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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2004
Soccer team faces rival
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Caroline Smith runs around a Colorado opponent during the game two Sundays ago at the Super Target field. The soccer team will battle the MU Tigers this Friday at 7 p.m. at the Audrey J. Walton Complex in Columbia.
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Kansas continues Missouri rivalry today, looks to take over lead in border series
KELLI ROBINETT
krobinett@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWRIVER
The Border Showdown begins at 7 tonight when the Kansas women's soccer team takes on Missouri at the Audrey J. Walton Soccer Complex in Columbia, Mo.
The Tigers are tied for fourth in the Big 12 standings with a 5-6-1 season record and a 2-2 league mark.
Missouri is coming off a weekend in which it lost in double overtime to Nebraska and defeated Colorado 1-0.
Kansas comes into the game 11-2 on the season with a 3-1 record in Big 12 Conference play.
The Jayhawks are ranked 10th nationally and are riding the momentum of a three-game winning streak.
"it's definitely good to get three wins in a row heading into the game at Missouri," said junior forward Caroline Smith.
The Jayhawks and Tigers are tied with a 5-5 overall series record. Kansas claimed two victories over Missouri last year, defeating the Tigers 2-0 at home during regular season play and again in the NCAA Tournament.
"I its definitely good to get three wins in a row heading into the game in Missouri."
the game at Missouri."
Caroline Smith Junior forward
Missouri has not played particularly well at home this season, posting a .500 record of 3-3-1, but the rivalry aspect of the game should add intensity for both sides.
sides.
“You're always excited about Mizzou,” said Kansas coach Mark Francis. “It’s always a big rivalry.”
If Kansas hopes to contribute to the Tigers' home woes, it will have to slow down Missouri's leading scorer, junior forward Jennifer Nobis, who has found the back of the net five times this year.
this year. Nobis is the only Tiger who has scored multiple goals this season, but nine other players have each recorded a goal.
The Missouri scorers hope to find a weakness in Kansas senior goalie Meghan Miller, who has been dominant for much of the season with nine
shutouts already.
stultuous already.
The Tigers, with freshman goalie Laura Buehrig, will also have to slow down a Jayhawk offense that has scored eight goals in its last two games.
Buehrig has 50 saves on the season, but she has allowed 18 goals, compared to Miller's four.
— Edited by Ashley Doyle
SUNFLOWER SHOWDOWN
Kansas junior line backer Gabriel Toomey and senior safety Tony Stubbs tackle K-State senior running back Darren Sproles at the Oct. 25 game last year. The last
homecoming game against K-State was in 1990 and Kansas defeated K-State 27-24. "If we play well for the whole ball game, then we have a good chance," sophomore running back John Randle said of this Saturday's
homecoming game.
A winning streak in 'Hawks' favor
BY MIRANDA LENNING
mlenning @kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWRIVER
Kansas never loses when playing K-State for homecoming
The Jayhawks hold a record of 38-47-5 in homecoming games, but Kansas has never lost one of its homecoming games to K-State.
Kansas may have a losing homecoming record, but when facing Kansas State in one of its homecoming games, its record is nothing short of perfect.
During the 102 years of football competition between the two schools, K-
Kansas is 8-0 in those games, outscoring K-State 237-71. The Jayhawks faced the Wildcats in homecoming games in the following years: 1945,1961,1963,1965,1967,1971,1973 and 1990.
Kansas finished with a winning record in just two of the eight years that K-State has been a homecoming opponent.
State has been a homecoming foe in Lawrence eight times.
Kansas has shut out K-State four times in the eight homecoming games at Memorial Stadium.
Kansas faced K-State for the first time in a homecoming game in 1945. Kansas won 27-0.
In 1965, Kansas won two games in the season, but still beat K-State on homecoming 34-0.
The 1973 victory drew the largest
crowd of all time in Memorial Stadium a record 51,574 fans in attendance. Coach Mark Mangino said he hoped the fans would fill up the stadium this weekend.
The last time Kansas faced K-State in a homecoming game was 1990 — Kansas won 27-24. Since then, Kansas has defeated K-State just once in 13 games.
"Our fans have had ample opportunities to buy tickets and fill up the stadium." Mangino said. "I know the students will be there. Their support has been awesome this year."
The players said that just because their recent success against K-State has been minimal, it didn't mean Kansas was going to let K-State come into its stadium and win.
"We know that this is K-State, they are a big rival of ours and we haven't
beat them in a long time," senior line backer Banks Floodman said."We are looking forward to the opportunity."
Floodman, Wichita junior, said that players from Kansas probably understand this rivalry better than his out-of-state teammates.
state teammates. "But they are pretty enthused about it," Floodman said. "We talk a lot about it in the locker room and we are really excited about it."
Sophomore running back John Randle thinks the Jayhawks could make their homecoming record against the Wildcats 9-0.
"If we play well for the whole ball game, then we have a good chance." Randle said. "They are a good team, but playing in the Big 12, we expect that."
- Edited by Rupal Gor
SPORTS COMMENTARY
ALISSA BAUER
abauer@hansan.com
Transfer athletes can reach potential
Coming to a new school to compete athletically is never an easy adjustment.
Every Division I athlete along the way has faced these types of obstacles and adjustments.
Especially when that school enrolls more than 20,000 students and is a Division-I athletic institution.
before she unleashes her power at the Division-1 level.
It is only a matter of time
Now toss into
the mix that you're an athlete who's not even from this country — like Kansas volleyball newcomer Paula Caten, Canaarana, Brazil, junior.
Although she has lived the past two years in Great Bend and is used to living as a foreigner according to American standards, she is still new to the University of Kansas.
In the Wednesday edition of The University Daily Kansan, sportswriter Bill Cross explored the adjustments that Caten is making while working to succeed in her position as an outside hitter on the volleyball team and living without her 3-year-old daughter, who is still living in Brazil.
To be in an entirely different continent from her daughter, Paola, has to be upsetting to her, but the junior college transfer is also getting used to a new level of volleyball.
While attending Barton County Community College at the same time as Caten, I had a courtside view of what she can do.
She lead her Barton County teammates to an NJCAA championship last year. It is only a matter of time before she unleashes her power at the Division-I level, living up to her preseason Big 12 Conference Newcomer of the Year status.
Although she may be struggling in her new home at Kansas, her teammate Ashley Michaels, senior middle blocker, was absolutely right when she predicted that Caten will be an amazing player.
Caten is not the only athlete in this situation. There are numerous athletes who endure changes in their athletic career.
Many athletes transfer in from never-heard-of schools or come in as freshmen, only to be constantly questioned about their true talent.
The world of athletics is unfair and heartbreaking.
As rough as the road may be, athletes love what they do and who they do it for—which is exactly the point Caten is proving.
Athletes open their reputations up to questioning every time they take the field or court.
She is making the adjustments, improving and doing it all for someone other than herself.
Caten can live up to the hype that has built up around her. She is trying to reach her potential at Kansas as she did at Barton County Community College.
Every athlete has support somewhere.
Whether struggling or not, each athlete has that person behind him, believing in them, knowing what others don't.
But all athletes also have something inside, reassuring their confidence and pushing them onward. Caten's just happens to be in a little girl, and I commend her for rising to the challenge.
Bauer is a Winfield junior in journalism
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