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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 1, 1987
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Ladies' football clinic teaches game rules to rookies, veterans
By MIKE CONSIDINE Staff write
Staff writer
In a way, it was like a pre-season training camp.
The squad included some letterwriters, some returnees and a good crop of rookies. Even a wise guv . . . er gal.
But Kansas football coach Bob Valesente can only hope the 1987 KU season is as successful as last night's fifth annual Ladies Football Clinic.
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Above, Kansas football coach Bob Valesente welcomes a group of women to the fifth annual Ladies Football Clinic. The class, offered last night in Parrotte Athletic Center, was meant to familiarize women with the rules and signals of football. Right, one of the students in the class studies a card displaying the various signals of the game. The clinic was sponsored by the KU Athletic Department.
The crowd of 73 touched all age groups from daughters to grand-mothers. Included was a handful of women who were making their fifth appearance and a couple who brought the 125-mile trail from Yates Center.
The only man in attendance, aside from members of the KU coaching staff, was Mr. Francis Dutton, whom Ail Woolard, an administrative assistant, introduced to the class. Dan T虏 accompanied his wife.
"It's a good time," said Woolard, who organizes the clinic and serves as master of ceremonies. "Everybody enjoys it, and nobody gets real serious.
The program started under former KU coach Mike Gottfried, and Valesente continued the tradition when he took over the job last year.
"I've never heard of (one) anywhere else," he said.
"In this community, there are quite a few people who are very interested in football," Valesente said. "And a large segment of our fans are ladies. It's a way of giving something back to the community."
Valesate and his staff, along with referee J.D. Cleavenager, gave a series of short talks explaining the basics of the game.
"The staff enjoys the opportunity to have a change of pace," Valesente said. "In the evening, they're eager to talk to people who want to learn the finer points of the game."
Ann Tice, Hiawatha resident, drove 75 miles with friends just to
participate for the fifth straight year.
"I came back to the fun of it, to the excitement of it all," said Tice, whose husband attended KU.
Tice said she was a friend of fifth-year senior tight end Mark Parks. Although Parks will graduate next year, Tice promised to return.
None of the women interviewed said they were under undue pressure from husbands or boyfriends to attend. And none said they were neophytes.
"I understand it, I just want to know all the little stuff," said Susan Potter, Lawrence resident.
"I've heard about it before," said Janet Deginger, Lawrence Brennan, a former Chicago football. I just wanted to hear what the coaches have to say."
In fact, some were there just to brush up.
"I came a couple of years ago when Coach Gottfred was running it," said Candy Wertzberger, Lawrence resident. "When I left I tried to on what they were talking about. There's a lot more to football than just watching the quarterback throw the ball."
She said she attended Jayhawk games "win or lose, even in the rain."
Her husband, Ken Wertzberger, is the team's physician and a former KU player.
A few wives of current team members were also in the audience, hoping to gain some new insights.
"I came because I wanted to learn something," said Mary Ann Long. "I learned a little bit about it." She started playing with a little bit of special teams.
She also played middle linebacker — just like her husband, Kansas City, Mo. junior Mike Long, Mrs. Long's ex-consistent coach of a calming defensive signals in a simulated buddle.
"I thought it was good that they did the thing on referee signals, because it gives us a better idea of
what to look for," said Karin Brehm, wife of punter-wide receiver John Brehm.
The players' wives aside, KU students were few.
"I assume there would be an interest." Valesente speculated. "I would like to see us do something in the future. We're going to look into that idea."
Before he does, Valesete might want to reconsider one aspect of the program; he may have created a monster. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
During the presentation, one of the women joked that she heard Valesente had hired a Chinese coach called "Win Win Soon."
Cross country coaches ask mainly for squad's progress
Staff writer
By MIKE CONSIDINE
With the start of cross country season less than two weeks away, progress is about all the coaches will ask of their young squads in the immediate future.
Men's coach Bob Timmons has just four juniors and no seniors among his 14 team members. Women's coach Cliff Rovelto has one senior, no juniors and just seven runners in all.
