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(10/16/01 5:35am)
In the Hoosier's first tournament at the Northern Invitational, Sept. 21-23, sophomore Mary Lidester set a new personal three-round low. At the next opportunity, the Legends Shootout, Oct. 8-9, Lidester shattered the record by 8 strokes, posting a 220 three-round score. \n"Mary is a great girl," sophomore teammate Karen Dennison said. "She brings a lot of humor to the team and she works really hard. She's out there practicing many hours a day and it just kind of helps you to get out there earlier just because she's out there so much. She brings a lot to the team. She brings some low scores and she's very consistent, so that's the kind of player we need."\nLidester grew up near a country club in Lafayette, Ind., and began playing golf at an early age. \n"I started playing every day of the summer when I was 10," Lidester said. "I'd have my mom drive me to the golf course every morning and pick me up before dinner." \nLidester began competing in the Indiana state tournament at 11, and then played in a variety of tournaments her father found for her. Lidester said her parents' role in developing her interest in the sport has had a profound impact on her. \n"My parents have had the biggest influence on my golfing career," Lidester said. "They never pushed me to have a golfing career. It was always my option. They never pushed me to go practice, I always did it on my own. They gave me so much support and they allowed me to achieve the goals I wanted to achieve." \nAt Lafayette Jefferson High School, Lidester posted impressive statistics on the golf team. She was a two-time conference medalist and earned all-state and MVP honors in all four high school seasons. Twice, she finished in second place in Indiana's state championship and was the recipient of the 1998 Indiana Mental Attitude Award. Golf was not Lidester's only focus, she also played basketball and ran track. \nSpending her true freshman year at Ohio State, Lidester competed in 20 rounds, posting an 81.9 stroke average. But following that year, Lidester transferred to IU. \n"I knew that coach (Sam) Carmichael was a great teacher and I believed in him," Lidester said. "I want to play after college and want to go to pro. I know that he knows a lot about golf and I wanted to be taught by him." \nLidester has a 74.7 stroke average this season, good enough for second on the team.\n"Mary has played very steadily," Carmichael said. "She played very well at the Legends." \nLidester spent as many as eight hours a day working on her game over the summer and dedicates as much time as she can to practicing for the team.\n"I just enjoy being out there," she said. "The team gets along so well, we're almost like sisters because we're so close. I really enjoy being on this team. I don't see it as working at all"
(10/12/01 5:41am)
Students looking to study last night in Willkie Quad may have found it hard to concentrate, as the Student Alumni Association's annual "Yell Like Hell" spirit event was held in the Willkie Auditorium. \n"Its all just spirit things to get people standing up, excited and ready to rush out for homecoming," senior and SAA organizer of the event Morgan Wills said. "It gets people ready and going. It's almost like the pep rally, but it's before it, so it makes the pep rally even better."\nThe event featured a variety of skits, musical performances and cheers, all in competition to get the crowd excited. When the judges' final votes were tallied, Delta Chi took third place, Phi Mu and Phi Kappa Psi tied for second, and Delta Gamma-Zeta Beta Tau placed first.\n"They were all really good, I was very impressed," said Maggie Brozio, SAA director and a sophomore. "It looked like they put in a lot of hard work, and I think the skits were better than last year."\nDelta Gamma and Zeta Beta Tau put on a documentary of famous Hoosiers, including "Hugh Zure," the football team's first mascot and "Harry Bear," a die-hard, face-painted fan with IU drawn on his chest. Their performance also included imitative cheer by the Marching Hundred and the Lady Red Steppers, featuring one person squatting on the ground as the torso and another lying on the ground beneath providing animated leg movements.\n"It was awesome," said Delta Gamma member and senior Audrey Treasure. "It was exciting to be involved and have such support from our group. I think a lot of the girls put in a lot of time and effort into practicing and making up the skit. Some of the other performers were quite good, but we always expect to win."\nThe collaboration of Phi Mu and Phi Kappa Psi produced a mock football game in which the IU\ncheerleaders took over in the final quarter to beat Illinois 18-14. The skit also included a somewhat-less-than-flattering halftime dance routine by male cheerleaders posing as the Illinois squad. \n"We're really excited that we did so well, and we really had a blast being here," said sophomore and Phi Mu member Natalie Wertz, who came out to support the squad. "The girls did a lot of work. They worked really hard. It got me excited for homecoming."