University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 18, 1990
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Women's team young but confident, Washington says
By Juli Watkins
Kansan sportswriter
Coach Marian Washington is expecting great things from the women's basketball team this season.
Women's Basketball
Kansas goes into the 1990-91 season picked to finish fourth in the Big Eight. Washington said that although the team was relatively young with only one senior, Sandra deBritain, she was a potential competitive this season.
"I have a lot of players who know what they're doing, and that's really nice. Washington said, "I think we are still going to be stronger, but we are still young."
"We're going to open up with a real tough schedule. At the end of the year, we have to demonstrate that we can play a tough schedule."
Kansas opens the season Nov. 15 with an exhibition game at home against the Australian Junior National team.
Kansas' first NCAA opponents will be UCLA, Louisiana State and Iowa, who they will play No. 1 in the first round of the NCAA City, Iowa. All three teams were ranked in the
top 25 last year, Washington said.
top 25 after Kansas will begin conference play Jan. 9 in Lawrence against Oklahoma.
Last March, the University of Oklahoma decided to discontinue its women's basketball program because of financial problems and lack of support from the students and university.
The program was reinstated April 4 after mounting public criticism and legal threats from the team forced university officials to reconsider.
"I hope one ever forgets the Oklahoma situation." Washington said. "Right now they're ranked eight (in the Big Eight Conference) but talent-wise they have some great athletes."
Picked to finish ahead of Kansas are Oklahoma State, Kansas State and Missouri, in that order.
Washington said that point guard Liz Smith was a strength for Oklahoma State and that the experience and maturity of K-State's team, which has been playing together for three years, would give the Wildcats
"After that I think it's going to be interesting." Washington said. "We have more confidence."
Ten letter winners return to the lineup this season including deBruin and junior forwards Tanya Bonham,
Terrell Johnson, Marthea McCloud and Danielle Shareef. Shareef also played with the traveling Big Eight team this summer.
"I think it increased my con-
fidence," Shareef said. "They are very
physical and I think that is something
that will carry over."
Washington said the experience could help the Big Eight in its recruitment efforts.
New faces to the women's basketball team include junior guard Darcie Bieber, who transferred from Johnson County Community College; sophomore center Lisa Tate, who sat out last season under ProActive guard Ericka Muney, a basketball and track star from Lexington, KY.
Also returning for Kansas is junior guard Kay Kay Hart, sophomore forward Misti Chennault and junior guard Troy Wilsons, Shannon Kite and Jake Witherspoon.
Another change in the team involves all the players.
Washington said the Kansas women's basketball team would conduct an openocker room policy this season.
She said that interviews would normally be in the press room, but that in the event they should set up in the room, it would be open to all reporters.
Kansas balances athletics, grades
By Juli Watkins
Kansan sportswriter
Academics and athletics are a big part of the Kansas women's basketball team, coach Marian Washington said yesterday at the annual Media Day at Allen Field House.
Washington said she thought Kansas was doing a good job with its athletic/aacademic program.
"In terms of the academic base program, no program in the United States is doing what we're doing," she said. "We are going to provide the support that most of these young people need."
Seven players and two former players will be recognized at Saturday's football game against Colorado for their academic achievements. Senior Sandra deBrun, Juniors Tanya Bonham, Terrilyn Johnsahle, Jonathan Shareef and Kay Kay Hart, and sophomore Misti Chenault will receive the Jayhawk Scholar Award for earning the minimum of a 3.0 GPA last semester. Former players Michelle
Arnold and Elizabeth Roark were also named Jayhawk Scholars.
On the other side of the coin, a Kansas signee, Tawana Jackson, a three-time Parade All-American who was one of the most high-profile collegiate country, left Kansas last week under the effects of Proposition 42.
Proposition 42 states that an athlete is either a qualifier or a non-qualifier with a minimum high school GPA of 2.0 and a minimum SAT score of 700 and ACT score of 18. It replaced Proposition 48 at the 1989 NCAA convention and went into effect this August.
Under Proposition 48, if the athlete had been a partial qualifier, meaning he or she had met only one of the requirements, the athlete would be eligible for an athletic scholarship even though ineligible to participate in the sport for one year.
Richard Konzm, assistant athletic director and NCAA representative, said that under Proposition 15, the NCAA will qualify, partial qualification any
non-qualifier. An athlete could be a partial qualifier by meeting only one of the academic requirements.
"Proposition 42 eliminated the partial qualifier status such that non-qualifiers could not get athletic scholarships." Konzem said "the NCAA amended Prop 42 so that non-qualifiers could not have athletic scholarships but can apply for need-based financial aid."
Washington said that Jackson was a partial qualifier. Her GPA met the requirement, but her test scores did not.
Under Proposition 42, the ableth may regain eligibility only after passing 24 credit hours at the minimum maintaining the minimum GPA
The Big Eight minimum GPA is 1.6, but Konzem said the requirement varied from conference to conference. He said that once the athlete passed 60 credit hours, the standard increased.
Konzem said the NCAA was currently considering implementing a minimum GPA 2.0 as its standard for all conferences.
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Waterski Club places 10th at 12-team national meet
A worker hangs Christmas lights on one of the buildings at the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Mo.
Plaza lighting may go national
By Jamie Elliott Kansan staff writer
Christmas is still a long way off, but already wreaths, holly and reindeer are creeping into view.
Students who try to hang Christmas lights around their doorways and upstairs, it attends to the difficulty of putting them up — the extension cord mysteriously disappears, some lights blink, some glow steadily, and some don't do.
nassigring lighting to the
The turning on of the lights on
But workers at the Country Club Plaza have been hanging Christmas lights since just after Labor Day. When they are done, they will have to lay them out on the floor for bulbs for the Plaza's first annual Thanksgiving lighting ceremony.
Wal-Mart and K-Mart already have set up their Christmas displays. And at the Country Club Plaza in Dallas, the lights already are being hung.
said, "You get te watch the big guns
Thanksgiving usually draws about 275,000 people to the Plaza, where lights line every tower and building. But the Plaza Merchants Association has even bigger plans for the Christmas lights show.
The association recently announced that it was forming a partnership with MCT Telecommunications Corp. and that it would try to establish a national musical holiday to be shown a national cable television channel.
"The special, which could happen as soon as 1991, would be taped Thanksgiving night, when the lights are turned on."
Gayle Terry, of the Plaza Merchants Association, said the ceremony would remain essentially unchanged as the television program implemented.
Nichols and Wayndale streets. It begins with about half an hour of caroling and includes Kansas City and national celebrities who speak and sing cards. Then, a child is brought from the audience to flip the switch.
"We'll have it set up so you can "tune into a certain frequency, and there will be carols and facts about the ceremony," Terry said. "It will get (people) in the mood for what they will encounter."
Terry said that the association would benefit from the national expo in Atlanta, where he helped with advertising, and the added funds have allowed the association to set up a drive-by radio network for the night of the cereal day.
"The biggest change would be that it would be more visual," she said.
"A lot of people think the switch isn't hooked up," Terry said. "But they have it all wired so that's actually the moment when the lights turn on."
The traditional ceremony centers around a stage at the intersection of
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