Friday, March 23, 1979
University Daily Kansan
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Five qualifiers seek national swim marks
The biggest contingent of KU swimmers since 1972 will compete this weekend in the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in Cleveland.
Qualifiers for KU are the 400-yard medley relay team of Rick Jenkins, Steve Graves, Jim Sauer and Brent Barnes and diver Kurt Anselmi.
Graves also will compete in the 200-yard stroke, 150-yard individual medley and 300-yard individual medley.
He set Big Eight records in all three events at the conference meet, which qualified him for the national and earned him the vote of every league coach as the meet's outstanding swimmer. Graves was the KU swimmer to go the national last year.
The medley relay unit also picked up its qualifying marks at the Big Eight Championships, which KU won by 62 points over runner-up Iowa State. The relay team knuckled almost two seconds off the record, in 1978 by Missouri, with a time of 3:25.55
The medley relay team, whose goal is to place in the top 20, has been seeded 22nd for the meet. Graves' goal is to place in the top 12 in his events.
"Our goals will be to place in each event. I think we can improve a lot in the medley relay and I think Graves' are really good." KU coach Bill Spahn said.
The Jayhawks had to overcome an unusual obstacle last week—no water to drink and no ice cream for lunch, a leak, forcing the swimmers to finish their practices at Shawnee Mission West High School in Overland Park. But Spalau said he not think the change would affect the team.
Ruggers set game
The KU rugby club will compete against a club from Johnson county at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, west of Oliver Hall, 1815 Naismith Drive.
KU has won its four games this spring. Earlier this spring, Kansas beat Emporia State University, 74; toppoa rugby club, Cincinnati; and Iowa State, 64. The Bteam also beat K-State, 24-6.
Track start delayed
Instead of opening its outdoor season this weekend at home, the KU women's track team will have to postpone its debut until March 30, at the MEMInvitations.
Coach Teri Anderson said the triangular meet with Kansas State and Missouri was canceled because it conflicted with a run-a-goal game, which he to hold in Memorial Stadium this weekend.
The men later postponed their run-a-thon but Anderson said it was too late to schedule the race.
Staff photo by CHRISTODD
Boomina bat
own apotwosd prepares for batting practice yesterday in Allen Field House. The KU right field hitter has safety in 16 consecutive games, which probably is a team record,
Spottswood's hitting hot
By TONY FITTS
Sports Writer
no one is really sure, but John Spottswood probably broke a Kansas baseball record because of his catching.
Spottweed hit safety in 16 consecutive games for the Jayhawks. Most people in the know, including baseball coach Floyd Stannard, spotted Spottweed's performance has *to be a record*
No one knows for sure, though, because KU baseball records are incomplete before 1958, and no one has bothered to keep track of hitting streaks since then.
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The right fielder isn't worried about breaking the record, whatever it may be.
"I'm not aware that I broke a record," he said. "Somebody me told me I did, but it doesn't matter."
IN THE FIRST game of Wednesday's doubleheader with Benedictine College, Spotswood went wiltless in his first three at home. He hit a bounce in the fifth inning.
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"I wasn't thinking about any record." he
said, "I was just trying to get the run home. I was lucky if fell in."
Just because he isn't worried about a hitting record doesn't mean he isn't excited
"I'm trying to keep from getting too exited, but I am, a little bit. I didn't start well last year. I'm hitting the ball hard already, but the opponent is hitting it hard until Big Eight tournament time."
Spottwadds team battage, 393 in 61 at bats, is second on the team to Roger Riley's 400, but he leads the 'Hawks in doubles and triples.
TEMPIE SAID Spottweed had changed
his attitude somewhat from last year, when
he was in the Army.
"He's always been a hard worker as far as his hitting is concerned," Temple said. "Last year, he tended to get down on himself when he didn't get a hit in every game. I think this year he has his emotions more under control.
"People have to realize that even though they're good hitters, there are pitchers who are going to get them out. Even a .400 hitter gets out six of 10 times at the plate."
