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(04/28/03 5:30am)
With no quarterback hits, no kickoff or punt returns and players routinely switching sides, Friday night's spring football game may not have been an exact showcase of what the IU football team expects next season.\nBut by most accounts, it was a good first step.\n"I think it tells us we're further than we were a year ago," coach Gerry DiNardo said. "Our numbers are starting to come back. Our conditioning is much better than it was. I thought our defense looked better today than it looked in a while. I think we're further along. We're obviously in better shape in all those things. I think we're a better team than we were a year ago."\nThe Crimson squad, consisting of the No. 1 players on the depth chart, defeated the rest of the team, the Cream squad, 24-0 behind the powerful and plentiful running of senior tailback Brian Lewis. Lewis, who last year was second on the team in rushing, ran for 191 yards and two touchdowns on 28 carries.\n"It's good to go out and carry the ball plenty of times," he said. "I think it's a plus for me to let me know what kind of shape I'm in, and what I've got to do to get better for next year."\nJunior Matt LoVecchio started the game for the Crimson squad, which went three and out on the first possession. The Cream squad, led by freshman quarterback Graeme McFarland, countered with a short drive highlighted by a 30-yard pass to freshman tight end Matt O'Neal. The drive stalled, however, and ended when junior Bryan Robertson's 52-yard field goal attempt fell short and wide right.\nCrimson scored its first touchdown with 24 seconds left in the opening quarter. Lewis carried the ball six times out of seven plays for 45 yards including a 12-yard scoring run. The lone pass play was a 23-yard play action strike from LoVecchio to sophomore fullback John Pannozzo.\nCrimson scored again on its next possession but with a new quarterback. McFarland shifted sides and jerseys and hit junior wide receiver Travis Haney on a 41-yard strike down the left sidelines to set up another touchdown. \n"Anytime you can get Travis on a deep ball, you want to get it to him," McFarland said. "He's got speed, and he's tall. It was a mismatch, so I threw it out there and he jumped up and caught it."\nOn the next play, freshman running back Marlin Lynch scored on an 11-yard touchdown scamper. \nRoberston added a 22-yard field goal late in the third quarter, and Lewis again got into the endzone early in the fourth. On a first and goal play from the four, Lewis started inside and then bounced outside in a quick burst of speed for his second touchdown.\nNeither quarterback threw a touchdown pass as LoVecchio was 7-of-18 for 77 yards for the Crimson squad, and McFarland was 9-of-27 for 108 yards in combined action. LoVecchio did throw an interception though. On a third down play in the third quarter, he scrambled to buy time and eventually threw across his body and across the field. Junior safety Luke Stone stepped in front of the receiver for the pick, which he returned 48 yards. \nDiNardo, though, said he was pleased with the performance of both signal callers, but maintained LoVecchio has the grip on the starting position.\n"We have two good quarterbacks," DiNardo said. "Matt is a little bit ahead because he has the experience."\nLoVecchio said he gained valuable experience from the game and from the entire spring practice. \n"I think tonight was a good experience," he said. "Getting out and playing in front of a crowd and I think it's just going to take us learning from these 15 practices and building on them and take that into the summer."\nDefensively, sophomore defensive lineman Victor Adeyanju had eight tackles and three-and-a-half sacks for both teams while fellow lineman and freshman Kenny Kendal had five tackles and pair of sacks. Junior linebacker Kevin Smith led the Crimson team with six tackles and half a sack.\nSophomore cornerback Leonard Bryant said the game was a successful beginning to what he hopes is a successful season. \n"We split time, and the game really wasn't all that competitive as it should have been," he said. "But overall with our techniques and fundamentals, I think we're sound in that aspect. Come fall, we'll play Connecticut, it's going to be on. We're going to let everybody know what we're talking about. We're trying to go to a bowl game this year. It's the first step."\nStaff writer Natalia Trout contributed to this report.
(04/28/03 5:29am)
Former IU quarterback Gibran Hamdan is trading in his cream and crimson for burgundy and gold. Hamdan was picked in the seventh round of the NFL draft Sunday by the Washington Redskins with the 232nd overall pick.\nHamdan, a native of North Potomac, Md., worked out for the Redskins with 40 other local prospects on April 4. Afterwards Washington coach Steve Spurrier said the team was interested. Sunday he showed just how interested the team was.\n"I'm really excited, this is a great opportunity," Hamdan said right after the pick was announced. "I was fortunate enough to work out for them when I got back to D.C. I really enjoyed the day I spent with coach Spurrier. It's a really great opportunity to work with a coach of that caliber."\nSpurrier compared Hamdan to some of the top, first-round quarterbacks at a post-draft press conference. \n"If I told you he could drop back and throw it like Kyle Boller, Carson Palmer and those guys you'd think I'm crazy, but come out this weekend and watch him throw," Spurrier said. "I think he's tough and has courage. He can make decisions." \nHamdan becomes part of a team with two quarterbacks on the roster in Patrick Ramsey, a first round pick from last year and Rob Johnson, a journeyman quarterback who spent last year with Tampa Bay. Hamdan said he looks forward to working with Spurrier, who is often regarded as a top quarterback coach.\n"He's known as a great developer of quarterbacks, and he was a great successful college coach and I think he'll be one in the pros, so I'm excited," Hamdan said.\nHamdan split time at quarterback with fellow senior Tommy Jones last season. He completed 152 of 293 passes for 2,115 yards and nine touchdowns. The yardage total was good enough for seventh best all time at IU. \nHamdan was the 12th quarterback taken in the draft and the second from the Big Ten. Wisconsin quarterback Brooks Bollinger was taken in the sixth round, 32 picks earlier. Hamdan was picked nine spots before Miami quarterback Ken Dorsey, who led his team to two title games the last two years. \nEntering the draft, which began Saturday with the first three rounds, Hamdan wasn't sure if he'd be drafted or if he'd have an opportunity as a rookie free agent. But he said he hoped Washington would give him a chance. \n"It's such a crap shoot, it was a difficult two days," he said. "I was hoping (Spurrier) would give me an opportunity. I was hoping I would end up there."\nHamdan will report to the team for the first time officially on Thursday and will work out with the squad over the weekend.\nHamdan said he wasn't that big of a Redskins fan growing up in the area, but it's a little different now. \n"I wasn't necessarily a fan," he said. "Of course they're the team from the area, but I wasn't definitely a Redskins fan growing up.\n"Of course I am now. I'm a big Redskins fan now"
(04/27/03 9:21pm)
