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Kansas volleyball team to host Jayhawk Invitational
Sophomore settler nicole Tate (left) goes up for a block during a game. Kansas will host the Jayhawk Invitational this weekend together three teams at the Hoshiji Family Athletics Center.
BY ZACH GETZ
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The Kansas volleyball team will host the Jayhawk Invitational this weekend at the Horejsi Family Athletics Center. Kansas will face Lipscomb (2-1) at noon and Florida International (2-1) at 7 p.m. on Friday and then face Creighton (2-1) at 1 p.m. on Saturday.
Kansas is coming off of a 2-1 finish last weekend at the Middle Tennessee State, Tournament. They defeated Xavier and Murray State University but lost to Middle Tennessee State University.
"We didn't let our one loss affect us into the next day, and I think we can take that into this weekend," freshman middle blocker Tayler Tolefree said.
Tolefree said that she was nervous in her first weekend of matches, but that they taught her to be prepared and to focus on the game plan.
"I'm ready to go in at any moment whenever they need me and no matter what the score is." Tolefree said.
Kansas will need to be ready because all three teams placed in the top two of their respected divisions last year. Florida International went to the NCAA Volleyball Tournament and is returning six starters from last year.
"If you overlook any of these teams this weekend, you're going to be in trouble," coach Ray Bechard said. "It'll be one of the stronger fields we've had."
Bechard said the main goal was a first place finish, but he also wants the team to improve by playing tougher competition and to prepare for the strong Big 12 Conference
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"The goal is to win our tournament, and we will probably have to beat all three to do that," Bechard said. "The main focus is to be in a better place statistically and execution-wise than you were before."
Bechard said the team showed improvement in areas that the team has been working on such as passing and serving efficiency, but the team still needs to work on blocking
Senior middle blocker Brittany Williams said she knows she needs to tighten up her game if the team is going to do well.
and digging.
"I think my hitting errors equaled the number of kills I had," Williams said. "So basically I hit 0 percent."
Williams said she felt her high energy level helped the team over the weekend and said what many of her teammates have been saying, that the team has been really close this season and have been playing hard for each other.
- Edited by Jonathan Hermes
CROSS COUNTRY
Runners to start season with mark of confidence
BY SAMANTHA ANDERSON
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The cross country team will be starting its season with a home meet, the Bob Timmons Classic at Rim Rock Farm, on Saturday.
"It's the first meet of the season to just get our feet back under us and to get in the mentality of racing again," junior Nick Caprario said. "We're trying to athe team, what kind of shape people are in and what times are different."
This meet will signal what the season could be like.
"There's going to be some people who are really going to step up because it's going to be a competition and not a workout," Michael Whittlesey, assistant coach, said. "And I'm very excited to see who those athletes are, and it is really going to give us a good indication of where we need to work on with our team."
The women's team, however, will be starting without two of its top runners, senior Lauren Bonds and junior Amanda Miller. The absence of these two runners will give some of the other athletes
time for people to become someone who can push the team," sophomore Kara Windisch said. "The freshmen, sophomores and juniors need to start pushing a little to step up and show what they can do and keep the team going, because Bonds won't be here next year and we are going to need someone to take her spot and move the team along."
Sitting Bonds and Miller out during this first meet could strengthen the team for the rest of the season.
"Hopefully they gain a lot of experience and gain a lot of confidence to be able to handle that pressure, because how well we compete as a team later on in the year is dependent on the strength of our three through eight runners." Whittlesey said.
The women are very confident in their training and their ability so far this season.
"It's the first meet of the season to just get our feet back under us and to get in the mentality of racing again."
the opportunity to try to gain more leadership on the team.
"Everyone should be a leader, and I think that this is a great
"We've done packing running,
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where we set a time that we need to hit and maintain, and that's been seeming to work," Windisch said. "I think that we are going to be ready for this race."
"It's always great to run at home; we only get one meet a year. It's nice to have some people come out and support us."
The fact that it is a home meet also gives the Jayhawk runners a little more confidence.
Sophomore Kara Windisch sprints to the finish line for a fourth place finish in the women's 5k last season. The cross country team will have its first meet of the season at Rim Rock Farm on Saturday.
Caprio said "We're going to have a little bit of an advantage"
The runners hope to make the best of that advantage and start their season off right.
"I think the home meet — we have to live up to the expectations that this is our home meet," Windisch said. "We're going to go out there and show them that this is our turf and we are here to win on our Jayhawk course."
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