Monday October 23 2000
The University Daily Kansan
'Hawks win doubles title
Section B·Page 3
By Brandon Stinnett Special to the Kansan
For the second year in a row, Kansas men's tennis player Rodrigo Echagaray emerged as a doubles champion from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Region V Tennis Individual Championships in Tulsa.
Only, this time around, Echagaray, a junior, was paired with a different partner. Sophomore Eleazar Magallan stepped in for Echagaray's usual partner, senior Ed Dus, who did not make the trip with the team.
"It is awesome to win this again, this time with a different partner." Echagaray said. "It was the first time that Eleazar and I had played together, and we played really well. It is a great accomplishment for the two of us."
Despite limited experience playing together, Echagay and Magellan powered through the competition, compiling a 5-0 match record. The team defeated Drake's Tim Miller and Stephen Killian 8-5 in the finals.
Coach Ross Nwachukwu said the
pair played well together, despite their lack of experience playing together.
"I'm proud of them because they overcame adversity and performed beautifully together," said
Nwachukwu. "As
KANSAS
TENNIS
a coach, I'm very proud."
proud.
Another Kansas doubles team made waves in the tournament.
Junior Quentin
Blakeney and sophomore Pete Stroerow three straight matches before bowing out to Miller and Killian. 8-4 in the semifinals.
Blakeney and Stroer's run to the semifinals was highlighted by a first-round upset of second-seeded Maciej Dilaj and Mirko Jovanovic of Colorado, in a match Nwachukw said was one of the highest-quality doubles he had ever seen.
Things didn't go as well for Kansas on the singles side, where no Jayhawk reached the finals. Echagaray came the closest after defeating Blakeney, 6-1, 6-1, in the quarterfinals. But Echagaray's run
ended in the semifinals with a 7.6,75 loss to Oklahoma State's Matt Prentice.
Blakeney's loss to Echagaray snapped his string of three consecutive victories.
Magallan, the tournament's defending singles champion, was eliminated in the second round by Nebraska's Lance Mills, 3-6, 1-4, 6-4.
Freshman Andrew Metzler made his presence felt in the tournament by winning four matches, including a surprising upset of 11th-seeded Love Brajovic of Indiana State in the first round.
Metzler used a pair of victories in the qualifying round on Thursday to advance to the main draw, where he defeated Brajkovic and Evansville's Anthony Wollschager in the second round. But his winning streak ended in the round of 16 with a loss to Prentice, the fifth seed.
"Im impressed with Andy in the respect that he has come in here and showed upperclassman qualities," Nwachukwu said. "This will be an incredible learning experience for him."
Edited by Erin Adamson
Swim team diving into season
By Ryan Dolan
A walk-on freshman and 2000 Olympic trial swimmers highlighted the 13-event Kansas intrasquad swim meet that kicked off the season Friday at Robinson Natatorium.
Special to the Kansan
Team captains split the squad into two teams, the Crimson and the Blue, to compete against each other. The Crimson swam to victory with 120-94 for the men, while the women's Blue team won 56-48.
The meet had two goals: prepare the swimmers for competition and provide coaches with a framework to place them.
"He was born a distance swimmer. He just never ever gets tired." said men's coach Doug Dickinson
The sole male KU swimmer to compete in the 2000 Olympic Trials, Brian Soria, won the men's 1000-yard and men's 500-yard freestyle events Friday.
about the Sahta Fe Springs, Calif., sonhore.
Carrie Kirkham, Houston, Texas.
Junior, sprinted to victory in the 50-
yard freestyle in 24.44 seconds and in
the 100-yard freestyle in 53.09.
Kirkham returns this year as one of
four women Jayhawks who swam in
the Olympic Trials last August.
Although her 50 freestyle time was a full second slower than her best time last year, women's coach Cathy Burgess said she thought Kirkham gave a solid performance.
"She'll be faster next week," said Burgess, referring to "Thursday's dual meet with Texas A&M and Friday's Big 12 Conference swimming relays, both at Robinson Natatorium.
Walk-on Brian Brown, West Hills, Calif., freshman, went relatively unrecruited out of high school. He won the 400-yard individual medley by four seconds, with a time of 4:10.03, just weeks after trying out for the sound.
Kristen Johnson, Wichita freshman, stood out among the nine freshman women by winning the women's 200-yard breaststroke and finishing second in the women's 400-yard individual medley.
"I see good things for him," Dickinson said. "I feel lucky just that he walked in my door."
Dickinson said the team still needed to improve for this week's meets.
Texas A&M, who comes to Kansas on Thursday for the dual meet, will play host to the NCAA championships this year and should be one of the top squads in the conference and the nation this year. Texas, one of the five other Big 12 schools that field swimming and diving teams, participate in the Big 12 Relays on Friday. The Longhorns won the men's NCAA 2000 championship and sent five swimmers to the 2000 Olympics in Australia.
Edited by John Audlehelm
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