The men's team is hoping to finish in the league's first division.
"That's what we are shooting for," said Timmons, who is in his 23rd and final season as coach. "We know that Colorado, Nebraska and K-State are the teams to beat."
Iowa State should challenge the Jayhawks for the fourth spot, Tim
Junior Craig Watcke, who placed 20th in last year's conference meet, is the top returning letterman. Junior
Mike Spielman, junior Matt Bell and sophomore Steve Heffernan, who finished 24th at the Big Eight meet, also lettered.
Timmons recruited a promising group of freshmen that includes Donnie Anderson, who won the high school mile at last year's Kansas Relays, Matt Peterson, Sean Sheridan and Ty Thiel. Other freshmen are redshirt Stacey Smiedala and walk-on Sam Froese.
"It's a big change going from a two-mile or a five kilometer in high school." Timmons said. "It'll take time to see how they adjust."
Timmons said steady improvement from the freshmen and remaining injury free are the keys to the season.
The top seven will be chosen based on the results of a Sept. 4 intrasquad meet.
"We're not pushing that hard right now. You can't tell where we are."
Timmons said.
The first competition for the men will be a Sept. 1 dual meet against
The women's team opens the following day at the Cornhusker Invitational in Lincoln, Neb.
The only returning letter winners are senior Trisha Mangan and sophomores Kelly Coffey and Michelle McDonald. The sender are freshmen and sophomores.
Three of last year's best runners,
Lisa Kirwan, Jodie McDonald and
Melissa Satterfield, will skip the
season to concentrate on track.
"We don't really get after cross country very big," Rovelto explained. "Our better runners are really track runners."
Susan MacLean of Fergus, Ontario is the most promising freshman. Transfer Terri Gryzbowski, Tonya Toma Sausalberry are newcomers
Women's tennis team searches for another coach to ease burden and end Perelman's juggling act
By DARRIN STINEMAN
Staff writer
In Scott Perelman's five years at Kansas, he has been part tennis coach, part juggler.
As the coach of both the men's and women's tennis teams, Perelman has had to juggle his schedule in order to have time for both teams.
This season, however, he hopes things will be different. With the help of Associate Athletic Director Gary Hunter and Athletic Director Bob Frederick, Perelman is trying to bring in a full-time women's coach
"We're looking for a young person who really wants to get into coaching." Perelman said. "We have all the mechanisms available here to win."
He cited the tennis program's good rapport with the athletic department and an attractive campus for recruiting purposes as two such mechanisms. But winning ultimately breeds winning, and Perelman said a full 75 percent each could help get the cedar started.
"It's something I see as a step up for the women's program," he said. "The teams that are winning (both men's and women's) championships have separate coaches."
Having a separate woman's coach would also relieve Perleman of some of the stress of coaching two teams. He would be useful for two teams is difficult, he said.
"The traveling is just unbelievable," he said. "I can't be in two places at one time."
The players like the idea of a permanent women's coach. Susie Berglund, who is beginning her fourth season with the team, said she thought it would help to have a coach
who could be at all of their matches.
"I think that as long as Coach stays head (coach of both teams) and is involved with the women, it would be great to have a head women's coach," she said.
Senior Tracy Treps said she also thought it would help the team to have an individual women's coach.
"We need one," she said, "because coach Perelman can't divide himself equally between both teams. It's just too hard."
Treps agreed with Berglund that having a coach with them on the road would give the team a greater sense of security.
She said a coach specifically for the women would "give us real personal attention. In the past, we've had assistant coaches go with us, but nothing is like having your own coach."
White Sox top KC; Fisk knocks in five
The Associated Press
Jose DeLeon, 8-11, gained his third consecutive victory with 11 strikeouts in seven-plus innings, the most strikeouts by a White Sox pitcher since Britt Burns struck out the same number on July 23, 1985. DeLeon needed relief help in the eighth from Bobby Thigpen, who recorded his seventh save.
