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22 • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2003
TRACK AND FIELD
Assistant track and field coach to compete with Team USA
Doug Reynolds, University of Kansas track and field assistant coach, qualified for Team USA in the discus throw at the USA Senior and Junior Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Palo Alto, Calif.
Reynolds finished third in the event qualifying him for the USA team.
Reynolds said he was disappointed in his performance even though it secured him an opportunity to go to the World Championships this August in Paris.
Two other members of the KU track and field team made it to the finals.
Charlie Gruber, volunteer assistant coach, took fifth in the senior 1500-meter run, while Cameron Schwehr, Colbert, Wash., freshman, finished fourth in the junior 1500.
"I'm happy for Cameron," said Stanley Redwine, head coach of the track and field team. "He's worked really hard, and getting fourth is a great accomplishment."
Leo Bookman, Dickinson, Texas, junior and the 2003 NCAA 200 -meter indoor and outdoor champion, did not make it to the finals and finished 14th overall.
Abby Emsick, Council Bluffs, Iowa freshman threw the discus and placed 16th overall. Jeremy Mills, Iowa City, Iowa, sophomore never made it out of
the preliminaries.
—Saju Ng'alla
Bookman quits football team; will concentrate on running
Leo Bookman, the NCAA 200-meter dash national champion, left the University of Kansas football team to focus exclusively on track.
The junior from Dickinson, Texas was both a wide receiver and defensive back last year on the football team.
Mark Mangino, Kansas football coach said Bookman made the right decision and he had the potential of becoming one of the top sprinters in the country. Mangino said Bookman was not pressured into making the decision.
"He is already a world-class track athlete and future Olympian," Mangino said. "I believe that playing football could prevent him from reaching some of his goals on the track."
Last year Bookman returned 10 punts for a total of 136 yards on the football team. His longest return last year was 21 yards. Bookman also rushed once during the season for a loss of 15 yards.
"We are sorry to lose Leo, but we'll root for him every time he steps on the track." Mangino said.
— Saju Ng'alla
Devers wins ninth national title Greene withdraws from final
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Gail Devers pulled out a win, Maurice Greene pulled out of a race and Allyson Felix pulled off a remarkable feat for a teenager as the U.S. track and field championships ended Sunday.
Devers, leaning at the finish line to edge Miesha McKelvy-Jones by one-hundredth of a second, won her ninth national title in the 100-meter hurdles. She'll seek her fourth world title this August.
Greene's hopes for a sprint sweep at the world championships ended when he pulled himself out of the final of the 200 after an unimpressive semifinal race that left him limping.
Felix, who graduated from high school Friday, placed third in the women's 200 to make the U.S. team for the world championships.
Kelli White won the race, adding to her victory in the 100 on Friday.
BOXING
Lewis keeps heavyweight title doctor ends fight in sixth round
LOS ANGELES (AP) Lennox Lewis retained his heavyweight title after a
cut stopped Vitali Klitschko after six brawling rounds.
An entertaining fight ended on a sour note when the ring doctor ordered the fight stopped after the sixth round of a fight that Klitschko was winning on all three scorecards.
Klitschko, bleeding badly from a cut over his left eye, jumped off his stool in disbelief, yelling "No, no, no" and going across the ring toward Lewis as if he wanted the fight to continue.
Klitschko hurt Lewis in the early rounds and was more than holding his own in a fight that magnified both the ring rust Lewis had from not fighting for a year and also being a 37-year-old heavyweight in the ring.
All three ringside judges had Klitschko winning 58-56, but ring doctor Paul Wallace looked at the cut and ordered referee Lou Moret to stop the fight.
Police arrest Tyson again following brawl outside hotel
NEW YORK (AP) Mike Tyson was released from a Brooklyn police precinct Saturday afternoon, hours after his arreston assault charges following a brawl with two men outside a hotel.
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