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Wednesday, June 10, 1987/Kansan Summer Weekly
Sports
Kansas athletes end spring seasons after finals
Men's tennis and track teams compete in the NCAA Championships, win honors
By Tim Hamilton Sports editor
Men's Tennis
Although spring finals were over on May 15, for many University of Kansas athletes, the spring semester ended long after most students had left Lawrence for the summer.
The KU men's tennis team completed its historic season in mid-May with a loss to Clemson, 6-1, in the opening round of the Jayhawks' first NCAA Championship tournament. The Jayhawks qualified for their first ever NCAA berth after they won the Big Eight Conference title.
Senior Mike Wolf and freshman Craig Wilde also qualified for NCAA Championship individual competition. Wolf reached the final 32 in singles by defeating Royce Deppe of Texas, 2-6, 6-3, 6-3. Wolf was eliminated by Trevor Kroneman of the University of California-Irvine, 6-3, 6-4. In doubles, Wolf and Wildley were defeated by the team of Shelby Cannon and Byron Talbot from the University of Tennessee.
The KU men's and women's track teams finished their seasons last week at the NCAA Outdoor Track
Track
and Field Championships in Baton Rouge, La. Five KU men and one KU woman qualified for the meet. Long jumper Ricky Mays was suffering from a broken foot and didn't attend the meet.
Friday night, pole vaulter Pat Manson took third with a vault of 17.4¹⁾ in the finals. Spot-putter Denise Buchanan finished sixth in the finals with a personal best and school record of 52.3¹⁾.
Clubs
The University's club teams were also active after the end of the spring semester. KU Cre competed in the Dad Vail Regatta, May 8-9, on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. More than 3,000 men and women from 77 different programs gathered for one of the largest competitions in the country. KU took three women's and two men's teams.
"The women's varsity heavyweight four-man boat, the women's novice eight-man boat and the men's six-person boat all did really well," Felland said.
The women's varsity heavyweight four-man boat finished seventh out of 34. The women's novice heavyweight eight-man boat took eighth place out of 39. The men's novice heavyweight
eight-man finished sixth out of 31
The KU Frisbee Club men's and women's teams traveled to Pennsylvania to compete in the 4th annual National Collegiate Ultimate Championships, May 23-25, at Penn State University. The tournament was composed of the top 14 men's and top seven women's teams in the country.
The KU women's team won the first women's national championship, defeating Humboldt State University in Richmond, Ind., and the University of California-Davis on the last day of the tournament. The women's team finished with a record of 5-3.
The men's team finished in the top 12 with a record of 2-4, defeating East Carolina and Cornell, both of which made the final four. They lost to Princeton and the State University of New York at Purchase by three points. The KU club is the only club other than the University of Texas to qualify for the tournament all four years.
Sports Festival on July 23, in Chapel Hill, N.C. Coffey will work with the North squad's sprinters and hurdlers.
Several KU athletes and coaches received awards and honors at the completion of the 1987 spring semester.
Women's track head coach Carla Coffey will be the manager of the North's track team at the National
Senior Mike Wolf and junior Larry Pascal were named to the Academic All-Big Eight men's tennis team.
Men's tennis coach Scott Perelman was named Big Eight Conference Coach of the Year. Perelman guided the Jayhawks to their first conference title in 23 years and their first NCAa burin in the school's history. Since coming to the school five years ago, Perelman has taken KU from fifth to first.
All-American senior forward Danny Manning was selected to compete on the U.S. Team at the Pan American Games, coached by Louisville head coach Denny Crum, Louisville assistant coach Jerry Jones and Michigan State head coach Jud Heathcoe. The Pan American Games will run August 9-23 in Indianapolis, Ind.
Junior Brian McGreevy received an invitation to compete in the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships, June 10-13, at Columbus, Ohio. According to KU coaches, McGreevy's qualification is the first for any Jayhawk since 1956 when Bob
Richards and Gene Elstun both qualified.
In women's softball, senior Sheila Connolly was named an NCAA firstteam All-American outfielder this season despite playing more than twenty games at shortstop.
Connolly led the conference the past season in hits, runs, triples, batting average and stolen bases. She was also on the All-Big Eight first team, All-Big Eight Academic team and the All-Big Eight Tournament team.
Seniors John Byrn and Hugh Stanfield also received Big Eight commendations. Byrn, a first baseman who set a new KU career batting average record of 374, was named to the Big Eight All-Academic team. Stanfield, an outfielder who set several individual records, received a Big Eight All-Conference Honorable Mention. Stanfield set KU career records for number of hits, runs scored, triples, stolen bases, games played and attempts at the plate.
Sophomores Kevin Pritchard and Mark Randall have been selected to participate in the National Sports Festival this summer in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Haack named softball coach
By a Kansan reporter
University of Kansas athletic director Bob Frederick announced yesterday that Kalum Haack would be the Jayhawks' new softball coach.
"We were tremendously proud of the job Bob Stancilf did during tenure. Temple said, "We're sure that we are making excellence that Stancilf attained."
Haack, 29, replaces Bob Stance-
lift who resigned after his 11th
season at KU with a career record
of 359-175, a 572 winning percentage.
Floyd Temple, chairman of the search committee to replace Stanclift, said the University made a tough choice among a fine group of candidates.
"He was an assistant coach under one of the best coaches in the nation at Nebraska under Wayne Daigle.
Haack recently completed his first season as head softball coach at Sam Houston State University in Texas, Texas. His alma mater.
In its first year as an NCAA Division I program, the Sam Houston squad finished with a 36-24 record and earned a berth in the first NIT softball tournament.
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