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Wednesday, April 23, 1986
Jon Showalter, Overland Park sophomore, left; Arlen Carr, Inman sophomore, crew team practice. Showalter is a coxswain and is responsible for coordiating and directing the team during races. center, and Jim Carnes, Mission sophomore, take a breather during a recent
Coxswains are brains behind muscle
By Dawn O'Malley
Sports writer
Sports when
There's a ritual for the Kansas crew team — throw your coxswain in the water after winning a race.
This year several Kansas coxswains found themselves in the water.
Although they aren't breathing heavy or sweating at the end of the race, the Kansas crew coxwives have an unsu, but important, job.
The idea that coxswains sit at the back of the boat and yell "stroke, stroke." is a misconception.
"I have never yelled 'stroke, stroke,' Rebecca McAbeet, Topeka sophomore, said recently.
"We're the brains of the boat. I have to make sure it is one continual process for eight minutes, make sure each girl is having a good day. It is
McAbie is a novice crew member. She chose to be a coxswain because of her size, too petite to row, but just right to be a coxswain.
Right to be a commission
"The first time I'd been in the water, I coxswained," she said.
Crew
"They all acted like I should have known everything. It was one of those things."
The coxswain sits at the stern of the boat and gets a full view of the field of boats. The coxswain uses a sounder to determine whether so voices the rowers can hear him.
It is the coxswain's decision to pull power strokes, to make strategic moves and to yell encouragement.
"This is about the best thing I've done," McAbee said. "Crew has made college. I know every girl real hard to find everything. I know I'm cursed on to do it."
McAbee has been nicknamed "Little Hitler" because of her hard driving practices she conducts from the stern.
she said,
"I try to be demanding on me and them," she said. "I expect a lot from them. I expect 110 percent from them and me."
has not been called any names since she became a coxswain this past fall.
"But I make them work hard." Knapp said. "It is important to get along with people. In rowing it is a team effort to all work so well together that the timing has to be exact."
and me.
Dana Knapp, Wichita freshman.
Knapp said it was an exhilarating feeling — eight people rowing together to make the boat glide and feel the wind blow around them.
The rowers are the engine and the coxswain is the quarterback who calls the plays, said Jon Showalter, Gardner sophomore.
hip around the neck. Her boat, women's novice lightweight eight, pulls 29-32 strokes a minute.
Garlin's applause:
"It's great, I'm hooked on it."
Showall said. "I get the team to relax and call strategy plays."
Because the three men at the stern had never been involved in crew before, they received on the job training. They learned from head coach Cliff Elliott and second-year coxes
"I was in the water about three-fourths of time, jumping from boat to boat," Brandt said.
Part of a coxswain's job is to act as a coach and cheerleader on the water.
"I know it is an easy job," he said. "I don't sweat it but I have to deal with keeping the boat on course. It is a mental strain. If a roower screws up, it is not any big deal. If the boat interferes with another boat, being disqualified is on my shoulders. It is not an easy job in my opinion. I'm not necessarily physically worn out but it does take its toll."
The coxswains and the rest of the crew team will be tested this weekend in Madison, Wis., at the Midwest Regional Championships.
"It is all worth it when you cross the finish line," McAbee said.
Coleman benched for first 28 games
United Press International
MANHATTAN — The National Collegiate Athletic Association eligibility committee yesterday ruled that Kansas State basketball standout Norris Coleman will not be eligible to play with the Wildcats until Feb. 27, 1987.
The committee's ruling states that if Coleman chooses to redshift during the 1986-87 season, he will retain his full collegiate eligibility.
The eligibility committee ruled that Coleman would be ineligible for the 28-game portion of the 1986-87 campaign that corresponds with the 1985-86 season in which he competed while ineligible.
"I am disappointed with the ruling," the 24-year-old Coleman said. "I am very happy at Kansas State and would like to have the opportunity to finish my collegiate eligibility here. Therefore, I plan on taking the necessary steps to appeal the ruling."
Coleman has said he would probably turn professional if he were declared ineligible, but declined to comment on that yesterday. He said he wanted to concentrate on his career!
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Athletic Director Larry Travis said
ne also was disappointed with the ruling, and Kansas State had been above reproach in its handling of this situation.
"We feel the ruling is not in the best interest of the student athlete involved and is a harsh penalty for the Kansas State basketball program and the university," he said.
Travis said the university would do everything in its power to support Coleman's appeal.
Kansas State declared Coleman ineligible after the NCAA administrative committee declared that the 6-0 forward did not commit to graduating High School after graduating Paxon School in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1979.
The committee said that if Coleman decided not to appeal the ruling, he would be entitled to transfer to another NCAA Division I school, where he would be immediately eligible for competition and financial aid.
