University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, February 12. 1975
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Women swimmers making waves in sports program
By KENKREHBIEL
Sports Writer
With the increasing interest in women's sports, there's one group of women at KU that's really making waves: the KU women's swimming team.
In its first full season, the 18-member team has gone through its schedule undefeated. The team will swim in the Big Ten this weekend and a official meet this weekend at Iowa State.
Coach Claire McElroy said the meet at Iowa State wasn't officially recognized as the Big Eight Conference championship because the conference hadn't sanctioned the meet. She called the meet at Iowa State a group meet.
KU had a women's swimming team last year, but only in the fall. McEllroy said last year's team was predominantly juniors and not this year, but this year the team was mostly freshmen.
This year the team has been Arkansas, William Jewell, Nebraska State, William Kramer, Texas.
McEllroy said she thought Iowa State, K-State and Oklahoma would be the best
teams at the group meet. She said Colorado also had a good team but that it would be the only Big Eight school that wouldn't attend the meet.
"We haven't swam Iowa State, but judging by their score with Missouri, I think they'll be some of our main competition," McEllroy said. "Although we've beaten KState, they're better now than when we beat them, and Oklahoma should be better."
McElroy said she attributed the team's success to its depth and a good attitude.
"Our advantage is more depth," McErlery said. "Other teams may have one or two outstanding individuals but not much outstanding people, but excellent depth."
She said this would help at the group meet because points would be given for the first 12.
The increased interest in women's swimming this year was largely because of the rise in training.
"I last year we didn't have enough money to travel. in sports as volleyball you will need money."
in swimming you usually have to go bigger schools," McEllroy said.
She said that had three or four years ago KU women had met sets with Wichita State, but the program was been interested, but the KU program was dropped the next year because it was so small. Then last year the team swam at small colleges in Missouri, she said.
Both K-State and Iowa State are in their second year of women's swimming and Missouri has had a team for several years, McElRoy said.
KU has money available to go to the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) meet, McEriay said, but standards to qualify for the meet were very high.
Teri Pollar, Overland Park freshman,
is only 0.1 of a second from qualifying for
the ALAW national meet in the 50-meter
relay, from qualifying from ina page. "You got behind the scenes a little, what your lawmakers were really doing."
Two divers, Laurie Prophet and Jacqueline Mulligan, were transported to court could qualify in low bow dive, although both were cleared.
Sprinters find their interests differ when it comes to the quarter mile
By YAEL ABOUHALKAH
Sports Writer
If Cliff Wiley had his way, he wouldn't be caught dead running the quarter mile.
His feeling is different from teammate
he said. "We don't have to be
caught at all, when he turns the
ball."
Both Wiley and Smith are sprinters for the University of Kansas track team, but there are distinct differences between the two roommates.
Wiley said he was a political science
student and interested in radio
and television communication.
Wiley is a diminutive freshman from the East; Smith a laxily junior from the West.
Finally, Wiley said he liked the shorter sprints. Smith advocates longer sprints, especially in the late stage.
Smith broke the Kansas indoor 600-yard dash record at the same meet.
But both sprinters have had to run races this year that hadn't always suited them. Wiley ran the leadoff leg on KU's record-setting 401-375 victory over Nebraska and Southern Illinois Feb. 1.
That brings up Wiley. He runs the 60 faster than any track athlete at KU and he's undefeated in that event this year. But don't mention the 40 to him.
"No, I don't like the longer events at all, to be honest," Smith said. "They kind of talked me into it, though. If I had to put all my money on anything now right, I'd put it on the quarter. I'm definitely not a 60-yard dash man."
But neither Wiley nor Smith talked seriously of discarding their present roles.
"The quarter is more a race that complements my other races," Wiley said. "The 220 is my best race--that's the one I enjoy the most. I enjoy the 400 the least."
"I don't like the 440 anymore in the miler and relay I and I don't feel any pressure because of the records. Wiley said, "But you like to have that on your mind," and potential, then I don't want to run 49."
Of the 60, Smith said, "I accept it. I decided I was going to be a winner this year."
Their varied interests tell more about
and Smith than do their track exploit
Wiley said he had been interested in political science since high school. He served as a page in the Maryland senate for 20 years. He was also served as the senior class vice-president,
"You got to see how some senators were politicking how labbists were working with Witness."
Smith came to KU, he said, because of the reputation of the School of Architecture and Urban Design. But he switched to the radiotelevision sequence in the School of Journalism for a less time-consuming major. He said he didn't regret the change.
"Talking comes easy for me," he said with a smile. "I don't like being at a loss for words. I'm not a militant or anything. But I love books and recorders." I feelI'm creative in my own way.
Wiley chose to don KU's spikes over other colleges including Oregon and Villanova. Too much rain and no indoor facilities ruled out the former school, and KU's advantages gave the nod to the Jayhawks over the letter.
