Wednesdav. August 30, 1978
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Hockey spirits high despite funding lows
University Daily Kansan
By NANCY DRESSLER
Associate Sports Editor
The oldest sport for women at the University of Kansas doesn't have any funding from its athletic department and the university has no single under the noses of prospective players.
Nonetheless, the sport, field hockey, will continue this year and it enters its 65th season of competition and its first season as a self-supporting enterprise.
That has not discouraged the players and coach Diana Beebe.
Money has also been lacking for active recruiting of players. KU has had to do with the players who walked onto the practice field.
It will take at least $4,000 to keep the team going for the season. And there won't be room for the luxuries of scholarships or recruiting.
The University has offered only one $500 scholarship for field hockey in the past two years. Before that, only three scholarships were offered.
oenee said that although this would be the first time she had coached without any scholarships, the thought did not bother her. This will be her third season at KU.
But settling for whoever showed up has not been bad. The caliber of athletes the past two seasons has brought the Jayhawks victories.
"We never have had the opportunity to recruit officially—going after somebody to play field hockey at KU—because always in our minds it was more important effort to keep field hockey," Beeble said.
And this year's squad looks to keep that tradition. Of the 29 women training out, only one woman has survived.
A winning team made up of walk-on can be explained by looking outside athletics, Bein.
"The University brings them here," she said.
Stan Narewski
Stan Narewki, an assistant men's track coach, resigned yesterday to become head coach of the University.
Narewski quits KU track job, goes to Furman
He had been the sprints and hurdles coach since arriving from Auburn in 1976. He was a member of the United States
Furman, with a student body of about 2,200, in Greenwich S.C. it is an NCAA DIII team.
"I just felt it a good opportunity to be in he said last night." It's a situation when
"It puts me in possibly a better position to start there than as a head coach at a larger school right away. I don't think I'm biting off more than I can chew."
He said he had decided Saturday to take Furman's offer, but the school came back Monday with more benefits. He declined to save what he had been offered.
Farran is building a track facility that will prevent conflicts with other athletic teams.
While at KU, Narewski coached the mule relay team to the indoor NCAA championship in 1977, the 440 relay to the top three in the nation outdoors the last three years and the mule relay to second places in the last two years outdoors.
He coached four-year NCAA All-American Cliff Wiley and other school record holders, among them Randy Benson, Laverne Smith, Larry Jackson, Anthony Russell, Larry Norton, Nestlewil at least a dozen KU athletes to placings in NCAA national meet.
"This industry has not been very forthcoming in its reporting" of reserves, SEC Chairman Harold Williams told a news conference.
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Instead, KU's team is typified by good all-around athletes who have chosen the academics of the school first, with field hockey as an added benefit.
Most field hockey players don't specialize in the sport, at least in part of the corps they play.
A plurality of scholastic areas of study are represented on the team, from medical technology to fine arts. Only one member is majoring in physical education.
Beebee said the absence of scholarship money had helped to maintain an emphasis on higher education.
"I wish someone would throw out all scholarships," she said. "It would be nice for everyone at a university to be on a scholarship."
Bebe said that she would not turn down someone who offered her $10,000 to recruit players to build a national-caliber team, but she was with the idea of scholarships for athletes.
"I wouldn't read the No. 1 player out of a school," she said. "I'd rather go after an人 man."
Despite the handicaps, Beebe, who is coached without pay, said she expected the team to perform well.
"I know the system (of scholarships) is here and I understand it, but I don't agree with it."
One drawback this year will be a lack of collegiate playing experience. Only five teams have played in the season.
Even without extra money, last year's team posted a 15-5 regular season record.
She could be right. The sport has been added for the first time to the Olympia and Paralympic Games.
Staff Photo by ALAN ZLOTKY
Beth Ester, Salman junior, concentrates on a set shot during women's field hockey practice in front of Allen Field House yesterday afternoon. Easter plays left backhalf
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