Former IU quarterback Gibran Hamdan is trading in Cream and Crimson for Burgundy and Gold. Hamdan was picked in the seventh round of the NFL draft Sunday by the Washington Redskins with the 232nd overall pick.\nHamdan, a native of North Potomac, Md., worked out for the Redskins with 40 other local prospects on April 4. Afterwards, Washington coach Steve Spurrier said the team was interested. Sunday, he showed just how interested the team was.\n"I'm really excited, this is a great opportunity," Hamdan said right after the pick was announced. "I was fortunate enough to work out for them when I got back to D.C. I really enjoyed the day I spent with coach Spurrier. It's a really great opportunity to work with a coach of that caliber."\nHamdan becomes part of a team with two quarterbacks on the roster in Patrick Ramsey, a first round pick from last year and Rob Johnson, a journeyman quarterback who spent last year with Tampa Bay. Hamdan said he looks forward to working with Spurrier, who is often regarded as a top quarterback coach.\n"(Spurrier) said 'We think you have a lot of talent and you have a nice future,'" Hamdan said. "He's known as a great developer of quarterbacks and he was a great successful college coach and I think he'll be one in the pros, so I'm excited."\nHamdan split time at quarterback with fellow senior Tommy Jones last season. He completed 152 of 293 passes for 2,115 yards and nine touchdowns. The yardage total was good enough for seventh best all time at IU. \nHamdan was the 12th quarterback taken in the draft and the second from the Big Ten. Wisconsin quarterback Brooks Bollinger was taken in the sixth round, 32 picks earlier. \nEntering the draft, which began Saturday with the first three rounds, Hamdan wasn't sure if he'd be drafted or if he'd have an opportunity as a rookie free agent. But, he said he hoped Washington would give him a chance. \n"It's such a crap shoot, it was a difficult two days," he said. "I was hoping (Spurrier) would give me an opportunity. I was hoping I would end up there."\nHamdan will report to the team for the first time officially on Thursday.\nGrowing up in the area, Hamdan said he wasn't that big of a Redskins fan, but that it's a little different now. \n"I wasn't necessarily a fan," he said. "Of course they're the team from the area, but I wasn't definitely a Redskins fan growing up.\n"Of course I am now. I'm a big Redskins fan now"
(04/23/03 12:09am)
Adam Schaeuble stands a towering six-feet, four inches tall, with broad, imposing arms and thick, muscled legs. At first glance, you'd probably think he was a football player. \nHe's not. \nNot yet, at least.\nThe IU senior began lifting weights in college, transforming himself from a 185-pound freshman into a massive 275-pound senior, garnering three national runner-up titles in power-lifting along the way.\nIn June of 2002Two days after his third nationals appearance, Schaeuble collapsed in the bathroom of his north Bloomington apartment. Doctors discovered a severe heart condition and deemed him unfit for athletic competition.\nThey told him he'd never lift again.\nSix months later, though, he was back in the weight room, with a newfound motivation of making the football team. IU, however, declined his request, as they questioned what difference he could make with only a year of eligibility remaining. \nSo, Schaeuble set his sights on a different league of competition: the NFL.
(04/11/03 5:36am)
Senior Anthony Oakley, an eight-game starter for IU last season, is no longer with the football team. Oakley was dismissed from the squad two weeks ago after failing to meet a time coach Gerry DiNardo set for him in the shuttle run, Assistant Media Relations Director Gavin Lang said. \n"He didn't pass the shuttle test," Lang said. "He had an agreement with coach DiNardo. They made this agreement months ago. He had plenty of time to prepare for it. He is no longer practicing with the team."\nOakley said he didn't agree with the requirement, particularly because he said he was the only one who had to pass it before the spring, a move he called "discriminatory." \n"(DiNardo) told me 'If you don't pass the shuttle before spring I'll have to dismiss you," Oakley said. "I didn't agree. Then he was like 'Come on, if you don't pass it, you'll be off the team.' I was like 'This is your team, you can do what you want.' I went along with it because he's the head coach, but I didn't agree with it."\nWhen he didn't run a fast enough time, Oakley said DiNardo pulled him aside and told him he was dismissed.\nAfter the dismissal, Oakley said he told a few teammates, all of whom were surprised by the move.\n"They were shocked," he said. "Everybody knows it wasn't fair. I was supposed to get until August." \nOakley, a 6-2, 294-pound former All-Big Ten honorable mention, was to have been one of IU's only eight seniors on next year's squad. \nIn a press conference prior to the first spring practice, DiNardo stressed the importance of conditioning to improve on a team that finished 3-9 last season.\n"The first step is always conditioning because you can't play the game if you're not conditioned," he said. "You can't get stronger without the ability to run."\nOakley likened his situation to that of former Wisconsin and now Chicago Bear lineman Aaron Gibson. \n"After practice, coach (Barry) Alvarez would walk around the track with him, he didn't have to run," Oakley said. "He had faith in him and knew he was a football player, not a track player. Coach just kept on with him because he knew he could play football. Now, he's in the NFL"
(04/02/03 4:31am)
After a 3-9 season last year, the IU football team is more concerned with improvement than maintenance. In most areas, that is. Coach Gerry DiNardo said he was pleased with the team's 250 yards-a-game passing average but wants to see fewer interceptions.\n"If you study the numbers, that's where the answer is," he said. "Our passing offense is fine, we threw for 250 yards a game last year. That's fine. If we throw 21 picks and 250 yards, we'll be back here talking about another 3-9 season. But if you threw for 250, cut the picks in half and improved the run game by 30 yards a game, our offense would be significantly better."\nSince both of last year's starting quarterbacks, Gibran Hamdan and Tommy Jones, will soon graduate, those numbers now depend on who will be at the helm of IU's offense next season. It will either be junior Matt LoVecchio or freshman Graeme McFarland, who are competing during the spring practice sessions for the starting nod.\nBoth quarterbacks were with the team last year, although neither played. McFarland was third-string but never got into any games. LoVecchio redshirted after transferring from Notre Dame prior to last year. While at Notre Dame, LoVecchio started and led the Fighting Irish to seven straight wins and a Fiesta Bowl berth. \nLoVecchio said that game-day experience may help, but he's just eager to get back out onto the field. \n"You know it helps, but that was also a year or two ago," he said. "It's also a matter of just getting back under center and feeling comfortable ... I'm just going to take it one day at a time and try to improve each day."\nDiNardo said LoVecchio's mobility gives him the ability to make things happen on offense.\n"I think if you look at nowadays' quarterbacks, there's a lot to be said about a guy who can get out of some trouble," he said. "I think (LoVecchio) brings some balance to the position, where he's not only a runner, he's not only a passer, but he brings both."\nMeanwhile, DiNardo praised McFarland's improvement.\n"I think if you looked at our offseason conditioning,Graeme McFarland would probably be one of the top five guys in every category as far as improvement," DiNardo said. "I see Graeme competing for the starting position."\nWhomever the quarterback is, he will benefit from the return of IU's top six receiving leaders from last season. Included in that group is standout wide receiver and junior Courtney Roby, who last year had the third best season ever for IU in receiving with 1,039 yards.\nMcFarland said he knows LoVecchio's experience probably makes him the favorite.\n"They don't want either one of us to feel like they've already decided," he said. "It's obvious that Matt has the experience, he's played in college games before whereas the last offense I ran was high school."\nMcFarland added, however, that he still thinks he could earn the starting position. \n"I'm definitely battling for the first spot," he said. "I'm going to try my best to get it. But even if it was decided, I'm not going to look at it any differently"
(03/31/03 5:18am)
