University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, April 20, 1977
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Reardon aims higher, farther
By ROB RAINS
Sports Writer
When Jay Reardon walks into Memorial Stadium this weekend for the Kansas Relays, he's going to have a special goal in mind.
He'll have three chances to do it.
Reardon, a freshman, wants to win one of the meet's individual championships. He'll have three chances to do it.
What he was expected to do, and has done, was score points. What he hasn't done, and what he wants to do, is win.
AT KANSAS, Reardon wasn't expected to perform those kind of miracles. Not right away at least.
The versatile Reardon, who will be competing in the high jump, long jump and triple jump, was one of the most publicized high school athletes in the country. He attended the Kansas City (Mo.) Rock堡县 and Missouri high school record books
“It’s not really that depressing to lose
when you know you’ve done your best.”
Reardon said, “or when you get beat by
people in the world. But it would be nice to wish you.”
Reardon said it wasn't that difficult to make the adjustment from high school—where he was expected to win—to college.
"In high school," I'd maybe just have to take two jumps to win. Here, I have to take all six."
Reardon was the only freshman among the 14 athletes to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships in the high jump. To do that he cleared 7-1, his best.
REARDON FAILED to quality in either the long or triple jump and said he had set that as one of his goals for the outdoor season.
"If you're just in one event and you get in a slump," he said, "it's hard to get out of it. With three you can get out of it without much trouble."
Right now, Reardon said, he thinks the long jump is his best event, but the high jump and triple jump are "right around the corner."
"That's this week," he said. "You can come back next week and it might be
Staff photo by MIKE CAMPBELL
Multi-talented Jay Reardon sails into long jump pit
something totally different. It switches back and forth."
Reardon's best effort in the long jump,
24-10½, is only ½ inches short of the NCAA Outdoor qualifying mark. In the triple jump, he has gone 49-2½, more
IN THE high jump, Reardon's outdoor best is 6-10, but he knows he can go higher than that. The qualifying mark for the NCAA is 7-1.
than two feet short of the 52-0 needed to qualify for the NCAA meet.
"Obviously, I would have lked to have gone farther and higher," Reardon said. "I want to improve each mark, but I am going with the way things have been going."
Part of the success Reardon has had this season, he said, is due to the competition between the Kansas squad members.
"The competition within our team is strong," Reardon said, "not in the sense that we want to beat the other guys on our team more than anything else, but in the sense that we want to help each other do the best we can."
REARDON, WHO didn't start high jump until his junior year at Rockhill, said one of the hardest adversities he faced was training for track the whole year.
"in high school," he said, "I played basketball in the winter, so track was just from the start of March to the middle of May. Here, it is all an-low thing
"I was getting to the point a while back where I was really tired. Now I'm thinking this is the start of the season again."
The hardest part of his training, he said, is that he has to split his time between the three events instead of concentrating on one. In a meet, he said, competing in that many events helps to keep him loose.
"IVE WORKED real on the triple jump the last couple of weeks," Reardon said. "I had a little injury where I got hurt jump for a whirl and I belong in it."
Reardon, a business major who hopes to go into the insurance business as did his father and brother, said he never doubted that he would be in mind that he'd be coming to KU.
"I visited Arizona State, Colorado and Notre Dame," Reardon said, "but I knew all along that I was coming here."
Faculty members to compete in medley relay
ATTENTION PREDENTAL STUDENTS Tour Of UMKC SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY Friday, April 29
He said he hoped the faculty medley relay caught on in other areas of the country because he thought it would encourage students at universities to get "athetically involved."
this was especially important to him since KU didn't have a faculty club.
Pre-dental group will leave Lawrence at 12:00 noon, the tour itself beginning at 1:30 at north entrance of dental school. The pre-dental group will assemble outside the lower end of the Union tunnel in X-zone parking lot directly adjacent to the KU Union and south of Memorial Stadium. Transportation will be provided and we should arrive back in Lawrence around 4:30. Interested students can sign registration sheet posted outside Student Senate Office in Union until 4:30 Thursday, April 28.
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TRIP INCLUDES: Tour of clinics, classrooms, labs and dental facilities. Dental students and administrators will be on hand for questions also.
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usually runs 3 to 5 times a week during the lunch hour.
By JEANNE HIERL
A special event was introduced at the Kansas Kales last year that could set a trend across the country. The event was the first time it would run again this year. Thursday, at 3:58 p.m.
The faculty medley relay is a 2.5 mile event run by teams of university faculty members, a group that isn't generally considered to be athletically inclined.
"In the fall most of us do 4 to 6 miles a day, and in the spring we do interval training."
Vanvelck said the track club's 60 members ran for various reasons with physical fitness heading the list. He said running was one of the main reasons, a number of people from different areas, and
Last year, the University of Kansas medley relay "A" team defeated seven competing teams with a time of 11:30, a school team with a time of 11:26, and a school team but not with university teams.
VANLEEK SAID KU's teams didn't train together as a team because of scheduling conflicts, but most of the members of the Faculty Track Club, which members of the Faculty Track Club, which
Geological Survey, $ \frac{1}{2} $ mile; Robin Davis, 3, professor of physics and astronomy, $ \frac{3}{4} $ mile; and Harold Yarger, 36, research associate with the Geological survey, one
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FRED VANLECK, professor of mathematics and coordinator of this year's faculty event, said last year's race was reported in two Kansas City papers.
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Kansas State will field the oldest team, Vanessa said, with a 65-year-old *¼* miller and a 30-year-old *¾* miller.
He said word of the event spread through Faculty Clearinghouse channels and this year teams in other areas of the country were seeking major meets to comete in.
HE SAID the "A"队 was composed of James Hamrick, 35, associate professor of botany, $^4$ mile; Neal Livingston, 28, research associate with the Geological department; Michael Otte, 30, chairman of the art department, $^4$ mile; and Everett, 36, one mile.
KU's 'B' team also is a "fairly old team," he said, with an average age of 37. Members of the KU 'B' team are: Garry Waldron, 28, research associate with the Geological Survey / ¼ mile; Lawrence Brady, 40, research associate with the
Vanleeck said the idea of a faculty competition in the Relays grew out of the team that organized the Faculty Clearinghouse competition, a nation-wide organization that allows faculty competition by mail (teams send their times to a clearing house and are informed about the results).
WHILE THE two teams are not ready to go,
the other teams will be scrambling for
them.
"IT'S INTERESTING to compete occasionally," he said, "because most of us don't compete regularly. It's fun to see how people respond against people of similar background."
The "A" team has a good chance to win this year, Vanleck said, even though the UN-O team said it had run the event in 10:40.
"It should be a good race," he said. "We could have raven last year if we had basketball."
Vanicke said the UN-O team was younger and had more track experience than the KU team. They also have a man who ran a 4:01 mile in college, he said. KU's 'a team miler, Everett, ran a 4:12 mile in college and last year his ran mile in 4:26.
Grover Everett, professor of chemistry and miler for the KU faculty team, said one reason for initiating the event was to create a competitive opportunity for runners who weren't old enough to compete in the Relays masters events (for those 40 or older) but were not as strong. The open events which draw outstanding young runners from across the country.
Vanveckle knew KU would field two faculty teams Thursday. They will compete with teams from Kansas State University, the University of Nebraska and the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
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