The Athlete, May/June 1994 Kentucky High School Athletic Association
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Eastern Kentucky University Encompass The Athlete Kentucky High School Athletic Association 5-1-1994 The Athlete, May/June 1994 Kentucky High School Athletic Association Follow this and additional works at: http://encompass.eku.edu/athlete Recommended Citation Kentucky High School Athletic Association, "The Athlete, May/June 1994" (1994). The Athlete. Book 391. http://encompass.eku.edu/athlete/391 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Kentucky High School Athletic Association at Encompass. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Athlete by an authorized administrator of Encompass. For more information, please contact [email protected]. lATHLET Official Publication OfThe Kentucky High School Athletic Association May/June 1994 Board Selects Lexington As Site ofBoys' Sweet 16 From 1996 thru 1999 KHSAA Staff Surveying Schools For New Sports Offerings The Games End But Lessons Last Forever Regional Managers/Sites For All Spring Sports Open Dates UVRRY CONUEY, ANALYST, TO HEAD STATEIVIDE CAMPAIGN Heading the KHSAA Court of Support country. We are so very pleased to have him Campaign is Larry Conley, an Ashland, Ky., head the Court of Support Campaign." native and current ESt>N basketball analyst. Conley also hails from a prominent Conley was an all-state basketball player at Kentucky sports family. His father George was Ashland High School and led the Tomcats to a high school coach and an outstanding the 1961 KHSAA Sweet Sixteen basketball official at the high school and Championship. He later starred at the college level. Conley's sister coached University of Kentucky and was a member of basketball at Ashland Paul Blazer High the famed Rupp's Runts squad which finished School. as NCAA Runners-up in 1966. "Kentucky High School athletics did a lot He still maintains close ties to his eastern for me and my family, and I feel strongly about Kentucky roots, serving on the board of the heading this most worthwhile project," Conley Lany Conley Citizens National Bank in Paintsville. said. "I urge you to purchase a brick, or bricks, Billy Wise, Commissioner of the KHSAA, to honor the deserving recipient of your choice. remembers Larry as "...one of the grittiest It will mean so much to you, your friends, and players I ever saw. He truly was a great player most of all to the young people of Kentucky and now is one of the finest sportscasters in the who will benefit." mElViORlAL BRICKS ARE AVAILABLE TO HONOR PERSONS, TEAMS, OTHERS The Kentucky High School Athletic coach, athlete, team, school, community, beautiful new structure, as well as provide seec Association Court of Support Campaign is a business or topic of your choice. money to develop a first class museum of higl state-wide effort, offering to the people of school athletics in Kentucky in space designee Kentucky an opportunity to forever Bricks range in size and cost, from two for this purpose in the new building. memorialize individuals or groups in this lines of information on a 4 x 8 brick for $100, uniquely designed likeness of Kentucky. to three lines on a 6 x 8 brick for $300, to four Your participation in this endeavor wil lines on an 8 X 8 brick for $500. You also will provide a lasting memorial on one of the Cour The Court of Support, made up of 19,000 receive a handsome certificate for display, of Support bricks. And it will providi bricks, is located in front of the KHSAA's new which includes a likeness of your brick with significant financial support to the schools ant building in Lexington, at the juncture of I-7S your information on it. young people of Kentucky as the KHSA^ and US 60. When you purchase a brick it will enters its 77* year of service. Please send youi be placed in the section of the state you choose Funds raised through the Court of Support order to: KHSAA Court of Support Campaign and can recognize and memorialize a favorite Campaign will be used to retire the debt on the 2280 Executive Drive, Lexington, Ky. 40505. ^^^^^^a^e Order Form COURT OF SUPPORT CAMPAIGN KHSAA, 2280 Executive Drive, - SAMPLES - Lexington, KY 40505 Tel. 606/299-5472 COMPLIMENTS OF Brick Size SOUTHERN H.S. 4x8 - 2 lines $100.00 GEORGE SWITZER PEAKS MILL HS 6x8 - 3 lines BK- 1924-1926 $300,000 8x8 - 4 lines $500.00 CLEMEHE HASKINS '83 *Limit (3f 14 characters per line, including spaces and punctuation* ALLSTATE BK ALL BK Date Region of State AMERICAN WKU 1983-87 Name (print) Signature Make payment by Street Address check, money order Citv State Zip or charge card Card# l I Exn.Date I I I I I ^ lATHLETE 3 Board Picks Lexington ^%^^ For Boys' Tournament Itents Hr ^JL From Staff Report LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Boys" Sweet Sixtee? Tournament will finish out the 20th Century in Lexington's larch Minutes Arena, the Kentucky High