It's a good thing the chain-link fence surrounding the IU football team's practice field isn't quite finished. Midway through drills Saturday, the first spring practice session for the Hoosiers, freshman wide receiver Troy Grosfield made a spectacular, one-handed grab on a long pass from freshman quarterback Graeme McFarland.\nGrosfield caught the ball in stride at the very back of the end-zone but didn't stop. A week later and a completed fence would have quickly halted his momentum. As it was, the wideout ran harmlessly past the perimeter of the field and returned to drills after drawing wows from the small group of onlookers.\nThat was just one of the sights in IU's first football action since last November. Second-year coach, Gerry DiNardo, said he is looking for improvements after last year's team struggled to a 3-9 record.\nDiNardo said he was satisfied with the practice but added it's too early to make any kind of definitive evaluation.\n"Without pads, it's hard to evaluate anything," he said. "But I think the attitude was good, and the guys were listening to the coaches. It's just you can't really evaluate a contact sport without contact. But I was pleased."\nMcFarland and junior Matt LoVecchio alternated snaps at quarterback in different drills throughout the day. LoVecchio looked impressive at times, including a line drive touchdown pass to senior wideout Glenn Johnson during 11 on 11 drills. \nLoVecchio played quarterback for Notre Dame and led them to seven straight wins and a Fiesta Bowl appearance as a freshman before transferring to IU last year, where he ran the scout team. Although that experience would seemingly make him a frontrunner for the starting position, DiNardo said it is an open competition between the two quarterbacks. \n"I don't know how you couldn't give them both a chance," he said. "They both certainly deserve it. They've both done things in their past that indicate they can be a starting quarterback, so we'll let those two guys compete. They've both done some outstanding things since they've both been on campus, and that translates into they both deserve a chance."\nIU returns a talented corps of skilled players from last year's squad including wide receivers Johnson, junior Courtney Roby and sophomores Tyke Spencer and fullback John Pannozzo. Last year Johnson, Roby and Spencer combined for over 2,000 yards receiving and 11 touchdowns. \nRoby said he caught 300 passes a day every other day during the winter conditioning to try and decrease his dropped passes. After leading IU in receiving last season, he now has to adjust to a new set of quarterbacks, a process that began Saturday when the wideout reeled in numerous catches from both signal callers.\n"In a sense it is (difficult) because we didn't really get a chance to catch with these guys last year," Roby said. "But that's what spring football is for and of course the summer and summer camps and everything. So we'll get it clicking."\nLoVecchio said the experience of Roby and the rest of the skill players was evident even on the first day of practice. \n"I think having almost all of the skill position guys back is a real positive thing," he said. "We were out there the first day, and everyone pretty much knows what to do. There's a couple brain cramps, but I think having those skill guys is important."\nA handful of players found themselves in new positions Saturday, the most significant of which was junior Herana-Daze Jones' shift from linebacker to strong safety. Jones started 10 of 11 games as linebacker for IU last year and was the second leading tackler with 108.\nJones said DiNardo approached him about making the change, and said it was the right move.\n"It's always exciting to get back out there, especially with the new position," Jones said. "But I was welcome to the shift. Either (DiNardo) was going to approach me or I was going to approach him about it."\nIn other moves, sophomore Courtney Clency and redshirt freshman Tyrone Allen each moved from running back to cornerback, and junior Patrick Thompson shifted from wide receiver to tight end. \nLast year when DiNardo first arrived, he said 10 percent of the roster passed the team's conditioning test. In March, the last time the team was tested, 69 percent of the squad passed. It's that kind of strides that have DiNardo optimistic for a better year, he said. \n"We've had a really good offseason, and we're really excited about some of the progress we've made," he said. "You do all that so you can play better. We'll see if we can turn that into better play, a better team . . . We've made huge gains in conditioning. We need to make the same improvement in strength and the same improvement in playing the game"
(02/06/03 7:11am)
After inheriting much of his freshmen class last year, coach Gerry DiNardo made his first full recruiting mark on the IU football program Wednesday on signing day. \nDiNardo announced 26 letters of intent, 14 defensive and 12 offensive, from players spanning everywhere from Bloomington to Germany. \n"You are always excited about a new group of players," DiNardo said in a statement. "Generally we are pleased with the class, but you do not know how they will pan out for three or four years."\nAccording to the insiders.com, a Web site that profiles college football recruiting, five of IU's signees rank among the top-100 at their positions: running back Kenni Burns (68), tight ends Brian Faires (87) and Nick Sexton (93), quarterback Blake Powers (79) and defensive tackle Joel Stubblefield (57).\nPowers is a second-generation Hoosier. His father Paul played tight end at IU for Lee Corso from 1975-79.\n"I had a lot of schools that were looking at me, and I've always wanted to go to IU since I was a little kid since my dad went there," Powers said. "So I went to football camp and established myself with the new coaching staff. They chose me and offered me a scholarship, and it was a no-brainer." \nStubblefield said the attitude of the coaching staff is what attracted him to IU.\n"The new coaching staff is great," he said. "They really sold me. I'm all about relationships and situations, and it was a perfect fit. I set it off with all the coaches and they're for real, they're legit. They're really going to change (the program) around."\nStubblefield recorded 37 solo tackles, had 44 assists, six sacks and 13 tackles for loss as a junior at Pendleton Heights High School. He will become the first player ever from his school to play football for a Division I school.\n"It's great because ever since I was a little kid they've had a wall of fame with all these players and I think about them, and to know I'm one of those guys and to have right after my name that I'm the very first Division I player, it's great," he said. "I'm glad I was the first one to do it."\nDiNardo added four linebackers, including 6-2, 245-pound Ty Altman, 6-0, 245-pound Cleo Harbison, 6-1, 210-pound Josh Moore and 6-3, 215-pound Jake Powers.\nThe IU program is on the rise and the recruiting class will help bolster a successful year, Powers said.\n"They are only going to get better, and it will be awesome to be a part of that," he said. "The coaching staff is well-put together, and I want to come in and play at the top level … With our recruiting class, we can be a good team."\nIn the secondary, DiNardo added three safeties (Will Meyers, Ryan Skelton and Luke Stone) and a pair of defensive backs (Cedric Henry and Aaron Mitchell). The recruiting Web site rivals.com ranked Meyers as the 55th best safety in the nation. \nSkelton, a native of Greenwood, Ind. and a high school teammate of current Hoosier Andy Halterman, was a finalist for the Mr. Football award in Indiana. Skelton, a business major, said the combination of athletics and academics at IU were too strong to pass up.\n"I've always been a big fan of all IU sports," Skelton said. "I want to major in business, and (IU) has one of best business schools in the country. I feel like I'm heading in the right direction, and IU is a good fit for me."\nTwo of the recruits are local products: Sexton, of Bloomington North, and offensive lineman Chris Mangiero of Bloomington South. The 6-foot-3-inch, 265-pound Mangiero is the son of IU Director of Football Operations Dino Mangiero. He spent his first two years of high school at Poly Prep in Brooklyn N.Y., a school that produced current Hoosier fullback John Pannozzo and the lone wide receiver recruit, Jahkeen Gilmore.\nSkelton said he is optimistic for the upcoming season.\n"I expect to come in there and play and make a difference," he said. "I think the team will do well, better than a lot of people expect. They've been working really hard and I think we'll be pretty good."\nSports editor Tyler V. Hoeppner contributed to this story.
