Wednesday. April 22. 1998
The University Daily Kansan
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'90s runners race for '60s records
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PHILADELPHIA — His time was fast enough to win. Faster than any high school miler had run in three decades. But as Sharif Karie crossed the finish line at the 1997 high school boys outdoor track championship, he knew it was not enough.
“On that last 100 yards, at that moment if I had looked up at the clock and realized how close I was to breaking four minutes, I could have done it. I had it in me. But I cleared my mind, and I just thought about winning the race,” said Karie, who finished the mile in 4:02.01. “That was big. I tried for it two years and was closest of any runner, and it wasn't enough.”
For high school runners, the 4-minute mile is still a magic barrier. Only three have broken the mark, the most recent more than 30 years ago. Nearly all high school distance records were set more than a decade ago — including Jim Ryun's 3:55.3 mile record set in 1965
"Those were exciting times. We didn't think a lot about the future; we just thought about breaking four minutes," said Marty Liquori, who ran a 3:59.8 mile in 1967 — the last time a high schooler ran a mile in less than four minutes.
With the outdoor track season opening at Penn Relays this weekend, coaches admit the current generation of high school runners does not approach the one of the 1960s.
"The kids are not willing to work as hard as they did back then," said Phil Saunders, Karie's coach at West Springfield High School in Virginia. "The dedication isn't there."
The evidence is in the record books.
Jim Ryun holds the top five times in the mile. He set a winning record in high school in 1965, beating the four-minute mile mark. Contributed Photo
Ryun holds the top five times in the mile and top four in 1,500 meters. Gerry Lindgren and Steve Prefontaine hold the top spots at 5,000 meters, and Prefontaine's record for two miles, set in 1969, has been topped only twice—most recently in 1979.
Not one of the top 30 times at two miles, 5,000 meters or 10,000 meters has come in the 1990s. And only four runners have reached the top 30 in the mile this decade.
"Most kids don't work as hard as we used," Lliquori said. "My high school coach, Freddie Dwyer, was tough. He asked more of us, and we did it."
At the height of his high school track season, Liquori ran 80 miles a week. Ryun ran 100 and Lindgren 150. In addition, the heavy mileage included interval workouts—such
as a dozen or more quarter-mile sprints.
In contrast, Karie was running 40 to 50 miles a week in peak season last year. Gabe Jennings, whose 4:02.81 mile won him second place in the 1997 outdoor championships, was running 39 miles a week.
"The kids these days, they're just not Prefontaines. Marty Liquoris or Gerry Linders. Those guys just hammered away and worked like the devil," said Joe Newton, track coach at York Community High School in Elmhurst, ill. "My kids can't believe it when I show them workouts from 20, 30 years ago. They can't believe anyone could do that. But they did."
Newton admits he goes easy on his athletes in part out of pressure to let kids be kids and to ensure they will not become overworked and quit the sport before reaching college.
Liquori said, "In the 70s, when the running magazines started coming out, there was a lot of talk about moderation and pacing yourselves. People who pace themselves don't break the 4-minute mile in high school."
First-round upsets are not unusual in the NHL playoffs. The San Jose Sharks have proved that in the past and hope to prove it again.
Sharks, Senators hope for upsets against top teams
NHL playoffs to begin tonight
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the Dallas Stars in one of six playoff openers tonight. "We're going to give teams everything they can handle."
"We're going to be a team to be reckoned with," said San Jose's Joe Murphy, whose team meets
The Sharks pulled first-round upsets in their previous appearances — in 1994 against Calgary and in 1995 against Detroit. They never got past the second round, but this time they want to make a little history.
"We can do some damage," said咕佬曼 Tike Vernon, who led the Red Wings to the Stanley Cup last year while winning the MVP trophy.
Although the Sharks finished 31 points behind the Stars, they did split their four games with
the Western Conference champions.
"We've got four lines and six defenses, and we play everybody, and that's the strength of our hockey club," Vernon said. "We don't do anything too fancy. We just go out and work hard."
