University Daily Kansan / Thursday, May 4, 1989
Sports
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Coach sees progress despite sixth straight loss
Kansas centerfielder Pat Karlin reaches to touch home plate during Wichita State's 7-2 victory over the Jayhawks last night.
Year's recruiting sways nine swimmers
hv Brett Brenner
Kansan sportswriter
After almost a year of recruiting efforts have paid off for the Kansas swim team. The team has signed a new contract, rejecting commitments from two more
Brad Wells, assistant coach, said recruiting was a year-round endeavor. The coaches are allowed three personal visits with the athlees, unlimited phone calls and a campus visit.
Wells said the academic reputation of the University of Kansas was a selling point for the team.
Zhawn Stevens, a recruit from Enid. Okla. agreed.
"I'm going there, number one,
because it has a good educational
reputation," he said. "number two,
or really just the coach and
the kids."
The campus visit also made a favorable impression on Stevens.
"Meeting all of the swimmers was great," he said. "I'd swim in meets against some of them. They were friendly. I felt like I wasn't an
Wells said that about 40 swimmers visited the campus, met with academic advisers, coaches and staved with swimmers.
Two more expected to commit to KU
He said that the recruiting class held a lot of promise.
Of the nine swimmers who have signed with the Jayhawks, three are high school students and two point averages and two qualified for the Olympic trials.
Here are profiles of the nine recruits who have signed with Kan-
■ Aimee Braindair, a high school All-American from Litchfield, Ariz. has Kansas roots. Her father, Bill Brainard played basketball for the Jayhawks from 1954 to 1956. She swam for Aqua Fria Union High School and the Tempe Swim Devils. She was the Arizona state champion in the 50-meter and 100-meter freestyle and is a 4.0 student. She was a Senior National and Olympic qualifier in sprint freestyle events.
The Junior National Championships are national championships for swimmers who are 18 years old or younger. Senior National Areas are for any age swimmer that qualifies.
■ Marnee Dietrich, a high school All-American from Omaha, Neb. swam for Omaha Westside High School where she was a Nebraska state champion in the 50 freestyle
and the 100 breast stroke and was selected the state meet's outstanding swimmer two years in a row. She was a Junior National finalist in the 200 individual medley and the 200 breast stroke. She qualified for the Senior National championships and the Olympic trials in the breast stroke.
- Lauri Hill is from Pioneer High School in San Jose, Calif., and swam for the San Joe Aquatics. She is transferring from New Mexico State University, where she was a two-time silver medalist and 200 freestyles and the 200 backstroke. She was a Senior National qualifier in the 200 and 500 freestyles.
Troy Reynolds from Wichita, swam for the Wichita Swim Club. He was a Junior National finalist in the 200 freestyle and champion in the 200 butterfly. He qualified for the Senior competition in the 500 freestyle and the 200 butterfly.
■ Shawn Stevens, a high school All-American from Enid, Okla., swam for Enid High School and the Aquatic Club of Enid. He was the Oklahoma state champion in the 200 individual medley and the 100 breast stroke and was named the outstanding athlete in Oklahoma. He was a Senior Nationals qualifier in the individual medley and the breast stroke.
Suzanne Ryan is from Klein Forest High School in Houston and swam for the Aqua-Tex swim team. She was a junior National swimstroke star, the 200 and 400 individual medley. She has a 4.0 GPA
Kristie Taylor from Hawken High School in Strongville, Ohio, swam for the Lake Erie Silver Dolphins. She was a state finalist in the 200 individual medley and the 500 freestyle events in both the 500 and 1,650 freestyles and the 200 and 400 individual medles. She was a finalist in the 1,650 freestyle.
- Robert Townsend from Portland, Ore, swam for Reynolds High School and also the Mount Hood swim team. He was a Junior Nationality qualifier in the 50 freestyle and a finalist in the 50 freestyle.
■ Michelle Wilde from Northgate High School in Walnut Creek, Calif., swam for the Walnut Creek Aqua Bears during the summer. She was a member of the swim team and broke stroke and qualified for the Senior National championships.
by Mike Considine Kansan sportswriter
A 7-2 loss to Wichita State extended Kansas' losing streak to six games, but Jayhawk baseball coach Dave Johnson scored most of the points in his team's play last night.
"There's no doubt about that," Bingham said. "The kids really competed well. They were just a better team than we were tonight."
Houssas, 29-29, travels to Wichita State for a 7 p.m. game tonight to conclude the four-game season series between the teams. Bingham said the Jayhawks were better last night and had in its previous two losses to the Shockers, 49-9.
"We just needed a few base hits to stay in the ballgame," he said. "I felt like, with the exception of (starter) Jeff, we didn't need staff did a good job for us tonight."
The Shockers, ranked third nationally in the Baseball America poll, scored three runs to take the lead in the first inning.
**Wucca State designated hitter**
Eric Wedge doubled to drive in the first two Shocker runs. McGinnis,
Steve Hobson, and Terry Walters walk to give Wichita State a 3-0 lead.
