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Volume 128 Issue 99
kansan.com
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
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COMMENTARY David Beaty is #EarningIt on Twitter
Soccer to face defending NWSL champs
GRIFFIN HUGHES
@KansanSports
It's not every day a college team can say it has played against professionals, and seldom are those professionals
their spring exhibition schedule after a 15-6 season that led the Jayhawks to an NCAA Tournament in the fall. Freshman Eli Mayr scored the game winner in the 70th minute of that contest, giving
be tested against FC Kansas City, who allowed just 32 goals last year, third fewest in the NWSL. Kansas City also assisted on 30 of their 39 goals. The Jayhawks assisted on 25 of their 39 goals - a
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JEFF JACOBSEN/KU ATHLETICS
Sophomore Sophia Templin is a softball player, a student senator and a sorority member. "I've never wanted to be just one thing, because I've always wanted to do everything, and I've always been able to make it work," she said.
Amie Just
@Amie Just
Sophomore journalism student juggles softball Senate and a sorority
The sophomore journalism student does much more than take classes and return home. She is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, is a student senator and plays Division I softball for the University,
Sophia Templin's multi-colored, floral-patterned planer has seen better days.
The rings of its spine have started to bend in multiple directions; the corners are starting to wear. The gold, glitter stickers that spell Theta on the bottom righthand corner are peeling at the edges.
Templin's planner goes everywhere with her. It's her lifeline. Without it, her life would fall into complete chaos.
"My freshman year, my first semester, I was just a student-athlete, and I had never been just a student-athlete," Templin said. "I had never solely identified with athletics as who I was. In my first fall semester, all my friends had rushed sororities and were getting involved with things like SUA and being involved on campus doing new things, and I was just a softball player."
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while making grades in the Honors Program.
But she wasn't always this involved.
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in a small town located between Lawrence and Kansas City. There were around 160 students in her graduating class, and Templin did everything she could to stay involved. She was editor of the school newspaper, a class officer, a softball player, in the band and on the dance team. She was also in charge of planning prom.
She attended De Soto High School, a 4A school.
Templin acknowledges that playing softball is a huge time commitment, but it wasn't enough for her. She needed more on her plate, just like she did in high school.
"There's kind of like a hierarchy and everybody is really understanding of things." Templin said. "I wish I could be everywhere at once, but I can't. A lot of times, I'll be on the road for softball and I'll be on a Google doc with people for Senate or group projects for class. My groups hate me because I'm so busy."
She has sorority chapter meetings when she's on the road for softball. Senate still meets on Wednesdays, with or without her.
"I've never settled," Templin said of her long list of activities. "I've never wanted to be just one thing, because I've always wanted to do everything, and I've always been able to make it work."
Conflicts arise all the time for Templin.
ALI DOVER/KANSAN
And everything gets harder during softball season because of travel.
ALI DUVER/KANSAN sophia Templin, a sophomore from De Soto, offers some ideas for a student coalition at a Student Senate meeting.
Large blocks of time are blacked out when on the road, Templin said.
"Offseason is something that you don't realize is as wonderful as it is until you're during the season," Templein said. "You think, 'What did I do with all that time?' "
Whatever problem or project is thrown her way, she generally ends up fitting everything in.
"Sometimes it baffles me at the end, because I made it all work." Templin said. Greek life, athletics and Student Senate are three things that most people only pick one to participate
in, Templin said.
But if she had to pick one thing, shed be a student over everything.
"I'm at KU because I love KU," Templin said. "I love the journalism school here. That is invaluable to me."
It may not be much to the standard fan,but it shows the players, especially the underclassman, that the coaching staff is watching them,when in the past, their hard work might have flown under the radar.
In contrast, Charlie Weis, Kansas' last head coach who was fired in October, still has Jayhawks all over his Twitter and still retains the @CoachWeisKansas Twitter handle. He last tweeted on Aug. 6.
out Tre Parmalee, Fish Smithson and Davis for #PlayersoftheDay.
In an age where social media is at the forefront of everything, Beaty knows exactly what he's doing. And he's doing a great job with it.
— Edited by Valerie Haag
He was a training camp aide and statistician for the Kansas City Chiefs from 1969-70 and was on the sidelines for Super Bowl IV. Carmody also worked for the San Antonio Spurs as director of group sales. Carmody also ran in two Boston Marathoners in 1971-72. Carmody received his bachelor's from Eastern Kentucky in 1969 and his master's from Western Kentucky in 1973. Here's who he thinks Kansas should go after.
multiple coaching searches around the country.
Banghart coached her eighth season at Princeton University, leading the Tigers to a 31-1 overall record this year in the Ivy League. She is the winningest coach in Princeton women's basketball history with a record of 169-
COURTNEY BANGHART
After her successful season, Banghart was named to Fortune's Top 50 Greatest World Leaders. Banghart was ranked 43rd along with Taylor Swift, Jimmy Fallon, LeBron James, Bill and Melinda Gates, Pope Francis, Mark Zuckerberg and Yao Ming just to name a few. Banghart played at Dartmouth and graduated in 2000. Before Princeton, Banghart was an assistant at her alma mater from 2003-07. She has coached Princeton to five Ivy League Championships and was the second Ivy League program to secure a win in the NCAA Tournament. Princeton defeated University of
Shockers coach has led the Shockers to threestraight Missouri Valley Regular
67. including a 92-17 record in Ivy League play.
Season titles, including back-to-back appearances in the NCAA Tournament. Adams just finished her seventh season at Wichita State. Last season, the Shockers were a No. 14 seed. In this year's tournament, they were a No. 13 seed and they lost to California in the first round with 78-66. Adams coached two players that were on this year's All Missouri Valley First Team: seniors Alex Harden and Jamillah Bonner. Bonner was named the Missouri Valley's Defensive Player of the Year and Harden was named the Player of the Year. Adams was named the Missouri Valley's Coach of the Year this year as well. She recruited Bonner from
has coached the Jackrabbits to their 11th 20-win season in the past 14 years. The Jackrabbits received their second No. 14 seed this season, with their last No. 14 seed in 2010. The Jackrabbits ended up losing in the first round to Oregon State, 74-62. Johnston has an overall record of 341-117. Johnston is 15-1 in The Summit League Postseason Tournament.
He has been named the Summit League Coach of the Year four times in 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2014. Johnston was in the transition when South Dakota State was becoming a Division I school, posting a 216-84 record in their first 300 games. In 2009, he was a finalist for Naismith Women's College Coach of the Year. When South Dakota State was in Division II, the Jackrabbits claimed the school's first National
Collins has led the Lady Hornets to three MIAA Tournament Championships, five conference title games, and four trips to the NCAA Tournament. Collins had his best season, with his team making it to the Division II Elite Eight for the first time since 2010. Collins has been around the program since 2000 as a student/volunteer assistant until 2003, before becoming a fifth grade teacher.
He then became a graduate assistant in 2004. In 2006, he was a volunteer coach, before becoming a full-time assistant in spring of 2007. Collins graduated from Emporia State in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in elementary education and in 2006 with a master's degree in educational administration.
Program. In his five seasons, he has an overall record of 125-36.
Edited by Valerie Haag
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