University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, January 30, 1990
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Club wheels out opportunities for zealous cyclists
Group is growing in numbers despite lack of KU financing
By Brent Maycock
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas cycling club quickly is becoming one of the most popular clubs on campus, although it receives no financial support from the University.
Since its inception at the beginning of Spring 1989, the club has grown to 70 members. Sean Jackson, Lawrence junior and president of the club, said that he expected the club to get even bigger.
Members of the Kansas Cvcling Club, one of KU's fastest-growing clubs, prepare for a warm-up ride by cycling down fayhawk. Be
Jackson said the club was formed for students who wanted to ride with other cycling enthusiasts.
"There were 40 members last year and this year we have 70." Jackson said. "It's growing all the time."
"It was started so students can can whether it is racing, touring or mounting."
The three types of cycling allow diversity for club members. There is a racing team, which competes in sprint competitions; a touring division, which rides longer distances at slower speeds; and mountain biking, which deals mainly in off-road cycling.
The racing team, known as "TEAM KANSAS," has yet to participate in a competition this semester. However, the team is gearing up for the United States Cycling Federation's annual internationalary and ends in September. The team meets at 4:15 p.m., every weekday in front of Wesco Hall to leave to train.
Tricia Niblo, Mission Viejo, Calif.
junior and the club touring director;
said that the touring riders' schedule allowed them to practice on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays at 4 p.m. and on Sundays at 2 p.m.
"The touring rides go slower, but we go between 10 and 40 miles," said Niblo, who also serves as vice-president of women's cycling.
In addition to practices, the club holds a meeting at 8 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month in Templin Hall's cafeteria. The meetings concen- tize on rails for the club on provide information inform- sion on different facets of cveling.
Jackson said the club was working on receiving financial aid from Student Senate and would not know the decision until late February.
"There is a Senate bill in right now," Jackson said. "I'm going to sit in on the Senate hearing."
Since the club does not receive financial support from the University, sponsorship serves as its main source of funds.
"Right now, Rick's Bike Shop is our main sponsor," Jackson said. "But we are looking for more all of the time."
In addition to sponsorship, the club generates funds from its semester dues. Each person is required to pay $20 to enter the club. Once membership is established, dues are $10 a semester.
The club is sponsoring "The KU Criterium," an invitational race for amateur cyclists from the Midwest, on April 29.
Mike Richardson, Marengo, III., sophomore and club treasurer, said the money went toward sponsoring travelers. T-shirts and traveling expenses
However, because of limited funds, the club is turning toward local businesses for additional sponsorship.
"We can offer the businesses advertising on banners or logos on our jerseys," said Kevin McConkey, Glen Ellyn, III., sophomore and vice-president of the club.
The Tour de Lakes is another cycling event that the club is sponsor-
Jackson said the club usually competed against teams from Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska and other clubs in the four-state area (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska).
ing. The Tour will cover 100 miles around Clinton Lake, Lone Star Lake, and Lake Perry. Niblo said the event is open to the public and the Lawrence Bike Club also is a sponsor.
The racing team has a 20-member traveling squad composed of both men and women. The women's
cycling team competes separately from the men, but the two teams practice together.
"Our main concentrations are the race (KU Criterium), the tour (Tour de Lakes) and have fun and ride," Jackson said.
Conditioning for success
'Hawks pump up
Kansan sportswriter
Paul Augeri
Conditioning may just be preventive medicine for the second-ranked Kansas men's basketball team.
Plagued last year by injuries that sidelined key players such as guard Jeff Gueldner and former Kansas center Sean Alvarado, the 20-1 JAYLAN team that last season injury-free this season because of a rigorous conditioning program.
"Basketball has the most contact of any non-contact sport I've ever watched," said Roger Finkmeier, assistant strength and conditioning coordinator for athletics. "We are trying to give them a certain amount of musculature to help protect themselves."
Finkenmeier also handles conditioning duties for the Kansas football team. He said basketball players needed to take some of the same preventive steps against injury.
"We are entrusted with the strength and conditioning of the players," he said. "We try to make them as big and thick as we can. They realize this is something they desperately need."
