Thursday, September 6, 1979
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Tanker eyes Olympics
By JERRY FINCHER
Sports Writer
Sports Writer
Swimming is a year-round sport for All-American Janet Lindstrom, who hasn't lost a Big Eight race in two years at the University of Kansas.
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After last year's season, Lindstrom was home only six days before going to California to join the Santa Barbara Swim Club.
She went home to Des Moines, Iowa on Aug. 20 to spend two weeks with her family and was back at KU on Labor Day. She will be attending swim team practice Tuesday afternoon.
THE OLYMPICS are next on her mind. She already has qualified for the time trials with last season's times.
Lindstrom had an outstanding
fastbreak freestyle and 12th in the 300
freestyle at the Association of Inter-
terpollegiate Athletics for Women
"I want to put everything into it," she said. "I want the Olympic trials to be my ultimate meet. What goes on afterward is what happens." The 20-horse freestyle is my best shot.
Since she doesn't have to worry about qualifying for the time trials, Lindstrom says he's thinking about Amateur Athletic Union and College nationalists.
Lindstrom said this summer was a helpful training experience in preparation for the Olympics.
Lindstrom said the summer was challenging because the meets were highly competitive.
"It was a good summer to get me in shape," she said, "I feel as if what I did over the summer didn't show up in summer competition."
"MY SUMMER performances were too good," said Lindstrom. "From all of the times we went out, we just never let up and by the time I came home at night, I just wanted to go."
"Swimming three times a day, I never wanted to eat. I burned off more calories than I could consume. I lost so much weight I was weak.
However, Lindstrom has no regrets about how she spent her summer.
"I'm glad I worked real, hard and got my weight down," she said. "I feel it will navy off in the long run."
Lindstrom hasn't always been dedicated to swimming, but she hasn't up let up since she started putting everything into it.
"It's the only way to do it," she said. "I was just asking you if you were I was washing my time. If you ever let up in a workout, afterward you say 'I will be worthless.' You might as well have nothing."
DURING HER high school career, she learned that stunning is as it now. She set state records in the 200 and 100-butterfly her freshman year, and broke them the next three years.
Even then, she said she felt as if she had missed something. "I knew I could swim other events just as well," she said, "and that was frustrating."
She also plans to try some other events in college to see what she can do if she concentrates on them.
Lack of pressure in the short, two month summer season failed to provide enough motivation to help her become a dedicated swimmer in high school, she
"We'd go to meet and I wasn't fired up," she said. "The pressure was off and I wouldn't get excited."
AFTER LOOKING at schools in Florida and on the East Coast, she realized that "there was not that much of a difference" and chose KU.
Lindstrom took a greater interest in swimming when she started looking at colleges her senior year in high school. She said she thought about going to school in California, but was appalled because she's never been there before.
"KU was, and still is, the best out of the Big Eight and Big Ten." Lindstrom. "The best program in the world won't do it for you, you've got to do itself."
Lindstrom competes in AUA meet each summer. The only other sport she participated in during high school was soccer, which she played the ballle), which she said was just for fun.
Lindstrom said she got up at 6:15 three straight mornings to practice with her sister's high school team last week.
It was just something to do. She said Allie, "If you want her to go on the 'best swim in the Big Eight' by one of her previous coaches, Lindstrom showed them a few pointers and practiced the backstroke."
"It was just something to do," she said.
ALTHOUGH SHE is certainly the best in the Big Eight, Lindstrom said she doesn't think about it that way.
"I think of the people better than me that I'd like to beat." she said.
Gary Kempf, women's swimming coach said Lindstrom needed to be a little tougher mentally.
"There are other people who are better than me from all over the country. The competition doesn't stop here with the seven teams."
"She's got to reach the point where she can understand she is a hell of a swimmer," Kempf said. "She is what I consider one of the top swimmers around."
"She's got a world of potential, the tools to do it all. Obviously, she's mentally very tough anyway. The mark of a girl is to understand what she is capable of.
"She's got the physical and mental ability to be ready at any given time. She's got a great deal of room for improvement."
"Her ultimate goal is the Olympic Games and she's got as good a shot at them as a lot of girls."
LINDSTROM AGREES that one thing she lacks is confidence.
"I guess that's one of my weak points, confidence in myself," she said. "I guess I near the top."
However, she quickly added, "I may go to a dual meet and lap people on a 500, but I go to nationals and there are people there who are better."
