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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, November 9,1998
No place like home for volleyball
Team had rough time playing on the road
By Laura Bokenkrager
Kansan sportswriter
Home, sweet home.
After a frustrating weekend on the road, the Kansas volleyball team is ready to play at home in Allen Field House Thursday.
"It'll be nice to play in front of a home crowd," said middle blocker Anne Kreimer. "We can prepare all week and we won't have to worry about travel arrangements. The road's always tough."
After falling in three close games at Baylor 17-15, 18-16 and 15-11, the Jayhawks were trampled at Texas Tech 15-2. 15-2 and 15-1.
Krelmer said that the Jayhawks have struggled all year at the end of tight games, falling just short of winning the game point each time.
"We just have had this problem, we can't finish the game," Kremler said.
We just can't close the game at the end."
The Jayhawks reached game point once in the first game and twice in the second against Baylor, but lost them both. The Bears rattled off six unanswered points in the first game and eight in the second to rally for the wins.
Bechard: Team struggling at end of matches.
"We got stuck in one rotation and we couldn't get out of it," Kreimer said. "Coach talks a lot about firstball sideout, and we did a poor job of that. You can't dig yourself into a hole like that, especially on the
The Jayhawks were tied for seventh in the Big 12 Conference with Baylor before the match-up, and coach Ray Bechard said that it was a frustrating loss.
road."
"We let one get away tonight," Bechard said. "It seemed like we outplayed them 80 percent of the match, but they just wouldn't go down."
But Kreimer said that the match at Texas Tech left them the worst overall feeling.
"We just basically didn't show up." Kremler said. "We had too many mental errors. We just weren't prepared."
The Jayhawks had 27 attacking errors and nine service errors. Texas Tech posted just eight attacking errors and didn't miss any serves.
"Texas Tech was as good as we were bad tonight," Bechard said. "We were just outmatched. It was a tough loss to swallow, but we'll regroup."
"You only play as good as you practice. We hadn't been practicing well. But it hurts to lose like that, and we know how it felt .We don't want to feel that way again."
Anne Kreimer Kansas middle blocker
Kreimer said that the Jayhawks had to have a good week of practice to be successful against Texas on Thursday.
"You only play as good as you practice," Kremler said. "We hadn't been practicing well. But it hurts to lose like that, and we know how it felt. We don't want to feel that way again."
The 14-12 Jayhawks battle No. 12 Texas Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Allen Field House.
Kansas senior makes it to finals at tournament
Senior Kris Sell advanced to the singles final round of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Central Region Championships on Saturday in Salt Lake City.
sell defeated Nebraska's Sandra Noetzel 6-7, 6-3, 6-4 in the semifinal round and improved her fall record to 13-4. She competed against Anoujska Van Exel of Tulsa in the finals yesterday but the results were not available. Sell is 2-0 in tournament finals this season.
Sell was not the only Jayhawk
that occupied this weekend.
Sell: Playing in final round at Salt Lake City.
who competed this weekend.
The doubles teams of Lisa Malliaiah / Monica Sekulov and Brooke Chiller / Julia Sidorova won their round of 16 matches but lost in the quarterfinals of the doubles main draw. Also in doubles, Sell / Cheryl Malliaiah were defeated in the round of 16.
NCAA athlete graduation rates fall in most categories
-Kansan staff report
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — NCAA athletes, with the exception of white female players, are losing ground in the classroom.
Led by an alarming dip among white male basketball players, Division I athletes who entered school in 1991 showed the first overdrop in graduation rates in four years.
According to NCAA statistics released during the weekend, 57 percent of Division I athletes who were freshmen in 1991 had graduated by 1997. For each of the three previous years, the rate was 58 percent.
The NCAA began training graduation rates in 1984, using a formula
that counts all transfer students — even if they go elsewhere and graduate — against the rates of their original school. It allows six years to complete a degree program. Thus, graduation rates for the 1992 freshman class will be compiled and announced next year.
Almost every category for the 1991 entering class — which includes males, females, blacks, whites, football and basketball — took a tumble
White females athletes, holding steady at 70 percent for the third straight year, retained the highest rate among all classifications and were the only group not to decline.
White male basketball players were hardest hit, plunging from 58 to 47 percent.
of a change."
were the only group
"I don't think we know the answer," Renfro said. "A one-year flip like this may not be particularly meaningful, especially in light of the fact we changed the reporting process."
"That's a significant change," NCAA spokesman Wally Renrof said. "We've seen changes before, but I'm not sure we've had that bleu
For the first time, the NCAA let the federal government collect the data instead of having the schools report directly.
The NCAA noted that 57 percent for athletes was better than the 58 percent graduation rate of the general student body. In fact, the athletes' rates have been either 1 or 2 percentage points higher than the
general student body's since 1986.
Athletes at most Division I schools, particularly those in the money-making sports
of football and basketball, often benefit from free academic support services such as tutors. In some cases, people are assigned to awaken the athletes and walk them to morning class.
and Georgetown showed particularly well. Of the 71 freshman athletes who enrolled at Duke in 1991, 97 percent graduated — 5 percentage points better than the student body. At Georgetown, 92 percent of athletes and 89 percent of students in general got their degrees.
general go get then degrees.
At a few schools, athletes graduated at a much higher rate than the general students. Grambling's athletes graduated at a 72 percent rate compared with 33 for the student body.
Among big athletic schools, Duke
Among all male students, the graduation rate declined from 53 to 51 percent. Among all females, the decline was 68 to 67 percent.
Black male athletes went from 43 to 41, and white males from 57 to 56. Black female athletes declined 3 percentage points to 56 percent.
In basketball, males dropped from 45 to 41 percent and females went from 66 to 67. Black males dropped from 39 to 37. White female basketball players dropped from 74 to 71 percent and black females from 88 to 55.
Among all football players, the decline was 52 to 50 percent. White football players went from 61 to 60 percent and blacks from 45 to 42.
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