UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, November 29, 1995
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DOGS: Runners help challenge each other
Continued from Page 18.
Danger said that inside Johnston's door was a sign that read, "Goal: All-American."
Although Cox knows what event he will run in at the Olympic trials, the 1,500 meter, on June 21 in Atlanta, Johnston has not chosen what event he will compete in.
At practice at 5 p.m. every weekday, Cox usually comes from his job in the office of a pediatrics clinic. Johnston comes to practice at either Memorial Stadium or Anschutz Sports Pavilion after work at Ren. Jan Mevers' office.
Except their running style.
"Dave and I are like night and day," Cox said. "We think differently, we look differently, we run differently — everything's totally different."
Patterson said their competitive style had been beneficial.
"If they sense the other one's getting tired or not feeling good, they'll look over and smile and put the hammer down," Patterson said. "That means they'll start pushing the pace even more. It causes the other person to realize he can't let up, and he just has to step it up another gear."
Johnston's and Cox's style also benefits Danger.
"These two exemplify the attributes that I've always wanted to obtain," Danger said. "Michael's speed, David's fierce determination — I feed off these guys. They've brought me up a new level."
Danger is the only member of Turbo Dogs who is a current member of the Kansas cross country and track and field team. He is about half finished with his first year as a Jayhawk volunteer assistant.
Danger, 25, also is the only married member. He came to Kansas with his wife, Sara, when she began graduate school in Lawrence.
"Paul adds a new dimension to the Dogs," Johnston said. "He's older, he's more experienced, he's more steadfast."
In college, Danger was a two-time All-American at South Dakota State in cross country and in the 10,000 meters.
Danger joined Turbo Dogs because he is training to go to the Olympics in the marathon. To qualify for the trials, he has to have a time less than :22.00 at the California International Marathon this weekend in Sacramento, Calif. If he qualifies, he will advance to the February men's marathon Olympic trials in Charlotte, N.C.
"It's going to come down to one race, and we all think he can do it," Johnston said.
Danger said that even if he made it to the Olympic trials, getting to the Olympics would be a difficult challenge this year. He and the rest of the group are looking at the Olympics from the bit picture.
"Training for '96 is our first goal," Danger said. "However, if we don't make the games in '96, we will take a long-term approach to our running and will continue training toward the Olympic games of 2000."
Patterson, 26, attended Southern Methodist University, where he played soccer his freshman year and then switched to cross country and track. After graduating in 1992, Patterson came to Lawrence and was a volunteer assistant on the Kansas cross country and track and field team from 1993 to 1995. Besides coaching the Turbo Dogs, Patterson is working toward his master's degree in advertising.
Patterson said that he was having fun coaching a small group with specific goals and that the other runners were helping him reach his goals.
"Coaching is something I want to do in the future, and they've trusted me with the workout system that I've put together," Patterson said. "The better that I can get them to perform this year, the better chance I'm going to have in coaching opportunities in the future."
However, starting a running club takes more than training for a few hours a day.
"It's a tough situation because training not only takes time, but it does take money," Johnston said.
The Turbo Dogs have lots of work left to do, but they plan to enjoy the training process together.
"As long as we keep getting better, that's what's important, and I've always felt it's not so much in the achievement as it is in the achieving," Johnston said. "We're having a lot of fun training together, and we're getting something accomplished in the process.
"Who knows? It could lead to something great."
UCLA coach's wife a Jayhawk, too
For most of the fans who will be watching the Jeep-Eagle Aloha Bowl on Christmas Day, there won't be a question of whether to root for No. 11 Kansas or UCLA.
By Robert Sinclair
Kansan sportswriter
But the decision becomes harder if you're Andrea Donahue, who is a
Kansas graduate married to the UCLA coach.
In a teleconference yesterday between UCLA football coach Terry Donahue
and Kansas football coach Glen Mason, the coaches discussed her loyalties.
Andrea, whose maiden name is Sogas, graduated from Kansas with a degree in liberal arts and hasn't been forgotten. She recently received information from the Alumni Association about what
"I'm concerned about who she'll be rooting for," Terry Donahue said of his wife.
"She'll be rooting for Kansas," Mason interrupted.
"The heck she will." Terry Donahue shot back at him.
"Everyone here is thrilled and excited that we put ourselves in a position to return to the Aloha Bowl," Donahue said. "Hawaii is one of my favorite places in the world."
