Friday, September 18, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section B • Page 5
Basketball recruit Collison to visit
Iowan to make last official trip, final decision
By Erin Thompson Kansan sportswriter
Recruit Nick Collison will arrive in Lawrence today to visit with the Kansas basketball team and soon will make a final decision about where he will play college basketball.
Collison, a 6-foot-9 forward from Iowa Falls High school, Iowa, is deciding between Kansas and Duke but arrives in Kansas with his parents, who are rooting for the Jayhawks.
"I'm ashamed to tell you we're pulling for Kansas," said Dave Collison, Nick's father and high school coach. "Everything about the program is a positive. Duke has a lot of the same things, but his mother and I see the distance as a negative."
Collison is ranked as the nation's fourth-best power forward in his class, according to Keith Cavanaugh of FastBreak Magazine. He said Collison had Raef LaFrentz-like talent.
The weekend of Sept. 4-7, Collison made one of his numerous unofficial visits to Lawrence. Last weekend, Collison visited Duke, where he said was impressed with the basketball program.
"Nick really enjoyed it. He had a chance to visit with the Duke players." Dave Collison said. "He was really fired up about Duke. But the initial shine has drifted away."
Collision had been ready to commit to Kansas at the end of the summer, but Duke became interested in him as well.
"Duke got heavily involved in recruiting him," Dave Collison said. "It complicated things, but Nick's still managed to remain pretty oblective."
Kansas coach Roy Williams and Duke coach Mike Kryzewski have in-home visits scheduled with Collison next week. He is expected to tell one of them he will play at their school.
The commitment Kansas received from Andrew Gooden, 6-foot 10 forward from El Cerrito High School, Calif., could affect Collison's decision.
"That was something Nick was a little unsure of," Dave Collison said. "But the Kansas coaches talked openly about it from the start. They told them all along they were interested in Gooden. But they envision them both playing and playing together at some point."
Duke already has received a commitment from Nick Horvath, a 6-foot-10 power forward from Arden Hills. Minn.
The coaches will try to arrange a phone conversation between Nick Collison and Andrew Gooden so they can talk and compare their expectations.
Collison will arrive in Lawrence by plane, and his parents will join him after driving from Iowa.
Team jumps in the lake this weekend
Swimmers to compete in nontraditional meet
By Sam Mollinger
Karen roadwriters
Kansan sportswriter
When the Kansas swim team travels to Carbon-dale, Ill., for their race against the Southern Illinois Salukis, it won't be for a traditional swim meet.
"In fact, it's the only one of its kind," coach Gary Kempf said.
Instead of swimming in an indoor pool with lanes clearly marked, the Jayhawks and Salukis will swim 3.1 miles in a Carbondale lake.
The unconventional exhibition is in its fifth year and is based on a mutual respect between the programs. Each school's swimmers are housed together, as are the coaches. Last year, the meet was held at Lone Star Lake, west of Lawrence.
Kempf, a supporter of outdoor training, estimates that the team does about 75 percent of its outdoor training at Lone Star.
"It takes the swimmers out of their comfort zone and teaches them to race a little better," he said.
There's also a boost in stamina.
"It really whips us into shape," said sophomore Amy Meyer, who finished second on the women's side of last year's race in a time of 58 minutes and 11 seconds. "When I get back in the pool after swimming outdoor, I feel a lot better."
Besides the increased distance — the longest race in an indoor meet is one mile — swimmers have to deal with the elements of a lake.
"You've got the waves, so you have to use a different technique," Meyer said.
Not to mention that there's no break-time.
"There's no resting period at all." Kempf said. "No bottom to stand on, your heart rate is always up. Some of them struggle with the environment, not being able to see the bottom."
The weak need not race.
"It takes a lot of will power." Meyer said. "You kind of have to get into a rhythm."
Meyer should know. Her ability in the outdoor races may earn her a spot on the national outdoor team. This summer, she'll race in the Senior Nationals, where a qualifying time will send her and the rest of the team to a race in Hawaii.
Soccer team hopes to end road woes in tournament
By Brad Hallier
Kansan sportswriter
The road has not been especially smooth for the Kansas women's soccer team so far this season.
They will try to end a three-game slump on the road this weekend at the Sheraton Four Seasons Tournament in Harrisonburg. Va.
At 5 p.m. today, the Jayhawks (2-3) battle the Arizona Wildcats (1-2-1). On Sunday, they will meet tournament host James Madison (2-2) or George Washington (0-5).
Defender Lindsey Loefler said that the road woes would end this weekend.
"We definitely can change," Loeffler said. "It all starts with the pregame in the hotel. It's been a different experience for the freshmen, but I think they are realizing what it's like on the road."
Midfielder Meghann Haven agreed.
"We've been too relaxed on the road," Haven said. "Giving up early goals brings the team down. We need to get on our opponents from the opening whistle."
Coach Dan Magner said that Arizona's sub-five hundred record was deceptive.
"Arizona has played a tough schedule," he said. "They have outshot most, if not all, their opponents, so it shows they are creating scoring opportunities."
The Jayhawks had been struggling to score in their first four games, but last Sunday they scored four times in a win against Central Missouri. The team has averaged only 1.4 goals a game.
Haven said she thought the lack of goals so far was attributed to the midfielders and forwards not working as a unit on offense.
"We need our whole team involved in the attack," she said. "There's been a big gap between forwards and midfielders, so both need to increase the work rate. We're not moving as a unit, with one midfielder up and one back. The team needs to improve transition."
Falling behind early in games is another problem for the Jayhawks. In four of its five games, Kansas conceded the first goal.
"We've spoken about it," Magner said.
"The intensity in training this week has been a response to that. Players now
Kansas vs. Arizona at Harrisburg Friday, Sept. 17th 5 p.m.
Kansas starters
GK- Jen Fecko #1
D- Jackie Dowell #13
D- Kylie Watts #6
D- Lindsey Loeffler #18
D- Sarah Korpi #8
M- Katie Lents #19
M- Natalie Hoogveld #10
M- Cynthia Dahle #22
M- Erin Hon #14
F- Lindsay Kennedy #11
F- Johanna Larsson #5
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understand when the opening whistle blows, we have to be all over the other team."
To increase his team's intensity before games, Magner said that he was going to shorten pregame warm-ups. He said that the team would do mainly four-on-four drills to simulate game action, and he thought that should increase its intensity.
The team also is changing by inserting midfielder Katie Lents into the starting lineup for the first time this season.
While the Jayhawks will not know who they will play Sunday until late Friday night, Magner said that he had knowledge of both possible opponents. Both James Madison and George Washington played No. 13 Virginia tough this season, each losing only by one goal.
"James Madison has been in the NCAA tournament for the last three years," he said. "I know (JamesMadison coach) Dave Lombardo personally, and he will have his team prepared and very well organized.
"George Washington has played an exceptionally strong schedule. Though they are 0-5, they have strong players, and I'm sure they will be a tough opponent."
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