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Wednesdav. August 18, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Future bright for Glasco
By STEVE CLARK
Sports Writer
The super freshman recruit—the all-
everything high school athlete who eof-
fortiess makes the transition to major
college competition and continues to excel.
Coaches label them 'blue chip' prospect and stalk them endlessly. For they possess that intangible command that transforms champions and enables champion to remain on top.
Kim Glasco is one such freshman recruit. She is a distance runner. And her presence could mark the beginning of a new era for the KU women's cross country team.
She scoffs at the notion that she's special.
She just like anybody else here." she
"I'm just like anybody else here," she said Sunday, "I just like to run."
And run she does.
SHE EXPERIENCED her first taste of state championship action as a Salina freshman when she ran a leg on South's 880 relay team that placed third. The following season she anchored her 880 medley unit to the mile, finish and grabbed fourth in the mile.
then came an undefeated junior track campaign that included the class 5-4A mile title and a 5:24 clocking, which is more than 10 seconds under the existing KU school
Her senior year should have been her best, but after winning the Central Kansas League girls' cross country meet and blazing a 12.09-mile, Glaso was in action.
"I STARTED THE year out well," she added. "I grabbed the tissue from the bone on my right foot."
Despite the injury, she managed a fifth at the state indoor mile. That was the end of her senior year, as the foot continued to bother her.
"It doesn't hurt any more but it does get numb," she said, "I use a special pad and a needle to relieve it."
The foot held up well enough this summer for Glaso to train six miles a day, which should provide her with a good base going into this season. The least of her worries seemed to be the three mile distance that she'll be running.
"IT MIGHT EVEN be better for me," she explained, "a lot of people don't have the endurance for three miles, but I've run as far as 16 miles in one workout."
that KU even landed the talented runner, rather than Wichita State University or Fort Hays State, was the result of two important factors.
"I was impressed with the nursing program," she said, adding that KU's rich sports heritage was on her mind. "I love being a kid, and I kids I ran at the same school as Jim Run."
It seems that one of $\mathcal{I}$'s biggest thrills—receiving an athletic scholarship to KU—is the achievement of making a game.
"I was disappointed because they didn't put anything about it in the paper," she explained, "because I wanted it to be an inspiration to other girls. To let them know that they could get a scholarship, too, if they worked hard."
SHE HAS WORKED hard. And the effort has returned dividends in other areas. She played on South's volleyball team and also received a $300 academic scholarship from KU. What's more, a nine-year member of 4 girls at Jupiter High School, she a week's trip to Chicago later this fall.
As a runner, she'll face in the Big Eight Conference some of our nation's best distance run women. In fact, Iowa State University's Gep Nepel broke the world
record for the three-mile run less than two months ago.
But the 17-year-old has expressed interest in challenging quality performers such as
"I hope to stay right with it with the leader," she said, "at least that's what I am."
"I'd like to go to the national cross country meet," she said, adding after a few minutes of the race.
LONG RANGE GOAIS include a sub-five minute mile and vague references to "some other records" at KU, but the immediate future is more clear cut.
While that might sound like a lofty goal, Kim has reasons for her expectations. They can be traced to her junior year, when she ran against, and defeated, Wichita Southeast's Tammy Gilpin on a couple occasions.
Gilpin, now a Wichita State sophomore,
placed "about ninth or 10th" at nationals
ACTUALLY, THE GOAL is simply a reflection of 11 years worth of competitive running, which began in the second grade. That and four years under the guidance of South's rally coach. Much of which in turn railed against, and worked out with the boys' team.
"It'll be different not training with them," she said, "because when you're running against guys, you know you won't beat the ones on your team." The weaker ones. It makes you tougher."
She continued to discuss pain barriers and mental toughness, but coming from a girl who stands 5 feet 4 and weighs 100 lbs., it all seemed incongruous.
Possibly that's the intangible ingredient that's made Kim Glazio a champion and is one of his best moments.
Walt Wesley joins basketball coaching staff
Ten years after he left the University of Kansas for a career in professional basketball, he returned to the university center Walt Disney will be returning to KU this fall as a student assistant coach.
Wesley, a 61, 230-pounder, will continue to work on his undergraduate degree in conjunction with the U.S. Army.
Wesley still ranks as the fifth leading scorer in KU history with 1,315 points and a
Wesley played at KU from 1964 to 1966, twice being named All-Big Eight and received All-American honors his senior year. That was the year Wesley and Jo-Jo White, now an all-star guard for the Boston Celtics, of the NCAA Regional only to lose to the eventual national champions, Texas Western. 81-40 in double overtime.
Walt Wesley
19.3 scoring average. He also ranks 11th on
945 rebounds in career rebounding list with
945 rebounds
Wesley was the No. 1 draft choice of the old Cincinnati Royals (now the Kansas City Kings) in the 1964 draft and spent three years with the Royals before being traded to Boston, where he played for the Bulls, he was selected in the expansion draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers.
From there he went on a whirlwind tour of the NBA. Playing backup center most of the time, he also served as captain Bolletti, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and eventually Los Angeles where he was placed on wavers last fall. Wesley, now 31, was one of only 4,987 points and a scoring average of 8.5.
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McNish elected KUAC chairman
J. Hammond McNish, professor of business, has been elected new chairman of the University of Kansas Athletic Board, a 21-member board that oversees the operation of the Kansas University Athletic Corporation (KUAC).
McNish replaces Wichita attorney John Eberhardt, who retired from the board July 1. Eberhardt had been chairman of the board for more than ten years.
The athletic board consists of faculty, students and alumni. There are 10 faculty members on the board, six alumni, four KU students and athletic director Clyde
The athletic board is responsible for monitoring actions taken by KUAC, approving proposed expenditures and personnel changes.
FACULTY MEMBERS
J. Hammond McNish, professor of business, faculty representative, chairman.
Rick Von Ende, executive secretary to Chancellor Dykes, secretary.
William Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs.
Clark Coan, dean of foreign students. Dale Scannell, dean of the School of Education.
Jacob Kleinberg, professor of chemistry.
Wayne Omee, chairman of the department.
Gerhard Zuther, professor of English. Robert Casad, professor of law.
STUDENTS
Tedde Tasheff, student body president,
Wichita senior.
Jill Grubaugh, Frontenac, Mo., junior.
Laura Pinkston, Overland Park junior.
Dave Shapiro, chairman of the Student Senate Sports Committee, Clayton, Mo.,升官
ALUMNI
Bob Billings, Lawrence.
Sam Evans, Salina.
Kevin Johnson, Topika.
Dick O'Connell, Overland Park.
Bob Riss. Merriam.
MNeih also serves as KU's faculty representative to the Big Eight Conference
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