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Wednesday, October 7, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Clockwise from top right; Vic Mosby, Columbia, Mo.; senior, kicks out of the water while trick skiing. Kyle Taylor, Hoxie sophomore, skis from the deck at the Mo-Kan ski club, which is located off K-10. Other members of the club stand by for their turns. Bruce Belcher, president of the ski club, maneuvers the boat into position for the jumps. Taylor flies off the jump. Cheryl Tillema, Lake Latawana, Mo., senior, takes time out for adjustments after a spill.
Kansas skiiers jump at chance for national title
By DARRIN STINEMAN Staff writer
Staff writer
The Kansas water ski team placed second out of 12 teams at the National College Water Ski Tournament at Decatur, ILL., earning a spot in the national water ski tournament at Groveland, Fla. this weekend.
The Collegeiate tournament, on Sept. 26 and 27, was the regional tournament for midwest schools. The top two finishes in the tournament automatically qualified for the national tournament. Michigan State won the region;
Kansas had nine men and seven women entered in the tournament, with the top four scores from each man's and women's event counting toward the team standings. $ ^{*} $
There are three events in district and national competition: slalom, trick, and jump. The men placed fifth in the slalom, second in trick, and third in the jump competitions, fourth in the trick, and second in the slalom, third in trick, and second in the jump.
Freshman Mike Madsen won the men's jump event with a 125-foot jump. Cheryl Tillema, a senior, jumped 52 feet to win the women's competition. Freshman Melissa Knox was the third KU top three finisher with a second-place finish in the trick event.
Madsen, a native of Omaha, Neb., hadn't skied for two years prior to the event, but was still able to win the jump event.
"Before I went out to do the jump, they jokingly told me I had to win for us to go to nationals," he said. "I hadn't touched the water in two years. To ski that well, I was really happy."
Madsen said that he had been skiing competitively since he was eight years old, and that he had taken some time off to get away from the sport for a while.
"I was always busy with skiing," he said. "I hadn't had a summer without going to a tournament every weekend for a long time. I just kind of let it go, and now I want to get back into it."
now that he's back into it, he may be out of it for a while. While practicing ski jumping Saturday, Madsen fell coming down on a jump and injured his knee. He may not be able to ski in the national tournament.
The team suffered a setback even before the tournament started. Team coach and skier Bruce Belcher broke an ankle ski jumping the day before the team left for Decatur.
December
Team member Steve Outlaw said that the team may be at a disadvantage when they ski in the nationals on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
"A lot of the other teams are able to ski year-round," be said. "That's a big advantage."
Although Outlaw wasn't happy with his performance at the regional — he didn't have a top-10 finish in any event — he said he was pleased that the team qualified to make the trip to Florida.
“It’s great just to get down there,” he said. “It means a lot to just go.”
Madsen said that Kansas has a reputation for making frequent trips to the nationals, and that it had been several years since a KU team failed to place in the required top two in regionals to qualify.
The team leaves for the national tournament tomorrow morning. Because the team is not financially supported by the University, the team members will pay for the trip.
Photos by Chris Roesner
Sports Briefs
KU volleyball team to take on Missouri
The Kansas volleyball team will try to win its first Big Eight Conference match when it plays Missouri at 7:30 tonight in Columbia. Mo.
The Jayhawks, 5-11 overall, are in last place in the Big Eight with an 0-4 record.
"They've been really struggling." KU coach Frankie Albitz said of the Tigers. "I'm hopeful we can come away with a victory on the road, but I'm not taking anything for granted."
Flyers honor Kate Smith
PHILADELPHIA — When Kate Smith belted out "God Bless America" before the sixth game of the Stanley Cup finals in 1974, the fans went wild, and the Philadelphia Flyers skated to their first National Hockey League championship.
They did it again when she sang in 1975, and they still win when Kate Smith sings on tape. Overall, the Flyers are 58-9-2 with her rendition of "God Bless America."
a year and a half after Smith's death, the Flyers on Thursday will unveil an eight-foot bronze statue honoring the
booming-alto-voiced singer who became the team's good-luck charm.
"The fans were juiced up anyway but it juiced them up even more when she came over to sing, and that carried over to us onto the ice," said Joe Watson, a Flyers defensmen from 1967-78, recalling the team's 10- victory against the Red Sox. "I think you talk to people now, they identify Kate Smith with the Flyers."
The half-tone statue, designed by a New York sculptor who specializes in sports figures, shows Smith singing with arms outstretched and is modeled in part on her
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A lawsuit seeking a judge's order to end a player's strike and a role for game in settlement talks is trivolous and misguided, attorneys for National Football League club owners and NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle said.
Paul Tagliabue, a Washington, D.C., attorney for the owners, warned in a letter filed Monday in U.S. District Court that unless the suit was withdrawn, the NFL would seek court sanctions against the five
five fans, all Kansas City Chiefs ticket holders who incorporated in Kansas as Pro-Sports Fans Association Inc., filed the suit Sept. 22, the first day of the players' strike. The suit, which named the owners and the players' union as defendants, seeks unspecified damages based on allegations of breach of contract for canceled games and false advertising for games played by non-union substitutes.
A hearing on the suit, set for yesterday, was suspended indefinitely Monday amid rumors a strike settlement might be near.
Lawsuit called frivolous
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