Friday, April 24, 2009
Coach Stanley Redwine competed at a lot of places across the country during his collegiate track career in the early ‘80s. One of the places he remembers best was the Penn Relays in Philadelphia.
Redwine competed and won in the distance medley event and has one of the watches to prove it.
“I’ve been at Penn, I’ve raced at Penn and had a great experience there,” Redwine said. “We definitely want to thank Lew [Perkins] for the opportunity to allow some of the team to go out there and get the same experience I got when I was there.”
Freshman hurdler Keith Hays races through a heat of the Men's 110-meter hurdles April 18 during the Kansas Relays.
Just one week after competing at home in the Kansas Relays, the Kansas track and field team will be all over the country this weekend. While some members of the team participate in the Penn Relays, others are heading to the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa. Still others are attending the Nebraska Open in Lincoln, Neb.
“Everyone needs to compete and we didn’t want the weekend off for our athletes,” Redwine said.
For the Penn Relays, Kansas will send its relay teams to compete in the 4x400 along with some of its sprinters for the hurdles events. The men’s 4x400 relay team will be made up of senior Jarrell Rollins, junior Reggie Carter, sophomore Keron Toussaint and freshman Keith Hayes.
Hayes will also compete in the 110-meter hurdles event with fellow freshman Keyen Porter.
“It’s like the New York edition of outdoor,” Hayes said about the Penn Relays. “It’s kind of like the New Balance meet but the outdoor version.”
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THIS WEEKEND
Penn Relays in Philadelphia Nebraska Open in Lincoln, Neb. Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa
Last weekend, both the men’s and women’s relay teams lost in close battles where the winner was determined in the final leg of each race.
Toussaint said the main goal at Penn was qualifying for regionals.
“Coach is not going to take us if he don’t think we can regionally qualify,” Toussaint said. “Any team that’s gone to Penn ends up running fast.”
That same goal is echoed with the women’s relay team, made up of freshman Shayla Wilson and seniors Sha’Ray Butler, Charity Stowers and Nickesha Anderson. Anderson will also compete individually in the 100-meter dash.
Butler regionally qualified at Penn her sophomore year and said she thought that the team had a strong chance this time too.
“I think we definitely have a chance especially since we just have relays to focus on besides Nickesha with her individual event,” Butler said. “But most of us we’ll be pretty fresh to try and qualify for regionals.”
Meanwhile, the rest of the team will head off to the Nebraska Open and the Drake Relays.
“I’m excited to run better than I have been running the past week so that’s all I’m going into this weekend with,” said junior sprinter Aubree Dorsey, who will be traveling to Nebraska.
Dorsey said her main objective in the 100-meter dash this weekend will be getting out faster.
Sophomore distance runner Clay Schneider will also head to Nebraska and is looking to get a personal best in the 800-meter run, an event that he’s been trying to get adjusted to each meet.
“Last time didn’t go so well, so of course this as any other week, I’m going out to race,” Schneider said.
The Nebraska Open was something that Redwine believes is an opportunity for those Jayhawks that had not yet qualified for regionals to do so as well as competing too.
“We like to give all of our athletes the opportunity to compete and that was a solution to people having an opportunity to compete,” Redwine said.
— — Edited by Liz Schubauer
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