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Wednesday. 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
effortlessly makes the transition to major
college competition and continues to excel.
Coaches label them "blue chip" prospects and stalk them endlessly. For they possess that intangible attribute that transforms an impulse and enables champion to remain on top.
She scoffs at the notion that she's special.
"I'm just like anybody else here," she
Kim Glascio 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.
And run she does.
"I'm just like anybody else here," she said Sunday. "I just like to run."
SHE EXPERIENCIED 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 unit to the mile-finish and grabbed fourth in the mile.
Then came an undefeated junior track campaign that included the class 5A-4 mile title and a 5:24 clocking, which is more than seconds under the existing KU school rules.
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, Glacier was in-
"I STARTED THE year out well," she said. "And 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 worse if you use a special pad and a special shoe that treads."
The foot held up well this summer for Glasco 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 think we should do more for kids. I ran at the same school as Jim Runn."
It seems that one of her biggest thrills—receiving an athletic scholarship to KU—has been her pursuit of a degree.
"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 number of 4 aides was paid to her as a member of her a week's trip to Chicago later this fall.
he a few weeks' trial. He'll face in the Big Eight Conference some of our nation's best distance run women. In fact, Iowa University's Peg 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 up there with the leader, she said, "at least that's what I'm feeling."
"I'd like to go to the national cross country championship, after a year of finality and finish in the top 10."
LONG RANGE GOALS 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, 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 Derek Denkert, of which inuchi was most agitated, 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 running back. You can't beat 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 Glaze a champion and is a big part of his success.
Walt Wesley joins basketball coaching staff
ten years after he left the University of Kansas for a career in professional basketball. All-America center Walt will be returned to KU this fall as a student assistant coach.
Wesley, a 61-, 230-pounder, will continue to teach the undergraduate degree in conjunction with his master's degree.
Wesley played at KU from 1964 to 1968, twice being named All-Big Eight and received All-American honors his senior year. That was the year Wesley and Jo-Je White, now an all-star guard for the NBA, won a national title and five of the NCAA Regional only to lose to the eventual national champions, Texas Western, 81-40 in double overtime.
Wesley still ranks as the fifth leading scorer in KU history with 1,315 points and a
Walt Wesley
19.3 scoring average. He also ranks 11th on
career. career rebounding list with
16 rebounds.
Wesley was the No. 1 draft choice of the Old Cincinnati Royals (now the Kansas City Kings) in the 1966 draft and spent three years with the Royals before being traded to the Philadelphia Cavaliers with 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 was a key player for Capitol Bullets, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and eventually Los Angeles where he was placed on wavers last fall. Wesley, nine 498 points and a scoring average of 8.5.
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J. Hammond McNish, professor of business, has been elected new chairman of the University of Kansas Athletic Board, a 21-member board that overseees 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.
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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.
Curt Coan, dean of foreign students. Dale Scanell, dean of the School of Education.
Jacob Kleinberg, professor of chemistry. Wayne Ossen, chairman of the departm-
ent of chemistry.
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
State Sports Committee, Clayton, Mo.
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ALUMNI
Bob Billings, Lawrence.
Sam Evans, Salina.
Morton Johnson, Topeka.
Dick O'Neill, Overland Park.
Bob Riss, Merriam.
McNahla also serves as KU's faculty to the Big Eight Conference and the NCA.
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