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UNLV Basketball Programs UNLV Athletics 1981 UNLV Lady Rebels 1981-1982 University of Nevada, Las Vegas Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/basketball_programs Part of the American Popular Culture Commons, Civic and Community Engagement Commons, and the Sports Studies Commons Repository Citation University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1981). UNLV Lady Rebels 1981-1982. 1-28. Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/basketball_programs/125 This Pamphlet is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It has been brought to you by Digital Scholarship@UNLV with permission from the rights-holder(s). You are free to use this Pamphlet in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s) directly, unless additional rights are indicated by a Creative Commons license in the record and/or on the work itself. This Pamphlet has been accepted for inclusion in UNLV Basketball Programs by an authorized administrator of Digital Scholarship@UNLV. For more information, please contact [email protected]. UNLV LADY REBELS BASKETBALL '81·'82 KATHIE CALLOWAY All-American Candidate OFFICIAL PROGRAM Table of Contents Media Info Academic Counselor ............ .......... ... .............. 6 Press accreditation for Lady Assistant Coaches .......... ........ .. .. .. ..... ... ....... 5 Rebels' games is relatively easy. Athletic Department Administration ............ .... ....... 7 Contact Don Johnson at the Behind the Scenes ... ... ...... ... .. ... ............ ..... 12 Athletic Information Office Credits ....................... ... .. ........ ........ .. .... 1 anytime before noon on a game Graduate Assistant ......... .. .. ...... ... .................... 6 day and bonafide reporters and Head Coach ....... .. ... .. .............. ............... .. 4 photographers will be placed on Lady Rebels' Basketball Camp_ ... ...... ............ ....... 27 a pass list. (AIO phone number: Lady Rebels Off the Court. ... ............. ............ .... 28 702- 739-3207). Las Vegas Profile . .. ..... ....... .. .... .. .. .. .... .. .... .. 9 Media Information ... .... ..... .... .. ............ .......... 1 Coach Strike is best available Media Outlets . .... ... .... ..... .. .. .... ............. 13 for interviews before noon. 80-81 Review ....... ........ .. ......... ... .. .. .. .... 11 (Basketball office phone 80-81 Action Shots . ................ ...... ............... 27 number: 702- 739-3151). 81-82 Previ ew ... .. .... .... ... .. ...... ... .. ..... .. .... 11- Piayer Profiles . .. ..... .......... ..... .. .. ........ 16-20 Records .... .... ... ..... .. ........ ..... ... ........ .... 22-26 Roster ..... ..... ..... .............. ... .. .. .... ... 15 Schedule . .. .. ............ .. .... .. ...................... 2 Score Sheet. ... .. ... ........ .. .... .................... 14 UNLV Profile ........... ............. ..................... · .8 TELEX- 180010 ~ Every room a " Mm i·Sulte" TWX • 91 0397688;.,, • .1• , ', 731·2020- Toll Free (800) 634·6501 • Restaurant • lounge ~pdf? .~Q • Pool • Wet Bar • Color T.V. • Slot Arcade • AM-FM Clock Radio 3500 Paradise Road - Las Vega s. 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Irvine 7:30 Jan. 30 at New Orleans Dec. 18 Arizona State 7: 30 Feb. 5, 6 UNLV Desert Classic 5:30 Dec. 20 San Jose State 7:30 San Francisco, Washington, 7:30 Dec. 30 Nebraska 7:30 So. Methodist, UNLV Jan. 2 Arizona* 5:30 Feb. 12 Brigham Young* 5:30 Jan. 7, 8, 9 Las Vegas Round Robin 5:30 Feb. 14, 17 at Hawaii TBA Tournament 7:30 Feb. 20 Pepperdine 7:30 U.C. Berkeley, Simon Fraser Mar. 5 at Wyoming 7:30 New Orleans, Dixie College, Mar. 12-14 First Round NCAA Playoffs College, Adams State, UNLV Mar. 18-21 NCAA Regional Playoffs Jan. 12 Cameron 2:30 - Mar. 26-28 NCAA National Semi-Finals Jan. 16 Louisiana State 7:30 & Chapmionship *at Las Vegas Convention Center (all other games at McDermott Complex on campus) ill Baked in Las Vegas GOGH REBELS GOGH @olSU~ ''Hours Fresher" NEVADA BAKING CO. 299 WEST CHARLESTON BL VD STORES ARE LA S VEGAS. NEVADA 89102 LOCATED AT 1604 Commerce St. OFF IC E t 702 1384-8950 4237 W. Sahara Ave. Ph one 736-8282 " I Buy at Mother's- 2032 N. Bruce, N.L.V. 1298 E. Tropicana Ave. 4972 Maryland Parkway AND Las Vegas, Nevada ·89119 1224 N. Boulder Hwy., Henderson Norm "Mother" Schultz PARTS • TOOLS • GOODIES IMPORTED TOILETRIES . LINENS AND GIFT ITEMS GO Liber•e• Pl•z• 1775 E. Tropicana Av-e-: •29 · REBELS Las Vegas. Nevada 89109 &~~~Las Vegas . Nevada 89109 · 702-798-0398 ~ (702) 731-()323 GO •GIFT WRAPPING •MAILING SERVICE Seven-Up Bottling Company of Las Vegas " '\ 3816 Cinder Lane, Las Vegas, Nevada 89103. 