Kansas center fielder Pat Karlin walked to lead off the bottom of the first inning and scored on a double by second baseman Steve Dowling. Third baseman Tom Buchanan's grounder to cick the Javahaws deficits to 3-2.
"It was really a key for us to do
that," Bingham said. "We worked ourselves right back into the ballgame."
Jayhawk pitchers Craig Mulcahy and Craig Hofek combined to hold the Shockers scorele through the next four innings.
"I think my last game was my worst start ever," Mulchay said. "Wichita State's a top 10 team, so I wasn't expected to do as well. I just tried to slow things down and get in a groove."
Wedge, who drove in five runs, increased the Shockers' lead to 5-2 with a two-run home run in the sixth inning. But Bingham seemed as though the Wedge's eightish base hit he was by the juniors' 18th home run.
“Curtis (Shaw) made a great pitch and he just found a way to get it through,” Bingham said. “Wedge is the obvious player. He just flat beat us.”
Wichita State pitchers Darrin Paxon and Jim Newlin combined on a run to win the Nebula. The Newlin allowed no hits in the final three innings for his 11th save.
Wichita State 7. Kansas 2
Investigation of Rose to be completed soon
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The Associated Press
--on baseball, he would be suspended for one year. If he is found to have bet on the Reds, he would be banned for life.
NEW YORK — Baseball's investigation of Pete Rose's alleged gambling will be completed next week. Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
Rich Levin, a spokesman for the commissioner, said that John M. Dowd, the Washington lawyer leading the inquiry, would submit his findings to Giamatti, who would then decide if any action would be taken against the Cincinnati Reds manager.
There was no indication as to when Giamtai would make a decision, but one source familiar with the investigation said "it was a logical assumption to make" that Giamtai had not yet made up his mind.
Also yesterday, a federal grand jury in Cincinnati investigating Rose's tax returns reportedly began bearing testimony from witnesses
Baseball's investigation of Rose began in mid-February after a lawyer for one of his former associates approached the commission regarding alleged gambling on baseball. If Rose is found to have be-
rose has refused to comment on whether he bet on baseball. He missed Monday and Tuesday's games against Montreal because of the flu and returned to Cincinnati yesterday before going than go to New York with the team.
Jim Ferguson, a Reds spokesman, said it was unlikely Rose would travel to New York. The Reds return to Cincinnati on Friday.
Reuven J. Katz and Roger J. Makley, Rose's lawyers, could not be reached for comment.
The only hint of Giamatti's inclinations came in a letter the commissioner wrote to a federal judge and made public last week. Giamatti wrote that Ronald Peters, who is awaiting sentencing on federal cocaine trafficking and tax evasion charges, had cooperated with the attorney Alan J. Statman, Peters' lawyer, has said that his client could link Rose to baseball betting, but Peters has not made any public comment.
Royals lose to Cleveland; streak ended
The Associated Press
CLEVELAND — Shortstop Kurt Stillwell dropped Joe Carter's two out pop fly, allowing two runs during a three-run fourth inning, as Cleveland City's 53 last night and snapped the Royal five-game winning streak.
Tom Candiotti, 3-1, pitched a seven-hitter for his second complete game, striking out six and walking five in the sixth and fifth victory in their last six games.
Charlie Leibrandt, 2-3, allowed six runs, four of them earned, on eight hits in more than innings.
Andy Allanson and Felix Permin
hily consecutive singles with one out
in the fourth. Oddibe McDewell's
groundout advanced the runners to
second and Leibrandt and Leibrandt,
with both scores, Cleveland, giving
Cleveland a 3-2 lead.
Royals' manager John Wathan was ejected for arguing that Stillwell held the ball long enough before dropping it and attempted to throw it back to the infield.
Jerry Browny walked, and Carter hit a fly into short left, which Stillwell gloved easily and then dropped, scoring both runners.
The Indians scored single runs in each of the first three innings. Pete O'Brien hit a sacrifice fly in the first, Brook Jacoby led off the second with his second home run, and Browne and Cory Snyder doubled in the third.
Stillvill led off the third with his first home run. Jim Eisenreich followed with a walk and stole second by the last pitcher on a single by Luis de los Santos.
The Royals and Indians will play the final game of the series today at 12:35.
Recruiting never ends for Kansas coaches
This is the first of a two-part series examining the recruiting process for KU athletics.
by Mike Considine Kansan sportswriter
Recruiting athletes is a duty common to all University of Kansas coaches but is slightly different for each one.
Although the recruiting process varies from sport to sport, there are a few constants. It has to be done annually — in most cases by physical consumption and arduous, filled with both frustration and reward.
"Recruiting is probably as critical a job as any we have as coaches," said Kansas baseball coach Dave Bingham. "It's a photo finish between fundraising and marketing we're most important areas. In baseball, you have to (recruit well) to stay competitive."
Above all, recruiting is essential to maintaining a NCAA Division I program.
Most KU coaches said they had mixed emotions about the recruiting process.
