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Friday, March 22, 1996
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Javelin thrower spears success
By Adam Herschman
Kansan sportswriter
When Kansas senior javelin thrower Jeff Dieterich arrives at a meet, he's not sure what the reaction will be.
"I'm the type of guy that, you go to a track meet, and everybody looks at you, they're like, 'What do you do?'" Dieterich said. "I'm too big to be a spinner, and I'm not big enough to be labeled as a shot putter or discus thrower.
"People usually think I'm a baseball player."
Kansas assistant track and field coach Laurie Trapp said Dietierich was a good all-around athlete, but he didn't have a natural arm like some of his competitors.
"He doesn't have the incredible arm that most college javelin throwers have," Trapp said. "So we have to generate that arm speed by good approach and good position."
"If anything, he works too hard," Trapp said. "Usually I have to move him along, and keep him from overdoing it."
However, Dieterich compensates for his lack of natural ability with hard work and determination.
Kansas junior throuwer Brad Schepers is familiar with Dieterich's work ethic.
"He's been the type of guy to achieve success," Schepers said. "He's had to work twice as hard as anyone else. In the weight room, he's always doing that extra set. He's a very tough practicer. When he's done his shirt's just dripping wet."
The result of Dieterich's hard work and determined attitude has not only rubbed off on the sweatband of his Drake Relays hat, but on Schepers as well.
Schepers said practicing with Dieterich had made him a better thrower.
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"With practice in the fall, and with him wanting to work hard, it's made me work just as hard to not get beat by him," Schepers said. "It's made me a lot better thrower."
During his junior year at Ottawa High School, Dieterich threw the javelin 205 feet. The next year, he tore a tendon in his right elbow and could not throw as well.
With four wraps on his arm, Dietrich competed in the Kansas Relays and finished third.
Dietierch decided to attend Kansas in the fall and led the track and field team as a walk-on.
"It's really a tough thing to do," he said. "When they find out you're not on scholarship, no one really
Kansas senior Jeff Dietierich joined the track and field team as a walk-on and later earned a scholarship.
respects you."
Diederich quickly earned respect as a freshman. He made the traveling team, and finished second in the Big Eight Conference in javelin. That summer, he finished fourth at the Junior Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada
Dietierch earned a scholarship his sophomore year and a second-place finish at the conference championships.
"I worked so hard my freshman and sophomore years just to get that respect," he said.
This season, Dietierich hopes to improve his best throw of 216.9 feet. He finished fourth at the conference championships last year.
Dietierich competed last weekend at a meet at Pittsburg State, where he threw the javelin 215.9 feet, the second best throw of his career.
This weekend, the Kansas track and field team will compete in the Alabama Relays in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
"The one thing that it took for me to be where I am right now is a lot of hard work," Dieterich said.
Women's golf swings to Arizona
Kansan sportswriter
By Spencer Duncan
Kennson sportwriter
The Jayhawks will meet Oregon on Tuesday in Tucson, Ariz.
The Kansas women's golf team will spend its spring break on the golf course.
sure Hills Country Club.
The Jayhawks finished seventh earlier this week at the Lady Bronco Classic in Harlingen, Texas.
"It will give us an opportunity to play a competitive match and get some practice in," Kansas women's golf coach Jerry Waugh said.
Fifteen teams participated, and the event was held at the par 72 Trea-
Kansas finished 25 strokes behind tournament winner Hawaii. The Jayhawks shot a three-round total of 1,009.
The Bronco Classic, which was the Jayhawks' first tournament of the season, was plagued on Monday by winds of 40 to 60 mph.
Junior Missy Russell was Kansas' top performer with a seventh place individual finish. She shot an 87 in the opening round and followed that
She had a three round total of 245, nine strokes behind tournament winner Nancy Verastegui of Texas Pan-American, giving her the third top-10 finish of her career.
Freshman Mandy Munsch placed 22nd with a three round total of 252, and sophomore Beth Reuter finished in 28th place.
Junior Anne Clark tied for 43rd, and sophomore Lori Lauritsen finished in 60th place.
"We are working hard to improve." Munsch said. "We need to play well to qualify for the NCAA tournament."
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