UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, April 10, 1996
3B
Kansas Relays to begin corporate partnership
New sponsor should improve competition at annual track meet
By Adam Herschman Kansan sportswriter
Columbia Healthcare will be the new corporate sponsor for the Kansas Relays which will take place April 17-20 in Memorial Stadium. It will now be called The Columbia Healthcare Kansas Relays.
"The sponsorship provides us financial support that allows us to better promote the Relays and enhance the event," Kansas associate athletic director Betsy Stephenson said. "The Kansas Relays has a wonderful tradition, and we want to re-involve people in the relays."
This is the first year of a multi-year contract between the Relays and Columbia Healthcare. The relays will also be sponsored by individuals, as it has been in previous years.
Columbia Healthcare is a national health care corporation that runs hospitals, clinics and surgery centers. They run the Mount Oread Medical Arts Centre in Lawrence. It is located on Clinton Parkway.
The money from the sponsor and other private contributors will be put toward improving the field of competitors, the promotions and the advertising.
One of the bigger advertisements is a banner that can be seen on Allen Field House.
Kansas Track and field coach Gary Schwartz said that some of the money was spent on appearance fees.
"We try to find a high-profile college team or high-profiled club," Kansas track and field coach Gary Schwartz said. "Well, we found a high-profiled club team in Nike Central."
Besides Nike Central, former Jayhawks and Olympic pole vault hopefuls Scott Huffman and Pat Manson will compete at the Relays. Huffman is the American pole vault
recordholder.
"The goal is to create an event that will bring more people in to see it," Schwartz said. "In this day and age, in order to create an event you have to pay for it."
Last year Columbia Healthcare sponsored the Columbia Mount Oread Run which they will sponsor again this year.
The Columbia Mount Oread Run is road race that takes place April 13, and it's also the official opening event of the Columbia Healthcare Kansas Relays.
Keeping with tradition, the relays' high school meet will feature topflight competition. The college teams will include Kansas, Michigan, Kansas State, Arkansas State, United States Naval Academy, and Missouri.
"The Kansas Relays are still a popular event to athletes and coaches in high school and college," Schwartz said. "What we're trying to do is add some whistle and bells, in hope that it will attract some people."
Women's golf struggles in Oklahoma
Kansan staff report
The Kansas women's golf team finished eighth out of 12 teams yesterday at the Susie Maxwell Berning Classic in Norman, Okla.
individual players in Brooke Lowrance and J.J. Rorie, who both finished with scores of 228.
No. 26 Texas Tech placed first at the tournament, held at The Trails Golf Club. The Red Raiders posted a team score of 942, and had the top two
The Jayhawks, whose team score was 992, were led by junior Anne Clark, who shot a 243, and freshman Mandy Munsch, who shot a 246.
Kansas is now off until the Big Eight Conference championship, hosted by Iowa State on April 21-23.
Golfers earn spots on Big Eight honor roll
Kansan staff report
Nine Kansas golfers were named to the Phillips 66 Big Eight Academic Honor Roll yesterday.
Three Kansas men's golfers were selected to the first team: seniors Dan Rooney and Alan Stearns and freshman Chris Thompson. Rooney had a grade point average of 3.38, Stearns had a 3.24 GPA and Thompson's average was 3.30.
Two men's golfers made the second team. Junior Kit Grove made the team with a 3.22 GPA, and sophomore Brad Barnett had a 3.37 GPA.
Stearns, Rooney and Grove were selected last year, also. The men's team had the highest GPA—3.17—of all the athletic teams at Kansas last semester.
On the women's side, four players made the second team. Sophomore Lori Lauritsen made the second team with a 3.52 GPA, junior Kelly Marney had a 3.68 GPA and junior Jessica Thompson had a 3.64 GPA.
Senior Lynn Williamson made history by making the team for a fourth consecutive year with a 3.68 GPA. Williamson and Nebraska's Michelle Patterson are the only two women ever to make the honor roll four times.
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