CHICAGO - Carlton Fisk went 3-for-2, including a three-run homer, and knocked in all five runs as the Chicago White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 5-3 last night.
KU coach sees good, bad in draft decision
Fisk's 18th homer of the season and 29th of his career sailed over the left field fence, driving in Jerry Hairston, who had walked, and Ivan Calderon, who had singled. The runs put the White Sox up 3-0 in the first.
The Royals scored two runs in the fifth after Danny Tartabull and Frank White singled. Tartabull came home when Jamie Quirk's grounder went through the glove of White Sox first baseman Greg Walker, and White scored on Bill Pecota's double-play grounder.
The Royals added a run in the eighth on an RBI ground-out by George Brett.
score 4-2. Fisk also had a sacrifice fly in the seventh.
What Carter did gain, though, was a chance to enter the National Football League a year early through the league's supplemental draft. The draft is designed to give insignificance to the chance to play in the NFL immediately.
In the fifth, Fisk singled to center and Calderon, who had singled, kept running and beat the throw to the plate, making the
That in itself is a contradiction to
Danny Jackson, 7-16, took the loss.
When Ohio State wide receiver Cris Carter accepted money from a sports agent this summer, he became ineligible to play football for the Buckeyes. NCAA rules prohibit college athletes from receiving money from agents.
By CRAIG ANDERSON Staff writer
College football coaches around the nation have voiced almost a universal disdain for the supplemental draft. Coach Valente and Iowa State football coach Jim Walden are among them. Valesete said he was pleased, however, that the NFL and the NCAA had been talking to each other in efforts to reach a compromise on the issue.
what college football should be." Kansas football coach Bob Valesente said. "I'm totally opposed to the supplemental draft."
Thirteen of the 28 teams in the National Football League boycotted last week's draft. The NFL postponed drafting Carter so he could continue to try and get his collegiate eligibility restored. However, Ohio State decided yesterday not to appeal Carter's case to the NCAA because the school's athletic director, Rick Burke, such a decision would conflict with the school's athletics standards.
Valesente said he saw the postponement moves of the NFL as positive.
"I don't have a solution to the problem, they are moving them" or "they are moving right directly".
"It's no fun being an athlete and not having any money all the time," Walden said. "I understand the temptation the players might have to accept money when it's offered to them."
Valesent said he did the best he could to counsel players. He forbids agents to be anywhere near the players during the season.
Walden said the best solution to the problem was 'to counsel players
"I if ever saw an agent on campus, I would tell him to leave immediately," he said. "I'm not going to put up with that kind of stuff."
against signing with agents.
Walden said "Agents treat players like they're in a feed lot."
Sports Briefs
Bingham picks two walk-ons
Walk-on Kevin Everhart's hunch proved correct. Everhart, Salina freshman, thought baseball coach John McCarthy caught others from the walk-on try.
Bingham took two freshman pitchers; Derek Chatterton, Wilmette, Ill., and Curtis Shaw, Bartlesville, Okla.
Ex-Jayhawk waived
The Indianapolis Colts waived former KU wide receiver Richard Estell yesterday. Estell, who played for the Jayhawks from 1982-1985, was an All-Big Eight Conference selection his senior year. He was ranked eight nationally for receptions in 1985 with 70 complements for 1109 yards and four touchdowns in 12 games.
KU grad is trainer
Scoreboard
Steve Langdon, a former KU graduate student, has been named athletic trainer at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Mich., effective this fall.
Langdon received his master's degree and NAIA certification at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Last year, he was the trainer at Morgan County High School in McConnelsville, Ohio.
American League
Baseball
NEW YORK 7, CANTONA 4
Baltimore 4, Seattle 3
Cleveland 7, Detroit 2
California 8, Toronto 8
Chicago 5, Kansas City 3
National League
Pittsburgh 7, Atlanta 3
Chicago 4, Houston 3
St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 0
Football
St. Louis 20, Chicago 16