\nRead created a Casino motif complete with men clad in tuxedos, women in fancy gowns and a pair of dancing die to the tune of "Hey Big Spender." \n"It was interesting, I just learned the choreography yesterday," said Read resident and performer Eric Hafner, a junior. "So many people get involved in it, it's awesome. It's a definite spirit-lifter."\nThird place finisher Delta Chi featured a time machine that transported the stage to the 1950s for a swing dance number, 1979 for KISS's "Rock and Roll All Night" and 2001 to the tune of Limp Bizkit's "Rollin" and a predicted 71-0 route of Illinois this weekend. \nWhile much of the crowd was made up of the competing fraternities, sororities and residence\ncenters, some people came just to watch. \nEigenmann Hall resident and senior Jemmy Hartono saw the flyers and thought the experience would be fun.\n"I heard it was going to be a lot of fun," he said. "I didn't go last year, but this is incredible." \nWills said all the teams put on entertaining performances. \n"I was very impressed by the field," she said. "Usually there's a couple good ones and the rest\nreally aren't that great. But, there was a lot of competition going on this year. The acts were funny\nand well-put-together. They put a lot into it and worked really hard"
(10/10/01 4:12am)
The Hoosiers completed their third and final round at the Legends Shootout in Franklin, Ind., Tuesday, finishing in fourth place. It is the Hoosiers' second fourth-place finish in as many tournaments so far this season. \nMichigan placed first with an 877 three-day score, while Wisconsin and Kent State finished second and third, respectively. \n"We did not make a lot of putts, we just didn't putt it very well," coach Sam Carmichael said. "It didn't seem like we controlled the ball very well in the wind. The golf course was in great shape condition wise. It played very fairly and it played well. \n"The condition of the course is a direct result of good solid scoring by a lot of teams. We know the course and we shouldn't be shooting 78s and 79s and 80s on that golf course."\nOn Monday, the first day of the tournament, sophomore Mary Lidester tied for seventh place with rounds of 73 and 72. Sophomore Karen Dennison placed 11th in the individual standings with an opening round 72 and a second round 75. \n"My personal play definitely could've been better," Dennison said. "I didn't putt too well, but overall it was a pretty solid performance. But I could have improved with the putting a lot more. \n"I didn't have very good feel for the greens at all this week. We did work really hard at putting this week, but we'll just have to continue to do that."\nIn the final round Tuesday, IU posted 304 to cement a three-round score of 898. Lidester shot a 75 to finish tied for sixth in the individual standings. \n"The team played pretty well," Lidester said. "I definitely think this team has the capability of winning a tournament. The competition has been great. It's been really strong, but we match up really well. They've just had good tournaments, but that doesn't mean that we won't."\nLidester set personal new three-round and single round lows.\n"I felt confident going into the tournament," Lidester said. "I wanted to play well, and I just ended up hitting the ball really well."\nDennison said the wind and the field of teams had some bearing on the results.\n"We played pretty well," Dennison said. "We kind of struggled (Tuesday). It was a lot windier and a little rough out there. But, 295, that's not bad at all for first round. But the scores are so much lower, you have to get better to compete. The competition is so tough and everyone is playing well."\nCarmichael said he believes further honing the team's fundamental skills will eventually produce solid results.\n"We've just got to keep doing the same things," he said. "We've got to keep working on our short game and work on our putting and we've just got to continue to try and get more consistent on the golf course. Mainly, putting is probably an area we can use a lot of work on"
(10/08/01 5:52am)
