UN I V E R S I T Y D A I L Y K A N S A N
Friday, September 6,1996
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Fresh faces add depth to Kansas
Freshmen shadow players, learn ropes
By Adam Herschman Kansan sportswriter
One of the many signatures on the cast of Kasten freshman guard Casey Fruitt's left leg is from senior teammate Tameka Dixon.
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Dixon, last year's Big Eight Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year, wrote: "Don't do anymore box jumps. Get well soon."
Pruitt is one of three incoming freshman on the Kansas women's basketball team. Pruitt reinjured her left knee on June 14 and will have to sit out the entire season. She reinjured her knee seven months after tearing her anterior crucial and medial collateral ligaments in the second game of her high school senior season.
Pruitt, 5-foot-6 point guard, said that her knee had healed about 65 percent before she tore her ACL again, during rehabilitation on her leg, by performing box jumps in the Kansas weight room.
"When I came down I heard it pop again, and I knew it was an ACL." Pruitt said. "I might have rushed it the first time."
She went in for knee surgery last week.
Kansas Women's Basketball freshmen Heather Fletcher and Casey Prudit are two of the three incoming freshmen on this year's team. Prudit is out for the season with an injured left knee.
Pruitt, Jonesboro, Ark., native was a two-time all-state selection at Jonesboro High School. She committed to Kansas a week before she injured her left knee for the first time on Nov. 21, 1995.
Pruitt said she had received tremendous support from the Jayhawk players and coaching staff.
"They're always checking up on me," Pritt said. "My mom told me the other day, that she knows I didn't make a mistake in choosing KU. She knew this was the right place for我."
Freshman Heather Fletcher and Lynn Pride will add immediate depth to the women's basketball team this season.
Fletcher, 6-foot-3 forward/center,
has been practicing with Kansas
senior forward Jennifer Traum
"I do look up to her a lot because she's in my same position," Fletcher said.
Fletcher was the only player in Kansas to be ranked on the Nation's College Sports top senior list.
She said that she chose Kansas because she wanted to stay close to home.
Fletcher averaged 15 points, 10 rebounds, three assists, and four block shots a game in her senior year at from Maize High School in Wichita.
Like Fletcher, Kansas freshman forward/guard Lynn Pride also
averaged a double-double in points and rebounds her senior year in high school. Pride, 6-foot-2, averaged 19.6 points and 11.3 rebounds at Sam Houston High School in Arlington, Texas. Pride was ranked by the Blue Star Report as one of the nation's top five players, and she earned All-America honors from USA Today, Street and Smith, and Parade Magazine.
Pride arrived in Lawrence on Monday after returning from Chetumal, Mexico, where she participated in the Confederation of Pan American Basketball Associations (COPABA) Women's Junior
World Championship Qualifying Tournament. She was a member of the silver-medal USA Basketball Women's Junior National Team that lost to Brazil in the finals 82-78.
"We all had expectations of winning the gold." Pride said. "It helped me a lot to prepare for college competition."
Pride practiced with Kansas yesterday for the first time since she's back from Mexico, and said that she would probably play at the small forward position.
"Right now I'm just trying to fit in," Pride said.
Rowing team coaches pleased so far
Freshmen and varsity show potential in early-season practice
By Matt Woodruff
Kansan sportswriter
It's not hard to tell that assistant rowing coach Tami Odell is excited about this season. Odell, who begins her second season as the coach of the Kansas freshman squad, has seen a lot of potential in her players on the first week of practice.
"We've really got a great group this year," Odell said. "The freshman
have such incredible drive and we have so many high-caliber athletes. I'm really excited to get going."
The team started working out last Thursday. The first four days
Tami Odell
were spent in Allen Field House, getting down the fundamentals on rowing machines before the team heads to Clinton Lake this evening for the real thing.
"During the day we'll be working out with weights, running laps, climbing stairs and things like that," said Odell. "Then they will be rowing on the lake in the evenings."
For the freshmen, the focus has been on learning the basics and will switch next week to getting in shape and applying what they've learned.
Coach Rob Catloth is working with the varsity squad and enters his 11th season as the Kansas rowing coach. He said that since the varsity team had been around, the focus for them was to get into shape and in sync with each other.
some of the technical things, getting in good condition and getting some strokes in. We're focusing now on just getting everyone in shape and thinking together."
"Things are going pretty well so far," Catloth said. "We're working on
For the varsity, practice will take place early in the morning and weights and conditioning work will be done in the afternoon. The freshmen will have Wednesday evenings off to watch the varsity team's practice.
"I really look forward to them having contact with the seniors and learning by watching them," said Odell. "They will get a lot of that this winter and tons next spring, and I think that will be really helpful."
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