FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2006
SPORTS
ATHLETICS
CALENDAR
TODAY
Swimming at Iowa State
6 p.m., Ames, Iowa
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 3B
Baseball at Hawaii-Hilo,
7 p.m., Hilo, Hawaii
Player to watch: Senior
Bouhani Matt Baty. Baty was 3-of-6 with three RBI in the 11-1 Kansas blowout of Hawai-i-Hilo Wednesday night.
Swimming at Iowa State,
10 a.m., Ames, Iowa
Matt Baty
Track, Husker Invitational,
all day, Lincoln, Neb.
SATURDAY
- Women's basketball vs. Iowa State, 1 p.m., Lawrence
- Tennis at Utah, 11 a.m.,
Salt Lake City
Jared Gah/KANSAN
- Baseball double header at Hawaii-Hilo, 3 p.m., Kona, Hawaii
Men's basketball vs.
Oklahoma, noon; Allen
Fieldhouse
SUNDAY
Chelsey Pryor, Washington, Pa. senior, hopes to lead the KU women's golf team to regionals during her last season of eligibility. After another year of college, Pryor would like to start coaching and has hopes of becoming an athletics director.
- Men's basketball at Nebraska, 6:30 p.m., Lincoln, Neb.
- Women's basketball at Oklahoma, 7 p.m., Norman, Okla.
WEDNESDAY
*Men's golf at Hawaii-Hilo, all day, Waikoloa, Hawaii*
WOMEN'S GOLF
Pryor leads by example
BY STEPHEN BERGMAN
sbergman@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWRIVER
Chelsey Pryor first distinguished herself as the only player on the Kansas women's golf team to win a tournament last fall.
The senior won the ORU Shootout on Oct. 4 in Tulsa, Okla., her first career victory.
"I'm a big leader by example," Pryor said. "I'm not the most verbal person."
Pryor said she hoped her competitive nature carried over to the rest of the team this season.
A Washington, Pa., native, Pryor said she wanted to make sure she supported her teammates on and off the course.
"Our main goal is to make it to regionals, which is something that this program hasn't done in quite a while." Prvor said.
Pryor said the team chemistry has improved drastically since her freshman year. Senior leadership and great coaching were the major reasons.
"I love coach O'Neil; I wish I could have had her for four years," Pryor said about Kansas coach Erin O'Neil. "She's focused, driven, just everything I could of asked for." O'Neil is entering her second season as the coach of the Jayhawks.
O'Neil thinks highly of Pryor as well. "She's very dedicated, motivated, a type-A personality, just an all-around good person." O'Neil said. "She's the type of person you'd want representing your team."
Pryor said that junior Amanda Costner has helped her in leading the team this season. Costner won the Lady Boilermaker Invitational at Purdue last season, her first college tournament victory as well.
"I have a lot of respect for her game," Pryor said. "I'm always trying to get better because of her."
Tournament victories have
stemmed from the dedication of the team to practice and get better.
The team plays rounds at Alvamar Golf and Country Club, 1800 Crossgate Drive, and practice for up to five hours at a time. Pryor said. When she doesn't play rounds, Pryor practices on the course from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
"I know the girls worked hard over break, and I think we are going to shine," Pryor said. "KU hasn't always been a golf school, but we've brought in
Pryor also works hard in the classroom, as evidenced by her status as an Academic All-American.
"This school has given me absolutely everything that a college experience should be," Pryor said.
FOOTBALL
Border Showdown gets television deal
— Edited by Gabriella Souza
The Border Showdown football game between Kansas and Missouri will be televised by ABC and/or Fox Sports Net for the next two seasons. Next year's game in Columbia, Mo., was originally scheduled for Nov. 11, but will be pushed back to Nov. 25. The 2007 game in Lawrence, originally scheduled for Sept. 29, will be played Nov. 24, in Memorial Stadium.
The Jayhawks have beat the Tigers three years in a row, winning 13-3 last season in Lawrence.
Drew Davison
TENNIS
'Hawks to face Utes Saturday in Salt Lake
The Kansas tennis team will travel to Salt Lake City this weekend to face Utah.
The match will start at 11 a.m. Saturday.
Kansas swept Drake last weekend and will enter the match with a 2-1 record.The Jayhawks other victory came against Ball State, they lost to Indiana.
This will be the first match of the season for Utah.The Utes have not played since the ITA Central Region Competition in October.
Antonio Mendoza
NFL
Salary problems end Martz's Detroit offer
ST. LOUIS — Mike Martz backed out of the Detroit Lions' offensive coordinator position on Thursday, and the ex-St. Louis Rams coach appears content to sit out next season.
"Obviously, I took the job." Martz said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It just didn't work out with the money."
"There's a bottom-line figure my agent has and I didn't want to have the details, so we just move on."
The Associated Press
SWIMMING/DIVING
'Hawks to prep for postseason in Ames
The swimming and diving team will compete against Iowa State in Ames, Iowa, for its last meet of the regular season. The Jayhawks start at 6 tonight and will finish the Saturday.
"We want to end on a good note." Kansas coach Clark Campbell said. "We will do an event order that is very unique that will help Kansas and Iowa State get ready for the Big 12 Championship.
They are going to swim some events they have never done before, which I think is going to be a good thing."
Last season, Kansas defeated Iowa State 196-99. After the meet, the swimming team will begin a break period to prepare for the Big 12 championships Feb. 22 to 25 in Columbia, Mo.
-Betty Kaspan
TRACK AND FIELD
— Betty Kaspar
Kansas to compete in Husker Invitational
Kansas track and field will be competing this weekend at the 31st annual Husker Invitational in Lincoln, Neb.
The two-day meet will begin at noon today and will end at 6:30 p.m. Saturday.
Kansas coach Stanley Redwine said the team needed to go into the meet with confidence and an understanding it would face different competition than thus far this season.
Some of the other teams competing will be Kansas State, Missouri-Kansas City, North Carolina, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Stanford, UTEP, Wichita State and Wyoming.
Senior thrower Sheldon Battle is coming off a week of not competing and will be the player to watch this weekend at the meet.
Senior sprinter Tiffany Cherry will be the woman to watch at the meet for the Jayhawks. Cherry is coming off a personal best time of 751 seconds for the 60-meter dash at last week's Jayhawk Invitational.
-Evan Kafarakis