After the U.S. and Great Britain attacked targeted areas of Afghanistan Sunday, the IU community reflected on the decision. While many staunchly supported the strikes, others gathered to protest the military actions arguing that the strikes would also affect innocent civilians.\nAssociate professor of political science Dina Spechler said a "peaceful" solution to the terrorist attacks on the United States and the Taliban government's refusal to turn over suspected terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden, was never really a strong possibility.\n"I was expecting something of this sort, so I can't say that I was surprised," she said. "I think the purpose of today's actions were really to make it possible for either overt or covert ground forces to operate in some form and possibly also for a bombing campaign to occur."\nSpechler, however, doesn't rule out a potential agreement between the United States and the Taliban government before a full fledged war begins. \nGraduate student David Staniunas said he expected Bush to order the bombing, but is morally divided by it. \n"It was just a matter of time but how do you disagree or agree with a bomb," he said. \nSenior Joshua Nelson said he believes Bush acted as he needed to, but that the future will hold a hard-fought, bloody war, not a sudden, sweeping victory for the United States.\n"I think we'll have years and years and years of fighting. I'm never in support of war, but if there has to be a war, then so be it," Nelson said.\nFreshman David Odefey, co-founder of Students For A Non-Violent Solution, said that Bush acted rashly. \n"This was a militaristic solution that will almost inevitably devastate the lives of almost every Afghani and kill untold numbers," he said.\nFreshman Jason Robbins said military reaction was necessary. \n"It was an imminent event that was bound to happen," Robbins said. We have to get to bin Laden some way. For the betterment of life as a whole, there are casualties of war"
(10/04/01 5:34am)
The Hoosiers finished the Northern Invitational Sept. 23 with an 898 three-day score for a sub-300 average round. But the results netted them only a tie for fourth place in a field that was without three of the potential top teams in the Big Ten. \nLast year at the same tournament, an 898 would have been only two strokes out of first place. While the team agrees that there is room for improvement, the strengthened play of the Big Ten figures to make tournaments this year even more competitive.\n"We were very excited about breaking 300, but, evidently, that's just not good enough," sophomore Danah Ford said. "In the past, just a couple of years ago, that's what (a top score) was. You broke 300 and you were pretty much in there. We just have to shoot lower, we know that, and we just have to have some under-par rounds. But I think the Big Ten is a very strong conference." \nAt the Northern Invitational, Michigan took first -- with an 873 cumulative score -- by a 14 stroke margin over second place Northwestern. Four Michigan players finished in the top 10 in individual standings, with a fifth tied for 11th place. Meantime, Northwestern featured two players in the top 10 individual standings. \n"Michigan came out really strong, they really surprised me," sophomore Karen Dennison said. \n"Northwestern played well. Penn State came up and had a good last round. It's a very tough division." \nHead coach Sam Carmichael echoed those sentiments but stressed that the toughness of the conference isn't an excuse for the Hoosiers not to take first. \n"I don't think there's any doubt that all the teams are better than they were in the past," Carmichael said. "There's about five or six teams that are really strong. Michigan has a great team with four excellent seniors. Northwestern has everyone back from last year except one, and they picked up a couple freshmen that are just outstanding. But we've just got to get better with our putting and continue to improve our short game."\nCarmichael also said Ohio State, Purdue and Michigan State, who all competed in an NCAA fall preview on Sept. 24-25 instead of the Northern Invitational, figure to be top contenders in the conference. \n"They've got an outstanding recruiting class, plus the players that they had, so they're going to be really good too," he said. \nAt the NCAA fall preview, a 24-team field that pitted some of the nation's top teams against one another, Ohio State and Michigan State finished fourth and fifth with scores of 594 and 601 in the rain-shortened, two-round event. Purdue finished tied for 16th place with a 613 score. Their success amid a pack of the nation's top teams further adds to the competition level necessary to win in any Big Ten tournament. \nThe strengthened play of the Big Ten may be because increased dedication from schools in the conference to their golf programs. Northwestern built a $1.1 million state-of-the art indoor practice facility in 1998 while Michigan State added a $1.2 million dollar MSU Golf Center in 1997. On their Web sites both schools cite improved performance and recruiting as reasons behind building the centers, goals that are perhaps beginning to pay dividends. IU opened a golf practice facility this season for the men's and women's teams.\n"It's a lot tougher than it used to be," sophomore Mary Lidester said. "There's a lot of good players and a lot of low numbers now. You really have to have four solid scores in there, every day. You really need to shoot right around par or under."\nThe Hoosiers will get their next taste of the Big Ten at the Legends Shootout Monday and Tuesday in Franklin, Ind.
