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S TAT E vol. 125, issue 40
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Going to great heights Page 7: President of rock climbing club says it’s more than just a sport
Makol Mawien experiences the struggles of senior pressure Page 5
From ‘Win the Dang Day’ to ‘Pound the Stone’: Klieman’s success at K-State Page 3
Big wins bring season to ‘bittersweet’ end for K-State Horse Judging Team Page 6
Fake Patty’s Day 2020 pushed back due to basketball conflict Page 6
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How Big 12 bowls could shake out and what it means for K-State NATHAN ENSERRO THE COLLEGIAN
With bowl season right around the corner, sometimes it can be confusing to try to understand where and when the Kansas State football team will play its post-season game. Bowl predictions are difficult to make with games remaining and a four-team tie for third place in the Big 12. K-State’s bowl destination relies on the outcomes of conference championship games slated for this weekend. The selection process starts when the College Football Playoff Committee comes out with its final top-25, with the top four teams placed in the playoff. This is the first complication for K-State fans trying to decide where to plan for the postseason. If Baylor or Oklahoma make it into the topfour, they likely move up one bowl game. After the semifinals are filled, the Big 12 has one guaranteed spot in a New Year’s Six contract bowl game: The Sugar Bowl. This spot will be
filled by the Big 12 Champion, unless they make the playoff in which case the runner-up will fill the spot. After that, the remaining bowls with Big 12 contracts will choose teams in the following order: the Alamo, Camping World, Texas, Liberty, Cheez-It and First Responders bowls. They can choose any team with at least six wins, provided it isn’t already selected for another bowl. The major concern for bowls is getting people in stadiums and eyes on TVs. At 5-4 in conference play, K-State is tied with Iowa State, Oklahoma State and Texas for third. Tiebreakers make that mess shake out in this order: Texas, Oklahoma State, K-State and Iowa State. Here are some predictions based on various championship game scenarios.
BIG 12 CHAMPION MAKES THE CFP
In that situation, the runner-up slides into The Sugar Bowl. The Alamo Bowl likely nabs Texas and pairs them with Southern California.
K-State likely ends up in the Camping World Bowl in Orlando, Florida, against Notre Dame or gets passed up and ends up in the Texas Bowl. This scenario also likely plays out if the Big 12 Champion is left out of the CFP but by some unlikely event both Oklahoma and Baylor make New Year’s Six bowls.
BIG 12 CHAMPION IS LEFT OUT OF THE CFP
The Big 12 Champion gets the Sugar Bowl bid in this scenario, bumping the runner-up down to the Alamo Bowl. It is unlikely that a Big 12 team gets an at-large bid to a New Year’s Six bowl this year. The Camping World Bowl gets a home-run matchup of Texas and Notre Dame. K-State or Oklahoma State end up in, as a toss-up, the Texas and Liberty Bowls. Both bowls match with a Southeastern Conference team. K-State fans will find out for sure Sunday afternoon after the CFP Committee announces their rankings and bowl assignments in a 3-hour special on ESPN starting at 11 a.m.
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Forward Makol Mawien experiences the struggles of senior pressure ADAM MEYER
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Two prominent seniors serve as leaders on this year’s young Kansas State men’s basketball team: forwards Xavier Sneed and Makol Mawien. Mawien entered the season looking to build on the progress he began as a sophomore and continued as a junior, when he earned three awards: 2018 Philips 66 Big 12 Championship All-Tournament Team, 2018 Dean Harris Newcomer of the Year and 2019 Ed Nealy Most Improved Player. Mawien has made some impact on the court this year but has also struggled with varied performances. “He has been inconsistent this year,” head coach Bruce Weber said. “The stress and pressure on a senior to do
well is a lot, and some guys can deal with that. I just keep telling him to relax and control what happens each day. That is all you can worry about.” After the Wildcats’ 7658 victory over Florida A&M Monday night, Weber said he was practicing his shooting at 10:30 a.m. in the practice facility. “It means a lot to him,” Weber said. “We need him to be better.”
THE SEASON SO FAR
In the season opener against North Dakota State, Mawien scored 15 points in 28 minutes with 10 rebounds. He followed that up with just two points on three scoring attempts and three rebounds in 22 minutes of action. One of his best performances of the year came against Pittsburgh. Weber said he performed well for the 11 minutes he played. He
scored four points and one defensive rebound, but that was cut short due to fouls. The West Valley City, Utah, native scored double-digits in three of seven games, with 15 points as his season-high against North Dakota State. He also tallied 11 points against Monmouth and 10 against Arkansas Pine-Bluff. In five of the first seven games, he played at least 20 minutes; with 28 minutes as the season-high against North Dakota State. The 6-foot-9 forward has made his presence down low for the Wildcats on the glass as he has 36 total rebounds (25 of them defensive), averaging 5.1 per game. He has averaged 21 minutes and 8.4 points per game this season. On the defensive end, he averages six blocks and five steals per game.
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Senior forward Makol Mawien shoots a free throw during K-State’s men’s basketball game against North Dakota State in Bramlage Coliseum on Nov. 5, 2019. The Wildcats were able to secure a victory against the Bison with a final score of 67-54.
