University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 26, 1986
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Connolly capitalizes on walk-on chance
By JANE ZACHMAN
Sports writer
She walked into KU softball head coach Bob Stancil's office and was intimidated by all of the pictures and awards on the walls. She thought she would quit before she got started.
But Sheila Connolly walked on the KU softball team five years ago and has been a starter ever since.
"The first day of practice he (Stancliff) has regular returning players practice at different times than those trying out," she said of her first experience with the team. "On the third day of practice, he asked me to play with the returning players."
"Very few walk-ons ever make the team." Stancill said, "but Sheila is one of the most remarkable walk-ons I've ever had here."
Connolly began playing softball when she was in the sixth grade. She said that she had wanted to play in high school, but her father was a colonel in the army and the schools in Wurzburg and Zweiurucken. West Germany, where they were stationed, didn't have softball teams.
Connolly has been on the KU softball team for five years. She was redshirted her sophomore year because of injuries.
Finally, when she was a senior,
Connolly played on her high school
team in Highland Park, Ill. She
lettered in softball, basketball and
tennis. She was the Most Valuable
Player that year and also was
selected to the suburban all-stars
team.
in the 1985 season. Connolly didn't commit a single error in centerfield in 44 games. She also led the Jayhawks in steals, completing nine of eleven attempts.
Stanciff said Connolly was one of the physically strongest players he'd ever had on the team. He has every player take an upper-body strength test at the beginning of the season. He has them do as many push-ups as possible in 45 seconds.
"Twenty was my measure of strength," he said, "but Sheila did 45 push-ups in 45 seconds."
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Her honors on the KU softball team in 1985 included named to the All-Tournament Big Eight Team, the Midwest Regional Team and selected Second Team All-America.
Along with her athletic awards, Connolly is also an honors student.
She had a 4.0 grade point average last year and has been named to the Academic All-Big Eight team two years in a row.
"It's hard to manage my time," she said. "With all the time I put into softball, I still have to find time for school."
The KU softball team will be in action this weekend at the Jayhawk Invitational Tournament at Jayhawk Field.
Kansas will play Kearney State at 11 a.m. tomorrow, Iowa State at 3 p.m. tomorrow, Nebraska at 3 p.m. Sunday and Southwest Missouri State at 5 p.m. Sunday
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And Connolly will take her familiar place in centerfield.
Sheila Connolly, KU center fielder, catches a fly ball during practice. Connolly, a senior, has been a starter since she walked on as a freshman. The team practiced yesterday afternoon at Jayhawk field in preparation for the Jayhawk Invitational Tournament tomorrow and Sunday.
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Susie Berglund of Kansas beat Northwestern's Christina Schufchel 6-1,
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Stephanie Rahilly of Kansas was eliminated in the first round by Eastern Michigan's Sunita Whitehead 0-6, 0-6.
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