Kansan Summer Weekly/Wednesday, July 1, 1987
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WSU to name athletic director KU associate athletic director will not get WSU position
By L. A. RAUCH Special to the Kansan
The new athletic director for Wichita State University will be named at a news conference this afternoon in Wichita.
Gary Hunter, associate athletic director at KU, will not be named to the position, although he was one of three finalists.
WSU President Warren Armstrong is expected to name Tom Shupa, the associate athletic director at the University of West Virginia, to the position. Shupa will replace Lew Perkins, who resigned in May to become athletic director at the University of Maryland.
Hunter said. "I have nothing to lose by staying." Hunter said that even though he was a bit disappointed with the decision, he and his family loved Lawrence and KU and were happy to remain here.
"I was in a win-win situation,"
Hunter also said that someday he would like to become an athletic director, but that the right opportunity needed to come along before he would leave KU.
Early last week, the search was narrowed down to six applicants, and over the weekend it was cut down to Shupe, Hunter, and Larry Templeton, the associate athletic director at Mississippi State University.
"I'm looking forward to working with Bob Fredericks," said Hunter about Kansas' new athletic director.
Hunter said that he was originally nominated by a special search committee hired by WSU to find applicants for the position and then he was asked to apply for the position.
Bob Hartsook, vice president of Development at WSU, said that Shupe was chosen because he had accumulated a vast amount of experience over the last decade in athletics.
Shupe, 39, has been the athletic director at West Virginia since July 1982. He also was the assistant athletic director at Purdue. Shupe graduated in 1973 from Slippery Rock University in Slippery Rock, Pa.
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
KU coach invited to train U.S. team in Yugoslavia
By a Kansan reporter
Gary Kempf, Kansas men's and women's swimming coach, is on his way to Yugoslavia today. He will be an assistant swim coach for the U.S. swim team to the World University Games, which will be held July 9-14 at Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
Kempf will coach swimmers in the breaststroke and individual medley. There are two other assistant swim coaches, Tim Hill of Arizona State University, and John Asmuth of Auburn University. Jim Presses of Louisiana State University will lead the coaching staff.
America. This is definitely one of the highlights of my career."
"I was tremendously excited," Kempf said. "This is a first for me to represent the United States of
The coaches are chosen by a rotational system. Their names are placed on a list, and they work way toward the top coaching spot.
The U.S. team will compete against swimmers from around the world. It is a strong team, Kempf said, even though some of the stronger swimmers opted to stay back to train for the Pan-American Games, which will be held later this summer.
"This is a tremendous opportunity for other swimmers to shoot up into the lightlime," Kemp said. Fifteen swimmers are on the U.S. team. None of the swimmers from Kansas qualified for the
team.
Todd Torres, an LSU swimmer and the NCAA champion in the 100-yard breaststroke, will compete for the United States. His NCAA winning time, 53.96 seconds, was also a school record. Torres just completed his freshman year.
Another LSU freshman swimmer, Buffy Krieger, will swim on a freestyle relay team.
Adam Schmitt and Andy Diechir, both LSU juniors, will also represent the United States. At the NCAA, Schmitt placed second in the 50-yard freestyle and eighth in the 100-yard freestyle. Deichert placed third in the 100-yard breaststroke.
New softball coach builds program with new philosophies
The games will be televised live on ESPN.
Bv ELAINE SUNG
Special to the Kansan
The only thing Kalum Haack can find wrong with Kansas is the winter
But, that wasn't enough to stop him from accepting the head coach job (oops).
Haack will replace Bob Stancilf,
who resigned this spring after 11
weeks.
He recently completed his first season as head softball coach of his high school team at Houston High School. University, Huntsville, Texas, he guided them to a 34-26 overall record.
second place in the Gulf State Conference and an invitation to the National Invitational Tournament. Haack also was an assistant for the University of Nebraska for two years.
"I was pretty chosy with where I wanted to go," said Haack. "I wanted the salary that I could afford to live on, and I like the Big Eight conference, which is probably one of the most competitive in the nation."
Haack said that the quality of KU's facilities and the softball team's large budget and national reputation attracted him to the job.
compete nationally. We can travel and play any team in the country, and I can go to recruit any player in the nation," he said.
"We have the resources here to
Floyd Temple, assistant athletic director, said he was confident that Haack would maintain the excellence of the program.
"We feel confident that he is the man for the job and will keep KU very competitive in the Big Eight and nationwide." Temple said.
"To go where I want, it'll take x' number of years to get my type of ballplayers to get my style of play," he said.
Recruiting is a major concern for Haack, who considers it a year-round process, but he said he was confined to the Texas area due to a tight budget and smaller facilities at SHUI.
"I was limited to only in-state kids, and to be able to compete nationally, you need the best ones in the country." Haack said.
Haack said he would emphasize academics over softball.
"Anytime there is a conflict, I will give in to academics," he said. "I will try to keep conflicts to a minimum, but of course, sometimes they will occur."
Although KU had winning seasons the last 11 seasons under Stancifl, Haack said he will be rebuilding next year.
"We will be a very young team, with eight freshmen, and probably six to eight as walk-ons. The biggest impact will come from losing five seniors," he said. "We'll have to show freshmen where to go."
