r Official Publication of the National Collegiate Athletic Association November 16,1992, Volume 29, Number 40 Equity task force Byrnewins backs 5 proposals woman of year award The NCAA Gender-Equity Task mailed November 13, are: 11 (Permissible Ex- Force has voted to suppon five n No. Catherine Byrne, a swimmer pieces of lcgislarion that will be penscs). from the University of Tennessee, considered at the 1993 NCAA Con- n No. 27 (Maximum Awards- Knoxville, has vention. Division 1 Women’s Equivalency been selected Thr group, which met Novem- sports). as the 1992 her 9 in Chic-ago, reviewed 20 n No. 28 (Maximum Awards- NCAA Woman Division I Women’s Basketball). proposals thar pertain to gender of the Year. n No. 149 (Principle of Nondis- equity in some way. Byrne was c rimination). Thr proposals that the task force chosen from a agreed to support as listed in the field of 10 na- See Gender equity, page 20 b Official Notice of the Convention tional finalists for the award, which equally Strategic plan updated weighs acade- BYm mic achievement, athletics accomp An updated version of the NCXA duct in intercollegiate athletics,” lishment, and community service and leadership. The award is being Presidents Commission’s strategic was proposed by the Commission’s presented today (November 16) in plan, which was first adopted by Subcommittee on Strategic Plan- Chicago. the Commission in 199 I, appears ning and adopted by the full Corn- II championship returns The 1 l-time all-America selec- on page 5 of this issue of The mission at its September SO- Kim Mack (right) qfBloomsburg University of Pennsylvania tion competed in three NCAA NCAA News. October 1 meeting in Kansas City, championships and qualified for The purpose of thr plan is fo Missouri. tries to elurle the defme of I,ock Haven University of provide ongoing direction in the Copies of the revised plan also Pennsylvania’s Holly MouZllesseaux at the Division II Field the 1988 and 1992 Olympic trials. She holds Tennessee school ret- work of the Commission. will be mailed to CEOs at all NCAA Hockey Championship November 8. T~Qchampionship wa.~ ords in the loo-yard, loo-meter The updated plan includes dis- institutions. of thefirst threeDivision II championships createdas a result and 200-meter backstroke. cussion of the next major topic The Subcommittee on Strategic of legi5lution that eliminute~ most mu.Wivision classification. that will be undertaken by the Planning is chaired by President Byrne graduated with a 3.880 Lock Haven won, 3-l. grade-point average (4.000 scale) Commission. That topic, “Integrity: Thomas K. Hearn Jr. vf Wake sportsmanship and ethical con- Forest University. in kincsiology and twice earned academic all-America honors. She has donated time and effort to several community organizations, Adoption of consent package pushed back among them the Tennessee School for the Deaf, the Fort Sanders Thic ic th first in a series of spoen procedure, those items- 14 this But regardless of when ir is con- cil has acted on a number of pro- School for the Handicapped and atticks on. the lqi.slution that has ken year-will not be the first sidered, the consent package rem Jmsak SincCZ last year under its local elementary schools. submitted for the 87th annual NCAA dispensed wivlthin the Convention’s Lairis its now-familiar character: It authority to adopt nonconrrover- “Catherine exemplifies the best sial legislation bctwcen Conven- Convention, January 13-16, 1993, in general business session, as rradi- consisrs of amendmtnts that are of women’s collegiate athletics in Dallas. In addition to announcing the rionally has been the case. considered noncontroversial or tions. rhe 1990s:’ NCAA PresidentJudith mazlzng of the Official Notice of thu “housrkrrping” in nature. The Bring Notice M. Sweet said. “Not only did she Convention, this article reviews tk 14 Instead, the ~~J~lVe~lkXl will group is voted upon with a single have a brilliant career as a swim- proposals in the consat pachagc. In move directly into c~onsiderarion motion and a single vote, unlrss While this year’s introduction mer, she also excelled in the class- th next six issues of The NCAA NCUW, of prcJplJSalS identified by the any delegate asks that a given of Presidential Agenda Day is a room and made time to give some- the other groupings of amendments NCAA Prrsidents Commission as proposal be removed for a separate significant change in the conduct thing back to her community.” will be reviewed in thu or&r in which being of significant interest to vote. of the Convention, one imponant (:hampion Products SpcJnSOrS thq ~L~WCATin thp ~.i~nvfntion agenda. chief executive officers. All of This year’s consent package COW fat-I for delegates remains unat- Thursday, January 14, will be dc- tains one more legislative proposal tered