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University Dally Kansan, April 26, 1983
NFL draft is today
By United Press International
NEW YORK — John Elway is the crown jewel in a glittering field for today's NFL draft, with the San Diego Chargers and Houston Oilers posed to bring home the most bosty. One of the most attractive fields of collegians in recent years is available to the NFL's 28 clubs and the draft will begin at 9 a.m. at a midtown hotel with the Baltimore Colts holding the first pick. Elway, the All-America quarterback from Stanford who also excels in baseball, is the premier athlete on virtually every scout's board and will be the first player chosen.
THE COLTS WOULD love to have the record-setting passer, but Eilway, who completed more passes (774) than anyone in major college history, has indicated a strong preference to play for a West Coast team and the Colts have been informed he may pursue a professional baseball career if drafted by Baltimore.
If the Colts decide to trade the first pick, the Chargers and the Los Angeles Raiders are the most likely candidates for a deal. San Diego has three selections in the opening round and the Chargers have yet to come to terms with free agent All-Pro quarterback Dan Fouts.
The draft was crammed from two days into one because of competition from the new United States Football League.
DENVER IS TO CHOSE fourth,
followed by San Diego, Chicago,
Kansas City, Philadelphia, Houston
and the New York Giants. Green
Bay has the 11th pick, followed by
Buffalo, Detroit, Buffalo, Boston,
England, Atlanta, St Louis, Chicago,
Miami, San Diego, Pitts-
tugo, Dallas, Dolga, the New
York Jets, Cincinnati, the Los
Angeles Raiders, Miami and the
NFL champion Washington Redskins.
Powerful batting leads Jayhawks past K-State
Jayhawk bats exploded for 12 hits as KU tapped Kansas State University 16-3 in the first game of yesterday's double-header, then knocked out 12 hits for eight runs in the second game and won 8-4.
KU won three out of four games in the weekend series that spilled over into Monday when Saturday's games were rained out. On Sunday, the 'Hawks won the opener 3-but fell in extra innings in the second game, 10-9.
Mark Gile led the Jayhawks at the plate, hitting seven for nine, including three doubles and two home runs, one a grand slam. KU batters hit five home runs yesterday to bring the season total to 39. Kruse Baskin leads the team with
Center fielder Dick Lewallen singled in the third inning of yesterday's first game, breaking the KU career hitting
record. Lewallen's 174 topped the old record of 171 accumulated by Brian Gray.
Gray.
Senior hurler Jim Phillips also broke a KU record yesterday, striking out eight batters in the first game to become the career strikeout leader for KU with 185. Phillips pitched $5\frac{1}{2}$ innings before giving up a hit. He raised his record to 3-3.
"I was real pleased with the way that Jim held together," KU coach Marty Pattin said. "He stuck with it even after he lost the no-hitter."
the 10th and 11th series.
After the K-State series, KU is 16-15 for
the season and 8-7 in the Big Eight,
which puts them in fourth place.
which puts them in a position. “Obviously I’m quite happy to come in here and take three out of four games.” Pattin said. “Everybody in our lineup is hitting the ball well, and we’ve gotten some good pitching.”
KU tennis team begins conference tournament
After splitting two matches against Big Eight opponents this weekend, the KU women's tennis team will begin play in the conference tournament tonight in Kansas City.
Steffanie Dicke, the No. 1 singles player, and all three doubles teams will be seeded in the tournament, according to coach Scott Perelman. Both the men and the women are currently fifth in the Biz Eight.
Last Friday the women swept Iowa State, 9-0, in Des Moines. Iowa. Nebraska turned the score around on the Jayhawks on Saturday in Lincoln, Neb.
"We played well against Iowa State."
Perelman said. "We had a lot of close matches and the girls came through and won. Against Nebraska, we had a lot of close matches and lost them all."
The men's team also split matches against Iowa State and Nebraska at home last weekend. The Jayhaws beat
iowa State 6-3, while losing to Nebraska. 8-1.
BRETT BLAIR, Charles Stearns, Jim Syret and Tom Black all won singles matches for the men against Iowa State. The doubles teams of Center and Stearns, along with Blair and Syret, also picked up wins against the Cyclones.
The men will begin the Big Eight tournament on Thursday in Kansas City. They do not have anyone seeded in the tournament and are trying to catch Colorado to move into fourth place in the conference.
The No.1 doubles match was the only win KU picked up against the Cornhuskers.
"We've seen some bright spots this year from the men," Perleman said. "We just haven't been able to put them all together at the same time."
The man, wearing shorts and sporting a mustache, never seems to rest. He storms the sidelines constantly, shouting instructions and urging players on.
Sports Writer
By JEFF CRAVENS
Zook finds niche as Jayhawk
players on. There is a trainer scurrying behind him, frantically trying to keep the cord to the man's headset from tangling around the players or himself.
This has been a familiar sight on the KU football sidelines this spring during scrimmages. The man is not head coach Mike Gottfried, but defensive coordinator Ron Zook.
