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University Daily Kansan/Thursday, November 14, 1991
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Recruit officially signs with Kansas
Kansanstaffreport
Kansas officially landed its first recruit of the 1991-92 season yesterday.
Chris Davis, a 6-foot-7 forward, from Lakeland, Fla., became the first recruit this season to sign a letter of intent to play basketball at Kansas.
He averaged 18 points and 1 rebounds a game at Kathleen High School in Lakeland, Fla.-last season.
Davis transferred to Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Va., for his senior year of high school.
Davis earlier had orally committed to Kansas, choosing the Jayhawks instead of the University of Pittsburgh. St. John's and Florida State.
Oak Hill Academy Coach Steve Smith said Davis signed the letter yesterday after the papers had been signed and sent to him by his mother, who lives in Florida.
"Chris is very athletic and a very quick jumper," Smith said.
"Going to Kansas will benefit both him and Kansas.
"He's an aggressive-type player, who is very powerful, but a slashing-type inside player."
Lady Hawks prepared for season opener
Kansas Sportswriter
After a month of practice, the Kansas women's basketball team will open its season tonight against the German National team.
Bv David Mitchell
"We're ready to go," said senior point guard Kay Kary Hart. "We're tired of playing the same people. We hang up against some different people."
However, the team is not 100 percent. Junior guard Jo Jo Witherspoon is not fully recovered from leg surgery in October.
"She will play, but she's not in condition yet," Coach Marina Washington said.
Even more noticeable will be the absence of 6-foot-3 junior center Lisa Tate, who has been sidelined with a stress fracture in her left tibia.
Assistant athletic trainer Susie Whearing said a normal fracture takes six to eight weeks to heal, but because Tate's stress fracture was in the middle of the tibia, it was difficult to say when Tate would be able to play again.
"It's a dangerous area," Wehring said. "If she doesn't stay off of it, it could become a full-blow fracture. That's the danger."
"We're smaller without Lisa Tate. We'll have to emphasize quickness," Washington said.
Hart said the team's smaller line-up could be able to out run the Germans, who have a good chance.
"Obviously, they're going to have a height advantage against us without Tate. 'Hart said.' "Everyone inside is here," they run a lot, but I think we'll be coughed."
Washington said the probable starters for tonight's game would be Hart and junior Stacy Truitt at guard and seniors Terrilyn Johnson and Danielle Shareef at the forward positions.
Yesterday, Washington had not decided whether freshman guard Angela Aycock or senior guard Tanya Donahue would play. Bonham started 12 games last season.
Hart said that despite the injury problems, the team was ready to play.
"I're really excited," she said. "If we're going to be the team I think we are, its going to be exciting to finally see it out on the court."
Washington said the exhibition game would be an opportunity to test the team's ability before their season begins. Illinois Nov. 23 against Illinois-Chicago.
Tip-off will be at 7:30 tonight at Allen Field House.
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The Lady Jayhawks were picked to win the Big Eight Conference in the preseason coaches poll.
Hart and Shareef were selected as Phillips 66/Big Eight Classroom Champions for the 19th season with averages of 3.78 and 3.38 respectively.
KU wins invitational tourney
By Jeff Kobs
Kansan Sportswriter
After being forced inside by a two-week cold snap, the Kansas men's golf team adjusted to the warm Louisiana weather as the Hal Sutton Invitational Tuesday.
Kansas easily won the 12-team tourn-
nament at the Shreveport Country
High School.
"We got in some good tournament rounds," Kansas coach Ross Randall said. "It wasn't the strongest competition, but it was what I was pleased how we played overall."
The Jayhawks finished with a team total of 861strokes in the 54-hole tournament. Oral Roberts placed second with a score of 885, followed by Northeast Louisiana in third with 887.
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Charlie Rotherhee from Tulane was the individual champion with a 210 stroke total. Casey Brozek finished third and overall with 213 strokes.
Cold weather forced the team to practice inside Anschutz Sports Pavilion all two days during a two week period leading up to the tournament.
The team doesn't normally practice indoors until January or February.
*We have an unwritten rule that if
it's over 35 (degrees) and the golf course is open then we'll practice outside." Randall said. "Indoor practice is better than the same but it's the best we can do."
Randall said that when the team practiced inside it hit golf balls about 30 to 40 yards into nets that were set up in Anschutz.
"It more just trying to keep the golf muscles conditioned than it is a practice," he said. "You need to see the curve, but you can just 'do that inside.'"
Junior Jim Young, who shot a 225 total at the tournament, said the team handled the adjustment from indoor practice to outdoor playing well.
"We were a little stiff and rusty, but once we started the practice round everything was OK." Young said. "We played and play golf was a breath of fresh air."