(02/05/03 4:51am)
After nearly a half century of races, the historical Mini 500 is just that -- history. A decline in competition and spectator interest as well as worn-down tricycles forced the IU Student Foundation to nix the event, director Jonathan Purvis said.\nThe Mini 500, which celebrated its 48th running last year, was initially established to give women the opportunity to be a part of Little 500 weekend and later expanded to include both men's and women's divisions. In the late 1970s and early 1980s the race drew crowds of over 10,000. But, since the inclusion of a women's Little 500, interest and competition in the Mini 500 has gone down hill. \n"At its high point, the nature of the event was extremely competitive before the women's Little 500," Purvis said. "But, with the advent of the women's race, the competition level went down. First, it was a fun part of the weekend, but then (switched) to an at times unsafe and certainly not sober weekend, which is not the image IUSF wants to present."\nAfter the establishment of the women's Little 500, the Mini 500 adopted a more jovial atmosphere, complete with costume contests, themed teams and the awarding of the Little 500 King and Queen. \nPurvis said the King and Queen would still be awarded, probably during the Little Fifty, a new 50-lap relay running race set to debut this year. Purvis also said IUSF is in the process of planning to commemorate the Mini 500 at a ceremony prior to the Little 500. \nSenior Dan Moore, whose team Small Pickles Among Large Cucumber competed in the Mini 500 last year, said he was shocked and dismayed by the announcement.\n"I can't believe it's cancelled," Moore said. "It's a cross between disbelief and disappointment right now. I had so much fun last year, and I'd been looking forward to doing it again."\nAlthough IUSF made the ultimate decision, Purvis said input was gleaned from a number of sources, including the 25-member student Steering Committee. Senior and Steering Committee member Marisa Indelicato said she supported the decision.\n"It was a tough decision, but I think it was for the betterment of the race," Indelicato said. "As much as we hate to see it go, the negatives outweighed the positives."\nIndelicato said she is hopeful the new Little Fifty race will fill in for the loss of the Mini 500. She added that IUSF is developing pre-race rituals along the same lines but not as intense as the Mini 500.\n"One of the things we're developing is a pre-race agenda," Indelicato said. "It's our own tradition and we know what we like at sporting events. We have a great group of committee members that will implement ideas that will bring people in. I don't know if we'd go to the extreme of costumes, but a lot more music and anything to get people to come up."\nFor Moore, however, the Mini 500 will be hard to replace. \n"It was really nice for people who weren't athletic or didn't have the time to train for Little 5," he said. "It'd been here as long as I'd been here and long before that. It's something you didn't see anywhere else."\nFor students interested in the Little Fifty, there is a call-out meeting tonight at 8 p.m. in BU 219.
(09/25/02 5:16pm)
Assistant men's tennis coach Mark Keil was arrested early Monday morning for illegally entering a neighbor's apartment in the 400 block of E. 17th St. \nAccording to police reports, Keil entered a neighboring residence at the Dunn Hill apartment complex, where he resides, without consent at 12:45 a.m.\nKeil came in through unlocked sliding doors and sat down on the couch while the resident, Darcy Schoening, a sophomore, talked on the phone, the report said. The resident initially didn't realize who Keil was and, upon recognizing him as a neighbor, continued talking out of fear. \nOnce Keil realized Schoening was on the phone, he left through the sliding doors. The resident then locked the door and went to a neighboring apartment for security and to call the police, the report said.\nKeil was charged with residential entry, a class D felony.\nKeil, who did not return messages, told police he had not been given permission to enter the neighbor's apartment. He knew his actions were criminal, the report said. \nAssistant athletics director Jeff Fanter said his department was aware of the arrest and would handle it under the department's code of conduct.\nKeil, who was hired on Aug. 5, had also been arrested earlier in the summer. At 4:48 a.m. on Aug. 18, IU Police Department officers arrested Keil for public intoxication near the intersection of 10th and Forest streets. Sergeant Tim Lewis said a police report said officers found Keil lying on the grass unconscious with the smell of alcohol on his breath. After the officers revived Keil, he was arrested.\nFanter wouldn't comment on the specific reprimand for that arrest, but said the code of conduct is always followed.\nAccording to Section 5 of that code of conduct, the punishment for a repeat offense includes suspension without pay, dismissal from team, suspension or expulsion, termination of employment and referral for criminal prosecution.\n"We're aware of the situation, and all these things are matters that we handle very seriously," Fanter said. "We'll treat it in accordance with our code \nof conduct."\nA former player, Keil defeated Pete Sampras in 1991 and has doubles victories over Andre Agassi, Gustavo Kuerten, Mark Philippoussis, Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg during his career. He reached No. 32 on the world doubles rankings and No. 167 on the world singles rankings. Prior to joining IU, Keil was the Assistant Tennis Professional at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club in Beverly Hills, Calif.
(07/25/02 8:23pm)
Last Tuesday, the Hoosiers entered their new state-of-the-art practice facility at the IU Foundation for the first time. It remains to be seen how much of an impact the facility will have on the team, but the initial response has been encouraging. \n"When I walked in, I thought 'Wow,' in astonishment," sophomore Danah Ford said. "They really did a great job on the whole practice field, with the many greens and different shots. We walk into that facility and we get lost and lose track of time." \nThe course features a variety of different greens and bunkers with a multitude of different angles for shooting. \n"I was in awe, I was just so excited" junior Adrienne Graessle said of the facility. \nAdditionally, the facility's exclusiveness for only the 24 members of the men's and women's golf teams minimizes outside distractions while also keeping the site in prime condition.\n"We take very good care of it," Ford said. "Every time we hit into the greens we have to fix our grass spot. If we had hundreds of people using it, there wouldn't be any grass left. We know how to take care of it and really value it."\nHead coach Sam Carmichael has set up different stations around the facility to practice an array of different scenarios, such as long or short bunker shots or pitches onto the greens from varying lengths. \n"You name the shot, and we have the opportunity to practice it," Carmichael said. "We now have a short game area that is better than the majority of the schools in the Big Ten and nationally. It is an exceptional practice area."\nBut the addition of such a facility to the golf program of the school is nothing new in the Big Ten. Over the past several years, several of the premiere women's and men's golf teams have developed similar, state-of-the-art practice sites.\n"I think if a school wants to commit to a good golf program then they should provide a good facility," senior captain Tiffany Fisher said. "Most schools in the Big Ten have done that."\nMichigan State, figuring to be a strong contender, opened a similar facility in May of 1997. Its features include several acres of bent grass practice tee, a teaching tee, practice bunkers, target greens and a 20,000 square-foot putting green. \nLikewise, Northwestern invested $1.1 million in building the Gleacher Golf Center, a practice site the university boasts as "the finest indoor learning center in the collegiate golf world." That center includes a 2,056 square foot pitching and putting green, a 280 square-foot sand bunker, a hitting area with three stations and a teaching area complete with digital cameras for video assessment.\n"If you are to compete in the Big Ten and nationally, a facility like ours is a must," Carmichael said. "We are not the first in the Big Ten to have a short game area. In fact, 7 other schools have had facilities for 3 years or more. Nationally, most of the top ranked schools have had areas such as ours for some time."\nThe team will put their long hours logged in the facility to use this weekend, when they travel to East Lansing, Michigan for the Mary Fossum Invitational. \n"I think we can only be as good as how much time we put into our games," Ford said. "I just think it's a luxury. The practice facility will benefit us, but the team will have to continue to play rounds of golf to get better"
