Issue 1, 2024
Sports update
Winter sports roundup
Zach Bradford broke his own Anschutz Pavilion pole vault record with a winning jump of 18 feet, 6.5 inches at the Jan. 22 Jayhawk Classic. Bradford has junior eligibility indoors but will compete as a sophomore outdoors. Gleb Dudarev, competing unattached with no remaining indoor eligibility, broke his Anschutz record in the weight throw at 81-5. …
Two-time Naismith Hall of Fame inductee John McLendon, d’36, on Jan. 13 was posthumously awarded the NCAA’s highest honor, the Theodore Roosevelt Award. Mentored by James Naismith while at KU, where he became the first African American student to earn a bachelor’s degree in physical education, the Tennessee State coaching legend was the first coach to win three-consecutive national championships and compiled a career record of .760. Other Jayhawks who have received the “Teddy” are Olympic gold medalist Billy Mills, d’62, and Sen. Bob Dole, ‘45. …
Senior forward Tina Stephens and sophomore guard Holly Kersgieter combined for 37 points in women’s basketball’s 70-63 victory over Kansas State Jan. 23 in Allen Field House. …
Midfielder Ceri Holland, who started all 75 games in her KU career, has signed to play professionally for Liverpool FC Women in her native England. …
COVID-19 claimed yet another disruption to the sports calendar, with the second-consecutive postponement of the Kansas Relays. “We have to operate in as lean a fashion as possible,” says Athletics Director Jeff Long, “while not inhibiting the health, safety and well-being of our student-athletes.”
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