University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 14, 1989
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Kansas forward Terrilyn Johnson goes up for a rebound.
Johnson comes alive in first Jayhawk start
By Kate Lee
Kansan sportswriter
She had not started or played in a game for more than a year, but that did not seem to faze sophomore Terrilvian Johnson last night.
Johnson, who sat out last year because she was ruled a Proposition 48 case, started and was the leading scorer with 17 points in the Kansas women's basketball victory against Auckland Women's National team.
Johnson said she did not expect to start in the 82-64 victory.
"It (starting) was a shock," she said. "Plaving means a lot."
Johnson spent last year practicing with the team, but sat in the stands behind the bench during games.
"I had to sit out," she said. "I had to suffer.
"It was lonely, frustrating. I knew I wanted to be out there and couldn't be. It feels great to be playing."
Coach Marian Washington said she thought Johnson played well considering she had to sit out for a year.
"Her performance shows why we wanted her." Washington said.
Lynette Woodard, part-time assistant coach, said Johnson was a surprise package.
"She's strong on the boards," she said. "She can pull it down and turn it around. 'She is got great quickness."
Johnson had three steals and six offensive rebounds in the game.
"That's what I concentrate on is rebounding, because I think that's my strongest point," she said.
Johnson said that even with the victory, she and the team still had winnings.
"I think I needed to block out more," she said. "I felt I could have, but I didn't get around my player. I feel I need to become a bigger player."
Freshman forward Misti Chennault said she was excited to play with Johnson.
"She's phenomenal," Chennault said. "She's had good days in practice, but she just shot out of the gym tonight."
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The 33-year-old left-hander said he didn't want to risk more injury.
DRAVECKY RETIRES: Dave Dravecky, who made a brief but valiant comeback from cancer in his pitching arm this year, yesterday announced his retirement from the San Francisco Giants.
Dravecky told Giants president and general manager Al Rosen that doctors were carefully monitoring a new lump in his left arm and had expressed concerns that a resumption of his baseball career could jeopardize his weakened arm.
The jury of four men and three women returned the verdict in favor of general studies supervisor Donald Gregory and Vice-Chancellor James Griessen in the suit filed by Mary Jane O'Connor. The university who claimed she was fired for investigating the records of student
VISSER LOSES BUTT: A U.S. District Court jury returned a verdict yesterday afternoon in favor of the University of Nebraska in the case of a fired University of Nebraska-Lincoln academic adviser.
Giants public relations director Matt Piffer said Dravecky told him doctors would conduct a biopsy only if the lump continued to grow.
Rice, who had 382 home runs, 1,451 runs batted in and 2,452 hits, will become an unrestricted free agent Thursday if he clears waivers. The Red Sox last month indicated that he had no future with the team when they refused to exercise a $2.4 million option in his contract for 1990.
TEUFEL RETURNS: Tim Teufel, who had filed for free agency Oct. 30, returned to the New York Mets yesterday when he agreed to a two-year contract to $1.25 million.
SPONBERG REGIONS: Wisconsin athletic director Ade Sponberg, whose department has been burdened with budget deficits, a losing football team and declining ticket sales; announced yesterday that he would resign effective May 15, 1990.
baseball's best power hitters during his 15 seasons with the Boston Red Sox, ended his career in Boston yesterday when the team placed him on waivers.
DAVIS DEAD AT 25: Victor Davis, the 25-year-old Canadian swimmer who won a gold medal in the 1984 Olympics, died yesterday from injuries he suffered Saturday in a hit-and-run accident.
Spongebond, who came to Wisconsin $2\frac{1}{2}$ years ago, said the athletic board and Chancellor Donna Shalala thought "the department would benefit from fresh leadership."
The Mets also completed their coaching staff, hiring former Cleveland Indians manager Doc Edwards and three-year Tidewater manager Mike Cubbage.
"The issues were fact issues which would make an appeal difficult," he said.
University attorney David Buntain said he was informed of the verdict at 4:20 p.m. He said he doubted the verdict would be appealed.
RICE WAIVED: Jim Rice, one of
Auckland forward La'Koi Wooten, left, and guard Marie Powell try to guard Kansas center Lynn Page.
Kansas rolls by New Zealand Women's team beats Nationals, 82-64, in 1st exhibition game
By Paula Parrish Kansan sportswriter
It wasn't as lopsided as most exhibitions are, but the Kansas women's basketball team easily defeated the Aucklaud Women's Nationals 82-64 last night at Allen Field House in front of 250 fans.
Washington said that she was pleased with the Jayhawks' performance in their first exhibition game of the season.
"They don't have a lot of depth," Coach Marian Washington said of the New Zealand team, "but they executed well. They make you have to play. They were a good first test for us."
The loss puts New Zealand's record in this country at 1-2. The Nationals lost 69-58 to Kansas State on Friday, with the N.C. Stars rising just insist Wichita State on Saturday.
"I really felt that it wasn't something we were necessarily going to walk through." Washington said. "In this kind of setting, I definitely think that they are one of the stronger national teams. They were good
What work there was for Kansas came in the first half.
enough to make us work."
Kansas lost the first possession of the game but was first to score. Recovering on a turnover, forward Terrilyn Johnson, scored first for Kansas and was the team's leading scorer of the night with 17.
"Terrilyn showed last night why we've been waiting for her," Washington said. Johnson also led in the attack and contributed six offensive rebounds.
"I think if I'd have had some of my more experienced players in, the lead would have been much bigger," Washington said.
Kansas kept the Nationals down with 13 offensive rebounds and eight steals, forcing 14 turnovers.