Although she sometimes gets tired of swimming, it is something she has been able to excel in and she likes what it has done for her.
"It has taken me a lot of places and given me confidence," she said. "I get a lot out of swimming. Being in a sport that budgets your time wisely and not waste it."
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Baseball Standings
AMERICAN LEAGUE
| | W | L | Pct. | GR |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Baltimore | 82 | 56 | .69 | 84 |
| Milwaukee | 80 | 56 | .67 | 83 |
| New York | 79 | 61 | .51 | 125 |
| New York | 79 | 61 | .51 | 125 |
| Cleveland | 71 | 64 | .39 | 15 |
| Cleveland | 71 | 64 | .39 | 15 |
| Cleveland | 71 | 64 | .39 | 15 |
California 73 64 540
Kansas City 72 68 252
Michigan 70 64 22
Texas 68 77 489
Utah 68 77 489
South Carolina 68 77 414
Tennessee 68 77 414
Toronto at Baltimore, h,
Boston at New York,
Boston at New York,
Boston at California,
n Oakland at Wisconsin,
m Oakland at Wisconsin,
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W | W | L | Pct. | GB |
Pittsburgh | 78 | 54 | 12.9 | 27 |
Mentraal | 78 | 54 | 12.9 | 27 |
Toronto | 74 | 68 | 344 | 10 |
Chicago | 74 | 68 | 344 | 10 |
Chicago | 68 | 68 | 204 | 11 |
Philadelphia | 68 | 68 | 204 | 11 |
Indiana | 68 | 68 | 204 | 11 |
Houston 79 60 568
Cincinnati 79 61 564
Chicago 66 42 12
San Francisco 61 79 436
San Diego 61 82 418
Dallas 61 79 434
Montreal 1, Montreal 2
Los Angeles 5, Alanta 3, 10 innings
San Diego 6, Chicago 4, pca. rain
Cincinnati 6, San Francisco 5
Houston 6, San Diego 10, 10 innings
Spikers win opener
KU's volleyball team defeated Highland Junior College 3-1 yesterday in its first contest of the season.
The team posted game scores of 15-4,13-15, 15-7 and 15-5.
Bock Lockwood, in his first year coaching the Jayhawks, said he was pleased with the team's performance.
"This game doesn't count in the standings," Lockwood said. "I was looking
mainly to see how the team performed under game conditions.
"I was also looking for weaknesses in our game plan."
He said he was also choosing six starters for the Sept. 10 match against Highland and Missouri Western at Hiland.
The next home match is against Ottawa and Baker University at 6:30 p.m., Sept. 12, in Robinson Gymnasium.
Fox refuses to let arthritis terminate volleyball career
The word dedication has taken on new meaning for members of the University of Kansas volleyball team, thanks to the efflux of Shelly Fox, Kersey, Cobham. sophomore.
Overcoming a severe hip disorder, Fox has worked her way into coach Bob Lockwood's starting lineup this season.
Mary Haberstroch, one of Fox's teammates, said, "her dedication and enthusiasm has rubbed on the whole team. It definitively has an effect on us."
Fox suffers from arthritis in her hip. Although she first felt the pain last January, the problem wasn't diagnosed as arthritis until this summer.
Doctors have told Fox that quitting volleyball and playing softball would be the best thing she could do for her problem.
Although she endures the pain, Fox said
she has little time to feel sorry for herself.
"I love the game too much to just up and quit." Fox said.
"It would really hurt, mentally, if I weren't playing volleyball," she said. "Sometimes mental pain hurts more than physical pain."
But Fox has refused to take the doctor's advice.
In addition to her hip problem, Fox has a problem with her size. She is five feet three inches tall, which makes her the shortest person in the world and one of the shortest in the Bie Eight.
But what Fox lacks in size, she more than doubles his reach. She was wood. Lockwood also saw Fox was one of the fiercest competitors on the team and was inspired to become an even better athlete.
Hubach assaults records
Fox doesn't know how the hip problem will affect her life. She hopes that with the continued help of the KU training staff and the involvement of the remaining seasons as a Jayhawk,
By MIKE EARLE Associate Sports Editor
When you walk on to the practice fields when you are in a batting cage, commande KU's football team, your attention is drawn to the fast paced drills, the long passes and the exhortations of the batters.
It takes a while to notice the four punters, 50-yards south of all the organized hustle, kicking high-arching punts to each other.
