THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN SPORTS
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FOOTBALL | 9A Jayhawks will not be televised Game against Iowa State breaks the Jayhawks'22-televised-games-in-a-row streak.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2010
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NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Senior star returns to roots
Senior outside hitter Karina Garlington gets a hot past two Oklahoma defenders Saturday evening. Garlington led the Jayhawks with 10 kills, but Kansas was swept by Oklahoma three sets to none. After she graduates, Garlington will begin an internship at the Mountain West Sports Network in her hometown, Denver. She is one of the team's most accomplished players, according to the 2010 Kansas Valley FACT Book.
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BY IAN CUMMINGS icummings@kansan.com
In the 2010 Kansas Volleyball Fact Book, the story of Karina Garlington is written in denselypacked type, three points smaller than that used in the rest of the book, in order to fit her lists of accomplishments on one page.
In the course of her college career, the six-foot senior outside hitter has collected All-Tournament awards from Lawrence to Richmond, Va., and Laramie, Wyo.
Now in her fourth successful year at Kansas, Garlington begins to steer toward home.
Soon an internship at the Mountain West Sports Network will take Garlington back to her hometown, Denver. She said it would be an ideal situation.
"I came in for an interview and
it was a perfect fit," Garlington said. "I loved it and so it was perfect. It's right by my house."
She will move home with her sister and do marketing and public relations work for the network, which provides television coverage of Mountain West Conference sporting events. Her parents still live nearby.
Garlington began playing volleyball at Grandview High School in Denver, where she helped the Wolves to three consecutive district titles and back-to-back state championships, while at the same time performing as a two-time MVP in springboard diving. She had been diving since seventh grade, and didn't give it up easily, even when volleyball coaches beckoned her to their teams.
She said the coaches allowed her to pursue both sports under the
assumption that she would ultimately choose volleyball.
"And I did," she said. "I didn't dive my last two years of high school — which was, I mean, it was a good and bad decision. I mean, I don't regret it at all, just because I love being part of a team."
She said she liked having other people around to enjoy success with her.
As a freshman at Kansas, Garlington saw limited time on the court in the beginning, but worked her way into the starting rotation starting in 18 of 29 matches. She began leading the team in kills in some matches and recording
And there was plenty of success to go around In addition to the Grandview Wolves, Garlington competed with the Front Range volleyball club, winning back-to-back national championships.
double doubles. In her sophomore year, Garlington earned a spot on the ESPN The Magazine Third Team, went Academic All-District and Academic All-Big 12 First Team, and the American Volleyball Coaches Association named her National Player of the Week on Nov. 11, 2008. In her junior year, Garlington was Academic All-Big 12 again and picked up All-Tournament honors in Fayetteville, Ark, and Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Garlington said the success did come at a cost; it was a challenge to earn good grades while constantly traveling and missing class.
"It was never an option for me not to be successful academically," said Garlington, a sports management major.
She stressed the importance of taking advantage of all the academic support that the program
offered.
"I just really made it a priority to stay on top of my work and study real hard," she said.
She said there had been many occasions when she had studied until 2 a.m., because she simply did what she had to do.
Beyond returning to her home,
Garlington said she didn't know
what the future held for her.
"Goals for the future? I mean, I'm completely unsure," she said. "Which I think is good and bad. I mean, right now, I don't know of anything I don't like to do. So, I'm really excited to get some experience in something other than athletics and try to find out what I want to do with my life."
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MEN'S GOLF
Jayhawks sitting in second place after first round
Team hopes to continue strong playing, scores shown in first round in Intercollegiate's subsequent matche
BY ETHAN PADWAY
epadway@kansan.com
The men's golf team is in second place in the Bill Ross Intercollegiate after the first round of play on Monday. The team's first round total of 294 is six over par and three strokes behind UMKC.
"Like last week, we just didn't really count a high number," coach Kit Grove said. "Nate played well and shot a 71. Chris played solid at 1 over and a couple of 75s. That is our key, not having to count the 77s, 78s, and 80s like we had early in the year."
Senior Nate Barbee led the Javahnacks. Barbee shot a one
Jayhawks. Bar under par 71. Barbee is tied for second place and two strokes behind the leader.
"He jus.
played solid.
He does a lot of
Barbee
things well. He can get in trouble a little bit here out of the gate. He is just being a little more patient then he was. He is starting to feel a little better, starting to shoot some better scores. It was his second consecutive round under
ar and he had a little better fin
par and he had a little better finish. I think he got 15th last week. He is doing enough good things anyway but now he is starting to see some better scores. Hopefully he is starting to turn that corner and get that confidence back up," Grove said.
Gilbert
"Chris has just been playing solid all year. He doesn't make a whole lot of mistakes out there, he is a kid that makes a lot of pars," Grove said. "He doesn't shoot ultra low very often but he doesn't shoot high very often either. He
Sophomore Chris Gilbert opened the tournament with a 73. Gilbert is tied for ninth place.
has just been grinding away and hopefully he can shoot another good score for ___
Senior Jeff Bell and junior Doug Quinones both came into the clubhouse shooting 75. Bell and Quinones
are tied for 22nd place.
Central Arkansas is in third shooting 295 and is four strokes back. University of Northern Iowa is in fourth after shooting 298. Creighton rounded out the top five shooting 299. Will Robson
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"It's just consistency. Our whole deal is we have enough talent, it's just having four to five guys play solid, and not having two of them play poorly in the same round. That was our Achilles' heel in the first three events, we would just always have two guys play poorly at the same time and wed have to count a 78, 79, or 80," Grove said.
from UMKC is in first individually,
shooting three under p 69.
Grove emphasized that consistency will be key in performing well tomorrow.
COMMENTARY
BY MAX VOSBURGH
mvosburgh@kansan.com
How would you define swagger? If you're cool, confident and know
you're the man, you probably have swagger, right? Well, if you're a Rivals.com No.1 recruit in this year's freshman class, you probably have a little swagger.
Late Night offers look at Selby's talents
Did you see him during the skits? He was having a ball out there. The kid who won the McDonald's All-American slam dunk contest last year is going to be fun to watch.
Late Night in the Phog was our first look at freshman guard Josh Selby and yes, he has swagger.
More importantly, Selby brought his talents to Kansas with hopes to replicate what attracted him to Lawrence in the first place.
That's all fans can ask. It's far fetched to think Selby will ever collect as many wins as Sherron Collins did. It's not unreasonable, however, to think that Selby can be the leader of this team.
"We've got a lot of guys who could do that: me, Selby, Kieff, Mario and Ty can," junior forward Marcus Morris said. 'We have a lot of weapons this year, as we did last year.'
"The 2008 National Championship," he said. "That's when I knew it was best for me to be here."
This season Kansas does have quite the artillery, including players with a possible future in the NBA. And Selby is a player who could potentially go pro after one season at Kansas. But that's not something to be bitter about. He brings a fun personality and an exciting game to a team thats eager to redeem themselves after a disappointing end last year.
Although he hasn't officially been cleared to play this season, I'm not hearing many people who are overly concerned. That includes Selby, who after his debut in the Late Night scrimmage, shared his feelings on his Twitter account.
"I was so nervous," he said.
"But now I'm good. When the season come I'll be good."
Last week, Selby was named the Big 12 preseason freshman of the year and received Big 12 preseason honorable mention honors. Unlike most freshmen in the conference, and nation for that matter, Selby will be moving into a spot in the lineup previously held by the most successful basketball player in Kansas history.
"I don't feel that I need to show the fans that I'm the next Sherron because the fans just want to win," he said. "That's all I'm here for, is to win for my team."
- Edited by Leslie Kinsman