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Kansas swimming reloads, adding to stacked roster
AMIE JUST
@Amie_Just
Despite losing Deanna Marks and Caroline Patterson to graduation, the Kansas swim and dive team is in good shape.
Excluding Marks, every swimmer who placed at the Big 12 Swimming and Diving Championships from last season returns to the Jayhawk squad, including senior Chelsei Miller.
Miller, Kansas' only individual Big 12 champion, currently holds five school records and recently swam an Olympic Trials cut. The other current Kansas record holder is senior Bryce Hinde.
holder in the 50-meter backstroke and 100-meter backstroke.
Analyzing newcomers
Three others, Yulduz Kuch-karova, Hannah Angell and Lydia D犯isk, swam their way onto the all-time top-five charts in five different events last season. Kuchkarova is not only close to holding records at Kansas but is the current Uzbekistani national record
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Chelsie Miller, a junior, takes a breath during the breaststroke leg of the 200-yard individual medley on Feb. 7. Miller won the event and was one of three Jayhawks to place in the top six. Kansas beat Iowa State 169-131 in its two-day duel in Lawrence.
With every new season comes new faces, and this year is no different, as Kansas adds five freshmen and one sophomore to the roster.
Breonna Barker, a freshman sprint freestyle, comes to Kansas from Broken Arrow, Okla. She earned four straight state titles in the 100-yard freestyle throughout her four seasons and won three straight state titles in the 50-yard freestyle during her last three seasons.
Haley Bishop, a freshman jack-of-all-trades, is from Apex, N.C. She's the current record holder at Panther Creek High School in the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard butterfly, 200-yard individual medley and the 200-yard freestyle relay.
Cassaundra Pino, a freshman freestyle and butterfly
specialist from Albuquerque, N.M., won three straight state championships in the 100-yard butterfly, setting the New Mexico statewide high school record in that event her senior year. She also won the 200-yard freestyle at the state meet during her junior season.
The other two freshmen are Taylor Sieperda and Libby Walker. Sieperda, a medley
swimmer from Spirit Lake, Iowa, holds records in the 100-yard backstroke and 200-yard medley at Spencer High School in Iowa, whereas, Walker, who is from Columbia, Mo., is a two-time sectional champion in the 1,650-yard freestyle and won the distance high-point award three times at sectionals.
In Walker's sectionals division, she swam against athletes from Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wisconsin. This summer, Walker swam a time fast enough for her to compete at the Olympic Trials in Omaha, Neb., next summer. Fidelity, Nebraska.
Finally, Kansas added sophomore transfer Briana Bal-
sough from San Diego State. In high school, Balsough was named the Top Female Athlete at West Linn High School in West Linn, Ore., and holds both high school and conference records in the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard breaststroke.
Edited by Kate Miller
Women's soccer coach disappointed with preseason
SKYLAR ROLSTAD
@SkyRolNews
After his team finished the preseason with a 2-2 draw against North Dakota State at Rock Chalk Park on Sunday, the Kansas soccer coach Mark Francis wanted more. The Jayhawks recorded 33 shots over the course of the game with 11 on target but were only able to find the back of the net twice.
“[When] you have 33 shots, youd think you would score more than 2 goals,” Francis
said. "I think we learned some things about the players today — about who needs to be in there and who doesn't need to be in there as much, but that's why you have exhibition games."
As he looked forward to the team's regular season, which begins Friday, Aug. 21 against Nebraska, Francis said he was concerned by his team's lack of efficiency, given the shot attempts are all but certain to decrease.
"I think some of the chances that we created were really good, but we're probably not going to get 33 shots next Friday [against Nebraska]," Francis said. "We have to be a bit more efficient with the shots we get."
Apart from the negatives, however, Francis said the freshman talent coming into the team would be key to the team's success this season. Parker Roberts, a freshman, scored two goals in the previous exhibition game, a 5-0 win against Drake, and started
against North Dakota State. A two-goal performance from the freshman Grace Hagan demonstrated her ability on Sunday as well.
Hagan had never played forward before but started and played 70 minutes up top on Sunday. She credited the leadership of her junior and senior teammates for her smooth transition, much to the delight of her coach.
"I'm really blessed to come into the team like this," Hagan said. "They've been really nice
helping me out to learn the position."
Francis added: "Grace has been unbelievable. When we lose the ball, she's the first one chasing and pressuring the ball. She's going to be dangerous. We're glad she is on our team."
Francis said Hagan's presence in training during the summer had been a big part of the reason she is impressing early in the year.
hawks also have a strong returning cast. Midfielder Liana Salazar enters her senior year as a MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List player and junior forward Ashley Williams returns to the team after being the team's second-leading scoreer in 2014; behind Salazar. Williams scored two goals and added an assist in the Aug. 12 exhibition win over Drake.
Along with the freshman class, the 23rd-ranked Jay-
Daniel helps lift Chiefs over Cardinals
Edited by Kate Miller
They excelled in the first preseason game, too.
BOB BAUM Associated Press
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Carson Palmer and Tyrann Mathieu have probably been the most impressive players in the Arizona Cardinals' training camp.
So did Kansas City backup quarterback Chase Daniel.
In his first game since tearing an ACL last Nov. 9, Palmer was 4 for 4 for 77 yards, directing a seven-play, 80-yard touchdown drive to start the game before sitting down for the night. Palmer, who said he never took a single hit, threw over the middle to Andre Ellington on a 57-play to highlight the seven-play, 80-yard
Palmer was flawless in a brief appearance, Daniel threw for three touchdowns and the Chiefs beat the Cardinals 34-19 on Saturday night.
drive.
"It's great to be back and play on this grass again in front of our fans and in our stadium." Palmer said. "It's been a long time coming. It's been a lot of days since I saw this day in the future."
Arizona's Tyrann Mathieu intercepted Alex Smith's pass on the Chiefs' first possession to set up a field goal to put Arizona up 10-0. The Kansas City reserves scored the next 31 points.
Daniel was 17 for 29 for 189 yards in two quarters of play.
"The ones could have been sharper. ... The two and threes played tremendous and they moved the ball," Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. "Chase did a nice job with that group."
On the big play, Palmer found Ellington through a tight window. Ellington, who nursed a foot injury most of last season and has missed most of training camp with a hamstring injury, scored on a 2-yard run on third-and-goal.
On Kansas City's first possession, Smith was under pressure when he threw the pass intended for open Jason Avant. The pass was well behind the intended receiver and Mathieu, who was slowed noticeably last season after coming off knee surgery, easily picked it off.
"Luckily, the quarterback threw the ball right to me so I didn't really have to break and get a good route to the receiver," Mathieu said. "He kind of just threw it right to me."
Smith said he had a defender "screaming in my face" and he sailed the ball behind the receiver.
Arizona coach Bruce Arians said he was "very, very pleased with the way our starters came out, displeased with our young guys."
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