UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, July 22,1992
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Football players stay in shape
Athletes driven by thoughts of winning season
By Anne Grego
Kansas staff writer
While other students were enjoying the warm summer afternoon Friday, Larry Thiel, a 6-foot-3, 220 pound linebacker, based a barbell with weights as part of his summer conditioning program.
"All football players are expected to come to campus in shape," said Fred Roll, speed and strength coordinator for the Kansas football team.
In the fall, out-of-shape athletes find out quickly why they should have worked out: players are allowed 45-second rests between16 100-yard-dashes.
"Oh, I'll be prepared for the test," Thiel said.
Roll said that when a player did not run the test in the specified time, he got to run it again the next day — at 6 a.m.
"Players have got to pass." Roll said. "They can't go home and do nothing and pass the test."
If an athlete is in Lawrence during the summer, he can take part in the formal conditioning program Thiel has taken advantage of.
The summer conditioning program does not change much from the spring, Roll said. It includes a mix of running and weightlifting three days a week.
Players tried to increase their speed by running downhill, Roll said. As the summer progressed, the athletes moved off the hills and onto the field, hoping their bodies would retain the speed.
Players also ran up Memorial Stadium's upper-level stairs 16 times on the second day of the workout. Afterward, players practiced patterns similar to those they might run in a game.
Athletes who left Lawrence for the summer should also be preparing for fall practice. Roll said. They are given training programs to do at home.
Thul recognized the problems with home-conditioning.
"When a player goes home, he won't necessarily work out," he said. "It's advantageous to work out here because a player may not have the equipment at home."
Through conditioning, athletes build up their endurance and injury resistance.
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Athletes recovering from injuries spend the summer working 30 to 40 minutes a day with Lymn Bott, athletic trainer. Injured athletes are asked to spend their summer in Lawrence for rehabilitation. Bott said.
Summer also gives Bott a chance to prepare for the injury-prone football season.
Don Davis, Olathe sophomore, runs the stairs at Memorial Stadium as part of the Kansas football team's off-season conditioning program. The football team runs the stadium stairs every Wednesday.
Kansas dancers realize Olympic dream
By Kristi Klepper
Kansan staff writer
For two University of Kansas students and one Kansas graduate, the Olympic dream will become reality when they represent the United States in the closing ceremonies of the Summer Olympics.
Seniors Debbie Adams and Sonya Snyder, and graduate Lovena Stamatiou will be among 50 performers who will present a dance routine called "The Spirit of Atlanta" to invite the world to the United States for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
"There are going to be ex-Olympic gymnasts, Broadway dancers — people you thought you'd see only on TV, and now we're performing with
Adams left Monday for Atlanta, where she will work with seven other dancers and professional choreographers to design the six-and-a-half-minute acrobatic dance routine. Snyder and Statumion leave today to join her in Atlanta for more than two weeks of practices.
them", said Adams, co-captain of the Crimson Girls.
The dancers will fly to Barcelona, Spain, Aug. 5 for more practices before they perform in the Olympic Closing Ceremonies Aug.9.
"We're just thrilled to be going," sad Stamation, a former member of the cheerleading squad "I'd pay them for it."
The Atlanta Olympic Committee toured seven major cities and auditioned on 1,500 people to select 25 female and 25 male performers for the routine. In February, six present and two former members of the Kansas spirit squad traveled to Chicago to audition.
"the talent level was really phenomenal." Stamatian said
The six-hour tryouts consisted of dance combinations, gymnastics and partner lifting. The Kansas dancers were all called back to final cuts that day and then went home to wait for the call.
The call came for Adams, Snyder and Stannation at the end of April.
"We were ecstatic, to say the least," said Snyder, captain of the Kansas cheerleading squad. "It's a very high percentage that three were selected from Lawrence."
Snyder and Stamation were both members of the Kansas squad that won the National Cheerleading Association Championship in 1990. All three women said that performing at Memorial Stadium and Allen Field House helped them learn how to present themselves in front of crowds.
"They didn't want just dancers or gymnasts, they wanted performers," Snyder said. "Cheerleading, especially at KU, has prepared us well."
But representing the United States in a performance for an international crowd, in the midst of the world's top athletes, will be challenging in spite of their experience.
"There is a lot of responsibility and a lot of pride involved." Adams said. "We have to give them a show that they're never going to forget."
Adams said that after the tryouts she was asked to perform with a dance company in New York but that she had decided to wait and finish her English degree first.
The Olympic experience may open in other opportunities in dance.
Stanation, who graduated with a degree in exercise science, said that after the Olympics she would come back to an internship with Health Plus in Kansas City.
Snyder said she planned to complete a degree in organizational communications and pursue a career in sales or public relations.
Stamation and Snyder both said that they would not actively seek out auditions but that they planned to stay involved in dance.
Spirit squad coordinator Elaine Brady said she was proud to have the University of Kansas represented at the Olympics.