Brozek led Kansas and was second in the field after the first day with rounds of 71 and 69.
The Jayhawks jumped to an early lead and never looked back in the two-day tournament. After the 36-hole first day Kanas led the field by 12 strokes.
"At this level it is really just a mental game," Randall said. "I think the practice they missed outside caused them to focus and try harder.
"They didn't get careless because
they were not on cruise control. "
Brozek said he didn't get down on himself when he hit a bad shot.
it was Kansas' second tournament victory in four tries this fall. The other victory came in the Kansas Invitational in September.
"Considering how much we had been outside, I wasn't expecting so much," he said. "When I shot my 69 I shot some really ugly shots.
"I kept a positive attitude and was able to knock in some long putts."
Brown gets his shot at pro ball
Kansas will end its fall schedule Nov. 29-Dec.1 at the Rice University Invitational in West Columbia, Texas.
Former Kansas guard signed to new league's Wichita team
y David Mitchell
Kansan Sportswriter
While the Kansas basketball team is preparing for its 1991-92 regular season, former Jayhawk Terry Outlaw, working hard to become an Outlaw
Brown was signed in September by the Wichita Outaws of the newly formed Global Basketball Association.
He survived the team's first cut
Monday night with a 7-point, 7-of-7
shooting performance in an intra-
squad scrimmage.
The Outlaws trimmed their roster to 15, but must cut five more players by Nov. 20.
"I wash my. Brown said." "I was a big relief. You have to go out and play hard so you don't get cut. You prove yourself over and over again."
His efforts earned him second team All-Big Eight honors from United Press International and he was named to the All-Southeast Regional Team during the 1991 NCAA Tournament.
As a backup in his junior year at Kansas, Brown hit 89 of 208 three pointers, but his defense was suspect.
Last year, Brown moved into a starting role. He hit a Big Eight conference record 111 three pointers and scored, averaging 16 points a game.
Brown said that despite his improvement, the no-defense tag hadstuck.
However, the 6-foot-1 guard also grabbed 125 rebounds, third highest on the team. He was also third in steals with 43.
Brown tried out with the Atlanta
Hawks of the NBA in August, but was not picked up. Outlaws assistant coach Brad Shore said that Brown's defense was still a problem.
"The NBA felt Terry was a one-dimensional player." Shore said. "He seemed not to care about defense, according to the scouts."
"He was as good as cut before the scrimmage." Shore said. "But we had to keep him to see what he could do. He was on the bubble."
Shore said that Brown's performance Monday helped him survive the first cut.
"When he gets hot, the ball will go in most of the time, but you can't be just a shooter. You have to play defense too."
Shore said Brown had improved a great deal since his junior year.
"His game has changed considerably, " Shore said. "He's more of a complete player."
Brown has plenty of competition fighting for the Outlaws off-guard position. Wichita is looking at Ricky Henderson, who can played for Kansas in 1980.
Former Colorado guard Cody Walters and Wichita State guard Paul Guffrobiche are also in camp.
Brown said that regardless of what happened in Wichita, he would play professional basketball.
"I think I got a really good shot," he said. "I try not to worry about it, but if I don't make it, I'll probably get picked up by another team."
Brown said he passed on offers to play in the Continental Basketball Association this summer while association players overseas that eventually fell through.
Shore said the 11-team GBA was comparable with the CBA.
"You'll find a lot of players from the CBA in our league," he said. "We're both developmental leagues and a lot of response from the NBA."
Former Kansas guard Terry Brown is playing for the Wichita Outlaws.
Kansas' Vaughn learns leadership on and off field
The Associated Press
Kansas cornerback Robert Vaughn joined a gang in inner-city Chicago when he was in the seventh grade. He shot at people, was shot at, stabbed and spent a year in jail, all before he was 17 years old.
While in jail, Vaughn realized that his life's mission would not give him a chance to win.
"I was continually going back and forth to jail when I realized I wouldn't be going anywhere," he said. "I was seeing of seeing my friends get killed."
With the help of his counselor and guardian, Vaughn moved to suburban Yorkville, III., to begin a gang-free life. Vaughn was the only African-American student at Yorkville High School.
"I'll never forget the first day I went and registered, and I went home and I asked my guardian, 'Jeff,' where are all the Black people?' He said, 'Oh, I forgot to tell you, there aren't any," Vaughn said.
Vaughn, however, was not going to let that stand in the way. He served as sophomore class vice-president, vice-president of the Student Council as a junior and president as a senior.
"All my life I've felt like a leader, and I still feel that I'm a leader," he said. "It was just a matter of having people direct my leadership abilities. When I was in the gang I was considered an enforcer. Were in a leadership role. It just wasn't positive."
