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Tuesday, February 4, 1975
University Daily Kansn
By Staff Photographer ROD MIKINSKI
Calm shooter
Koen Keenig, freshman forward, shows pose in his shooting ability. But what few people know is that Koen Keenig is as adept in the classroom as on the court.
Field House schedule
This week's schedule of activities at Allen Field House is:
Today—Open recreation, 7-10 p.m.
Wednesday—Men's basketball against
Forward averages 4.0 as student
*nursery-Open recreation, 7-10 p.m.*
*basketball vs. basketball against Southwest Missouri.*
By KEN KREHBIEL
Kansan Sports Writer
Koen Kengnis seems to fit perfectly into the student-athlete. Student comes before athlete.
Nebraska, 7:35 p.m.
Koenigs, a 6-foot-10 forward from Goddard High School, was salutatorian of his high school graduating class last year, and a member of the University of Kansas earned straight A's.
Before jumping to the conclusion that an athlete, particularly a freshman in his first semester, takes easy courses to maintain his eligibility, take a look at Koenigs' schedule. He took Foundations of Chemistry and Physics in addition to Literature in adding to running in a basketball conditioning program before basketball practice started in October.
"I thought I'd get a B in English because I was on the border" she said recently. "I got to go out."
Koenigs' main academic goal at KU is to maintain high enough grades to get into
medical school, he said, although he isn't certain that's what he wants to do.
"I've thought about pre-med, but mostly I'm just keeping it open," Koenigs said.
koenigs said that, although he also was recruited by Creighton, Stanford, Villanova, Harvard and Kansas State, he chose KU because it was close to home and because he was familiar with it as a fan of its basketball teams.
Koenigs was a high school All-America at Goddard and was chosen the state's top high school player last year by the Wichita Eagle and Beacon. In his senior year, Goddard's total points in the state finals. Koenigs averaged 21.3 points and 12.8 rebounds a game.
And Koenig's 'excellence wasn't confined to the classroom and basketball court. He also was a golf letterman and an excellent first baseman at Goddard.
However, these achievements are in the past, and Koenigs must now look to the
"Actually I live on the outskirts of Wichita, so I'm not really from a small town," Koenigs said. "And Goddard is a 3A school, so it's more middle-sized than us."
future, where he hopes to prove the cliche about a smalltown boy making good.
His adjustment to KU has gone as he had predicted, he said.
"I wanted to go somewhere I thought I could play right away, and here I thought,
"it's about what I expected, except it maybe even more demanding than I thought it would be," he said. "Both academics and athletics are a lot more demanding than they are in high school, even more so in basketball."
Because the remainder of KU's junior varsity schedule has been canceled, Koems has been deprived of one of the players to KU for -to play during his freshman year.
"Well at least there are 12 JV games. That's almost like high school," he said. "So it's kind of a disappointment, especially since we have K-state coming up, like two against K-state."
One of the things Koenigs likes about KU is its fans.
"The fans are just great, really. The way they've turned out for the last two conference games is really something," he said.
"The fans were so excited that you could just feel it," he said. "Without a doubt that made a big difference in our almost beating the No. 1 team in the nation."
The fans' influence was most evident in KU's game with India, Koenigs said.
Koenigs said that although he hadn't seen much game competition, he still was learning from playing against teammates from both Lightning, Norm Cook and Donnie Von Moore.
Today is Big Eight letter-of-intent day—the day when many high school players are supposed to sign away the next four years of their lives to some Big Eight school.
KU coach foresees few signings on first day for letter of intent
Today should be a big day for University of Kansas football coach Bud Moore and for the other football coaches in the Big 8. But, according to Moore, it probably won't.
"We don't expect many to sign tomorrow." Moore said Monday. "Because of the national letter-of-intent day on Feb. 19, outie a few are holding off."
The national letter of intent day is when high school or junior college athletes are supposed to sign with particular schools. But, again, they may delay signing to find out who else has signed at the schools in which they're interested and thus determine what competition they will face for starting positions at the schools.
only binds them to the Big Eight conference and not to any school, so they'll be signing for the next couple of weeks and also changing their minds during that time."
"We don't even know who exactly will sign," Moore said. "The Big Eight letter
Moore said national letter-of-intent day wouldn't even put an end to the tedium of recruiting. He said he would be signing recruits until the middle of summer.
In addition to the trouble of actually getting prospects to sign, Moore said, recruiting has been hampered by a lack of talent in KU's prime recruiting area.
"It's been a tough year," he said. "There haven't been that many prospects."
Moreside said the additional problem of putting together a staff of assistant coaches was not unusual.
"We've been slowed somewhat during this time," he said. "But now we have almost all of our coaches out recruiting in the country, so I will think we all right."
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