UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, February 2, 1996
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Men's tennis coach aims for his 100th victory
Center set for Indiana State
By Spencer Duncan Kansan sportswriter
This weekend could be the 100th time Kansas men's tennis coach Michael Center celebrates a victory as head coach.
Center will be going for the milestone win when the No. 25 Kansas men's tennis team faces Indiana State.
"If you stay around awhile, you'll get that many wins." Center said.
Michael Center
Center is entering his seventh season as a head coach at Kansas. He spent his first three years coaching the women's team, where he compiled a record of 39-28 and guided the women to a first place Big Eight Conference finish in 1992.
In 1992, he was also named Big Eight and Central Region women's
coach of the year.
After the '92 season, Center changed jobs and became the men's head coach. Since then, he has led the men to 60 wins and two consecutive conference championships.
"I knew last year that I had 90- something and that this year I would get 100." Center said.
Center was named 1994 Big Eight and Region V men's coach of the year.
Center also has long ties to Kansas. He played his collegiate tennis at Kansas from 1983 to 1986, where he was a four year letterman and two-time NCAA tournament qualifier.
Now his focus is on coaching.
"It's nice to have all the wins."
Center said. "Really, I'm more concerned with the team and what it can accomplish."
When Kansas, with a record of 1-1,
meets the Indiana State Sycamores at
7:30 p.m. on Saturday at Alvamar
Racquet Club, the team will be
searching for its second win of the
indoor season and trying to help
Center reach his mark.
"Our goal is just to win," junior Michael Isroff said.
The Jayhawks will be attempting to avenge an NCAA regional loss it suffered to the Sycamores last year. That will mean fine tuning a few problem areas.
"We have to have a complete match," Center said. "We have played very good doubles. We just need to work on keeping our singles play consistent."
The team believes it should have little trouble in helping Center pick up win 100.
"We have the best players in the conference and the region," Isroff said. "We can win."
Women's tennis team to face two more ranked foes
By Spencer Duncan
Kansan sportswriter
Three ranked teams in one week.
That's what the No. 25 K an s a women's tennis team has been dealing with the past seven days after losing to
No. 26 Northwestern last Sunday. The Jayhawks are preparing to meet No. 13 William and Mary and No. 16 Notre Dame this weekend.
"The girls are working hard," assistant women's tennis coach
"I believe once we get into the season we will get better. This will be
a good meet for us."
Kylo Hunt
Kylie Hunt Kansas junior tennis player
Frank Polito said. "They have been playing well."
Kansas will take on William and Mary at 7 p.m. tonight at Alvamar Racquet Club.
The Jayhawks lost to William and Mary last year, and players said they hope they can reverse
the outcome tonight.
The Jayhawks also lost to Notre Dame last year and have the same desire to beat them when the teams meet at 1 p.m. on Sunday at Alvamar.
"I believe once we get into the season we will get better," said junior Kylie Hunt. "This will be a good meet for us."
Kansas was disappointed with its showing last weekend. The Jayhawks defeated Wichita State for its first win of the season, but the loss to Northwestern was tough.
"We competed hard in every spot," Polito said. "It was tight all the way through."
The entire Jayhawk roster will be playing, and it hopes to bounce back from last week's loss and show the nation that it can compete with other nationally ranked teams.
"We're looking forward to playing these tough two teams," Hunt said. "We have nothing to lose."
Olympic Stadium improvements spark safety concerns
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — The possibility of costly repairs at the Olympic Stadium in a few years — not concerns about a deadly collapse — prompted the decision to reinforce the building's steel supports, an engineer said yesterday.
"It's not necessarily a case of safety. It's a case of serviceability."
he said.
"You could have had cracks in the concrete, sagging steel. But sagging doesn't mean failure," said Antranj Ouzoonian, an executive of Weidlinger Associates, a New York-based engineering firm that recommended the reinforcements.
The report done by Weidlinger, an overall look at the stadium's construction commissioned by the design team after the light tower
Coming nearly a year after a construction worker was killed when a light tower collapsed at the site, the disclosure that repairs are needed renewed questions about the safety of the $230 million, 83,500-seat stadium.
As the centerpiece of the Summer Games, the stadium is the site of the opening ceremony, which will be attended by President Clinton, track and field events and the closing ceremony.
"You're not going to find that in
accident, was not released.
Olympic officials said much of the work recommended by Weildinger already was under way. Lyn May, a representative for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, said ACOG was satisfied that the stadium would be safe.
Richard Monteilh, executive director of the Metropolitan Atlanta Olympic Games Authority, a civic oversight board that owns the stadium, said the report did not state the need for improvements in terms of preventing a disaster such as the light tower collapse.
there ... in no way, shape or form." Monteilh said. "I don't think there was a high probability of a collapse or a structural calamity during the Games."
Noah Long, a spokesman for the stadium design team, said that after the March 1995 accident, officials decided to improve any area in which a concern was raised even if the work already met building code standards.
"Any question ... we said, OK, let's reinforce it," said Long, a senior vice president of Rosser International, one of four companies in the joint venture called the Atlanta Stadium Design Team.
Long, told by a reporter about Ouzoonian's comments about maintenance, said he was unaware of any maintenance concerns.
The need for corrections would not have been detected if the fatal accident had not prompted an overall review of the project, a union official said.
Jones believes the structural conditions posed a potential safety problem.
"Everyone would have assumed everything was fine," said Steve Jones, leader of the Ironworkers Local 387. "No way anything would have been done without the accident."
"To what extent, I don't know — it raises questions," he said.
Reinforcement of the girders,
beams, columns and trusses at the
stadium began about three months ago, ACOG said Wednesday. The contractor said the work will be finished in about 10 weeks.
The stadium is to host a pre- Olympic track meet May 3. The Olympic Games begin July 19.
Ouzoonian said he could not say how much stronger the stadium will be with the revisions.
About 3 percent of the stadium, mainly in the media area in the middle of the stadium, needs the work.
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