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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2015
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Texas hosts Kansas track for start of outdoor season
GRAYDON MELIA
@gimelia
The Kansas track and field team begins its 2015 outdoor campaign with the Texas Relays on Wednesday in Austin, Texas. The events are hosted by the University of Texas, and are held through Saturday.
Junior pole vaulter Casey Bowen and senior pentathlete Lindsay Vollmer, the two Kansas athletes who competed in the NCAA Indoor Championships on March 13-14, will not be competing in this week's meet. Bowen finished seventh in the men's pole vault, and Vollmer finished 14th in the women's pentathlon.
The Relays begin at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday with four of the seven women's heptathlon events. At 11 a.m., five of the 10
events in the men's decathlon will take place, finishing off Wednesday's events.
Junior sprinter and jumper Sydney Conley will be competing in the . sprint medley and the long jump, which will both take place Saturday. Conley said that the adjustment from indoor to outdoor is to just getting used to the environment and dealing with outdoor elements.
"Indoor is just a preview of what your outdoor meet is going to look like," Conley said. "You train through indoor most of the time, so come outdoor it's a whole different level. You never know what you're going to get in competition, because it's outdoor and everybody's on."
Junior distance runner Rhavean King also said the conditions play a role in the outdoor season, and each
athlete must prepare for them. However King said the team doesn't treat the competition they are up against any different than indoor season.
"I don't feel like we approach competition any differently," King said. "We go out and try to have our best performances and win."
Conley, Vollmer and the rest of the women's team enter the season ranked 25th of the preseason U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Association rankings.
"We have a lot of great coaches, a lot of great resources that have allowed us to be in the Top 25 for the past five years," King said. "As far as the team goes, I feel like it serves as motivation to keep having the program in the Top 25."
Edited by Garrett Long
FILE PHOTO/KANSAN
The Kansas track and field team will begin its 2015 outdoor season on Wednesday in Austin, Texas. The women's team is coming into the season ranked 25th of the preseason U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Association rankings.
Maddie Stein Earns First Big 12 Weekly Honor
Kansas senior Maddie Stein was named Big 12 Player of the Week on Tuesday after a record-setting performance in the Rock Chalk Challenge last weekend. Stein is receiving this weekly honor for the first time in her four-year career at Kansas.
Stein registered a .500 batting average last week while helping the Jayhawks stay undefeated at Arrocha Ballpark. She recorded five RBIs in five starts. Stein recorded her 141st career RBI in a Sunday morning victory over Georgia State, setting the all-time program record.
Stein recorded five hits, a home run, four runs scored and three walks to go along with her five
The No. 22 Jayhawks will be back in action on Friday at 5 p.m. (CT), when they will open conference play with a three-game weekend series against the Texas Longhorns in Arrocha Ballpark at Rock Chalk Park.
RBIs last week. She posted a .800
slugging percentage and a .600
on-base percentage.
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Witness Jennifer Mercado, a cousin of defendant Aaron Hernandez, testifies during the murder trial of the former New England Patriots NFL football player at Bristol County Superior Court, Tuesday in Fall River, Mass. Hernandez is charged with killing semiprofessional football player Odn Lloyd in June 2013.
Hernandez cousin made to testify can't recall facts
MICHELLE R. SMITH Associated Press
FALL RIVER, Mass. — A cousin of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez took the stand in his murder trial Tuesday after being ordered to testify, giving him a big smile and telling the prosecutor she couldn't remember details of what happened in the days surrounding the killing.
Jennifer Mercado was granted immunity before being called as a witness by the prosecution, which has charged Hernandez with murder for the June 17, 2013, killing of Odin Lloyd. Lloyd, 27, was dating the sister of Hernander's fiancee.
Mercado smiled at Hernandez, 25, from the witness box as she testified, contradicting herself and saying her memory was bad. As she was questioned by prosecutor William
When asked if there was something that interferes with her memory, Mercado said she takes medications for post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and major depression.
McCauley, she told jurors dozens of times that she could not recall what she saw and did. She also said she couldn't remember details she recalled for the grand jury that investigated the Lloyd killing.
She did say, however, that she remembered Hernandez telling her he was innocent.
Mercado's sister, Tanya Singleton, who lives with Mercado, pleaded guilty to criminal contempt and spent seven months behind bars for failing to testify before the grand jury. Singleton
"I don't remember. It was a long time ago," she said, after being asked about conversations she had with Hernandez after he was arrested.
nas also pleaded not guilty to helping Hernandez codefendant Ernest Wallace flee to Georgia after the killing. Wallace and Carlos Ortiz have pleaded not guilty to the killing and will be tried later.
Mercado described the relationship her sister had with Hernandez as close and said Singleton treated him as a son. Singleton's oldest son, who is 8, in turn looked up to Hernandez as a surrogate father, calling him "Daddy Aaron," she said.
On questioning from McCauley, Mercado first testified that she did not recall having a conversation with Hernandez about getting money or about getting money for her sister. But as McCauley pressed the point, she conceded she did talk to him about getting money for her sister to make her more comfortable with things like food and cosmetics while she sat in jail.
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