Thursday, November 19. 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 3
Buffaloes could face rocky hoops season
By Kevin Wilson
Kansas sportswriter
Things keep getting worse for Colorado men's basketball head coach Ricardo Patton.
In addition to replace more than half of the
man of the team's scoring and rebounding from last season, Patton must now also find a solution for the injuries that have ravaged this year's team.
Patton: Says injuries have plagued Bufaloes this season.
"We look like a M.A.S.H. unit with all of our injuries," Patton said. "Jamahi Mosely is out for eight to 10 weeks because of knee surgery." Kyle Williams is also out with a knee injury but
is expected back within a couple of days."
Colorado forward Ernest Renfro attempts to block forward Kenny Gregory's shot during a game last season. The Buffaloes were picked to finish 10th in the Big 12 Conference. Photo by Kanson staff
Moseley, a 68 sophomore forward who averaged 4.4 points and 4.0 rebounds last season, is more optimistic about when he will return.
"I'm doing well," Moseley said. "I am recovering much quicker than what the doctors expected. I will be back in six to eight weeks."
Even with Mosely and Williams in the mix, Patton will be hard pressed to improve on last season's 13-14 record. If the Buffaloes are to be successful this season they will have to rely heavily on their multi-talented guard, Kenny Price.
The 6-4 senior is Colorado's leading returner in scoring, rebounds, assists and steals and will be expected to provide leader
ship to the seven newcomers who join the Bufaloes roster. Price was named the Big 12's Newcomer of the Year last season after averaging 14.5 points and 4.4 points and leading the conference in three-pointers made and three-point percentage.
Price also was one of 11 Big 12 All-Stars that played throughout Europe this past summer, averaging 11.2 points and 3.2 rebounds on the tour.
"Everyone enjoyed the trip over there." Price said. "It was a chance for me to see the world. I hope some of the other guys on the team get the same chance in the future."
Despite the grim predictions — Colorado was ranked 10th in the preseason Big 12 standings — Patton said he thought that all the negative opinions would actually help the Buffaloes.
"I would hope that any time a team is picked to finish in the bottom tier of their conference, that would serve as some type of motivator," Patton said. "That should get the competitive juices flowing and cause the team to go out and work harder in order to prove the polls wrong."
Price agreed.
"It is a motivation for us," Price said. "I know that my team will do whatever it takes to be successful this year. I have faith in everyone on the team. Coach has done a good job of preparing us for the season."
This was apparent after Colorado won its first two games of the new season. The Buffaloes defeated Denver University 69-66 last Saturday and followed it up with another 69-66 victory against Colorado State on Tuesday. Despite the early-season success, the Buffaloes are well aware that the talent-level in
the big 12 is superior to that of their first two opponents.
"I just believe you have to prepare yourself to the best of your ability because you know the competition is going to be tough night-in
and night-out," Mosely said. "If you feel like you are mentally prepared for the game and have the confidence that you have practiced and prepared well, win or lose, you know that you have given it your all."
Colorado women's team looks for redemption
By Sam Mellinger
Kansan sportswriter
Don't call it a comeback
Once one of the premier women's basketball programs in the country, Colorado, hit a low point last season by going 12-16. Coach Ceal Barry, who before last year led the Buffaloes to six straight 20-win seasons and NCAA Tournament appearance, thinks the Buffaloes aren't that far removed from the glory days.
"We're deeper, more talented and we have more size," she said. "We need to keep our focus and realize that last year just wasn't our year. Last year was a result of poor recruiting. In retrospect, we had a couple summers where I wasn't out recruiting."
Not that she was on her couch eating
bonbons. Barry spent the summers from 1992-96 involved in USA Women's Basketball.
"That's a lot to ask," Barry said. "But I had a great group of players last year, I'd do it again."
