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Thursday, October 5. 1995
Tennis team is set
Kansas women to begin fall season at Topeka club
By Dan Geiston
Ransan sportswriter
The Kansas women's tennis team starts its fall tournament season this weekend with the Big Eight Indoors in the Wood Valley Racquet Club in Popeka.
It will be the first competition for most of the Jayhawks, although two players have already enjoyed success this year.
Last week, juniors Jenny Atkerson and Kylie Hunt won Kansas' third
NCAA title with a doubles championship at the Clay Court Championships. The pair did not lose a set in the tournament.
Hunt, ranked 3rd nationally, also made it to the finals of the singles competition. However, she will be sitting out this weekend because of recurring pain in her right knee.
shots for the pain. She is not expected to miss any more tournaments after this weekend.
This is the first year for the Big Eight Indoors. Conference coaches had been looking for a fall tournament that would include all the schools and allow players to play a sufficient amount of matches. As a result, they developed this weekend's competition.
It will be a 48-player draw, with 16 players being seeded. Atkerson and sophomore Christie Sim are expected to be in the ton five.
Preliminary play will allow a team's fourth, fifth and sixth seeds to play another team's one, two and three seeds.
Despite the loss of Hunt, Kansas will bring six of its remaining players to the tournament. Atkerson, Sim, senior Kim Webster, junior Bianca Kirchoff, sophomore Maria a bajajglou and freshman Kris Sell will participate.
"I'd like to get all six players in the quarterfinals and have somebody win it."
"I'm knees have been bothering me a lot lately," she said. "I'm not really sure how it happened. I think it will be better to rest up and not push it and make it worse."
Chuck Morzbacher Kansas women's tennis coach
Hunt has been receiving cortisone
Kans as tennis coach Chuck Merzbacher has very high expectations for the indoors
"I'd like to dominate the tournament," he said. "I'd like to get all six players in the quarterfinal and have somebody win it."
The tournament begins at 8 a.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and will last all day.
Another Jayhawk wounded
Davis becomes latest football player lost for season to injury
Kansan staff report
Kansas sophomore strong safety Charles Davis has injured his knee — for the second time this year — and is most likely out for the rest of the season.
Davis, who left the Cincinnati game with a partially torn anterior cruciate ligament, returned to the starting line-up for the game against North Texas. He also left that game and didn't return until he started against Houston.
On Friday, however, he may have gone down for the last time. Davis joins Ronnie Ward, Tony Blevins and Avery Randle, other injured Jayhawks.
True freshman Freddie Hammonds will replace Davis against No.4 Colorado this weekend.
"I'm probably a little bit more battle hardened than the average coach as far as young guys having to play, because ever since I've been at Kansas we've had to play young guys," Kansas football coach Glen Mason said. "You look at the injuries on our defensive side right now — guys not getting on the plane — it looks like a starting line-up."
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Cross country team captain will be redshirted this season
By Adam Herschman Kansan sportswriter
Some bad news surfaced last week when the Kansas cross country team found out it would lose junior Kansas cross country captain Bryan Schultz for the season.
X-rays taken about two weeks ago showed that Schultz has a stress fracture in the second metatarsal of his left foot. He will be redshirted.
Kansas track and cross country coach Gary Schwartz said that Schultz should be ready to compete again by indoor track season.
The stress fracture, Schultz's second during his career at Kansas, began bothering him about three or four weeks ago. Last spring during indoor track season he had a stress fracture in a different part of his foot.
Although Schultz has not been competing, he still attends practices. He's staying in shape by stretching with the team and riding a stationary bike.
"He ought to be able to get it healed, start back lowly training and getting back into condition, and be ready for indoors," Schwartz said.
Kansas assistant athletic trainer Katie Grindberg said that a stress fracture was an overuse injury and that it was difficult to determine how a stress fracture occurred. Anything from muscle tension to a bone of the foot bending could cause a fracture.
Schultz was Kansas' top runner in 1993 during his freshman year. Last year he helped take the men's team to the NCAA Championships.
Although Schultz was named captain this year, he has missed all three meets because of his foot. He also missed meets last season because of a knee injury.
Schultz said he was frustrated by being forced to watch because he was used to competing.
Schultz's absence has affected the performance of the team.
The men's team is coming off a 12th-place finish last weekend at the Minnesota Invitational and a sixth place finish at the Jayhawk Invitational on Sept. 16.
"The way we were running and the way Bryan was running, right now it's a major loss," said Kansas assistant cross country coach Steve Guymon. "We know Bryan is not going to be around, but we've got six or seven good guys who can have just as big of an impact as Bryan would have. If they just run like they do in practice, I think we will overcome not having Bryan."
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