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University Daily Kansan, February 17, 1981
Nebraska victory excites swim team
By JIM SMALL Sports Writer
The Kansas men's swim team is on a streak that will hopefully bring the Jayhawks their 11th Big Eight Concert. The Kansas team and team members are excited about it.
KU is fresh off a victory this weekend against reigning Big Eight champion Nebraska and will carry a 4-4 record with prospects next month in Norman, Okla.
THE TEAM IS real confident and ready to go, said junior sprinter Jim Rowland. "The biggest thing about us is that we are consistent. Everyone has swum consistently well. A lot of other Big Eight teams haven't done that."
Much of the reason for Rewland's optimism can be found in the Nebraska match
Before the meet, KU Cochill Bouch Spain said that for the Jayhawks to win the Big Eight Championship they would have had to win in the playoffs did just that, pulling off a 68-45 victory.
With the big Jayhawk for an audience, Kansas divers Ben Spencer heads for the water during Saturday's dual swim meet with Nebraska at Robinson Natatorium. The Jayhawks defeated the Cornhuskers 68-45.
KU started off at a torrid pace in the meet, winning the first four events.
"I think that we took them by surprise at the beginning." Spahn said. "I think that our winning those first few events got them a little down."
NOT ONLY DID the Jayhawks swim well, but Spaun said that he saw
Leading Kansas was Rowland, who won the 200-meter freestyle and 100 freestyle, Bob Vince, who captured the 500 freestyle and co-captain Steve Doyle, who set a record in the 200 individual medley with a time of 1:54.32.
potential in KU's diving. Nebraska is considered by most coaches to be the Big Eight power in diving.
"We really showed improvement in diving," he said. "Mark Murphy finished second in three-meter diving. I was very pleased."
Rowland said he expected greater things out of the Cornhuskers when the two teams meet at the conference championships.
"We beat Nebraks twice last year by a wider margin than Saturday's meet and they turned around and won the Eight Championship." Rowland said.
Spahn also expects a tougher test from Nebraska later in the season.
"WE SWAM WELL Saturday, but in three weeks it could be different," he said.
If Nebraska wants things to be different they will have to reckon with Graves because, according to Spahn, the driving force is the driving force behind the team.
"There is no doubt that he is the leader of this team," Spahn said. "Everyone on the team knows that and everyone on the team respects him."
Graves is also respected by people who are involved with swimming programs around the league.
"I have been aware of him for several years," Nebraska Coach Cal Benz said. "He is a fine swimmer and an outstanding young man. I have a lot of respect for him as do the swimmers on this team."
For four years Graves has been a mainstay in the KU program. He has been on the front line of fighting against
every year that he has been at KU and is expected to be among those competing for national honors this year in Austin, Texas.
LAST YEAR WAS WAPS perhaps Graves' finest year. He finished 14th in the 100 breaststroke at the NCAA meet at Cambridge, Mass.
"I enjoy competing in the national's because it gives me a chance to see different parts of the country," he said. "It just a lot of fun."
Graves has broken six Big Eight
records and is the current conference record-holder in the 200 and 400 individual medies. He also holds school mark in the 100 and 200 breast stroke records.
But the story of Steve Graves goes beyond his accomplishments in the pool, according to Shaun.
"He'll be a very successful person in what ever he does," Spahn said. "He is a very hard worker at whatever he does, and that means that wants to do well in life and he will."
Graves, perhaps better than anyone else, displays the qualities that make the good student athlete. Competing in a sport that requires 6:30 a.m. practice to go along with two-hour afternoon workout, Graves still manages to maintain a 5.5 grade point average with a major in accounting.
"FOR AS MUCH and as hard as we work it is pretty hard for anyone to do well in the classroom," Spahn said. "It need to believe that he is doing so well."
Graves prefers to shrug off his
careers to achievements as part of a
daily routine.
"I just sit down after dinner to study," he said. "It takes a little discipline and a lot of studying on weekends, but most of the other guys on campus do well in school also. I don't think that I'm different from anyone else."