Kansas quickly built to a lead of 14-6 four minutes into the first half, climbing slowly after that to a 45-31 score at the half.
The Jayhawks averaged 47.5 percent from the field in the first half, while the Auckland Nationals could only manage 39.3 percent.
Kansas lost a little momentum in the second half as Washington used the time to substitute the veterans with some of her freshman players, but the team still managed to push its lead to 18 by the end of the game.
With a younger group on the boards, Kansas still managed to rein in the Nationals' offense, allowing Washington to win while vanking down its defenses.
"I thought we executed well, and we did a good job on free throws," Washington said. "But I think we did better in the second half. We were a little looser."
Even with the substitutions, veteran guard Lisa Braddy led the team in assists with eight. Center Lynn Page was the top rebounder for the night, pulling down a total of eight.
Although pleased with the overall performance, Washington said the exhibition pointed out some weak spots that the team needed to work on.
"We didn't play real good defense until the second half," Washington said.
"We're going to have to work on our defense," she said.
Kansas tries to sign first recruit today
By Paula Perrish and Dan Perkins Kansan sportswriters
Coach Roy Williams and the Kansas men's basketball team are hoping to sign their first recruit of the early signing period this afternoon.
Lindley is expected to sign a national letter-of-intent at 3 p.m. today at Raytown South.
Williams said yesterday at his weekly press conference that there would be some announcements made today, but he wasn't going to make them any earlier.
There will be some announcements tomorrow, some good, some bad.'
Williams said that one of the bad announcements was that Kansas did lose one recruit, but Williams would not say who he was.
Kansas basketball coach
Roy Williams
"There will be some announcements tomorrow," Williams said, "some good, some bad."
"I won't tell you who it was," Williams said. "That's not my announcement to make, it's the kid's announcement to make."
One of the players Kansas was interested in was Rodney Zimmerman, a 6-10 center from Colorado Springs, Colo. But according to televised reports, Rodney Zimmerman signed a letter-of-intent with UCLA yesterday afternoon.
Three of the junior college recruits are from Butler County Community College in El Dorado. Herb Jones, a 6-5 forward, Val Barnes, a 6-2 guard, and Billy Law, a 5-10 guard, are still on Kansas' recruiting list.
The Jayhawks also are interested in Pat Richey, a 6-8 forward from Lee's Summit (Mo.) High School, and several junior college players.
One of the players Williams is hoping to sign is Rennie Clemons, 6-0 guard from Calvary Academy in Springfield, III. Clemons averaged 33 points per game last season.
Kansas is still hoping to sign several other players before the early signing period ends tomorrow. After that, players cannot sign until spring.
Kansas diver plunges into successful season
By Andres Caveller
Kansan sportswriter
A positive atmosphere on the swim team and the fact that diver Kelley Kaularch is enjoying the season more than ever has led her to achieve remarkable accomplishments.
Only halfway through the fall, Kauzlarich has qualified for NCAA zone competition earlier in the season than her past two times and has set a new diving record. She now holds two Kansas diving records.
Kaularich, an experienced Kansas diver, has learned to concentrate and to enjoy competition succeeding on the diving board.
For Kauzarchir, a 5-foot-1 junior in her third season as a Jayhawk, this is a time of enjoyment. Several reasons account for that: she is having one of her most successful seasons in the pool, she qualified as an all-academic Big Eight last season, and she is pleasant to watch from the team and the strong relations she has developed with the swimmers.
Kauzlarich, from Liberty, Mo., now holds two of the four Kansas women's diving records. She set a new record in the one-meter event, scoring 265.73 points in six dives at a dual meet against Colorado State University. She surpassed the old mark of 383 set by Celta Gales in 1982.
With that score, she also qualified for the NCAA zone competition in Dallas next March.
Last year, Kaularich had to wait until January to qualify for the one-meter event
"That helps you keep going," Kaularchir said. "The experience helps to jump over the fear of diving."
Kauzlarich also qualified for the zone competition in the three-meter event during the Big Eight Invitational on Oct. 28, which dividing coach Don Fearon called a consistent and strong performance.
and strong performance.
She scored 431.4 points in 12
dives, passing the 425-point championship qualifying cutoffs.
The zone meet is one of four in the country, and only three divers from each zone advance to the nationals. Kauzarich said that at last year's meet, there were about 30 women divers from schools in the zone, including Texas, Arkansas, Nebraska and Wisconsin.
As a freshman, Kauzlarich also set a record in the one-meter event with 12 dives for 469.1 points, which Julie serve had in 1987 and 1993. She has been known has been the Big Eight record-holder in that event.
"I think that's a real confidence for her to qualify this early in the season," Fearon said. "Now the team has to work with her, and can get to work on harder divers."
Kauzlarich said she needed to improve certain things in her dives, such as cleaning up her entries into the water and spotting, which is finding a reference point with the eyes open while spinning in the air.
"She is doing that consistently and is showing it in her scores," Fearon said.
But for Kauzlarich, not everything in life is diving, qualifying for meets and breaking records. She said her schoolwork was more important than diving because after she graduated, her real life was going to be based on her career.
And her grade point average shows it.
Last semester, she earned a 4.0 GPA, and her overall GPA is above 3.0.
As an allied health major,
Kauzlarich said, "Mainly, I just
study, practice, eat and sleep."
Kauaulich has never made it to the nationals, after having qualified for the NCAA zone competition two times before. As a freshman she finished 15th, and as a sophomore she finished 10th.
"Every athlete has certain goals, such as to go to nationals," she said. "And that what keeps me setting closer to that goal."
Andrea Cavaliere/Special to the KI
Record-breaker Kelley Kauziarich performs a low board dive
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