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Monday, June 10, 2013
ALL WE DO IS WIN
The University Daily Kansan
A MONUMENTAL VICTORY
Women's track and field team claims first national title in University's history for any female sport
MAX GOODWIN
mgoodwin@kansan.com
The Kansas women's track and field team was welcomed at Allen Fieldhouse yesterday afternoon as they returned from Eugene, Ore. with the first national championship trophy for the school in women's track and field.
Coach Stanley Redwine and senior Andrea Geubelle thanked the fans for showing their support, and the team then raised the trophy together on James Naismith Court before walking over to the Wagnon Student Athlete Center for a press conference.
"We knew we had talent across the board," Redwine said at the press conference. "We knew it would be a team effort."
Of the 13 women that qualified to compete at the national championship meet, 11 earned points toward the overall team score.
The only Jayhawk to win an individual title was sophomore Lindsay Vollmer in the heptathlon, which came as a surprise to all six of the Kansas coaches, as well as Vollmer herself.
Vollmer set a personal record in six of the seven events of the heptathlon, and set a school record in the heptathlon as well as the tenth best score in NCAA championship history at 6,086 points.
"I never thought I was going to place that high at a national meet," Vollmer said. "I just wanted to do as well as I could do for the team."
Vollmer said each time she set a new personal record in one of the events of the heptathlon it gave her confidence that carried over to the next event.
"A PR (personal record) impacts
you a lot," Vollmer said. "It just boosts your confidence and raises you level of performance for the next event."
The Kansas victory was so dominant that, as coach Tom Hays pointed out at the press conference, the team would have won the title with just the 48 points it accumulated in the first three days of the four day competition.
The Jayhawks scored a total of 60 team points, winning by 16 points over Texas A&M.
"We're talking about a total team effort," Redwine said to the media. "It started with the coaching staff. The athletes did what we asked them to do, and did a great job. They bought into it because they wanted to achieve it."
Edited by Allison Kohn
ERIN BREMERKANSAN
The women's track and field team were welcomed home at Allen Fieldhouse yesterday after their national championship win on Saturday.
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