Page 12 University Dialv Kansan. April 2. 1981
Recruit savs he'll be 'Hawk.but CU calls foul
From Staff and Wire Reports
GREELEY, Colo.-Ted Owens swiped a highly regarded Colorado prep basketball player yesterday from the University of Colorado, but CU's athletic director said that the Kansas ballcourt coach committed a foul.
Tad Boyle, a 8-foot-4 guard from Greeley Central High School in Greeley, Colo., announced in an im-mortal conference yesterday he would attach
BUT CUS' Athletic Director Eddie Crowder said yesterday that Owens put extra pressure on Boyle by applying for the vacant CU coaching job, left open since the end of the college season by departure of Bill Blair, who took a job with the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association.
"Ted Owens applied for the job
to force the kind of deal here when
Boyle has to make a quick decision, and I don't think that's right.
"It's a shame for Tad Boyle to be pressured by Kansas to make a public commitment so early. We get caught in the middle of it all. That says something about the intense recruiting pressures on a high school kid."
Owens was out of town recruiting and was unavailable for comment. Boyle said that he was told Tuesday that Tayler had been shot at that time was shocked, but that Owens called yesterday to tell him he had called Crowder only to recommend other candidates for the not to apply for the position himself.
that they didn't even contact me and I'd said I wanted to make a decision by Wednesday.
"It all seemed so strange," Boyle, considered the best high school player from Colorado in five years, said. "And I thought I was the best player on the right. But I have decided that I am
going to Kansas, so that tells you who I
think was telling me the right thing."
Boyle said that his announcement to attend KU was not the result of any extra pressure. He said that he had a slight advantage in making a decision one week in advance of
"I decided that I wanted to make my decision by April 1, and if CU had been interested, they could have done something.
"Ted Owens applied for the job here. Now he is trying to force the kind of deal here where Boyle has to make a quick decision."
Eddie Crowder. Colorado Athletic Director.
Coloraco knew of his intention to decide early, he said.
the national signing date for high school seniors, which is Wednesday.
"But I never heard from Mr. Crowder or anyone else," Boyle said. "The whole situation seemed so confused,
"The situation at Colorado was a factor. Their financial problems were a factor. Their inability to name a coach was a factor. I wanted to stay in the office and things going on, on, I thought it would be the best for me personally to leave."
AT THE PRESS conference, Boyle said that Colorado was his first choice but that he felt "unrecruited" by the Buffaloes. He said that he had not heard from a CU representative for three weeks.
"I wanted some idea of what they were going to do," Boyle said. "But I never heard from anybody at CU."
Boyle's closest contact with CU recently came through Creighton Coach Tom Apea, a leading candidate for the CU job, who also had been recruiting Boyle for Creighton. Boyle said that Apea had asked him to delay his decision for a few extra days to see whether he would be hired by Colorado.
Apke and his wife are expected to visit the CU campus at Boulder today, and a news conference has been tentatively set for tomorrow.
Boyle averaged 23.6 points a game and 8.5 rebounds to lead his team to the
Colorado Class 3A championship. He was recruited by Kentucky and Stanford, as well as many others.
BOYLE IS THE first player known to have committed himself to KU. An especially close-mouthed coaching staff has refused to discuss specific issues in order to avoid problems for the high-quality students caused by excess publicity.
It is known, however, that KU has little chance of signing either of the Midwest's two best prospects—7-foot1 center Greg Dreiling of Wichita Kapaun-Mount Carmel and 6-foot4 Aubrey Sherrod of Wichita Heights. Dreiling has said that he wanted to attend Wichita State, but that he was waiting to see whether the NCAA placed the Shockers on probation.
Sherrod is said to be considering Wichita State, also. But he, too, has an eye on the NCAA, reports say.
Young replaces old for KU swim team
Bv JIM SMALL
Senior swimmer Janet Lindstrom (left) leaves KU with many records, but freshman standout Jenny Wagstaff may be the person to break them.
Sports Writer
A record-setting KU career ended recently, but a record-breaking career may have just begun.
Janet Lindstrom, perhaps the finest woman swimmer in KU history, swam her last collegiate meet at the AIAW national championship at Columbia, S.C., two weeks ago.
But while Lindstrom ended her career, teammate Jenny Wagstaff is just starting hers.
The Shawnee Mission East graduate, now a KU freshman, broke four Big Eight records and three school records this season, in honoring an American in six events at the national championship.
BUT WAGSTAFF will have a huge task ahead of her as she tries to follow in the footsteps of Lindstrom.
Lindstrom has made her mark on the KU women's swim program and on women's athletics at KU on the whole. She beat out All-American David Woodard as KU's most outstanding female athlete last year.
With one look at Lindstrom's records, it's easy to see why she has been the mainstay of the KU team in her four years at Lawrence.
