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Thursday, February 2, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Team faces off against challenge Players drive long way to skate a short time
by Beth Behrens Kansan sportswriter
The KU Hockey Club faces a long road in its third year, but determined players and a determined coach are reluctant to give up the game most of them have been playing for a decade.
"We have a good team with great players," coach John Wiedman, Lenexa senior, said. "The skill to compete is there, but we just don't have the conditioning."
Conditioning comes with practice, and practice comes rarely for the 16-man club. The "home rink" for the 4-6 Jayhawks is in St. Joseph, Mo., about 70 miles northeast of Lawrence.
"We used to practice at Foxhill Ice Arena in Kansas City (Kan.)," Todd Cleveland, Kirkwood, Mo., sophomore, said. "But they closed the rink last year. It's been torn down since then.
"People think we're crazy for driving an hour just to go to practice. But I've been playing for 12 years. It's kind of a hard thing to just give it up."
Distance and traveling time keep
the club from practicing more than once a week, and practices are usually limited to one hour.
Most of the members think the lack of a closer practice facility discourages new players from joining the group. Roger Porges, Highland Park, II, sophomore, said that current members of the including third-grade students wondered if they would afford to continue to participate.
participate.
"It itts expensive." Porges said.
"It ittakes a lot of time and a lot of gas money that comes from our own pocket's. Most of us take the toll road (1-70) and that's another $2.20 every time we go there. It's hard to maintain a quality team. You have to be familiar with your teammates to be successful, and you really can't do that if you only have one hour once a week."
The team tries to make up for time they would rather spend on ice by running to stay in shape, but team captain Brian Farrell, Wimnetk, III, senior, said even that would not compensate for lost practice time.
inprise for issue practice
"Running can help us to build up
our lungs and stamina." "Farrell said."
"The muscle groups that we use for skating are different from the ones we can develop running, though. That really won't help us too much when we're playing basketball or where they have their rink on campus and can practice every day."
day Kansas lost to Iowa State in two games last weekend, 7-4 and 10-3.
Farrell said some of the club members had invested in roller blades, a roller skate designed for dry-land practice, but not enough of the team owned them to coordinate any organized dry-land practice.
Coach Wiedeman is searching for a closer rink to attract new players and more fan support from the University.
Wiedeman said the club had looked at another rink in Kansas City, Kan., the冰 Chateau of King Louie West, but because of the high demand for ice time, it was difficult to schedule a time suitable for the club.
morale for the renting time at the rink in Kansas City would have cost about twice as much and that the
time frame would not have been as flexible, as under the agreement the club currently had.
At the rink in St. Joseph, each hour of practice costs the Jayhawks $120, a cost covered by Student Senate financing.
I am trying to strike an agreement with the Kansas City rink for next year," Wiedman said. "If I can get us a decent rate for practice time and schedule in games for the weekends, I think it could work out well for both sides. We could attract more students to the rink to build their business as well as working up more fan support for us."
Ron Borch, Essex Junction, Vt., senior, said fan support was greater when the club played closer to Lawrence.
"People just don't know about us," Borch said. "The people who do not won't take the time to go all the way to St. Joe to watch us. There are a lot of ex-hockey players at KU who don't but won't because of the distance we have to travel. It would be great if we could find some place closer."
Wrestling returns to KU after 22 years
By Lydia Wint
Kansan sportswriter
Roll out the mats for a Kansas wrestling revival.
wrestling revival.
The KU Wrestling Club, established in November by former USA Kansas Wrestling director Barry Hughes, competed Jan. 26 in an open meet at Labette College College.
The club also has competed against Kearney State, Fort Hays State and Drake.
The meets mark the first time in more than 22 years that Kansas has competed in wrestling.
conferenced in KU never dominated in wrestling. The sport was at Kansas from 1931 until 1968, when it was discontinued. The Jayhawks never won a Big Eight Conference championship. Oklahoma has won 20 titles, and Oklahoma State has won 17.
After three consecutive winless seasons, including two consecutive scorele Big Eight tournaments, Kansas abandoned the program.
Kabrasmonologued the pregame Hughes said he formed the KU Wrestling Club, a student organization that is not funded by the University, because he'd like to see talented high school wrestlers have an opportunity to follow the sport at a large Kansas college.
watched an average of 15 blue chips (top prospects) go out of the state each year.
"There is only one four-year wrestling program in Kansas right now, and that's Fort Hays State. These kids can either go there or stay at the same wrestle, but don't not enough. We need another four-year program."
Hughes, who won two NAIA championships when he wrestled in the 177杯 division at Upper Iowa University, said the club allowed wrestlers to train like other Big Eight schools.
Kansas college. His goal, he said, was to make wrestling at Kansas a respectable sport. Although it would take a lot of work, he would like to see the program become financed by the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation within three to five years.
schools.
Thirty-seven wrestlers, seven of which are former high school state champions, attend the two-hour, three-day-a-week practices at Robinson Center, Hughes said.
stretches and warm-ups, followed by drills for quickness, he said. Then the members separate into weight divisions and wrestle each other.
"We're trying to build endurance, because that's what we need most," Hughes said. "We also critique them and discuss different techniques."
Club president Brock Everett, Manhattan junior, said the wrestlers gradually were having to work themselves back into the shape they were in during their high school days.
Practices begin with a series of
"No one's in the shape that we were in high school," Everett said. He said the club felt fatigued by the end of the Labette meet.
"I worked with over 6,000 kids as director of USA Kansas Wrestling," said Hughes, a self-employed businessman in law. "And I
"We went out there like gangbusters, but we soon realized that it took a lot more fuel than we had in our system." Everett said.
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