这些 panters quietly go about his work is Mike Hubach, one of the best kickers in college football and a vital part of KU's football team.
After three years of kicking his way into the KU record books, Hubach, a senior from Cleveland, Ohio, was selected to represent this year's team in the illustration on the cover of the book. As a schedule past pik UK greats such as Geyser Sayers, John Hadl and John Zook.
"It ita's a little pressure on me," Hibach said of the illustration. "I really didn't expect it. I got kidded around a lot. Guys have been calling me 'mouser boy'."
The honor surprised him.
Hubach's selection for the illustration is justifiable. He has re-written almost all of KU's kicking records since he established himself as the top punter halfway through his freshman season.
"I FIND IT hard to see myself with those people. Hopefully it will make me try harder."
A unanimous first team All-Big Eight selection as punter last year, Hubach finished the 1978 season with a 41.4 point best in the Big Eight, and 21 in the nation.
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Hubach led the conference in pitting through the season, until two bad games at the end of the season. His 41.4 pitting average is 29.3 on the road, and 30.0 average as a freshman. His career pitting average at 40.5 with 7,886 yards on 190 pants, and 99 ponds of 40
AS A PLACE kicker, Hubach is working on a school record 37 concussion point after touchdown (PAT) conversions. He missed two for the Wolverines. University of Wisconsin. His career conversion average is an outstanding 54 or 56 for a .984 average.
Although he is one of the top kicking specialists in the nation and his closest friend was an ace, Scribner, is redshirted. Hubach said the lack of competition for his job is not a factor.
"I've got pride," Hubach said. "I see him (Scribner) kick one a long way and I have to do the same thing."
"T DATHR have a winning season than make all the honors," Huachu said. "All-Big Eight is nice, but I'd rather play on a winning team."
"Sometimes it gets kind of monotonous," you pick up bad habits—netting掉 the football right or not keeping your toe pointed—any one of those things can screw up.
He needs 26 PAT conversions to overtake Bill Bell's school record of 80 conversions. He was also the first coach in by Bob Helmbach and is in reach of the case carrying mark of 105 points set by the team.
Hubach has led KU in scoring the last three years and probably will add a few more school records to his collection.
"You have to develop a rhythm. Sometimes you need someone watching you to tell what you're doing wrong."
Practice for Hubach must punting 40 to 45 times a practice plus 20 to 25 place kicks.
Hubach got his start as a place kicker in an obscure way in high school. Known for his soccer ability, he was a three-time all-star and was the captain of the football coach to try out for the team.
But Hubach would trade these impressive statistics for a winning season.
In the field goal department, Hubach holds KU's record for the longest three-pointer with his 52-yard against the University of Missouri in 1977.
"It was the day before the first football game," Hubach recalled. "My soccer coach
"I like soccer a lot but I couldn't pass up playing in the Big Eight, the best conference in the nation.
"I didn't even think about being recruited." Hubaich said. "I surprised me.
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"I'd rather play in front of 50,000 people instead of a couple hundred."
"I never hear the fans or anything like that on the field," Hubach said. "It kind of comes from playing soccer. I just go out and play."
AFTER OPENING his high school football coach's eyes, Hubach began to attract attention from college coaches.
Some people would balk at the idea of coming into a game with the possibility of kicking a winning field goal or boosting a crucial joint in front of 50,000 people, but not
mentioned my name to the football coach and I went out on a Thursday night and kicked off a few times and made the team. I didn't start practice until my minor year.
ONE IS HIS school 12-pound yard goal. ONE also bright spot in Habach's career came last season against UCLA, a team that has won eight defensive player of the week honors.
Along with the records and accomplishments he has accumulated, there are three instances in Hubach's career that stick out in his mind.
Hubach is proud of those accomplishments, but he really lights up when he recalls the game against the University of Oklahoma his sohnore year.
"I had a couple of bad kicks," Hubach said; "and I out everything I had into one.
"I was kicking into the wind, and that thing took off like a rocket.
"It was great because I did it at O.U. and it was against the wind."
Hubach's punt resulted in a 72-yard ... the longest of his career.
Despite all the kicking records, Hubach is determined to improve..
"I DON'T feel that great about what I've done," Hubach said. "There were plenty of field goals I should've hit.
"I've got a long way to go to be more consistent. I have a tendency to blow a couple of kicks at the first of the game or after the first half.
"I have to eliminate those bad kicks."
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