The ruler also said that if Coleman remains at Kansas State, he would be required either to make restitution for the financial aid he received during the period while he was ineligible, or not receive aid for the corresponding period during the 1986-87 year.
Yankees beat Royals behind rookie pitcher
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Rookie Bob Tewksbury allowed five hits through 7 of them and Rickey Henderson scored a pair of runs last night in the New York Yankees' 5-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
Twewksbury, 2-1, struck out three and walked one and gave the Yankees, 9-4, their best start since 1976.
1975
The 25-year-old right-hander was trying to become the first Yankee rookie to shoot a shutout since 1973 before Jorge Orta's pinch-hit triple drove home Jim Sundberg in the eighth innings. Sundberg was the first Kansas City runner to get past second base.
Tewksbury left the game in the eighth after hitting Willie Wilson with a pitch in the shoulder. Wilson started for the mound but was met by New York catcher Ron Hassley. Wilson took a big swing at both benches emptied, but no other punches appeared to be thrown.
Wilson was ejected, but Tewksbury was not thrown out. He did suffered a minor injury to his pitching hand and was lifted for Dave Righetti, who finished the game to claim his fourth save.
The Yankees took a 1-0 lead in the first off Mark Gubica, 0-3. Henderson led off with a bunt single, state-of-the-art and scored on Don Mantle, singly.
Four advance to title matches
Sports writer
By Matt Tidwell
sports time
Forget that Oklahoma State beat the Kansas women's tennis team 9-0 in a dual match April 4.
Jayhawk head coach Scott Perlman said he was convinced that momentum was on the side of three of his players who would compete against each other in singles finals of the Big Eight Championships today in Oklahoma City.
"They (Oklahoma State) are the outstanding team in the conference and they are way ahead in the point totals," Perelman said yesterday, after his team had completed seminal play.
"They did beat us 9-0 earlier," he said, "but that was our first Big eight match of the year. I think we'll play better tomorrow. I thought we played scared the first time, and there were three of those matches we should have won. Now, I think we match-up better with them."
Kansas' Tracy Treps, Christine
Parr, Jeanette Jonsson and Marie
Hibbard play for singles titles at 1
Tennis
p. m. at the Oklahoma City Tennis Center.
in the No.1 singles final, Treps has a chance to get more than just the Big Eight title.
"We have a shot to win that No. 1 singles, and that would mean Tracy would qualify for the NCAA Championships next month. Her beauty has been playing well. She has just one loss in the Big Eight."
Treps advanced to the finals by defeating Liz Money yesterday in the semi-finals by default. She will face Kathleen Heckman of Colorado who pulled off a big upset when State's No. 1, Renata Baranski.
Branskar
Jonsson defeated Djil Pisarcik of Nebraska 6-1, 6-2, and will meet the Cowgirls' Libby Brendle for the No. 2 singles title; Parr got past Karen Meyers of Colorado 6-3, 0-6, 7-4, and will face O-State's Tessa Price for the No. 3 singles championship; and
Hibbard beat Colorado's Cathy Corbin 6-3, 6-4 and will face the Cowgirls' Robin Lamb in the No. 5 singles title match.
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other Jayhawk, Susie
Bergward, advanced to the
semifinals but lost 62, 6-0 to Mary Rozas of O-State.
"We're in a battle for second place between us and Colorado." Perelman said. "One or two matches could mean the difference between a second or third-place finish in the conference."
Permanel said that although he was very pleased to have four players in the finals, he thought all along that Kansas would do well.
"I certainly thought we were the second-place team," he said. "I figured that we would show up in a lot of the finals.
Today starts with semi-finals in the doubles competitions at 9 a.m. Singles finals will follow at 1 p.m. and doubles finals at 3 p.m. matches will be played at 3 p.m.
The Big Eight men's championships begin tomorrow.
KU ready to climb back in ring
Bv Jim Suhr
Sports winters
Round one is over. Kansas slugged it out with Wichita State for 6% innings last week before been knocked out by a 15-shoot Rohr seventh-ning punch. They lost the fight, 18-6.
"We're definitely ready," Pattin said. "We know we can play with this team — we did last time for all but one inning."
Wednesday, Kansas dominated the Shockers for six innings and took a 4-3 lead into the seventh inning. But Kansas let its guard down in the seventh inning, and Wichita State capitalized by throwing the Jayhawks up against the ropes and battering them with 15 runs. Thirteen of those runs were scored with two outs.
The Jayhawks swept a doubleheader against the Wildcats on Saturday, 6-5 and 5-4. Kansas State, who entered Sunday's doubleheader with a 19-26 win to big Big Eight with an 0-14 mark, slugged its way to its first two conference wins with a sweep of its own, 11-9 and 12-8.
