University Daily Kansan, August 21, 1985
Page 15
Cross country has young, eager look
By Frank Hansel
Sports Writer
Youth, inexperience and enthusiasm will be the dominating characteristics of the Kansas men's cross country team, head coach Bob Timmons said on Monday.
Timmons, who is entering his 21st year as Kansas track and cross country head coach, will field a team that features only two returning lettermen when the Jayhawks open their season on Sept. 14 in a dual meet with Southern Illinois. KU defeated SIU last year.
"We will be a young and inexperienced team, but the team makes up for that by its enthusiasm," Timmons said. "We expect to be a comeback, but I don't think we will really bless until late in the season."
The two returning lettermen from last year's team, which finished fourth at the Big Eight cross country凯yle Roste and Gordon Wav.
Roste finished in 51st place in the cross country district meet last year with a time of 32 minutes, 38.3 seconds for the 10-kilometer course, and he has a career best time of 31.45.0.
Roste and Way will have a tough job filling in for the two top runners on last year's squad, All-American Brent Steiner and Greg Leibert. Both were lost to graduation.
Steiner finished third in the Big Eight championship and seventh out of 184 runners at last year's NCAA cross country championship, earning him All-America honors. Leibert received All-Big Eight honors last year with his seventh place finish at Boulder, Colo.
! "Right now we don't have anyone of the quality of Steiner or Leibert, and it will take a while for this team to develop." Timmons said.
Timmons said the cross country schedule favored his young team because the competition gradually got stronger as the season went on. Highlighting the Jayhawk schedule is the Oklahoma State Jamboree, which will include the 1984 national
champion Arkansas Razorbacks.
Timmons said his team should be competitive by the time the Big Eight championships come along, but he said the Iowa State Cyclones would be the team to beat. Nebraska, Kansas State and Oklahoma State should also field strong teams.
Besides Roste and Way, Timmons will be looking for strong performances from several freshman recruits and a couple of redshirts.
"Right now the team is wide open, and I wouldn't be able to pick a team until the time trials," Timms said.
Competitors for the seven team spots available at each meet, he said, will include Kevin Selby, a redshirt transfer from William Jewell College; Lawrence Thomas, who sat out last year; and Ben Welch, Wasilla, Ark., senior, who transferred to KU after the University of Nebraska at Omaha discontinued its track program.
Many freshmen also are expected to battle for a team spot. They include Matt Bell, Roger Littlefield, Matt Mellor, Clint Pevil, Dan Scheider and Craig Watchee.
Timmons said one reason he thought it would take the team time to develop was that freshman runners needed to make the transition from high school to college cross country.
Timmons said that freshmen were used to running the two-mile high school cross country races and that they must make a lot of adjustments for the 10-kilometer college race.
Twelve runners began making the transition and started official training Friday at Timmons' annual cross country camp. Timmons said the participants at the camp were invited on the strength of innate ability and the mileage they put in over the summer months.
Increment weather postponed some of the training for the runners, but they still averaged 16 miles of road work a day.
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