University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 2, 1988
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Senior Elisa Woods, left, goes up to block a spike by Junior Shelly Jorgensen,right, while junior Lisa Christoph looks on.
Volleyball team hopes to improve
Two starters should help newcomers
newcomers
By Jeff Euston
By Jeff Euston
Kansan sportswriter
The loss of eight players, including seven seniors, would seem to be a blow to any Big Eight volleyball team.
The Kansas volleyball team, however, is optimistic that it can improve on last season.
Last season, Kansas, 13-20 overall, tied for fourth in the Big Eight with a 3-9 record.
"I think we're going to be better than last year," said junior Jodi Oelschlagh, one of the Jayhawks who will be right up there in the Big Eight."
In the Big Eight tournament, the Jayhawks tied for third, defeating Kansas State before losing to North Carolina and the graduation of seven
seniors, however, the team has taken on a new look. This season, coach Frankie Albiz has added five freshmen and a junior.
"I don't know how we'll fit together as a team," Albitz said. "It will be hard to rest our hearts on the experience coming in that should help. We've brought in kids who have played Junior Olympic ball games."
The new additions to the team are junior Lisa Christoph and freshman Mary Bella Beth, Kimi DeHoffris, Krius Kleinschmidt, Bria Baldwin, Beth Powell and Woodruff all played Junior Olympic volleyball.
player follows player
Juniper players compete
throughout the year, whereas high school players compete only during the fall season.
Returning are sophomores Kim Bates and Lisa Patterson, and seniors Kim Robinson and Elisa Woods.
"We've improved our size," Albitz said. "Kim DeHoff is 6-foot-1 and she's a good hitter."
Shelly Jorgensen, who transferred to Kansas last year, is also new to the team.
How the newcomers learn the system will be important, Albitz said.
"I think it's a matter of playing together and getting used to playing at this level," she said.
"The new kids have picked up the system really well," she said. "We're young, but a lot of our players have experience in other areas. We have a really good attitude."
Robinson said that process had already begun.
The Jayhawks are confident they can qualify for the Big Eight tournament this season. Every Eight team qualified for last week's postseason tournament, but only the top four will qualify the year.
Woods, another returning starter, said she was optimistic about KU's chances.
"Basically, this is a whole new team." she said. "We've only got
three players with extensive experience, but we've brought in a lot of talent."
Albitz is still in the process of evaluating the team and is not yet sure of the starting lineup.
"I have some people placed, but after losing the players we did, placing is a major problem," she also said. "I put it down in practice right now."
Albatz said Kansas' difficult schedule was a factor for last year's losing record.
"I toned down the schedule this year, but it still going to be tough," she said. "The Big Eight is always tough."
The Kansas volleyball team opens its season against Montana State in Allen Field House on Sept. 8.
Intensity of her college days at Nebraska follows assistant volleyball coach to KU
Bv Mark McCormick
Kansan sportswriter
Karen Dahlgren Schonewise smashed a serve over the volleyball net. It skidded across the gymnasium floor. Schonewise ran gasping after
“If I shagged a ball (in practice), I’d be spitting the other side of the gym after it.” S. Chauchey said that I did I was giving 100 percent.
"If I was getting a drink of water, I was giving 100 percent. My college course is to go 100 percent all of the time.' He said. 'You have to learn to take a deep breath and, or you fall, get burned'
Schoenheise, bird this summer as the new Kansas women's assistant volleyball coach, takes that on court intensity into her coaching with the players and expects similar effort from her players.
"I'm an intense and competitive person and if we're at practice and someone doesn't go for the ball, I'm upset," she said. "If 'I am out here giving 100 percent, they should be giving me 100 percent."
Schonewise was the first player picked in the Minnesota draft, a team draft. She played one season for the Minnesota Monarchs, and she said it was "the best game."
"Even though the (professional)
team I was on was very strong,
I enjoyed playing against all of the
players, " she said.
At Nebraska, Schonewise was
All-Big Eight four years, an All-
American her junior and senior
years and an Academic All-Bei-
Schonewille also was on Nebraska's 1986 Final Four team that last to University of the Pacific in the national championship game. The Cornhuskers beat Stanford University in the semifinals.
can her final two years. She was national player of the year in 1986 and winner of the Broderick Award. volleyball's equivalent of college football's Heisman Trophy
With the emotional loss to his brothers and her ties to friends at Nebraska, she would feel strange when the Jayhawks and the Huskers met this season.
"I know the game, and I'm good at teaching the fundamentals," she said. "It's an opportunity for me to teach what I know to other students."
"I still know a lot of the
people who need to be
to see them on the other side of
the court and know that I'm coaching
against them will be awkward,
Despite any awkwardness of a first-year coach, Schonew feels confident in her position.
"She's really a motivator," said Lisa Patterson, St. Louis, Mo., sophomore. "She's a top player, and you know she knows what she does."
ratterson said Schonewise's intensity brought out the best in the Kansas players.
"She's intense, but she makes you so much more intense," Patterson said. "You don't want to look bad in front of her."
The Kansas players appreciate Sehonewise's intensity.
"Everybody's really happy she's here, and she has a lot to offer the team."
New assistant volleyball coach Karen Dahigen Schonewis shows where the ball should hit a player's hand during a spike.
KU rugby team plays Air Force
By Terry Bauroth
Kansan staff writer
Air Force rugby players may out weigh the Kansas varsity in pounds but not in technique.
And Kansas' Scott Stiles hopes technique will be the decisive factor in this tomorrow's season opener. The team will play Rich Clampkins, 22nd and Iowa's streets.
