The NCAA N ews Official Publkation ot the National Coltegtate Athletic Association December 23,1987, Volume 24 Number 45 lodays lop 31x award winners are announced Three football all-Americas, two football; Gordon C. Lockbaum, who will receive Silver Anniversary Following are biographical also are championships records. six-time NCAA individual cham- Holy Cross College, football; Mary awards to form the Association’s sketches of the Today’s Top Six She is an eight-time all-America pions and last season’splayer of the T Meagher, University of California, College Athletics Top XII. The recipients: in the shot put and discus and a lo- year in men’s basketball have been Berkeley, swimming, and David M. Silver Anniversarv award winners Regina K. Cavanaugh time Southwest Athletic Conference named recipients of the Associa- Robinson, U.S. Naval Academy, were announced in the December A six-time NCAA shot put cham- champion in those two events. She tion’s Today’s Top Six awards. basketball. 16,1987, issue of The NCAA News. pion indoors and outdoors, Cava- has competed in numerous meets The 1988honorees are Regina K. These six student-athletes have The awards will be presented at naugh holds the indoorchampion- on the international level including Cavanaugh, Rice University, track excelled in academics and athletics the 23rd annual honors luncheon, ships record at a distance of 57-l 1% the 1985 World University Games. and field; Charles D. Cecil, Univer- and have been active in community to be held January ‘11, 1987, in and the outdoor record of 574%. Cavanaugh established a 3.500 sity of Arizona, football, Keith Jack- service during their college years. conjunction with the NCAA Con- Her three consecutive champion- grade-point average while earning a son, University of Oklahoma, They join six former student-athletes vention. ships both indoors and outdoors See To&y’s, page 2 Convention faces varied proposals c:oncerning eligibility (Editor’s Note: i’?zlhiris the sixth in sion I five-year rule, to the 20-year bility rules in “unique or unusual” and III rule (10 semesters or 15 NCAA from certification of high age** circumstances. The Council consid-, quarters of enrollment) for all other school all-star games, as well as While there is no blockbuster ered similar legislation earlier this Division I sports. eliminate the eligibility provisions NCA; Convention. lX*articlepres- legislation in the category this time year and declined to pursue it. , l Legislation submitted by the relating to such games. ents the 11propmab included in the around, some of the proposals l A proposal from six Division I California Collegiate Athletic As- Five of the 11 proposals in the el@bility grouping.) would bring about pronounced institutions would create different sociation and one other Division II grouping deal with single divisions changes: eligibility-tenure limits among stu- member would apply in Division II and will be voted upon Tuesday, Proposals for the 1988 Conven- l An amendment submitted by dent-athletes in that division. It for the first time the Division I 20- January 12, in the various division tion regarding intercollegiate ath- 109 members of the Eastern College would retain the current fivecalen- year age rule. business sessions. The others are letics eligibility represent a mix of Athletic Conference would author- dar-year limitation for Division I @An NCAA Council proposal, either constitutional or involve more concerns ranging from various waiv- ize the NCAA Council to waive any football and basketball players but recommended by the Special Events than one division; action on those ers, to a new approach to the Divi- of the Association’s Bylaw 5-l eligi- would adopt the current Divisions II Committee, would remove the See Convention, page 2 Drake takes Full trial III post on in Stanford Commission case pending George Drake, president of Grin- The California judge who has nell College, has been elected to issued a preliminary injunction lim- serve as chair of the Division III iting the NCAA’s drug-testing pro- subcommittee of the NCAA Presi- gram at Stanford University has dents Commission for 1988. granted the Association a full trial He will succeedJames J. Whalen, in his court. The trial likely will be president of Ithaca College, in that set for February. office at the conclusion of the 1988 Santa Clara County Judge Con- NCAA Convention in January and rad L. Rushing ruled last month will serve through the 1989 NCAA that the NCAA could test Stanford Convention, when his term on the student-athletes in men’s basketball Commission ends. and football for specified substances Drake was elected by the Division George Drake only, and he declined to allow testing III members of the