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University Daily Kansan, September 15, 1981
MARK McCONALD/Kansas Staff Freshman cross country runner Anne Johannessen prepares for the upcoming season by running 10 miles a day with her teammates. Johannessen came to Kansas from Oslo, Norway.
High jumper prefers basketball
To hear Tyke Peacock talk, it's hard to believe he's a world class high jumper.
By MIKE ARDIS
Sports Writer
"It's just something to do off season." Peacock said.
Peacock, a transfer student from Modesto Junior College in California, won the World Cup competition in Rome Labor Day weekend with a jump of 74%. The Rome meet was one of several in which Peacock participated during a two-week trip to Europe.
Track, however, is not Peacock's only sport.
PEACOCK ALSO starred in basketball at Modesto and is on the Jayhawk basketball team. Peacock came to KU on a basketball scholarship and will not return to track until the basketball season is over. But that should not hurt his jumping skills.
"All I have to do to stay in shape for track is to play basketball," Peacock said.
The main reason Peacock came to KU is that he is on a basketball scholarship, rather than a track scholarship. He said all of the schools interested in him wanted him to play both sports, but KU was the best school to offer a scholarship for basketball, the sport he likes best.
"You get a lot of enjoyment out of winning, but you don't have anyone to share it with." Peacock said of track. "With basketball, there's the team." Kansas was not one of Peacock's original choices, because he wanted to stay close to home.
"ONLY HAD two other schools in mind, the University of Nevada-Reno and San Jose State." Beccock said. "California was where I wanted to stay."
Peacock took Nevada-Reno out of consideration after the school recruited another guard. Then his coach told him about KU and the Jayhawks offered a scholarship.
Peacock, a 6-foot, 165 pounder, will be one of the smallest players on the court, and even though he can high jump nearly 7-6, he said, he doesn't think his leaping ability is a big advantage.
"I've blocked shots," he said. "But it just doesn't help. I can jump on the court, but it's not the same."
Peacock was Modesto's all-time leading scorer and averaged 19 points a game last year.
For this basketball season, Pacek has set goals.
"TD LIKE TO HE," he said, "but "I'm working to help the team."
For this basketball season, Peacock has set goa
"TD LIKE TO START," he said, "but I'm working to help the team." Peacock said he was the only one of the three men in his family to make a name for himself in sports. He started high jumping in seventh grade and he also participated in the long jump—an event he later drowned.
"In high school I also used to long jump, but I pulled too many muscles," he said.
Peacock said spending time with both sports was tough, but he said he didn't think a lack of time would ever force a choice between the two sports.
"If I have the chance, I'll go to the Olympics," he said. "I'm looking forward to the Big Eight meets, too."
Peacock now has set his sights on future international competition.
"I'll have the chance. I'll go to the Olympics," he said. "I'm looking
REINER, MARSHALL
Tyke Peacock, Modesto Junior College transfer, goes up for a layup during a workout yesterday at Allen Field House.
Cross country runner flees Norwegian winters
By TIM PARKER Sports Writer
As a runner, Anne Johannessen had the cards stacked against her in Oslo, Norway.
The second-semester freshman got interested in running "just for fun" when she was 15. But the harsh Norwegian winters—coupled with a lack of teammates—made year-round participation in the sport next to impossible.
AT KU, Johannessen and the six other athletes who make up the women's cross country team train by running 10 miles a day. In the winter, they move indoors and concentrate on sprinting to prepare for the upcoming track season.
But that option hasn't always been available for the slender blonde Norwegian.
very many indoor tracks because the sport is not that popular in Norway."
"The winters over there are much longer than here," she said. "It is very hard to run outdoors. And there are not
Still, Johannessen managed to find a track club and began running eight kilometers a day, weather permitting. Before coming to KU, she hadandoned the club as one of the top athletes in the club with a time of 2:10 in the 800 meters.
Last spring, in her first collegiate track competition, she finished fifth in the Big Eight indoor mile. But Johannesen wasn't satisfied.
"I didn't do as well as I hoped to," she said. "But perhaps this year I will do better now that I am more used to the races and workouts."
A disappointment in personal performance was a sentiment echoed by Johannessen's roommate, Gretchen Baiema, also a member of the team.
Bajema was a two-time North Dakota High school state champion in the 800 but has been plagued by injuries in her first two track seasons at KU.
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"It's worth it," Bajema said. "I wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't."
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
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Iowa State 311
Indiana State 315
Illinois State 321
Kansas 332
Nebraska Iowa 332
Individual Scoring
Brad Demo 78
Rob Wilken 79
Donn Frankdewicz 81
Rob Jensen 84
Kraig Hammer 63
UPI Top 20
Notre Dame (5)
Memphis (10)
Oklaoma (14)
Pearson (8)
Georgia (26)
Peoria (16)
Texas (14)
Ohio State (14)
Norwich State (14)
UConn (12)
Alabama (12)
Kansas (12)
Brigham Young (26)
Miami University (10)
Nassauaga State (10)
Florida State (24)
Florida State (24)
Purdue (14)
Nebraska (7)
Washington (13)
Seven qualify for Wichita meet
Timmons, who has aspirations of this team finishing in the top ten of the NCAA, said the 17-team Wichita meet would be good for his young team.
Owens, Leibert and Pepper also are freshmen. But they all have a number of state or national high school accomplishments behind them.
The KU coach described the hilly and timber-covered course as "interesting and beautiful."
put together a team that will win the Big Eight," he said.
"It's a good early season classic that will show us where we are." be said.
The list was led by Overland Park freshman Brent Steiner, who ran the qualifying course in 24:16. Steiner was named to School Cross Country Champ last year.
KU track coach Bob Timmons announced yesterday that seven runners qualified for the KU cross country team. The Wichita State Gold Classic Friday.
Timmons said the competition for the seven positions was intense
Bob Luder, 25:36; and Troy Pepper,
25:42.
The runners competed for seven positions on the team by running a course Timmons set up north of Lawrence.
Following Steiner in the qualifying race was Tim Gundy with a time of 24:30. Then came Paul Schultz, 25:05; Dan Owens, 25:20; Greg Leibert, 25:27.
"The guys are striving and battling to
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YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
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Kansas City rallies to beat California
American League
Milwaukee 2 Minnesota 2 Toronto 3 New York 10 Milwaukee 4 Kansas City 4 California 4 Kansas City 4 California
NAHEM, Calif. — Frank White hit a two-run homer in the eighth innning last night, lifting the Kansas City Royals to a 4-3 victory over the California Angles.
The Angels took a 3-1 lead in the first inning on Don Baylor's 10 home run with Rick Burleson and Dan Ford on base.
National League San Francisco 4, Atlanta 2 Los Angeles 10, San Diego 5 Cincinnati 4, Houston 2
Kansas City scored its first run in the
third inning on U.L. Washington's second home run of the season, a shot over the right center field fence.
Kison was pitching a five-hitter and had two out in the eighth inning when Washington doubled down the left field line. After Willie Wilson singled to center to score Washington, Kison left in favor of Hassler. On Hassler's third pitch, White homered to center for his eight homeer of the year.
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