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Monday, February 19, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Congratulations
to those who were nominated for the C.L.A.S.S. Award
Citation for Leadership and Achievements for Student Services
- Barbara Ballard
- Janine Gracey
- Dan Kaizer
- Dr. Jim Kitchen
- Sue Morrell
and the Winner Bill Nelson
Kansas men win Minnesota event
The No.22 Kansas men's tennis team captured two victories at the ICE Vollies Championship in Minneapolis during the weekend.
Kansan staff report
The ICE Vollies was a two-day tournament sponsored by Minnesota. Kansas, No. 9 South Alabama, No. 23 Minnesota and No. 27 Florida State participated.
"It was great for us to come up here and win this tournament," Kansas men's tennis coach Michael Center said. "We set that goal before coming up here, and we really played well."
"It was one of our best team efforts of the year." Center said.
Kansas won two of three doubles matches to capture the doubles point and dropped only one of six singles matches, winning 8-1. Teams are awarded one point for the entire doubles competition and one point for each singles match.
In singles play senior Michael Isroff defeated Florida State's J.P. Vissepo 2-6, 6-3, 6-1. The match was a big one for Kansas because Vissepo transferred from Kansas last semester. Kansas sophomore Enrique Abaroa, No. 13, defeated Florida State's Jason White 6-3, 6-3 and No. 36 Kansas senior Victor Fimbres defeated Florida State's
Murphy Payne 6-3, 6-2.
Minnesota upset South Alabama on Friday and earned the bid to play Kansas. It was the second time the two met this season, with Kansas winning the first match in January.
The Jayhawks won the doubles point again by winning two of three doubles matches. The team also won four of six singles matches, which gave Kansas a 5-2 victory and the championship.
"It was a great weekend for our team and something to really build on," Centersaid.
Women's tennis nets road victory
Kansan staff report
The first road trip of the season was successful for the No.25 Kansas women's tennis team.
The Jayhawks improved to 4-2, defeating Boston College and Syracuse in Syracuse, N.Y., Saturday and yesterday.
victory. Teams are awarded one point for the entire singles competition and one point for each singles match.
Against Boston College on Saturday, Kansas dropped only one match. The Jayhawks won two of three double matches and all six of the singles matches to capture a 6-1
It was good for Kansas to capture its first road win of the season, Kansas women's tennis coach Chuck Merzbacher said.
"We did what we had to do to get the job one," Merzbacher said. "We tackled a challenge today."
The one loss in singles came when Sim, ranked 74th, played No. 18 Nicole Strnadova. Sim defeated Strnadova last season when the two teams met but was defeated this time 5-7, 6-2, 6-1.
After Saturday's victory, Kansas played Syracuse and won, 6-1.
Kansas captured the doubles point
by winning two of three doubles matches and went on to win five of the six singles matches.
In doubles, Hunt and Atkerson continued to struggle and lost their third consecutive match. They lost 8-6 to Stradova and her sister, Jana Stradova.
Jayhawk rowers race without boats, water
By Spencer Duncan Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas rowing team competed in the Kansas Open Indoor Rowing Championships yesterday, but the water and the boats were missing.
Using rowing machines called ergometers, which simulate the rowing motion, 10 teams from different schools and clubs participated in the one-day individual competition at Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
The rowers aren't accustomed to competing without water and boats.
"I wasn't really into it before it started," Kansas freshman rower Rachel Jorgensen said. "But now that it's over, it was fun."
When rowers are on the water they row in teams of seven, however this competition was individual and had
nothing to do with water. In groups of 10, the rowers sat on the ergometer and rowed a timed distance of 2,000 meters.
Winners were based on who had the best time, and a series of points were awarded for placing first through sixth. The team that earned the most points won the overall competition.
"Here it's all individual." Kansas senior co-captain Paige Geiger said. "This is a team sport, so this is not what we normally do."
Kansas women's rowing is in its first season as a varsity sport, and men's rowing is still a club sport. However, both teams competed.
The championships were split into divisions of novice and varsity, men's and women's, coxswain men's and women's, and a men and women's relay.
Both Kansas men and women won the open divisions in the competition, and Kansas captured nine firstplace finishes. In a novice freshmen women's race, Kansas rowers dominated as freshmen Beth Erickson and Ashley Masoni finished first and second, and Jorgensen took fourth.
Rowing indoors was a new and challenging experience for the rowers.
"You're not going anywhere," Erickson said. "It's hard to do because there is no water a foot below you."
The team did not plan to row indoors, Kansas rowing coach Rob Catloth said.
"This event is a perfect break in the monotony of winter conditioning." Catloth said. "I think that this will get our competitive juices flowing."