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Following Suggs' footsteps in the shot put will be Pam Bascue, Garden City, whose best put is nearly five feet short of Suggs'.
100-Meter Dash
Anderson, Carter and Susan McFarland, Ottawa, appear to be the top qualifiers in the field.
Tisa. Johnson's time of 10.93 is the best of the qualifiers. Johnson, Great Bend, the only spinner to have run the 100-meters in under 11.0.
Mile Run
Four other qualifiers have run the event in less than 12 seconds. They include Carolyn Noller, Salina South; Karen Brown, John Marshall High; Monique Holland, Wichita Heights and Rachel Brockman, Ottawa.
Ottawa has the top qualifier in Cindy Blake, who has run the mile in 5:11. Following closely are Beth Cabbage, Hutchinson; Debbie Pintie, Highland Park; Anne Sadler, Shawnee Mission East, and Lori McElhennan, Manhattan.
Two-Mile Run
Once again, Blakeley owns the best qualifying time at 11:08. Alyson Deckert, Salina South, is only three seconds off Blakeley's pace, but the rest of the field trails by about 10 seconds.
Other top qualifiers include Pinter;
Andrea Tkach, Omana Central; Ross
Kelly, Washburn Rural; Kit Taylor,
Jacob Lewis; Jack Lewis, Shawnne Mission East.
Long Jump
Jackie Harris, Summer Academy, is the top competitor in this event at 18-9. Other qualifiers having cleared at least 18-0 are Margie Bolden, Highland Park; Terry Knox, Wichita Heights, and Alicia Barber, Topeka.
However, Alesia Cox, Salina Central,
and Dawn Porter, Summer Academy,
are within one-half inch of reaching the
18-foot mark.
440-Yard Relav
Omaha Central has the top qualifying time at 47.4, followed closely by John Marshall High at 47.6. Also among the top teams are Junction City, Memorial, Salina South, Lansing, Great Bend, Hutchinson and Topeca.
Mile Relay
Two-Mile Relay
Leading the pack is Ormahah Central, which has run 3:57:6. Other top teams are Memorial, Junction City, Great High, Sawdust High, High Central High and Salina South.
In the girls' final event, Memorial appears to have the upper hand. Their time of 9:37.77 is challenged seriously only by Omaia Central; 9:41.5.
Ottawa and Manhattan are within striking distance, while outside chances belong to Great Bend, Wichita Carroll and Shawnee Mission East.
Rvun returns to Relays after 10-year absence
By MIKE ARDIS Sports Writer
Jim Ryun, former Olympian and KU graduate, return to the Kanas Relux this week, 19 years after his first appearance.
"My first year there I won the mile," he said of the 1963 meet. "The great thing though was being on the two-mile relay team.
'We were hoping to break eight minutes in it, but we were behind and I was running anchor. I ran 1:53.4 or 1:54.3 and we won.
"THAT WAS BIG. My adrenalin was going fast and we pulled it out."
Tomorrow, Ryan will run in the 10,000 meter Open race, a road race. Gone is the pressure of the shorter races and the stress that the race came to the relays to watch him run.
Ryun runs in the road races these days, those 5,000 meters or longer. While the crowds are not there, he doesn't miss them.
"Frankly, you don't spend a lot of time looking at the crowd," he said.
IN 1972, the last time Ryun competed in the Kansas Relays, 32,000 people were there to watch him run the mile, including 2,000 who showed up just to participate. He was on by the crowd, Ryun and two other runners finished under four minutes.
In 1964, he became the first high schooler to break the four minute barrier. Ryun won the mile three times at the Kansas Relays, which included his 1971 time of 3:55.8 in front of 23,700 fans.
"THERE ISN'T much of a crowd now," he said. "This Relays I'm not running in a key event, but I'm anxious to participate."
Running in the longer events presents Rvun with one advantage.
"The big difference is pressure," he said. "How can you miss pressure. I enjoy what I'm doing. I'm happy to be where I am now."
Some of Ryun's greatest races at KU
were run in the Relays in the rain. Rain has always seemed to plague the Relays. It wasn't until 1970 that an artifact truck was installed.
"Obviously there have been some improvements," Ryn said of the Relays. "The new track. My ex-situator had the cinder track, mudtrack relay."
RYUN ONCE held many world records and American records, including the mile. The last record of his to fall was the American record of 3.404 km, 1,560 meters. Only last did Stuart Scott break it with a time of 3.33.8.
"I TOLD my wife when Steve got the record, "I a free man," Ryan said. "I was happy for Steve. I know what he was going through."
Ryun's world record in the mile, 3:51.1 set in 1987, held up until 1979. For Ryun, running was his life. It wasn't until his success started to slip did his
In 1972. Ryun's last year as an
amateur, he did not get the gold medal in Munich in what would he his last try.
Ryun never had much luck in the Olympics. In 1964 in Tokyo, Ryun was sick and did not make the finals of the 1,500 meters. In 1988, he was weakened by a pulled muscle and finished second in Keino in Mexico City's high altitude.
In 1972, he was tripped in a preliminary heat and despite two appeals, could not get in the finals.
"WHEN I WAS at school, I was more single-minded," he said, "Now as a result of being older and a Christian, I am more confident in my big difference is that I am a Christian."
AFTER 1972, Ryun turned pro in the International Track Association, which lasted only a few years. In 1976, Ryun retired from running competitively, saying that the Lord had told him to. He also moved to California.
He returned to Lawrence last September, working on rehabilitating his
achilles tendon, which was operated on last summer.
Recently he has worked out with the KU track team, which he likes.
"The real advantage is the camaraderie," he said. "Much of the work of running is monotonous. With the team, it's someone to train with."
Training with the team also gives Rym different perspectives on running—his, and the athletes on the team.
"They take it a little differently, in said. "I have a different view. Yesterday, the team was required to be outside where it was wet. I was able to go inside, with good footing, and get a good workout."
RYUN ALSO has another reason to return to KU and Lawrence. Track coach Bob Timmons, who was Ryun's coach in high school at McGraw Hill, told in high school, Timmons told Ryan that he would break the four-minute barrier even
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