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Friday, October 13, 1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tulsa defector prepares for game
Kansas midfielder eager to defeat former teammates
By Jason Strait Kansan sportswriter
When Amy Dyksterhuis called one of her ex-teammates this week, the first thing she was asked was, "Are you ready to lose?"
Dykestheruis, a sophomore midfielder for the Kansas women's soccer team who transferred from the University of Tulsa after her freshman season, told
her friend that losing wasn't in the game plan for the Jayhawks.
Kansas will take on Tulsa (9-3) at 1 p.m. Sunday and Central Missouri State (4-4) at 4 p.m. today. The games will be played at Kansas' new soccer field, SuperTarget Field, off 19th Street behind Oliver Hall.
Considering Tulsa's success, Dyksterhuis' decision to transfer to a first-year program might seem like an odd move, but for her, it was necessary.
"They're a really good team, and I played a lot, but it just wasn't my atmosphere," she said. "It just wasn't fun anymore. It wasn't a team effort, and I just thought I would be happier somewhere else."
The Jayhawks (4-7) hope to reverse
two streaks when they face Tulsa. The Jayhawks have dropped five of their last six games while Tulsa has been on fire, winning eight consecutively.
"Tula's an experienced team. They've got some real nice players and have had some success," Kansas women's soccer coach Lori Walker said. "We're going to have to be real organized, go after them right at the beginning of the game and stay with it for the entire game."
Central Missouri State, a Division II school, is in its first year of varsity soccer. Kansas is 4-0 against first-year opponents and expects to fare well against the Jennies.
"Central Missouri's a young team, they're a new team, and I think that they've come on to the market early. I
think we're going to compete real well with them," Walker said.
Kansas will be without sophomore midfielder and co-captain Audra Henderson this weekend, but freshman Jen Silvers will return from an injury. Henderson injured her leg earlier in the week and is out indefinitely.
Dyksterhuis said she had had the game circled on her calendar since she came to Kansas and expected the game to be intense.
"Crazy. It's going to be crazy. I've been looking forward to this for so long." Dyksterhuis said. "It's going to be so exciting because we have so much to prove. They're extremely pumped to beat us, and we're extremely pumped to beat them."
Women's rowing to christen first season
By Erin Johnson
Kansan sportswriter
Two words come to mind when Erika Oliver thinks about what the Kansas women's rowing team needs to do this weekend to be successful in the Head of the Kaw Regatta concentration and confidence.
"If we have both of these things, I think we'll be pleased with how we do," the Overland Park senior said.
On Sunday, the Jayhawks will travel to Kansas City, Mo., for their first regatta of the fall season. The team, made up mostly of rowers from the pre-varsity club crew, has focused on intense conditioning in its 20-hour practice weeks this year. Running stairs and hills and spending more hours in the water than in previous years hasn't been easy, but the rowers hope it allalls off Sunday.
"We have trained extremely hard,"
Oliver said. "We've done about everything you can do. I don't think we could have conditioned harder these past two months."
Kansas women's rowing coach Rob Catloth agreed.
"We're in better condition than we've ever been before, so that's positive," he said. "It's just whether we have the boat speed or not. We're further along than we ever have been at this point. We'll just have to see what the payoff of that is."
The Jayhawks are expecting tough competition from Wichita State and Colorado, but Oliver said she had only one expectation for the Kansas rowers — that they row as hard as they can.
"Everyone wants to win, but the way I look at it is, you just have to know when you get off the water that you've done well," she said. "Sometimes you have the medal around your
neck, and sometimes you don't. You can't focus on the medals because if you work hard, they will come."
Kansas hasn't had a regatta yet this season, and Catloth said it was hard to judge how fast the Jayhawks were at this point.
"I'm not going to know what happens until we see the results," he said. Catloth said he and assistant coach Tami Odell were confident in the freshman team members.
"I think we have as good a chance as everybody to be successful," Catloth said. "With freshman races, you never know. Sometimes it's who makes the least mistakes because it's their first race. You never really know what's going to happen or how they're going to do."
The Jayhawk club rowers also will be racing against the varsity and freshman Jayhawks Sunday. Catloth said he was looking forward to racing
against some of his former rowers
"I want them to do well and be successful," he said. "We're going to be successful on our own. We're not out to beat them. I hope they're very successful."
Catloth said Kansas was capable of doing well in Sunday's regatta, and the race would be a good dose of competition for the freshman rowers.
"After we get the results back Sunday, we'll have a good idea what our season will be like and where we're headed." Catloth said.
Oliver said she thought that given the way the Jayhawks had trained, they should have a good chance at being successful.
"I'm not completely confident there will be no concentration lapses, but hopefully, we'll row as tight of a race as we can," Catloth said. "We're still hoping to improve as much as we can every day."
Runners head to Oregon meet
By Adam Herschman
Keosan sportswriter
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas cross country teams hope to improve on their lowest finishes of the year by entering a new zone — the Pacific time zone.
"We need some kind of turnaround," Kansas freshman Kevin McGinn said. "We haven't run up to our potential."
Two weeks ago in Minneapolis, the men finished 12th at the Minnesota Invitational, while the women placed 15th at the Nike Invitational.
The Jayhawks have headed to the Northwest to compete in the 16th annual Jeff Drenth Memorial tomorrow at Alton Baker Park in Eugene. Ore.
Since the Minnesota and Nike Invitationals two weeks ago, both the men's and women's teams have had some of their best practices this season.
"The thing I'd like to get out of this meet is when they finish on Saturday that they come out with some confidence in themselves," Kansas assistant cross country coach Steve Guymon said.
The teams had a tough workout last Friday at Hokell Indian Nations University.
Guymon said the men's team ran well then and had another good workout Monday.
"I think a lot of guys are on the verge of having some really good races," Kansas junior Josh Weber said. "I think if we do that, then we will do well as a team."
Also on Friday, every member of the women's team broke a personal workout record set in a previous workout.
"I think they're starting to feel the training kick in," Guymon said.
The teams left yesterday for the Jeff Drenth Memorial, which will be Kansas' final tune-up before the Big Eight Conference Championships on Oct. 27.
"I think everybody's goal right now is to get to Big Eights and see what we can do as a team," sophomore Emily Miles said.
The last Big Eight championships will be held at the Jayhawks' home course at Rim Rock Farm. This will be the second time this year Rim Rock Farm has been the host of a college cross country meet. The first meet was the Jayhawk Invitational on Sept. 16.
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