She may not have to. Without national duties the past two summers, Barry has compiled a young team full of promise. Colorado has ten underclassmen, including a highly-regarded recruiting class of five freshman led by 6-4 Britt Hartshorn, the consensus pick as Big 12 Preseason Freshman of the Year.
"I expect her to see a lot of playing time," Barry said. "Britt has very soft hands and runs the floor well. She will add athleticism to our post game."
Hartshorn joins junior Jenny Circle in the frontcourt. Circle is the Buffaloes' leading returning scorer after averaging 9.1 points per game last season. She and 5-11 senior Shelley Garcia are the team's only two returning starters.
"Shelley's one of the greatest leaders I've ever seen," Circle said. "She's very consistent; you never see her slack off. I'm only a junior, but with only two seniors I feel I need to lead a little too this season."
The team's third upperclassman, junior Michelle Hasheider, has been plagued by leg injuries and will possibly not play this season.
Considering the team finished eighth in the Big 12 last season and lost three starters, Colorado's preseason selection as the conference's sixth-best team may seem generous. But don't tell that to Circle.
by Hartshorn in the starting frontcourt, but the backcourt is up for grabs. Freshmen Eisha Bohman and Linda Lappe started the Buffaloos' first game, a 70-58 win over Denver on Saturday; but another freshman, Mandy Nightingale, also is a possibility.
Garcia and Circle will likely be joined
"It gives us more motivation to prove that we're better than that," she said. "For a while, we were the ones picked near the top. Now it's kind of our turn to try to knock those teams off and get back to the top again."
Colorado plays Kansas on Jan. 20 in Boulder and on Feb. 3 in Lawrence.
Soccer player draws strength from her faith
By Brad Hallier
Kansan sportswriter
problem many students
But not Cynthia Dable.
Wondering what to do when the season is over is a problem many student-athletes face.
Dahle said that serving as president, playing soccer and having one of the highest grade point averages on the team kept her busy.
Dahle, a junior and the all-time leader in points for the Kansas soccer team, is the president of the University of Kansas Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was named to that position at the start of her sophomore year.
Former Kansas coach Dan Magner said that it did not surprise him that Dahle was successful in many aspects of her life.
"It takes a lot of time management and a lot of sacrifice," she said. "It's time consuming, but rewarding. It's important to me to serve my church and serve the Lord."
"Cynthia is a special person, and once you get to know her, it's not a surprise at all that she is able to devote herself to several tasks and be successful at them," he said.
Dahle said that there were three main goals for the Latter-day Saints student association.
The first is for the students to build friendships within the Latter-day Saints community. Second, she said, the association offers religion classes at its institute building at 19th Street and Ousdahl Road.
"These are open to everyone, and all Latter-day Saints are encouraged to take one every semester," she said.
Third, Dahle said, the association tries to provide services on campus and within the community.
"This part is struggling right now," she said. "We have worked with Habitat for Humanity before, and we have put coupons on cans for older people at Food 4 Less."
Dahle chose to come to Kansas, instead of the Mormon-affiliated Brigham Young University, after she visited Kansas her senior year in high school.
"I like the support of athletics and the church group that's here," she said.
Growing up in Anchorage, Alaska, Dahle said that she always had been a minority because of her Mormon religion.
"The fact that I don't drink or hang out in bars sets me apart," she said. "I have to find my own fun things to do."
Other than not drinking, the Mormon religion also forbids using tobacco and drinking coffee and tea.
"One reason for this is health reasons," she said. "You have to control you own body, and you don't when you have those substances in you."
Many Mormons serve missions for their church, and Dahle plans to embark on hers once she is finished with school.
Dahle said that her brother served his in Tempe, Ariz., and that her dad did his mission in Florida.
Each man is required to serve a mission, but the women are not. Dahle said that it was not up to her where she served her mission.
Magner said that not everyone could juggle as many activities as Dahle but that he had an idea of how she did it.
"I believe that Cynthia's strength comes from her deep faith, and that empowers her in all aspects of her life," he said.
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