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University Daily Kansan / Monday. Aug. 28. 1989
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Swim coach emphasizes qualities of small squad
Kempf shoots for elite swimming, focuses on talent
By Gene King
Kansan sportswriter
Quality, not quantity, is what Coach Gary Kempf is stressing for the KU men's and women's swim teams
"I want to put more of the empha-
sis on the elite swimmer," Kemph
sale.
The men's squad, which placed 12th at the National Collegiate Athletic Association meet last year, numbered 45 swimmers. Last year's Big Eight championship women's squad had 25 team members. Kempf said he did not want to put an exact limit on this year's size but was going to cut that number considerably.
Some of that quality on the men's squad will consist of team captains Kevin Toller and Jeff Rodgers. Defending Big Eight champion in the backstrove, Jeff Stout, will also be able to receive more attention from the staff because of the reduced roster, Kemmf said.
"There was a lot of interest in our program last year and a lot of people went out, but this year I mainly want to concentrate on the top swimmers and making them better," Kempf said.
"There is a lot of young talent on this team," Toller said. "Last year was a very good recruiting year for us. We haven't had much time together as a squad. It will take some
"time for us to get together."
The women's team will be anchored by senior captains, Jenni Gabrielson and Marcia Otis, as well as junior captain Jennifer Carani. Kempf also included Laurit Hill, a former Iowa State player and State along with newcomers Aimee Brainard and Michelle Wilde as stand-ups this season.
"They are all looking real good at this point in the season." Kemp said.
Gary Kempf said that as long as team members were swimming somewhere during the summer, he did not care where.
Although the swimmers were not under the supervision of their collegiate coach, Kempf, they were under a touchful eye of a different Kempf.
Coach Kempf's wife, Dorothy, is in her second season as the head coach of the Lawrence team. She swam for Emporia State University where she earned all-American Division II honors. Kempf said.
"It is important for them to train during the summer. If they are training hard, I don't care if it is in Lawrence or with their home club," he said.
Rodgers was among the swimmers that stayed during the summer. He
enjoyed the change from the past three years when he returned home to California to swim.
"The summer season was really good for me. I think the change helped a lot." Rodgers said.
As for the coach of the summer club, Rodgers said he enjoyed Dorothy Kemp and her different style. The two coaches are two totally different coaches."
"Those three were an important part of our success over the last four years," Kempf said. "I consider these constant coaches than student assistants."
Helping along the poolside this year will be Dear Fonor, diving coach; Chris Doyle, assistant coach and Brad Wells, recruiting director and assist coach.
He said that the group seemed to be hungry to start and the staff excited about the uncoming year.
"There is a small number of seniors and a lot of freshmen, but what they lack in collegiate expertism make up for in talent." Kept mild.
The Jayhawks started practicing Wednesday and will begin competition on Oct. 13, with an intergamble with the Big Eight Invitational Oct. 27-28.
Kansas swimmer Carol Muyekens, Des Moine, Iowa, freshman, completes a turn and heads back across the Lawrence Municipal Pool during practice. Muyekens was practicing her backstroke at an early morning practice Friday.
Explaining the morning's practice schedule is Kansas swimming coach Gary Kempf. Kempf was putting the men's and women's team through an early morning workout Friday.
Coming up for air is Kansas swimmer Jennifer Reynolds, Topeka junior. She was practicing the breaststroke at the Lawrence Municipal Pool on Friday.
Former tennis coach calls Florida a tough choice
By Andres Cavelier Kansen sportswriter
He never intended to leave Kansas, but the offer he got from the University of South Florida was too good to pass up.
Eric Hayes, former Kansas women's tennis coach, who left Lawrence on Aug. 11, said that leaving Kansas' tennis program so suddenly was the toughest decision of his life.
"I had no idea that I would be leaving," he said yesterday in a telephone interview. "They called me two days before I was going to a clinic in Jamaica and flew me here (Tampa, Fla.). They offered me a
very interesting package that I could not reject."
Two other schools had already called him, but he did not pursue the calls. Hayes, 24, who applied for the head men's coaching job at South Florida after his name had been given to its assistant dean of college, allied to men of close to his family. His wife, Sonia, lives in Tampa.
While Hayes is already working in Florida, Scott Perelman, Kansas men's tennis coach, said he was impressed that he fully understood the situation.
him the most about leaving were the five talented players he recruited for last year's team. But he said he had to first look after himself.
Among the recruits is Eveline Hamers, Meerssen, Netherlands, sophomore, who is the first and only Kansas All-American women's tennis player. Hamers said that one day Hayes called her and explained to her that she was offered a good position in Tampa.
Hayes, who worked as an assistant tennis coach at Clemson before coming to KU in 1887, said what bothered
"Some of them had trouble with me leaving," he said.
"Hayes told me he had accepted very quickly and with difficulty to become the men's head coach at the University of South Florida," Hamers said. "It was difficult for me at
the beginning."
Page Goin, Tulsa, Okla., sophomore, another of Hayes' recruits, was disappointed that he left because he had told the players he would stay for four years at Kansas, until they all graduated.
Hayes said that when he recruited the five players, he looked for players who liked to work hard and who accepted an aggressive coach.
