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All-Beethoven Program Takács Quartet
October 12-2:00 p.m.
(1:00 p.m.-Pre-Concert Lecture)
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String Quartets:
Opus 18, 74 and 130
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The Commerce Trust Company
The world's most famous and widely recorded chamber orchestra
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Murray Perahia, conductor & piano soloist October 22 - 7:30 p.m.
Exotic life enriches soccer player
By Nikki Nugent nnugent@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
Most of us only encounter hip-popotamus in zoos. At 4-years-old, Kansas soccer player Gabriela Quiggle came within 10 feet of being trampled by a charging hippopotamus while standing on a beach in Africa.
Quiggle and her family, consisting of her parents and two older brothers, have lived all over the world. Quiggle's father is an engineer, so the family spent much of its time moving around the world for his work. They lived in parts of Europe, Africa, Malaysia and Central America before settling in Portland, Ore., to set up a solid base for the kids to grow up.
Quiggle was adopted just after her birth on Jan. 26, 1983. Her parents, Barbara and John Quiggle, were working in Honduras when they decided to adopt a child. Her parents had completed all the appropriate forms when they got the call that there was a child they could adopt. Her parents showed up at the orphanage the next day.
Quiggle remembers living in a single story brick and plaster house in Africa. The yard was so large that the family had to hire a gardener to take care of the flowers and vegetation. The family raised chickens and ducks for food, and Quiggle's father raised turkeys as pets.
"Of course, I was so cute with my mohawk," she said, "they couldn't say no."
"We had one named Mr. Puff because he always strutted his stuff." she said.
One thing she's glad she doesn't remember is the time her entire family contracted malaria during an epidemic in Africa. Quiggle, an infant at the time, became very
Though she was very young, Quiggle has some vivid memories of living in exotic places.
sick but recovered from the disease with no problems.
By the time she was 7, Quiggle's family lived in Malaysia, on the island of Borneo, in the West Pacific. On one trip the family took into the jungle, they traveled all day, up a river, in long, dug-out canoes, Quiggle said. Their destination was a village where a tribe called the Iban lived in long houses, with 37 families in each house.
"Each family had their own residence, which consisted of a living room, a bedroom, kitchen, and porch," Quiggle said. "What was most shocking was that over the entrance to many of the apartments were baskets filled with human skulls."
The iban collected the skulls of their enemies. The Quiggle family spent a week at the village.
Quiggle said she started playing soccer about age 3 with her brothers and the other children, no matter where she lived. It wasn't until she was 6-years-old that she began playing organized soccer.
Quiggle played high school, club and Olympic development soccer in Portland, Ore. She said she was recruited by various schools on the west coast and one on the east coast as well as Kansas. She chose the University of Kansas because she like the atmosphere and the opportunity for a new experience.
Quiggle is a sports and fitness science major but has taken a number of Spanish classes, though the language doesn't necessarily pertain to her major. She said her parents thought it was important for her to learn Spanish, especially because she was born in Spanish-speaking Honduras.
Quiggle is a key reserve for the Jayhawks. Though she doesn't start many games, she regularly contributes to the team's success.
Quiggle said her teammates were like family members. She has 20 sisters that she can share her problems with at any time, she said
Kansan file photo
Junior midfielder Gabriela Quiggle pursued the ball in a game last month against Baylor. Quiggle was born in Honduras and lived all over the world before coming to the University of Kansas on a soccer scholarship.
"It isn't just a game to me anymore," she said. "It's more than that. It's going out and working its butts off for one another. It is
laying everything on the line for that girl standing next to you."
—Edited by Abby Sidesinger
Chiefs' Holliday will go after Favre
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Vonnie Holiday and Brett Favre, together again at Lambeau Field.
But on Sunday, Holliday won't be cheering for the Green Bay Packers' star quarterback. He'll be chasing him.
"I'm sure it's going to be emotional," said Holliday whose play at right defensive end has helped the Kansas City Chiefs start the season 5-0 for the first time ever.
"But I don't plan to cry or anything."
Holliday, Green Bay's
Green Bay's first-round pick out of North Carolina in 1998, joined Kansas City in the offseason as a free agent. He leads the Chiefs with four sacks, even though he was hampered by a groin strain in Sunday's 24-23 victory over the Denver Broncos.
"Hopefully, he'll be a much
more physical presence in the ball game this week," coach Dick Vermeil said Tuesday. "He's been outstanding. That position last year produced a sack and a half, and he's already produced four. He's also made a strong contribution to our run defense."
teammate on Green Bay's first snap.
Favre and Holliday have already met up once this year in the preseason Hall of Fame game at Canton, Ohio, when Holliday rushed in unblocked and knocked down his former
Holliday pulled up as he hit Favre likely preserving the quarterback's health.
"I didn't expect to get hit by anybody that early in the year," Favre said. "I thanked him for taking care of me."
"Brett's a guy I have a lot of respect for, and that was preseason," Holliday said. "But this time, the bullets are live, as they say. I plan to get after him."
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