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University Daily Kansan, April 16, 1981
DAVE KRAUS/Kansan staff
Theo Hamilton, assistant women's track coach, brought the enthusiasm he felt during his collegiate years to his coaching job.
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Hamilton brings enthusiasm to coaching
By CYNTHIA HRENCHIR
Sports Writer
Theo Hamilton has been both participant and coach, and speaking from experience, his spirit of competition didn't lessen when he became the assistant coach for the KU women's track team.
"I hated loosing," he said, adjusting his grip on the ball to "Kansas" in white letters on the side.
"There was even competition between teammates. Danny Seay, who was in my event, said "Come on, I am here," and I knew he was thinking 'one,' and I knew he was
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"Carla Coffey, when she came here this year, helped me to realize I was doing this," he said, referring to the women's head track coach.
LATER, HAMILTON found himself trying to instill those feelings into the athletes he coached.
thinking 'one.' Whoever came in first, after the event, we wouldn't talk to each other until we calmed down."
He rubbed his throat, laughing. "More than one meet, Carla and I have come back with hoarse throats," he said.
Hamilton's own track career began in his sophomore year at West End High School in Birmingham, Ala. His
"I didn't run track before," Hamilton said. "The coach, Baggart, found to find members team. He asked me to come out, and I say 'okay.'"
physical education instructor, who also happened to be the school's track coach, held two days of track events during class.
After graduating, he went to Jefferson State Junior College, also in Birmingham. There he began to concrete on the long jump and the triple jump.
AT THE END of his junior college career, he was being recruited by Kansas. He visited the campus the day of the 1973 Kansas Relays.
"I was really impressed," Hamilton said. "After being in jucro track meets, the Kansas Relays were great. The jucro team was so good, I wanted to be on a winning team."
Hamilton graduated from KU with a bachelor's degree in education. During his kU career, he won the 1975 NCAA Indoor Championship in the long jump. His jump still is the third-best collegiate mark recorded indoors.
Continuing his training along, he competed at the 1976 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore. There, he took fourth in the long jump.
"I suppose you could have called me an alternate," Hamilton said. "But nothing happened to the first three, and I never attended the 1976 Olympics."
Assistant track coaches quietly help plan Relavs
By MIKE ARDIS Sports Writer
Sports Writer
While head track coach Bob Timmons is busting about Memorial Stadium, juggling administrative, coaching and public relations duties, coaches will be behind the scenes quietly keeping the Kansas Rallys running.
Roger Bowen and Steve Kueffer are involved in everything from recruiting and coaching the athletes to planning the Relays.
BOWEN HELPS with the sprinters,
hurdlers and pole vaulters on the field.
Off the field he schedules the events in
which athletes will participate. He also oversees the recruiting process.
"I make sure it gets done," he said.
"Timmons oversees us like I oversee recruiting."
Bowen left Meramec Community College in Missouri, which had ended its track program, and came to KU two years ago. He moved into the top assistant's position when Gary Pepin joined and women's track position at Nebraska.
Kueffer came to KU after coaching at Versailles High School in Missouri for four years. He was a graduate assistant last year and had planned to take a job when he met but when Lepp left, Timmons asked to stay on. He was happy to oblige.
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"I'm real ticked to be here," Kueffer said. "I've learned an awful lot working with awfully good people."
KUEFFER'S DUTIES include working with the jumpers, recruiting and serving as the chairman of the Student Relays committee. The committee sends out invitations, provides training and conducts for the athletes during the Relays. The committee also sells sponsorships for the Relays.
Working with Bowen and Kueffer are the graduate assistants. They may be even less known than the assistant they are highly respected by the athletes
"They do all the dirty work and put in
them. Paul Titus, junior high inspector,
Paul Titus, junior high inspector,"
The graduate assistants work individually with the athletes and rotate to different athletes during the year to get more exposure to all sides of track.
"We have a pretty good rapport," second-year coach Bob Symons said. "Sometimes it's a little easier to talk to us because we're closer to their age."
WORKING WITH Symons are third-year coach Steve Sitler and first-year
coaches Calister, Aaron Hove and Dean Russell. They assist in recruiting by keeping tabs on athletes across the country.
Timmons said he was pleased with his assistants.
"Kansas over the years had been blessed with many good assistant coaches. We've been fortunate. There are others who cannot attribute success to a single coach."
"They are highly involved in all parts of track. They are hard-working and enthusiastic. They compliment one another in type of coach athletics respect and like."
Bowen said he had always been interested in becoming a coach but originally wasn't sure of which sport
"As a kid I knew I would up in some phase of coaching," he said. "I thought it would be basketball. I enjoy basketball." He later achieved on track.
"This is my profession," he said,
"but I enjoy all the sports."
Bowen said he enjoyed coaching and working with the athletes.
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