wednesday, September 24, 2003 the university daily kansan 3B sports Rowers raise funds by renting out team members By Nikki Nugent nnugent@kansan.com Kansan sportswriter Members of University of Kansas Crew have come up with a creative way to raise money they rent themselves out. Although club teams receive money from recreation services, the money is generally not enough, so teams are forced to raise funds. Crew receives between $16,000 and $18,000 each year from recreation services, nearly a quarter of its budget. Because travel and equipment for crew can be costly, team members are always looking for new ways to raise money. Each year the队 cleans Allen Fieldhouse after games, runs a 24-hour "ergathon" where team members row in rowing machines called ergs on Wescoe Beach. The team also goes door to door for donations. Eric Buschelman, Edmond, Okla., senior and crew vice president, organized the program called "Rent-a-Rower." Rowers can be rented out for $80 for eight hours of work. Team members do everything from washing windows and raking leaves to cleaning out garages and moving heavy bricks and cinder blocks. "Anything people don't want to do, they'll pay other people to do it," Buschellman said. University of Kansas faculty and staff make up the core of Rent-a-Rower customers. Buschelman said the team usually makes about $8,000 in the fall from faculty. The money goes toward travel, equipment maintenance, purchases and coaches salaries. coaches salaries. Myra Strother, senior student health physician at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said she took advantage of the program over the last five or six years. Strother said she thought crew was a wonderful activity because it allowed students to be physically active while doing something they enjoyed. She said she has enjoyed having team members come to her home. "All the students I have come out are really neat people," she said. Strother said it was nice to have some help because she works full time. She said she hoped to have one rower work inside the house one day and another work outside the house another day. Strother is not the only one that liked the program only one Rower Loral O'Hara, Sugar Land, Texas, junior, said Rent-a-Rower was the most enjoyable fund-raiser the team does because she could be outside getting dirty. O'Hara said her most menorable Rent-a-Rower experience was moving dirt and cinder blocks with a team member and an older lady. "After a couple of hours we were completely spent β€” backs aching and sore β€” and she was still going strong," she said. Members of Kansas Crew are dedicated to their sport. They get up each morning before sunrise for practice, go to classes, practice again in the afternoon and find time for homework and other daily activities. other daily activities. The time commitment involved with fund-raising can be weighty, but O'Bara said it was all worth it. Duane Bieber, Shawnee junior, ran backwards up Campanile hill at practice late yesterday afternoon. In order to raise funds,the club has started a program called "Rent-a-Rower," in which team members can be rented out for $80 for eight hours of work. "Sure, the fundraisers can get tedious at times, but they are secondary to the reasons that keep you waking up at 5 a.m. every morning: watching the sunrise on the water, the couple strokes where the boat is strong and everything is clicking, and above all beginning each day with your best friends." she said. with your best friends . 'she said. The team's first competition is Saturday at the Head of the Des Moines Regatta. - Edited by Scott Christie Kansas City to take on Baltimore in battle of the backs The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. β€” Priest Holmes is headed back to the town that gave him his start in the NFL and the team that decided it could do better without him. An ordinary running back might be vowing vengeance, excited at the prospect of showing his former employers they were wrong to let him go. Holmes, however, is no ordinary running back. Kansas City coach Dick Vermeil said yesterday he's not at all worried about having to calm his star's nerves before the unbeaten Chiefs take on Baltimore on Sunday. "From time to time, players do get a little extra incentive." Vermeil said. "I know Priest will be excited about playing against his old team, but for all the right reasons. It's just like playing golf against your best friend. You want to beat him." Adding an even more interesting twist to Holmes' return will be his head-to-head duel with Jamal Lewis. It was after they took Lewis in the first round of the 2000 draft that the Ravens decided to let Holmes become a free agent. eagent. He signed with the Chiefs and has led the NFL in yards from scrimmage in each of the past two seasons. But Lewis hasn't exactly been a bust. He had 1,364 yards rushing his rookie season while Holmes played second team, and is currently the league's leading rusher with 496 yards after missing 2001 with a knee injury. Against Cleveland on Sept. 14, he rushed for 295 yards to set the NFL single-game record. Holmes, who underwent offseason hip surgery, has taken up where he left off and already has seven touchdowns rushing this season, the most ever for a Chiefs player in the first three games. His 296 yards rushing are third in the AFC and fourth in the NFL, while his 467 combined yards from scrimmage are second in the league. are seconded. Holmes has never seemed bitter toward the Ravens. "I have never heard Priest Holmes say a negative word about Baltimore in anyway," Vermeil said. "I've talked to five or six different Baltimore people, including their head coach at all owners' meetings, and they all have tremendous respect for Priest Holmes and are excited that he's having a real good career outside the Ravens. They just don't want him to have a good day against them, I'm sure." "You can't can't pay two running backs starting salaries," he said. "That's all there is to it. The salary cap does not allow it, especially the state of their salary cap at that time." Vermelil said Holmes knows the Ravens did not let him go because they did not respect him. Vermeil said he expected the winner of the personal battle to be the rusher who gets the most help from his supporting cast. "When you have two real fine running backs coming head-to-head, it's what the other phase of his team does that helps him be what he has the ability to be that day. Neither one of them will have a great day unless their offensive lines do a real good job and unless their defenses keep the game close so that you don't have to throw the ball 40 times." Also yesterday, Kansas City's Dante Hall was named the AFC special teams player of the week for the second week in a row. 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