(09/21/01 4:31am)
The Hoosiers will finally start their season this weekend in Champaign, Ill., at the Northern Invitational. Their original opening tournament, the Mary Fossum Invitational, was postponed in the wake of terrorist attacks on the United States. Head coach Sam Carmichael will fill out his lineup with sophomore Karen Dennison in the top spot, followed by fellow sophomores Mary Lidester and Danah Ford, junior Cara Stuckey and senior captain Tiffany Fisher. Sophomore Ambry Bishop will travel with the team to compete as an individual. \n"The outlook is good, although we haven't played yet," Carmichael said. "The kids were real anxious to play but we'll take the same lineup to the Northern. It's a tournament we'd like to play well in. It's a little bit of a preview of what's coming up. It'll be a good tournament and it'll be good for us to go over and have a good experience."\nAlso competing at the invitational are Bradley, Illinois State, Kent State, Northern Illinois, Southern Illinois, Ohio, Penn State, Minnesota, Michigan, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Iowa and host Illinois.\nThe tournament will be played at the 5,842-yard, par-72 Stone Creek Golf Club, the same site hosting the Big Ten conference championship April 26-28, 2002. \nMichigan State, Ohio State and Purdue aren't among the competing 14 schools because they are instead competing in a NCAA preview meet in Seattle, Wash.\n"It's one of the main tournaments that we'd really like to win," said Fisher. "But there are a lot of good schools in the Big Ten, so it'll be a good opener for our team. We'll see if we're ready to compete and how well we're going to play this year."\nNone of the Hoosiers have competed on the course before, but Carmichael is familiar with the terrain. \n"The weather, the wind will be a big factor over there," Carmichael said. "Champaign's kind of flat, no hills, nothing to stop that wind from coming across. It'll be a big factor, but we worked on those kind of shots a lot last year with most of the kids, so I think they'll be going over there with the ability to hit some of those shots."\nThe team will approach the tournament with a strengthened short game, following the recent opening of their state-of-the-art short game practice facility at the IU Foundation. \nThe Hoosiers used their time off to grow as a team in preparation for the Northern Invitational, and for the rest of the season. \n"It was disappointing, because I thought we were ready then, but now we're even more ready," said Ford. "We all had fun, we all really joined in as a team and got to know each other even better."\n"I wouldn't say that it was disruptive at all," said Fisher. "Last weekend was a really good weekend for us. We just played and got to relax a little bit instead of having a weekend of competition. It was a nice way to bring the team even closer together. It was a little disappointing because we all wanted to play, but we all understood the situation."\n Carmichael said he is pessimistic that the Mary Fossum Invitational will be played at a later date, because of time constraints. \n "I doubt if it will be rescheduled, really there's not much place to fit it into the calendar right now," he said. "At this point, I doubt if we can reschedule that. However, I have been looking to see if there's someone that can take the place of the two days we didn't get to play. Hopefully, we can do that."\nFor now, the Hoosiers' focus is set on the Northern Invitational.\n"We're looking pretty good," said Dennison. "We're excited to compete and know we can compete and go for the win. But we're definitely looking to get off to a good start to the season."\nContact staff reporter Gavin Lesnick at sports@idsnews.com \nor 855-0760.
