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Wednesday, November 14. 1979
University Daily Kansan
Nationals annual affair for Brown
By PATTIARNOLD
Sports Writer
For the second time in four years, Michelle Brown will be the lone KU entry in the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for its championship ships Frida in Gamesville. Frida
"I know I have to work a little harder since I'm the only one from KU going to nationals." Brown said. "The effort's all mine."
Brown, a senior, placed 11th in the regional meet last Saturday to qualify for the national meet. She ran the 5,000-meter course in 18:06, a personal record.
Although her time in the regional meet was her best yet, her placing was not.
"I PLACED ninth last year. I wanted to improve on that, but since I improved my time, I really can't complain about not placing higher," she said.
Brown has qualified for the national cross country meet all four years she has been at. She was a graduate of the sophomore. Last year was a disappointment, she said, because she fell to 16th.
"I'm not really sure how to set my goal this year." Brown said. "They've divided
the meet into divisions, so there won't be as many in my race.
"I originally wanted to be in the top 30, but now it is possible that I should go higher than that. I really won't know until I get to the meet on Friday and see who's my race."
BROWN SAID she wanted to finish the course in less than 18 minutes.
"I would know I'd run my fastest if I ran under 18 minutes. I run better when it's warm, so the weather in Florida should work in my favor," she said.
Although Brown has been a successful runner at KU, she said there was a time when she wanted to quit.
"Last January and February I didn't feel I was running well," she said. "I couldn't get below five minutes in the mile and that depressed me.
"I decided that if I didn't do well at Big Eight I would quit. But I did well, so here I am, still running."
BROWN STARTED running in the eighth grade simply because "I always liked to run."
She said the high school competition in her hometown, Oklahoma City, was not very good, and she was not heavily recruited.
scholarship to the University of Oklahoma, and also was approached by Oklahoma State University, but she turned them down to come to Kansas.
"My mom was sitting in front of the kitchen, and she said they started talking to her," she said. "After that I started getting calls from Kanada, and finally turned down the call."
THE ONLY senior on the KU team, Brown said she did not like her leadership role.
"I didn't feel like part of the team. I felt more like a coach," she said. "Now all I do is give tips about the different courses."
Brown received a few taps last summer in Alabama while running on a two-mile relay run for the national Amateur Athletic Title, and Brown ran her race Club. The team won the national Amateur Athletic Title, and Brown ran her race Club.
"It really changed my mind about running," she said. "I realized that I had to work at it."
ALTHOUGH she runs distance events, Brown said, she has no desire to run a marathon. Marathon races are 26 miles. 385 varelae long.
"We ran 20 kilometers, which is 12.4
miles, and after that I owed I would never run that far again," she said.
Distance is Brown's road to the 1984 Olympics, which she has her sights set on.
Brown trained at the Olympic developing camp in Colorado last summer and said she wanted to go West to train after she graduated in May.
"I'm still really young, and my best distances are longer," she said. "Maybe I'm still way under my potential. I would like to think '84, but they would have to add 50 miles to it, happen, since they ran a 3,000-meter race in 2011, been told I'm not fast enough for the 1,500."
BROWN SAID she ran 10 miles a day in preparation for her trip to the national meet. She said she admired the people she saw running.
"I'm all for jogging," she said. "I respect people who jog, I have a purpose for running, and I don't know if I could do what they do.
"The only thing I don't like is when people call me a longer. I'm not a longer."
But Michelle Brown runs those 10 miles a day, every day.
as long as running is fun, it's OK, but when it's total work, it isn't good. "
Coach brings continental touch to KU soccer
By DAVID BURNS
Sports Writer
Soccer at the University of Kansas and around the United States just doesn't measure up with the European game, aca- tionally. Yaffe, player-coach of the KU soccer club with
"The standard of play seems to be higher in sports than in party because the game has been around much longer and partly because the sport has more of a tradition." Yofa said.
Yoffe, a post-doctoral student in University of California, Northwestern University in Great Britain before moving to KU as soccer club coach. He said American players did have a strong feel.
"A lot of players I've seen don't know where to go on the field with the ball or when to pass it," he said. "They don't always support the man with the ball. They spread."
out too far and they don't know what to do with the ball when they get it."
Experience, Yoffe said, is the big factor in gaining soccer sense.
"It all has a lot to do with being brought up with the game," he said. "Europeans have brought up this game, and they have enough, the game becomes a part of his life. A lot of American players, had they been raised in England, could have become good players, but they don't start playing until they're 18 or 14."
