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Friday, April 20, 1979
University Daily Kansan
One-woman track team now coach
BY CARLOS MURGUA
Sports Writer
Teri Anderson, KU women's track coach,
doesn't believe in giving up easily.
After graduating from high school, she went to Colorado to compete in an 880-yard race in a Junior Olympic meet. Anderson was dueling it out for the lead with another
Teri Anderson
Staff photo by BARB KINNEY
That might have ended the race for most runners, but when Anderson came to a couple of seconds after she blacked out, she led by 13 seconds to finish line to finish sixth out of 12 runners.
surrender, when five yards from the finish line,
she blacked out and collapsed onto the
"They told me I crawled over the finish line," Anderson said. "I really don't remember where we were, but it must have been by instinct that I wanted to finish the race. I wasn't used to running in that high of an altitude. I was not used to running in that very seriously about not competing collegately."
SHE DID DECIDE to compete, but unfortunately for KU she decided to compete for rival Kansas State University. Unfortunately for Anderson, K-State didn't have a women's track team in 1972, the year she began college.
The next year she set a personal record in the mile (4:41.6), but she wasn't happy about competing at K-State. She was not only with the quality of competition in the Midwest.
Undaunted, Anderson received permission to work out with the men's track team at North Carolina State. He joined entire K-State women's track队. At the outdoor nationals that year, she placed first in the mile (4·5·8) and second in the 800 meter (7·6·9). She had the bad收获, she placed fifth as a team.
"I was sort of a pioneer at KState," Anderson said. "I was the first woman track athlete to represent the school at meets. During the practices with the men I'd get some of them mad at me because I used to beat them at the longer distances."
"It ITW frustrating to win all my races during the regular season here in the Midwest," she said, "but then go to nationals and not do very well because I hadn't been exposed to top-flight competition.
She continued to be one of the top three distance runners in the country while at home. She also met the national AAU meet and the national cross-country meet and made the Pan American squad. She also had the fastest two-mile time (10.10) in the nation that
"That's the reason I decided to go to San Jose State my junior year."
Anderson wasn't satisfied with San Jose State and decided to return to K-State after the Pan Am games. But before the games, she broke her foot for the third time in her athletic career. This third break had an effect on her attitude toward track and life.
"I BEGAN to wonder if I was meant to run," she said. "I thought maybe God was trying to tell me something. I decided to put him into a box and let him direct my life was supposed to take."
Her faith and personal efforts were rewarded her senior year at K-State when she placed second at nationalists in the 3,000-meters (9:19) and the two-mile run. She also won the championship champion in the 880, mile and two-mile run and the outdoor champ in the two-mile run.
Looking back, she said she was an extremely strong endurance runner who lacked speed she needed. Her coach and teammates were so slow that Anderson, said Teri might have pushed
"I received an academic scholarship offer from KU," she said. "I really liked their graduate physical education program. Also, I knew Marian Washington (KU)'s present athletic director) and I was hoping that I might be able to coach in some capacity.
After completing a successful collegiate career at K-State, it seems surprising that he has never been asked to join a major.
herself too hard and received injuries because of her efforts.
"The truth is that I was very apprehensive about coming here. 'I'm going to be here' Leanne said, which about 26 miles from Manhattan and I had heard all those nobl hill stories and I really believed them. I didn't think I was going to leave. "I'll go home," all propaganda and I'm happy I'm here."
"My strength as a coach is being able to relate to the team on their level," she said. "I know what they're going through and I care about them as individuals. My students are very involved and then I get frustrated when I can't help one of them achieve her best."
DURING HER first year, 1976-77, she was an assistant coach to KU head coaching Tom Carter and received the head coaching job in women's football and Anderson applied and received the head coaching job in women's basketball.
"THIS YEAR'S track team is the best team KU has ever had," she said. "When I first met you, you were a national and now we are nationally ranked. This has been accomplished because of our track tradition, the department's attitude towards athletes, the team and the recruitment of talented athletes."
To continue to recruit fine athletes may not be so easy. Anderson said that she did not have a substantial amount of money to recruit with and that she was having a hard time recruiting the same athletes other schools with bigger bankkrolls were also trying to get.
In 1977, she competed in the Kansas Relays and broke the American record in the 5,000-meter run. She's unsure whether she would win. She may devote all her time to coaching.
"I don't know if I'll run competitively again," Anderson said. "I've been telling myself that I don't have the time and concentration right now that I would need if I wanted to compete again. I don't like to do less than my best."
Bv RODNEY D. ANDERSON
Pepin juggles duties finds time to coach
Sports Writer
There are moments in every day when Gary Pepin, KU's assistant man's track coach, must remind himself that he is a coach.
Pepin, it seems, spends a lot of time doing things not related to the training of athletes. Duties such as mailing letters to athletes and providing them with an upcoming track meet and putting together the field of competitors for an event are among the duties Kansai Rakatsu occupy much of his time.
"Coaching is really a small aspect of the job," Pepin said. "All of the coaches here wish we could devote more time to coaching. Because of administrative details in a program as large as ours, we will all our time to coach the athletes."
Pepin, 35, is responsible for coaching the jumpers and recruiting the high school and junior college athletes, a job Pepin said consumed a lot of time.
"I SPEND A minimum of six hours a day on recruiting." Pepin said. "Now that's not just Monday through Friday, Sunday is a big day and so is Saturday for that matter. If you get behind in recruiting, you're really in trouble."
