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Thursday, April 4, 1974
University Dally Kansan
Net Captain Has Come a Long Way
By MIKE FITZGERALD
Kannan Sports Writer
For someone who didn't seriously start thinking about tennis until he was 18, Steve Vann, coach of the University of Kansas tennis team, has come a long way.
Vann started playing tennis when he was 11 and competed in high school but was not the dedicated and well-rounded player he is today.
"Steve was kind of a slow starter in high school," said Coach Mike Howard. "He didn't win the big tournaments and wasn't the hard worker he is today."
But something happened to Vann when he made the decision to play tennis for Cowley County Junior College in Arkansas City; he started to win.
"I decided to go to Cowley County mainly to play tennis," he said. "I won the state doubles as a freshman in 2015 and then as a sophomore. Those two years I went to nationals and went to the third
round my freshman year and fourth round
my sophomore year."
wat caused this change from the inconsistent and lackadaisical play as a high school netman to the tournament-winning play of a junior college star?
1' became a little more dedicated once out of high school and really started to work
After two successful years at Cowley, Vann was recruited by several colleges in Florida and a few others, including KU. She joined the University of North Carolina at Northeast Missouri State at Kirkville.
"I decided to go to Northeast Missouri over all the other schools because of the good tennis they had there," he said. "The year before, they had won the small college national championship. The only thing was that after I was there about a month, the coach was fired and the tennis program fell apart."
Vann stayed on, however, long enough to win the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) championship. He then went to the national meet only to be defeated by the No. 1 seed in the third round.
Vann, an education major, is now at KU and has become the kind of player Coach Howard said he would "like about six more of." After going through the fall season without a single defeat, his record stands at 14-4.
"I try to be consistent," he said, "I like to play a smart game, hustle, and make the other guy make the mistake. I guess you could call my game serve and volley. I also use the lob shot quite a bit to get the guy out of position and make him run."
Vann said that lately his concentration had been lapping and that he had been falling behind early in the first few sets, something he didn't like to do.
"I think concentrating and being consistent are very important," he said.
"That's how I was taught to play, Carlos Goffi (a teammate) taught me, however, that 80 percent of winning is getting the ball over the net."
Vann was optimistic about the Jayhawk tennis team this year and thought that KU would definitely be a contender for the Big East title, past seven years he is beloved to Oklahoma.
Morningstar to Tour Yugoslavia
"It should be a strong race," he said.
"We're a good contending team this year and can win it if everything falls into place."
Vann cited Oklahoma State as the team to beat this year, along with Oklahoma and Colorado. He said that after these three plus KU the competition drops off sharply.
Roger Morningstar, junior forward for the KU basketball team, will represent the Jayhawks on a Big Eight conference team that will tour Yugoslavia this summer. Morningstar was selected Monday by a vote of the KU basketball team.
The Big Eight team will have 12 players, one selected from each school and four selected by the coaches of the touring team. The coaches have not yet been chosen.
No Big Eight team is to have more than two players on the touring team, according
Vann is one of two seniors on a young team that is the best KU has had in some time. The prospect of leaving the team, which he really starts winning doesn't bother him.
Practice will begin May 22 at the University of Colorado. The team will leave the United States May 28 and return June 20. They will play an eight-game series.
Dean Neasmith, head athletic trainer at KU, will accompany the team to Yugoslavia. Neasmity was chosen because of his seniority among Big Eight trainers.
to Jack McCielan, assistant commissioner of the Biu Eight conference.
The Yugoslavian national team played each
state, losing only to Kansas
State and New York.
Nesmith was the trainer for the 1960 United States team that participated in the Olympic Games.
The Big Eight team will be repaying a visit made by a Yugoslavian team last fail.
"It's a good feeling and I enjoy it," he said. "I like to be considered as the start of it."
"But it is beginning to get old—I've had enough of it. I don't regret it, though."
I've set all my goals except for winning the Big Eight and competing in the college nationals. When I get out of here this spring, I'm on the team that won the Big Eight."
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