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The Pilot — Page 4 Woody Fish The New G-W Football Coach Woody Fish is Gardner- Webb’s sixth head football coach. He was named to this position on January 25 of this year; after serving here as of fensive coordinator for one year. Fish brings a hard working, positive attitude to the head coaching position. He is very happy at Gardner-Webb, from which he graduated in 1973. Fish is worlcing hard to es tablish a solid program. He is looking for well-rounded in dividuals to represent G-W, not only off the football field, but off the field as well. His outlook for the first year is to establish G-W as a com petitive team. He hopes to do this by building a solid founda tion which can be built upon for years to come. “Right now we have a young, building team.” “I Hope to build a program in which there are 15 to 16 seniors each year, in order to establish a football tradition at Gardner- Webb.” Fish is looking for stability in the coaching staff. He is the third head coach in the past three years, and there have been many assistant coaching staff changes also during this time. He feels building stability is an important part of the program. New Intramurals Programs The Fall 1984 Intramural Program is off and running, once again under the direction of Dr. Jeff Tubbs. Additions to both activities offered and the organization of the program mark this as a season of in creased opportunities for all students to participate in the sport of his or her choice. One major change is the in clusion of dorm intramural representatives elected by the residents of each dormitory. It is the responsibility of each representative to keep his or her own dorm informed about, intramural activities and to organize teams to participate in competition against the other dorms on campus. This change was designed to stimulate more interest in the intramural sports offered. New activities such as hor seshoe pitching and Olympic swimming for the fall, plus the twosome relay road race this spring have been added to the growing list of intramural op portunities. Flag football and Olympic swimming are two sports which have faced declining stu dent participation in recent weeks. Class schedules, par ticularly labs, have been the major cause for this oc curence. Another reason says Charlotte Johnson, graduate assistant working with the in tramural program, is that, “students do not understand the intramural program.” A possible solution would be to in crease awareness of the program through greater publicity. Signs are currently posted across the campus with information concerning up coming activities. You don’t have to be an ace to participate. The G.W.C. In tramural Program is for anyone who is looking for fun after a long day of classes. Whether your interests are in football or soccer, racquetball or shuffleboard, check with your dorm representative or Dr. Tubbs, in the Lutz-Yelton Convocation Center, and get in on the excitement of in tramural sports. Women's Softball Tryouts Successful Remaining Football Games Coach Sallie Black reported that this year’s women’s softball tryouts were far above her ex pectations. Sixteen women, a record number, tried out for the team and all were accepted. This years team is a young one, with only three returning players, two of whom are seniors. The team lost most of its seasoned veterans to graduation. The two returning seniors, Beverly Moose and Donna Johnson, will be team cap tains. In their second year as a team, last year, the Lady Bulldogs compiled an impressive 11 and 14 September 29 October 6 October 13 October 20 October 27 November 3 November 10 November 17 Livingston Lenior-Rhyne Catawba Carson-Newman Elon Presbyterian Mars Hill Wofford record, while playing well established teams. They started last year’s season slowly at 0-9, but finished by winning 11 of their last 15 games. This year the ladies have a new field on campus which should give them an added incen tive. For the last two seasons the Lady Dawgs have had to play their home games in Shelby. The 1984-85 softball season opens March 18,1985 against U.N.C.-Charlotte, here at G.W.C. Double-headers consisting of seven innings each will be played, for travel purposes. Good luck ladies for a fantastic winning season! Go Dawgs! % Intramural Powder-Puff Football m Cross Country Home Away Home Away Home Away Home Away The 1984-85 Gardner-Webb Cross Country team has its fair share of new faces this season. Heading up the list is new head coach, Ozzie McFarland. Ozzie is taking over the program while head coach Robert Morris is on a two- year sebatical teaching at U.N.C. Charlotte. Oz zie is adding cross-country to his already busy schedule which includes girls’ volleyball and baseball. Other new faces include Stevie Staten, Jimmy Rowdan, Johnney Morris and Earl Johnson. Returning lettermen include Tim “Bonz” Sigmon, Ed Barnes, Steve Stams, and Eddie Northen. Cross Country is a single 5-mile race in which everyone competes. A team wins by having the lowest team score. Your team is scored by the place of the finishers for your team. The first place man receives 1 point and the second place man receives 2 points, etc. You add up the top five finishers on your team to get your team score. The first meet of the season was run on Sep tember 15 and the Gardner-Webb team finish^ second out of three, being edged out by U.N.C. Asheville. The top five finishers were: Eddie Northen, Jimmy Rowdan, Ed Bames, Steve Staten, and Johnney Morris. The team will have meets every Saturday through the 27th of Oc tober.
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