"I LOVE WHAT I'm doing," Zook said. "I don't think I'm hyper. It gets in your blood."
in your house. Zook, who came to Kansas from Chittamau along with Gottfried, did not always plan to be a football coach. While in college, he played football for Miami of Ohio. At that time, Zook planned on being a dentist. However, he decided that he was not ready to give up football yet.
"I started coaching for Orville High School after I got out of Miami," Zook said. "We didn't lose a game in the two years that I was there."
"Coach Gottfried was recruiting for Arizona at the time and I asked him if they had any openings. He took the job at Murray State right after that and called to see if I would be interested in coaching there."
coaching there.
ZOOK HAS BEEN with Gottfried ever since and is happy working for him with the Jayhawks.
**mim win the game!**
"My goal is to be a head football coach," Zook said, "but I'm not looking. You couldn't find a man who cares more about people than Coach Gottfried. I very content.
"Coach Gottfried is always weeks ahead in planning and that's really helped me prepare for the time when I'm a head coach."
I'm a head Coach.
Zook and the new staff have brought a new defense to KU unlike any other in the Big Eight.
"The defense we want to play is exciting to play and exciting to
watch," Zook said. "Somewhat will happen on every play. It might not always be good, but something will happen."
THE NEW DEFENSE, called a wide-tackle six, has four down linemen, two defensive ends, two linebackers and three defensive backs. Kansas will be one of less than a dozen schools in the country that will use this type of defense.
"We tried it our first year at Murray State," Zook said. "We put it in for the fourth game of the season and we kept on studying it."
Zook said he thought that with the talent already at KU and the junior
college recruits, the Jayhawks could have a fine defensive squad next year.
"We're trying to develop a closeness and pride on our defense." Zook said. "We're pretty young, but I think we could be very good if we get some breaks."
PLAYING NEBRASKA, Oklahoma and Southern California doesn't seem to phase Zook, even though those three schools consistently rate at the top of the nation in total offense.
"I'm excited about the challenge of playing schools of that caliber," Zook said. "At Cincinnati, we played Penn State, Pittsburgh and Alabama, so it's nothing new. I think that every coach wants to be able to play the best."
Jim McCrosse/Special to the KANSAI Ron Zook, the new KU defensive coordinator, is responsible for teaching the 'Hawks the "wide-tackle six" defense that head coach Mike Gottfried advocates.
Sports psychologist helps athletes as 'mental coach'
Staff Reporter
By ANDREW HARTLEY
Minutes later, he stopped outside the swimming pool to chat with a member of the women's swimming team whom he had not seen in several weeks.
Andrew Jacobs strolled down the hall at Robinson Center after being a guest lecturer in a class on the psychology of coaching. About every 20 feet he stopped to shake hands with a smiling athlete who said, "Hey, Andy. Howya doing?"
IN THE TRACK OFFICE at Allen Field House, coaches and athletes would stop him to say, "Hey, Andy I need to get in to see you today and talk about several things."
At Memorial Stadium later in the day, Jacobs, 28, spoke with a member of the women's track team about the Kansas Relays and then stopped by pole vaulting practice to assist two men in relaxation exercises.
In relaxation Andrew Jacobs is a sports psychology consultant who works with track and swimming athletes at the University of Kansas, a position he has had for a little more than a year.
AFTER NINE YEARS of studying to earn a doctorate in psychology, the Kansas City native returned in 1981 to set up a private practice there and now works with athletics at the University of Kansas.
Kansas.
He also works at the Pain Management Center at Menorah Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo., and is the
sports psychology consultant to the U.S. Olympic Cycling Team.
Every Tuesday he spends the day working with KU athletes to help combat problems such as stress, anxiety, concentration lapses and short attention span. The techniques he uses are personal sessions, hypnosis and physical exercises.
"The main element of someone working in sports psychology is that we're essentially being the mental coach," Jacobs said.
"MY JOB HERE IS NOT to coach athletes or tell them how to jump or tell them what to do. First of all, I don't know that much about it, and if I did, I would be talking out of position.
"I'm probably one of 40 or 50 people
Andrew Jacobs, sports psychology consultant for the KU track teams, talked with Becky McGranahan before lays.
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in the United States qualified to do this sort of thing."
Because of his popularity and the success he has brought to individual athletes, nine teams will be using his services next year.
but seven years ago, he had no idea that his work in psychology would be with athletes, a field that is just now increasing in popularity in the United States.
States.
Jobs was always certain that he wanted to work as a psychologist, but not as a sports psychologist. From 1972-76, he attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn, and earned a bachelor's degree in psychology.
IN SEPTEMBER 1976, he began graduate work at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego.
"When I was out there, I didn't want to become your typical shrink," he said.
During his second year of graduate school, Jacobs met a staff member who was one of the top sports psychologists in the United States. Jacobs was attracted by the opportunity to work with athletes.
with notes
Through his graduate work, Jacobs became involved in an internship program with athletes from nearby San Diego State, the only program of its kind at that time.
kind at that time.
