UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 25, 1995
Kansas club cycling rides high
Team wins conference advances to nationals and raises membership
By Jeffrey Auslander
Kansan sportswriter
Only one year after its inception, the Kansas club cycling team is making its presence felt on a national level.
The team, which had only three members in the summer of 1994, won the North Central Conference fall championship two weekends ago in Lawrence. Last weekend, the team competed against more than 50 other schools in the mountain biking nationals in Durango, Colo.
"Our goal for the fall season was to win the conference, go to nationals and get people involved," team president Michelle Blair, Lawrence senior, said. "Winning the conference was a lot of fun, especially since I've only been doing this for a year. I guess it's something I'll tell kids."
Not only did the team accomplish its first two goals, but it has accomplished what is probably its most important goal —
"Winning the conference was a lot of fun especially since I've only been doing this for a year.
Iguess it's something I'll tell my kids."
Michelle Biair
Lawrence senior
getting people involved.
"When we first started out we ran some ads on campus and in student orientation packets. We also depended on word of mouth," Blair said. "It must have worked because we now have around 40 riders."
Despite the fact that the team's history isn't very long, it has made itself prominent in a conference that includes North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota.
"We have the best team in our
conference," team vice president Chad Marshall, DeSoto graduate student, said. "Not only that, but we could finish in the top 15 in the nation when the spring road season comes around."
The team will start training for the spring season in two weeks.
"We are going to start with some weight-training and long road rides," Blair said. "The long road rides are usually 20 to 80 miles."
Although the rides are long, the team enjoys them, Blair said.
"The team feels pretty good about the long rides because they are motivated to winning in the spring," she said.
As for the future of the team, Marshall said that some people will be leaving and that the invitation for new riders would always be open.
"We definitely know how to have fun, but we also want to win," he said.
Marshall agreed with Blair when he talked about the attitude of the team.
Students interested in the Kansas club cycling team can call Marshall at 842-7594.
Men's tennis team to join forces for first time
For the first time in the fall tournament season, the Kansas men's tennis team finally will play together.
The Jayhawks will defend their No. 1 regional ranking at the Rolex Region V Championships, which begin tomorrow in Wichita.
By Dan Gelston
Kansan sportswriter
"This is a good opportunity to prove we're the best team in the region," said Kansas men's tennis coach Michael Center. "It will help set the tone for the rest of the year."
Kansas senior Michael Isroff begins qualifying play tomorrow, while junior Victor Fimbres and J.P. Vissseo, sophomores Enrique
Abaroa and Trent Tucker and freshman Luis Uribe are in the main draw, which begins on Friday.
The tournament is a 64-player draw, and the championship will be on Monday. The singles finalists and doubles champions automatically qualify for the National Indoor Championships in February.
The Kansas players have been separated in competition so far this fall, playing at various tournaments with no more than two players from the team competing in a main draw. Center said it had been hard for him to judge the progress of the players in tournament action because of conflicting tournaments.
"We haven't done as well as we could have," Center said. "Overall
though, I'm really pleased."
For Uribe, the opportunity to play with the whole team for the first time is an exciting thought.
Uribe he preferred the indoor courts at Wichita because they benefited his serve and volley game and allowed him to go to the net more.
"It's going to be good for the whole team to be together," Uribe said. "We're going to see how everyone can do and how we'll play in an important tournament."
Center said that he had high expectations for the tournament and that all six of his players had a chance of winning the tournament.
"We're going to be a great team, and success in this tournament is something we can feed off," Center said.
Back practices with'Huskers
PHILLIPS RETURNS
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska tailback Lawrence Phillips, who was suspended from the team after he hit his ex-girlfriend, was cleared to return to practice yesterday.
The Associated Press
Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne said that Phillips wouldn't travel to Colorado for Saturday's game but that he probably would play against Iowa State on Nov. 4.
The announcement came one month after Osborne dismissed Phillips from the No. 2 Cornhuskers because of the Sept. 10 attack on Kate McEwen, a Nebraska women's basketball player. The coach later said that Phillips, once a Heisman Trophy contender, was suspended
"Obviously he made a mistake," Osborne said. "He knew he made a mistake when he did what he did."
from the team indefinitely.
Phillips, who pleaded no contest, is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 1 in Lancaster County Court on misdemeanor charges of trespassing and assault. Police said he climbed to the second-floor apartment of transfer quarterback Scott Frost and assaulted McEwen inside.
"At first I thought he should be dismissed permanently because I thought it was a stalking case or something like that." O'Borne said.
Osborne said that Phillips had received a thorough mental evaluation and was not dangerous to himself or others.
"I guess it's still a court order that he and Scott couldn't go to the movies or something together," he said.
Osborne said that under the point system he used for discipline, Phillips would have been required to miss at least three games. He will have missed six before he will be allowed to play.
A court order forbids Phillips from having contact with Frost or McEwen. Osborne said that the order would not prevent Phillips from practicing with the team under supervision.
"I don't think the University or athletic department did the easy thing." Osborne said. "The easy thing would have been to dismiss him."
Osborne's integrity questioned
The Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — In Nebraska, where hearts beat scarlet and cream on football Saturdays, there is an unheard-of undercurrent amid the cheers for the defending national champion Cornhuskers.
Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne's integrity is being questioned.
He's been criticized before, mostly for losing bowl games, or not throwing the ball enough, or for any of a hundred other fan-type complaints. But never has he been viewed as anything other than an honest straight-arrow dedicated to hard work and good citizenship.
That was before Osborne started talking about allowing running back Lawrence Phillips to rejoin the team this season. Phillips has been convicted of misdemeanor assault in the Sept. 10 beating of his ex-girlfriend, who still receives 24-hour protection.
Osborne said at the time that Phillips, considered a contender for the Heisman Trophy, was off the team and probably would not play for Nebraska again for a long time. The coach later said it was possible Phillips could play again some day. Yesterday, Osborne said Phillips
would return to practice immediately.
Medical and domestic-violence professionals, women's groups and others now have doubts about Osborne that go beyond X's and O's.
"His ethical compass has a needle that is turning back and forth," said Lincoln psychiatrist Eli Chesen, a "Husker fan who attends home games.
Chesen, who is writing a book about the violent tendencies of football running backs, said Osborne's statements that Phillips simply needed counseling to control his anger didn't wash.
"I'm not privy to what medical care he's getting," Chesen said. But he suspects Phillips needs more than counseling.
"Two months in a counseling program doesn't cut it," said Sarah O'Shea, director of the Nebraska Domestic Violence-Sexual Assault Coalition.
O'Shea said that, in a way, whether Phillips plays football was irrelevant.
"I want Lawrence Phillips to stop using violence," she said. "If making sure he never plays football at Nebraska would do that, fine."
But to some, reinstating Phillips to the football team sends the wrong
message to women.
"I think that every woman at the University should be frightened," said Leslie Wolfe, president of the Center for Women's Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.
Phillips awaits sentencing on Dec. 1 for his conviction on charges of misdemeanor assault and trespassing in the attack on Kate McEwen, a Nebraska women's basketball player.
Phillips attacked McEwen in the third-floor apartment of Scott Frost, a Nebraska quarterback, on Sept. 10.
Frost called the police and then struggled to free McEwen from Phillips' grasp. Phillips was arrested later that morning.
Osborne said yesterday that allowing Phillips to play football again this year would be in the player's best interest — but is it?
"If I was the person who cared about this young man, I would say it is not." Wolfe said from her Washington office. She said that football players were not held accountable for their actions.
"They are told, 'You're special. You're different.' This almost obscene adulation of athletics has produced this. It doesn't benefit them in the long run," she said.
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