Wednesday, February 7.1979
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Kempf successful, sets sights higher
By DAVID PRESTON
Sports Writer
To Gary Kempf, women's swimming coach, success has been a way of life since he started swimming at the age of 4 in Bartlesville, Okla.
Kempf does not intend to stop there. He has his goals set for more success on a national level.
The 24-year-old Kemp had a stellar junior career before coming to KU, where he was named BIG Eight Swimmer of the Year twice in four years. As coach he led the past three seasons he has guided the Big Eight championship every year.
Kempf is pensive and deliberate when he talks about his goals.
"I do hope and expect to win the Big Eight again this year," he said, "but our ultimate goal is to move up in the national rankings.
THE SITUATION HERE is improving, however.
"The level of swimming in the Midwest is progressing," Kemp said, "and I think we can eventually build a very top work. But it's going to take a lot of work."
"Right now," he said, stroking his red beard and staring determinedly about the room, "we're just trying to become more of a known name. Hopefully we can attract some of those top swimmers to the Midwest."
"We've got that kind of talent, but I guess I'm smart enough to realize that we are in the Midwest and we have a couple of schools from California and the East Coast here.
To do that, Kempf said, his squad must face well at the Association of Interprofessional Medicine national meet in March. He said with the talent the Jayhawks had now, this goal
Janet Lindstrom and Lanny Schaffer have both qualified for the nationals in several individual events and Kemp will be very competitive at the A1AW meet.
"BOTH GIRLS are very strong national-level swimmers, and according to a rating that came out last week, both are rated high nationally in their events.
"They are already two of the best swimmers in the Midwest."
Aempt is confident of the quality of his sound.
"I have expectations of scoring (at the national) in several relays and in multiple individual events. Lanny and Janet are good enough to do that, but there are other girls on the squad who are improving all the time.
"I want it to be a team effort in every sense."
Kempf himself is an integral part of that team effort. During a race Kempf paces the side of the pool, throwing his arms in the air and yelling encourage to the girls in the pool. He leads the team in cheers for each other.
"I ONLY COACH because I like it," he said, "and for me to like it, the ladies have got to show that they like it. Our ladies do."
Kempt said that he found women to be much more dedicated and enthusiastic than men that he thought that was one of the reasons and the team worked well together.
"What I try to preach," he said, "is an overall team unity and this will hopefully get everybody on the team excited to reach levels they haven't reached before.
"Then, at a meet like the Big Eight meet, we're going to have girls come out of the woodwork and win points by finishing eight or fifth or third."
The idea of having each girl on the squad reach her full potential is, according to Kempt, his primary concern year after year.
"AS LONG as I have coached, I have felt that the most important part of athletics was for each girl to get the most training possible. I work each girl to be the best she can."
"If that occurs, then whatever happens will be beneficial."
Kempt said that he planned to remain in coaching as long as he enjoyed it, but said that he would someday like to get his degree in wildlife biology or forestry.
His own swimming career was halted because of a knee injury he received playing touch football during his senior year at KU.
"It's been tough for me," he said of the injury, "because the surgery has never been totally successful. It's something that I, as someone who has always loved the outdoors and athletics, have had to learn to live with."
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Marian Washington was despondent last night despite the fact her Kansas Jayhawks had just beaten the University of Nebraska-Omaha for the second time this season, 77-61.
"IT'S HARD TO get up for games when you meet the same teams over and over." Washington said. "Plus people weren't feeling well."
Kansas, ranked 19th, didn't play that well partly because several players didn't feel well. Washington said at least three players were sick with the flu. One of those players, starting center Shyra Holden, is to see a doctor today.
"I don't feel we played particularly well," she said. "But I don't want to take anything away from UNO. They're a fine ball club."
To compound things, Pat Mason, a part-time starter, suffered a possible broken thumb after colliding with a UNO player in the second half. She is to be x-rayed today to
KU's mainstay, Lynette Woodard, also was not up to per her of stomach and heart.
But Washington admitted she was pleased with her team's 21st victory against five defeats. Kansas, after building a 10-point lead in the first half off the Lady Mavericks in the second half,
The victory was the second against UNO this season for the Jayhawks but it was not as easily obtained as the first. KU beat UNO by 20 points in January.
"This was all of those games you need to
un," she said, "when things aren't going
KU scored first on a bucket by Adrian Mitchell but six straight UNO points put the Lady Mavericks on top 10-5 with 15:34 remaining in the first half.
UNO, now 14-11, got cold quickly though and went scoreless for more than four minutes. During that time, KU racked up 13 points, and gave burst of the game, to build a 22-16 lead.
KU LED BY as many as a dozenoes early in the second half, 48-33, before UNO tightened up the game on baskets by Julie Larson and added for 11 of her 19 points in the second half.
Kansas did not pull away until the game's final three minutes, when Holden, playing cautiously with four fouls the second two points to give him point contests to give the team the 77-47 victory.
