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SWIMMING AND DIVING
EMILY WITTLER/KANSAN FILE PHOTO
Christy Cash, a senior on the University of Kansas swimming and diving team, dives at a Feb. 2 meet against Arkansas inside Robinson Natatorium. Cash placed third in both of the diving events.
Senior swimmer Cash clinches spot in finals
STELLA LIANG
sliang@kansan.com
Senior Christy Cash made it to the finals of the one-meter competition Tuesday at the Zone "D" Diving Championship in Houston. She placed 17th in the six-dive preliminary round to advance. Out of 46 divers, the top 18 competitors advanced to the finals.
Cash placed herself in position to qualify from the beginning of the competition. She scored 49.20 points with her first dive to earn 12th place. She slipped to 19th place after round five. On her sixth and final dive, the inward two somersault tuck, she scored 42.05 points. This brought her point total to 256.45, which was enough to earn her a spot in the finals.
The action resumes Wednesday for the 10-meter platform event. All three jayhawks will compete. This competition features five dives with the top 12 scorers in the preliminary round moving on to the finals. At this event last year, Cash finished 15 points shy of making the finals.
Cash also finished the competition in 17th place after the finals. Final scores are added to qualifying scores, and Cash ended the afternoon with 521.05 points.
Junior Alyssa Golden and freshman Meredith Brownell also competed in the preliminaries. Golden finished in 43rd place with 209.95 points, and Brownell took 37th place with 224.90 points. Golden's best dive, the inward one-and-a-half somersault pike, came in round one. Brownell also earned her high score on this dive, in round six.
St. Germain earned third place.
Missouri junior Loren Figueroa won the one-meter event with 623.35 points after finishing the preliminaries in first place with 316.10 points. Minnesota junior Margaret Keefer earned second place. Texas A&M senior Rebecca
Diving starts 11 a.m. at the University of Houston Campus Recreation and Wellness Center in Houston. Wednesday is the last day of the Zone "D" Diving Championship, and seven divers will qualify for the NCAA Championship from this zone.
Edited by Madison Schultz
Penn State releases document stating cost of Freeh report
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'STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State has released a document sought by some of its critics detailing the agreement with former FBI director Louis Freeh to investigate the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, a review that cost the school about $8.1 million.
Including the bill to pay Freeh, Penn State's total costs associated with the scandal topped $41 million as of the end of December, the university disclosed Monday on a website.
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The monthly financial update provided more itemization for certain costs, including the Freeh report. The update also counted the first of five annual $12 million installments — paid in December — that would ultimately cover the $60 million fine from the NCAA as part of landmark sanctions for the scandal.
The letter from Freeh was signed Dec.2, 2011 by then-board chair Steve Garban and trustee Kenneth Frazier, who headed the trustees committee to which Freeh reported.
on university leadership to release itemized costs, in part to promote transparency. Those critics had also asked the university to release the letter of agreement, or "engagement letter" with Freeh, that outlined the scope and responsibilities of the former FBI director in leading the internal investigation into the scandal.
That review raised new questions about the report and the university's handling of the findings from the alumni critics, some exp players and a handful of trustees including the outspoken Anthony Lubrano. In particular, Lubrano has said the school should ask for a refund from Freeh because the investigation was not full or complete.
Freen concluded that Paterno and three school administrators acted to conceal allegations against Sandusky to protect the school's image. The administrators have vehemently denied the findings.
Some vocal alumni had called
Golfer swallowed by 18-foot sinkhole while on fairway
and unfounded, and resulted in a "rush to injustice."
Paterno died in January 2012. Last month, an exhaustive critique commissioned by his family called Freed's findings inaccurate
The engagement letter outlined that Freeh's findings would cover why there were failures to report; who knew about allegations; and how the allegations were handled by trustees, administrators, coaches and other staff.
"I feel lucky just to come out of it with a shoulder injury, falling that far and not knowing what I was going to hit," Mihal, from the St. Louis suburb of Creve Coeur, told The
The report "also will provide recommendations ... for actions to be taken to attempt to ensure that those and similar failures to not occur again," read the letter posted by Penn State.
Friends managed to hoist Mihal to safety with a rope after about 20 minutes. But the experience gave him quite a fright, particularly following the much-publicized recent death of a man in Florida who died when his bedroom fell into a sinkhole. That man's body hasn't been found.
Associated Press before heading off to learn whether he'll need surgery. "It was absolutely crazy."
down a hill. But one of them heard Mihal's moans and went to investigate.
The 43-year-old mortgage broker was counting his blessings Tuesday and nursing a dislocated shoulder sustained four days earlier when he tumbled into an 18-foot deep sinkhole on the 14th hole of the Annbriar Golf Club near Waterloo, Ill., just southeast of St. Louis.
Golfing with buddies, Mihal was waiting to hit his third shot when he noticed a bathtub-looking indentation about knee deep just behind him on the fairway.
Getting panicky and knowing his shoulder "was busted," Mihal assessed his dilemma in pitch darkness as he rested on a mound of mud, wondering if the ground would give way more and send him deeper into the pit that was 10-feet wide at the opening, then broadened out into the shape of a bell below the surface.
ST. LOUIS — Suddenly being swallowed up by the earth on a golf course's fairway drove a wedge between Mark Mihal and a stellar round.
"He just thought it was some crazy magic trick or something." Mihal said.
Mihal remarked about how awkward it would be to hit out of the odd depression, and then walked over to give it a closer look and took one step onto it.
His golfing buddies didn't see him vanish into the earth but noticed he wasn't visible, figuring he had tripped and fallen out of sight
Mihal said it was a real downer on what had been a fine outing.
"I was looking around, clinging to the mud pile, trying to see if there was a way out," he said. "At that point, I started yelling."
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A ladder that was hustled to the scene was too short, and Mikal's damaged shoulder crimped his ability to climb.
"It itd look unstable," he said. "And then I was gone. I was just freefelling. It felt like forever, but it was just a second or two, and I didn't know what I was going to hit. And all I saw was darkness."
One of his golf partners made his way into the hole, converted his sweater into a splint for Mihal and tied a rope around his friend, who was pulled to safety.
With winter finally nearing an end, "it was the first day to get to play in a long time," he said. "So I wasn't expecting too much."