WEDNESDAY. MARCH 12. 2003
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 11A
Athlete qualifies for NCAA meet
By Chris Wintering
cwintering@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
Junior sprinter Leo Bookman will be the only Jayhawk to compete in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship this weekend in Fayetteville, Ark.
The NCAA announced Monday evening that Bookman was the team's only athlete who had a good enough time or mark to make the national meet. Bookman hit an automatic qualifying time earlier in the season at the Tyson Invitational on Feb. 14.
The NCAA decides who will run in the meet by setting both provisional and automatic times for every event. It then ranks those athletes who beat those times and enters them into the national meet. This is done by first entering all the automatic qualifiers and then ranking all the provisional qualifiers. No provisional time is guaranteed to be in the meet. Because not enough provisional spots exist, a large number of athletes did not make the cut.
Kansas had five provisional qualifiers whose times or marks were not good enough to make the meet. Those qualifiers were senior Anson Jackson in the 60-meter hurdles, sophomore high jumper Sondra Rauterkus, senior pole
vaulter Jeremy Hull, the women's distance medley relay team of junior Laura Lavoie, sophomore Kim Clark, freshman Angela Pichardo and sophomore Megan Manthe, and the women's 4x400-meter relay team of sophomore Brooklyn Hann, junior Stacy Keller, senior Shameika McField and Clark.
The distance medley relay team did not expect that its time would be good enough to make the meet. Because of the competition around the country, the team felt it needed to beat the automatic qualifying mark to get in, said team members Manthe and Pichardo.
"We all ran as hard as we could, but it's disappointing to know we
"The good news is that we are all young and going to be back next year, and hopefully this will make us that much stronger."
Angela Pichardo Women's distance madley relay team
were so close," Pichardo said. "The good news is that we are all young and going to be back next year, and hopefully this will make us that much stronger."
- Edited by Anne Mantey
Tennis team hopes to defeat Missouri
By Jonah Ballow
jballow@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
In the midst of a six-match stretch in the Big 12 Conference, the No. 59 ranked Kansas tennis team takes on the No. 43 ranked Missouri Tigers in Columbia, Mo.
The Jayhawks are 6-4 overall and 2-1 in the conference with a victory over Nebraska Saturday.
Kansas hopes to hand the Tigers their third straight defeat in
conference play.
"I feel we gained a lot of confidence with the Nebraska match," coach Kilmeny Waterman said. "Missouri does get better every year so we know that it will be a tough match."
Missouri is 8-3 overall and 3-2 in the conference after starting the season 3-0, when the Tigers suffered losses to the Baylor Bears and Texas Tech Raiders last weekend.
Missouri was only able to gain
one victory in doubles play and it came from the No. 1 doubles team of Urska Juric and Katka Sevcikova against Baylor. Juric and Sevcikova are ranked fourth in the nation at their doubles position.
Kansas has won three of its last four matches with two crucial victories against Big 12 opponents such as Nebraska and Iowa State.
The Jayhawks received solid play in doubles with a sweep over the Nebraska doubles teams.
In singles, sophomore Paige Brown and junior Emily Haylock are on four match-winning streaks at the No.2 and No.3 singles positions.
Kansas leads Missouri with a 26-2 advantage, including 21 straight victories over the Tigers
"It's a big rivalry so we will all be fired up," Brown said. "We need to focus and stay within ourselves."
Edited by Julie Jantzer
Kansas Athletics Calendar
TODAY
Tennis at Missouri, 3 p.m., Columbia, Mo.
Soccer vs. Kansas City Boys Legend Under-16
Team, 3 p.m., SuperTarget Field.
TOMORROW
FRIDAY
Baseball, vs. Oral Roberts, all day, Austin, Texas
Diving, Zone Diving Championships, all day,
Austin, Texas
Track, NCAA Indoor Championships, all day,
Fayetteville, Ark
Diving, Zone Diving Championships, all day,
Austin, Texas
SATURDAY
**tennis** at Oklahoma, 1 p.m., Norman, Okla.
**baseball** at Oral Roberts, 4 p.m., Tulsa, Okla.
**softball**, doubleheader vs. New Mexico State, 1
p.m. and 3 p.m., Stillwater, Okla.
Diving. Zone Diving Championships, all day,
Austin, Texas
Track. NCAA Indoor Championships, all day,
Fayetteville, Ark.
SUNDAY
Tennis at Oklahoma State, Stillwater, Okla., 11 a.m.
Baseball at Oral Roberts, Tulsa, Okla., 1 p.m.
Softball at Oklahoma State, Stillwater, Okla., 2
p.m.
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