UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, September 27,1995
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Pitching ace begins perfectly
By Dan Gelston Kansan sportswriter
At 5-foot-11, Sarah Workman has the height to play on the Kansas women's basketball team.
With her long arms and good mechanics, she could be a tennis player.
And with her excellent hitting, she might pass as a volleyball player.
Instead, Workman, a freshman, has put her skills to use on the mound for the Kansas softball team and has quickly developed into the ace of the staff.
She has breezed through the competition in the fall season,
compiling a 6-0 record in six starts with a 0.00 ERA. She has completed all six of her starts and has tossed four shutouts, in the process making everyone around her take notice that there is a new star in town.
"She has the potential to be one of the premier players around," Kansas softball coach Kalum Haack said. "She can take us to the World Series; she's that good."
The story of how Workman came to Kansas is interesting. She was pitching for her high school team in Orlando, Fla., when her coach recommended that she spend the summer before her sophomore year playing for a women's league in California. She went out and played for the team, which included Kansas junior second baseman Heather Richins.
for him," Haack said. "He said there was a great, young pitcher that I needed to see. He recommended her highly."
"I thought she was great at the time," Richins said. "She was overpowering and beating women twice our age. I think everyone on the team realized she had a good future."
The coach of that team, Chet Miller, happened to be friends with Haack, who told him that he had a pitcher worth recruiting.
Miller also tried to sell Workman on Kansas' program.
So highly that Haack, who had never seen Workman pitch, invited her to come to Kansas on a recruiting visit.
"Chet's been around the game a while, and I have a lot of respect
"He told me that Coach was a strict disciplinarian and a hard worker. Hard work kind of anneals to me." Workman said.
She came to Kansas to visit and liked what she saw. She said the closeness of the team, the success of the program and living in a new state convinced her to come. She
Kalum Haack Kansas softball coach
What excites Haack about Workman the most isn't so much what she's already accomplished, but what she
visited one other college and then canceled the rest of her trips and made her decision.
has the potential to accomplish.
"As good as she is right now, she isn't anywhere close as to how good she's going to be," Haack said. "She has good mechanics, throws the ball really hard and she has good movement, but she's more of a thrower. We've got to get her to be a pitcher."
Haack attributes this to the fact that she was able to overpower and dominate people in high school, where she was a threeetime All American. In college, the tougher competition will force her to adapt.
Workman said she hasn't felt the pressure to step in and be the ace vet.
Steve Puppe / KANSAN
"It's been a bit overwhelming," she said of her early success. "But Coach expects a lot, and I knew that coming here. I'm looking forward to the rest of the season."
Both Haack and Workman agree that a true test will come this weekend, when Kansas plays in the Big 12 Conference Fall Preview at Adair Park in Kansas City, Mo.
Kansas freshman pitcher Sarah Workman warms up at practice. She came to Kansas after playing in a summer league with Kansas junior second baseman Heather Richins and being noticed by the team's coach.
"This is going to tell a lot about
where I'm at as a pitcher," she said. "I think I'll get a better judge of what I need to work on."
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