Thursday, October 15, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 3
Women's basketball aims to win
Team's success new recruits help bolster confidence
by Mellinger Kansan sportswriter
Four highly-regarded freshmen completed their first official duty as Kansas women's basketball players yesterday at the team's media day.
They had to talk.
"I'm just kind of chilling right now," said 6-foot-6 center Kristin Geoffrov of Los Alamitos, Calif.
Like the other rookies, Geoffroy plans to play a significant, yet limited role this year.
"I expect to play. I just don't expect to start." Geoffry said. "I'll probably be behind Nakia (Sanford) coming off the bench, but I'll in some quality minutes."
Selena Scott is perhaps the most highly-touted of the freshman, twice named Most Valuable Player in Texas.
"There's jitters going through my body right now," Scott said. "Right now I feel that I'm just learning from the upperclassmen."
the willingness for the older players to help the freshmen has
been one thing coach Marian Washington said would help them adjust to collegiate basketball.
Washington said that the upper-classmen have helped the freshmen understand better what it's going to take for the team to be successful this season.
Scott is one of three guards in the recruiting class, along with Katie Hannon, a 6-2 shooter from Rochester, N.Y., and 5-9 Dameyla Steenney from Midwest City, Okla.
There may not be many opportunities for the four freshmen to show how good they are. This year, the Jawhays return all five starters and 99 percent of its scoring.
"I think we have one of the best recruiting classes in the nation." Stepney said.
Freshmen women's basketball players Selena Scott, Dameyia Stepney, Katie Hannon and Kristin Geoffroy are considered by many to be one of the top ten recruiting classes. The freshmen met with the media for the first time yesterday. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
"That's what I was looking for," Steyn said. "I'm better when I can fit in, rather than if I have to carry a team on my back."
Geoffroy, Scott, Hannon and Stephen arrive at Kansas at a critical time.
The team is coming off a 23-win season and is looking to turn those types of seasons into the norm.
"We can do it," Hannon said. "Last year was a building block for the future, and since we did so well last year, more recruits are going to be looking at us. We'll keep getting better."
To continue to improve is just one of Stepney's goals.
"I want a championship, first of all," Stepney said. "And I want to walk away from here knowing I
gave 100 percent, made coach Washington happy and made myself happy. And I want to walk away from here with a degree and then go to the WNBA."
Commentary
Kansas football midterm report shows room for improvement
I'm in the mood for midterms and grades. So I decided to grade the Kansas football team by rushing offense, passing offense, rushing defense, passing defense and special teams
The rushing offense could use some work. Although Saturday's game against Baylor showed promise,
it's not where we were two years ago when we had June Henley and L.T. Levine.
Mitch Bowles and David Winbush are just as talented as Henley and Levine. However, our offensive line is undersized and is overpowered
in many games. The rushing offense kept the line in the game against Missouri and Baylor, but fumbles near the goal line against Oklahoma State, Texas A&M and Baylor were costly. The 'Hawks rank tenth in the Big 12 Conference in rushing with 150 yards per game. Teams don't lose sleep in fear of that kind of rushing attack. Running backs Devin West from Missouri, with 958 yards, and Ricky Williams from Texas, with 1225 yards alone, have more yards rushing than KU does as a team. Grade: C-
The passing offense is productive.
We have receivers with speed, size and good hands. We have a quarterback with a great arm, but he struggles with his accuracy on out patterns and deep passes. Quarterback Zac Wegner is No. 2 in the league in passing yards with 1,246. He got there with the help of his receivers. Play makers Termaine Fulton, Harrison Hill, Michael Chandler and Byron Gasaway are talented enough to gain yards after the catch. These receivers should be the focal point of the offense.
Any time they're in 20 yards of the end zone, Coach Allen should call a lap pass to the 6-foot-4 inch Gasaway, who can outleap anyone. He has eight catches this year and two of them have been for touchdowns.
When Coach Allen came to Kansas he said this would be a wide-open offense. If the team would throw the ball more, it could be. The downside to throwing the ball more is that the Jay hawks always spot the opposition seven points at the beginning of the game because of an interception. Grade: B-
■ KU's rush defense has been terrible. It is ranked dead last in the Big 12, giving up 219 yards a game. However, the goal line stand against Texas A&M a couple of weeks ago was impressive. I'll give the team the benefit of the doubt and say that it would be better if the line was healthy. It lacks several key interior linemen because of injuries. Grade:D-
Pass defense has been spectacular
If the offense would ever put a team into a situation where it would have to pass its way back into a game, we would be unstoppable. The pass defense ranks third in the league, giving up only 149 yards a game. It has given up five touchdowns but has intercepted the ball a league-high eight times. Jamie Harris is an all-conference corner and the Hawks missed him last Saturday. Quincy Roe replaced the injured Harris and responded with an interception, but in the fourth quarter his inexperience showed. I'll disregard the last game because the secondary was missing key defensive backs. Grade: A
Special teams are fear and famine.
Either the ball hits Henri Childs in the back or the team returns a punt for a touchdown. Either a bad snap leads to an opposing team's touchdown or the team kicks a long field goal. Grade: C+
Running back Mitch Bowles and wide receiver Byron Gasaway are playmakers and should be utilized more. This is a passing team that should do what it does best. Kansas football should live and die by the pass.
The bottom line is that the team must stop making silly mistakes. For once it should make the other team win the game rather than handing to them.
The midterm grades have been distributed, and I think these are reasonable. Finals are next. Let's hope the team will pass.
Pacheco is an Olathe senior in English.
Volleyball team expects turnout of record crowd
By Laura Bokenkroger
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas volleyball team has been drawing quite a crowd to its home games this season.
nr 11-7 Jayhawks boast a new coach, a new attitude and a new winning record. But in the midst of a five-match conference losing streak, tomorrow night's match against Iowa State in Allen Field House could be in front of a record-breaking crowd.
Before the basketball teams take center stage at Late Night with Roy Williams, the volleyball team will try to pick up its second Big 12 Conference win of the season.
middle hitter Anne Kreimer said that this weekend would be important.
"They're definitely winnable matches, and we've been struggling lately," Kreimer said.
The previous record for the largest crowd to gather for a Kansas volleyball match was set in the team's last pre-Late Night game played, a 1996 victory against Missouri. The crowd of 14, 800 is regarded as the largest crowd ever to watch a Big 12 volleyball match.
But the volleyball team has been enjoying bigger crowds than usual all season. Last weekend against No. 12 Colorado, 1,601 fans — the sixth largest crowd in Kansas volleyball history — gathered to watch the Big 12 battle.
Defensive specialist Kristi Kiyabu said, "In front of a big crowd, it gets more intense, and we get extra support so we are excited about that. We just have to take every match seriously."
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