Haack does not anticipate major
adjustments for the players.
"We'll have different plays that they might not have seen before, and we might do situations differently," he said. "The key is going to be an aggressive style of play, both offensive and defensive."
Reeien Noble, Omaha, Neb.
senior, has talked with Haack several times since his arrival and said the team would have to make several changes.
"You'd think that by senior year, you'd know the ropes, but with a new coach, things will be different," Noble said.
KU cricketers second in league; gunning for '87 conference title
By L.A. RAUCH
Special to the Kansan
Cricket is a little-known sport in the United States, even among sports enthusiasts. But here in Lawrence, the demand for the sport has evolved with the Kansas Cricket Club.
Recently, the Jayhawks competed against the Iowa State Cyclones and won. The victory moved Kansas into second place in the Southwest Cricket Conference, which consists of eight teams from the Midwest.
"We fought until the very last. We have a realistic chance to go to the finals," said Dinesh Kumarjeeva, Sri Lanka senior and KU Cricket Club president.
The club's record of 1-1-1 gives the team a total of six points for the season, which runs from May to August. The scoring system awards four points for a win, two points for a draw, and no points for a loss. At the end of the season, the two teams with the most points
play a tournament for the conference championship.
KU's first match against the Kansas City West Indies ended in a loss. A match against Tulsa I two weeks ago was ruled a draw because of rain. Kumarajee
- Dinesh Kumarajeevay
KU Cricket Club president
said the team could have won the match if it hadn't rained. Tulsa 1 was the team to beat, he said, because it holds the 1986 conference title and has a bowler, the equivalent of a pitcher in baseball, who plays for the U.S. World Cup team.
'We don't have any superstars,
but we have a very well-balanced team. We're going to do what it takes," Kumarajeeva said.
A cricket team has 11 members. When a team plays defense, there are nine fielders, a bowler and a keeper. On offence, there are two batsmen. Game points are scored when a batsman hits the ball and runs between two sets of wickets, which are three wooden stumps on the field.
The KU Cricket Club has about 40 members, mostly from foreign countries, including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, England, New Zealand and Australia. Only two club members are from the United States.
Lance Rake, KU Cricket Club faculty adviser, is one of the two members from the United States. He learned the game in New Zealand where he taught.
"They play cricket in the summer the way we play baseball," Rake said about New Zealanders.
Joe Wilkins III/KANSAN
Lent, Unmesh Kumarajeva, Sri Lanka senior, attempts to hit the ball during a KU Cricket Club practice at Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets. The club was practicing Thursday for Saturday's match against the Iowa State Cyclones. Kansas won the match and is now ranked second in the Southwest Conference. Below; Nadeem Sheikh, Pakistan freshman, strokes one past the midoff fielder in a KU Cricket Club practice last Thursday.
Endurance triathlon attracts athletes from three states
By JOHN MONTGOMERY
Athletes from around the area tested their endurance Sunday at Lone Star Lake in the third annual Jackie Johnson Memorial Triathlon.
Special to the Kansan
Wesley Hobson was the men's overall winner with a time of 2 hours and 2 minutes. Kristi Newcomb won the women's division, finishing in 2 hours and 23 minutes. The three-man corporate relay team of Mark Wilson, James Sloan and Milo Ransopher from the Lawrence Fire Department took first place in the team competition with a time of 2 hours and 20 minutes.
More than 159 individuals and 36 three-member relay teams participated.
Brian Morray, an assistant director of the event, said the triathlon was gaining popularity among athlete in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.
The number of triathletes increased about 25 to 30 percent from
The triathlon is nationally sanctioned. The ton finishes go on to
national competition at a triathlon at Hilton Head. S.C.
"A lot of top athletes from around the area are enjoying the course." Morray said. "It's probably as tough a course as there is around here."
The race consists of a 1.5 kilometer (93 mile) swim, 40 kilometers (24 miles) bike ride and a 10 kilometer (6.2 mile) run. Morray said the distances were standard for triathlons.
The race started and finished at the concessions and beach area on the south end of the lake. The transition
point for the different portions of the race was on the south side this year. In past years, competitors made transitions on the north side by the dam.
The biking and running portions of the race were routed through surrounding county roads.
Morray said the relay team competition was expanded this year to men's, women's, mixed and corporate divisions. In the relay competition, each team member completes a portion of the race.
Tammy Silver, 22, who graduated
"The run is really where you show whether you have it or not. If you can run, you can win," she said.
"It was better than last year," she said, "I really enjoyed it."
Silver said the 10 kilometer run was the hardest part of the triathlon for her.
Silver said a lot of training was required to compete seriously in the field.
from the University of Kansas in May, participated in the triathlon for the second time. She said the course had improved since last year.
five times, bibd about 100 miles and ran about 20 miles each week
She said she enjoyed triathlon competition for the physical and mental rewards. This was her seventh triathlon.
"I're really good for your attitude." She said. "I's an endurance event so it takes a lot of practice."
The triathlon is dedicated to Jackie Johnson, a Lawrence woman who died at age 46 while training for a marathon in Hawaii. She was struck by lightning while jogging along the Kansas River levee in Lawrence.