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Last year at the Legends Invitational hosted by IU in Franklin, Ind., the Hoosiers shot a round of 296. That marked the team's best effort of the year, three tournaments into the season. This year, at the Northern Invitational in Champaign, Illinois, on the second day of their first tournament, the Hoosiers matched that low round as they finished in fourth place. \n"It means a lot that in the first tournament we all of a sudden meet our goal from last year," sophomore Danah Ford said. "Overall, if we got that much better from last year to this year, it means we can get even better." \nThe Hoosiers also set the IU team record for cumulative score in the history of the Northern Tournament with an 898. The Hoosiers' eventual fourth place finish in the tournament is perhaps more indicative of the much-strengthened field of play than anything else. \n"We really shot some good scores, it was just everybody else shot lower scores," sophomore\nKaren Dennison said. "We played pretty well. We can improve, but we played pretty well." \nBut despite not winning the tournament, the Hoosiers set a barrage of records along the way.\nDennison shot a 222 three-round total, beating her previous best by seven strokes. Junior Cara Stuckey also set a career three-round total of 226 to go along with a career-best 72 total on Saturday. Ford set a new personal single-round record with a 73 and tied her career three-round total of 227. Sophomore Mary Lidester also broke both her career single and three day totals with scores of 73 and 228 respectively. \n"The records are important and it's great that we did that," Lidester said. "It's definitely an accomplishment, but we need to look ahead. We still have to take each goal step by step, and I think we still have to shoot a little bit lower than that even. But I don't know if it's about improving, it's about doing what we're all capable of doing."\nFollowing a first round where she admits to having three "bad holes," Stuckey put up her career low 72 and then a 75 to finish with her three-day record at +10. \n"It's important to know that I'm going in the right direction and just to keep on building on that and do whatever I can to help our team improve," Stuckey said. "Hopefully, I'll continue to break them, because, if I don't, that shows I'm not getting anywhere."\nDennison finished with a tie for eighth overall to lead the Hoosiers in the individual standings. She said she felt her consistent ability to hit the greens and give herself birdie opportunities led to her success and gave her the chance to post her career low three-round record.\n"I was just hitting the ball well and playing really solid golf," Dennison said. "I didn't have any real high scores and I had a couple low ones, and that's what really helped. I felt pretty good about my performance. It was my best finish in a tournament. I definitely think I could've played better, but I'm happy with it."\nCoach Sam Carmichael said he felt the team left room for improvement, attributing the record low round partially to the quality of the course. \n"Anytime you get a golf course in that good condition, it's going to lead to lower scores," \nCarmichael said. "I think we have some positives coming out of the Northern and we have some negatives. We had some good play by four or five individuals and we could have gotten some better play from four or five individuals. But in that last round, if we shoot pretty good we're only three or four shots out of third place. And third place is a whole lot better than fourth or fifth."\nThe Hoosiers next play when they host the Legends Shootout in Franklin Oct. 8-9. haps not with breaking them at the forefront of their attention.
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The Hoosiers begin play in the Legends Shootout today in Franklin, Ind., hoping to build on their fourth place finish at the Northern Invitational Sept. 23. \nThe tournament will be at the 54-hole Middle and Road nines at the Legends of Indiana Golf Club. \n"It's going to take low scores," head coach Sam Carmichael said. "It's going to take five players playing well. And for the top teams, they're going to have to be on, because there's somebody sitting right there to whoop them if you're not playing up to your game."\nCarmichael will use the results of the Northern tournament to fill in his lineup, placing sophomore Karen Dennison in the No. 1 spot, followed by sophomores Danah Ford, Mary Lidester, junior Cara Stuckey and sophomore Ambry Bishop. Senior captain Tiffany Fisher will compete as an individual in the tournament. \n"It's going to be a tough tournament, and it's going to be really competitive," Dennison said. "I think if we have a good showing, it can be a real good tournament. They'll be a lot of good teams there, though, so it'll be a really good test."\nJoining IU in the 19-team field are Purdue, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Penn State, Illinois, Kent State, Missouri, Texas A&M, Kansas, Campbell, Wichita State, Arkansas, Notre Dame, Toledo, Iowa State and Louisville. \n"We hope to go up there and play good," Carmichael said. "It should be a good tournament. Michigan will go up there, and they beat us. Kent State will be there, and they beat us. Purdue will be there, so there are three teams that are ranked considerably higher than we are. It'll be a tough tournament for us, but hopefully we'll go up there and play well."\nThe number of strong contenders in the field leaves little room for error for the Hoosiers. At the Northern Invitational, Michigan placed first by 14 strokes and Kent State took third place, six strokes ahead of IU. Penn State, meanwhile, tied IU for fourth place. \nBut, IU's familiarity with the course works in the team's favor. Many of the Hoosiers played it during the summer at the Indiana Women's State Open. Meantime, Bishop, Ford, Stuckey and Fisher all competed on the course in last year's Legends Invitational. Bishop's father is the golf pro at the course.\n"They're all acquainted with the course, so they should have confidence playing it," Carmichael said. "It's a little bit like the Northern in that it's flat and there's nothing to stop the wind. It's a course that you can drive it a little erratically. You don't have to be quite as consistent with the driving and still be able to hit the greens fairly well." \nBishop said the team's knowledge of the course will be a factor in the tournament.\n"We're all familiar with the course," Bishop said. "As far as going into it, we know the expectations of the course and how it's going to play, so that's a benefit for us."\nAfter being idle last weekend, Carmichael said the Hoosiers have used the time off to practice the fundamentals of golf. But he said the team has placed slight emphasis on putting, after being somewhat disappointed by the team's play on the greens at the Northern. \n"I didn't putt so well last weekend and that showed in my scores," Dennison said. "If I can keep my putts down, I can keep my scores down quite a bit. We probably need four scores that are middle to low 70s. To finish in the top three in this tournament would be really, really good for us"