When he worked with a member of the men's tennis team through the internship program, he found out how important concentration and attention spans were to the athlete.
"The neat thing about that was the freshman girls would come out in their bikins to watch the team play, which in one sense spurred them on. But the bad thing was that this guy was distracted because there would be these girls out there lying down right behind the fence."
"THIS GUY'S PROBLEM was that the freshman dorm was right next to the courts," Jacobs said.
"He was the No. 14 player on the team and had all of the physical abilities to be No. 1. He admitted that it was all in his head."
"He even got aced several times when he was receiving serve," Jacobs said. "So we worked on developing more of a narrow focus. He understood that off court he could do that all he wanted, but on the court he couldn't."
He said the tennis player would be looking at the girls' legs while he was serving rather than concentrating on the tennis ball.
all in his team.
Jacobs said he worked with the player for three months, and then the player moved up to No. 1 singles.
JACOBS' INVOLVEMENT at KU started in 1981.
"When I got settled in Kansas City, I interviewed with a lot of the smaller colleges in the Kansas City area," he said. "They were interested in a sports psychology consultant, but did not have the resources to do it."
Then he met Mike Bahrke, KU associate professor of health, physical education and recreation, at a sports medicine meeting on campus. Bahrke asked Jacobs whether he wanted to work with KU athletes and then sent a memo to coaches. At that time, only the two track coaches were interested
Jacobs said, "Things would not have gone well without the cooperation of the coaches. They gave me the opportunity. They are believers in what I'm doing."
ONE OF THE BELIEVERS was Carla Coffey, head women's track coach, who said she had noticed Jacobs' effect on the 10 athletes he had worked with.
"I've seen a real improvement in the athletes in competition situations and in practice," she said. "It shows in sports and performance in their events."
One of Jacobs' greatest supporters is head track coach Bob Timmons.
ROGER BOWEN, ASSISTANT men's track coach, said, "The guys Andy has worked with really respect him and have responded well to him. Some of the athletes have really turned around. If that can be attributed to him, that's great.
Kempf said he was against saying his athletes improved as a result of work with Jacobs because all aspects of the sport worked together — the coaches, the psychology consultant and especially the athlete.
But he does see the need for a psychological approach to athletics for helping with stress, pressure and visualizing a race.
it's Working on... This year Jacobs has also worked with the club members of the swim team. Swim coach Gary Kempf also said he could not link the success of some of his athletes directly to their work with Jacobs.
"THE MENTAL APPROACH to athletics is one of the most valuable aspects of sports." Kempf said. "I think it's the next step in the advancement of all athletics."
Jacobs said, "I can't say enough about Coach Timmons. Of course, there are a lot of people who can't say enough about him. He gave me the opportunity to work here. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be here."
"But it is difficult to measure success with a like thing this. There's no test an athlete can take to determine whether it's working or not."
ment or an award.
One of the swimmers Jacobs has worked with is All-American Tammy Thomas. He has helped her with exercises in concentration, relaxation and imagery. In a recent article in Sports Illustrated, she credited him with part of her success.
with pin or on her head.
"He's really low key," she said last week. "Sometimes we just talk or go get something to eat.
something to be done.
"I think some of the swimmers are pretty excited about having the chance to work with him next year."
Announcing:
The Singles Hill Championship
r: Any person with an established average in a Jaybowl league or HPER bowling classes (minimum 18 games)
When: Saturday, April 30
Time: 1pm, 3pm, 5pm
$3.00
per 3 game
series
Entry deadline: Friday, April 29, by 10pm
KANSAS UNION
For more info
CALL
864-3545
...
Auditions For 1983 Kansas Repertory Theatre Summer Season
Sponsored by the University of Kansas Theatre
For Open Call auditions:
Open Call Auditions for KRT Company Members
1:00-4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 30; Room 209, Murphy Hall
Callbacks:
7:00-10:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, April 30 & May 1, sites to be announced
Ocean View Forums for Community Cast Members:
7:00 p.m. 1000 p.m. Social Media
Open Call Auditions for Community Cast Members:
8:45 p.m. 209, Murphy Hall
209, Murphy Hall
piece and a prepared song.
An accompanist will be provided.
KRT Company members can earn eight (8) hours of academic credit; graduate students can receive five (5) hours of credit
Call Auditors for Community
1:00-5:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 1, Room 209, Murphy Hall
For Open Call admission
Auditioners should have a two-minute prepared
pass for the audition.
Backpacks:
7:00-10:00 p.m. Sunday, May 1, sites to be announced
1983 KRT season: Rehearsals June 1- July 7; Performance
season: B2-4.
mances July 8-24
1. Working 1979-19 kit musical based on Studs Terkel
2. Perform in show
1) Working 1978 hit musical based on Studs Terkel's book "town/gown" show
2) The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
3) The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard, and another yet to be announced short play
KRT staff applications available in 317 Murphy Hall deadline for applications is Monday, April 25
Additional information about auditions: University Theatre, 317 Aubury, 864-3381
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