University Daily Kansan, July.20, 1981
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KU water skiers seek support
By DAVE McQUEEN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Mike McCormic looked determined as he glided across the muddy water, gaining the momentum he needed to make his jump. After a 30 mph lap around the small, square-shaped lake, he shot up the five-foot-high ramp and was soon flying 20 feet in the air. He landed on a flat rock before making a perfect landing on the water, his knees bending with the force of landing.
Mccormick, along with several other members of the University of Kansas nationally recognized Water Skil Club, participated in a trip to lake east of Lawrence last week.
THE TOURNAMENT, sponsored by the M-Ok Kan Skl Club, drew about 100 entries from around the Midwest. KU competed individually, not as a team.
According to Brian Adrich, the club's president, KU didn't have a ski club until a couple of years ago, when he and some of his water-skiing friends decided they wanted to compete on the collegiate level.
"A lot of people went to KU who were brought up in families that skit a lot." Adrian said. "Most of us knew each of us we decided to get a team together."
Since it began, the team has done quite well, Adrich said. Last year it won the Midwest Regional Collegiate-Tournament sponsored by the U.S. athletic association, an organization that governs all competitive water skiing.
By winning the regional, the team qualified for the national tournament, held last October in Groveland, Fla., where the team placed sixth. It qualified for the national tournament and won second regional for the second straight time. This year's national tournament will be held in October in San Diego.
But despite success, Adrich said the team hadn't received much support from the University.
"We did get about $40 once, but that doesn't quite cut it." he said.
Adrich said that they approached the Student Senate for funding, but they were turned down.
JACKAY HILL, another member of the ski team, was also dismayed by the lack of support.
"The Senate should've seen that we give some recognition to KU," Hill, who placed eighth nationally last year, said.
Although the team did get some support from private donors, it had to raise most of its money on its own, He said. He has raised by entry fees from their own
Like most of the other members of the team, Adrich said that he'd been sking since he was a child. However, his team had competitively until he came to KU.
tournament, selling T-shirts, and raffling off ski equipment.
Adrish said there was a big difference between recreational and concerts.
"You're not just going out and taking a case of beer and dodging the boats," Adrich said. "You're out there practicing."
AS WELL AS COMPETING in collegiate tournaments, where points are kept on a team basis, Adrich said that many of the skiers on the team also
compete in open tournaments such as the one here last week. At each tournament the skiers compete in three instances, slalom, jumping and trick skiing.
The event that requires the most practice, Adrich said, is trick skiing. In trick skiing, the ski gets points by performing a series of tricks on skis that look much like a large skateboard with no wheels. The tricks, he said, ranged from skiing backwards to spinning in the air.
"TRICK SKIING TAKES more time than any other event," Adrian said. "If I had the time and the money, I'd be out here every day."
State senators and representatives will hold a public hearing at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Lawrence Public Library concerning the effect of the reapportionment of U.S. congressional districts in Kansas.
The state will neither lose nor gain seats in Congress, but district boundaries must be redrawn.
The five districts are obsolete because of population changes in Kansas.
THE 1980 CENSUS figures show a 5.1 percent increase in Kansas population since 1970. Because the districts grew unevenly, the variation in population is larger than the U.S. Supreme Court permits.
Redistricting, which the State Legislature will conduct next year, is necessary to ensure equal representation in Congress.
State Sens. Dan Thiessen, R-Independence, Elwaine Pomeroy, R-Topeka and Jack Steinger, D-Kansas City, as well as state Reps. Robert Frey, R-Liberal, Joseph Hoagland, R-Roverland Park and John Solbach, D-Lawrence, will attend Wednesday's public hearing after a morning meeting in Kansas City, Kan.
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