6B = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2003
Track teams race to early victories in meet
By Chris Wintering
cwintering@kansan.com
kansan sportswriter
The Kansas track and field teams have gotten off to a fast start in the indoor season. The men's and women's teams won their opening meets, the KSU Invitational on Jan. 10-11.
The women's team set the tone in the first day of competition by defeating Kansas State 87-67 in its dual meet. The men's team followed up that performance by defeating Kansas State. Emporia State, Oklahoma State and Southern Methodist on the final day of the meet.
Coach Stanley Redwine said he
was looking forward to a good year and was happy with the team's performance in the first meet.
"It was a total team effort and everyone competed well," Redwine said. "We went into the first meet with a goal to see where we were and everyone stepped up."
Sophomore Sondra Rauterkus placed second in the high jump with a leap of 5-10, which provisionally qualified her for the NCAA Indoor Championships on March 14-15 in Fayetteville, Ark.
"That jump will give her a lot of confidence," said vertical jumps coach Brian Ferry. "That confidence will help her and the team in big meets."
Anson jackson provisionally qualified in the 60-meter hurdles with his second-place time of 7.95 seconds. Redwine said Anson also set the school record for the event.
Along with Rauterkus, senior
"It is exceptional to have an athlete set a record in the first meet of the year because typically you peak later in the season," Redwine said. "We know Anson will continue to improve."
Jackson also won the long jump with a jump of 22-10 1/2. Six other Kansas men won events including senior Benaud Shirley in the triple jump (49-4 1/4), senior Jeremy Hull in the pole vault (16-4 3/4), and sophomore T.J. Hackler in the high jump (6-11).
The team did not have any athletes compete in the shot put and weight throw, which were the only two field events not won by a lavhawk.
Sophomore Jeremy Mims won the 800-meter run with a time of 1 minute, 54.01 seconds and freshman Joshy Madathil won the 3,000-meter run with a time of 8:49:45. Junior Leo Bookman won the 60-meter dash by running 6.91 seconds to round out the men's team winners.
The women's team swept the 1,000-meter run with junior Arrah Nielsen and freshman Jenna Bimbi finishing first and second, respectively. Juniors Paige Higgins, sophomore Lauren Brownrigg and senior Eve Lamborn finished first, second and third, respectively, in the 3,000-meter run. Junior Robbie Harriford won the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.66 seconds. Freshman Yvonne Calzonetti won the pole vault by jumping 11-9/3 4 for the women's team.
"We were pleasantly surprised by the first meet and hope to improve from there," Redwine said. "We do understand that it was only the first meet."
The men's and women's teams return to host the KU/KSU/MU Triangular Jan. 24 in the Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
Edited by Christy Dendurent
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Against UMKC; Graves immediately stepped in following Simien's injury, posting his first career double-double. Since then, he's posted two more and overall has registered four double-digit rebounding games.
All of a sudden, he's J-Surprizezle. Wednesday night, Graves sets the tone for a stingy Kansas
defensive effort, with 10 rebounds, three steals and three blocked shots. His career night warped his earlier lackadaisical play into a memory.
Matched up with Wyoming center Uche Nsonwu-Amadi, the Cowboys'leading scorer and one of the nation's most physically chiseled big men, Graves more than held his own.
He flew to the ground and out of bounds for loose balls. He denied Nsonwu-Amadi post-
position and repeatedly boxed him out for rebounds. He hustled from off the ball to swat away shots and sacrificed his body to steal passes.
The Kansas defense thrived off of Graves' defensive energy. Graves began two highlight-reel fast breaks when he pinned a Wyoming lay-up attempt off the glass and knocked the ball away from Nsonwu-Amadi on consecutive possessions.
The second forced turnover
ended with Keith Langford bringing the house down off a half-court alley-oop from Kirk Hinrich.
Oh, and Graves added a career-best 14 points to boot. A turnaround of these proportions for Graves was unimaginable two months ago. On the surface, he was incorrigible, appearing unwilling to adapt to the harsh realities of Division I basketball. Deep down, Graves said he was merely adjusting, waiting for his
physical condition to improve.
Now, a once dire situation appears to be positive, almost beneficial to Kansas. Simien's absence now acts as a blessing in disguise. Simien's time away has injected life into Graves, transforming him into a competent starter and — if Simien returns—a fantastic complementary bench player.
Malashock is an Omaha senior in Journalism.
play in front of a national audience, and that gives the players a stage and form to convince the voters." Vance said.
One of the main promotions for basketball players Kirk Hinrich and Nick Collison was the "Old School" campaign run by KU Media Relations. Vance said that it was meant as a promotion for the program, but it wound up helping Hinrich and Collison.
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"Sports Illustrated wound up doing a massive article on them talking about how fundamentally sound they were." Vance said.
Collison said that it was hard not to think about the possibility of awards.
"It's something that we think about a little bit and we'd like those honors as much as anyone else," Collison said. "But at the same time we realize that if we play well and help the team that those things are going to come, too."
Al Bohl, Kansas athletics director, said that players winning awards was also important for coaches and the athletics programs in general.
"Jeff Tedford, who developed three or four award-winning quarterbacks at Oregon, became the head coach at California this year because of his work there," Bohl said.
— Edited by Christy Dendurent
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