The time commitment was fairly standard for all sports based on interviews with six Kansas coaches. There are several facets to the game, including calls and writing letters to going out on the road to talk to athletes.
Travel is an important part of recruiting. One reason is that there are not enough athletes of NCAA Division I caliber in the
"Recruiting is the name of the game," said Gary Kempf, Kansas men's and women's swimming coach. "I like it, but it gets tiring."
Kempf said he and his staff recruit about three to four hours a day, five days a week throughout the year.
state to stock the athletic programs of Kansas, Kansas State and Wichita State. Therefore, Kansas coaches recruit nationally, but focus their efforts on Kansas and its bordering states.
Men's basketball coach Roy Williams, who spent 10 years as an assistant at North Carolina before he was hired at Kansas last summer, was organized as one of the country's most successful recruiters.
"The biggest difference is that in North Carolina, there were so many players close to you," Williams said. "It was a one hour and fifteen minute flight to New York, one hour to Atlanta and one hour to Washington to be there." The population itself, much less the number of basketball players, is not that big.
"At North Carolina, we tried to recruit on a national level if there was a special interest. Here we have a team of specialists at the basis whether we want to or not."
Women's basketball coach Marian Washington said she would like to recruit without having to leave the state.
"What is unique about this area is that when it produces a great player, she's truly among the best in the country." Washington said. "What is disappointing is that the coach doesn't strong player, you have to work to keep her at home. Every school in the country recruits her."
Kansas track coach Gary Schwartz said he thought Kansas and the surrounding states produce athletic to sustain his program.
aren't (worked) to death when we get them," Schwartz said.
"Kids here, for the most part,
haven't come from real
sophisticated programs, so they
On the other hand, as a coach of a warm weather sport, Schwartz understands that Kansas isn't an ideal setting.
"I used to downplay it in my own mind," he said. "You can find great sprinters in cooler or cold weather, but that doesn't take much time." You can go to the best you can be, you have to go to a warm weather school."
The best players in most spring sports usually come from warmer climates.
"In the South and West, you're getting a polished product," Bangham said. "In the Midwest, we're going to project a kid a long way."
Establishing contact
Coaches have to evaluate not only the skill level of a prospect at the time of his recruitment, but his potential for success. In other words, in all sports, the evaluation process begins when the athlete is a high school junior.
The top high school football and basketball players begin receiving mail from colleges in their sophomore year, or before. Williams sailed James Worthy, a Williamstown native, to North Carolina All-Commander, on the school's mailing list when he was in eighth grade.
Bingham has nearly 50 notebooks filled with computer printouts detailing information about prospects he and his staff are considering. Bingham said he learned about some players through recommendations from major league scouts.
Other coaches said they used commercial scouting services to help them identify top high school and junior college players.
Kempf said he scouted national junior division (ages 18 and under) meets.
"We follow talent as it grows up to see good kids and get a feel for where they are and who they are," Kemof said.
Williams said that before contacting a prospective recruit, he called the player's coach and guidance counselor to get an assessment of his athletic and ability, as well as his character.
When a program identifies the players it wants to recruit, letters are sent notifying the prospects of Kansas' interest. The correspondence continues until the player has made his college choice or the coach decides not to offer him a scholarship.
Offering scholarships
Athletes in fall sports could sign a national letter of intent, which binds them to the college choice. Athletes in college were for spring sports was April 10.
R. D. Helt, football recruiting coordinator, said about 2,000 questionnaires were mailed last spring to prospective recruits. Helt said the list was trimmed to a group of 50 players who were candidates for scholarship offers by January. Twenty-three players were signed by KU, two less than the NCAA scholarship limit.
Although most sports do not have annual scholarship limits, all have limitations on the total number of scholarships which can
The number of scholarships Division I football programs can offer each year was reduced from 30 to 25 in 1986. NCAA regulation requires that football players be at least 95 scholarship athletes at any time.
be issued.
NCAA regulations in tennis and volleyball are adjusted accordingly. Men's tennis teams are alloted five scholarships. Although women's teams are not restricted in total scholarships, eight players on scholarship. Men's volleyball teams can also give five scholarships and women's teams are limited to 12 scholarship players.
In football and basketball, most players are given full scholarships. Because the allotment of scholarships in other sports is not always available to all members of a team, coaches offer partial scholarships.
Cynthia Gable, NCAA enforcement agent, said the restrictions for men and women differed in some sports because of the number of football scholarships allowed. Under NCAA rules, notification must provide equal opportunities to male and female athletes.
Some scholarship limits are:
basketball, 15; baseball, 13; softball, 11; swimming, 11 men's and
women's; triv. 14 men's and 16 women's.
Coaches in non-revenue sports, sports other than football and basketball, are necessarily limited to full scholarship they can give.
Bingham said that baseball teams could not afford to offer more than three or four full scholarships, because each one reduced the number of players in the program. If a team issues four full scholarships, it can offer only 18 full-scholarships.
"Parents expect a kid to get a full scholarship," Bingham said. "Every kid in the market but there are no full scholarships in college baseball."