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Following a month of winter training, the IU men's swimming team finally got the chance to get back into the pool for competition Saturday in a home dual meet against Ohio State. While the Hoosiers ultimately fell to the Buckeyes, 133-110, the team set six season best times and 14 personal best times. \n"As a whole, we had a month off and the very first meet is kind of a character test for where you're at," head coach Kris Kirchner said. "As a team we stood up there and raced every race very well. I would say most of our guys swam the best of the season at this point and that's a good sign."\nThe meet opened with the closest finish of the competition, as Ohio State edged the Hoosier A relay team (sophomore Matt Leach, junior David Schulze, and freshmen Murph Halasz and Val Milkov) by two hundredths of a second in the 400-yard medley race. The teams' time of 3:20.35 was a season best.\n"It's disappointing, to get beat by two one hundredths of a second," Kirchner said. "Two one-hundredths. I mean you can't see two one-hundredths, literally, humans can't see that. It's that close."\nFreshman Richard Bryant won the 1650-yard freestyle and set a new season best (15:52.59) by nearly 7 seconds over the second place Ohio State finisher. Bryant said he was pleased with his performance, even though it didn't come in his top event.\n"I do not like swimming the mile," Bryant said. "It's not my favorite event, but if it helps the team, I'll swim it. I thought I swam pretty well as a whole." \nBryant also swam to a first place finish in the 500-yard freestyle, finishing with a time of 4:32.21.\nIn the 200-yard breaststroke, Schulze took first with a time of 2:02.47 and in the 200-yard freestyle, senior Heath Montgomery's second place time of 1:40.49 set a season best.\n"The scoreboard doesn't show how well we swam," Schulze said. "We're faster across the board in every event than we were last year."\nSophomores Claes Andersson and Dale Ramsy went one-two in the 50-yard freestyle with a season best time of 20.55 and 20.74 respectively. Andersson then set another season best as he and Ramsy took the second (45.37) and third (46.48) spots in the 100-yard freestyle respectively. \nIn the 400-yard freestyle relay, the relay squad of Milkov, Andersson, sophomore Mike Payne and Ramsy took first place with a season best 3:03.10 time. \n"Dale Ramsy was outstanding," Kirchner said. "He had a lifetime best in the 50-free, a lifetime best in the 100-free and he stood up there in the relay and was way better than he's ever been. That's great, he's a hell of a tough guy and he loves competition."\nHalasz won the 200-yard butterfly with a 1:47.81 time, just over a second from Mark Spitz's 1972 IU record time. \n"It's very good," Kirchner said. "He's on track for being the fastest 200 flyer in IU history for sure." \nKirchner said that, while the Hoosiers didn't win, he understood that not everyone will have their best performances on the same day.\n"It comes down to a meet -- you've got 13 events," Kirchner said. "Every event was competitive. Every event was tough. Our divers didn't perform, but I know they will perform in the future, they have bad days. You're constantly coaching, you're searching for a day everything goes right. But, I haven't met a perfect human yet. I'm waiting for that to happen."\nOn the diving side of the competition, sophomore Marc Carlton placed fourth off of the one-meter boards with a season-best score of 341.70 and second off of the three-meter boards with a score of 341.70. Carlton said his gainer-twister was the key to his success in the three-meter dive.\n"Off of the three-meter, I did a real hard gainer-twister and that went well," Carlton said. "I just learned it last week actually, and I've probably done it less than ten times. It's the hardest dive in my lift now, and it went okay. I would've liked to do it better, but it was alright for this point in the season. Overall, on the three meter, I did well, and the one meter was kind of a bad day."\nSophomore Alex Burns placed fourth (310.58) in the three-meter competition and sixth (174.30) in the one-meter. Head coach Jeff Huber said fatigue from practice and a diving session at Purdue the night before the meet contributed to the team's performance. \n"I know our guys were a little tired, but I thought they did a nice job," Huber said. "Marc especially, he just gets better and better. He looked a little bit tired and it did affect his diving somewhat. But, you can be tired and you still have to go out and perform, and I think they did. Alex still dove well and Marc was just a little bit off. Overall, I think we'll come out of it a lot better off." \nThe Hoosiers next competition is against Iowa and Minnesota in Iowa City on January 26th.
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In their last dual meet of the year, the unranked Hoosiers took the 21st ranked Purdue Boilermakers by surprise, winning in convincing fashion. Now, the Hoosiers hope it's time to take the rest of the conference by surprise when the Big Ten championship meet begins today at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center and continues through Saturday. \n"We need to make this the best meet of the year to date," Coach Kris Kirchner said. "We need to be swimming faster than we ever have before."\nThe opening session will feature a pair of sprint freestyle events. The meet kicks off with the 200-yard freestyle relay. IU's squad of sophomores Dale Ramsy, Claes Andersson, Mike Payne and freshman Nicolas Burgess hold the season's best time in the event. \n"Since the first of the year, our sprinters have really stepped up," Kirchner said. "In this meet, sprinters will be a major factor. You've got to have the arsenal of depth and experience, that is one thing that you've got to have in a championship situation. You cannot have too many sprint freestylers."\nThe sprint freestylers will return to the pool for the second-to-last swimming event of the first day, the 50-yard freestyle. Andersson holds the season best time (20.55), but Ramsy (20.59) and Payne (20.76) aren't too far behind. \n"I hope to make the finals for the 50," Andersson said. "It would help for the rest of the meet to get a good start in the 50. It's an important race." \nThe 500-yard freestyle will be held on the first day and the Hoosiers will look to freshman Richard Bryant to lead them in the race. Bryant has competed in the 200, 500 and 1650 freestyle races all year, at some meets one right after the other. But this weekend the three are held on three different days, making Bryant a greater threat in each of them. \n"I'm feeling good in training, and I want to make the finals in the 200, 500 and 1650," Bryant said. "I'm really looking forward to it. I can't wait." \nThe 200-yard individual medley and the 400-yard medley relay round out the first day's events. Junior co-captain David Schulze and freshman Murph Halasz will look to play prominent roles in both events. Sophomore backstroker Matt Leach will lead off the 400-yard medley relay, followed by breaststroker Schulze, butterflier Halasz and freestyler Andersson. \nThe meet marks the final Big Ten championship for lone senior and co-captain Heath Montgomery, who said he hopes to make the most of his opportunities.\n"I'm going in with a really positive attitude," Montgomery said. "It's my last one, so I've got to go in and do something special."\n As for the competition, the Big Ten conference holds five ranked teams: Minnesota (No. 6), Michigan (No. 10), Wisconsin (No. 16), Penn State (No. 20) and Purdue (No. 21). \n Minnesota, the defending Big Ten champion, has had a dominating season. The Golden Gophers went undefeated, including a win against IU Jan. 26. The trio of junior backstroker and freestyler Todd Smolinski, junior freestyler and butterflier Allen Ong and junior breaststroker Jeff Hackler have four Big Ten swimmer of the week awards between them and have led the Gophers all year. \n"We swam them with Iowa earlier in the year, and they looked really good," Montgomery said. "The score of that dual meet didn't really reflect how well we swam them. I think we have a great shot at racing them in all of their events. It'll just come down to who wants to race more."\nIn the meantime, Michigan comes in with an 8-3 record, all three losses coming at the hands of top-10 teams, including one to No. 1 Stanford. Michigan placed second to Minnesota in the Big Tens last year and had three Big Ten champions, two of whom, senior Tim Siciliano and sophomore Dan Ketchum, return this year. \n"We don't have the depth some of the teams have on paper," Kirchner said. "But, fortunately, athletic events don't happen on paper."\nKirchner said every event will be contested and that every hundredth of a second counts.\n"It'll be nail biting," Kirchner said. "It will be like the Super Bowl final kick every event. It'll be tough, and it'll be separated by hundredths of a second between first, second, third, eighth, ninth, sixteenth."\nPreliminaries begin at noon and finals at 7 p.m. each day. Tickets are $3 each session for students.