Vaughn was a leader on the football field, too. At Yorkville, he rushed for 1,464 yards and was named most valuable player as a senior.
Vaughn has started six of Kansas' nine games this season, highlighted by a two-interception game against Kansas State.
Vaughn, a sophomore, is majoring in political science and hopes to attend KU Law School. He said he felt a need to help others in the situation he was in.
"It is not so much that I went through it, but I feel the need to help people who want to change because there are a lot of people who are borderline," he said.
Powerlifter will compete internationally in Sweden
By Ben Grove
Special to the Kansan
The day before D汪 Wagman left to compete in international powerlifting competition in Orebro, Sweden, he got up at 4 a.m.
His internal clock was set to Swedish time. where it was 11 in the morning.
Adjusting to the seven-hour time change came at the end of a vigorous training schedule that lasted two months. Wagman, a doctoral student at Kansas, trained in three-hour training in a row followed one day of rest.
"You get to the point where you are so conditioned that you don't get sore anymore. "Wagman said."
Wagman, who balances a training schedule with studies in sports psychology, won the 1991 national power-lifting competition for the third time in four years. He placed third in 1988. After placing first in his 181-pound category, the U.S. man chosen to compete with the U.S. power-lifting team in Sweden.
At 5-foot-7, Wagman will be bench pressing more than two and a half times his own body weight. His best lifts in competition include a 470-pound bench press, a 710-pound dead lift, a 750-pound lifts comprise the power lifting event.
Dan Wagman, doctoral student, completes a curl repetition.
He said he expected to finish in the top three in Sweden.
In the off-season, Wagman weighs as much as 210 pounds and takes six or seven weeks to lose about 30 pounds. He keeps his weights constant he constantly monitors his fat and
"The lifer with the most intelligent approach to training is the lifer who'll win the competition," Wagman said. "I enjoy the training, but it's hard sometimes. It takes a lot of discipline, especially the diet of part it."
calorie intake and never drinks alcohol.
"I don't go out much," Wagman said.
"If I won't strict with myself, where do I draw the line? I will just abstain a lot."
I look at you. What am I doing out here
in I think, 'What are you training, and
preparing for the world?'
Wagman said that success in his sport came from being mentally pre-
nared.
"You have to be highly focused," Wagman said. "You have to be highly motivated and highly concentrated on the task at hand."
Wagman said that his mind went before during tests. Before lifes, however, he had to think on his own.
"I think drive, power, explosion," Wagman said. "I approach with a positive attitude. In your mind, you see yourself lifting the weight. I've seen myself lifting the weight over and over again."
"You're pretty much on your own," Wagman said. "I use my academic studies to my advantage. I use what I know to help me with my physiology and apply it to my training."
Wagman said that he and the U.S. coach did not communicate often.
Mary Tuley, Belleville senior, frequently trains with Wagman. He said that the national champion wasn't his son. "You don't know of his physical size might appear to be."
Robin Wallace, Wagman's fiancee, first met him when he was at the gym
"When people first meet him and find out he is getting his doctorate, I think it just blows their mind," Tuley said. "He is not like someone you would normally think of in his position and ranking in the world."
Wagman himself admitted that his first impression could be intimidating.
"I was kind of scared of him," Wallace said. "He was so intense, but after I got to know him, I found that he was an extreme gentleman. It's the complete opposite of what people see when they see him compete."
"People obviously see the physique first," Wagman said. "I think that once people get to know me, they find out I'm just a normal guy. Someone that I am not is the same type of person that stereotype someone in a different race."
International powerlifting rules demand that competitors take drug tests. There is a list of more than 50 pages of drugs that will disqualify a competitor from the caffeine. Even several over-the-counter cold medications are on the list.
One of the stereotypes that frustrates Wagman is that all muscle-bound athletes use steroids.
"I'm so sick and tired of people equating an athlete's success with drugs," Wagman said.
Currently, powerlifting is not an Olympic sport like weightlifting, and Wagman is an active representative for making it one. He has been passing on the sport to the children and is preparing to send them to and is joining the Olympic Committee.
He also is working with Wayne Ossess, head of Kansas' department of health, physical education and recreation program, to help generate interest in making powerlifting an official activity. Ossess is a member of the USOC.
Wagman said that the current Olympic weightlifting event involved more technique than a test of human strength.
"The Worlds are great," Wagman said. "But the Olympics are the ultimate challenge."
If powerfishing were an Olympic event in 1986, Wagman said he would not have made the decision.
"Yeah, Oh, yeah." Wagman said the day before he left for Sweden.
"One step at a time though."