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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday. January 19, 1999
Swimmers successful despite fatigue
By Emily Hughey
Kansan sportswriter
After spending a week in Florida, most would return home suntanned and rested.
The Kansas swimmers and divers returned from Largo, Fla., tanned, but instead of being rested, they were more exhausted than they have been all season.
Nevertheless, Saturday at Robinson Natatorium, both the women's and men's teams pulled through in victory against Southern Illinois.
The men won 171.5-128.5, the women won 163.5-125.5 and Coach Gary Kempf said he was pleased with the results.
"I was really proud of their effort and attitude, being as tired as they are."
Brandon Chestnut, junior, swims the 200-meter breaststroke during a swim meet Jan. 16 with Southern Illinois. Chestnut took second place in his race. Photo by Christina Neff/KANSAN
But in his eyes, it was not the team's prettiest victory.
"If there's a such thing as winning ugly, we won ugly today," he said.
Kempfsaid.
Although no single performance was outstanding in Kempf's mind, the men placed at least two swimmers in the top three of 12 events and the women took first place in all but three events.
Four swimmers tasted victory in two individual events.
Junior Tyler Painter won both the men's 1,000- and 500-yard freestyles. Senior Brant Peoples won the 50-yard freestyle and tied with senior Trent Hartl for first in the 100-yard freestyle. Junior Kelly Brock took first in the 100- and 200-yard breaststrokes and senior Adrienne Turner won the 1,000-yard freestyle and the 200-yard butterfly.
Such results are in tune with Kempf's goals and predictions for the rest of the season. He aims to place in the top three at the conference meets and the top 15 at the NCAA championships. Kempf said the team's depth would carry it to its goals.
He also added that the team is much better than it was at this time last year.
At this point in the season, the team has completed phase four of the sixphase training program. Phases five and six entail increased speed work and decreased yardage during workouts, a much-welcomed change for the swimmers.
The completion of the 10-day training trip, known to the swimmers as one of the most intense phases of the season, marked the beginning of a new training phase. Each day in Florida centered around a training schedule that required the swimmers to be at the pool from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and again from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Although the workouts were intense
and the time commitment was demanding, Brock she loved training and maintained a steady focus throughout the week.
"I don't want to say you ever get used to it, but any time it's hard for you to get up, you think about your end goal," she said.
Brock's goal, much like Kempf's, is to contribute to the team's performance at the conference meet Feb. 18-20 in Austin, Texas. Her two victories on Saturday are a first step. But although she said she was happy with the team's victory, she recognized that she and the rest of her teammates were lacking stamina.
"Everybody's tired," Brock said. "Gary (Kempf) said it wasn't pretty and we all know it."
But at this point, the trip to the championship season will be short.
"Now we've kind of made that last turn and you can see the end of the road," Brock said.
The team will compete against Nebraska at 7 p.m., Jan. 29 in Lincoln, Neb.
Track teams capture six titles at Michigan
By Mike Miller
Kansan Sportswriter
Led by their All-American athletes Scott Russell and Andrea Branson, the Kansas Jayhaws men's and women's track teams won a combined six titles in the Michigan Quadrangular meet last Saturday.
Five titles and five runner-up finishes by the men's team led the Jayhawks to 133.5 points and a third-place finish in a competitive field won by Indiana (150 points) and followed by Michigan (144.5 points).
Russell won the 35-pound weight throw with an NCAA Championships provisional qualification throw of 63-10 1/2 feet. His throw crushed the rest of the field, outdistancing Jayhawk junior Chris Dunback by more than 10 feet. Russell also placed second in the shot put with a throw of 56 feet 9/12 inches.
A dominating performance by Branson in the pole vault not only gave the women's team its only title, but her height of 12 feet set the Michigan Track Building record en route to qualifying provisionally for the NCAA Championships.
"I feel very good about the way we competed," said head coach Gary Schwartz. "The men's events were really close. A couple of wins either way and we could've won the meet."
The men's team captured three titles in running events led by sophomore Jabari Wamble in the 400-meter run, sophomore Charlie Gruber in the 800-meter run and senior Kevin McGinn in the mile run.
Junior Garrett Attig won the pole vault and the Jayhawks' last title with a vault of 16 feet 9 inches. His victory over sophomore Greg Steele and senior Colby Miller came as a result of no misses by Attig during the competition.
Junior Tywanne Aldridge added a second-place finish in the 200-meter dash and a third place finish in the 60-meter dash, while sophomore Eric Patterson finished second in the 60-meter high hurdles.
