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Track and field season kicks off at the Bob Timmons Challenge
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MAX GOODWIN
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Junior runner Kyle Clemons finished the 400-meter dash during preliminary heat. Clemons and the rest of the track and field team will compete in the Bob Timmons Challenge.
Kansas has a history of great track and field coaches. Bill Easton won 39 Big Eight conference championships in cross country and track through the 1950s and 1960s. The first track and field coach ever at Kansas was the legendary Dr. James Naismith. However, the coach that will be celebrated this coming weekend is Bob Timmons. From 1966 to 1988 Bob Timmons coached the Jayhawk men's track teams to four National Championships. Coach Timmons will enter the USA Track and Field Hall of Fame on Saturday, making Kansas the university with the most representatives in the Hall of Fame of all Division I programs with 11. Today the Jayhawks will compete at the Bob Timmons Challenge here in Lawrence at 3 p.m., and the Hall of Fame track and field coach will be honored.
The Bob Timmons Challenge
tion venue has been updated with new surfaces for the Ray Evans Field and the Bill Easton Track, a new scoreboard and sound system and a fresh coat of paint. Other changes have been made to improve spectator viewing at Anschutz Pavilion including reconfigured jump pits and a new pole vault box and runway.
will be the first Kansas home track event to take place in the newly renovated Anschutz Pavilion. The indoor practice and competi-
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"The renovations are great," coach Stanley Redwine said. "We're excited about the new surface and hopefully the times will show. That's another thing; we don't know if our athletes are running better or if it's just the
surface that's better."
This will be the 12th season for Stanley Redwine as the coach of the Kansas Jayhawks track and field team. Between the men's and women's teams, the Jayhawks return 11 All-Americans from last season. There are 16 freshmen that will join the team this season and six of those athletes combined for 10 high school state championships last year.
The Bob Timmons Challenge will give coaches and fans an evaluation of what is to come this season for Kansas track and field.
Freshman Alisha Keys was the 64 State Champion in the 100-meter and 200-meters in 2011 and will run the 200-meter for the Jayhawks as well as the 4x400-meter relay. Junior Danesha Morris and senior Shayla Wilson, both All-Americans, will join Keys as members of the 4x400-meter relay team. Junior Andrea Geubelle, the All-American in long jump and triple jump
will compete in long jump and the 60-meter dash.
After recovering from a torn Achilles tendon during the cross country season, senior Donny Wasinger will compete in the 3,000-meter and the distance meld relay. Wasinger was a second team All-American in the 1,500-meter last season. Junior sprinter Kyle Clemons will run the 200-meter and the men's 4x400-meter relay at the Bob Timmons Challenge. He is coming off a season in which he earned the honor of All-American in the 400-meter.
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"Our goal for this meet is to see how we compete," Redwine said. "That's so critical for correcting things in the future. We have to learn and improve with every meet throughout the season and Friday will be a great start to that."