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University Daily Kansan, March 25. 1983
Women's record fails to reveal strengths
By BILL HORNER
Sports Writer
The record doesn't tell the story.
Records rarely do tell the story, but when a team finishes with a losing record — especially for the first time in six years — and everyone says what a solid, powerful team they are, it warrants explanation.
It's not easy, but when women's basketball coach Marian Washington talks about the 1982-83 season, she mentions the word rebuilding.
"When you talk about rebuilding," she said, "it's just that. You have to start again, and usually it takes a couple of years to do that."
TWO YEARS AGES the Jayhawks had a Big Eight championship. Last year they finished next to last in the conference. And this season it was back up the ladder. After wading through the first two months of the season in defeat, the Jayhawks ended the season in third place, despite their losing record.
Kansas' final surge, when they rebounded from a 9-9 record to finish 13-15, coincided with the return of injured Vickie Adkins to the lineup at the beginning of the second semester with an eligibility of transfer Philicia Allen.
Junior guard Angie Snider, who remembers the team's outlook as positive even during its dry spell, said that even though things were going bad early in the year, there were things to look forward to.
"WE NEEDED TO FILL those spots," she said, referring to the center and forward positions that the Jay-Acres team had to win the season. "When they (Adkins and Allen)
did come in, they did a lot of role
playing for us and gave us depth."
Adkins, a 6-1 sophomore forward, separated her shoulder early in the season and wasn't able to return to the team during January, when KU's record was 3-9.
Allen, a 6-4 junior center transfer from South Carolina, became eligible this semester and save her first action in the same game in which Adkins returned.
Kansas lost that Jan. 15 contest to nationally ranked Missouri, but good things were in store. Kansas won 10 of its last 16 games, finishing on a positive note and with a bright outlook for next year, when KU returns four starters.
"EVERYBODY ON THE team was positive," said senior captain Chris Hurley. "because we were learning and we knew that when Vickie and Phililia started playing, we'd get the help we needed."
Two close losses and a win after that Mizzou game, the opportunity that Washington and her team had been waiting for came to be: the Jayhawk's Jan. 29 game with Missouri in Allen Field House.
Sparked by Snider's 38 points, Kansas upset the Tigers 118-111 in triple overtime. It was the catalyst that KU over the hump of frustration.
Snider said, "I think that at that point in time, we needed to beat someone respectable. We knew that we could be harm if we could just get it together."
THAT VICTORY AND togetherness carried through for the rest of KU's season. The Jahayhs won seven of their next eight games, and took sole
possession of second place in the conference standings behind Kansas State. Their only loss during that time, which included six straight wins, was to K-State.
In fact, the Jayhawks started their winning streak after a loss to K-State, and the Wildcats came back to encounter three weeks later to end the streak.
The regular season came to a close for Kansas with a loss to the Colorado Buffaloes in Boulder; it was Colorado's 11st consecutive win at win.
With that, Kansas went into the Big Eight tournament, where the Jayhawks were seeded third.
IN FIRST-ROUND ACTION, KU beat Nebraska, 94-82. The Jayhawks' second-round game was against Missouri, and although Kansas outmatched the Tigers in almost every category, Missouri won, 75-74.
"It was our most effective game," Washington said. "We held the lead throughout the game, but they made a good comeback. We had a couple of shots to win the game, but it just wasn't meant to be.
"It was a shame that it had to be in that situation. It was our best game of the season."
That statement sums up Kansas' roller-coaster year. Despite finishing with their first losing record in six games, the team has made that they still came out as winners.
"It was one of those years," she said,
"One or two things would happen and the ball didn' t bounce in our way, but it did. We had to move towards the end, and getting stronger."
'OUR RECORD DOESN't reflect our improvement, but I think that
anyone who knows about the game and watched us during the second semester schedule would certainly see that we're a strong team."
Snider, who has one season remaining at KU, said, "I'm sad it's over. We could have taken it further. When the season ended, it was really the day we were forced for us because we didn't get together as a team until the middle of the year."
Snider, a guard from Roeland Park, was KU's mainstay. She was named All-Big Eight, averaged 19.5 points per game, led the team in scoring and finished second in the conference in scoring, and scored 16 points per scorer in 18 of 28 games, and the leading rebounder 13 times, averaging 6.5 per game.
ALLEN, ANGELA TAYLOR and sisters Vickie and Barbara Adkins also averaged double figures in scoring for the season. Taylor led the league in steals. Barbara Adkins was the team's second leading rebounder, and Vickie Adkins and Allen were each named to the coaches' honorable mention team.
"It was a good season," Hurley said. "We got along as good as a team. Our record certainly wasn't indicative of the way we played together."
Washington said, "I'm so proud of this group of young ladies. They had to overcome many things, but they never gave up."
And next season, the efforts of rebuilding should pay off, according to Washington.
"This year's young squad will be experienced next year. We have such a bright future. With our four returning starters, we have nowhere to go but up."
Spring football practice begins; students invited
By JEFF CRAVENS Sports Writer
Students are welcome to attend any of the practices this spring.
The Kansas Jayhawk football team, under the direction of new head coach Mike Gottfried, will open its spring practice sessions tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 on the practice fields behind Allen Field House.
"We invite anyone to come to practice who wants to come." Gottfried said. "We will have an area for these children to watch so they can avoid injury."
SEVERAL OF Giftfried's assistants, as well as some of the players, have been visiting living groups on campus. Giftfried said he saw that as part of his job.
"We're all here together," he said. "I'm not just the coach. I'm here to take in as many phases of the
Player evaluations will be Gottfried's main objective for the spring session. He said he would have to see how players reacted on the field.
"We're going to try to find out as much as possible about every area of the team," Gottfried said. "After the 20 and weak points, what our strong and weak points are."
The 30-year-old Gottfried came to Kansas from Cincinnati, where he had played in the NHL.
"We'll have to determine if we are going to have to throw 50 times a game, if we are going to have to play them on defense or if we have the term 'toy'
The Kansas women's track team is hoping to avoid the bad weather it experienced last weekend in Arizona when the team travels to compete in the Arkansas Invitational on Saturday in Favetteville.
"For all practical purposes, we're outside for the rest of the year," head coach Carla Coffey said. "The team has got to get used to any kind of weather."
"We're going to have meets in any almost any kind of weather. The girls are prepared to take proper precautions when warming up before a meet,
THE JAYHAWKS WERE 2-2-1 last year. Gottfried will have every player back from last year's starting offensive team, including lineman Paul Fairr, who was injured most of the year. Eight of eleven defensive starters return.
Team to compete in Arkansas
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