Volume 124 Issue 31
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Monday, October 3, 2011
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Freshman guard finds home and family at Kansas
KATHLEEN GIER
kgier@kansan.com
Freshman guard Asia Boyd was ranked No.39 in the country by ESPN Hoopgurz and was recruited by programs across the nation her senior year in high school. The Detroit native began her college search looking primarily for a family away from home.
After nearly four years of recruiting throughout high school, Boyd found that family at Kansas.
"When you go far from home you expect to have the same feelings and you want to be comfortable where you are and Kansas offers that," Boyd said.
Boyd averaged 12 points, eight rebounds, two assists and two steals a game in high school. She led her high school team to two runners-up finishes her junior and senior years. She was given the Miss Detroit Public School League Award.
Kansas coach Bonnie Henrickson was impressed by the size and length on the perimeter that the 6-foot guard had to offer. She compared Boyd to graduates Sade Morris and Danielle McCray who both played professionally after their time at Kansas.
"She is aggressive and with the length that she has she will be able to help us on defense and on the glass," Henrickson said.
Boyd was recruited by assistant coach Tory Verdi when he was on staff at the University of Nebraska and after he joined the Kansas staff. With his influence, she enters the program as the highest ranked recruit under Henrickson in her seven years with the program.
"When you can get a top 100 recruit, it helps you win," Verdi said. "It shows the country that we can bring some of the best players to the University of Kansas."
Conversations with Henrickson gave Boyd the impression that Kansas was a place that she could become a more well-rounded person on and off the court.
"I could tell that she was looking at
me for more than a basketball player; a person outside of basketball that can represent Kansas in a positive way" Bovid said.
Henrickson said creating that environment is important to student- athlete success.
"I care about these guys off the court and have close relationships with the families," Henrickson said. "They take care of each other and we understand that no one goes through what they go through and they need to go through it together."
In addition to her draw to the coaches, Boyd found the support she was looking for in her teammates.
"My teammates had a big influence on why I came here just because I
felt like we could become a family outside of basketball," Boyd said.
For now, Boyd is taking her chances to go home on free weekends to spend time with her family and is looking forward to a visit from her father for Late Night in the Phog on Oct.14.
She expects big things from the team this year and hopes to reach the NCAA tournament.
"We know we have the potential, we just have to put forth the effort," Boyd said.
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Student authors offer insight, advice on amateur publishing
KELSEY CIPOLLA
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While some students refused to shave or looked forward to celebrating the holidays last November, Jason Held, a senior from Minneapolis, wrote a novel. For writers across the country November is National Novel Writing Month, an online contest that challenges participants to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Held initially had no intention of participating, but other members of the Jayhawk-Writers on Campus group, or J-WOC, convinced him to participate in the arduous contest.
His book, "The Write Message," follows a 15-year-old boy who hires a literary agent and pursues a publishing deal while trying to balance high school, the challenges of the industry and familial loss. Select chapters of the protagonist's own writing are also included.
"You have to go in there knowing what your book is going to be about," Held said. "I didn't have a complete outline for it, but I knew what it was about."
J-WOC teamed up with KU
"We teamed up with Hewlett-Packard a year ago to start this project and they gave us grant money to come up with ideas to encourage printing on campus," said Rachel Barnes, the KU Bookstores custom material specialist. "What we came up with was the book contest."
After months of editing and revising, Held's book was finally ready for publication. The Print-
Bookstores to incentivize competing in the contest. Participants who met the 50,000 word minimum would have a chance to publish their book.
"It shows that it's achievable, to achieve that balance and achieve
On-Demand center, which allows students, faculty, and community members to print and bind their own works, helped produce "The Write Message."
"We were serving as a small scale publisher for him," said Barnes. The bookstore also coordinated selling the book in the store and through Amazon.
Julie Honn, outreach and communications officer for J-WOC and a senior from Lenexa, said Held's success is encouraging to other student writers.
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Although the novel was published last April, Held is still shocked to have actually published a book.
that dream." Honn said. "That's what everybody who writes does it for, that 'I hope somebody reads this someday.'"
"It's a really strange feeling," he said. "I almost couldn't believe it, but I knew it was my story, I knew I wrote it. I had spent months on it."
Held will discuss his book today at 5 p.m. at Jayhawk Ink inside the Kansas Union. There will also be a panel discussion with other
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Student Author Reading Jason Held will read from and discuss his new novel "The Write Message."
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Don't forget
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Forecasts done by University students. For a more detailed forecast, see page 24.
HI: 85
LQ: 43
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