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The dominating seasons of Minnesota and Michigan and surging performances from Penn State and Northwestern have the Hoosiers sitting in fifth place after the first day of the men's swimming and diving Big Ten Championships. \nThe Gophers lead the way with 197 points, followed by Michigan (167), Penn State (157), Northwestern (134) and IU (122). \n"This is a very intense swimming conference," IU men's swimming coach Kris Kirchner said. "It's one of the best in the (nation) and it's going to remain that way. Every team raced real tough -- it's nitty-gritty."\nAfter a preliminary round in the day in which the Hoosiers set 16 career bests, the evening finals opened with the 200-free relay. The squad of sophomores Dale Ramsy, Claes Andersson and Mike Payne and freshman Nicolas Burgess swam to a season-best and NCAA B qualifying time of 1:19.29. That was good for a fourth-place finish, but Penn State won the event in 1:18.69.\nNo Hoosiers made the finals in the 500-yard freestyle, in part because of the depth and dominance of Minnesota and Michigan. In the finals, the Gophers and Wolverines each sent three competitors to the eight-person field. In the end, Wolverine sophomore Daniel Ketchum won the event, and Gopher sophomore Justin Mortimer took second.\nIn the 200-yard individual medley, IU junior co-captain David Schulze just made the cut for the consolation round, going in with the eighth and final seed. He didn't waste the opportunity and swam to a second-place finish with a season-best 1:49.90 time. \n"That was a good, impressive swim," Kirchner said. "His preliminary swim was a little off, but he came back and got a good time in that tonight."\nThe 50-yard freestyle proved to be the Hoosiers' best event, as sprinters Andersson and Ramsy both made it to the finals. Andersson placed third with a season-best 19.93 while Ramsy took fifth with in 20.09. Penn State senior Robert Molettiere and junior Eugene Botes took the first two spots. \n"It was a very close race, but Penn State got it," Kirchner said. "Claes had a great swim, his best. Dale didn't have quite his best, but they swam well and scored some points. But the bottom line is, we've got to get better."\nIn the night's final swimming event, the 400-yard medley relay, the Hoosier squad of sophomore backstroker Matt Leach, breaststroker Schulze, freshman butterflier Murph Halasz and freestyler\nAndersson finished in fourth place. \nMinnesota took first in the event to cement its first-day lead. \n"We're very pleased with our performance," Minnesota coach Dennis Dale said. "We weren't perfect, but a lot of things went very well for us. We were hoping to be close to the lead after the first day, and it's really gratifying to actually be out in front after the first day."\nFor the day, the Hoosiers qualified three swimmers for individual final events, a number that Schulze said needs to go up if the Hoosiers want to perform better.\n"I think we were good, but not great out there today," Schulze said. "We have a lot of things that we can do better and get more guys in the finals."\nDale said even with his team leading, the Big Ten championship is still very much up in the air.\n"I am a nervous nelly; I am never confident," Dale said. "I know that Michigan has a great team. We have a lead, but that could evaporate with the snap of a finger."\nOn the diving side of the competition, the Hoosiers competed in the one-meter event. Sophomore Marc Carlton placed fifth while teammate junior Adam Hazes placed eighth. Carlton was among the leaders in the event going into his sixth and final dive but missed it. \n"Marc really had the championship going into that last round," IU coach Jeff Huber said. "He went after it with a lot of determination. He was going to win it but missed it in the right way. But I couldn't be happier. We had a good day in what is not one of our better events. I'm looking forward to tomorrow."\nCarlton said he was pleased with his performance and looks forward to the rest of the meet. \n"Honestly, I wasn't expecting to win one-meter; I feel like that's my worst board," Carlton said. "They\nalways say you never want to win prelims, and I feel like today was my prelims for my better events. I feel real good for three-meter and platforms."\nOhio State junior Heath Knowling won the one-meter event with a 342.15 score. \nThe competition continues today at noon for the preliminaries and 7 p.m. for the finals.
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Bobby Knight is a figure who seems to be constantly surrounded by controversy. So it comes as no surprise that the debut of the ESPN film "A Season on the Brink" about Knight's 1985-86 season at IU was met with a wide range of opinions and criticisms from the student body. \n"I don't know how accurate it was," senior Chris Janowiecki said. "I'm not a basketball player, so obviously I don't know how he acted in the locker room, but I think on a whole the film was over dramatic. They played on his outside reputation to make it seem like he was a big jerk."\nBut, senior Victor Neff said the film portrayed Knight in an overly positive manner.\n"The movie almost leaned toward Bobby Knight, in favor of how he coached," Neff said. "The movie made it appear as if Bobby Knight was in control all the time and that he knew what he was doing when he was doing something else. I don't know how accurate that is."\nThe film, based on the book of the same title by John Feinstein, follows Knight and the Hoosiers through the '85-'86 season when the team lost their first two Big Ten conference games and eventually lost in the opening round of the NCAA tournament. ESPN estimated that over three million households tuned in for the made-for-TV movie.\nESPN cast Brian Dennehy to recreate Knight's attitude and to try and provide a punch that some students felt the film failed to deliver. \n"I think it's probably pretty hard to portray Bobby Knight, I didn't think they really got his sense of humor," senior Brett Helfner said. "I just think you can't duplicate Bobby Knight. So it seemed like the acting was pretty forced."\nWhile the film focused on the action described in the book, captions at the end brought viewers through time to Knight's firing. Senior Brian Waskiewicz said the culmination of the film favored IU president Myles Brand and went against Knight.\n"I think it did a lot to bolster Myles Brand's side of the case," Waskiewicz said. "I mean, they didn't have a nice thing to say about Bobby Knight in the whole movie." \nAside from Knight himself, some students expressed concern that the film portrayed the state of Indiana as an unsophisticated, rural state. Senior Casey Chiles said not only did it misrepresent the state of Indiana, but also failed to accurately portray the campus. \n"I was a little shocked at the portrayal of Indiana as a whole," Chiles said. "It made us all seem like country hicks who live in the middle of a cornfield. I also wasn't really impressed with the portrayal of the campus because they didn't really come into the campus and show the rest of it."\nESPN introduced the unedited film with a parental and viewer discretion warning about vulgar language and also ran an edited version without obscenity on ESPN2 at the same time. Junior Nathan Gutting thought the network should have cut back on the language anyway. \n"I think it had a little too much cussing," Gutting said. "It took away from the actual action."\nFor some students unfamiliar with Knight, such as sophomore Shanti Das Wermes, the film served to offer a unique and new perspective on IU's history with Knight.\n"I have a lot more respect now for Knight than I did before," Das Wermes said.