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Big win brings ‘bittersweet’ end to successful horse judging season DALTON WAINSCOTT THE COLLEGIAN
This year’s K-State Horse Judging Team made history this year by walking away from the season with two major wins at top-level competitions. The team won the American Paint Horse Association title in September and the top spot at the American Quarter Horse Association competition last month — the first accomplishment of its kind by any four-year institution, head coach James Lattimer said. “I feel more pride as a coach than I ever did judging myself,” said Lattimer, assistant professor of animal sciences and industry. Although they had a stellar season, due to the nature of the competition the team can only participate once during their four years at the collegiate level. “It was a bittersweet ending,” said Alyssa Leslie, team member and sophomore in animal science. “It was nice to have it be done. And I can focus on school work now, but it was also nice to just have those days where you can just go and give a set of reasons and place some classes and hang out with the girls on my team.” With the season over, the members said they still want to come back to horse judging later in life. “I would like to perhaps one day become a national rein-
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K-State’s Horse Judging Team brought home a historic double-win this season. ing horse carded judge or even judge open shows, possibly become carded in the American Quarter Horse Association,” Emily Prugh, junior in animal science, said. “It’s all up in the air because I do want to be an equine vet later on, and with that there’s little to no time to really judge horses. So that would be something much later on in life.” Along with making history and building strong bonds between teammates, Prugh said there are other teams they are looking forward to becoming a part of, like the cutting horse team. “It’s just incredible to know that we’ve achieved this goal,” Prugh said. “A lot of hard work has gone into this win, and I’ve met some really great people along the way.” Horse judging teams compete in two divisions: halter and performance. Halter is based off
the horse itself. “Halter is a class solely based on confirmation balance, muscling,” Leslie said. Performance is based on the way the horse moves or how the rider interacts with their horse. Each classification contains four horses, which judging teams rank from highest to lowest. For Leslie, horse judging runs in the family and has been part of her life since she was in eighth grade. “I grew up showing horses [from fourth grade to high school], and then my mom also grew up showing horses,” Leslie said. “So it was kind of a family affair.” Lattimer said horse judging provides many benefits and opportunities for students. “Their public speaking skills are far superior to their contemporaries,” Lattimer said. “Also, their ability to make wise decisions under pressure.”
Fake Patty’s pushed back due to Sunflower Showdown conflict BAILEY BRITTON THE COLLEGIAN
Aggieville businesses voted this week to push Fake Patty’s Day 2020 back from Feb. 29 to March 21. Traditionally, Fake Patty’s
is the Saturday before Kansas State’s spring break. This conflicted with the Kansas State vs. University of Kansas basketball game, according to a tweet. Marissa Peaslee, a sophomore in kinesiology, said she thinks this is a good idea.
“People may have been more likely to drink extra depending on the outcome of the game just because there was a game,” Peaslee said. “Often times, that kind of environment leads to drinking anyway so the two would not have meshed well together.”
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Rock climbing is more than a sport, says student and avid climber CHRISTIAN BRIGHT THE COLLEGIAN
The fear of heights is a common phobia, but for senior in construction science, Sage Waltemath, that fear never existed. He loves the adrenaline rush that comes with climbing — and sometimes falling. Waltemath started climbing in the spring 2009 in Arkansas. He said he still continues to climb there but makes visits to other states when he can. For his 21st birthday, Waltemath took a trip to the Flatirons in Boulder, Colorado, where he climbed multipitch routes. In multipitch climbing, Waltematch said two climbers acend a certain section and then stop and set up an anchor. Next, the climber below climbs up, meets the top climber and they continue. This method is used when there is not enough rope to get to the top of the wall or rock formation. Waltemath joined the K-State Rock Climbing Club in 2014 and is now the club’s president. He also works on the rock wall at the Peters Recreation Center. The club has exclusive climbing hours Wednesday and Sunday for members, for $20 per semester. The club also participates in
trips and climbing competitions. “Arkansas is the main place that we go as students for both spring break and Thanksgiving break,” Waltemath said. Since Waltemath took over as president, the club saw an increase in membership. “When I took over, we had about 23 active members as a whole,” Waltemath said. “We stepped up to 74 this semester alone, and that was the greatest achievement.” He said his favorite part about being president and working at the rock wall is the people. Waltemath recently took a trip with 23 students to Horseshoe Canyon in Arkansas. “Half of them had never been outside before and 13 had never been to Arkansas,” Waltemath said. “I went down there had an awesome trip. And to me, [it] was more glorifying and satisfying to get to see new climbers and get to make connections than [it was] to say ‘Hey, I climbed a 5.12.’” Waltemath sees climbing as a community, not an individual sport. “It’s as strong as you can be, but on the flip side if you don’t have someone holding your rope, you can’t climb the wall,” Waltemath said. Waltematch said the same community exists at the Rec’s
rock wall. “There’s kind of this awkward social aspect of it ... all these people know what they’re doing,” he said. “Half of them don’t know what they’re doing, they’re just having fun, which is even better.” Waltemath said everyone there is willing to help whether they are an employee or not. “Everybody’s willing to show you a cool move that they know,” he said. “And actually, a lot of people are even more excited to be like, ‘Hey, watch this really cool thing. I want you to try it.’ You fall a couple of times, and you keep trying it and then when you get it they celebrate with you” Waltemath said the Rec’s rock wall sees more climbers during test weeks. “So [you] go to the gym for a while and you just strictly think about the wall, you get to interact with people, get to be social — you get to have fun,” Waltemath said. “That’s a huge thing: the fun portion of it.” Rock climbing has also shaped him as a person, he said. “I used to take it as you know, I go about my daily business, I interact with my friends,” he said. “But since working the rock wall and starting my climbing community, it’s more of a reach out and see if someone needs help.”
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HACKS FOR HOLIDAY GIFT GIVING
Stumped? Here are some helpful tips for giving gifts this season.
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Homemade gifts leave a warm feeling behind. Make it personal. If you’re going to give gift cards, avoid giving specific gift cards. Check their social media for clues: What colors do they like to wear? What are they interested in?
Don’t give live animals as a gift. Take them shopping and watch for what they point out. Eco-friendly gifts are in. If you can, ask them!
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