702/873-1 770 SHEILA STRIKE Head Coach 2nd Year at UNLV (12-12) Career Record: 12-12 Sheila Strike took over the Lady Rebels shortly before the 80-81 season began. Most coaches facing similar cir cumstances would have been satisfied with the kind of year the Rebels had but not Coach Strike. Hired on relatively JIM BOLLA DAN PENCE KEITH STARR short notice, she had no chance to recruit and only a little Assistant Coach Assistant Coach Volunteer Assistant time to become familiar with the players already on hand. Still, the Rebels pulled through a competitive schedule with 1st Year at UNLV 1st Year at UNLV Keith Starr's bad luck may turn out to be very good luck for the Lady a 12-12 record. Professional playing experience If the Lady Rebels needed a Rebels. A three-year veteran of the "Not to discount last year, but we feel we are really begin is brought to the Lady Rebel " Psych" coach, Dan Pence would be NBA, Starr is spending the 1981-82 ning here. All the people who will be on our roster will be coaching staff by Assistant Jim the man. One of the top players to season as a volunteer assistant for UNLV while undergoing a rehabilita th~re because we choose them to be and that is a real plus Bolla. Jim spent a season with the come out of Phoenix, Arizona Cen tion program for a troublesome for any coach." The number of scholarship athletes has Cannon team in Venice, Italy and tral High School, Pence has spent later was a member of a team of the past 6 years exploring the knee. Alternating between guard doubled from 5 to 10, and although the schedule appears American professionals who toured sociological imbalance of gender and forward during his playing tougher than last year, optimism is high for a big imporve South America. His transition into roles. Particularly role conflicts still career Starr is concentrating on helping the Lady Rebel guards. ment on that 12-12 mark. the coaching profession took place faced by female athletes in our at his alma-mater, the University of culture. As a member of the Pitt varsity in UNLV is Coach Strike's first position as a head coach. Pittsburgh. All this adds to his talents as a the mid-70's, Starr helped the Pan Prior to taking over the Lady Rebels she was an assistant Beginning as a graduate assis working coach, talents which were thers put together a 22-game winn with the Oregon Univ. Ducks for two years. She has also tant for both the men's and developed beginning as a player at ing streak during the 1973-74 season, the longest string of wins in coached the girls' varsity at North Delta High School in women's programs at Pitt, Coach the University of Southern Califor Bolla became the rebounding nia and then the University of the nation that year. The following Delta, British Columbia and the JV's at Simon Fraser Univer specialist for the Panthers. The Arizona. season the team landed a spot in sity in Burnaby, British Columbia. results were impressive .. at the end Besides "in the gym" coaching the N.I.T. Coach Strike's coaching talents are an obvious exception of the '79 season the Pitt men were' responsibilities, Coach Pence is in Professionally, Starr has played for the Chicago Bulls, L.A. Lakers, to the old cliche, "Those who can't, teach." Throughout her #3 on the NCAA's rebounding charts charge of the Lady Rebels ' and at the end of the '80 season the recruiting for the western part of the and Cleveland Cavaliers despite undergraduate days she played on the Canadien National women were 7th according to the country, a job which utilizes his undergoing four knee operations. It team and traveled across 4 continents facing the best AIAW. He was a full-time assistant sociological expertise as well as his was the last of those operations players in the world. Stops included Moscow for the World for the Pitt women's team before basketball knowledge. which required the rehabilitation program that eventually broght him Student Games, Mexico City for the Pan Am Games, the coming to UNLV. Coach Pence received his B.A. in Coach Bolla was captain for the History at the Univ. of Arizona in to UNLV. Only 27, Starr will give the World Championships in Cali, Columbia, a tour to China, Panthers in 1975 when they made 1969 and completed his work on a N BA another shot when his knee is and several trips to Europe. She helped lead the Laurentian the field for the NIT. The previous Masters of .Arts in Sociology at ready to go. University team to the Canadien collegiate championship in season he helped Pitt make the UNLV this past spring.