University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 12, 1990
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Lawrence coach will retire
By Brent Maycock
Kansan sportswriter
At the end of the 1989-90 school year, a distinguished coaching career will come to an end.
After 36 years of coaching football,
Lawrence High School coach Bill
Freeman announced Thursday his
retirement at the end of the school year.
Freeman, 59, has been the coach at Lawrence since 1974. During that time, he built one of the most reputable football programs in the state, compiling a 134-38 record. Freeman's teams made it to the 6-A state championship game seven times and claimed five state championship titles, including the 1989 championship.
Despite his recent success, Freeman decided it was time to move on.
"I've had success at a small school, a mid-sized school and a large school," Freeman said. "I've been coaching 36 years. It's time to step
down and do a few other things."
Freeman also coached at Oaawatonie High School and Le Roy High School. In addition to the titles he received, he also won a title at Oaawatonie.
Freeman said he would spend more time at the First National Bank of Le Roy, which he owns, and more time pursuing private interests.
Freeman said he would miss the association with the players and coaches more than anything else.
"I feel fortunate to have coached where I've been," he said. "I've worked with a lot of great assistants and a lot of good athletes."
maugh Freeman said he couldn't rate himself as a coach, he described himself as a very demanding person, and it wasn't with which some of his players agreed.
"He was intense and demanding and expected a lot of you," said senior Chip Budde, a center for the Kansas football team and former
player for Freeman at Lawrence. "He really got the most out of his players and his record shows that."
"It's sad to see him retire, but it had to happen sometime. He was a great motivator. He showed what it meant to play for Lawrence High. I hope they bring in someone who knows what Lawrence High is all about."
Kansas defensive back Charley Bowen also played under Freeman at Lawrence. Bowen, a freshman, said he had never met anyone like Freeman.
"With all of the people I've been associated with, I've never met anyone who was as intense or competitive as he was," Bowen said. "He brought out the best in you, even if you weren't the best athlete. Playing for him was one of the best experiences of my life."
"They will miss him a lot at Lawrence High, because he changed their program around."
Kansas diver Andy Flower turned team defeat into a personal victory Saturday when he broke his third Kansas diving record in a week.
Kansan sportswriter
Diver wins despite team loss
By Molly Reid
In the final home meet of the season, 21st-ranked Kansas lost to 12th-ranked Nebraska. 68-38.
But Kansas swimming coach Gary Kempf said the team shared in Flower's victory.
"I was really proud of Andy Flower for winning both boards," he said. "I think it's fantastic for him, and I felt we worked as a team and did the best we could."
Flower, who set new Kansas diving records on both the one-meter and the three-meter boards last weekend in the 11 dive events, made his bid to sweep all four diving records by setting a new record of 297.30 for six dives in the
one-meter diving event this weekend. The old record of 296.40 was set by Mike Prandle in 1986
Last week's scores of 568.20 on the three-meter and 527.20 on the one-meter broke the other two records of 502 and 478.50. Flower's own record. The only record remaining for Flower in his last season at Kansas is the threemeter run in six competes. Flower was just too rattled away on Saturday. He scored 315.38.
Both performances by Flower put him in first place, with Kansas diver Jeff Mix taking second in the three-meter with a score of 279.53. In the one-meter diving, Mix placed third, scoring 279.30. Both of Mix's scores marked personal best, scores for six-dive competition.
"It's coming to an end," Flower said. "And I just want to go out
with a bang."
Diving coach Don Fearon said that although he felt good about the performance by the divers, they could have done better.
"There was a little bit here and there," he said. "We're still putting on the polish for conference."
The men's Big Eight Conference meet will be March 1-3 in Lincoln, Neb.
The swimming team did not fare as well as the divers, but Kempf said he credited much of that to the emotion of the Nebraska队.
Kansas did not finish first in any race on Saturday, but they rallied by taking second and third in three events.
"We're never happy when we lose. We're not happy at all." Kempf said. "But we know we can make a difference. We know it can be a different picture."
Harriers realize personal bests
By Molly Reid
Kansan sportswriter
Success in track is not always measured by a first-place finish, Kansas track coach Gary Schwartz said.
Kansas competed against 32 schools, including USC, Colorado State, Iowa State, the University of Iowa, and the University of Alabama.
This weekend at the Sevigne Husker Invitational in Lincoln, Neb., Schwartz measured the success of the Kansas athletes by how much they improved and how much they learned.
Schwartz said he wanted to concentrate on the Big Eight Conference meet and the progress of the individual athletes because focusing on further goals could jeopardize performances.
"It's a high quality meet," he said.
"Realistically, we're not in the situation where winning is one of the goals. We've got a good strong team, but we're not individually at that next level."
"We didn't make any national qualifying times, but there are a lot of great things happening," he said. "Success is how people compete and perform against great competition."
Schwartz said one of the great things that happened was the performance by freshman Jon Handy in the finals of the 800-meter run.
Although he finished last with a time of 1 minute, 54.35 seconds, Handy did better than expected.