from last yrar: It is essential the award program. As usual, legislative proposals voted IO those proposals, first in than thr 13 last year that tied a that everyone- planning to attrnd A national panel of prominent assigned to the consent package morning division business sessions record low (that also WAS the the January Convention bring athletics personalities selected 10 are listed first in the OffZal Notice and then in an afternoon grneral number in 1986). The all-time along the Official Notice-all 262 finalists from a group of 52 nomi- for the 1993 (:onvention that was session. One result is that adoption high is 43 in 1987. pages and 160 basic proposals. nets representing each state, the mailed to the membership No- of the UJWXIlt packagr will be As has bet-n true for the past linder a policy put into effect a District of Columbia and Puerto vcmber 13. delayed until after the chief execu- three years, a major reason for the Rico. A second media panel se- But in a significant rhangr in tivc CJfficerS have had their day. low figure is that the N<:M Coun- See Proposals, page 20 ) lected Byrne as the award winner. N In the News N On deck Briefly Page 2 n James A. Haney (left), executive director of the November 16 Special Committee to Review Financial National Association of Basketball Coaches, says Conditions in Intercollegiate Athletics, Committee notices 2 that a united approach between coaches and Chicago Compliance briefs 3 administrators is the best route to reform: Page 4. November 16 NCAA Woman of the Year Award Ban- Interpretations Committee W A University of Nebroska at Kearney wrestler quet, Chicago minutes 3 has met challenges far greater than anything he will ever encounter on the mat: Page 6. November 30- Division I Men’s Basketboll Committee, Dates and sites Charlotte, North Carolina n The Division I Baseball Committee considers December 2 Championships previews 8 automatic qualification: Page 6. December 6-7 Executive Committee, Kansas City, Football statistics 11-14 n NCAA champions are crowned in Divisions II Missouri and III women’s soccer and Division III field NCAA Record December 9 Eligibility Committee, Kansas City, hockey: Pages 9-10. Missouri -- 4 Page 2 The NCAA News November 16,1992 n Briefly in the News n Facilities Jonas’ responsibility during a game is to Macalester College is building a Players aid serve as an additional pair of eyes for $1.5 million lrack and field facility. It offensive roordinator Tim Reid. Anti even will illlOW pole vault events to 1 lln in though roaming in the stands wearing a I‘iur directions. Also, two long jump/ motorist double-antennaed headset and a coach’s triple jump ilnd two javelin runways uniform draws a few stares and raised will be set in place. A new lighting sys- More than ;I dwrr~ Illinois Collcgc foot- eyebrows, .Jonas does IKII let it get in the tem is expected to improve visibility ball players came to the aid of a motorist way of his coaching. during night cvcnts, and the institution who was trapped under a vehicle in which “I don’t mind all oftha<’ he said. “A lot of also has plans for a new scoreboard. he was a passenger October 30 near Beards- coaches are kind of paranoid about that Stetson University announced plans town, Illinois. and are standoffish and aloof, but I’ve for a tennis facility to be named for The team was en route to Mount Vernon, never been like that.” Mandy Stoll, a former Stetson tennis Iowa, for a game against Cornell <:ollege player killed in a 1988 automobile acci- when the team bus came upon the accidem dent It will feature 12 courts; bleachers, AJeep had skidded off U.S. Route 67, rolled Bench dedication and a building with classroom, lorker- three times and landed in a ditch. room and office space. Completion is Because no emergency vehiclt=s had ar- For 36 seasons, coach Alexander J. Yune- projected for spring 1994 at a cost of rived yet at the scene, approximately 15 of vich was the man at the rornrols of the $900,000. the players lifted the vehicle off27-year-old Alfred LJniversity foothall team. He took Georgia State [Jniversity is building Tracy Morris of Hal-din, Illinois. For over the Saxons in 1937 and led them to a a new tennis facility that will boast six nearly 20 minutes, several players helped 177-85-12 mark, including six unbeaten courts, blcac.hrrs, a control center and direct traffic around the accident until campaigns, in the years that followed. coaches’ offices. In addition, the insri- emergency personnel anived. Yunevich died in January at the age of 82. tution plans to add a new press box “From what we could tell, the passenger I The institution remembered him during its and blci~chers at the renovated DeKalb was in pain and needed to be freed from November 7 homecoming game against South College baseball field.