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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 1. 1992
Center from Utah commits to Kansas
By David Dorsey
Kansan sportswriter
Two down, two to go.
Kansas has two remaining basketball scholarships for next season after Nick Proud verbally committed on Tuesday. Proud, a 6-foot-10, 215 pound center plays at Alta High School in Sandy, Utah.
B. J. Williams, a 6-8 forward from Winston-Salem High School, gave his Winston-Salem High School
Proud, a native of Sydney, Australia,
finished his first season at Alta last
spring. He averaged 15 points and
eight rebounds a game last season.
Proud visited Kansas last week and attended the Kansas-California football game.
"I like to play with my back to the basket, but I can shoot the innerm."
yesterday in a telephone interview. "The way I got along with the team and the fact that I liked the atmosphere influenced my decision to commit.
"I'm definitely coming." Proud said
basket, but I can shoot the jumper."
Proud he came to the United States to improve his basketball skills.
"They play some in Australia, but not much," Proud said.
His coach, Ron Carling, said that he was a good player that could have an impact early in college.
"He's a back-to-the-basket player," Carling said. "But he has very good hands and a very nice shooting touch. I think he can make the adjustment fairly quickly to the college game if he keeps his work ethic."
Bob Gibbons, a recruiting analyst, listed Proud as the 35th best player in the nation and sixth best among senior centers.
"He needs to get stronger," Gibbons said. "But he played well in the spring tournament last year, and the thing I like about him most is he's very athletic. I think he'll help the team out right away. Roy Williams is a great teacher of big men, and Nick should really improve at Kansas."
Gibbons said that Kansas would try to fill the remaining two scholarships with point guards. He said that Bobby Crawford from Houston was one of several guards that Kansas was recruiting.
Proud and B.J. Williams are expected to sign their letters of intent during the early signing period Nov. 11.
Virginia linebacker hits hard on the field, in the classroom
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Imagine going to the University of Virginia and getting the highest grade in your physics lab.
For many students, it would be reason to celebrate. For Tom Burns, it was the low point of his academic career.
Burns is a junior majoring in nuclear engineering, and the B-plus he got in lab represented the first time he had received anything other than an A at Virginia.
But Burns has a good way to release all the tension of those long days spent on problems involving everything from plasma fusion to computer diagnostics.
He hits people. Lots of people. Really hard.
Burns is a linebacker for Virginia's 14th-ranked Cavaliers, and he's starting to draw the same kind of recognition on the football field that he's been earning for years in the classroom.
He is passionate about both — he hopes to someday develop new
energy sources — but for now, football is the challenge that fuels him the most.
"With school, it's mostly mental. The time factor with tests is some what there, but it's just a mental challenge," he said. "But there's nothing like football. It's physical, total mental, total emotional — it's everything. And I love it. I just can't turn myself away from it."
Burns scored 1,450 on his Scholastic Aptitude Test and was his class valedictorian at Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville, Md., where he finished with a GPA of 4.42 of a possible 4.50.
He plans to get a master's degree in plasma physics and a doctorate in nuclear design.
Last year, Burns was one of 60 students from around the nation chosen for the Undergraduate Summer Institute on Contemporary Topics in Applied Science. The program was held at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Burns' group won top honors for a project on experimental plasma fusion designed to provide the world
with a new energy supply by 2050.
On the football field, Burns has 26 tackles this season, third-best on the team. He had 10 unassisted tackles, including a sack, in Virginia's 55-24 victory against Georgia Tech.
Archer said that Burns shows up for many football meetings looking weary after studying into the wee hours of the morning — an assessment that Burns does not challenge.
"He is like no player I have ever been associated with," Virginia linebackers coach Mike Archer said.
Burns said he typically studied between five and six hours a night. In all but one case, that was good enough to keep his straight-A average intact.
"I know this is going to sound like sour grapes," he said of that offending physics lab grade. It was a case of his grade being good enough to qualify for an A but being pulled down by a curve that took the rest of the students into consideration, he said.
"I felt like I deserved an A," he said.
"But what are you going to do? You move on. If feel like I've got to keep it in perspective."
Kansas team defeats K-State
Kansan staff report
The Kansas volleyball team defeat ed Kansas State last night in Manhattan.
The team lost the first game 7-15, but came back and won three consecutive games 15-7, 15-3 and 16-14.
"They came out really strong and got a big lead on us," said Frankie Albiz, Kansas coach. "They got some really tough points on us. We didn't have too many unforced errors, but they put us
VOLLEYBALL
in some awkward situations."
In the final game, the Jayhawks were down 1-10, but came back to win.
“It’s not easy in volleyball to come back from being behind that much,” she said. “I was really pleased that we were able come back and win that last game. Kansas State played a strong
game, and their coach has done a good job recruiting."