"I told him that I didn't necessarily expect him to make it to the finals, just do the best he can and learn from it," Schwartz said. "He took the bull by the horns. He really went after it and he did learn."
Handy said he didn't surprise himself.
"I thought I could run that fast," he said. "It's a different kind of thinking. He told me it was hard to make it happen, but you can do my best. That was my only goal."
Handy, in his first indoor track season, has surpassed his outdoor best times on three separate occasions. He attained a personal best in the 800-meter trials with a time of 1:54.76 and then broke it again in the finals in 1:54.35. He also attained a personal best in the two-mile relay.
The team of Stacey Smiedala, Jason Teal, Jon Joslin and Handy placed second in the mile relay with a time of 7:35.57. Schwartz said the relay team had a good chance of qualifying for nationals.
Steve Heffernan was the only Jaya-
hawk to win an event at the invi-
tational. He won the 5,000-meter run in
14:20.53.
Schwartz said the fourth-place finish by Joslin in the 1,000-meter run and the eighth-place finish of Chris Redden in the finals of the shot-prot
were both excellent performances.
"Joelin ran better than he's ever run before," Schwartz said. "And Chris did a good job of making it to the finals in such a quality field."
Only nine Kansas women competed in the meet.
Kim Huthoefer-Busch was the only Jayhawk to advance past the first round of the preliminary races. She finished in 8.22 in the semifinals of the 55-meter hurdles.
Tricia Brown ran her best time, 9:57.92, in the finals of the 3,000-meter run for a ninth place finish, and although Sherlanda Brooks did not qualify for the finals in the 400-meter dash, she had a personal best time of 56.54.
In the finals of the women's 400-meter dash, the top eight had national or provisional qualifying times.
Schwartz said the athletes would not be brought down by performances that kept them out of the finals.
"They may be a little disappointed," he said. "But not to the point they decide to hang things up. This is a motivation factor. You've got to be realistic in where you are headed."
He said Schwartz consoled him after the race.
"He said to me, 'Don't worry. You saw what it was like to run with the big boys,' " Handy said.
KU women's crew team dominates indoor rowing competition
By Brent Maycock Kansan sportswriter
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas Crew made an impressive showing at the second annual KU Invitational Indoor Rowing Champion, Saturday in Robinson Gymnasium
Besides sweeping two women's divisions, Kansas had three first-place finishers and one second-place finish.
"I was very happy with the overall performance," Coach Dan Jewett said.
The competition was the team's first competition of the spring season. It was a 2,500 meter race, which took place on Concept II rowing ergometers. Jewett said there were almost 120 participants from Kansas, Wichita State, Nebraska, and
rowing associations in Wichita and Topeka in the competition.
Jewett said there were three divisions each for men and women. In each of the divisions, the top two finishes received medals. Of the twenty possible medals available in the department divisions, Kansas class was the next highest finisher was Kansas State with four.
Kansas' Renee Boucher finished first in the women's novice lightweight division with a time of 10 minutes, 23.5 seconds. In the women's novice heavyweight division, Tami O'Dell and Beth Maris took first and second with times of 9:47 and 10:03.4 respectively. Kansas did not finish in the top two in the men's novice divisions.
In the women's open lightweight division, Julie Dietrich finished first with a time of 10:29.6. Kansas swept the medals in the heavyweight division, with Kathy Yehle finishing first and Kati O'Riata second at 10:11.0.
The only medal winner for the men was Brett Bartlik, who finished second in the men's open heavyweight with a time of 8:25.9. He missed a chance at the first place medal by one-hundredth of a second. Jewett raced in the masters division and finished first with a time of 8:23.3.
Jewett said that two rowers, O'Dell and Yehle, competed in the Mid-Winter Crow Classic at the University of Wisconsin. He said that O'Dell finished first in her class, setting a meet record with a time of 9:36.0.
Injury forces KU tennis player to withdraw from indoor meet
By Paul Augeri
Kansan sportswriter
treated Falbo's injury Thursday, he returned home.
Two of the three Kansas tennis players were satisfied with their performances and one athlete's stay was shortened because of an injury during last week's Rolex National Indoor Collegiate Tennis championships in Minneapolis.
"I was really disappointed because I felt I had a good shot to win it." Falbo said. "But those things will happen."
John Falbo, who made his third appearance in the individual championships, withdrew Thursday from first-round competition because of 'pulled side muscles. After doctors
Falbo trailed 0-1 in the second set to Stanford's Alex O'Brien when he withdrew from the tournament.
Jeff Gross, who lost in the opening round of the main draw, won the first of two consolation matches Thursday.
Gross defeated Curtis Hollinger of
Southwest Louisiana 6-4, 6-7, 6-4
Gross was eliminated from the tournament when he lost Friday to Arkansas' Cha Hoon Im, 6-2, 4-6, 3-6.
"I was hoping to get a couple more wins, but was very pleased with the way I played," Gross said.
Sophomore Eveline Hamers, the top singles player on the women's team, beat Southern California's Stephanie London in straight sets, 6-4, 6-1. Hamers lost to Jana Kovačevich of Pepperdine in the second consolation 4-6, 6-1.
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