(09/19/01 4:07am)
A sophomore this year, Karen Dennison has already logged valuable playing experience on her collegiate resume for the women's golf team. Dennison played in 20 rounds, registering a 78.5 stroke average while garnering three top-25 finishes as a true freshman. Now, with the new season opening this weekend in Champaign, Ill., at the Northern Invitational, Dennison looks to begin another successful season. \n"Karen's a great girl," said senior captain Tiffany Fisher. "Besides being a great player, and she has been playing really well these past couple weeks. I think she's really team oriented. Even though she's an underclassman, I think she brings leadership to the team. She's a hard worker and she's got a really positive attitude too."\nDennison began golfing after growing up around the sport in Madison, Ind. \n"When I was little, both my dad and brother played, and I just rode around in the golf cart," \nDennison said. "I would just take a club out every once and a while and swing."\nDennison's golfing aspirations broadened in middle school. There, Dennison began receiving lessons from a local golf pro, while playing for the boys' golf team. \n"They didn't have a junior high girls' team, so I just played with the guys," Dennison said. "I knew all of them, so it was fun. They got a little mad when I'd beat them, but it was fun." \nFollowing her tenure at Madison High School where Dennison was a four time All-Conference selection and a two-time conference champ, she turned her attention to college. Coach Sam Carmichael recruited Dennison heavily, which led to her decision to come to IU.\n"Coach Carmichael has such a reputation in golf and all over the country and he was real interested in me," Dennison said. "I didn't have that many people recruiting me, not that many big schools, and he was the main one. I just knew a couple people on the team and I just liked the school. It was a pretty easy decision."\nUnder Carmichael's coaching, Dennison said she's changed from a power player to a more finesse oriented golfer.\n"Karen came in as a freshman last year and was a nice player and a hard worker," Carmichael said. "We made a few little changes with her game and she just worked hard. She has a great attitude on the golf course. She's really come around and has been just playing excellent this fall."\nDennison posted two scores of 72 and a 74 in qualifying for the top spot going into the Mary Fossum Invitational. After that tournament's cancellation, Dennison will put her stroke to the test at the Northern Invitational this weekend.\n"Karen had a great qualifying round going into the tournament," said junior Cara Stuckey. "Nothing seems to faze her and every part of her game is really solid now, so we're looking to her to lead us and keep on doing what she's been doing."\nWhen she graduates, Dennison, a sports marketing major, hopes to stay in the field of golf, perhaps working for a major golfing company such as Ping, Callaway or Titleist. But, her focus now is on the season. \n"I'm really chipping and putting a lot better, and that's been the difference in my score. That's what I attribute most of my success to," Dennison said. "I'd like to keep my scoring average in the middle 70s and I'd just like to keep consistency through the whole season to help the team out"
(09/14/01 5:47am)
The women's golf team had high hopes for their season debut at the Mary Fossum Invitational this weekend in East Lansing, Michigan. But in the aftermath of Tuesday's national tragedy and the wake of IU's across-the-board cancellation of all weekend athletic events, those hopes -- at least temporarily -- have been put on hold. \n"We're really wanting to play, because we've worked hard and it's time to go out there and see how we compare to other teams," junior Cara Stuckey said prior to the athletic department's decision. "We're ready to play, but if it does get canceled, we'll just move on to the next tournament." \nAlthough the tournament has been postponed, junior Mary Lidester said she didn't see any problems forthcoming.\n"I don't think it'll disrupt us at all," she said, hours before official word came from the Athletic Department. \n"If they do cancel it, coach told us everybody else out there has lost life, family members and it's kind of a small thing for us to take as that disappointing," she said.\nSophomore Karen Dennison said she saw it differently.\n"I think it would disrupt us a lot because we're really excited and ready to go," Dennison said. "We're really looking forward to going, so I think it'd be kind of disappointing if we didn't get to go."\nHead coach Sam Carmichael said before the athletic department made their conclusion that the team would abide by whatever decision was handed down. \n"Certainly, it would disappoint us a lot," he said. "They're ready to play. They're ready to come out of the gate and play. They're anxious to compete, but we'll just have to try and find something else to play in and accept that whatever they decide for us to do, we'll do. But the kids are ready to play. They want to play with the tournament flag up and see how they're doing."\nThe team said it had been heading into the tournament with an optimistic outlook. \n"We've got a good team going and I think there's going to be some good competition there," Dennison said before learning of the cancelation. "Everybody knows we're going to be good, and they're going to be gunning for us, but I think we could win it."\nThe Hoosiers had intended to head into the tournament with a lineup including Dennison, Lidester, Stuckey, sophomore Danah Ford, and senior captain Tiffany Fisher. Furthermore, sophomore Ambry Bishop had been slated to compete individually.\nThe team will also have to wait another week to see what kind of improvement their new state-of-the-art, short game practice facility will have on their tournament play. \n"I don't know if the facility will have an immediate impact, but I've already improved my wedge game. Everybody really enjoys it and it's a lot of fun to practice on," Lidester said. \nBut the cancelation has forced at least a delay of those plans, meaning the Hoosiers will have to prepare for next weekend's Northern Invitational in Champagne, Ill. \n"Going into any tournament, as a team we're looking to win it. We have confidence in each other as teammates," Stuckey said.
