SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, June 8, 1994
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Crew club grabs nationals by oars
Crew stroke Maggie Romens, three-seat Teri Staudacher, two-seat Kendra Luna, Bow seat Rosie Kozul, and coxswain Melissa Leim work on their rowing form and endurance during an afternoon practice at Clinton Lake. The team leaves for the NCAA championships in Cincinnati today.
Crew team captain Maggie Romens, Minneapolis, junior, gets into theteam's four-seat shell in unison with the rest of the team members. Romens and the rest of the team will be the only club team competing in the NCAA championship.
Photos by James Wilcox
Rosie Kozul, St. Louis, junior, and the other members of the women's crew team carry their four-seat shell down to the docks, Monday, while the team's coxswain Melissa Leim shouts instructions to the team. The crew team is currently training for the NCAA championships.
Students miss out on victories of spring competitors
Welcome to Mount Oread,
sports fans! We've got a lot of ground
to cover, so try and keep up.
Barring an unforeseen catastrophe today, the American League's owners will vote Chancellor Gene Badig into the league presidency. He would succeed a retiring Bobby Brown. The man who hired the men who took KU's basketball, football and baseball programs into national prominence is, in all probability, leaving. We'll miss you, Gene. You sure have left your mark.
It's official. The conference is going to be renamed The Big 12 when Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M and Baylor join the ranks. Imaginative. An admirable choice, though, considering their other options were The Big Crop Conference and The Great Plains Conference. Honest! They had to have a meeting and everything. I
guess they didn't like my idea: The Really, Really Big Conference. So there will be North and South divisions (presumably to add some Civil War-type drama into the mix.) but only for football and basketball. Oh, and maybe baseball. But basketball will still have one champ. Football will have, uh, two. And some teams may not play each other for two seasons, and... oh, never mind!
Now we come to the strange irony of the spring sports schedules. The sports plod along their respective seasons during the semester and then, the minute everyone packs up their bags, graduates or goes home, the spring sports reach their often exciting conclusions.
To wit:
Not only did the Kansas women's tennis squad bring home the first NCAA tournament victory in school
COMMENTARY
history before losing to California in the quarterfinals, but also the All-American doubles team of Rebecca Jensen and Nora Koves, seeded No. 3 in the tournament, won the NCAA doubles title. The victory gives the duo a wild card berth at this year's U.S. Open. Good luck, ladies. Steer clear of Jennifer Carriani.
The baseball team finished with a
40-win season and advanced to the NCAA regional for the second year in a row before bowing out to Brigham Young University, 8-3, in the third round of the Atlantic II regional. Pretty darn good for a program that, several years ago, was lucky to finish above the Mendoza line in winning percentage. Kudos to Dave Bingham for rejuvenating the program. First team All-Big Eight selections Darryl Monroe, centerfieldier, and Chris Corn, starting right-handed pitcher, as well as David Meyer, a left-handed starter, were selected in the recent amateur draft. Monroe was taken by the Detroit Tigers. Corn and Meyer were picked up by the New York Yankees. Maybe someday you'll make it to The Show. boys.
The 'Hawks softball team hosted an NCAA regional for the second time in three years. Missouri downed them
1-0, ending their season. They finished with a 37-20 record.
Luck, upsets, and ultimately, Big Eight titles came home to roost during the Big Eight Outdoor championships. Unranked senior Joe Pickett shocked himself as well as每听atthe meet as he nudged Nebraska standout Mark Graham at the tape in the 400-meter.
"There were people around me crying and going crazy," Pickett said. "I couldn't believe what had just happened."
Me either. We ran on the same milerelay team at South Junior High in Lawrence. I started off, he ran the anchor. We won the Eastern Kansas League title when we were in ninth grade. I guess he wasn't satisfied with a medal that could fool a soda machine into thinking it was a quarter.
"Do you still run, Gowen?" he asked me once.
"Only when chased," I replied.
Sophomore Kristi Kloster won the 800-meter Big Eight title for the third time in her two-year career, winning the outdoor title twice. She recovered from surgery on both calf muscles last year to do it. What a comeback!
- Sophomore Jeff Dietierch grabbed the Big Eight title in the javelin with a throw of 207-6. Kansas State's Dennis Nelson threw 208-8, but K-State was ineligible to compete for the 1994 team title, so Dietierch was awarded the 10 points and the title. Hey, a gold medal is a gold medal, right Mr. Dietierich?
OK. That's all. I promise. Any questions? I certainly hope not.
Matt Gwen is a Lawrence Junior majoring in Journalism.
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