University Daily Kansan, August 21, 1980
Page 9
GRANT OVERSTAKE/Jansan staff
Clifford Wiley, former KU track star and a 1980 member of the U.S. Olympic team, was stopped by a KU police officer, Jack Scott, during a workout at Memorial Stadium this summer. If it were not for the U.S. boycott of the Moscow Olympics, Wiley would have been in Moscow instead of Lawrence at the time. Scott ordered Wiley to leave the stadium.
Olympic trackster has run-in with law
By TOM GRESS Sports Writer
Clifford Wiley didn't have to travel to Moscow this summer to find security patrols.
Wiley, a former spinner at KU,
qualified for the U.S. Olympic team
when he finished second in the 200-
meters at Olympic Trials in June.
But because of the U.S. boycott, Wiley spent
the week he would have been competing
in Moscow working out in KU's
Memorial Stadium for a trip to Europe.
According to Wiley, KU police officer Jack Scott saw him工作 out on Hershberger Track. Scott then asked the Olympian to leave, Wiley said, protesting, Wiley left. Scott issued the trackster a warning, Wiley said.
Wiley was the only KU athlete to have a run-in of sorts. Unexpectedly in the final round of the National Basketball Association's draft in June, Dolph Carroll, KU's designated hustler for two seasons, was picked by the Phoenix Suns. But Carroll was promptly cut.
But working out at the stadium out to be as almost as difficult as competing in a game.
TWO KU ATHELTES did have more success than Wiley or Carroll. Darnell was the first to do it.
basketball team in late May. Valentine saw considerable action in the team's Gold Medal series with NBA all-stats and the 1978 Olympic team. Valentines' counterpart on the women's team, Lymnette Woodard, starred for the women's Olympic team as it toured Europe.
"Lynette handled it very well," KU women's head coach Marian Washington said. "She knew that if the good Lord had wanted her to go to Moscow she would have gone. It just was not meant to be."
FORMER KU basketballer Paul Mokeski stayed in the news this summer as he pleaded guilty to a drunken driving charge in Lawrence Municipal Court. The case was settled by Lawrence police in July 1979 after signing with the Houston Rockets.
Mokeski spent the summer remodeling Quantrilltar air into his own studio.
Matt Gundliefinger and Steve Zelt, stalwarts for KU's baseball team last spring, both decided to bypass their senior seasons for professional baseball. Gundliefinger signed with the California Angels organization and Jeltz joined the Philadelphia Philles system.
"I all Want is a chance," Jeltz said. "I hope I can move up fast."
Paul Mokeski
Although KU baseball coach Floyd Temple lost Gundinger and Jeltz, he did pick up rife-armed Kevin Clinton and grab it so that he could add to concentrate solely on baseball.
KU'S MEN'S TRACK team finished eighth at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in early June. Triple-jumper Sanya Walaia uncorked the best b jump of his career when he set 54+11 3/4, good enough for second place. KU's 1,600-meter relay team, with Stan Whitaker, Mike Ricks, Lester Mickens and Deon Hogan running, also finished second.
Transfer loss doesn't dunk Owens' hopes
DARNELL VALENTINE's backup at point guard, Keith Douglas, decided at the end of the July not to return to where he will transfer to.
A tradition of transfer players has haunted the KU basketball program for the last three years and this summer another cager decided to leave.
the player, sophomore Keith Douglas, announced July 31 that he will not return to KU this fall. He declines to say where he intended to transfer.
FIVE KU PLAYERS have transferred in the last three years: Hasan Baskin in 1977, Scott Anderson in 1978, Keith Douglas and Mark Snow and Keith Douglas in 1980.
However, KU basketball coach Ted Owens recruited four new players, including Victor Mitchell, a junior college transfer who averaged 26.6 points a game at Amarillo (Texas) Junior College.
Owens also signed Mark Summers, a
lead player and teammate of Mark
Aitmar at Amherst. He's 8-4 guard
Keith Douglas
OWENS HOPES some large doses of experience and maturity will help the Jayhawks gain some consistency after last year's rollcoaster 14-15 season.
"I think fans too often underestimate how essential maturity is to a championship-caliber team," Owens said. "One year of experience together can change the entire complexion of a team."
Non-revenue sports at KU add recruits
They were not " helicopter recruits", but the athletes who signed scholarship papers for KU's non-revenue producing division upon to provide strength to their teams.
THE WOMEN'S track team has only one signee, but new coach Carla Coffey said she wasn't going to panic. She's not sure what to do. "We're recruiting a few more women now."
"I'm not going to panic," she said. "I was a walk-on myself."
FLOYD TEMPLE, KU baseball coach, had his biggest recruiting year ever, signing nine players, four of them pitchers.
Temple lost Matt Gundelfinger and Steve Jeltz to the pros, but said that this year's recruits would provide much more training and competition for most startling spds.
Another pitcher was added to the lineup this season when former KU quarterback Kevin Clinton decided to pitch instead of pass.
Floyd Temple
And on the women's diamond will be three new players, two of them short-stops, a major weakness for the 'Hawks last year. Softball coach Bob Stancilc recruited only three players, and signed all of them.
Infielders Tammy Hoffman from McPherson and Sue Sherman from West Los Angeles will battle for the shortstop position, while Rhonda Clarke from North Ridge, Calif., will be added to the pitching corps.
THIS YEAR, Washington landed another top recruit when she signed Tracy Claxton, a 6-foot center-forward from New Haven, Conn.
New recruits to complement KU's Woodard
Woodard made the U.S. Olympic basketball team the past summer and is now only 390 points shy of becoming the all-time leading scorer in women's college basketball. She is also the leading candidate for the Wade Trophy, given annually to the top player in the women's game. And she should equal the mark Ann Meyers set when she became the only woman to be named to the Kodak All-America team four consecutive years.
Claxton was on both Parade's and Scholiastic Magazine's All-America teams and averaged 34.7 points and 25 rebounds a game.
Four years ago, Marian Washington landed the biggest prize for the women in basketball program. She was named coach of the season, Woodard's last, should be her finest.
KU lost three guards this year, Cheryl Burnett, Kathy Patterson and Pat Mason. Burnett is in New Jersey trying out with the Gems, a women's pro team. Patterson graduated, and Mason left for the University of South Carolina after two years at KU because of personality conflicts.
Pat Mason
BUT WASHINGTON signed two guards, Mary Meyers from Pittsburgh, and Mary Chrenlich from Madison, Wis.
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