SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 9, 1994
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Grapevine not route for outfielder
Softball star chose Kansas for tranquility
By Matt Siegel
Kansan sportswriter
the song "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" takes on a new meaning in Southern California. Sophomore centerfielder Charlene Reyes explains.
"Everyone finds out who's who through the grapevine," Reyes said. "Soffball is really big in Southern California, and the grapevine gives a player an opportunity to become known. The more people you know allows you to make a name for yourself and get noticed."
Reyes made a name for herself in high school. She was a multisport star, lettering in cross country, volleyball, soccer, softball and cheerleading. Her high school, San Marcos High, named Reyes the 1992 high school athlete of the year.
but no full college scholarships came
Reyes decided to attend Palomar
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Junior College to play softball. Her break came playing at Palomar, but not from having made a name through the grapevine. She impressed Kansas coach Kalum Haack.
"I went to a
tournament in December that her team was playing in." Haack said. "She had good size and strength, and I liked her attitude. She already had the physical aspects to play."
Jack offered Reyes a full scholarship after he saw her play. But Utah State also had seen Reyes play and offered her a full scholarship. Reyes didn't know anything about Kansas, and when she visited during Christmas break last year, the campus was predictably quiet. But Reyes, who said her favorite leisure activity in California was going to the beach, fell in love with Kansas.
Reyes said that it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play at Kansas and that it had been time for her to leave California.
"I just wanted to get out of the fast-paced lifestyle," Reyes said. "Plus, some of my friends were kind of going downhill. They were just hanging around and getting into some trouble. They didn't have any goals."
To pay the travel costs of attending an out-of-state school and to meet the need for spending money, Reyes had to find a summer job. But the job could not interfere with her softball activities. The answer came when a friend took her to a modeling agency to try out and she qualified. Although she enjoyed herself, Reyes said, she would not want to consider modeling as a lifetime occupation.
"It was kind of different getting into a bathing suit and all that," Reyes said. "It was a lot of fun, but I have never taken it too seriously. Besides, I have too many scars on my knees to become a model."
But it's her right elbow, not her knees, that has hampered Reyes so far this season. She said that during the fall she had been throwing a ball when she had felt a sharp pain in her right elbow. The trainers diagnosed the injury as an pinched nerve, and Reyes said it had caused more arm injuries and a lot of inflammation in her elbow. She already has had two
cortisone shots in the elbow.
"It's my throwing arm, and that's my ticket to play softball," Reyes said. "I pretty much take it easy during the week. When we play games, I just suck it up, and immediately after we are through playing, I get treatment on it."
He and the team are hoping that her elbow improves quickly, Haack said, because Reyes could inflict a lot of damage when healthy. Haack described Reyes as a power hitter with speed and one of the few players on the team who consistently can drive the ball to the deepest parts of the field.
Although the injury has caused her a lot of pain, Reyes said, she is happy at Kansas. And the ribbing that some of her peers gave her for coming to Kansas also has subsided.
"I couldn't go home for Thanksgiving, so I had two girlfriends come up and visit me." Reyes said. "They were always tearing me about why I came to Kansas. Once they came up, they loved it."
And now that her friends understand her decision to come to Kansas, they will have plenty of stories to tell through the grapevine.
Stewart is Big Eight coach of the year
1 The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Norm Stewart, who led third-ranked Misc
sourt to a rare unbeaten Big Eight season just five years after conquering cancer, was unanimously selected Associated Press Big Eight coach of the year.
20 The announcement yesterday of Stewart's selection by a panel of 16 media representatives marked the
Stewart is the first to admit that this team's historic season got off to a halting start.
fifth time in 27 years at Missouri that he was honored as coach of the year.
19 "We all struggled at first, both the players and the coaches," said Stewart, whose 33-year coaching record stands at 636-308. "But then we could feel things starting to come together."
Before the season began, Stewart launched "Three-Point Attack . . . Norm's Special Challenge," which is expected to raise more than $100 million.
Norm Stewart
$300,000 this year for the American Cancer Society. Across Missouri, individuals and corporations pledged money for every 3-point bucket the Tigers made during the season.
Fittingly, besides compiling a 14- 0 Big Eight record, Stewart's sharpshooters have smashed the team record with more than 160 3-pointers.
Nebraska coach blasts official of Missouri game
The Associated Press
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska basketball coach Danny Nee thinks that one of the officials from Saturday's Cornhusker loss at Missouri should be benched for the Big Eight tournament.
Nee said Monday that he wanted a formal review of calls made late in Nebraska's 80-78 loss.
The Husker coach would not say which of the three officials he thinks should be punished. But Nee wants the man to sit out the league tournament this week in Kansas City.
Nebraska athletic director Bill Byrne is carrying the complaint to Big Eight executives who are meeting in Kansas City, Mo.
Nee asked for a formal review of the officiating crew that worked Saturday's game against the Titers.
Four decisions made by the officials in the final 59 seconds went against Nebraska, which had a three-point lead evaporate into an 80-78 loss.
Three judgments were made by official Ron Spitler, including one where Nebraska guard Jaron Boone appeared to have been bumped over the sideline on an inbounds
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play with no foul called.
Spitler then called an intentional foul on Eric Piatkowski, giving the Tigers two free throws and an additional possession with 26.4 seconds to go.