Graves said that he was also optimistic about the Jayhawks' chances at the conference championship.
KU women's loss should help against KSU. KU coach savs
By SANDY CLARK Sports Writer
If there's any such thing as a timely loss, Kansas' women's basketball team may have one Saturday.
Taking their No. three ranking and 10-game winning streak into Detroit, the Jayhawks were riding high. So high that the unraveled Titans caught them in a two-run victory, leading 52-48 and falling to sixth in the national rankings.
The Jayhaws will have a chance to show renewed respect for their opponents and they meet the Kansas Wildcats in Allen Field House. Tiffin is @ 7:30.
KU Head Coach Marian Washington was more grateful for the less than bitter.
The Jayhawks 'overconfidence was understandable considering that they had won nine of their last 10 games by 20 points or more. At times during that period they even when they didn't play their best.
"THERE'S NO DOUBT about it that this loss will help us," she said. "We've played 24 games and won 20 of them. I think things like this happen for a reason. This might have been just what we needed to push us."
But KU, with a second-rate effort,
couldn't get past a surprisingly tough
Detroit team. The Jayhawks shot only
30 percent from the field and 50 percent
from the free throw line. They suffered
a miserable drought in the first half,
missing all six of their free throw attempts.
that performance could be easily (and with a victory over K-State tonight)
"I'M SO GLAD we have this K-State game so soon," Washington said. "I'll help us forget that whole bad experience. I know the kids are eager to
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We're winners and we're not going to allow this to be a negative experience."
The Wildcats would also like to forget their bad experience at Drake over the weekend. They were easily beaten by the Bulldogs, 94-74.
“Our confidence is definitely down.” K-State Head Coach Lymick Heyden said. “We've lost a couple of games that we should have won. I think Drake is the second best team in the division to KU, and shouldn't have gotten beat that bad.”
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KU has had the upper hand in both contests against K-State this season, winning 85-60 in January and 88-64 days later in Manhattan. The Wildcats had won 21 straight games against KU on their home court before that loss.
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"We've never had a year where we've won every game from them in a season," Washington said. "I'm hopeful that the kids can do it. We have to control the ball and show more important element is intensity."
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INSIDER
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Next time you're chipping off the old writer's block, ponder these words from the pros. Your mother was right—nothing comes easy for a writer. John Kenneth Glaubraut. Those who are deeply should write when they have moments of inspiration. The rest of us must start every morning and write until we get tired.
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James 'Micheen' I type everything with two fingers, and the second draft is pretty difficult for me. About the best I can do is 2,000, maybe 2,500. If it a 2,000-word book, I take about 100 days, three months, four months.
Irving Stone. The time is now for any young writer to begin—eight o'clock tomorrow, and never, never stop until they bury you.
Below are 20 of the most frequently missed words—and 20 ways that people most easily spell them. Circle the correct spelling for each word, the answers are printed upside down at the bottom.
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1. (a) accommodate
(b) accommodate
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(b) accommodate
2. (a) achieve
b) achieve
3. (a) argument
b) argument
4. (a) connoisseur
b) connoisseur
5. (a) conscience
b) conscience
6. (a) definitely
b) definitely
7. (a) dependent
b) dependent
8. (a) development
b) development
9. (a) dilettante
b) dilatette
10. (a) embarrass
b) embarrass
11. (a) existence
b) existence
12. (a) harrass
b) harrass
13. (a) inwardent
b) inwardent
14. (a) indispensable
b) indispensable
15. (a) insistent
b) insistant
16. (a) nickle
b) nickel
17. (a) occasion
b) occasion
18. (a) occurrence
b) occurrence
19. (a) persencement
b) persencement
20. (a) preogative
b) perogative
SECTIO
1 a 6 b 11 a 12 16 b
1 a 6 b 7 b 12 b 17 b
1 a 6 b 7 b 12 b 17 b
1 a 6 b 9 a 14 b 19 a
5 a 10 a 15 a 20 a
ANSWERS:
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