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Thursday, April 25, 1974
University Daily Kansan
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KU High Hurdler Gregg Vandaveer
Hurdler Hopeful Despite Bad Luck
By GERALD EWING
Kannan Sports Editor
Injuries and bad luck often turn what was supposed to be a good season into a bad one. Ask Gregg Vandaveer, it's happened to him.
Vandaverde was one of the best burdens in the country last year but so far this year he is not going to be missed.
The "so far" is what is important to him because he figures so many bad things have happened to him earlier this season that the remainder has to get better.
His problems started at the United States Track and Field Federation Meet in Oklahoma City, Jan. 26. At that meet, he was hampered by a contest which has hampered him ever since.
"I got to the first hurdle and going over it I pulled it and then I fell," he said yesterday. "It's been well before but I've tried to come back too soon."
The injury kept him out of much of the indoor season but he said he was ready for the Big Eight Indoor even though he had injured the muscle two weeks before the meet.
Vandaaveer's main problem at the indoor wasn't the muscle but was what his teammate Danny Seay called "his ability to attract people."
"At the Big Eight Indoor, I was feeling my heat when a freshman from Iowa State hit me and threw me off and I didn't make the final," he said.
"At Texas, a guy fell into my lane during
The same guy getting jostled for the second meet in a row couldn't happen or should't have but it did last weekend at the Kansas Relays.
the prelimis and I didn't get to finish."
Vandavear said, "I ran over and protested and the put me in the following heat but I continued to protest and forth protesting, that I finished sixth."
"This time it was Vance Roland (a hurdler for Kansas State) and it was at the sixth hurdle. He hit the hurdle and when he was falling he brushed me to the left."
Vandaveer said he could have made the next hurdle but when he went to plant his
foot he had to avoid stepping on Roland's
foot and he lost his rhythm.
That was in the finals and to get there, Yandavae had to run his best time of the day.
Vandavea said with some luck and a time that good behind him, he shouldn't have any trouble at this weekend's Drake Relays.
"I don't think I'll have any problems unless it's really cold and then I might," he said. "It's supposed to rain but I can run all in the rain in if the wail will hold up."
Vandavaver's main competition at Drake will be LSU's Larry Sharp, who won here in the game.
"Ship's 13.1 doesn't scare me." Vanvaar said. "His time was wind-aid and he could do it."
Vandavaer said the injury he suffered last January didn't bother him that much any more. "I don't see anything," she said.
"I'm disappointed because I wanted to win the Big Eight Indoor again," he said. "But in a way it has helped me because I peaked too early last year. I peaked at the
Relays and was run out by the time of the big meets. I want to be in the big meets so badly because I think I can win the nationals."
The Amateur Athletic Union and National Collegiate Athletic Association meets are in June, so his injury should be completely healed by then.
And if all goes right, he might even pick up a little luck on the wav.
Celtics Defeat Knicks,105-94
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The Celtics defeated New York's Nets in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference finals.
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