THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2011
ROWING
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The Kansas Rowing team just signed four more girls to begin competing next year. All girls were heavily competitive in high school in multiple sports and signed National Letters of Intent early in the signing season.
CHRIS BRONSON/KANSAN FILE PHOTO
Four signees to join the Kansas rowing team
GEOFFREY BERGSTROM editor@kansan.com
Four athletes signed national letters of intent to join the rowing team at Kansas next season, KU Athletics announced Tuesday. All four will attend the University of Kansas and will be eligible to compete next fall.
Casey Kelly from Gladstone, Mo., Briana Piña from Wichita, Hannah Arch from Lawrence and Breeona Foster from Pleasant Hill, Mo., are all high school seniors who will be rowing under coach Rob Catloth for the 2012-13 season.
Although none of the recruits have ever rowed competitively, Cat-
loth believes that they will have an immediate impact on the team. All four of the girls have played multiple years of high school sports and therefore possess athletic ability.
Arch, who is team co-captain for her senior season, is a three-year letterwinner at Free State High School for the swim team and placed 6th place at the state.
Kelly's athleticism stems from her
"Hannah has good height and because of her swimming background it should be an easy transition to rowing," said Catloth. "Swimming is a good changeover to rowing because they both have similar training."
four years of playing high school volleyball for Winnetonka High School.
"We're excited about her athletic potential," said Catloth. "She will provide some great depth to our novice program in her first year."
Foster, two-time all-conference basketball player, excelled during her time at Pleasant Hill High School. Last year, during her junior campaign, Foster helped her team reach the State quarterfinals.
"She's a really strong athlete who should make an impact very early on in her rowing career," Catloth said.
Pina participated in cross country and track & field at Goddard High
School, but she was recruited by Catloth to be the coxswain on the boat. The coxswain sits at the front and keeps the rowers together.
"We are really impressed with the leadership that she has shown," Catloth said. "We hope she will continue to use that leadership in the boat."
There are eight senior rowers graduating in the spring, so the team is thankful for the new recruits and are hoping to see more signees later in the signing season.
Edited by Stefanie Penn
ATHLETES TO COME
NAME POSITION
Hannah Arch ROW
Breeona Foster ROW
Casey Kelly ROW
Briana Piña COX
HOMETOWN
Lawrence, Kan.
Pleasant Hill, Mo.
Gladstone, Mo.
Wichita, Kan.
VOLLEYBALI
Sophomore accumulates third off-season honor
The off-season awards keep piling up for Caroline Jarmoc.
The sophomore middle blocker collected her third honor in the last week on Tuesday when she was given an honorable mention on the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-Central Region team. Jarmoc was the first Kansas volleyball player since Josi Lima in 2003 to be selected for the team.
Jarmoc's 1.12 blocks per set led the Jayhawks in out-blocking their opponents for the season (2.6/2.0 blocks per set) for the first time in 13
seasons. Last week, jarmoc was given an honorable mention on the All-Big 12 Conference Team and collected the last Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week award of the season.
Matt Galloway
REGIONAL
Bill Synder named runaway pick for Big 12 conference coach of the year
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Bill Snyder retired six years ago convinced that he was done with coaching college football. He wanted to spend more time with his family, make up for all of his kids' ballgames and ballets that he missed while building Kansas State to unprecedented heights.
The 72-year-old coach came back to the sidelines three years ago rejuvenated. And in that short of time he did the unthinkable: Snyder returned his once-mighty program to the national consciousness.
On Tuesday, he was the runaway pick as the AP's Big 12 coach of the year.
Snyder was selected on 16 of the 17 ballots turned in by media members who regularly cover the league. Mike Gundy of Oklahoma State, which won the Big 12 championship
"I am extremely proud of our coaches and the young men in our program for working and preparing each day to get better," Snyder said in a statement to the AP. "The success we have had to this point in the season has been a direct result of that, and I appreciate very much their willingness to work and achieve the goals that we set out each day to accomplish."
Picked to finish eighth in the conference, the No. 11 Wildcats (10-2) instead finished eighth in the BCS. They were bypassed by the Sugar Bowl for two teams with lesser resumes, but will still play No. 7 Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl, one of four matchups between top-10 teams in the BCS standings.
but was left out of national title game despite just one loss, received the only other vote.
It's the third time that Snyder has been voted Big 12 coach of the
That magical season was the culmination of his first rebuilding job, one that virtually nobody thought possible. The worst program in the history of college football had been winneless in 27 games, and hadn't won a conference championship in more than five decades. Friends begged the non-descript offensive coordinator from Iowa not to take the job.
year — he also was the AP's national coach of the year in 1998, when the Wildcats were within a double-overtime loss to Texas A&M in the Big 12 title game of playing for the national championship.
By his fifth season, Snyder had Kansas State winning its first bowl game. Five more years passed and the school rose to the doorstep of the national title. Five more years went by and the Wildcats knocked off then-No. 1 Oklahoma for the Big 12 championship on a cold night at Arrowhead Stadium.
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