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Thursday, February 1, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Soaring High
Kensan Staff Photo by DAN LAUING
The new mosaic tile Jayhawk watches with an open eye to KU diver Scott Davies. The mosaics are created by Dana Rutherford.
backdive off the three meter spring board in the Robinson Natatorium. Watching is coach Chuck McHeerry who makes two trips each week from Kansas City to help in the diving training. A daily workout in the 24-foot trampoline and 75 dives off the boards.
Mental Frame Critical To Diver's Consistency
Standing alone at the edge of the springboard, his back toward the water, University of Kansas diver Scott Davies is the focus of the spectators' attention as he prepares to execute his dive. The crowd and judges have been told which dive he is planning to do. Now he must do it—and do it well.
Davies springs from the board and his body becomes a blur as it spins through 2% somersaults before entering the water. Davies looks at the scores, scores are being displayed on flash cards by the five judges who watch his approach and execution. Davies looks at the scores and returns to the praise or consolation of his opponent in the final fleeting. Only the next dive is on his mind.
"In a meet, you have a certain number of dives to do," Davies said. "You get psyched up for your first dive and then there's a mental ledown when you watch everybody else go. When it's your turn again, youre mentally after you've finished, mentally, after youre finished, you can't dive anymore. You have to stay away from it for a day or so."
Despite the preparation the sport demands, Davies and his fellow diver Steve King enjoy its challenge. Both sophomores, Davies, Wichita, and King, Overland Park, develop their skills to develop to each other's talents and to prepare themselves for the competition.
"I've learned more from diving with Steve King than I did all through high school," said DAVIES, "I think Steve is the most consistent diver in the Bie Eight."
The two young men once were rivals. As a junior at Shawnee Mission West, King won the Kansas high school diving title. Competing for Wichita Southeast, Davies, placed second, just a point behind. But Davies turned the tables on King the following year by winning the 1971 state meet. King finished second.
As freshman Davies and King were KU's top divers, King took a pair of third place finishes in the 1972 Big Eight meet and Davies finished with a fifth on the three
Davies and King will continue their intense afternoon workouts in which they execute about 75 dives, and for the next two weeks they also will use a videotape playback camera. Assistant coach Chuck McHenry, an Amateur Athletic Union coach from Kansas City, Mo., also coaches the divers.
meter board and a 10th on the one meter board.
Defense Suttle's Primary Concern; Forward Confident'Hawks in Race
The goal of the daily, two-hour practice sessions is consistency.
"You work hard toward doing the dive so that you do it automatically in a meet," Davies said. "That's when you become confident enough to blow dives. You must be consistent."
The 6'9" Suttle was switched from center to a forward spot this year and he likes the change. He said, "If I'm going to make it in the pros, it'll have to be as a forward. I don't think he's going to play more than 220 or 225 pounds, and that's not big enough to be a center in the pros."
Suttle said, "When you're a center, you
How do you convince a prep-All-American averaging 26.6 points and 15 rebounds a game to come to your university? According to Rick Suttle, the University of Kansas sophomore basketball ace, you must be persistent.
Suttle said, "The K.U. coaches were nice. They kept coming around, calling and writing letters. They really made an impression."
Suttle, who set a career scoring record of 2,045 at Assumption High School, St. Louis, Mo., has been impressing Jayhawk opponents ever since. Suttle averaged 22.3 points and 12.5 rebounds a game while shooting with 55 per cent accuracy as a KU freshman. So far this year he has tallied 18.2 points in his last 27 games, maintained a 51 per cent shooting average. He is the fourth leading score in the Big Eight Conference.
'Hawk Women Begin Rounds At Nationals
The University of Kansas Women's Volleyball team, which was undefeated in state competition, begins tournament action today in the National Volleyball Championship Tournament at Brigham Young University.
The winners and runners-up from each of the four groups will go to on the elimination round.
"I think we have a good chance," Mawson said. "The girls have played in two of the three national championships and shouldn't have any jitters about playing."
The Southwest Missouri State College and KU squads will represent Region VI at the national contest. The Jayhawks were the winners of the Missouri squad in the regional competition.
"Competition shouldn't be too tough in the first four games of the round," said Marlene Mawson, KU volleyball coach. "The toughest game in the early play will be Southwest Texas State University, the last game in the first round."
National play begins with 24 teams from over the nation. Competing in four groups of six teams. Each team in each group will play every other team in that group.
The 'Hawks will meet Western Georgia University and Southwest Texas State University in the preliminary rounds which end Friday.
The KU women will begin play this morning against the squad from Brigham Young University and will face the New York State University team in the afternoon.
A diver's repertoire comprises about 80 possible dives. Before each meet, he lists on a diveing sheet the maneuvers he will perform and the basic types: forward, back, reverse, inward and twist. Each variation is assigned a degree of difficulty. The diver's score is determined by multiplying the sum of the scores by the dive's degree of difficulty.
The Jayhawk squad, made up of seven juniors and one senior, finished in the top 12 of the NCAA Tournament. They played in Miami. Mawson said the girls had a strong chance to finish in the top eight this year.
The pressure of meets is nothing new to King, who has dived competitively for 12 of them. His team's record is not begin divining until his sophomore year in high school. No matter the length of time they've participated in the sport, both think it is the psychological aspect of diving that makes it a challenge.
get tired of having your back to the basket
you're facing the bucket. As a forward
you're facing the bucket.
The hardest adjustment, Suttle said, was the running. "A forward has to move around more, especially on defense. You have to be in better physical condition."
He is optimistic about the future, but realizes he still has a long way to go to reach his goal. He is not afraid to say, "I'm trying to become a better defensive player. I have to concentrate more on my rebounding, shooting range and passing accuracy," as he develops a hook shot this summer."
Suttle also feels good about the prospects for the remainder of the Jayhawks' 72-73 season. He said, "I though we'd peak after the Jayhawk Classic, but we didn't. It all wasn't there all time. We're coming around now. We're beginning to gel as a team."
Suttle said he thought the team's biggest weakness was a lack of dominance
throughout the game. "We play our best ball in the first ten minutes of the first half. Once we get a bad, instead of keeping after it, we make sure the other team get their confidence back."
According to Suttle, confidence is the name of the game and be said he thought the Missouri game would prove to be the turkey down there. He went down there thinking how good Missouri was supposed to be. Everybody was saying how they were going to wipe us. Then they had us down and we came back in. Then we had us down and we came back in the conference we couldn't beat."
"Your biggest enemy is yourself," said king. "The most important thing in diving is to be calm."
Suttle said the first half of the K-State game in Lawrence was also a morale booster. He said, “I went to Iowa State with my sister who would win, than in any game this year.”
Suttle said that the Jayhawks are still very much in the big flight title race. He
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"Several days before a meet, I start thinking about what I'm going to do," said Davies. "The day before, I work on the dives I'm going to do. Then at the meet, I sit down and think of each of my dives. If you hit the first dive right, then you're on your way. But if you blow it, you have to psych yourself up even more."
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According to Davies, some divers play on the up-built emotions of their competitors.
"In the warm-ups, some divers will get up on the board and just bounce on the end of the board and not go off," he said. "The others have to sit and watch and wonder, gee, I hope I have time to do my practice dives. You get real tight. This won't happen too often, but if you let another diver psych out, you'll beat you."
In his brief varsity career King holds an edge over Davies in dual and championship meets. Last week at the Oklahoma State game, King and Davies finished 1-2 on both boards.
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