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Wednesday, August 22, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Spikers boast height, experience
By ELLEN IWAMOTO
Sports Writer
KU volleyball coach Bob Lockwood said recently he could not be happier about his move from men's gymnastics to volleyball.
Lockwood, a volleyball All-American at KU in 1961, said he was really excited about his first year coaching the team.
"It's been in my mind for many years to come back and coach volleyball at KU," he said.
Changes were made among the volleyball, softball and gymnastics coaching staffs in mid-July. Bob Stancliffe, who had a dual coaching role in volleyball and softball, had to forego his volleyball coaching dutes when a fall season was added for softball. Snow, Snow's gymnastics coach, also will take over as men's gymnastics coach.
LOCK WOOD, WHO LED the Jayhawks to win 1961 and placed their final pieces in the national college basketball tournament. In 1961, has continued playing with the Kansas City Masters of the United States Volleyball League.
Lockwood said he did not think the transition between coaches would create any problems for the team.
"Joel Cox, who was the assistant velleyball coach last year, will be back on my staff," he said. "So this should give us some consistency."
With only two lettermen lost to graduation, Laura Frost and Karen Epperson. Lockwood has several experienced players returning from last year's 18-man squad. The team compiled a 35-24 record, won the tournament, and fourth in regional tournaments.
Senior June Koleber and junior Tina Wilson, both 6 feet tall, return this season, giving the Jawayhs some height.
"JUNE IS A SOLID ballplayer and a good competitor," Lockwood said. "Tina also is an exciting player. She plays with a lot of power."
Lockwood said if Wilson and sophomore Shelly Fox could overcome injuries they suffered last season, they should be exciting to watch.
Also returning are sophomore April Beaver and junior Diane Schroeder. Beaver should be an excellent setter and spiker. Schroeder should be one of the most skilled in the game.
The team probably will stay with the 6-2
offense it switched to last season. Lockwood said that it was the offense he was most familiar with and that the team should be more experienced after playing it for a year. The offense uses six hitters during its season, with three hitters always at the net.
"We'll want to determine where our strengths are and find the best offense that suits the athletes," he said.
LOCKWOOD HAS A tri of new recruits who will be participating in more than one sport at KU.
Megan Scott, a 6-2 freshman from Plattekill, Wis. will be playing basketball in addition to volleyball. She is also the tallest player among the recruits, Lockwood said.
Other newcomers include Lawrence freshman Sara Wabigh and Jill Huntingser, whose sister Jo already is on the team. Both students play in the state championship Lawrence High School team.
Shelly Duran, Salina freshman, and Sharon Logan, Wichita freshman, are on trac. and volleyball scholarships.
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The Jayhawks will open their season with a practice competition with Highland Junior College Sept. 5 in Robinson Gymnasium.
Returning this season are starting third baseman Jill Larson, catcher Gay Rose and pitcher Adam Horn designated hitter Pam Clark, outfielders June Kuebel and Rose Roster and part of the lineup.
KU will sponsor its own tournament, the Jayhawk Invitational, Nov. 10.
Stancliff said he would have at least 40 recruits and walk-in vases for on the KU roster, an increase over last, because of the fall schedule.
BUT STANWYX HAD a sore arm part of last season. Margaret Maughan, who pitched in spots last year, is expected to help out, but it is counting heavily on two recruits.
Lockwood said he hoped to do well in the Big Eight conference this year and finish in the top three at regional play. If a team finishes in the top three it can play in competition, and a team of national caliber will be Lockwood would he like to build at KU.
Freshman Darla Johnson of Topena, who at age 15 pitched her team to the national championship for 13-15-year-olds, will pitch for KU even though she has not played much competitive softball since that championship season. Stanciff said. The team was ranked sixth in the Herington, who led her 18-19-year-old team to sixth in the national tournament.
LARSON, A JUNIOR, led the team in scoring 35 and average last year, a mark she equaled in a ninety-ninth moment when the average team batting mark in the pitched-dominated tourney game.
"The schedule helps recruiting," Stantick said. "If a girl can choose betw een school that plays 40 games a year, she'll be happy." But she wants to best develop her potential.
"THE FALL SCHEDULE will answer a lot of questions," Stanislif said. "And the answers we get will be the groundwork for our team."
"Both pitchers should be able to help rightward," Stallman said. "But it's a hard transition to make from high school pitching and they'll have a lot to learn."
Returning is head coach Bock Stancill, who shed his volleyball head coaching men's and women's athletic department, and the manager. He also has arranged a fall softball schedule for the first time. Last year, Stantlage stifted fall practices for the first
With three of the top four offensive weapons and the best pitcher missing, the answers could be grim. But Stantell is not alone in this. The team started after 1977, but last year's squad still won the Big Eight and its Association team. The Athletics for Women regional tournament.
"It will also help us in the spring. The fall here is perfect for softball, but the spring weather is too unpredictable. Last summer our spring tour without an outdoor practice."
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The softball team gains a full-time coach and an innovative full schedule this season but an aura of uncertainty surrounds a team that loses four starters.
Softball lineup has open spots
The one sore spot, Stannick cautiously pointed out, is the pitching. Sinclair was a pitcher who played several games a day during manications. The heir apparent to the No. 1 hurrier job is junior Luan Lam Maxim from Alabama who has hit in KU's 1-0 loss to Oregon State, which eliminated the 'Hawks from the national tourney. The only run was scored by Sinclair.
"We had a lot of spots to fill before last year and we did it," Stancift said. "We
Gone from the No. 9 finishing team in the national tournament is tournament stopkelly Katherine Sherley Sinclair and infielder Jordyn Lee playing for the Edmonton, Alberta Snowbirds in a professional softball league host by the St. Foch, who will graduate after the fall term.
BUT DESPITE THE benefits of a fall schedule, Stancill is finding scheduling to be the most important that Kirk is only school in Kansas that he must travel the fall, which means the teams must travel to play. And that takes money, most of it to be budgeted for the spring schedule.
have a lot to fill again, but we have the good people to do it. We will have plenty of depth at almost every position with a defense as good or better than last year.
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