"Air Force is a musceled up team, but we're just as strong on technique." Sites said. "They outweigh us 30 to 35 pounds a player."
Kansas lost the Western Territorial championship game last year to Air Force. 7-6. Despite losing the game in the final minutes, Sites said Kansas outperformed the academy in the second half.
Pat Roberts, team captain, sain Air Force was in good shape and would be a tough match, but Kansas had the advantage of being a veteran squad. However, not all the weekend games were played with all of its "adversaries."
Coach Rick Reniro said returning players would make a strong backline, but the loss of four players would hurt the Jawhacks' scrum.
Scrumming is a way of restarting play, he said, and could be compared
Renfo said the team was out of shape and it would be four to five weeks before it would reach its peak.
to the offensive or defensive line play in football.
"This year's goal is to develop an individual players who everyone can play," the coach said in the "renfroo." Renfroo said, "We're willing to sacrifice victories to improve play."
with rugby players.
This year's varsity team will be comprised of about 20 veteran players and 25 new players.
*next season for rugby players isn't too far away.* You split a season with the current season ending in February. *Next season begins in February.*
The club-side team starts its season Sunday in a game against the Chicago Blaze, who Renfro was a top flight team.
Kansas has two rugby teams: a varsity team composed of college students and a club-level team composed of students with rugby experience.
About 15 to 60 veterans will play on the club-side team. Reno said All-American Paul King. Pat Robertson will play on the club-side team would be the Jayhawks' key players.
Tigers trade sours; Lynn ineligible for all post-season play
The Associated Press
DETROIT — Outfitter Fred Lynn, obtained by the Detroit Tigers as pension insurance, cannot qualify for post-season play because he was 10 minutes late in reporting to the club, team officials said yesterday.
"It's not even a question of 'may not' be eligible," Tigers spokesman Greg Shea said. "He is not."
Lyns said the pilot began trying to make contact with the O'Hare tower about 11:40 p.m. but was too far away.
"Maybe if we'd had a telephone, instead of a radio on board, we could have reached them," Lynn said. "we
Major league rules specify that a player must report to his new club by midnight, local time, Aug. 31 to qualify for post-season play.
"We tried as best we could," Lynn said. "Unfortunately, I was in Anaheim and the plane was at Ontario" about 25 miles away.
The Tigers obtained Lynn from the Baltimore Orioles for three minor league players to be named later in a deal closed between 6 and 7 p.m. Wednesday. The club chartered a new training facility (Fairfield International Airport or O'Hare Airport in Chicago, where the Tigers were playing the White Sox).
If the player is traveling by airplane to join his new team, the pilot at least must make contact with the airport to which he is flying. She
The plane left the California airport on a flight expected to reach Chicago by 12 a.m. Shea said, but the pilot could not contact the O Hare tower until 12:10 a.m. and did not land the plane until 12:30 a.m. Learning Lynn missed the deadline for postsession eligibility by 10 minutes.
pout Southern California traffic at that time of the afternoon is pretty tough going," he said. "It was rush hour, and we were at airport at that time without a helicopter."
'It's not even a question of may not be eligible. He is not.'
- Greg Shea
Tigers spokesman
did everything humanly possible to get there. The tallwalls just weren't bar enough for us."
BLA Lajoie, the general manager who made the deal for Lynn, said the 24-man playoff roster he turned in years did not include the veteran.
A commercial flight leaving Los Angeles at 3:40 p.m. likely would have reached Chicago before midnight and made that flight but he initially balked at the deal, citing a no-trade clause in his Baltimore contract,
By the time Lynn changed his mind and agreed to the trade, the Tigers had no choice but to charter the jet and hope to get to Chicago in the race.
"We knew it was going to be close and we didn't quite make it," he said. Lajoie also said he didn't plan to appeal Lynn's lost eligibility.
"I talked to the commissioner's office," Laopoe said. "I just like setups in the way that I know for the same way. He said. Let's get to the playoffs first and then worry about how
Lynn, 36, a 14-year major league veteran, was expected to help shore up Detroit's faltering offense in their drive for the American League title. The Tigers led second place Houston games into yesterday's contested play.
Fitcher Ted Power, whom the Tigers obtained Wednesday from Kansas City in exchange for minor leaguers Rey Palacios and Mark Lee, reported to the club before the midnight deadline.
Sports Briefs
COLLEGE FOOTBALL POLL: The Kansan, in conjunction with JKH-KFM 91, will publish a weekly top 10 college football eponyment every Monday through Friday. The Kansen's the sports staffs' of the Kansen and JKH-KWM will vote in the poll.
KJIK will broadcast the results every Monday morning and throughout the day. Ten points will be given, nine for second, eight for third, etc.
GRETZKY REACHES AGREEMENT:
Hockey superstar Wayne Greytak, acquired by the Los Angeles Kings from the Edmonton Oilers last month, has reached an agreement with the NHL to hold the four years which were remaining, the NHL team announced yesterday.
Terms of the contract weren't announced, but the Kings said in a news release that Gretzel's salary was being increased "commensurate with the increased cost of living in Southern California."
TOP COLLEGE TEN FOOTBALL
Points
1 Florida State (6) 133
2 Nebraska (3) 126
3 Oklahoma (1) 119
4 Auburn (2) 86
5 Southern Cal (2) 73
6 Miami (Fla.) 71
7 UCLA 68
8 Michigan (1) 62
9 Clemson (1) 61
10 Ivyaa 41
The weekly top 10 poll is voted on by the sports staff of the University Daily Kansan and JKHK-FM 91.
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