THE UNIVERSITY DABY KANSAN
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2007
SPORTS
5B
TENNIS
Women open season against ranked teams
BY PAT TEFFT
ptefft@kansan.com
The KU tennis team has high expectations as the fall tennis season kicks off this weekend at the Cissie Leary
Tournament in Philadelphia.
The Kansas team will face players from nine other schools, including Penn State, Virginia Tech, Princeton and Yale all of
Hall-Holt
which were nationally ranked at the end of the 2007 spring season.
Coach Hall-Holt, who enters her fourth season as the
Kansas tennis coach, hopes that the team uses this first tournament as a way to build off last season.
"I am telling the girls to get out there and give everything they can. I want them to play with the same energy that they have been playing with in practice the past two weeks," Hall-Holt said.
This year's roster is loaded with returning talent. Elizaveta Avdeeva and Edina Horvath were recently ranked No. 36 as doubles partners in a preseason FILA/ITA poll. Avdeeva also received a ranking of 117 in singles. Kunigunda Dorn and Yuliana Svistum, who both put up strong performances last season, also will compete this weekend. They will be joined by freshmen Maria Martinez and Mymee
Tokuda. Hall-Holt said the teams overall experience gives the players a competitive edge going into this weekend.
"The girls know that they can compete with anyone that's out there on the court. They know they have the ability. I want them to challenge each other to play their best," Hall-Holt said.
Hall-Holt said that the tournament this weekend would give her players a chance to bounce back from a tough season last year in which the team was plagued with injuries. Hall-Holt said her players were working to improve their games on a day-to-day basis. She said that the fall season would give the players a chance to fine-tune their game for the spring season.
"The fall tournaments will show our players what competition is out there. They know that from match to match the level of play is going to increase," Hall-Holt said.
The fall slate of tournaments affect only the individual players' rankings. Performances are not figured into any overall team score. Hall-Holt believes that this does not diminish the importance of the team aspect.
"We still have to represent as a team. We are out there fighting for KU, the name, the tradition. It's an individual sport with a team atmosphere, and we need to support each other," Hall-Holt said.
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learned that by exemplifying leadership qualities and a positive attitude I've been able to see new ideas and be creative about things on campus."
FOOTBALL (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
Despite his eagerness to discuss issues off of the football field, Stuckey said he saw himself as a leader by example on the football field. Stuckey's goal is to achieve the title of team captain by the time he leaves the University — a goal he said he could
achieve by showing a willingness to sacrifice himself for the team.
In addition to his leadership qualities, Stuckey is piling up quite the tangible track record so far in 2007. Through three games he has made 13 tackles, has made an interception and has broken up a pass.
SOFTBALL
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Jayhawks open against Butler CC on Saturday
The Jayhawks play Butler Community College at 2 p.m. and play Missouri Southern at 4 p.m.
The KU softball team kicks off its season on Saturday.
"The whole weekend basically is to figure out kind of where we
are," coach Tracy Bunge said. "What we can do well. How our freshmen react in game situations. Kind of figure out at this point in time what are our weaknesses, and what we really have to concentrate on the last couple weeks of practice that we have throughout the fall."
On Sunday the softball team will play Missouri Western at 10 a.m.
KING (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
facing triple teams, the Jayhawks made it to the national championship game against undefeated North Carolina.
King had to guard Lennie Rosenblut, the Tar Heels star player. North Carolina took an early lead, but Kansas jumped ahead in the second half. The Tar Heels tied the game late to send it to overtime. The teams scored a combined two points in the first two extra periods. Finally, after a third overtime, North Carolina defeated Kansas 54-53.
Chamberlain was named the tournament's most outstanding player, but Loneski said King had an important role too.
MORETHAN BASKETBALL
"His leadership is what took us to the Final Four," Loneski said. "He was just a team guy."
"It was just an honor for him to play with Bill Russell," Kimberly said. "He had fun just knowing him. He was just Bill to him."
The Boston Celtics made King their sixth round draft pick after his college career ended in 1957. King got the opportunity to play with another basketball legend: Bill Russell. He often told his daughter, Kimberly, about the experience.
After an NBA title in 1960 with Boston, the Celtics traded him to the Chicago Zephyr. He played with them for one year before moving back home to play for the ABLs Kansas City Steers.
King gave up basketball after one season with the Steers. He retired and took a job for Hallmark in 1966. Family became an important focus. King settled down with his wife Jelena and two kids, Kimberly and Maurice III.
The Hallmark job wasn't enough for King. He was attracted to helping the youth in his community. He worked as a substitute teacher and wore suits to class "to show young kids how they should respect themselves," Kimberly said. King provided an example for them just as he did for black athletes.
"In his situation growing up," Kimberly said, "he didn't always make the right choices. He wanted to share his story of where he had come from to going to college to getting a degree to getting a good job. He let them know you can make good choices and bad choices, but you can't let the bad ones stop you."
After his retirement from Hallmark in 1991, King started to serve the community even more. He worked with kids at the Spofford Home, which serves Kansas City children with emotional problems. King volunteered more at Fortress of Hope Church. His presence was always felt at the church. He sang in the men's choir and served as a trustee.
Perhaps most importantly, Lindsay said, King acted as a mentor. He often brought seniors and teenagers together to discuss life.
A ROLE MODEL FOREVER
"He drew himself close to others by making himself available," Lindsay said. "He had a great way of making himself available to the people he loved and the people he was concerned about."
Senior guard Jeremy Case knows how lucky today's players are.
All eight blacks on this season's basketball team will fly on chartered jets. They'll eat meals Emeril Lagasse would approve. They'll live a life King could only have dreamed of in the 1950s.
"We have it great compared to him," Case said. "I couldn't imagine
Max Falkenstein said King shared more than an hour of memories.
"Maurice was a very fine player and very humble person," Falkenstein said. "He and Wilt were at the forefront for the integration of black athletes."
Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said the documentary was scheduled to be released later this fall.
a glimpse of king
About a month ago, Maurice King was in Lawrence to help the Athletics Department with a documentary of KU basketball featuring several player players and coaches.
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not staying with my teammates or having to shower in different showers and things like that. I'm thankful for what he did for us."
King gave lots of people reason to thank him. He was a loving father and husband. He was a basketball player and Hallmark employee. He was a leader for equal rights and a mentor to kids.
But Lindsay has another title for describing King: role model.
"Out of all my travels," Lindsay said, "I would go as far as to say he was one of the best and finest role models the country had to offer. He just had an amazing way of making sense out of madness."
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