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Tuesday, October 3, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Gymnasts tumble into teaching
Eric Hockersmith. Lawrence graduate student, helps Jason Hart, age 6, on the high bar.
By Anita Meyer Kansan staff writer
A small, brained hairy boy ran to the end of a long rubber mat. He crouched, positioning himself for a run. With a sudden burst of speed, he charged down the mat, bounded onto a small trampoline and became airborne.
"That's him," Diane Michels said, smiling proudly, pointing to her son.
Fyan Michels, 5, has participated in the Kansas School of Gymnastics in Robinson Center since he was 4-years old. He is one of more than 300 students in the club sponsored by the University of Kansas and Lawrence Parks and Recreation.
Bob Lockwood, director of the school, said that about 24 KU students were teachers. School students' ages range from 3 to 18.
"The most important thing I can do is to make sure my instructors know safety so they can watch the kids. The bottom line is to have fun."
Lockwood competed on the KU gymnastic team from 1958 to 1961. Before the gymnastic program was discontinued in 1980, 'the men's team was ranked 12th in the
country, he said.
"It just became a funding problem," Lockwood said. "Something had to go."
Now the students who might have been college competitors pass their knowledge and experience on to their students.
Eric Hockersmith, Kansas City, Kan. graduate student, has taught every gymnastic class that KU offers. He was an 8-to-18-year-old team, he said.
"Asking me why I teach is like asking me why i live," he said. "I started in gymnastics when I was 9 and just got hooked."
Amy Battenfield, Tulsa, Okla,
sophomore, competed in high school. When Battenfield was a
high school sophomore, Bela Karroyi,
who coached Mary Lou Retton
asked Battenfield to study with
him in Texas. Battenfield chose
not to go.
"I would've had to devote my whole life to gymnastics," she said. "I would've had to quit school."
Now Battenfield is content to work with the advanced girl's class and to help coach their team, she said.
girls learn new things," she said.
"The best part is just to see the girls learning tricks."
"It's always exciting to see the
Battenfield is one of several KU students teaching the advanced girls' class and coaching the team, which consists of girls of age 8 to 18 who will travel to other cities and compete as a team for the first time.
Amy Taranto, Fort Leavenworth sophomore, competed overseas as well as in the United States. She earned seven place in the Central European Championship competition. She taught gymnastics in high school in Glenn, West Germany, and has taught at the University for two years.
"I love to work with kids," she said. "They're so active. I have learned a lot as a competitor. I think I can help the girls because I have been through the competitions."
Classes range in difficulty from beginning gymnastics and tumbling to advanced gymnastics and team practice.
Parents may join their children in a parent-tot class or may wait on the sidelines.
Polo club dives into KU scene Sport consists of hard work arch rivalries
By Liz Hueben Kansan staff writer
Students at Robinson Center last night were involved in some fierce competition in a physically exhausting game of skill, endurance and teamwork.
Last night was the first night of a double-elimination water polo tournament that will continue weekly for four weeks.
The University of Kansas Water Polo Club is new to campus this year, said Mark Hershman, the club's president and founder.
Keith Thorpe/Special to the KANSAN
The game has been in the intramural program before, but he said judging on interest from the tournaments had been a time to start a water polo club.
Karl Brehm, Littleton, Colo., senior, swims for the ball in a polo match.
Hershman said there was enough interest especially from students from St. Louis and Chicago, where, he said, the game was very popular.
Hershman is from St. Louis, where he was a member of the Ladue High School Swim Team. He has been playing water polo at KU since 1983.
He said there were four teams in the tournament this year.
"We want to give people who have heard about it, played it or seen on it the Olympics a chance to play." Hershman said.
Yesterday, the lifeguards played in the first game of the tournament against KU Swim team members
Most of the participants in the tournament are experienced swimmers.
Karl Brehm, Littleton, Colo., senior, said he had been playing for three years. Brehm's team is made up of Robinson Center lifeguards. He said he was on his high school swim team and that occasionally his team would play the game as a break from practice.
from Oliver Hall. The swim team won.
There has been an ongoing rivalry between two of the teams. Last year in the championship game, Hershman's team, Tidal Wave, beat the team from Phi Kappa Delta. This year the rivalry will continue.
Gard Gibson, Roeland Park junior,
said he had been on Tidal Wave since
1985 and that the team had never lost
since its inception seven years ago.
He said the game was much harder than other sports where participants run on the hard ground.
"You have to keep yourself afloat, and you are always moving. There are times when you are swim sprinting the length of the pool and you can't rest." Gibson said.
Hershman compared the game to basketball and soccer.
The rules are similar to soccer; team members try to get a ball into a goal at the end of the playing field. In pol, the ball is thrown but cannot be touched with both hands at one time, except by a goalie.
There are seven members on each team, and there are fouls called on offense and defense, causing turnovers.
Hershman described the game as violent.
"Because a lot of action takes place underwater, there is a lot of kicking, grabbing, punching and plain old-fashioned cheating," he said.
Kansas flood-control agreement awaits signing in Washington
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Sen. Nancy Kassebaum's office announced yesterday that an agreement would be signed this afternoon in Washington setting up a cost-sharing plan to finance the Halstead flood-control project.
The project is designed to control flooding on the Little Arkansas River
and is estimated to cost $ 3.7 million.
Halstead, about 20 miles northwest of
Wichita, is responsible for a maximum
commitment of $ 2.175 million.
Under a tentative schedule, a contract will be awarded in about a year. Construction is expected to begin shortly after that.
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Under the agreement, Halstead will pay one-fourth of the cost, the Army Corps of Engineers will pay three-fourths, and the state will assume a maximum liability of $300,000 for cost over-runs.
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