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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, February 15, 1968
Reamon gets talent without scholarships
By Ron Yates Kansan Staff Reporter
Minor sports traditionally stand at the end of the line when it comes time for athletic departments to hand out scholarships. In spite of this, swimming coach Dick Reamon has managed to attract quality swimmers to KU over the past six years.
"KU is building its swimming program," Reamon said. "Right now we are one of the major powers in the Big Eight and we are getting to the point where we should be able to do some good nationally."
"I spend eight to ten hours minimum with prospects in their homes telling them about our program," Reamon said. He must talk long and fast to get swimmers to come to KU because KU offers less than five full-time swimming scholarships, compared with 15 at Oklahoma University.
"OU is my major competitor when it comes to recruiting," Reamon said. Sooner coach Jay Markley was KU's swimming coach until 1962.
"Our program is based on desire; there is no money incentive," Reamon continued. Right now there are 21 swimmers on the varsity squad and 12 on the freshman squad. During the year, many of the team members help Reamon with his recruiting. By doing this, Reamon and his staff
can blanket Kansas and talk with many high school swimmers.
Reamon said he never recruits heavily outside the state because of the lack of money needed to attract out-of-state swimmers. He said all of KU's successful swimmers have come from Kansas high schools. Today, only one of KU's varsity tankers is from another state. Reamon recruited him from Bartlesville, Okla.
In addition to swimming, Reamon wants his swimmers to concentrate on their studies. "Our varsity squad had a 1.5 overall grade average this semester," Reamon said. He believes collegiate swimmers are a little different than other athletes. "Most of them represent a middle class background," he said.
Reason feels that athletic dormitories are bad for athletes.
"Dorms isolate athletes from the other students and they become stereotyped as 'animals,' he said.
"Actually, athletes are no different than the average student."
The stronger football program recently initiated at KU will tend to help the minor sports, Reamon believes. "After we get our major sports built up, the money will be directed toward the minor athletic areas. KU's track and basketball programs are well established. Now football is in the spotlight."
After football could come swimming.
U.S. takes second hockey victory
GRENOBLE, France —(UPI)— World Cup champion Nancy Greene of Canada, who wouldn't settle for anything less than gold, won the women's giant slalom at the Olympic Games today by an incredible margin of almost four seconds and Norway's Fred Anton Maier captured the 5,000-meter
speed skating event in world-
record time.
The United States ice hockey team scored two goals in the final 61 seconds of play to beat East Germany, 6-4, and register its second consecutive victory after four losses.
Top vaulters here tonight
Three 16-foot pole vaulters will highlight a triangular track meet tonight in Allen Field House between Kansas, Colorado and Oklahoma State.
Bob Steinhoff of the Jayhawks, Larry Curtis from O-State and Chuck Rodgers of the Buffaloes will meet in the vault for the first time this year.
Field events begin at 5:30 p.m. with the long jump. The vaulters will not swing into action until the long jump and triple jump have been completed because all three events use the same runway. Running events will get under way at 7:30 p.m. with the mile run.
Steinhoff and Rodgers appear to be returning to form after injuries during last year's indoor campaign which hampered them through the entire season.
Steinhoff won the Michigan State Relays crown with a vault of 16 feet, his best effort since straining a tricep in his left arm a year ago. Rodgers cleared 16-4$\frac{3}{4}$ last week, the highest indoor vault in Big Eight history.
Curts, with a best indoor vault of 16-1 registered last year in capturing the Big Eight crown, will be making his first indoor appearance of the season after missing earlier Cowboy meets because of the flu. Earlier this year he won the vault at the Sugar Bowl, an outdoor meet.
KU track coach Bob Timmons feels Kansas has the capability to win the meet.
John Cook an outstanding middle-distance runner from O-State.
Other highlights include the 1000-yard run, which, according to Timmons, should pit Jim Ryun, KU's world-record miler, against
Two All-American cross country runners for Colorado, Ricky Trujillo and Craig Runyan, should highlight a good field in the two-mile run.
KU's George Byers, who has the world's best time for the 60-yard low hurdles at 6.7 seconds, should run well in the high and low hurdles.
This is KU's only dual or triangular competition with Big Eight schools either indoor or outdoor this season.
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