It isn't just emotions. Spottswoudd said his concentration was good this year.
"If you concentrate," he said, "you can
do anything. I think concentration is the
same."
Spottwood, a senior, said he would like to play professional ball "more than anything." He has spent his past few Christmas vacations in Arizona at baseball camps. And he works on more than his batting.
"TIM WORKING a lot harder on my fielding and throwing," he said. "My throws tend to tail a little bit, because I used to be a pitcher. Every once and a while I throw one in from right, and it takes a left at first base and heads straight for the dueout.
"Between last year and this year, I've seen a lot of improvement in myself,"
Lindstrom looks to future
Spotswood put his hitting streak on the line at 1 p.m. tomorrow, when Kansas meets Baker University for a doubleheader at Quigley Field. Terry Sutcliffe, 1-2, and Dan St. Chair, 3-4, are scheduled to start for the Jayhawks.
BvDAVID.PRESTON
Snarty Writer
For the past two years, Janet Lindstrom has led a Kansas women's swimming team that has won back-to-back Big Eight championships, sent swimmers to the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for the second time dropped only one dual meet in nine outings.
But according to Lindstrom, things are going to get even better.
"I think that we are in a transitional period," Lindet from said yesterday after returning to Pittsburgh. "I saw a big change in the attitude of the squad this year, and I think that we are on the road."
"This year we were looking forward to the nationals all year, whereas last year I think that our main goal was to win the Big Eight. We can work our way up on the national level."
Lindstrom, a sophomore, has already proven herself at the national level. At the nationals she finished third in the 200-yard freestyle and 12th in the 106-yard freestyle. Both performances earned her All-American status.
"Our relays came close to placing but
SHE SAID THAT while she was pleased with her showing in Pittsburgh, she had hoped for a better overview by the team. Lanny Schaffer's illness a day before the meet was a major factor in the Jayhawks' not scoring more points.
didn't l, Llandström said. "If they could have placed and with a cammy in there, we could have taken them."
However, Landstrom does not dwell on the past, but speaks enthusiastically about the past.
"I think that next year, we'll go at the nationals with the same positive attitude and we'll keep going from there. We already know how to do it," he said, keeping up improving as long as your head's in it.
"I think we'll continue to improve."
LINDSTROM HAS been improving once she started swimming in Des Moines, Iowa at the age of 4. She began swimming competitively when she was 6, although she said she never put a lot of effort into swimming until her junior year in high school.
"It was always kind of a social thing," she said. "All of my friends swam so I did. I never really got serious though until I was a junior."
With that seriousness came many awards. Landstrom was an all-state performer in 1956 and 1963, and she won four awards. She was invited to look at colleges elsewhere, but decided she wanted to stay
"When I decided that I wanted to stay in the Midwest, I looked at Kansas and it was so dark."
Lindstrom said she thought more swimmers would decide to stay in the
Midwest as the quality of swimming improved.
"PEOPLE USED TO ALL want to go to Arizona or California where everyone has a pool," she said. "I mean, Lawrence only has one pool. Everyone thought that you had to go where the weather was good, but not anymore."
"I think it can happen that a school from the Midwest can build a very top team."
Although the season is officially over for the Jayhawks, Lindstrom and two other teammates, Schaffer and Saluki Ager, are sponsorships in April. Lindstrom will swim for her AAU team, the Santa Barbara Swim Club, which she begins swimming for last
"I'm excited for the AAU meet," she said, "because I'm on a relay team (400-yard sprint freestyle) that has a chance to win it."
After the AAU meet, Lindstrom said, she will try to make the Olympic cut time cuts in the meets this summer in hopes of getting a trial with the Olympic team in June 1980.
Lindstrom is humble when talking of her chances to make the Olympic team, but said she would like the opportunity to make the冠軍. She admitts it will take hard work.
"This summer (in Santa Barbara) we'll work about 8½ hours a day, and probably swim 20,000 meters a day," she said. "It's not easy."
with special guest Jay Ferguson
April 27,1979----8:00 P.M.
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