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The IU women's golf team spent spring break in Florida, competing every day in the hospitable southern weather. They returned to Bloomington only to find frigid temperatures, a steady flow of rain and not much practice time. The opportunity to play at the Lady Seahawk Invitational in Wallace, N.C. today and tomorrow has the team excited to take the course. \n"It's pretty frustrating to be in 80 degree weather and come back to Bloomington and weather not conducive to practicing," senior captain Tiffany Fisher said. "But, hopefully we'll go into this tournament with a lot more experience and play under our belt from our spring break trip." \nThe team played six rounds in Port Saint Lucie, Fla. and had the chance to practice every day.\n"I improved a lot over spring break in Florida," sophomore Karen Dennison said. "I shot low numbers, so I hope to keep that going."\nHead coach Sam Carmichael will fill out his lineup with Fisher, Dennison, junior Cara Stuckey and sophomores Ambry Bishop and Mary Lidester. \nThis is IU's first year taking part in the Lady Seahawk Invitational. The UNC-Wilmington-hosted\ntournament is held at the par-72, 5,957-yard River Landing Golf Club. Carmichael said the team can expect a modern course with a number of bunkers and tight driving.\n"That's good, that's the type of course we want to play," Carmichael said. "I think it will lend itself\nto helping us later on for the Big Ten Championship in Champaign, which will be a similar type gold course."\nJoining the Hoosiers in the 17-team field are Augusta State, Campbell, Charleston Southern, Coastal\nCarolina, College of Charleston, Elon, Florida State, Georgia State, James Madison, Louisville, Maryland, Michigan, NC State, Penn State, UNC Greensboro, UNC-Wilmington and William and Mary.\nThe team will play 36 holes today and the final 18 tomorrow. It is the Hoosier's first competition sincetaking sixth place at the "Mo"morial in Houston, TX March 4th-5th and their third tournament of the spring season. \n"In some instances, I think we've played well so far," Carmichael said. "But I don't think we've gotten the consistency from the players, and I don't think we've gotten scores that the players are certainly capable of. I'm hoping at the end of this tournament, no matter where we finish, we can see some better scoring from all five players. And that's what we need to be able to compete."\nThe team has shown significant flashes of strong play at times this spring. In their first tournament, the Hoosiers set their team season-low round with a 294 tally. But, Fisher said it's time for the team to come together and be consistent. \n"We could sit here and say over and over again just how much potential this team has," Fisher said.\n"Really the only way that we're going to have success is if we go out and work hard for it. And everybody on this team understands that"
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The cinder track at Bill Armstrong Stadium is not forgiving -- not to the riders who crash on it and not to the teams who lose time as a result. So it comes as no surprise that many teams put a high premium on smooth bike exchanges from one teammate to another in hopes of avoiding such misfortune. \nSo much was evident Saturday at the women's Little 500 qualifications, where none of the 30 teams risked missing the 33-team cut but all teams had to finish the four-lap time trial without any fouls from faulty exchanges. By the time the event ended, many teams needed multiple attempts to accomplish the task, including women's pole setter Kappa Kappa Gamma, which took first on its third attempt. \nKappa Kappa Gamma was first called for stepping in the gutter and then for touching the bike before it crossed the line. By the time the team raced its third attempt in the afternoon, it knew it had to get exchanges down. \n"I think the first couple it was just the track was a lot faster than we had anticipated," senior Kappa Kappa Gamma rider Kristin Carpenter said. "That was coupled with a little too much adrenaline. Everyone was really hyped up and then we're coming into the exchanges too fast.\n"And in the third one, we were very conservative. The exchanges were good, but they were very slow. We didn't do them at full speed because we were being so cautious about qualifying." \nAt qualifications, each team had to exchange riders three times. During the Little 500, a team must exchange riders at least 10 times.\nThe actual process is a difficult one. The incoming rider must slow down, get off the bike and hand it to the new rider within a 16-foot portion of the track without the bike ever falling. Any stall to avoid falling or to stay within the perimeter can have a negative impact on a team. \nThe Roadrunners, last year's Little 500 champion, qualified eighth. Although the team only took one attempt to qualify, junior Jenn Wangerin said bad exchanges prevented a better finish. \n"We're definitely going to have to work on exchanges a lot more," she said. "Our timing is not down enough. Each exchange you have to gauge the speed of the rider, decide when you run, and that's different from rider to rider."\nAn alternative method of exchange is the incoming rider slapping hands with the next rider, who starts with a new bike, a technique that Delta Delta Delta employed at qualifications. But this method of exchange can cost a team time. Tri Delts finished 24th at qualifications. \n"We decided with there only being three of us that we would use the bike-to-bike exchange," Tri Delt senior Amy Spillman said. "We definitely could have shaved off a good five to 10 seconds if we had used the normal exchanges. But we could have done it; you just have to compromise."\nSpillman said the bike-to-bike exchange proved easier for a team composed of three rookie riders but that the team would use the normal exchange for the actual race.\nAs for improvement, most riders agree the only trick is a commitment to practice, no matter how painful.\n"You just need to practice over and over and over," Spillman said. "It can be (a painful process). I have my fair share of bruises -- that's for sure"
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The women's golf team's play in its first two tournaments was a lot like the Bloomington weather. Both were inconsistent. Some days it seemed like spring, and sometimes the team practiced indoors for days in a row. Likewise in their tournaments, sometimes the team shot season-low rounds and sometimes it struggled. \nThen, over spring break, the team traveled to Florida and practiced every day in the warm climate. Now, its play has begun to follow suit. The team shot a 907 three-round total to finish in third place at the Lady Seahawk Invitational yesterday and Monday in its first tournament since spring break. \n"The weather was great in Florida and we got a lot of practicing and a lot of playing in, and I got my feel back," sophomore Karen Dennison said of spring break. "I think we improved a lot, it helps to get that practice in."\nThe Hoosiers opened the Lady Seahawk Invite with a 605 team score, shooting a 305 first round and a 300 second round. The team took fourth at the end of the first day. Lone senior Tiffany Fisher led the way for the Hoosiers as she shot two 73s and took third in the individual standings at the end of the first day.\n"I was really pleased with Tiff's performance (Monday)," Coach Sam Carmichael said in a press release. "We have been looking for Tiff to lower her scores this year and find some consistency and today she did that. The performance she put forth (Monday), is what you expect of a senior."\nDennison shot a 78 in the first round and a 72 in the second to tie for ninth in the individual standings after day one. \nOn the third day, Fisher continued to lead the way for the Hoosiers as the team shot a 302. Fisher shot another 73 to stay tied for third place overall in the individual standings with a 219, a new career three-round low. Dennison shot a 76 to stay tied for ninth, marking the sixth time in seven tournaments Dennison has finished in the top-15. Junior Cara Stuckey also shot a third-round 73 to finish in 23rd place.\nBoth Florida State and North Carolina State shot 904 team scores but the Wolfpack took the tournament title on a playoff win. Michigan, who beat the Hoosiers in their first three tournaments last fall, finished in fourth. \nFisher said before competing in the Lady Seahawk Invitational that spring break was the juncture where the team would come together and that she didn't worry too much about low finishes in the first two tournaments. \n"Usually the first two tournaments of the year are just a way to get out onto the course and get some experience," Fisher said. "We don't set our expectations very high for those first two tournaments because we didn't have chance to get out very much because of the weather. Spring break is our way to get ready for the spring season and really prepare for the upcoming Big Ten season."\nThe Hoosiers will look to build on their third-place finish at home in their next meet. IU hosts the Indiana Invitational April 6-7.
