8B SPORTS
TRACK AND FIELD
THE UNIVERSITY DARY KANSAN MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2009
Two qualify in season's first meet
Freshman Mason Finley and senior Keith Hayes move closer to competing at the NCAA championships
BY SAMANTHA
ANDERSON
sanderson@kansan.com
Mike Gunnoe/KANSAN
Senior Kelsey Erb soars over the bar in the high jump Saturday at Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Erb won the event with a height of 5' 5".
The Kansas track and field season started Saturday with two athletes provisionally qualifying for the NCAA Track and Field Championships. Several others placed in the Bob Timmons Challenge, which was held at Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
"Everyone did a really great job today," coach Stanley Redwine said.
They were looking to go out and compete hard. We wanted to see where the athletes were with their fall training. All of them did a really good job and competed well."
Freshman Mason Finley took first in the men's shotput. His throw
of 19 meters also hit the provisional qualifying mark. The freshman was followed by senior Brian Bishop, who placed third in the shotput.
"This is fairly early in the season, so for him to come out in the first meet and provisionally qualify is extremely exciting."
The team had some success on the track, as well. The men's 4-x-400 meter relay team, made up of sophomore Isaac Bradshaw, senior Reggie Carter, freshman Kyle Clemons and senior Chandler Frigon, took first and beat Oklahoma Baptist by less than a second.
ELISHA BREWER
Sprints and hurdles coach
Senior Keith Hayes took first in the 60-meter hurdles, also hitting a NCAA provisional qualifying mark.
"This is fairly early in the season, so for him to come out in the first meet and provisionally qualify is extremely exciting," sprints and hurdles coach Elisha Brewer said. "I am looking forward to see what's coming. I think he has great potential and I am excited to see what is going to happen in the rest of the season."
The middle distance team also had a few victories, sophomore
Kaman Schneider took first in the 1,000-meter and senior Isaiah Shirlin won the mile with a time of 4:42.40.
"I was really looking at fitness level and all of them were a lot more fit than they were at this
Senior and two-time All-American Jordan Scott pole vaulted in this meet and took first place, but he was unattached, which meant he was technically not part of Kansas' team during the event. Another Kansas senior, Ryan Hays, took second.
tone last year, vertical jumps coach Tom Hays said. "We had goals for a couple of the athletes to be bigger and stronger, and they are, so that was good."
The women also had some success. In the high jump, seniors Kelsey Erb and Elizabeth Beisner
took first and second. Junior Jaci Perryman took first in the pole vault, and junior Abby Jones and sophomore Julia Cummings both had a jump of three meters and tied for second. Freshman Andrea Guebelle also took first in the long jump with a jump of 5.86 meters.
In the 600-yard, sophomore Shayla Wilson and freshman Tara Grosserode finished first and second with times of 1:25.16 and 1:28.66.
The women's 4-x-400 meter relay team also won a close race. Anna Barber, Kendra Bradley, Sasha Cunningham and Grosseger beat Lincoln (Mo.) by five-hundredths of a second.
"It is always exciting when it is a close finish and the women's finish was extremely close," Brewer said. "I am really proud of the girls. I think one of them ran hard and ran to the best of their ability."
Edited by Nick Gerik
Mike Gunnoe/KANSAN
Senior Issiah Shirlen, left, leads the pack in the one mile as sophomore Sean Proehl, right, trips on the edge of the track. Shirlen won the race while Proehl fell to fifth out of seven.
SWIMMING AND DIVING
Jayhawks earn second place in Cavalier Invite
Team preps for tougher meets in the spring
BY CHRISTIAN LUCERO
clucero@kansan.com
Going into a break when the Jayhawks are making some changes in training, swimming
coach Clark Campbell said he was pleased with the solid finishes Kansas has enjoyed lately.
T h e J a y h a w k s finished in second place
"The team did great. We had a lot of solid performances."
grade for its performance this season so far. The team responded with a runner-up finish in its first meet in almost a month. The last time the Jayhawks competed was when they defeated Drury Nov. 7.
CLARK CAMPBELL Swimming coach
behind the Virginia Cavaliers in the three-day Cavalier Invite over the weekend.
"The team did great. We had a lot of solid performances," Campbell said.
Junior Iulia Kuzhil earned second place in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 1:58.69. The 400-yard freestyle relay team of freshman Monica Johannessen, Kuzhil, senior Emily Lanteigne and junior
A m a n d a Maez finished in third place with a time of 3:27.98. The team noticed a cohesiveness before the meet and carried it into the weekend
"We can see that the hard work is paying off."
"We have
"We've been training really hard and making great steps forward as a team, but have yet to see what KU swimming and diving is really made of," junior Joy Bunting said. "Training
all grown together as a team mentally and this weekend was a way for us to perform well physically as a team," senior Melissa Heyerman said.
hard is important, but believing in each other and in the potential each person has is equally important."
MONICA JOHANNESSEN Freshman
Campbell said that the training over winter break would be different and that the team would get one week at home before returning to Lawrence.
Before the meet, Campbell said his team deserved a "B"
"We change training phases this week and it will become more intense to get ready for the big meets in February and
March," Campbell said.
Johannessen said she thought the team was ready for the commitment these changes would require.
"We can see that the hard work is paying off," Johannessen said.
"If one wants to be more than a good swimmer one has to do more than walk the walk."
Edited by Amanda Thompson
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