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Wednesday, April 17, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
--volunteer service where she's on her feet with little kids all day," Guymon said.
Posters in the AIDS crisis
PAST THE COMPASS:
An exhibit of posters on AIDS, HIV, and Safer Sex
"It strains me past the compass of my wits" Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
April 14 - 20
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Kansas Union Gallery
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Mon. - Thur., & Sat. 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Fri. 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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KLOSTER:
Sun. 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Kloster owns five school records, including the open 800-meter run, but during her five years at Kansas she has missed three track seasons.
Two weeks ago at the Texas Relays, Kloster's legs were in excruciating pain. She had to have a therapist give her an hour and a half of treatment.
"Her determination has definitely gotten her places," Janet Kloster said. "Who knows how good she'd be if her legs were healthy."
At the indoor championships, Kloster was leading Arkansas-Little Rock's Dawn Williams until her legs went out with eight meters left.
Kloster stumbled, and it allowed Williams to catch up for a photo finish.
She missed the entire 1993 indoor and outdoor season and last year's outdoor season because of a condition called compartment syndrome, a disease in which the area for the calf muscle becomes smaller than the calf muscle itself.
Kloster has had two operations on each calf to release the compartments. She has had every compartment released in both legs except the deep posterior, which has been hurting her this year.
"What I saw her go through in two hours before she ran on Friday; she went through more pain than I've ever seen," Guymon said. "The guy
She ended up defeating Williams by four one-thousandths of a second.
determination has definitely gotten her places."
Janet Kloster Kristi Kloster's mother
"I were struggled with that a little lately," Kloster said. "Part of its team obligation, and part of it is Guymon's put so much effort to helping me get better that I think I do want to continue."
Despite the discomfort, Kloster ran a fast 800-meter leg of the relay, which helped the Jayhawks finish in third place.
Guymon said that former Jayhawk Michael Cox, who was competing at the meet, had to leave the room because it hurt him to watch the tears roll down Kloster's pained face.
So why does Kloster continue to run if she's in so much pain?
that was helping her said she is the toughest athlete he's ever been around, and he's been around some great, great athletes."
"She's insecure about her talent. She always feels like she's not working hard enough." Guvmon said.
Guymon designed a special work-out because of the condition of Kloster's calves.
"He takes time to figure out every single person's personal goal, and
that just is invaluable, "Kloster said. "Everybody loves him."
Kloster's boyfriend of four and a half years, Jason Burritt, who played football for Kansas, said he has never seen anyone tougher than Kloster.
"Kristi has really made KU a better place," Burritt said. "There's not many people who come in as student athletes and have it together like she does."
But before Kloster leaves campus, she will officially leave her mark among the Kansas greats. She will be the second woman track and field athlete inducted into the Kansas Hall of Fame, following Sheila Calmese.
Kloster said she would like to keep running if her legs are healthy.
"I do work hard, but it is a gift from God and I can't cut it off yet," Kloster said.
Kloster received a degree in early childhood education last May, and will receive a psychology degree this spring. She is currently waiting to hear if she will be accepted to the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
She has provisionally qualified for the Olympic Trials in the 800-meter run July 15 in Atlanta.
Her parents back her up, and are not pressuring her to continue running if she decides not to.
"I want her health more than anything." Gary Kloster said.
Kloster, who holds a Kansas Relays 400-meter dash record in the girls' high school division, will be competing this week in the Columbia Healthcare Kansas Relays.
She will run as a member of the Kansas women's two-mile relay team at 9:12 a.m. on Saturday, and she will run in the women's open 800-meter run at 3:28 p.m.
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