FRIDAY,APRIL 12,2002
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3B
Track team faces outdoor season
By Matt Norton
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas track and field team travels to Fayetteville, Ark., for the John McDonnell Invitational tomorrow, hoping to build momentum for the end of the season.
The meet is the second of four April meets in which the Jayhawks will face outstanding competition. Coach Stanley Redwine said the athletes were beginning to emerge from a difficult period of training in order to perform at their best.
The meet at Arkansas is sandwiched between the traditional relay circuit of Texas, Kansas and Drake, some of the best meets in the country.
Redwine said after the end of the indoor season, the team went back to doing workouts designed to enhance its strength and endurance, similar to what it had done in the fall and early winter.
Now that the outdoor season is underway, the emphasis has been shifted to speed and technique.
"This is a point where we need to start being race sharp, and the more races we have, the more race fitness we'll have," he said.
practice yesterday that he saw similarities with how the team developed indoors.
Redwine told the team before
Mark Menefee
beginning of February, many of the athletes' performances improved.
He said he anticipated a similar improvement starting this week.
"There was a period that was a huge training phase, where we were doing more volume, and it's tough to be sharpest and run your fastest when you're doing that." Redwine said. "As we started to do more quality during indoors, we were successful with that."
Senior Jennie Wonder is one of several Jayhawks on the cusp of taking her running to another level.
This weekend. Wonder is running the 100 and 400-meter hurdles and a run on the 4x100 meter
relav.
Wonder said she was trying to run faster than 60 seconds in the 400 hurdles for a long time, and has narrowly missed on several occasions.
A trip to the NCAA Championships is also with reach for Wonder.
She ran 60.42 seconds last week at Texas, and
Jenni Wonder
59. 2 seconds to provisionally quality for the NCAA.
She just missed qualifying for indoor championships the 60-meter hurdles. Her best time of 8.36 left her just a couple spots away from going to nationals.
Wonder said her workouts were going well and expected a breakthrough soon.
"It's like trying to go under 60 in the (open) 400 in high school," she said. "It's tough the first time, but then it gets easier."
Junior Mark Meneele hopes to build some momentum for his
best event, the 5000 meters, by running the 1500 this weekend.
Meneifee, who missed all of last track season with illness and injuries, has come on strong this outdoor season.
Meneefee said he had been training injury-free since January and was happy with his progress.
He won the 5000 at Southern Illinois and finished a close second at Texas last week, nearly matching his personal best with a time of 14:21.35.
"I haven't trained too hard, I'm not tired, I'm feeling good," Menefe said. "I think what I did at Texas and Southern Illinois was what I felt like I could do and I'm still getting better."
Racing the shorter distance allows Meneifee to work on a finishing kick that led him to the Big 12 Conference title in the 5000 two years ago.
"I haven't raced much in the last two years," he said. "I just need to get some races under my belt, start getting used to it, and getting the feel for being on the track."
Contact Norton at mnorton@kansan.com. This story was edited by Brooke Hesler.
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MALASHOCK
how to work in a group, how to balance my time, and how to make sacrifices. It's all going to help me in the future."
That future is approaching for Wagenaar. In three months, she moves to New York. Instead of crunching forehands, Wagenaar will be crunching numbers as a financial analyst for the investment bank UBS Warburg.
It's somewhat scary to Wagenaar that she won't be goofing around with her teammates 90 days from now. She'll be living on her own in the Big Apple,
analyzing corporate finances, as well as mergers and acquisitions. After two or three years, Wagenaar said she would like to return to school for her M.B.A.
So, in an obvious success story, Wagenaar proved a point about collegiate athletics. She proved that there's still hope for the pure student-athlete.
Wagenaar used her tennis talents as a way to not only leave her country and receive a college education, but also build a future.
Malashock is Omaha, Neb., junior in journalism.
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need more guys to step up and be leaders. Right now our quarterbacks are as competitive as it gets."
Mangino said though having five quarterbacks on the roster this spring wasn't a problem, he'll be looking to cut that number.
"We are not going to be able to share reps in the fall with five," Mangino said. "We'll only share reps with two, perhaps three. But we're moving in the right direction."
Note:
Senior guard Kyle Grady, who started 10 games on the offensive line last season for the Jayhawks, has not been practicing this spring and will not participate in the spring game on April 26.
Grady is in rehail after having surgery on his knee during the offseason. He did not partake in spring drills last year because of injury problems.
Grady is one of just two returning starters on the offensive line.
bwasko@kansan.com. This story was edited by Brandon Stinnett.
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