SPECIAL REPORT
Norfolk State: The Quad Squad
Next season in the NBA, Michael Jor
dan's Chicago Bulls will try to become
something called the Quad Squad, to win
four championships in a row. To repeat
again. It would be something nearly
unthought of in today's sports society. _
Well, in one season, Norfolk State
University pulled off a four-peat of sorts,
winning four different CIAA titles in the
same year. The Spartans won women's
basketball, indoor and outdoor track and
men's baseball championships in the
1992-93 season.
Call them the Quad School.
The Speed and the Strength
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Andrew Kawesa, NSU's No. 2 singles
player on the Spartans' first year tennis
team.
The first championship camc in
women's indoor track.
The Spartanettes won five of 10
events to win its fourth straight CIAA
indoor title at the Arthur Ashe Center in
Richmond iasl February Sophomore
Chandra Stirrup was named most valuable
performer in the field events.
Stirrup won the long jump, the 55
meter dash and was also a member of Nor
folk's championship mile-relay team.
But Stirrup wasn't the only Spar
tanctte, um. stirring things up.
Angela Williams won the triple jump;
Karen Sinclair won the mile; and Tanya
Lawrence and Robin Turner were mem
bers of the mile-relay team that won.
Then, to top it all off, Norfolk State
finished second at the NCAA Division II
national championships.
T But they were far from done.
When the outdoor season rallecL
around, the Spartanettes rolled on.
Sinclair was the star Of the CIAA out
door finals, sprinting to championships in
the 800- and 1,500-meter runs while also
anchoring Norfolk's championship 100
meter relay team.
Then, at the outdoor NCAA national
finals, the Spartans finished fourth out of
39 schools.
Stirrup was national champion in the
1(H)- and 200-mcter dashes, and her 100
time of 11.2 seconds and her 2(X) time of
22.85 seconds were both national records.
The Hoops Season
In basketball, Norfolk State has long
been king of the CIAA. Last Februasy, the
Spartanettes won their third straight CIAA
title and will look, like Chicago's Bulls, to
win a four-ward next season.
Norfolk State finished 29-3 and
earned a trip to Division II's version of the
Final Four, the Elite Eight, last March.
Norfolk State's Eric Waters (6) runs down a Bowie State base runner in the CIAA
Baseball championship gme, 13-2 triump for the spartans, winning their 6th straight
CIAA baseball championship, ; ? ?
Keith Ross, SPartans slugging first basemen and '92 CIAA Player of
the Year.
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All American Casandra Sturrup, is the CIAA, jV CAA Div
II Champion i the 100 meters, 200 meters and long jump.