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SPORTS
THURSDAY,APRIL17,2003
Problems to come for camp now that Williams has left
By Nikki Overfelt
overfelt@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Your picture taken with Roy Williams: a priceless memory of going to the Roy Williams Basketball Camp.
"Roy can no longer be on the first floor of our house," Andy Hickerson said her son told her.
Not anymore, according to Jay Hickerson. May 2021 graduate.
The status of the Roy Williams basketball camp is unknown at this time, Tami Hoffman, the camp's secretary, said.
Hickerson's mom, Andy Hickerson, said her son went to the basketball camp the last year Larry Brown coached at the University of Kansas and the first year that Williams coached at the University. The picture of Jay Hickerson and Williams had always been proudly displayed in a downstairs room in the Hickerson's home in Mission Hills until yesterday, Andy Hickerson said. In its place she found a picture of her son and Larry Brown.
Participants enrolled in the Roy Williams Basketball Camp this summer don't know who their picture will be taken with, if at all.
"Everything is up in the air" she said. "We'll know more next week."
She plans on notifying parents as soon as she has answers, Hoffman said.
The camp is scheduled for June 15 to 19 and June 22 to 26. Both sessions are already full, with more than 500 boys in each session.
Patty Noland, career development coordinator for the School of Journalism, made plans in December to send her 11-year-old son to the camp. He has attended the camp for the past two years.
"We're really hopeful that it still happens," she said. "I know my son is very anxious because he still wants to go. His whole joy is just going to camp."
Noland's son, Peter Fleuerbom,
said assistant coaches should run
the camp because Williams is gone.
"Instead of having it be the Roy Williams Basketball Camp, it should just be the Kansas Basketball Camp," he said.
Feuerborn is hoping he won't have to find another basketball camp to attend this summer.
"I'd be pretty disappointed if they didn't have the camp," he said.
Beau Jackson, Wichita senior attended the camp from fourth to sixth grade. Highlights of his time with Williams included meeting Michael Jordan and Danny Manning, he said.
"It was three awesome experiences," he said.
Jackson said the University should try to bring back more former players to offset the absence of Williams.
"I think they should definitely still hold the camp," he said.
If they cancel it, Jackson said, the people the making decisions will be sending the message that basketball at the University isn't as valuable without Williams.
Jackson said he didn't plan on taking revenge on his three pictures with Williams.
Edited by Amber Byarlay
Malashock
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talked about it Saturday, that it's really no good that I have a ball club that's really tight. It's tough when you start to get that way and start to notice every little thing that goes against you."
Then, the Jayhawks dropped a game. And then another. And another. As the losses mounted — the Oklahoma losses started a 4-11 streak — the losses hurt the Jayhawks less and less. Losing, as the streak proves, really is contagious. That is, if you let it be, according to Bunge.
"It's kind of like we're waiting for something bad to happen out there," Bunge said. "The bottom line is, and I
Kansas showed the first signs of snapping out of its rut yesterday.
After dropping the first of two games to Arkansas, the Jayhawks defeated the Razorbacks, 1-0, behind a complete-game two-hitter from Kansas junior pitcher Kara Pierce. It was Kansas' first victory in 11 days.
Bunge's talks of playing loose obviously assisted a
Kansas squad that played flawless softball in yesterday's second game. The 'Hawks did not commit an error. They didn't pound the ball at the plate, but they scored early after freshman infielder Destiny Frankenstein doubled. And Pierce made the run stand.
And as quickly as the losing streak appeared, it may have vanished away yesterday. Trends can shift that swiftly just ask the Royals.
Malashock is an Omaha, Neb., senior in journalism.