6B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2004
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BOWLING: Money for bowlers
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bowling coach, said he liked the idea of having bowling at the high school level because it would increase the level of interest in the sport.
"The prospect of having more kids involved in the sport is exciting." Fine said. "This will hopefully improve the pool of students we recruit for our program."
Since bowling is a club sport at Kansas, athletic scholarships aren't available for prospective bowlers. However, there are no shortage of scholarship opportunities for young bowlers.
Sropw already won about $1,000 in scholarships in tournments and was looking to win more. As part of the bowling team at FSHS, she would be eligible for one of the $250 scholarships that Royal Crest pledged to give to one girl and one boy at both Lawrence and Free State
"The prospect of having more kids
involved in the sport is exciting. This will hopefully improve the pool of students we recruit for our program."
Mike Fine Kansas bowling coach
high schools.
Randy Altman, executive director for Kansas Young American Bowling Alliance and office manager of Royal Crest Lanes, said that was just the beginning.
that more exposure will be given to the sport we will look for more sponsors to provide more scholarships for the students."
"I run five tournaments at the state level and we give out around 84 scholarship totaling $15,000," Altman said. "Now
Altman said bowling's popularity was growing and there was a buzz going around the younger kids at the schools and in the leagues at Royal Crest Lanes.
Altman said he knew the growing popularity of the sport first hand and will be the first to admit that he was very passionate about providing the opportunity for kids who would normally not be involved in high school activities to be part of a team.
Altman's two sons are students at FSHS and are on a bowling team at Royal Crest Lanes with Srow and her younger sister.
"I'm excited the program made it before I graduated," Sprow said. "There are a lot of people out there who play and don't have the same opportunities as softball or basketball players."
- Edited by Steve Vockrodt
ROBINETT: No time for hoops
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get a good audience. But who, other than Kansas and Georgia Tech fans, will want to watch any middle-of-the season basketball game over the Cotton. Fiesta and Rose bowls?
Heck, I'm one of the biggest Kansas basketball fans around, but last year when Kansas State played Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 2 at the same time that Kansas played Villanova in a regular season nonconference basketball game, I chose to
watch the Fiesta Bowl to root against Kansas State and TiVoed the Kansas basketball game for later.
And that raises another question: What will happen if the Kansas football team wins the Big 12 Championship and gets selected to play in the Fiesta Bowl on New Year's Day? How will we choose between supporting the basketball team and heading to Arizona to cheer on the Jayhawks in their first BCS bowl game?
OK, so the chances of that
happening are slim to none. But honestly, what sick and twisted soul decided to put Kansas fans through this New Year's Day dilemma?
Kudos to those of you who are sticking around during fall and winter breaks to catch these events.
I guess the rest of us will have to hope for an ordinary Late Night and an unexciting Kansas blowout of Georgia Tech to make us feel a little better about not being there.
Robinett is an Austin, Texas, senior in journalism.
CARLSON: Dad key to success
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It helps that his parents support him, he said.
Wakeboard Camp in Clermont, Fla., and it pushed him to try harder tricks, he said.
From driving the boat so he can practice to paying the entry fees at the tournaments, their contributions have been important to his success, he said.
But Carlson's dad isn't just a spectator. He competes in the tournaments.
"When my friends come out, they're just blown away," Carlson said. "He's 52, and he can tear it up on a wakeboard."
Riffle believes that the camaraderie between Carlson and his dad is at an all-time high because of wakeboarding, which is exactly what the INT league tries to promote, he said.
This past summer, Carlson started in the advanced division. After winning the first event, he decided to move up to the expert
Carlson started competing in INT tournaments in 2003 and didn't fare well the first time out. He fell twice early in his run, the maximum number of times a rider is allowed to fall during competition, and finished ninth out of 11riders.
He did better the final two tournaments of the summer finishing second and first.
"Hopefully, I can go out there
and give it my best shot."
Brandon Carlson U.S. Championship qualifier
division, the second highest. To his surprise, he won that event too, and ended up winning two out of the next three to qualify for the U.S. Championships.
"It was pretty interesting because I bumped up." Carlson said. "I was going against guys who had been in that division the whole year. The last tournament of the year basically decided who got to go to nationals."
"I want to do well," he said. "Everyone wants to do well, but I'm not hung up on the fact that I should go out there and try to beat everybody. I don't think that's realistic.
Expectations for this type of competition might be high for most people, but Carlson doesn't view the U.S. Championships as a life or death situation.
"Hopefully, I can go out there and give it my best shot," Carlson said. "Like I said, if I lose, who cares? I mean, I had fun, and it's cool to go out there."
Carlson doesn't wakeboard for awards, or even necessarily because he has an overwhelming desire to be in tournaments. Instead, he competes for fun. He loves the sport and would go out on his boat every day if he had the chance.
"Wakeboarding to me is a sport that anybody, any type of person can do and honestly, I don't care how good you are," Carlson said. "It doesn't matter."
Wakeboarding is a hobby, but it can also be used as a distraction.
It's never mattered to Carlson who he rides with.
He gets as much satisfaction from teaching other people how to wakeboard and watching them land their first trick as he does when he learns something new. The feeling a person gets when doing something new on a wakeboard for the first time is unbelievable, Carlson said.
For Carlson, wakeboarding isn't something he'll just do in college.
— Edited by Johanna M. Maska
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