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Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1987/University Daily Kansan
Coach confident in cross country team
Kansas men's cross country coach Bob Timmons is hoping that this season's team will improve upon last year's sixth-place finish in the Big Eight Conference. But before the team is ready for its first meet, the runners will have to battle each other for the seven varsity spots.
The Jayhawks will compete in a preseason intraquaid meet Sept. 4 with the top seven finishers forming the varsity squad. The varsity will compete in its first regular season meet against Southern Illinois University on Sept. 12. Timmons, in his 22nd, and final, year as the men's cross country coach, said he hoped to have 15-20 runners to help make competition a key word against other teams as well as within the squad.
Returning lettermen Craig Watcke, Steve Heffernan and Mike Spielman are expected to lead the Jayhawks this fall. Wat栓 was the top Jayhawk finisher at last year's Big Eight meet, placing 20th. Timmons said all three had been running
well in addition to showing good leadership to the incoming freshmen.
The returnees will be pushed by freshmen runners who have shown some promise, he said.
"It was really pleased by the way some of our freshmen, like Matt Peterson and Sean Sheridan, were staying right with the older guys during our summer camp," Timmons said. "They've got a good chance to come in and contribute right away."
right away.
Timmons said that he he wanted the team to be at its peak for the tough Big Eight meet in October. If the Jayhawks are to improve upon last year's finish and crack the upper echelon of the conference, they will first have to deal with tough teams from Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa State and Kansas State, he said.
"We've got to set our sights at the top spot of the conference if we are to compete with the top teams," Timmons said.
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and Mark Parks Junges to hash a tackling dummy. Three-a-day workouts began Monday for the Kansas football team.
New baseball coach splits full-ride scholarships
By a Kansan reporter
new baseball coach Dave Bingham thinks dividing full-ride scholarships among players will add depth to his team
In NCAA Division 1 baseball, a team is allowed 13 full-ride scholarships.
Bingham said that when a team played a 60-game spring season, depth was needed, and only a few players actually deserved full scholarships.
"Before I will give a full ride, I would have to be sure that a player is
the equivalent of two players," he said.
"A position player would have to be able to play nine innings in every game. And a pitcher would have to be able to consistently pitch a complete game."
game. He said players that could play complete games were difficult to find.
Generally, the 13 scholarships are set up for nine position players and four pitchers. A full-ride scholarship pays for the players' tuition, housing and books.
"College baseball is a walk-on sport," Bingham said. "When you suit up 24 players for home games and 13 are on full rides, then that leaves 11 players who are not receiving help.
Of the 16 new players Bingham has signed, no one was given a full ride. In fact, only one player on the team Steve Renko, has a full scholarship, and he is a leftover from last season.
Last year, four players were on a full ride, but Bingham said he did not think any of those players were equivalent to two players.
when Bingham recruited he said all the players that signed were glad
to have partial scholarships.
"I don't want them if they think they are so good that they would demand a full ride," Bingham said. "The bottom line is how good is the kid?
"If I think a player is worth a full scholarship, then I will give it to him."
Bingham also said it was impossible to run a clean program if all the scholarships were full rides.
"You still would have to be giving something to the other 11 players," he said.
New baseball coach hopes to bolster KU
Assistant sports editor
Rv DAVID BOYCE
Late in April Dave Bingham coached his Emporia State baseball team to two victories against the Kansas Jayhawks. This year he is on the other side of the diamond as the Jayhawks' new head coach.
When Bingham coached against Kansas he saw a team in disarray
"Quite simply they did not play as a team when I saw them," Bingham said. "A big goal is to draw them together and play as a team."
While the Jayhawks fumbled around last year and finished 13-59-1,
Bingham led Emporia State to a 55-13 record and the NAIA national championship game.
Emporia State lost to Lewis-Clarke State in the title game, but Bingham has a NAIA national championship in 1978 and a 555-271 record to his credit in his 14 years as a coach.
Bingham has garnered NAIA coach of the year honors in 1976, 1984 and 1986.
"This is a good academic university and the baseball team is full of
"It was a tough decision, but it was one I have been waiting for," said Bingham of his departure.
potential. "The Big Eight is one of the top three conferences in the country and it is easy to get recruits to play in this conference."
Dugnam sees the pitching as the strong part of the team despite the fact that last year's staff compiled a team earned run average of around nine.
"They were a group of good young kids who were not ready to pitch in the Big Eight." Bingham said.
To help with the young pitching staff, Bingham said he recruited a few experienced pitchers with previous college experience.
Right-hander Craig Mulcahy finished 15-2 with a 2.87 at Meramec Junior College in St. Louis.
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With only one left-hander returning from last year's squad, Bingham also recruited two lefties. Darrin Harris played at Wichita High School and Danny Lamb pitched for Blue Springs High School.
Bingham also went for some experience for the outfield and infield after losing several key seniors. The Jayhawks lost two starting outfielders and four infielders.
Of the 16 players Bingham signed, eight are from junior colleges.
Meeting set for baseball walk-ons
A walk-on meeting for students interested in playing for the Kansas baseball team is scheduled for Monday afternoon. On Tuesday, head coach Dave Bingham and his assistant coaches will evaluate the players.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
"College baseball is a walk-on sport," he said.
Bingham encourages anyone interested in playing baseball to trv out.
layers. There will be intersquad games
Wheelchair-sports workshop planned
The KU Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation is sponsoring a workshop this weekend on wheelchair sports activities. The program is one of ten such workshops put on across the country by the National Wheelchair Athletic Association.
The workshop will run from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday and from 9 a.m. to noon Sunday in Robinson Center. Registration will be at 8 a.m. Saturday. There is no charge.
jaanet Fisher, assistant professor of health, physical education and recreation, said the workshop was open to all wheelchair-bound individuals and their parents and teachers. Participants will hear
lectures and be given an opportunity to participate in air riffery, archery, table tennis, sports medicine, track and swimming, she said.
Fisher said the workshop would benefit those who had not participated in one of the activities and would give technique pointers to those who had.
those who have wheelchair basketball will not be played at the workshop because, Fisher said, it already is popular in many places. The goal of the workshop is not to help an already popular wheelchair sport, she said, but to expose people to activities they might not have heard about.
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