After a double-foul call wiped out what, at first, was called charging against Missouri's Melvin Booker, Spitler called a foul on Nebraska's Jamar Johnson and counted a basket by Booker after it appeared that the Missouri guard dribbled, then shot after the foul.
SPORTS BRIEFS
team tournament.
Senior Casey Brozek shot two consecutive rounds of 73, and senior John Hess shot a 71 and a 75, putting the Kansas men's golf team in fifth place at the University of Central Florida Golf Classic.
Kansas men's golf falls to fifth-place tie in Florida tournament
The Jayhawks, who were in second place after the first round, slipped into a tie for fifth in the 14-
Central Florida leads the tournament after the second round with a total of 581. South Alabama is in second, eight strokes behind. The Jayhawks are 16 strokes off the pace.
Brozek and Hess both are tied for ninth as individual golfers.
Women's golf in Utah
Senior Holly Reynolds is in first place for the Kansas women's golf team after the second day of competition at the Utah-Dixie Classic in St. George, Utah.
Reynolds shot a first-round score of 72 and followed that with an even par 71 at the Sunbrook Golf Course.
Although Reynolds is in first place, Kansas is 30 strokes behind leader Oklahoma State.
Senior Pam Wineinger is in 41st place with a two round score of 164.
The Jayhawks will play at 3 p.m. tomorrow against Washburn at Hoglund-Maupain Stadium.
Kansas baseball had its game against Southwest Missouri State canceled yesterday because of bad weather in Springfield, Mo.
Baseball game canceled
Compiled from Kansan staff reports.
Crew members recognized for academic work
By Dan Lara Special to the Kansan
The Kansas men's and women's crew teams have won a lot of races during the past two years.
And now three rowers have earned recognition for their achievements in the classroom.
On Feb. 20, junior James Mardock, senior Kendra Luna and junior Laura Hunyadi were named academic All-Americans by the U.S. Rowing Association.
They became the first Jayhawks to be named academic All-Americans in crew.
Mardock was named to the men's first team, Hunyadi was named to the women's first team, and Luna was named to the women's second team, said Kansas coach Rob Catloth.
"It's really exciting," said Luna, an elementary education major. "It gives us something to be excited about because a lot of people don't realize that Kansas has crew."
Hunyadi, a pre-physical therapy major, said, "For me, it's a big honor because I was never really that athletic in high school. I'm just proud of what I've accomplished with crew."
Mardock, an English and premedicine major, said, "I think it's pretty impressive. It says we have some pretty smart people at the University of Kansas crew."
Cattoll said that Kansas and Wisconsin were the only two schools in the Midwest to have rowers named academic All-Americans. Other schools include MIT, Yale, Dartmouth, Holy Cross and Boston University.
The U.S. Rowing Association, the governing body for all rowing competition in the country, selected nine first-team and nine second-team academic All-Americans for men and women, Catloth said.
To qualify for the honor, an athlete must have a minimum 3.4 grade point average and must have competed for two years or participated in a league or regional championship, he said.
These three crew members did not know anything about crew until they were in college.
Hunyadi and Mardock found out about the sport during a freshman orientation meeting.
"I had no idea what I was getting into when I started crew," Hunyadi said. "I've just gotten competitive with it."
Mardock said, "I think I found a pamphlet somewhere. I also had a friend who was planning to row at KU."
A friend got Luna, who lettered in basketball and volleyball in high school, involved in crew as a freshman at Washburn.
"I went to the first practice and
never missed a practice after that," she said. "It's just something you have to experience."
Crew was once a sport associated only with Ivy League colleges, Catloth said. But more and more schools are fielding crew teams.
Besides Kansas, other schools within the state that have crew are: Kansas State, Wichita State and Washburn, he said. Other schools in the Big Eight conference that have crew are: Nebraska, Oklahoma State and Colorado.
"Usually in the fall races, we just work on a lot of technical things," he said.
Spring is the main racing season, with competition starting in April. The longest race in the spring is 2,000 meters.
Mardock said the teams had started 6 a.m. practices March 2 at Clinton Lake.
"The sunrises at Clinton are something else," he said. "I highly recommend them."
Catloth said he hoped that the team would compete in six regattas or races this season, including the Big Eight meet in Manhattan and state championships in Augusta. He said he also wanted the team to compete in the Midwestern Championships in Madison, Wis., and the Champion International Regatta in Washington.
Some rowers also may compete in the collegiate nationals in Cincinnati.
Men's and women's crew are club sports at Kansas and receive little support from the University
Catloth said he had a $50,000 budget, of which $15,000 comes from the University. Crew members pay $110 dues, do fund raisers and work concessions at football and basketball games to help finance expenses.
The budget does not include money for travel expenses and uniforms. Those items are paid entirely by the members, Catloth said.
"Out of my pocket, I probably pay $1,000," Luna said.
Student Senate did not pass a bill March 2 that would have raised student fees to add women's crew and soccer clubs as varsity sports to meet NCAA gender-equity requirements.
"I'm hoping they revote on it," Luna said.
Luna and Hunyadi said they were disappointed with the decision.
Hunyadi said, "A lot of money comes out of our pockets. I know a lot of people who have problems being able to go on our trips. It would be nice for them to get a break on that."
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