45. Other winners were Kelly, who scored an 8.9 on the first bar, and chalked up a 8.2 on the porous horse.
But those Nebraska first-place finishes were not enough to beat KU.
Chris Phillips. Steve Foerch finished third with a 8.95.
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For his performance in pulling KU back for conference contention with a 34 record, Valentine has been named the Big Eight's Player-of-the-Week.
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KU coach Gary Kempf also was surprised. Kempf did not even predict a victory over NU.
The Jayhawks shared second or third place in all but two of the events.
Tuesday, January 29
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Mo.)-Darrell Valentine is a two-time All-Big Eight guard. Last week, the Kansas junior finally began playing up to those high standards again.
Valentine was 12 of 12 from the free throw or 18 points to a KU defeated Oklahoma 7-6. The team produced then hit 7-6 shots from the floor to help KU dispose of Colorado 7-6Saturday 11:45am.
"I WAS REALLY surprised that we were sweeping the events across the board," Lindstrom said.
"I really didn't think the meet was going to be easy," he said. "For the first time this season, I think we demonstrated how well we can swim."
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