The track program at KU has a rich tradition and many Kansas track athletes have participated in the Olympic Games. In the past 20 years, the Jayhawks won the Big Eight conference championship in 17 times and the indoor title 12 times.
but the Jayhawks' winning tradition, by itself, is not enough to lure blue-chip high school athletes to Kansas, Pepin said.
"It's hard to get good athletes to come to Kansas for three basic reasons," he said. "The high school situation we're in has a high number of schools with great track traditions besides Kansas. Schools such as UCLA, Tennessee and Villanova really give us a chance."
To work around the built-in disadvantages, Pepin sells the academic excellence of the University and the slow pace of life associated with the Midwest to promising recruits. But most of all, he also tries to sell the athlete program at KU.
Gary Pepin
PEPIN'S JOB is further complicated by the policy of the track department not to give scholarships to foreign athletes, and by the major college track programs do.
In recent years, however, Pepin has had success recruiting top American athletes to Kansas. Pepin was instrumental in bringing nationally-ranked freshman Jeff Buckingham, pole vaulter, Kawasaki Owolpi, triple tumper, to Kansas.
Pepin's interest in coaching stems from his days as a track athlete at Pittsburg State University.
"I knew that if I went to college," he said, "my interest would lead to coaching. Once I got out of college I got my first job, coaching many sports at Northwest High School, near Sedalia, Mo."
Pipen came to KU as a graduate assistant coach in 1971. He was appointed to a full-time position the following year and acquired the top job's job in 1976.
"The most satisfying part of the job is to see kids get a degree and see them make something of themselves when they go out of school," he said.
Wilev attempts comeback
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In 1977, KU sprinter Clifford Wiley left his injury problems and court cases in the starting blocks and turned in one of the great performances in Kansas Relays history by capturing the 100- and 200-meter dashes. He will try to relieve those victories this year as he returns to his alma mater to perform in the Relays once again.
Wiley, who was named the most valuable performer in the '77 Relays, had a troubled collegiate career, and counts the victories at the Relays among his greatest feats.
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"I was at the University of Kansas for four years," Wiley said recently from Houston when he works for an oil company, in which he played a key role during seasons. My sophomore year I was ruled ineligible because of my court case and my senior year I got hurt, so I had to make the case against him.
WILEY'S WOES began after a promising freshman career, when he attempted to claim money from a government scholarship in addition to the money he was getting from the University as an NCAA scholarship.
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"After my freshman year though, I was told that I could not do that and they all of a row."
"I'didn't think that it was fair, and I took it to court."
"I had applied for a Basic Educational Opportunity Grant when I was a senior in high school," the speedster from Baltimore said. "And through my freshman year I received both the government money and the NCAA money.
Wiley argued that he used the money for educational purposes and should not have been treated differently from any other student who had qualified for the grant.
"I WAS ELIGIBLE for the grant and I had to attend class and study for my tests just like every other student, so I should not have been treated any differently," he said.
"The NCAA is just fighting the athletes by not allowing them the money."
Wiley won the first court decision, but the NCAA's appeal case is still attending in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Wiley said the outcome was new secondary to him.
"That case has been going since my sophomore year, and I just wish now that the NCAA would just say, 'We were wrong, we would get both grants if he qualified for them.'
"That's all I want now."
Wiley said what he wanted more than anything was to recapture the form that made him one of the best sprinters in the country and help secure his senior year place. He and the entire apron season.
"I AM LOOKING forward to the Kansas Relays," he said, "because it is the meet which I have set to see for myself how I am progressing. I was satisfied with my indoor season, but the only sprint in the indoor 60, and I am a better 100 and 200 sprinter."
Wiley said he missed the finals in the first couple of indoor meets in which he ran, but came on in the last part of the innings. He was playing in the Milrose Games and the AAU meet.
Thus far in the outdoor season, Wiley has run in the Texas Southern Relays and the
WILEY ADMITTED however, that it would be a special time for him when he came back to Lawrence to compete in the Kansas Relays.
Dogwood Relays in Tennessee, but he said he had not run with the intensity he knew he
"I're really looking forward to it," he said, "because it will be kind of a homecoming for me. I mean, that's my home track."
Running in the RELays will have another special meaning for Wiley.
"I'm going to go for it in the Kansas Relays, but even then I'm not going to run with the same intensity I will in the AAU meet in June. In the AAU meet, we qualify for the Fam-Americ Games and the World Championship, probably the biggest meet of the year for me."
"my winning the 100 and 200 my junior year was the biggest thing that has ever happened to me in my track career," he said. "I found out that I could run with the best and run good times. I came out running there and have never looked back."
Wiley has many goals, but he said his ultimate goal was to be a member of the U.S. Olympic team. He is confident about his chances.
"IF I'M ABLE to train, I'm going to go for the Olympics," Wiley said. "Right now I'm learning toward running just the 200, because I think I have the ability to be the best in the United States, even the world, if I continue to progress.
"But I'm not thinking too much about that now. I'm concentrating on the Reliys to see how much I've come back and then I am." He's gone down AU. Those are my two immediate challenges.
Wiley said that he didn't know whether he could duplicate his feat of winning the 100- and 200-meter dashes but that he wasn't going to worry about it.
"I just want to know where I am in the sense that I am trying to come back," he said. "I can't say that I'm going to win the Relays, but you never know."
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