While Coach Roy Williams has kept the Jayhawks shooting and sprinting during their practices, Finkemeier has made sure the team has done its bench presses and squats during its semiweekly workouts.
The team works out at Anschutz Sports Pavilion 48 hours before every regular-season game. Weight work is essential for success, squatting and power shrugging.
Kevin Stallings, assistant basketball coach, said the program kept the Jayhawks in prime working condition and made them less apt to suffer injuries.
"Coach Williams has a philosophy that there aren't going to be any injuries on this team." Stallings said. "We like to stick with that philosophy. It's a matter of how we get in and stay in good shape. I think it comes down to the bunch of guys who work hard."
Finkemeier said the players had worked to improve their jumping, rebounding and lateral movement techniques. Because workouts have
become less demanding since the season began, he said, he expects a total strength loss from each player of no more than 5 percent.
"This is important not just in injury prevention but with leg strength." Finkemeier said. "As long as they strangle you, (injuries) can be eliminated."
Finkemeier said that athletes just entering college sports, such as freshman guard Adonis Jordan, probably had not been exposed to an intense conditioning program.
"A kid who hasn't lifted may find it distasteful," Finkemeier said. "Their chances of training well before the college level aren't very good. They're going on what God gave them."
Jordan, a substitute point guard, said the conditioning program benefitted the team.
"It helps us a lot during the season as far as not getting tired in the game or getting pushed around," he said, conditioning and weights are a plus."
Pekka Markkanen, Kansas' 6-10 center from Jyväskylä, Finland, came from a European conditioning team and was inferior to point Kansas offered.
Markkanen said that he spent more time in the weight room than on the practice floor back home but that he had learned that helped strengthen his inside game.
Rick Calloway, a transfer from Indiana University, said that he followed a similar program at Indiana and that college basketball teams would not be successful without such conditioning programs.
"It is very important to me because I need more power," Markkanen said. "Their techniques are better here. That's why American players are better than European players."
Calloway, a 6-6 forward, also said in-season conditioning was vital to building endurance and stamina for the late stages of a ball game.
"It all boils down to the end of a game," Calloway said. "If you're less tired, you'll have more strength in your legs late in the game and be able to shoot more easily."
Senior forward Freeman West does overhead presses during a workout
Strawberry charged with assault with a deadly weapon
LOS ANGELES — New York Mets star Darryl Strawberry was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon last week after allegedly threatening his wife with a pistol, police said Monday.
Los Angeles Police Cmdr. William Booth said Strawberry posted $12,000.
The Associated Press
Strawberry was arrested at his home in Encino, Calif., and spent a very short time in jail at the West Side of Los Angeles daily morning, Sut. Woody Baca said.
bail "and is back with his wife."
Mets spokesman Jay Horwitz said late Monday night the charges were dropped earlier in the day after the Strawberry spike with detectives. Bace, however, said he was not in a situation where the charges had been dropped.
Two days before his arrest, Strawberry was involved in a paternity case in Missouri, where blood tests established he was the father of
ball "and is back with his wife's"
family "and is back with stuff, a
family disguise." Booth said.
a child born in 1988 to a woman in St. Louis. Strawberry did not contest the finding and a judge in St. Louis County Circuit Court took under study the amount of child support the All-Star outfielder is to nav.
Bace read a police statement that said West Valley officers were called to the Strawberry home at 3:45 a.m. after a report of "domestic violence." Lisa, 25, said she and her husband had argued and that Darryl, 27, hit her in the face with an open hand, the statement said.
According to the report, Lisa grabbed a metal rod and hit Strawberry in the ribs and wrist. Lisa alleged that she was attacked and threatened her, the report said.
A. 25-caliber semi-automatic pistol registered to Lisa was found in the house, police said. The statement said Lisa showed "no visible injury" and that Strawberry had brushes on rageback and wrist.
"There was a pistol in the house. I don't remember all of the circumstances." Booth said.
