UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, January 26, 1996
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Men's basketball excels in classroom
By Jenni Carison Kansan sportswriter
Jacque Vaughn had a 3.79 grade point average last semester.
Just don't remind the junior guard that his GPA tied for the best average on the Kansas men's basketball team.
"I don't like the press I get for doing that," Vaughn said. "It shouldn't be extraordinary; it should be common."
High GPAs are becoming more and more common for Kansas, which
had five players with GPAs of 3.64 or higher last semester.
Like Vaughn, freshman forward T.J. Pugh had a 3.79 GPA. Pugh said that his high school, Creighton Prep in Omaha, Neb., prepared him well for the transition into college.
son and sophomore guard C.B. McGrath, both with 3.75 GPAs, and junior guard Jerod Haase, who recorded a 3.64 GPA last semester.
"I think academics is something you have to work at," he said. "The academic support system here is really good. They give us the tools. We just have to work at it."
The Javhawks! ve.
Close behind Fugh and Vaughn the freshmen guard Ryan Robert-
vaughn and Haase are academic All-American candidates, while being the starting backcourt for the No.4 Jayhawks.
Vaughn said he hoped strong performances on and off the court would break the stereotype of the dumb lock.
"I always hated that stereotype," he said. "I wanted to change that."
Brien hopes to throw some weight around tomorrow
By Adam Herschman Kansan sportswriter
Kansas senior Lisa Brien literally threw off the practice schedule for the Kansas track and field team last February. At an afternoon practice, Brien spun twice and let go of the 20-pound shot-put 45 degrees foul in the direction of Doug Hedrick, Kansas assistant track and field coach.
It missed Hedrick by a foot, Laurie Trapp, Kansas assistant track and field coach, said.
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Consequently, after almost hitting Hedrick, the weight throwers began to practice before the rest of the team.
The throwing ring is on the track's outer area, where the sprinters and distance runners practice.
"Every time they'd come around the track they'd look, look, look, make sure I wasn't throwing," Brien said. "I was always afraid of hitting the runners, so I started practicing early."
Brien walked on the Kansas track and field team after throwing the discus, javelin, and shot-put at Topeka's Seaman High School.
In June 1995, Brien tore the ligaments in her right wrist while weightlifting. The injury kept her from competing in China and kept her weightlifting career on hold. Brien has also been battling a herniated disk.
Brien said that weightlifting and her coach, Loren McVey, has taught her mental toughness.
Despite her injuries, Brien broke her school record in the 20-pound weight throw at the Missouri Invitational on Jan. 20.
"Even if a weight felt heavy, you still had to lift it," Brien said. "Just because it's heavy doesn't mean you can't do it , and so I've carried that over to throwing."
Kansas will compete in the the Kansas State-Kansas-Missouri Triangular Meet tomorrow in Manhattan.
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