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8 The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, April 26, 1977
NC women's athletics growing;
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add Scholarships, f ulltime coach
BY DEDE BILES
Staff Writer
Expansion and growth that's been -the name of the game foi
women's athletics at UNC. Since it came under the jurisdiction of the
UNC Athletic Department in 1974, the program has changed from
an eight-sport, club-oriented organization to a highly-organized,
competitive program of 12 sports.
This change did not happen overnight. Progress was slow the first
year because the athletic department had not included women's
sports in their budget for the 1974-75 school year. ' ,
The next year (75-76), we were waiting to see how the addition
would affect the whole budget," said Frances Hogan, director of
women's athletics. "We were taking the advice of the athletic director
at that time, Homer Rice, to proceed with caution.'
Just because the changes were made cautiously, it did not mean
that the program came to a standstill. Women were offered
scholarships and the eight sports were improved. Many major
changes in the program, though, have occurred in the year beginning
last spring until the present time.
One of the first major changes was last spring with the addition of
four new sports to the women's program: softball, indoor track,
outdoor track and cross country. These sports were chosen for
several reasons.
"Usually new sports come about as the result of a club or a lot of
interest," said Hogan. "There had been interest in cross country and
track and field for several years, and last year the girls signed a
petition. Softball had a club last spring.
"Also," added Hogan, "These sports are offered on the high school
level in North Carolina."
Other changes since 1974 include the procedure for awarding
scholarships to women athletes. In 1974, the first women's athletic
scholarship was given to Carney Timberlake, a star tennis player
from Lexington, N.C. In 1975, there were a total of three
scholarships including the renewal, and for this year there were 16
scholarships. For the school year of 1977-78 close to 50 women will
receive athletic scholarships.
One of the reasons for the big jump in the number of scholarships
awarded for 1977-78 is the fact that some of the outstanding women
now on UNCs teams, will receive scholarships. Until this year,
scholarships had been used for recruiting purposes only.
"The decision came this spring," said Hogan, "Some of our
coaches felt they had one or two deserving individuals on their team.
If one coach was given this opportunity, then we had to open it up to
the other coaches, too."
Another first for UNC women's athletics will occur next year when
a full-time women's basketball coach is hired. Before, all coaches of
exclusively women's sports had been hired on a part-time basis.
"Basketball is the most competitive sport as far as recruiting and I
think it takes the most time," Athletic Director Bill Cobey said. "We
chose to emphasize basketball at this school. I believe this is what
most people want to see, and it will probably be our next revenue
producing sport."
If the committee composed of faculty representatives from all the
ACC schools approves, another change in women's athletics will
occur not only for. UNC, but for all the other ACC schools as well. At
a meeting of the men's and women's athletic directors of each ACC
school March 8, it was decided to hold conference championships in
basketball and tennis next year.
"We chose these two sports because they are the two sports every
school participates in." Cobey said. Td like to see it extended."
Much of the growth and expansion of UNCs women's athletic
program might be attributed by many people to Title IX. But Cobey
said the changes would have come about anyway.
"Title IX speeded things up, " Cobey said. "My feeling is that we,
being a progressive and responsible institution, would have done the
same thing without Title IX. We gave our first women's athletic
scholarship and had eight women's sports before we ever heard the
words Title IX.' "
With all the expansion of the women's athletic program, a large
men's program and the rising costs of athletics, it would seem that the
UNC Athletic Department's budget would be getting rather tight.
According to Cobey, the financial situation faced by the athletic
department in future years "will not be an easy one."
"We'll have to try to generate more money from ticket and
concession sales," said Cobey. "We may experience bad financial
times in future years."
Hogan said that as of yet, the women's coaches had experienced no
trouble with their budget requests.
The growth and expansion that has occurred since 1974 apparently
will not stop with the changes made this past year. The possibility of
volleyball being played in Carmichael is being discussed. Women's
soccer may be added if there is enough interest and the current
women's program continues to improve, Hogan said.
"1 think we have a good program, as good as any in the Southeast
anyway," Hogan said. "One thing is that we can't sit back and say, we
have a good program.' We have to keep on top of things."
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Women in sports
Carney Timberlake (upper right) became the first woman
athlete to receive an athletic scholarship to attend UNC in
1974, at the beginning of a period when the women's program
began to grow rapidly. Since then, the women's program at
UNC has expanded and almost 50 scholarships now will be
awarded to women next year.
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But Albert's confused. He doesn't know
how to cope with all this attention he is all of
a sudden receiving. For once in his short life,
a national spotlight is shining on him.
Something like this probably only will
happen to him twice in his life now, as he's
deciding where to go to college, and in the
neighborhood of four years later, when the
pros fight among themselves for his services.
Albert is playing games with everyone
now. He won't tell anyone where he's going
to school, and it's giving coaches around the
country nervous stomachs just to think
about all that talent being undecided.
Chances are he really has decided where to
go to school,1 but he likes the attention he's
getting so much he just won't tell anyone. He
says he's narrowed his choices down to a
handful UCLA, Kansas State and Arizona
State among many more. It's inconceivable
that any high school senior in his right mind
would have delayed such an important
decision so long. He knows where he's going.
H e li kes that spotlight too much to let it fade
on him during his prima donna act.
Carolina basketball fans consider him
such valuable property that they end their
prayers at night with petitions for Albert's
deliverance to Chapel Hill. Of course, he
would be a welcome addition to any
basketball program. But everybody knows
that one player does not make a whole team.
Of course, there are basketball trivia nuts out
there who could name a handful of instances
where single players have carried a team but
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Even on the longshot that Albert came to
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into the program well. Anyone who was such
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particularly while being recruited, would not
fit into a team-oriented concept of
basketball. He is an offensively-oriented
player, and as long as he has the ball and is
stuffing it through the hoop, he's happy. But
can he move around the floor without the
ball and does he know what defense is? A
player has to know or quickly develop these
things if he's going to make it in big-time
college basketball.
A case in point is Carolina freshman John
Virgil. He was a potent scoring machine in
high school, but had little defensive ability
If Albert did come to Carolina and
happened to make some kind of
contribution, it is entirely possible that he
would pull a sneaky on everybody and go
pro after one or two years of cultivating his
skills. And then where would Carolina be?
An investment of months of recruiting effort
and planning for him to be around for four
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And so the hunt goes on. Some coaches
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to overflowing, and others with empty nets.
For those with a big catch, it will be time to
plan for their coming season. As for those
with empty nets, well, there's always another
hunt next year.
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