"I am aggressive and they knew it." Hayes said. Hayes wanted to see who was committed to work hard. He found out that the freshmen grew up a lot from what they went through last season.
"I was very di-appointed, but I was also happy for him," she said.
"I was extremely happy in KU. We were right on target for this season," he said.
"If the Kansas women's team stays together," he said, "this will be their year no matter who is the coach."
Hayes, a 1988 graduate of Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tenn., guided the women to within one point of qualifying for the Big Eight finals last spring.
This year's team goal, Hayes said, should be qualifying for the NCAA finals. When Hayes left, he knew he was leaving a strong team.
Perelman is still looking for a coach to lead the women this fall.
Baseball loses its integrity
"To me, baseball is as honorable as any other business. It has to be, or it would not last out a season ... Crookedness and baseball do not mix."
Chicago White Sox owner Charles A. Comiskey
Baseball is America's game. As such, it is a reflection of society. And last week, it showed a very ugly side indeed.
The game lost a great player when Commissioner A. Bartlett Glamatt banned Pete Rose from the game for life. There's no denying that Rose, the all-time hit leader, contributed greatly to the game with his determination and desire to win.
He was a hero to scrawkyn 10-years-old who dream of making it to the big leagues. He was a hero to the grown-ups, too, for he championed
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the working class, the blue-collar worker. And I say "was" because even those boys and girls are kind of disappointed with what's been going on. They're not stupid.
But Rose was, in a way. Somehow, he got around to thinking that he was above the game, that the rules didn't apply to him. And he figured he could go around betting on baseball games, even though the rules clearly state what the consequences would be.
That's why he was banished from baseball. That's also why he should not be reinstated come this time next year. And it's also why Pete Rose should not be voted into baseball's Hall of Fame.
You say the rules are stupid?
Maybe so, but if they were that stupid, the players would have been yelling to change them a long time ago. And what's stupid about it? There are plenty of other (faster) snorts to bet on.
You say Rose was never given the chance for a fair trial. But he was the one looking for the court hearing in which he considered a deity. You want faix?
You say Rose has never admitted to betting on baseball and therefore is innocent. And I say an innocent man will fight to his dying day to prove his innocence, even in light of damaging evidence. But Rose signed that agreement. Rose fought with fiery determination to advance on the basepaths. Why wouldn't he have fought with the same vigor to clear his name?
Skeptics say the Pete Rose scandal hasn't hurt the game of baseball. But the whole sordid matter has seeped into our minds, flooded the media and tainted a season that otherwise should be narrating the wonderful Oridles and their escapades. This season should have been about Nolan Ryan and his own Hall of Fame performances and the bad luck of Toronto's Dave Sieb.
Instead, the stories are about bet-
taling slips and an indefinable legal
implication.
One could say betting was Rose's fatal flaw, a flaw in his previously unpenetrable hero's mold. Those who say baseball has not been hurt by the scandal are denying how important Rose and his conduct has been to
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Three vie for tailback position
Although they are friends off the field, neither Tony Sands nor Frank Hatchett have reservations about wanting the starting tailback position when the Jayhawk offense takes the field.
"I want to be out there," Sands said. "Coming off the bench is hard for me. It's hard to get a feel for the game from the sidelines."
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Sands, a sophomore from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., led the Jayhawks in rushing last season with 480 yards, including a season-high 177 yards against Oklahoma State.
"I prefer to start because I get uptight standing on the sidelines," Hatchett said. "All you can do is watch the game. You don't know what it's like until you get out there.
Hatchett, El Dorado junior, was right behind Sands with 417 vards.
Douglas, Columbus, Ohio, sophomore, ran for 43 yards last season. He rushed for 89 yards in the spring scrimmage and was selected the outstanding offensive player in that game.
"I don't like sharing time, but Tony's a good runner and so is Maurice Douglas."
"Running back is certainly our deepest position," Sands said. "There is no other position that can go three or four deep with the same talent we have. That competition helps keep us on our toes."
"Couch Mason has said he is going to go with whoever is having success. He hasn't said anything about Frank and I getting equal playing time. He's going to go with whover is getting the job done; so if I'm not playing well, I'm not going to be in there."
Both Sands and Hatchteg agreed that it was essential for each of them to take advantage of every opportunity and to get a good start in every game.
Hatchett followed that philosophy last year. In his first start of the season last year against Kansas State, Hatchett rushed for 78 yards in
the first quarter before suffering an injury.
The next week against Oklahoma State he run for 87 yards in the first quarter, including an 80-yard touchdown run, before being injured again. His 88-yard run is the fifth longest in KU history.
"I've got to make the most of every opportunity I get," Hatchett said. "I came into camp this year hoping to spread the gap between Tony and myself, but it's been real tough to do.
"I think this season will be a lot like last year, with Tony and I splitting playing time."
"The newspapers and magazines are down on us," Sands said. "But we're not counting us out. I think this could be the season the Jayhawks turn it around and surprise some people."
Sands said he feels more confident this season because he is more comfortable with the system, but he does not want to repeat the outcome of last season.
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Kansas tailback Frank Hatchett makes his way downfield during a KU scrimmage at Memorial Stadium. The El Dorado sophomore is competing with Tony Sende, Ft. Leuderdale, Fle., sophomore, for the starting tailback slot.