School Athletic Association's Board of Board asks staff to survey Control decided at its annual spring meeting held April 21-22 at schools on new sports the KHSAA headquarters. The tournament, which is already offerings; Jim Sexton under contract to be held next March in Lexington, will remain at appeals Board election. Rupp Arena from 1996 through 1999. Representatives of both cities, including officials of each convention and visitor's bureau and both Rupp Arena and Award Winners the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center, were on hand to present Results of this year's Sweet their proposals to the 12-member governing body of high school athletics. Sixteen Academic Awards. The tournament had been rotating between Lexington and Louisville since 1988, but due to a 33 percent decline in attendance at Freedom Hall, the Board, in a vote of 10-2, decided to award the tournament to Lexington. Voting against the motion were Louisville principals Kathy Hopper of Waggener and James Spring Sports Sites Sexton of Eastern. Baseball, Softball, Tennis and The KHSAA finished nearly $260,000 short of its budget Track announce sites and for ticket sales at the recently completed state touranment in managers for '94 postseason Louisville The Association had budgeted $960,000 for the '94 play. tournament, but even the efforts of Louisville mayor Jerry Abramson and his Greater Louisville Sports Association failed to produce ticket sales. Sport Notes The tournament drew just 79,616 in paid attendance, Camps, seminars and sport well under the disastrous 86,962 in 1992, which was also in reports from around the Blue- Louisville. In comparison, Lexington saw a paid attendance of grass State. 115,720 in 1993 and 120,347 in 1991. The tournament was last held on a consecutive-year basis from 1981-87 at Rupp Arena. And the Boys' Sweet Sixteen saw its greatest success in Rupp Arena in 1 987, when a total attendance of 1 40,266 came through On The Cover the turnstiles. Commissioner Search Board President Ray Story also announced at the Bryan Station's Antonio Smith meeting that he had received 12 applications for the finished third in the long jump during commissioner's job with one person withdrawing his applica- the 1 993 State Track & Field Meet. This tion, leaving 11. The Board wflll announce sometime around the year's state championships will once first of May the finalists it plans on interviewing next month Story again be a two-day affair, May 27-28, at said the Board hopes to announce the new commissioner by UK's Shively Track. June 1, 1994. Other Highlights The Board also approved Franklin-Simpson's request (please see, Strategic, Page 8) MAY/JUNE 1994 VOLUME LV, NO. 5 SUBSCRIPTION RATE$10 Published six limes annually, on a bimonthly basis by the Kentucky High School Athletic Association, Office of Publication, 2280 Executive Dr., Publisher: Billy V. Wise Lexington, KY 40505. Third-class postage paid at Richmond, KY. Accep- Editor: Anne Wesley Mays Editor: Brooi(s Downing tance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1 103. Assistant: Larry Boucher Assistant: Brlgid DeVrles Act of Oct 3, 1917, authorized May 3, 1926. Publication No. 293080. Assistant: Louis Stout Assistant: Julian Taclcett Please send notice of undelivered copies on form 3579 to KHSAA, 2280 Executive Drive, Lexington, KY 40505. lATHLETE (606) 299-KHSA MAYIJUNB 1994 4 I ATHLETE May 1994 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 6 7 SAT Test Date Send FB Schedules to KHSAA 8 10 11 12 13 14 Send BK Schedules to Assigning Secretaries 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Regional TR Meets Regional TN Tournaments District SB Tournaments District BA Tournaments 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 State TR Meet, TBA Regional SB Tournaments Regional BA Tournaments 30 Memorial Day (Observed) MAYIJUNB 199 I ATHLETE 5 June 1994 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 SAT Test Date / A \ 4^ \/® State SB Tournament, Owensboro 1 \ State TN Tournament, Lexington | 1 State BA Round One | 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ACT Test Date State BA Tournament Finals, TBA \ \ KASSP Summer Workshop, Lexington | Mail Annual Participation List to KHSAA OHice | Send preliminary school info for KHSAA Handbook | 1 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Dawahares/ KHSCCA KY- KHSAA Hall of Tennessee FB Fame Golf Game, Knoxville Scramble 19 20 21 ?? 23 24 25 NFIOA/NFICA, Kansas City | 26 27 28 29 30 NFIOA/NFICA. Kansas City \ MAYIjUNE. 1994 6 I ATHLETE Staff To Survey Schools On New Sports MINUTES high school interscholastic athletics. held if a survey of the membership Following comments by the Board yields a twenty percent (20%) favorable MARCH 17, 1994 members, staff, Faulkner and Reeves, response of the total number of mem- The Board of Control of the Frank Cardwell made a motion that the ber schools.