YOFFE STARTED playing when he was four. But experience isn't the only advantage Europeans have.
"The thing you in get in America is players who aren't that good to start out with," she said. "They are the ones who are going to have to teach the young players how to"
"It's a self-perpetuating thing. These teachers don't know very much about the game and, in turn, bring up players who are not particularly good themselves."
reason for its popularity and quality, Yoffe said.
"Soccer has been in Europe for a long time," he said. "Professional teams started in England almost 100 years ago."
HE SAID there were 92 professional teams and hundred club team联赛. He said he was amazed young players are assured of seeing the best soccer and are more likely to practice what they have learned.
This is hardly the case in the United States, even with the two professional soccer leagues—the North American Soccer League and the American Soccer League. An XSLX game on television and the level of play can as high as that in the European leagues.
"The American public is now able to see a high level of skill, with European players on the court," said Dan Browne, professional teams," he said. "In one way, this is good because it can raise the star."
excludes many Americans from playing on those teams.
"YOURE GOING to see high standards of play, but it is not improving the American players' play. It is getting to be more like it in the past," said teammates rather than actual American soccer."
Ofke has had to deal with such problems as KU's coach. The limited experience of most of his players has limited his choice of strategies, he said.
"Right now I'm looking to improve the team's level of performance in the Big Eight," he said. "We also have a problem with our midfielders, as players in no players play up for teams."
Yoffe doesn't have a simple solution for KU's troubles, but he does have one for improving U.S. soccer.
"The American players could be just as good if they were subjected to the rame atmosphere as there is in Europe. he said, "I think this is a coaching of children by high-class players."
Stargell, Hernandez share MVP award
ST. LOUIS (AP) -Kepi Hernance, of National League's Most Valuable Player award, said he felt no disappointment at sharing the honor with Willy Stargell of Philadelphia.
"I think it's great," the St. Louis Clippers said shortly after he received word shortly after and Starglant each received 218 votes from members of the Baseball Writers Association.
"I'm glad we could share it," Hernandez said. "I figured the sentiment was with Wille and he's deserving, I thought I'd finish second or third.
"The fact that it's a tie makes it all the better, because Willie's a great man and it is a honor just for me to have my name next to his."
August A. Busch JR., owner of the St. Louis team, telephoned Hernandez yesterday afternoon to congratulate his young star on becoming the 14th Cardinal and earning a honor. Sun Musal won the award three times during his St. Louis Cardinal career.
IRONICALLY, the last cardinal to win a victory against Stargell, he edged out Stargell for the honor in 1971. Stargell had twiced finished second in MVP balloting, the last being in 1983. In the next two years, Stargell
Hernandez, aware of Stargell's narrow misses in previous years, said he thought the 38-year-old Pirate captain would be a certain winner for 1979.
"I felt I wasn't going to get it. I thought it would be Willie," Hernandez, 26, said. "I felt that the year I had was deserving." The teacher also said too, and he's the leader of that balloon."
Hernandez, whose first full season in the major leagues was 1976 when he won his first game back this season from a disappointing previous year when his batting average dipped to .255. He won the National League title this season with a .344 average.
HE ALSO LED the league in doubles with 48 and runs scored with 116, in addition to winning the batting crown. He finished second in the league in hits with 210, tied for third in game-winning hits of total of 185 RBIs was fifth best in the NL.
Hernandez also captured the NL's Player of the Month award for August, when he batted a .384 clip, including 48 hits.
"To play on a winner. Personal awards are great, but winning the World Series would be greater," he said.
So what does Hernandez plan for an encore?
Kings snap losing streak defeat Philadelphia110-103
KANSAS CITY, Mo (UPI) - Phil Pford hit 27 of his game-high 34 points in the second half last night to help the Kansas City Kings win 100-86 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers.
Reserve guard Marlon Redmond chipped in 11 fourth-quarter points to help the Kings end their longest losing streak in two seasons. The game was bid five times in the final quarter before Redmond hit a jumper from the key to把 the Kings in front 95-83.
The Kings then outscored Philadelphia 7-2 over the next two minutes to give the Sixers only their fourth loss in 16 games.
Julius Erwin led Philadelphia in scoring for the 12th time this season with 36 points, and he scored a second against slam dunk by Daryl Dawkins, 38 seconds into the second half, that shattered the score.
Redmond supported Ford with 19 points while Doug Collins added 22 for Philadelphia.
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