Lindstrom earned All-American honors as a sophomore by finishing third in the 200-yard freestyle and fourth in the 100 freestyle at the AIAW national.
But Wagstaff has three more years to edge Lindstrom out of the record books.
"Janet is probably one of the best all-around swimmers that has ever been at KU," Kansas Coach Gary Kempf said. "She came in as an alum and she improved on her abilities. She is also an excellent leader."
Wagstaff, who was named the most outstanding swimmer at the Big Eight championships in Lawrence last month, has set conference marks in the 200 individual and 300 individual medley and the 100 fly.
"SHE IS ONE of the top freshmen swimmers in the country," Kempf said. "She has a chance at becoming one of the best swimmers around."
Although both swimmers are intense competitors and both have
"I wouldn't say that there is rivalry between us," Lindstrom said. "It's more that she pushes me. I think that we push each other."
attained success at KU, the two said that they were not rivals.
rivalry between us. It's more of a team effort."
“On my AAU team, everything was geared toward the individual.” Wagstaff said. “When I came here, all I cared about was being a team power, more than an individual power. I don't think that there is a
Teammates look to Lindstrom as a leader, but the Des Moines, Iowa, senior looks at her Des Mones, more as a pioneer.
"I THINK THAT I was a breakthrough for Kansas at national," she said. "I've looked at other people and said, 'Why not do it, it's been done before?' and I think that Jenny can do that now."
Kings outlast Trail Blazers in playoff opener,98-97
PORTLAND, Ore. —After watching his teammates rally from a 10-point deficit against the Portland Trail Blazers last night, Kansas City King's reserve forward Joe C. Meriweather was ready for the overtime period.
Meriwether started the overtime period with a dunk shot, then finished it with a basket with less than a minute left and boosted the Kings to a 9-8-7 game. And they won their first game of their National Basketball Association best-of-three miniseries.
The series will resume at 7:05 Friday night at Kemmer Arena in Kansas City.
THE KINGS, who defeated the Trail Blazers three games to two during the regular season, led by one point, 49-48 at the half. The Trail Blazers, however, took a six-point lead midway through the fourth quarter, led by 10, 77-67, after three quarters.
After both teams missed opportunities in the final minute, Bird-song, who led all scorers with 29 points, broke in and banked a shot in with one second left, forcing the overtime period.
Otis Bitsch scored 27 points in the first three quarters for Kansas City, but it was the scoring of Ernie Gruntel, the star of the Knicks' Phil Ford, that led the Kings back.
Grunfeld scored 10 of his 16 points in the fourth quarter and the Kings whittled the Trail Blazers' lead to two, 90-88, with two minutes remaining.
MEIWETHER QUICKLY gave the Kings a 92-90 lead with a dunk shot and the Trail Blazers did not take the lead in overtime until Billy Ray Bates
sank two free throws with 1:20
remaining for a 97-86 advantage.
Meriwether, however, scored a basket with 52 seconds left for a 98-97 lead, and the Kings held on for their decisive victory over the Trail Blazers.
Bates led Portland with 25 points.
In another miniseries game last night, Mosses Malone scored 38 points and led the Houston Rockets past the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Lakers are the defending champions.
Men's tennis team in OCU meet
Randy McGrath is going to take a
Eight conference men's segm
In his team's last match before conference play begins, McGarth will break up his No. 1 doubles team against a state in non-conference action today.
The Jayhawks are competing in the Oklahoma City University Invitational tournament, which will continue through Saturday.
HE ALSO SAID that it would be important to get experience against teams like Oklahoma State that have been playing outdoors longer.
McGRATH WILL play Wayne Sewall and Ed Bolen with different partners, a play that he thinks will give the Jayhawks more depth by putting the top two players on different doubles teams.
Mike Wellman, 6-foot-3, 253 pounds, graduated from KU in 1979 and was drafted in the third round by the Los Angeles Rams. The Rams traded him to the Green Bay Packers during the 1979 training camp, and he played 16 games with the Packers before being released at the end of the 1980 season.
agreed, but more important is that the Jayhawks will face some Big Eight competition early.
Oklahoma State is considered the favorite to win the tournament, the players said, but meeting the Cowboys during a conference season should be an advantage.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) — A former University of Kansas center is the top prospect among seven free agents who have been picked by Chiefs since the close of the 1980 season.
"We don't have anything to lose," Bolen said. "They have everything to lose."
"It's important to get a taste of competition," he said.
WELLMAN, 24, played center for KU in the 1-13 season that preceded the
Ex-KU star signed by Chiefs
departure of Bud Moore, KU's last coach before present coach Don Fambrough.
Among the other free agents signed are linebackers Phil Canick and John Oenich琳, running backs Ronnie Rowland and Curtis Biodsole, wide receiver Lance Madison and offensive tackle Ronda Hale.
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