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Thursday, October 30, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Golf team looking forward to spring
By JANE ZACHMAN
Sports writer
The Kansas women's golf team finished its fall season Oct. 21, but the Jayhawk golfers already are looking forward to the spring season and to continued improvement.
"This is the year that we have shown the most improvement." Kansas women's head coach Kent Weiser said yesterday.
Women's golf season wrap-up
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Weiser said the team had come a long way in the last two years, but the golfers still want to do better.
"it's easy to go from 90 as a score for 18 holes to 80." Weiser said, "but it's not as easy to go from 80 to 75."
"It's easy to make that first step to improvement, but now it gets harder." he said.
Two years ago at this time, the Jayhawks' team average was 334 for 22 holes, last year the average was 319. But he expected the average to be 82.
Kansas had the best overall team showing at the Iowa State Invitational tournament in September, where it placed second. Kansas placed tenth at the College Kick Off in Edmond, Oklahoma and math at the Florida State Invitational at Tallahassee, Fla.
The Jayhawks finished their season placing ninth at the Beacon Woods Invitational at Bayonet Point, Fla., and the Kansas "A" team placed first and the "B" team placed third at the Jayhawk Invitation.
Most of the Jayhawks said they wanted to push themselves to do better in the spring season.
Now, more than ever, Weiser said, he has seen among the players an attitude that they were going to do well. He said he was disappointed that the team didn't have another tournament this fall.
"I think because we've been playing well it has been giving us more incentive to do better," said team co-captain Sushan Pekar, Wausau Ws., junior "Hopefully, I can carry over into the Spring."
Pekar is one of the most
noticeably improved players on the team. Last year her average was 83, but now she usually shoots 74 to 76. She is so far this year.
"In every team situation you need someone to come up into the leadership role." Weiser said, "and Susan has done that."
"We have really worked on being more constant," she said. "Our scoring average is down and that helps our confidence."
The golfers will practice at Anschutz Sports Pavilion this winter to keep their games in shape, Shockley said.
Toni Shockley, Madison, Wis.
junior, said the Jayhawks had consistently had four players that brought in low scores.
Weiser said the heart of the team lay in the freshmen and sophomores who still needed to gain some experience.
"We'll have to go through a couple of semesters, where they'll make those freshman mistakes," he said. "They're making errors, but they're still coming along well."
Sherri Atchison, Duncan, Okla,
freshman, said Weiser had helped
her to improve her swing. Now,
she is helping on improving
her mental game.
"I want to work on my attitude for next spring," she said. "I need to develop my confidence because I know I can play."
Atchison said that for the spring season she wanted to play more consistently and shoot below 80 each round.
Susan Peker was one of this year's most improved members of the KU women's golf team. Women's golf head coach Kent Weiser said Peker stepped into the role of leader on the fall team.
Atchison's scores have already shown some improvement. In the first tournament of the season, she shot rounds of 80, 40, 45 for a total. At the Jayhawk Invitational Oct. 21, she shot rounds of 83, 77 and 79.
Suzanne Mossberg, a Lawrence freshman, played in her first collegiate tournament in late October.
Mossberg had been ineligible and missed part of the season under a National Collegiate Athletic Association ruling, because she did not have a required high school science course.
She made a good showing at the Jayhawk Invitational, however, as the top finisher on the Kansas team with a total of 234. She shot 74
"Suzanne showed how valuable she's going to be," Weiser said.
in the first round and 80 in both the second and third rounds. The score placed her third overall in the tournament.
Michelle Mulvihill, Des Moines sophomore, showed an improvement of 28 strokes from the beginning of the season. She shot rounds of 86, 92, 89, for a total of 267 in her first tournament, and at the Jayhawk Invitational she shot rounds of 81, 79, for a total of 259.
the team improved this season, there was still more to be done.
Mulvihill said that even though
"We brought individual and team scores down, but that's not good enough," she said. "Next spring we look forward to bringing them down more."
Saunders to coach Chargers
SAN DIEGO — Al Saunders was named head coach of the San Diego Chargers yesterday after Don Coryell unexpectedly resigned after 9 1-2 years at the helm.
"If Don felt that it would be in the best interest of the ball club, hey I went along with them." Spanos said.
Coryell, 62 and one of the finest
offensive strategists in the game, walked
into the office of team owner Alex
G. Spanos yesterday morning and
said he was stepping down for the
sunset. Spanos said at a news
 conference.
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Saunders, who had served as Corvallis't top assistant coach, said the need was to tie the entire team but the players were enthusiastic about the change.
"We are 1-7 now and we have to turn it around." Saunders said. "We had an outstanding practice and the players are very enthusiastic."
Saunders is in his fourth season with the Chargers. His primary responsibility was the wide receiver coaches and held administrative chores for Corvell.
The Chargers thrashed Miami 50-28 in the season opener before dropping their next seven games, the last coming to Philadelphia 23-7 Sunday. Coryell, Corey, 62, joined the Chargers in 1978 and had a 71-53 record entering this season.
Coryell did not attend the news conference and it was not known where he met.
"I feel a change would be beneficial to the Chargers," Coryell said in a statement released by the team. "I made up my mind after the Philadelphia game but Mr. Spanos out of the city and I wanted to tell him in person."
San Diego, in last place in the AFC West, is ranked 25th in the league in defense. The vaunted "Air Coryell" offense led by quarterback Dan Fouts has committed a league-high 29 turnovers, including 21 interceptions
Despite the Chargers' poor showing, Spanos publicly supported Coryell and had pledged to keep the coaching staff intact this year.
"It came as a shock." Spanos said.
"I made a commitment to stay with the staff. I'm going to continue to do everything I can to win."
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