Commission in a in 26 other sports at the school. mail ballot. Balloting to determine lege from 1964 to 1979, also serving Two Stanford student-athletes new chairs of the Divisions I and II as dean of the college from 1969 to had sought the injunction, claiming Commission subcommittees is con- 1973. He began his career as a that their rights of privacy were tinuing because no candidate in history instructor at Grinnell. violated by drug-testing procedures. those divisions received a majority Drake, a native of Missouri, NCAA counsel John J. Kitchin on the first ballot. earned a bachelor’s degreein history of Kansas City, Missouri, said the Drake will join John B. Slaughter, at Grinnell. He studied at the Uni- full trial was sought because the chancellor of the University of Mary- versity of Paris on a Fulbright Schol- Association hopes to show the need land, College Park, as a Commission arship and then received a bachelor’s for testing in all sports at Stanford. officer. Slaughter, who has chaired degree and a master’s in modem Kitchin also said the NCAA the Commission for the past two history as a Rhodes Scholar at probably would appeal Judge Rush- years, was reelected to that position Oxford University. ing’s injunction to the California earlier by members of the Commis- He then earned a bachelor’s, a Court of Appeals on the basis that sion. master’s and a Ph.D. in church Judge Rushing’s opinion was er- The champs A charter member of the Presi- history at the University of Chicago. roneous in his statement that the dents Commission, Drake has been Among numerous involvements NCAA cannot test in other cham- Grinnell’s president sine 1979.Prior in higher education organizations, pionships sports. to accepting that position, he was a he is a past president of the Associ- The full trial probably will include history professor at Colorado Col- ation of Iowa College Presidents. See Full trtil, page 2 2 THE NCAA NEWWDecembr 23,19117 Todays Continued from page 1 Tucson Unified School District ished this season ranked second in in multiple events each year of her He holds or shares 33 school human physiology degree. She was guest-speaker program. receiving, third in scoring and third collegiate career. She won the Brod- records and holds NCAA marks in the student director for Volunteers Keith Jackson among all-purpose runners in I-AA. crick Award in 1985and the Pacitic- blocked shots for a game, season for Youth and honorary meet direc- Jackson was a four-year starter He has maintained a 3.166 grade- 10 Conference medal in 1987. She and career. He scored 2,669 points tor for the Special Olympics. She at tight end for Oklahoma. He has point averagewhile working toward was named Cal’s Athlete of the during his career,10th on the NCAA has been honored by her university earned all-America and allconfer- a degree in economics. Decade. career scoring list. He was the start- and the mayor and city council of ence honors. He is a team captain. Lockbaum is a 1987 National She earned a 3.100 grade-point ing center on the U.S. worldcham- Houston. He has a 3.130 grade-point aver- Football Foundation and College average while working toward a pionship team that defeated the challes b. Cecil age and will complete his commun- Football Hall of Fame scholar-ath- degree in social science. She was Soviet Union, and he won a silver Cecil was a nonscholarship athlete ications degree requirements in lete. He is active in the Big Brother honorary chairperson of the Amer- medal at the Pan American Games who became a three-year starter at December. program and is a Eucharistic minis- ican Heart Association and the this past summer. Arizona. He has earned first-team Jackson has done public service ter. American Lung Association in Ken- Robinson earned a 2.660 grade- all-America honors, fust-team all- announcements concerning drug tucky and the Leukemia Society of point averagewhile earning a degree conference honors and was the most abusefor the NCAA, the Oklahoma Mary T. Meagher Northern California. She made a in mathematics. He was master of valuable player on defense in the Coaches Association and the Fed- A six-time NCAA champion in video about substance abuse for the ceremonies for the brigade of mid- 1986Aloha Bowl. He was one of the eral Drug Enforcement Agency. He the lOO-yardand 200-yard butterfly, state of California and an antidrug shipmen and was a regimental sup- team’s captains this year. is a member of the Fellowship of Meagher shares the record for re- television messagefor the NCAA. ply officer and an administrative He has carried a 3.290 grade- Christian Athletes and the Boys peat championships with Megan officer. He was active in the Fellow- point averagewhile earning a degree Club.