"I not sure we really came out to play on Sunday," Pattin said. "I can't knock our hitting. We got the runs. We just can't let up when we've got the lead."
Wichita State, 31-11 and a national heavyweight that has been ranked as high as eighth, returns to Lawrence his afternoon to face the Jayhawks in round two of the three-round fight — single, nine-inning bout scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. at Quigley Field. Kansas head coach Marty Pattin bowed yesterday that his team would come out swinging.
Baseball
6-10 in the Big Eight, warmed up with the Wichita State match with a four-game conference series with visiting Kansas State last weekend
The Jayhawks, 22-26 overall and
Sports Briefs
cancelation of game
The Kansas-Wichita State softball game was canceled because it would be to several of the Shocker players, Mike Prusinski, KU Sports Information Assistant Director, said.
The sixth-ranked Jayhawk,
38-12, play Southwest Missouri
State at 2 p.m. today at Jayhawk
Field.
WSU injuries force cancellation of gap
KU signs top miler
Anthony "Bo" Smart, a high
school track performer who has run the mile in 4 minutes, 10.2 seconds, has signed a national letter-of-intent with Kansas for next year, Steve Kueffer, Kansas track assistant coach and recruiting coordinator, said yesterday.
Smart is from Glenolen, Penn. and his time in the mile is one of the best in the country among high school athletes.
LSU star to turn pro
BATON ROUGE, La. — Forward John Williams, who led Louisiana State University to a surprise spot in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Final Four this season, said yesterday. The team will remain returning college eligibility to play professional basketball.
The 5-foot 8 sophomore and LSU coach Dale Brown each read short statements at a news conference and refused to answer questions.
Williams, who scored in double figures in 59 of his 67 collegiate games, said he was pleased with his statement thanking Brown for the opportunity to play
Three chosen for elite teams
Don Harris, wing forward on the Kansas rugby club team, practices tackling drills at the 23rd and Iowa streets rugby fields. Harris was recently chosen to play on the Western Union rugby team.
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Players honored for hard work, success in rugby
By Dawn O'Malley Sports writer
The years of dedication to their favorite sport has paid off for three Kansas rugby-football players. The reward for their efforts is the recognition to play for other teams.
Don Harris, Jim Bartle and Pete Knudsen were selected to play for
Rugby
the Heart of America and the Western Rugby Union teams.
The Kansas rugby club team was paced by Harris and Knudsen in its 18-14 victory over Tulsa last week. The 23rd and Iowa street fields.
This weekend the Kansas rugby varsity and club teams will travel to Washington, D.C., for the Cherry Blossom Rugby Tournament. This is the first year Kansas has sent teams to the tournament.
The varsity team plays Maryland, last year in the country, on Saturday. The club team plays a single-elimination game on Saturday and Sunday.
"It is always a honor to us to have three players on the team." Rick Renrof, head rugby coach, said yesterday. "Anytime they are exposed to that level it gains some respect from the opposition."
There are four rugby territories: east, west, midwest and pacific. Within these four territories are many subunions. A subunion for the west region is Kansas. A subunion for America the Kiss men were from the Heart of America team to play for the Western Rugby Union team.
The players in these leagues are among the top rugby players in the nation.
"It is fast paced," Harris said. "With that many good players it is intense and quick. In the long run I went off the deep end."
Harris has been competing for the Heart of America team seven years and for the Western Rugby Union team three years.
until team "KU has a good program." Harris said. "KU ever made Western Union until Jim. Pete and I. KU was overlooked until we made it. KU is looked upon and respected as a very good team in the United States due to us and to
Once a player has been chosen to play for a union team, the next step is to try at Inner Territorial Ballot on the Eagles, a national team.
very organized club. But it takes 15 people to play."
"It is not as fun." Bard said.
"It's not playing with friends. Winning and losing is more of a big deal. You don't have to win!" he added in certain aspects of it. It is an honor for the recognition of being above average.
But after the player has made a decision to be competitive on the higher level, he does not have the opportunity to develop a team concept of playing. The strategy concentrates on individual performance and fits the pieces of the game will fit together.
Bartle was first exposed to rugby while living in England several years ago. He has played
Although these three players are on the same team for Kansas, the opposition cannot solely concentrate on them because rugby is a team sport.
"KU has the finest rugby club in the country." Barrie said. "There is an opportunity to play; there is total participation. Anyone can come out and learn."
with the Heart of America team for six years and the Western Rugby Union for two years.
Knudsen, who has played for the Western Rugby Union for two years, said the selectors looked for size, speed and strength. But, he said, players had to have a few other things as well.
"It takes more effort, time and money," Knudsen said. "You have to make a choice. I just enjoy it. I don't know if its more competitive. The skill level is a little higher."