Friday, September 9, 1994
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SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Runners to face challenging teams
'Hawks' to meet defending champs
By Kent Hohlfeld
Kansan sportswriter
This weekend is the first step in a long climb for the Kansas men's and women's cross country teams. It's a climb that both teams hope will end on Nov. 21 in Fayetteville, Ark., the site of this year's NCAA championships.
The first test of Kansas' ability to reach that goal will be Saturday at the Jayhawk Invitational at Rim Rock Farm,northeast of Lawrence.
"This will be a good measuring stick of where we are as a team," said senior David Johnston, men's co-captain.
That test will include competing against the defending men's national champion Arkansas Razorbacks, a fact that has scared some teams from competing in the meet. Arkansas will
join Missouri and the Air Force Academy as the Jayhawks' strongest competition in the 12-team field.
"Some teams won't even run here because Arkansas has such a strong team," Kansas assistant coach Steve Guymon said.
This will be the first of two meetings between the teams. Kansas will run against Arkansas for the second time Oct. 1, when the Jayhawks compete in the Arkansas Invitational.
"Arkansas is at a national level that we want to build to," Guymon said. "This will also give us a chance to evaluate our strength and conditioning."
To reach the Razorbacks' level, the Kansas men will have to rebound from a season in which they finished eighth in the Big Eight and failed to make the NCAA championships.
Bolstering that effort will be the return of Johnston and senior co-captain Michael Cox.
The two were redshirted last year to save a season of eligibility while giving younger runners a chance to gain
experience.
"I think we're a little farther along than usual at this point," Johnston said. "We need to work on running as a pack better than we have."
Like the men's squad, the women's team is looking at the meet as one step toward its ultimate goal of reaching the national meet.
Last season the women's team won the District V meet and advanced to the NCAA championships for the first time in the team's history. Kansas finished 22nd in the meet.
Hampering the effort to repeat that performance will be the loss of three top runners. Julia Saul, Daniella Daggy and Ashley Ace graduated from last year's team.
The team will have to depend on senior co-captains Swartz and Kristi Kloster to help fill those spots.
"I think our expectations for the team are higher this year than they were last year," Swartz said.
"Being the first team to go to nationals, we really have a strong desire to return."
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