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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 29. 2004
Jayhawk rowers stick together in and out of boat
BY NORA KELLAH
nkellam@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWINTER
Kristy Hainer gets the chills just thinking about it.
Sitting in the boat seconds before a race, the crew links hands and the adrenaline begins to flow. "It's all about the boat," she yells to her teammates as they begin their race.
With the start of fall comes a fresh season for the Kansas rowing team.
This weekend, 10 members of the team, including senior cocaptains Hainer and Erin Hennessey, will travel to Oklahoma City to kick off their fall season.
HAINER
"I am really excited about this
year," Hainer said. "We have a great group of girls who rowed novice last year and have been promoted to varsity this season. I am sure we'll have a fun-
filled and competitive year."
This season, Kansas will travel to Oklahoma, Illinois and Georgia and finish the fall season back in Lawrence with the Sunflower Showdown against Kansas State. Last year, the Jayhawks defeated the Wildcats, and the Jayhawk rowers hope to do the same this season.
The fall rowing season is a time
to compete hard and get in good position for the spring, the season officially recognized by the NCAA.
"The fall is concentrated on long distances moving
HENNESSEY
while spring is shorter sprint races." Hennessev said.
Every afternoon, the waterfront at Burcham Park, 2nd and Indiana Streets, is crowded with rowers training both on and off the water. Lately, team members have experienced difficulties with their oars during practice because of recent flooding in Lawrence.
"The sandbars in the river often interfere, so we have been doing a lot of running and weight training," Hennessey said. But she said the low water was not slowing Kansas down. "Most of the teams will be a little raw this early in the year, so we are not worried."
Kansas is looking forward to an exciting season. The team will compete in the "Head of the Hooch" regatta in Gainsville, Ga., the site of the 1996 Olympic Games.
"This is really awesome for us," Hennessee said. "The last 2,000 meters were the exact course that the Olympic athletes rowed on."
In a regatta, the team may be "all about the boat," but between races, rowers make time to focus
WOMEN'S ROWING SCHEDULE
Date Opponent
Oct. 3 Head of the Oklahoma
Oct. 10 Head of the Rock
Oct. 31 Head of the Iowa
Nov. 6 Head of the Hooch
Nov. 7 Head of the Hooch
Nov. 12 Sunflower Showdown
Location Time
Oklahoma City All Day
Rockford, III. All Day
Iowa City, Iowa TBA
Gainsville, Ga. TBA
Gainsville, Ga. TBA
Lawrence TBA
on another aspect of college life
"By nature, the girls are very focused," Hainer said. "Our coach encourages but does not
Source: www.kuathletics.com
Hennessey and Hainer, both Jayhawk Scholars, said academics are very important to the team. Last year, the average GPA of the team was the highest it has ever been.
push. We want to do well."
Hennessey said she hoped the dedication on and off the water would shine through this season.
"I just want my last year rowing to be my best," she said. "I want this team to excel. I want to go out with a bang."
— Edited by Paige Worthy
Top 10 past Kansas coaches impact University legacy
BY PAUL BRAND
pbrand@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWRIER
Editor's Note: To mark the Kansan's 100th year of publication, sportswriter Paul Brand will take a look at the "Top 10s" of Kansas sports. Have an idea for the next list? E-mail pbrand@kansan.com.
During games, they write furiously on clipboards and shout instructions to their players. In practice they devise new and cunning ways to prepare their teams for competition. As Kansas coaches, they have all made an impact on the University of Kansas' athletic legacy.
Some of the names made the list for brief, bright flashes of greatness, others ranked in for longevity in success. As always, no apologies are made for any of the picks. One more thing — sorry about number five.
10. Dave Bingham: In a baseball program with a history of limited accomplishments, he brought it the most success during his eight-year stint and accrued a 249-225 record. In 1993, he led the Jayhawks to their only College World Series, a 45-18 record and a top-10 ranking. The following year, Kansas was 40-18 and again finished in the top 25
9. Mike Fine: The current bowling guru of Mount Oread is the most recent Kansas coach to bring home a national title by leading his steam to the 2004 Intercollegiate Bowling Championship as a No. 4 seed. Besides leading the Hawks to their first bowling national title since 1963, he was also named the Intercollegiate Bowling Association's Coach of the Year for 2002. For those who wish to pick the brain of the coach, Fine teaches bowling classes at the Kansas Union's lavbowl.
7. James Neismith: There is no
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8. A.R. Kennedy: Although Bert only coached the football team for seven years, he is still the only Jayhawk football coach with more than 50 victories to his credit. His 53-9-4 record from 1904-1910 left him with a .833 winning percentage and one Missouri Valley Conference title. In his stay, he recorded a 5-1 record against Kansas State and beat Notre Dame in his first year in Lawrence.
good reason to include the only basketball coach with a career losing record on this list, but he did invent the game of basketball and also the football helmet.
creating one entertaining sport and making another slightly less entertaining. Despite his 55-60 record, he was voted into the National Basketball Hall of Fame.
6. Ted Owens: Having served
6. Tue Oct for 19 years on the Kansas men's basketball bench, he owns the second longest tenure of any coach. From 1964-1983, Owens made seven NCAA tournament
appearances, reached the Final Four twice and captured six Big Eight conference titles. As evidence of his coaching prowess,
he was named Big Eight Coach of the Year five times and was the National Coach of the Year in 1978.
OWENS
5. Roy Williams breaking abandonment of the Kansas program in 2003 for a home on Tobacco Road, a term for the basketball universities in N o r t h Carolina, this was the most
5. Roy Williams: Given his heart-
WILLIAMS
difficult pick on the list. But the numbers do not lie. From 1988-2003, Roy produced a 418-101 victory-loss tally, which is the best victory percentage of any Kansas coach, won nine conference titles and made the NCAA tournament in 14 consecutive years. His 2001-2002 squad is still the only team in Big 12 history to go 16-0 in conference play. But his biggest legacy is his failure to win a national title in any of his four Final Four appearances.
4. Marian Washington: For 31 years, Washington represented Kansas women's basketball. Her Jayhawk career yielded 560 victories, 17 20-victory seasons, 11
NCAA tournament berths, seven conference titles and six conference tournament championships. She also started the women's track program at Kansas and
WASHINGTON
was the first female president of the Black Coaches Association.
3. Larry Brown: His stay at
too short, but he certainly got the job done during his five years. Brown made the NCAA tourney every year he coached at A l l e n
Fieldhouse and reached the Final Four twice, winning the national title in 1988. After posting a .754 winning percentage from 1984-1988, he bolted to professional basketball, where he recently won the 2004 NBA title with the Detroit Pistons.
BROWN
2. Bob Timmons: As a coach in the 1960s and 1970s, he helped the men's and women's cross country and track teams reach new heights. Timmons' tremendous successes include national championships in cross country, 1966; indoor track, 1969-1970; and outdoor track for the 1970 season. The legacy of the man who coached Jim Ryun lives on and the annual cross country invitational bears his name.
1. Forrest "Phog" Allen: He is the
longest tenure men's basketball coach at 39 years and holds the record for most victories at Kansas with 590. Allen jumped quickly into coaching by assuming the coaching
ALLEN
position the year after his graduation and even coached the football team to a 5-2-1 record one year. Upon his retirement in 1956, Allen left the Kansas bench, but the mystic "Phog" of his past still remains in the fieldhouse named in his honor.
- Edited by Rupal Gor
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