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Friday, December 1, 1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Clinic will help runners get their skills on track
No matter the level, running will be easier with better mechanics
By Adam Herschman Kansan sportswriter
For those in a hurry to improve their running skills in one day, Doug Hedrick and Steve Guymon will show them how.
The two Kansas assistant track and field coaches are holding their seventh Jayhawk Running Mechanics Clinic from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Anschutz Sports Pavilion. The clinic is designed to improve all runners' styles, whether they are beginners, joggers or road racers.
Guymon said people were taught how to play basketball or hit a golf ball, but that people were not taught how to run.
Hedrick said the idea for the clinic came to him when Guymon began teaching running mechanics to Kansas long-distance runners.
"The last couple of years, after just watching distance runners and how poor the mechanics were, we said, 'Hey, this would be a valuable thing, especially for the road runners," Hedrick said. "It turns out now that more and more across the country, the elite coaches, elite athletes and distance runners are working on their mechanics because it becomes really important for efficiency."
At the clinic, Hedrick and Guymon will give a video analysis of each participant's running technique. The clinic also features an introduction to proper running form, specific leg cycle drills and a free
T-shirt.
Hedrick said people who already had been through the clinic had found it so helpful that they asked for an advanced clinic, which Hedrick and Guymon will offer Jan. 16.
"Everybody who has gone through it has literally flipped over it. They think it's the greatest thing in the world," Hedrick said. "We've had people talk to us about how easy it is now to run."
The cost of the Jayhawk Running Mechanics Clinic is $30.00 and is limited to the first 30 people who are at least 18 years old.
If no spaces are left for the clinic Sunday, another Jayhawk Running Mechanics Clinic will be held Jan. 16.
Applications will be at Sneakers, 914 Massachusetts St., or call the Kansas track and field office at 834-386 or 864-7971.
NCAA decision favors Alabama
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — An NCAA committee sided with Alabama yesterday in its appeal of penalties against the football program, eliminating a third year of probation and restoring nine scholarships.
The NCAA Infractions Appeals Committee issued a statement saying a key charge against Alabama — that a faculty representative acted unethically — was thrown
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out. The committee said it failed to notify Alabama of the specific charges against the representative, and the school was unable to respond properly.
But the committee said the Crimson Tide still was barred from playing in a bowl game this year and would lose 17 scholarships in two years. Alabama is No.21 in the rankings with an 8-3 record and had been in the running for a bowl.
It was not immediately known what effect the mostly favorable ruling would have on the future of Alabama football coach Gene Stallings.
The major victory for Alabama before the appeals committee was the first for any school in the three years since the NCAA formed the panel.
Since the ruling, Hootie Ingram, Alabama's athletic director, resigned and university president Roger Sayers announced his retirement. Faculty athletics representative Tom Jones also quit after the infractions committee found him guilty of unethical conduct for allegedly misleading NCAA about former defensive back Antonio Langham.
The university's appeal centered on overturning the
The appeals ordeal began Aug. 2, when the NCAA Committee on Infractions placed Alabama on three years' probation, including a one-year postseason ban and the loss of 26 scholarships.
The penalties stemmed from Langham's dealings with an agent and improper loans received by former player Gene Jelks.
Geno Stallings
Alabama football coach
finding against Jones, a move that would lead to an easing of the sanctions.
Stallings has said for weeks he is not sure whether he will stay for a seventh season.
He said the outcome of the appeal could affect his decision, but it wouldn't be the only factor. The 60-year-old coach was unusually revealing in an interview broadcast
The committee's statement today, while vacating the ethics charge involving Jones, said it was not making any determination on whether the facts of the charge were justified.
on ESPN the morning of the Alabama-Auburn game.
"I've done a pretty good job for six years, but things change," Stallings told ESPN. "For example, we're not flashy. Some people would like to see somebody come in here and spread 'em out and move 'em up and down the field a little bit better than I can. And I would have no problem with that."
"If it comes time, or we feel like that's in our best interests," he said, "I've enjoyed my stay at Alabama."
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