The same could be said for the Ottawa Senators, who split their four games with the Eastern Conference champion Devils. The Senators finished 24 points behind the East's top team.
"We know Ottawa won't be an easy team." Devils coach Jacques Lemaire said. "They've been probably one of the top teams lately. Against us, they always play a tight game. I think we'll have to get goatding. We'll have to get the defensemen to play at their best. The forwards will have to score more."
U.S. soccer team to take on Austria
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VIENNA, Austria — The United States can win the World Cup in 10 to 15 years, Steve Sampson predicts.
For the moment, however, the U.S. coach has more immediate concerns in the form of a tuneup game against Austria today in which the Americans need a cohesive performance leading to the World Cup in June.
Although his team has not played well lately, Sampson knows his squad has an altogether different approach from the team that advanced to the
second round in the last World Cun.
"Before, they only didn't want to lose," he said. "Now, it's a team that wants to win."
Claudio Reyna, the U.S. midfielder who plays in Germany, thinks the Americans could be one of the surprises in France.
"We could be like Sweden in 1994," he said of the third-place finisher.
The United States faces an Austrian team that was first in its qualifying group, although many of its players are past their prime or young and untried.
2 to Hungary, which failed to qualify for the World Cup.
The Americans also have fared poorly. After jitting Brazil 1-0 on Feb. 10, they lost to Mexico, the Netherlands and Belgium, going scoreless in all three games. They then tied Paraguay 2.2.
In March, the Austrians lost 3-
Reyna said the upcoming game was important because Austria's style resembles Germany's. The Germans, along with Iran and Yugoslavia, are grouped with the United States in the World Cup.
"They have a similar game plan. They run a lot and are aggressive," Reyna said. "It's an
important test for us."
Sampson said he was eager to test the depth of his squad against Austria.
"We'll be looking for players 12 to 16 in Vienna," he said. "At the World Cup, you cannot rely on only 11 players."
Austrian coach Herbert Prohaska said a victory at Ernst Happel Stadium was crucial leading to the showcase in France.
Decathlete seeks ninth win at Drake
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DE MONES, Iowa — Kip Janvrin does not train like he used to. He is 32 years old and has a family and a coaching iob to occuvi his time.
"It it's nice to be put in the same category with all the world class Olympians who have competed at the Drake Relays," Janvrin said. "But I don't know if I deserve that. I feel old. But watching Jack Nicklaus do well during the final round of the Masters has me pumped up."
But it would not be a Drake Relays decathlon without him, so Janvin will be back for the multievent competition tomorrow and Thursday, seeking his fourth-consecutive championship and ninth overall.
Kvalvik, the 1996 Drake champion, leads a field of 17 athletes for the heptathlon.
Janvrin, track coach at Central Missouri State, is among 14 athletes entered in the decathlon. Last year's runnerup, Darwin Vande Hoeff, will not compete, but the third-place finisher, Brad Swanson, will return.
Janvrin shares the career lead in Drake Relays victories with eight, a figure also achieved by spinner Gwen Torrence.
Janvrin trailed Vande Hoef by 175 points after seven events at Drake last year. But Janvrin won the final three and finished with 8,048 points
— the 18th time he had topped 8.000.
Missouri's Rannveig
His personal best is 8,462 in
1906, the year he set the Drake
Relays record of 8,198
Among the new faces challenging Janvrin will be pole vaulter Bill Deering, who will compete in his second decathlon. Deering, who has a best of 19 feet, 1/4 inches in the
pole vault, scored 7,597 points in his decathlon debut at the Florida Relays last month.
Also in the field are two athletes who were coached in high school by Janvrin's father, Ken — Travis Geopfert of Northern Iowa and Jay Rhoten of Central. Geopfert finished fifth at the Florida State Relays earlier this year. Rhoten was sixth at the 1997 NCAA Division III meet.
Kvalvik, who did not compete at Drake last year, is coming off a second-place finish at the Florida Relays and was fourth at the Big 12 Conference outdoor meet last year.
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