The women's team received a runner-up performance from sophomore Marlea Woodman in the 35-pound weight throw and two third-place finishes from freshman Shannon Agee in the 35-pound weight throw and sophomore Tuleshia Rogers in the 600-meter run.
"We had a couple of people injured and nicked up, so we were understaffed in the meet," Schwartz said. "However, it is still better to be third than fourth."
The Jayhawks will return to action on Saturday, Jan. 23 as they travel to Manhattan to participate in the Kansas State Triangular with rivals Kansas State and Missouri.
Youthful men's tennis team drops first meet
By Melinda Weaver
Kansas sports writer
Kansan sportswriter
Injury and inexperience left the Kansas men's tennis team unable to put together a win at its first meet of the spring season against the Louisville Cardinals.
With the ninth-ranked player in the country, senior Luis Uribe, out with the chicken pox, the team had only two upperclassmen in the lineup and lost 5-2.
The sole singles victory of the evening came from senior Kenny Powell, who defeated Oliver Cantrell 6-2, 7-5 in No. 1 singles.
Powell spent most of last season playing at No. 4 singles with an occasional No.3 match. He did not disappoint in his No.1 singles debut.
"It was up to me as a senior and the No.1 player today to step up and be a leader," Powell said. "It is important for the younger players to understand it's not just about your match but also about the team. The No.6 match is just as important as No.1."
The team's main strength was its doubles matches, which it swept 3-0 for the doubles point. The doubles competition counts for only one point to the team that wins the best of the three matches.
Those were the only two points as the team lost the rest of its singles matches.
"I was happy with the effort, but the results were not satisfactory," Coach Mark Riley said. "We have a young team, and we need to get better."
Saturday night's match marked the debut of two freshmen recruits who joined the team over winter break, Rodrigo Echagaray and Sebastian Libertino.
Kansas senior
Echagaray, the six-time junior doubles champion of Mexico, teamed with sophomore Ed Dus to win their No. 2 doubles match 8-5, but he lost his No. 4 singles match 5-7, 0-6 to Oliver Messerli.
The 1998 Bolliettieri Academy Player of the Year, Libertino lost his No. 6 singles match to Kane Easter 3-6, 1-6.
"It is important for the younger players to understand it's not just about your match but also about the team."
"Sebastian and Rodrigo are very talented," Powell said. "They are only going to get better. Now they have some experience and hopefully a little bit of confidence."
Before Uribe came down with the chicken pox, Riley wasn't sure how much action the two freshmen would see against Louisville, but Uribe's absence created an opportunity for them to play.
"They're young, but they're very good players," Riley said. "They add depth to the lineup. They're complete players."
Kenny Powell
Echagay and Libertino said they noticed a big difference in collegiate tennis and the game they were used to playing.
"You need more concentration." Echagaray said. "There's a lot more noise. It's very different."
Libertino said he felt the differences helped contribute to his loss to Easter.
Senior tennis player Kenny Powell returns a shot during his singles match against Louisville's Oliver Cantrell. Powell won the match, but Kansas lost the team competition on Saturday. Photo by Graham K. Johnson/KANSAN
LOUISVILLE 5. KANSAS 2
1. Kenny Powell (KU) defeated Oliver Cantrell (KU) 6-2, 7-5
2. Fabio Jesus (UL) defeated Ed杜 Eds (KU) 7-6 (5), 4
3. Chris Steel (UU) defeated Alex Barragan (KU) 7-5, 6-4
4. Oliver Messerli (UU) defeated Rodrigo Echaga (KU) 7-5, 6-0
5. Turtko Kujundzk (UL) defeated Micah Zomer (KU) 6-3, 6-2
6. Turtko Kujundzk (UL) defeated Micah Zomer (KU) 6-3, 6-1
Singles
1. Kenny Powell (KU) defeated Oliver Cantrell (UL) 6,2,7,5
2. Fashion Institute of Technology Ed. Dur (KU) 6,7,4,6,5
Doubles
Next weekend in Minneapolis, the team said it looked forward to significant improvement with
"We should have won, but I got tight," Libertino said. "I need to hit more balls and get used to playing on an indoor court."
1. Powell/Barragan (KU) defeated Steel/Brent McCombe (UL) 8-4
2. Dus/Echagarray (KU) defeated Easter/Alex Sivertsen (UL) 8-5
3. Bryan Maier/Quentin Blakeney (KU) defeated Jesus/Messerli (UL) 8-6
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"Uribe can take a lot of the pressure off the younger players," Riley said. "So we can bring them along slower, giving them more significant time as the season goes on."
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