"Their record is pretty good," Wiley said. "They've played, and they've got a good coaching staff."
Smith said his involvement as a Boy Scout got him interested in visiting a variety of
"I was trying to decide whether I was a pool shark, a ladies' man or Mr. Cool," Smith said of his pre-Scouting days. "I was trying to find my way. I guess it was hard to find my way, because he had so much success—that I got interested in having success for myself."
Gail Wagoner, Topeka junior, has an outside chance of qualifying in the 400-meter race, although she'll have to cut off her hair to be one of a second for each of the race's 16 lanes.
That success, he said, included attainment of the Eagle Scout rank and trips to Japan and Australia. In a roundabout way, he said, it brought him to KU instead of "neighborhood" schools such as UCLA or the University of Southern California.
Schuster said it could be hard because the degree of difficulty of their dives may not be
"I wanted to travel some more and stay not too close to home with the guys I grew up with." Smith said. "I figured that I could come here and could fit into the program."
McEllroy said that Cassie Strom, Omaha freshman, had a chance to qualify in the breaststroke and that to the 400-meter freestyle could also quality.
Both Wiley and Smith have had success in window and door but both also look forward to the outdoor.
Wiley said he wanted to dip below 21 seconds in the sub-30-second and he was able to sub-40 second quarter.
"Outdoors," Wiley said, "that's where the action is."
Strom is the only swimmer on the team who is undefeated. McElroy said
Pollard has been beaten only once in use 50- and 100-meter freestyle. The 200- and 400-meter medley and freestyle relay teams are also undefeated, though they haven't performed much. McElloyd said. The relay teams will swim this week at Iowa State, she said.
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The group meet this weekend will be the challenge for the swimmers to break the last record.
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Wagner said she wasn't too surprised the girl was well this week but said she was very excited.
"I think the word is elated" she said.
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Wagener was elated, "she said Wagener and I swim, and whom have been swimming against each other since those Wichita Swim Club days when Carroll swam for a Phillips 66 team. Wagener said they'd carried the rivalry against them." He again fought against each other on the college pool.
Pollard said she hadn't even planned on swimming but went out for the team late in
Wagoner said the key to the success of this year's tour is the spirit, over-all enthusiasm.
Pollard said that the team had good matching and team spirit was what most interested the players. Using the
"The coach definitely sets the attitude. As an individual you must be disciplined, but you must also be patient."
"Last year we'd go to a meet and we're the only ones without warm-ups and队 suits," she said. "We'd walk in with assorted suits and wearing football jerseys and stuff like that. That can really have a psychological effect on von.
"Everybody pulls for everybody," she
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said. "At away meets, teams have said how they couldn't believe it all, all stick to the same rule, our grit our spine."
Between them, Propti and Schuster have finished first and second at every meet except one when Propti finished first but another, harrowly beaten by a girl from Nebraska.
Schuster has had operations on both knees and is currently suffering from a muscular dystrophy.
diagnose,but she is still diving.
"I had a congenital dislocation of the "i patellar," Schuister said. "That means my knee caps would just pop, even if I was just walking, so I had to have them operated on by the tendon and have the knee caps scraped because the muscles would pull away."
Schulzer said the injury kept her from diving during her freshman and sophomore years.
Lewis Gregory and Tedde Tasheff:
It's Your Choice
Lewis Gregory, as chairman of the Senate's Finance and Auditing Committee, developed the plan that will both lower the price of football and basketball tickets and guarantee women's athletics a substantial annual allocation.
Lewis Gregory and Tedde Tasheff have supported expansion of recreational facilities, improved job placement services and increased library hours.
—Lewis Gregory developed an activity fee budget that uses your money to get maximum benefits for you. Tedde Tasheff, as chairman of the Senate Communications Committee, conducted a survey whose results were used to convince the administration that changes in academic advising were needed.
— Momentum is needed to keep your Student Senate move ahead.
Ed Rolfs and Mary Lou Reece:
—They claim to have a "commitment" to women's athletics. Ed Rolfs voted last year to give that program $1 (one dollar) and abstained on the vote to allocate $63,000 to the program. Mary Lou Reece abstained this year on the vote that lowered ticket prices.
On Jan. 28, Ed Rolfs failed to attend a meeting of the Educational Policies and Procedures Committee of the College Assembly. His missing vote may reduce the chance that the College foreign language requirement will ultimately be decreased.
-Ed Rolfs and Mary Lou Reece can point to no programs of substantial benefit to students that they have initiated through Senate committees.
Most of the Rolfs-Reece platform has already been accomplished or is outside the authority of the Senate.
For Student Body President and Vice President
VOTE GREGORY-TASHEFF
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