12 Wednesdav. Julv 13. 1988 / University Daliv Kansan Kansas team handball goalie seeks spot on national squad By Linda Gaumnitz Kansan staff writer In the second week of July, most KU students might be more concerned with basking in the sun or partying until dawn. Amy Lucas, however, was concentrating on last weekend's tryouts for the national team handball squad. Lucas, an Overland Park sophomore, was one of seven team handball players trying out for the women's national team handball squad, which will train and compete with the 1982 Stanford Team Handball Federation picked 15 players with the 1992 Olympics in mind. Although Lucas won't compete in the 1988 Olympics, if she makes the national team, she will move to the United States. She also competes in the Olympic Center and go to school. Lucas said that the players invited to the truyouts were picked to insure the quality of players competing for a spot on the Olympic team. Baha Hammil, coach of the Kansas men's team handball club, said that he told federation officials about Lucas and she received an invitation to truyout. "I was so glad that Baha got me a tryout," Lucas said. "But I'm really nervous. I haven't been playing since the spring. Just last week I started stretching out, but it's hard to practice alone." Hammil, who met Lucas in Colorado Springs said. "She's been doing very well. She was very nervous at first, and a little rusty, but you can't expect her to come off of not playing for a while and be as good as before." The national team will travel four times a year to compete against European teams, which Lucas said were some of the toughest in the world. Last May, the U.S. women's team beat the Soviet squab. Hammil said that was only the second loss in six years for the Soviets. Lucas, 19, has played goalie for Hammil's men's team since fall 1987. Only two other women, Cheryl Whelan, Prairie Village sophomore and Stephanie Docq, former KU student, have played on the men's team. "Amy was discouraged when she came to practice and saw all those men playing," Hammil said. "She was intimidated at first. "It was a challenge to be 'the girl in the goal.'" Lucas said. "There's not a big difference between how men and women play the game. If there is a team of good girls who want to see they can throw as hard as the men." "This spring at a game against the Air Force team, a male player threw the ball at Amy and knocked the wind up. The team scored only one goal in that game." Lucas was hooked on team handball in Brazil, where she spent her freshman year of high school. "I played basketball and other sports, and there was a group of girls who played most of the sports down there." I said. "They told me to try out, so I did "Everyone took turns at the different positions. I had my turn at goalie, and just liked it. I guess I was tired of having to run around." Lucas said that she liked playing the sport because it incorporated elements of soccer, hockey and basketball. Like soccer, team handball is played on either an indoor or outdoor field and points are scored by shooting the ball into the net. Like hockey, players can draw two-minute penalties from roughness and repeated infringements of the rules. The six players on each team must try to move the ball down the field by dribbling, throwing or passing a ball, similar to basketball. A player can hold the ball for three seconds or take three steps before committing a shot. The coach can draw him but Hammil said that a player could not be taken out of the game unless the foul endangered another player's safety. As a goalie, Lucas must stop the ball from getting in the net. "I like to get a little off center of the goal, and let the player see a bigger space open on one side," Lucas said. "I come out of the goal, because that makes it look smaller. Sometimes all the other players have to do to score is lob the ball over my head." Lucas said that she watched both the offensive and defensive players and looked for weaknesses. "Being a goalie requires different skills from a player." Hammil said. "You must have good reflexes and stretching, and be fast and very quick." Lucas was one of the youngest players to try out for the national women's team, which Hammil said would be an advantage. Many of the players now who are on the national team are in their mid-twenties. "She loves the game," Hammil said. "You have to start young and be confident in the sport if you're going to play it. The federation looks for good athletes to play and learn the game, so anyone could try out. But you have to be loyal to the sport. Amy is very dedicated." 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