Mount Pleasant senior survives the elements in long jump.
By MATT LEVINS
DES MOINES — Mwale Kapande stood in the walkway behind the east stands Friday night at Drake Stadium, shivering from head to toe.
With the temperature in the low 40s and a 25-miles-per-hour wind from the north dropping wind chills to near 30 degrees, Kapande had plenty of reason to be cold.
They just don’t have weather quite this cold back in Zambia, her native land.
Then again, they don’t have track meets quite like the Drake Relays there, either.
But that was just fine for Kapande, the senior from Mount Pleasant High School. She braved the elements long enough to pick up a fourth-place finish in the long jump and an eighth-place finish in the 100-meter dash.
“Sixty degrees is a cold day in Zambia,” Kapande said with a laugh. “This is really hard for me. I don’t do good in cold weather and everybody knows that. Last year we ran when it was snowing at Iowa City West. It was so cold I couldn’t even move.”
Kapande finished fourth in the long jump with a leap of 17 feet, 8 inches. Her jump of 17-0 3/4 inches on her second attempt in the preliminaries qualified her for the finals with the fourth-best jump.
Jennifer Jorgensen, a senior from Southeast Webster-Grand, had a winning jump of 18-3 1/2. It was the third consecutive year Jorgensen won the event. Last year, she edged Kapande on her final jump in the finals. The previous year, she edged Burlington’s Tiffany Hendricks on her final jump in the finals.
“I wasn’t really happy with that. I was hoping to get second and get in the high 18s, but I didn’t get it,” Kapande said. I got my steps right at the end. The wind changed and it messed up my steps.”

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The Champions Tour has the week off because of that little tournament in Augusta, Ga. But 10 players with ties to Augusta National Golf Club won’t be taking a break from golf. Instead, they will head to the Masters Tournament to try to recapture some of their past glory.
Of the 10 active Champions Tour players in the Masters field, five are in the World Golf Hall of Fame. A perfect 10 out of 10 have a Green Jacket and four have more than one.
Gary Player has both the most wins and the most appearances with three and 50, respectively. When he tees it up on Thursday, Player will set the record for most starts in the tournament by any player in history. His first win at one of the world’s most popular sporting events came in 1961 and marked a ground-breaking time for International players since Player was the first non-American to win on the azalea-speckled grounds. He captured the trophy again in 1974 and 1978.
Raymond Floyd will be there for his 42nd time and won in 1976 by a whopping eight strokes (that record wasn’t broken until Tiger Woods came along in 1997). Floyd has 11 top-10 finishes compared to Player’s 15.
Tom Watson slipped into his two Green Jackets in 1977 and 1981. Watson played in his 33rd Masters last year and would have made the cut if not for a triple bogey on the 36th hole.
Craig Stadler did make the cut in 2007, his 29th year in the event. Stadler captured his Masters title in 1982, a season when he won four times on the PGA TOUR.
Stadler wasn’t the only player older than 50 to make the cut last year — two-time Masters champion Ben Crenshaw and 1979 winner Fuzzy Zoeller did as well. Crenshaw created one of the most memorable Masters memories when he captured an emotional win in 1995 despite the loss of his long-time friend and teacher Harvey Penick earlier that week. Zoeller and Crenshaw are back in Augusta for the 2008 tournament.

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