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SPORTS
University Daily Kansan, February 28, 1985
Women seek 11th title
By DAVID O'BRIEN Sports Writer
Opposing coaches probably would rather not see KU coach Gary Kempf at the women's Big Eight Conference Swimming and Diving Championships, which start today in Lincoln, Neb.
It's not that they don't like the man, it's just that his teams seem to make it unfair for the others.
"In the back of their minds, they know we've won 10 in a row," Kempf said of the opposition. "And in the back of our minds, we know we have, too."
KU has dominated the Big Eight meet, winning 10 of the 11 championships that have been awarded. Kemp has led the Jayhawks to nine of those titles.
Iowa State won the first conference title in 1974. Since then, it's been all KU.
Kempf is hoping this year will be no exception. KU will attempt to become the first team in any sport to win 11 consecutive Big Eight titles.
NEBRASKA IS EXPECTED to
be the Jayhaws their first real
challenge in recent years, and they
will be swimming in their own pool.
KU comes into the meet ranked 15th in the nation. Nebraska is ranked 20th. The two teams have faced each other three time/s this season, and KU has won each of those meetings.
Although he expects a competitive meet, Kempf said, he expects his team to win the title again.
"I think our biggest advantage is that we've seen every team in the conference this year," Kempf said. "And we've beaten every team in the conference."
"If we swim to our potential, we'll win, no matter what anybody else does."
The Jayhaws are led by all Americans Celine Cerny, Tammy Peace, Tana Bowen and Liz Duncan, along with Marcie Herrold, Cella Sales and Lori Spurney.
backstroke three years in a row and holds two Big Eight meet records. Paease won the 100-yard freestyle and the 200-yard breast stroke last year. She also finished second in the 100-yard breast stroke.
Bowen finished second in the 100-yard backstroke to Cerny and was also on two winning relay teams. Liz Duncan was on the winning 200-yard medley relay team and placed in three individual events.
Gales and Spurrey are expected to score well in the diving events.
Kempf said the team would have to have good performances from the entire squad throughout the meet.
"Every team in the conference has five or six standouts," Kempf said. "But you've got to be good all the way through your lineup."
MU player dismissed from team
CERNY HAS WON the 100-yard
"YOURE NOT GOING to have a great movie with one or two good actors. You've got to have a supporting cast."
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri junior fullback Eric Drain was dismissed yesterday from the Tiger football team for disciplinary reasons, Coach Woody Widenhofer announced.
"As far as I'm concerned, he's off the team," he said, "which we can participate in our winter course program or in spring practice."
Last season, Drain was benched for a disciplinary measure when Warren Powers coached the Tigers. Drain was involved in a fight with a teammate at a dance on the Missouri campus and did not start in the Tigers' home game against Iowa State.
Diver Muffy Lybarger will not compete due to strained ligaments in her back. Cathy Coulter has a broken arm and also will not compete.
A 215-pounder from Gaitersburg, Md., Drain was a two-year starter and a three-time letterman who had amassed 1457 yards and 16 touchdowns. He rushed for a season-high of 120 yards against Notre Dame last season and pounded out 90 yards against Nebraska.
Quicker responses sought from NCAA
By CECILIA MILLS
The National Collegiate Athletic Association needs to worry as much about being fair and swift in its actions against violators as it does about being strict, Lonny Rose, assistant athletic director, said yesterday.
Sports Writer
Walter Byers, executive director of the NCAA, said Tuesday that chancellors and presidents of universities would meet with the governor to regulate intercollegiate athletics.
"The present moral and academic operating climate of intercollegiate athletics is unacceptable." Byers was reported as saying in the Kansas City Times, "I also believe the leadership of higher education is no longer content to sit by and let a minority of unconscionable people tarnish the reputation of higher education."
But Rose said the NCAA concentrated too much on minor practices rather than on values. He said the NCAA had ignored some problems too long.
"The motivation of the general athletic program is not getting caught," Rose said, "as opposed to living within the rules of amateur athletics.
"The NCAA, like all institutions, needs to change with the times. They're more concerned with penalizing than with teaching."
Rose said the NCAA must act fairly and immediately if and when a violation was discovered.
Rose said the NCAA appeared to ignore infractions until a school had four or five, after which a lengthy, drawn-out investigation was made.
Rose, also a KU law professor, interprets NCAA rules and regulations for the athletic department. A coach's main concern is coaching, Rose said, and his job is keeping them abreast of NCAA rules.
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