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TRACK & FIELD
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Juniu pole vaulter Natalia Bartnovskaya propels herself over the bar in Kansas' home meet on Jan. 5. Bartnovskaya won her first NCAA indoor title Saturday at the NCAA Indoor Championships. At 14-7.25 feet, she broke her personal record and the University record, and became the eighth-highest indoor vaulter in NCAA history.
Kansas women claim second at NCAA Indoor Track Championship
CALVIN WHITNEY
cwhitney@kansan.com
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The Kansas women's track and field team took second place on Saturday at the NCAA Indoor Chamionship. For the second-straight season, the Jayhawks finished runner-up at the NCAA Indoor Championship.
Leading the way for the Jayhawks are national champions Andrea Geubelle and Natalia Bartnovskaya. Geubelle headed into the meet on Saturday coming off her first long jump national title from Friday night, and wanted to make NCAA history by having both the indoor long jump and triple jump titles. Geubelle had four jumps over 45 feet in her six attempts.
Geubelle looked comfortable all the way to the finals, having the overall lead heading into her last three jumps. San Diego State's Shanika Thomas kept Geubelle on her toes, finishing only a centimeter behind her. Geubelle, on her fourth attempt, had the largest jump of her career with a mark of 14.18 meters (46.625 f) and broke her own school
"It was a tremendous weekend with some great performances," said coach Stanley Redwine. "Having three national champions is amazing. The athletes and the coaches have done a great job of representing Kansas well and it's great to again see all their hard work paying off."
record. It was also the fourth-longest in NCAA history and was two inches shy of tying the American record. Geubelle became the fourth woman in NCAA history to win championships in both the long jump and triple jump at the NCAA indoor meet since 2003.
Bartnovskaya also had career best performances in the pole vault. She vaulted to five-straight clearances, without a foul, and was the only competitor to do so. With the bar up at 4.45 meters (14-7.25 ft.) and clearing it on her second attempt, she earned a new career-best and broke her own school record. This mark also put Bartnovskaya at the eighth-highest indoor vaulter in NCAA history.
Junior Diamond Dixon also competed for a repeat national champion in the 400 meters. Dixon entered the final with the seventh fastest qualifying time, with 52.77 seconds on Friday. She finished the finals on Saturday with a time of 52.38, a season-best time with a sixth-place finish. This is also her third straight First Team All-American honor in the 400 meters.
Sophomore Lindsay Vollmer competed in her first Indoor Championship meet and was looking to earn a top spot in the pentathlon. Vollmer had already broken the school record twice this season and had a personal best of 4,123 points. She is also the 2013 Big 12 champion
in the event. On Saturday, Vollmer recorded three personal bests in the five events. She tied a career best in the high jump (1.72 m [5-7.75 ft]), threw the shot put to a new indoor personal best of 12.10 meters (39-8.5 ft.) and had a career best in the long jump (5.87 meters [19-3.25 ft]). The sophomore finished fifth and was 30 plus points ahead of her personal best.
Denesha Morris, Paris Daniels, Taylor Washington and Diamond Dixon ended the meet by helping their team's chance at placing higher in the women's 4x400 meter relay. They finished third in their heat with a time of 3:34.91, finishing eighth-place and earning the final point for the Kansas women's track & field team. This proved significant because the Kansas women claimed second place with 44 points, right in front of third-place LSU who finished with 43 points.
The Jayhawks earned 44 total points, which is the most ever scored at an indoor national meet. The Oregon Ducks finished first overall with a total of 56 points. The Kansas men and women's track & field team have three weeks off until the outdoor season begins at the Texas Relays in Austin, Texas from March 27-30.
Edited by Julie Etzler
Jayhawks fall to Sooners in first conference match of season
As Jayhawks struggle Oklahoma sweeps Kansas
ROWING
by less than two seconds and the Second Novice Eight race by less than one second. Oklahoma won the Two Varsity Four and Two Varsity Eight races with larger margins. Despite the losses, coach Rob Catloth said the novice boats and varsity four boats had good races. He said the Varsity Eight Boats need to be faster.
Kansas started off the Sunday session by falling to Minnesota in a third varsity four race. At 10:20 a.m., the Jayhawks took on the Sooners.
The Kansas rowing team had a rough day on the river Sunday, losing all of its seven races. The team was swept by host team Oklahoma in a six-event duel at the Oklahoma Invite.
"We just need to get faster with our 1V8 and 2V8," Catloth said in a Kansas Athletics release. "They have quite a bit of extra water time that we don't have right now. Our novice and our fours were right there. Our eights need
to get closer to them. They are way ahead of us on boat selection and seeing who their best people are."
STELLA LIANG
sliang@kansan.com
The duel started with two close novice races, with Oklahoma winning the First Novice Eight race
The Oklahoma Invite started Saturday, with Kansas competing in duels against the University of Central Oklahoma and Kansas State. Kansas won four out of five events against Kansas State
The Jayhawks will travel to Oak Ridge, Tenn., for the Louisville Invite on March 16 and 17. The team will stay in Oak Ridge over spring break to practice.
-Edited by Julie Etzler
TYLER CONOVER
Freshman Anastasija Trubica continues to be undefeated in singles play this spring; on Friday, she advanced to 6-0, which is the best record on the team. Junior
TENNIS
During the weekend, the Jayhawk tennis team traveled to Norman, Okla. for its first Big 12 match of the spring. The Jayhawks lost to No. 40 Oklahoma 5-2.
tconover@kansan.com
From the first set, Kansas faced an uphill battle. It only managed one win in doubles play and two in singles play. There were only a few bright spots for Kansas on Friday.
No.105 singles player in the country. She defeated Kansas freshman Maria Jose Cardona in straight sets (6-0, 6-2).
The Jahawks were scheduled to play Oklahoma State on Sunday, but the weather had other plans, canceling the match. The game is scheduled for later this season on a date to be determined.
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Kansas continues action in 10 days when the team travels to Hilton Head, S.C., to take on New Jersey Institute of Technology, Georgia Southern and Bethune-Cookman.
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Going into the match, Kansas' doubles play was going to have to carry the team, as it has in almost every victory for the team this year. This posed a challenge as the Sooners trotted out the No. 49 doubles duo in the country in Hermon Brhane and Whitney Ritchie. Subsequently, the Jayhawks were not able to win more than one match in doubles play for only the third time this spring.
Paulina Los lost her singles match, but she and doubles partner sophomore Maria Belen Ludueña were able to get their seventh win of the season.
Oklahoma's Brhane is also the
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Senior Victoria Khanewska returns the ball in women's doubles against KSU Saturday, Sept. 27 for the KU Invitational: Khanewska and the Jayhawks lost to the Oklahoma Sooners 5-2 on Friday at Gregg Wadley Indoor Tennis Pavilion.
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