Parrott expansion plans will update old facilities
By Molly Reid
Kansan sportswriter
Privacy is hard to find in Allen Field House, and the coaches whose offices sit cozily amid the rafters are happy to hear Parrott Athletic Center is expanding, volleyball coach Frankie Albitz said.
Athletic director Bob Frederickr said plans to expand the center, between Allen Field House and Anschutz Sports Pavilion, have been made to update the football facilities and create office space for the athletics programs that now share a minimal amount of space in the field house.
Parrott, which houses the football, basketball and administrative offices for the athletic department, is not big enough to hold all the athletic programs' offices.
Volleyball, softball and men's and women's swimming share an office in the field house separated by neck-high dividers. The baseball, cheerleading and men's and women's programs share a similar facility.
"Allen was definitely not built with office and meeting space in mind," Frederick said.
Albitz said there were advantages and disadvantages to the situation.
"There is no place to speak to players in private," she said. "Right now we have to take them in the hall or out on the steps."
Albizt said a new office would be very beneficial for recruiting, but she will miss the closeness of the programs because of their proximities.
The expansion, a $4 million to $5 million project, was proposed in 1985, but efforts to raise the private funds are still underway.
John Scarifre, director of public relations for Campaign Kansas, said the funding effort for the expansion
was just beginning; $300,000 has been
raised so far.
Campaign Kansas is the University's five-year, $177 million fund-raising drive.
"We are excited to be involved," Scarffe said. "We anticipate making an announcement regarding funds committed as we receive permission to publicize gifts made for the facilities."
Frederick said a preliminary design for the building had been made extending the center south into the parking lot, but announcements from the campaign have held until Campaign Kansas receives a major gift to insure the success.
"It is just a matter of when," he said. "Obviously, nothing is a sure bet, but I'm 99.9 percent it is going to happen."
Frederick said the expansion will include new offices, conference rooms, a new locker room and equipment room for the football program. A new student support services area and new training table also will be included in the construction, as well as remodeling for the men's and women's basketball facilities. Elevators to the balconies of the field house will be installed to aid the handicapped.
Frederick said the shuffling possibly would include vacating the north side for football, changing the current football locker room into both an expanded training room and part of the baseball locker room. Women's basketball then would take over the baseball locker room.
"There are a lot of possibilities," Frederick said. "All decisions have not been made vet."
Frederick said he expected the project to begin within the next one or two years if financing efforts go well.
Kansas holds out at No.2 spot
The Associated Press
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson told his Razorbacks last week that if they won their next five games, they would be ranked in the top five.
This week, he has a new message. Yesterday the Razorbacks climbed from sixth to third, their highest ranking since they were No. 1 for one week in 1978.
"Now, I'm telling them that if we win our next four games, we could be No. 1." Richardson said.
Top-ranked Missouri and No. 2 Kansas meet again on Feb. 13, and both teams must still play No. 9 Oklahoma twice.
Missouri, 19-1, held the top spot for the second straight week with 59 first-place votes and 1,569 points from the nationwide panel of sports-writers and broadcasters. The Tigers struggled to beat Rutgers 80-64 last week and then easily defeated Colorado.
Kansas, 20-1, which was No. 1 for two weeks before losing to Missouri on Jan. 20, received the other four first-place votes and 1510 points.
Michigan and Duke each moved up three spots with the Wolverines climbing to No. 4 and the Blue Devils to No. 5.
Georgetown fell from third to sixth after losing to Syracuse, which rose four spots to No. 7. Louisville dropped from fourth to 10th after losing to DePaul, and UNLV plunged from fifth to 12th after losing to LSU. Purdue, the big Ten Tiger
Purdue, the surprising Big Tiger leader, rose from No. 13 to No. 8.
Illinois is 11th, followed by UNLV,
Connecticut, LSU, La Salle, UCLA,
Georgia Tech, St. John's, Minnesota
and Loyola Marymount.
Rounding out the Top 25 are Oregon State, Indiana, Xavier, Ohio, Arizona and North Carolina. The Tar Heels moved back into the rankings after a four-week absence.
Abbama fell out of the rankings after losing to Tennessee.