Kansas plays K-State again Nov. 11 at
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The Jayhawks leave today for the Arkansas State Tournament. Arkansas State, Arkansas-Little Rock, South Florida and Southwest Texas State are the other teams competing. Kansas returns to home competition Wednesday against Nebraska.
During afternoon practice, junior Mindy Weiner works on her backhand. Weiner and other members of the Kansas women's tennis team were practicing their serve and volley game behind Allen Field House yesterday.
Kansas women's tennis opens fall season at K-State tourney
By Kristi Fogler
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas women's tennis team will travel to Manhattan this weekend to play in the Kansas State Invitational. Kansas, K-State, Wichita State, Drake and Oklahoma State will all participate in the tournament.
The tournament will be the Jayhawks' first of the season.
Coach Michael Center said the tournament would be an indicator of how good the team really was.
"I just want them to get a lot of matches in," Center said. "It will be a good measuring stick. I want them to play as hard as they can and competitively as they can."
Kansas, ranked 19th in the nation by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association and the only Big Eight team ranked, moved up one spot from last year's post-season ranking.
Center said the team would mus Renee Raychaudhieu and Eveline Hamers this year. Both players were seniors last season.
Hamers, a four-time All-American, was the best player in Kansas history. Center said.
Center said he looked to Kansas' three top-35 ranked players to lead the team. Junior Mindy Weiner, a transfer from Clemson, is ranked 24th, sophomore Nora Koves is 26th and sophomore Rebecca Jensen is 34th.
The team needed to work on physical conditioning, an improved mental attitude and finding possible doubles combinations. Center said.
combinations, Center said.
Junior Abby Woods said the Jayhawks had more depth this year than in years past.
"With the help of the new girls, we really are very consistent from the No. 1 to No. 6 spot," she said. "We
want to establish ourselves as a very good team as soon as possible. Fall is a good time for practicing and getting confidence."
Woods said this weekend's tournament would get the team into a competitive mode and that the national ranking would motivate them.
"I's an incentive for us," she said. We think we're better than that and we are happier.
Weiner, recovering from recent shoulder surgery, said that by working together, the team could succeed.
"We've got to start from the bottom and work our way up," she said. "Hopefully we'll equal or top last year's performance."
Although she is not playing this weekend, Weiner said she hoped her experience would help Kansas. Weiner qualified for the NCAA Championships two times while at Clemson.
CONFERENCE
Football players get needed four-day rest
Football standings
Football standings
Colorado 4-0-0
Kansas St. 2-0-0
Kansas 3-1-0
Nebraska 3-1-0
Oklahoma St. 2-1-0
Oklahoma 2-1-0
Iowa St. 2-2-0
Missouri 0-3-0
No conference games have been played yet this season
By David Bartkoski
Kansan sportswriter
Junior linebacker Larry Thiel said he was a little surprised when Coach
The Kansas football team played its first four games during a 19-day stretch and had only four days to prepare for the California game on Sept. 24. They now have 16 days to prepare for one game.
after losing to Cal 27-23 one week ago, the Jahawks will not play again until Kansas State rolls into town Oct. 10.
Glen Mason decided to give the Jay-
hawks four days off. Kansas did not
practice Friday through Monday. He
said Mason usually took advantage of
all available time.
"It gave them a chance to get away from the game for a while," he said. "I thought it was a good coaching move."
But Thiel said he thought the time off would help the players.
Mason said the Jayhawks looked a little rusty in Tuesday's practice, but he was not too concerned. It was Kansas' first practice in six days.
"It's like going back to work after vacation," he said. "But we had a tough practice, and I thought we got a lot accomplished. We got a good start on our preparations."
Outside linebacker coach Mitch Browning said it was natural for a team to be a little out of sync in this situation.
"I think any time you give them a couple days off, they tend to lose their focus," he said.
Thiel said he felt the effects of having four days off.
Today, I kind of felt awkward com
Trial said that he and his teammates wanted to maintain a high level of play and reinforce the attitude they had prior to the California game.
ing back on the field," he said. "But I think everyone on the team felt better with the time off."
Browning said he thought having an off week at this point in the season was good for the Jayhawks.
"It gives the players a chance to get their feet back underneath them," he said. "You'd like to think it would help with healing injuries and your preparation for the next game."
Although the players had four days off, Browning said, the coaches worked during that time, evaluating film and preparing for the K-State game.
Browning said the team would work on fundamentals, correct mistakes from the first four games and prepare for K-State in upcoming practices.
The Wildcats beat Kansas 16-12 last season in Manhattan.
In practice, Kansas players are wearing purple shirts with 16-12 on the front to remind them of last year's defeat.
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