A bright spot for KU was the play of Mitchell, who has avoided the casualty list of sick and injured. She had one of her best seasons this season with 21 points and 16 rebounds.
"I think I'm at my peak," Mitchell said. "I was really concerned about going inside. My friends have been after me about my rebounds. I wanted to get my average up."
In a match with UUN's Nieee Jochims, Mitchell held the All-American candidate to six points in the first half and forced her to win 12-6. She collected 12 rebounds and scored 11 points.
| | (A) | | (B) | | (C) |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Michelson | 10-20 | FT | REB | 18 | PF |
| Woodward | 10-20 | 1.2 | REB | 18 | 21 |
| Holden | 10-24 | 3.5 | REB | 7 | 4 |
| Burnett | 9-11 | 3.2 | 7 | 4 | 12 |
| Burrell | 9-11 | 3.2 | 7 | 4 | 12 |
| Mason | 9-11 | 3.2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Mason | 47 | 0.0 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| Last | 9-11 | 0.0 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| Last | 9-11 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| Johnson | 10-14 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Johnson | 10-14 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Sanders | 14-29 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Sanders | 14-29 | 0.0 | 47 | 17 | 3 |
Jochims, untracked in the second half when foul trouble forced KU into a zone, scored 14 points to lead UNO scores with 20 despite playing only 27 minutes.
| | PG | FT | REB | FP | TP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Joachins | 81 | 32 | 7 | 19 | 30 |
| Luther | 81 | 32 | 7 | 19 | 30 |
| Hart | 41 | 49 | 14 | 2 | 12 |
| Hart | 41 | 49 | 14 | 2 | 12 |
| Enochville | 31 | 51 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Graft | 57 | 64 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Graff | 57 | 64 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Totals | 274.6 | 141 | 18 | 13 | 10 |
Nebraba-Okana 21 36 - 67
Kansas 41 36 - 77
KU still searching for road win
By JOHN P. THARP Associate Sports Editor
Kansas will try to improve its luck on the road when it faces Missouri tonight at 8:05 p.m. Saturday.
The game will be broadcast on channel 41 for Lawrence viewers, Jayhawk fans, probably disenchanted with the team's play outside Allen Field House, are hoping to see it.
INSTEAD, KIRK SHAWER and Mark Dressler, a pair of 6-freshman, started for
Not counting the Big Eight Holiday Basketball Tournament in Kansas City, KU
In that game, Berry scored 20 points and got 20 rebounds, 17 of them in the first half. But Berry didn't start in the second half. Oklahoma Saturday became of an injury.
The traditional rivalry between Missouri, s-3 and tied for second in the league, and Kentucky, who beat Missouri 7-6, Jayhawks attempt to make their only home win this season. Make the Fergus surmise.
Missouri against OU. Shawner got 10 points, aid dard Guard Drill, Dave Wallace, a 6-3 sophomore guard, led MU with 20 points in that game. The tallest player in the conference, 7-2 Tom Dore, got two points against OU.
which helped him get a third place league ranking in that category.
Dressler (24), Shawner (34), Dore (44),
Wallace (15) and Drew (22) probably will start against KU. Drawe leads Missouri in scoring with an average of 14.9 points a game, shooting a respectable 53 percent. In his last three games, Drawe got 22 assists.
Sooner coach Dave Bliss, who was happy to hang on to a lead to beat Missouri, received the top prize.
"A lot of people talk about Darnell Valentine and Brian Banks," Bliss said, "but Larry Drew is flat out the best off-defensive guard in the league right now."
KU, tied for third place at 4-4, desperately needs a victory on the road, and a victory,
period, to defend its conference title. Five team has ever won the Big Eight with five wins.
KU coach Ted Owens said yesterday that he would probably use the same starting lineup for his team against Fowler, Paul Mokeski, Tony Guy and John McCarthy. Mitch Main used in KU's 10-7 loss to Minnesota State.
Fowler, who hurt his knee in that game,
will be replaced by Brad Sanders if he is unlucky.
He's 19.
Kivisto named to Williams Fund
Kansas athletic director Bob Marcum announced yesterday that Tom Kivisto, former KU basketball player and current tennis coach, had been appointed as assistant director of the Williams Educational Fund.
Novotny, executive director in the Williams
Fund, a KU athletic fund-raising
organization.
Kiviste replaced Don Farmbrough, who last month was named KU's head football coach.
Kivisto, 27, is the head coach of the men's and women's tennis teams. He was an All-Big Eight performer in 1974 and a basketball letterman at KU from 1971-74. He also was selected as an Academic Al-American his senior year.
MARCUM SAID Kiwite's selection would broaden the scope of the Williams Fund to include not only younger alumni, but also former KU athletes.
"Tom's background as an athlete and a coach at KU made him a clear cut choice for the national team."
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