A / SPORTS / WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2011 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
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WOMEN'S GOLF
Freshmen come up big for Jayhawks
The Kansas women's golf team placed sixth at the Baylor Spring Invitational this week in Waco, Texas. They finished only 26 strokes behind Texas Tech, who took home first place. Kansas shot a final-round score of 296, which is the second-lowest round by the team this season.
Freshmen Meghan Potee and Thanutra Boonraksasat came up big for the Jayhawks. Potee tied for 15th place after carding a 56-hole score of 228. Her 15th-place
finish is a career best. Boonrakasat got off to a rough start in her first few days of play, but ended the tournament strong by shooting a tournament-best of 68 in the final round of play. She finished five strokes back from Potee and tied for 29th place. Her final-round score of 68 was also the lowest a freshman has ever recorded at Kansas, and the second-best round in KU history.
Upperclassmen also came up big for the Jayhawks. Senior Grace Thiry shot a final-round score of 75 and finished with a three- round collective score of 234. She tied for 32nd place.
Senior Meghna Bal recorded a final-round score of 76, finishing the tournament with a collective score of 236. She tied with junior Katy Nugent for 42nd place. Nugent shot a final-round score of 77. Senior Jennifer Clark competed individually and placed and tied for 35th after carding a 56-hole score of 235. Clark also shot a season low of 75 in the final round. The Jayhawks will compete in the Big 12 Championship in Columbia, Mo., April 22-24.
—Laura Drummond
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ROWING
Kansas recognized in Big 12 academics
Out of 161 rowers on the Big 12 Academic At-Large Teams, 20 are from Kansas.
The rest made second-team recognition: Ashleigh Allam, Molly Boehner, Lindsay Bricklemyer, Amber Malone, Meaghan Oven, Caitlin Roach and Kathryn Schoonover garnered second-team recognition.
The rowing team had 12 student athletes selected to the first team: Allison Able, Megan Boxberger, Katherine Bremer, Karlie Brown, Cassy Cobble, Elise Langtry, Melanie Luthi, Rachele Pauly, Lauren Pollmiller, Kellie Roy, Jessica Said, Nicole Schneider, Cassie Sparks and Paige Stephens.
The teams are composed of Big 12 schools that have sports outside of the conference's competition. These could include bowling, gymnastics, skiing and rifling.
better and second-team members needed a GPA of 3.0 to 3.19. Senior Nicole Schneider was one of six athletes in all of the Big 12 with a 4.0 GPA.
First-team rowers qualified with an overall GPA of 3.20 or
The rowing team is coming off a first- and second-place finish Sunday at the Knecht Cup hosted by Villanova.
The next competition will be in Kansas City, Kan., against Kansas State on Saturday, April 23.
-By Corey Thibodeaux
Members of the varsity rowing team compete in Kansas City against Texas Saturday, April 2. Twenty rowing members from Kansas were selected as Big 12 Academic At-Large recepcients; twelve were selected for the first team and the rest made the second team.
TRACK AND FIELD
Men's and women's teams ranked
For the first time this season, both the Kansas men's and women's track and field teams are ranked in the top 25 of the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association poll released
Tuesday. The men fell two spots to 14th in the country, while the women are ranked 25th.
In the preseason poll, the women were ranked 14th in the computer-generated poll, and the men were unranked. The men entered the poll for the first time last week at No. 12, while the women
dropped out. This week, the men's 124.64 points were good for 12th, a decrease of 1.91 points from last week's poll. The women gained 2.59 points for a total of 87.34 points, moving them up one spot to 25th.
By Geoffrey Calvert
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