And, as both coaches are quick to point out, there are plenty of things to do in the Rainbow State.
gatherings of Jayhawk fans will be taking place in Hawaii.
Mason agreed with his coaching counterpart.
"All of us at the University of Kansas couldn't be more excited about going back to the Aloha Bowl," Mason said. "When you look for a place to be a reward, there's no better place than Hawaii."
The two coaches speak from experience.
Mason's Kansas team defeated Brigham Young 23-20 in the 1992 Aloha Bowl, and Donahue's UCLA squad defeated Florida in 1987. The Gators were powered by a then little-known running back named Emmitt Smith.
It is partly because of these experiences with the two schools that the bowl decided on the match-up.
"We, as a bowl, enjoyed our week," Lenny Klompus, executive vice president of the Aloha Bowl, said of the schools' previous visits. "They
Mason wins coaching award
Kansan staff report
The American Football Coaches Association announced yesterday that Kansas football coach Glen Mason won the 1995 Region 4 Coach of the Year award.
Mason earned the award — his second such achievement after being named the Associated Press' Big Eight Conference Coach of the Year — for coaching the Jayhawks to a second-place finish in the Big Eight. This season Mason led the Jayhawks to a
9-2 mark and earned a bowl bid.
The other 1995 winners are:
Florida State football coach
Bobby Bowden (Region 1),
Florida football coach Steve
Spurrier (Region 2), Northwest-
ern football coach Gary Barnett
(Region 3) and San Diego State
football coach Ted Tollner
(Region 5).
It is the second time Mason has earned the award. He won the award for the first time in 1992, the last time the Jayhawks were invited to a bowl game.
were fun to host. We're delighted to have them back."
But not everything will be fun and sun until the teams leave the continental United States.
Until then, both teams have to work out practice schedules and worry about finals. UCLA, which is on a quarter system, has a dead week starting Dec. 4 before finals begin on Dec. 11. As for Kansas, stop day is Dec. 8, and the last final will
be given on Dec. 18. Besides worrying about classes, players also will have to attend weekend practices in the day and night.
Nevertheless, it won't be all work and no play for the Jayhawks and Bruins.
"We'll practice for an hour and 45 minutes or two hours," Donahue said of the practice schedule in Hawaii. "We'll get our work done — then we'll go play."
Rowing club dedicates itself in offseason
By Jeffrey Auslander Kansan sportswriter
After a good ending to the fall race season two weeks ago, the Kansas club crew team is working hard to make sure the spring season is a success.
The team may have gotten a jumpstart on that success at the Frostbite Regatta in Wichita on November 12. The men's and women's novice eights took first place at the event.
said. "We need to keep getting faster on the water, as well as on it."
"We need to keep everyone working hard in the off-season." Tylander
"I was happy about how they had progressed," Kansas club crew assistant coach Bryan Tylander said. "In Kansas City, at the start of the season, some of our novice teams were medaling. But in Wichita they were dominant."
The team will take the novice's victories as a spring board to a dedicated winter offseason that includes workouts five days a week.
Copt also said that the team would welcome anyone who wanted to give rowing a
Nathan Copt, Lawrence junior and men's team member, said they will have to work hard on their off-season concentration because being off the water can tend to make rowers less motivated.
"Rowing is a lot more mental off of the water because when you get inside it is hard to concentrate," Copt said. "In the offence."
"Ourgoals for the spring are to keep the momentum we gained Wichita and tear through our opponents in the spring."
have to dig down deep to work hard."
To add to the team's winter plans,
Bryan Tylander Kansas club crew assistant coach
"We have two recruiting times. One is during the summer and one is right now," Copt said. "All I can say to anyone who might be interested is that the major benefits are that you will get the best workout of your life and that you will make some life-long friends. Also, anyone who
joins this team will be taking up a sport that isn't real hard to learn from scratch."
Copt also described the type of workouts the rowers go through for the spring season and compared them to another sport.
"In the spring, the races are shorter, so we work on speed," he said. "To compare our conditioning, I can relate to basketball players. If a rower does 2,000 meters, he or she is using more energy that an NBA player would in two back to back games."
Tylander said that the team expected the hard work to pay off in the spring.
"our goals for the spring are to keep the momentum we gained in Wichita and tear through our opponents in the spring," he said.
Copt said the team's strengths in the upcoming season were its experienced veterans and its experience-craving youth.
"Our novice will be very strong," he said. "Our varius is small and will have less boats on the water, but those boats will be stronger."
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