"Any time that our squad can rub shoulders and get the wonderful choreography that they will be exposed to, it cannot help but enhance the individuals and us as a squad." Brady said.
U.S. Dream Team flys over France in pre-Olympic warmup
Johnson and Jordan had the crowd chanting their names at Stade Louis II arena, including Princes Rainier and Albert, as Team USA won 111-71 in a pre-Olympic exhibition game against France.
Johnson was especially crowdd-
MONTE CARLO, Monaco — Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan were the princes of basketball in the principality of Monaco last night.
pleasing with eight points and 11 assists, many of them on spectacular passes. He was asked to go up to the royal box after the game to accept the handshake of Prince Raimier and his son, while many in the crowd went on the court.
Jordan scored 21 points, 17 in the first half when the United States started slowly against the French national team. Charles Barkley scored 14 of his 21 points in the second half and also was a crowd favorite with five
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dunks.
The game was the final American tuneup for the Olympics. They conclude their training period in Monte Carlo on Friday and will play their first game in Barcelona on Sunday against Angola.
Chris Mulin, who scored 16 points for the Americans, was often misidentified by the French-speaking public address announcer as John Stockton, who is still recovering from a broken leg.
Larry Bird, who missed most of the Americas Olympic qualifying tournament at Portland with a stiff back, started for the United States but played only 16 minutes with two points.
Georges Adams scored 15 points and Stephane Ostrowski 14 for the French team, which failed to qualify for the Olympics.
Barkley was the top rebounder with five as the Americans outrebounded France 31-14.
U.N. bans Yugoslav teams from Olympics
Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS — A U.N. Security Council committee cleared the way yesterday to let Yugoslav athletes compete individually in the Barcelona Olympics.
The International Olympic Committee is meeting today to resolve the question.
Francois Carrard, IOC director general, said in Barcelona that the IOC executive board would hold a special meeting to make its final decision but indicated the matter was up to the Spanish government.
Carrard said the IOC had not received official notice of the U.N. decision and would not comment. He said the IOC was not dealing directly with the U.N. but was going through the Spanish government.
"We want to have the official statement from the sanctions committee, and we need to know the position of the Spanish government," he said.
The Security Council runn against any group appearance by the Yugoslav athletes would prevent more than half of the 118 athletes from attending.
Katsumi Sezaki, a committee member, said the U.N. committee administering sanctions against Yugoslavia also decided that athletes from that nation, now consisting only of the republics of Serbia and Montenegro, could not participate in the opening parade or closing ceremonies.
Yugoslav Premier Milan Panic, in New York for talks about the crisis in Bosnia, praised the U.N. decision and said it would allow individual record-holders to compete.
Allegations that Serbia is behind the fighting in the former Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina led the United Nations to impose sanctions on the country.
The Security Council committee said team competition was a violation of the sanctions, which include a ban on participation in international sporting events.
The IOC had proposed permitting all to participate without Yugoslav uniforms, even in team sports. It said that there would be no national flag or anthem and that the athletes would be considered part of an independent team. But the committee rejected any group appearances.
Among the teams affected would be the 21-member water polo team that won a gold medal in the 1988 Olympics at Seoul. Also eliminated would be women's basketball and men's and women's handball.
The committee decided that any group appearance by the athletes would give the clear impression of a Yugoslav team.
Sezaki and U.N. representative Matthew Nerzig later reported the committee's decision, but there was no formal announcement.
"The committee has no objection to individual participation by former Yugoslav nationals, but any team competition should not be allowed," said Sezak, who is Japan's deputy permanent U.N. representative.
SPORTS BRIEFS
Kansas golfer Matt Gogel won the Kansas Amateur championship Sunday at the Willowbend Country Club in Wichita. Earlier this summer Gogel qualified to play in the U.S.Open.
Kansas basketball player Richard Scott had his knee brace removed Monday. The junior forward is recovering from June 12 surgery which repaired a broken bone in his left leg. He is expected to be in top form in time for the Jayhawks' first practice Nov. 1.
revolutionized defensive line play with a combination of strength and quickness, died of cancer Thursday at his home in Kansas City, Mo. Buchanan, 51, had battled the illness for two years.
Former Kansas basketball player Alonzo Jamison is playing in the Denver Nuggets rookie league in Salt Lake City, said Jay Clark. Nuggets media director. The league will wrap up play July 30. nNFL Hall of Famer Buck Buchanan, who
Buchanan, a 6-foot-8, 300-pounder, played for the Kansas City Chiefs from 1963 to 75 and was a six-time All-Pro. After retiring from football in 1978, he returned to Kansas City and became one of the city's most respected African-American businessmen and civic leaders. He started his own business in the early 1980s. He served as president of the Black Chamber of Commerce and in 1989 was appointed by the governor to the Kansas City Board of Election Commissioners.
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