Thursday, August 24, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 11
VOLLEYBALL
Middle hitter leaves KU volleyball team
Katie Kieffer, a sophomore middle hitter who transferred from Texas Christian University, left the Kansas volleyball team Monday after a week of practice.
"Katie just wanted to transfer and walk onto the team," said coach Ray Bechard. "But after a brief time with us in two-a-days, she had a change of heart and a change of mind and we wish her the best of luck."
Kleffer played 25 matches last season at TCU.
— Sarah Warren
ROWING
Rowing team to hold tryouts for walk-ons
The Kansas rowing team will be holding walk-on tryouts for anyone interested in joining the team. The tryouts will be at 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday at Hadl Auditorium in the Wagnon Student Athlete Center.
Anyone with questions should call assistant coach Heather Galvin at 864-4207.
FOOTBALL
Senior safety named to Thorpe award list
Kansas senior safety Carl Nesmith was named as one of 40 players on the 2000 Jim Thorpe Award Watch List yesterday. The award is presented annually to the best defensive back in college football.
Nesmith joins Gary Baxter of Baylor, Jarrod Cooper of Kansas State, Keyuo Craver of Nebraska and Kevin Curtis of Texas Tech as the only defensive backs from the Big 12 Conference to make the list.
Semifinalists for the award will be named the second week in November, and three finalists will be chosen Tuesday. Nov. 21.
Nesmith was named conference defensive newcomer of the year in 1999 and was first-team all-conference after registering 89 tackles last season.
-Kansan staff reports
OLYMPICS
Major-league players won't make Olympics
LOS ANGELES — Catcher Pat Borders was one of the few recognizable names when the United States announced its Olympic baseball team.
Borders, 37, is playing in the minors at Durham. N.C.
Although professionals are allowed in the Olympic baseball tournament for the
inst time, the Sydney Games overlap the final two weeks of the major league season, with all major-league teams unwilling to part with players on their active 25-man rosters.
"We would have liked to had players like Mark McGwire, Greg Maddux and Darryl Kile, but this is what was available to us," said Bob Watson, co-chairman of the selection committee.
The U.S. team, managed by Dodgers executive Tommy Lasorda will be trying to upset two-time defending gold medalist Cuba in the Olympics. Japan and South Korea are among the favorites.
NFL
Running back's wife held as murder suspect
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The wife of Fred Lane was ordered held without bond as prosecutors said she could be charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of the NFL running back.
Deidra Lane, 25, appeared close to tears as she appeared before Mecklenburg County District Court Judge Philip Howerton.
Wearing an orange jail jumpsuit and shackles on her legs, she
Carolina law, she was charged with one count that covers both first and second-degree murder. Prosecutors did not indicate which level they would pursue.
first-degree murder is punishable by execution, while second-degree murder carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.
At the request of prosecutors. Howerton declined to set bond.
She had surrendered to police earlier Tuesday morning, accompanied by her lawyer.
"This is a major, major traumatic event for this family," said defense attorney Henderson Hill. "She's a mother of two very young children. She is frightened to death. She misses her children. She's scared — what any young mother would be going through."
Fred Lane, 24, was shot in the chest and head July 6 as he walked in the front door of the couple's home after flying home from Nashville, Tenn. He had been staying with relatives in Tennessee after training with the Indianapolis Colts, which acquired him from the Carolina Panthers in April.
TENNIS
Williams sisters won't face off until finals
NEW YORK — There will be no semifinal meeting this time for Venus and Serena Williams. If the sisters, dominating women's tennis this summer, face each other at the U.S. Open, it will be for the championship.
Tuesday's draw for the year's final Grand Slam tournament put third-seeded Venus, the Wimbledon champion, in the top half of the 128-player field and Serena, the defending Open champ and seeded No. 5. In the bottom.
Venus beat Serena in straight sets in the Wimbledon semifinals last month, then won the title match against Lindsay Davenport.
Although the women's field for the tournament that starts Monday was split fairly evenly in the two halves, the top of the men's draw came out loaded with big names.
Defending champion and top-seeded Andre Agassi will fight it put with No. 4 Pete Sampras, No. 5 Yevgeny Kafelnikov, No. 7 Thomas Enqist, No. 9 Lieyton Hewitt, No. 13 Franco Squillari, No. 16 Nicolas Lapentii and former Wimbledon champion Richard Krajlicke for a spot on the final day's program.
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