The top fundraiser for PLNU has resigned in protest of last month's sports cuts. Read more here.
“It troubles me deeply how this was originally handled,” said Daryl Nicholson, a longtime benefactor of PLNU. “We have always kept the student as the No. 1 priority. I don’t think the students’ needs were understood.”
The school is losing not only a top fund-raiser, but also a big-time contributor.
Nicholson Commons on campus is named after Nicholson, who donated $1 million to the $13 million facility. He said he knows of other donors whose donations might be affected by the Title IX decision. However, he said he does not want to hurt the university.
"There are more men participating now today than there were at the beginning of Title IX," said Bayh, who represented Indiana in the Senate between 1963-81. "I don't know how you can say it's discrimination."
Yo, Birch! Our country's population was about a hundred million less back then.
I gotta do all the thinkin' 'round here?
Bayh said help could come from the NCAA if another president comes through like the late Myles Brand...
Read the Women in Intercollegiate Sport annual report here.
The report points out areas where female representation has either increased or remained relatively stable. They also focus on large disparities in other areas.
Since we're looking into inequities, maybe it's time to impose Title IX-ish quotas everywhere.
Am I the only one who's concerned that 100% of college synchronized swimming coaches are female? When will Title IX work for the men who want to break through that glass ceiling?
Also, why are only 3.9% of the field hockey coaches male?
Outside athletics, there are other areas where men are grossly underrepresented.
Why isn't there an outcry over the lack of male pharmacy majors, nursing school students, and future veterinarians.
When will there be opportunities for undergrads wishing to major in men's studies? Think I'm the only one asking that question? Read more here.
A gathering of academicians drawn from a range of disciplines will meet on April 7, 2010, at Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, to examine the declining state of the male, stemming from cataclysmic changes in today’s culture, environment and global economy. The live teleconferenced colloquium will be chaired by Lionel Tiger, PhD, Rutgers University Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology. It will encompass a broad range of topics relevant to the study of boys and men in contemporary society ranging from their roles in the family and workforce, as well as their physical and emotional health, to the growing problem of misandry—the hatred of males, an unacknowledged but underlying socio-cultural, economic, political and legal phenomenon endangering the well-being of both genders.
I simply had the same kind of determination back from the time I was a boy of seven or eight. I just wanted to win all the time, I had no goal other than to score goals. That was all I ever had on my mind.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of a parent. Karle Gustav Jung II, a.k.a. Carl Jung
Texas A&M finished 6th. Had a pair of national champions. Julia Wilkinson won the 100 free in :47.61. Alia Atkinson took the 200 breast in 2:08.82, a new pool record. Steve Bultman and the Aggie women did a great job this year. Recap is here.
Texas was 11th. Kathleen Hersey had the top finish for the Longhorns with a 4th in the 200 fly (1:53.65). Recap is here.
Houston placed 17th. Anastasia Pozdniakova won 1m diving and set a new pool record with a score of 356.20. Pozdniakova was the NCAA Diver of the Year. Recap is here.
Southern Methodist was 27th. Audra Egenolf was 7th in 3m diving (305.50). Recap is here.
Incarnate Word men were 2nd. Their women were 11th. Chede Conrado won the 500 free in 4:29.30. Head coach Phillip Davis was named Coach of the Year. Recap is here.
Here's one from the "Why didn't I think of that?" file. Just a concept for now:
Something missing? Music? Love the bass in this oldie from Midnight Oil:
Mathlete Grigori Perelman has been picked by the Clay Mathematics Institute to receive their Millenium Prize. Read more here. They're not sure if he'll accept the award. There's a cash prize of $1 million. I don't care how many liberals there are up in Massachusetts, I'm booking a flight to Boston.
...and the winner is - Grigori Perelman! Accepting for Mr. Perelman...
Preview of men's D-I meet is on Longhorn site here.
LIVE VIDEO: The NCAA will offer a live video stream of every session of the meet except Saturday's finals session at NCAA.com. ESPN360.com will pick up the live video feed for Saturday's finals session.
Haven't posted a Swim Site of the Week in a while. Check out Princeton's men's and women's sites. Watch video tour of DeNunzio Poolhere.
If Title IX quotas are being skewed by football, why not let the women play? Read more here.
"Flag football has become real popular,'' Stranahan coach Bennett Wyche said. "We've been taking some girls away from the track programs.''
So, track coaches, we can count on your support, right?
Andrew May is hearing it from soccer parents in Port Angeles, Washington. Their season's on hold while they sort out a Title IX complaint. Read the comments below the original article here. A poll at another article shows most voters favor allowing Spencer May to play with the girls. Read it here.
Posted by Ken Spencer on Thu, Mar 18, 2010, 8:29 pm Pacific
There are so many ways that this could have been handled better by Mr. May. To go to the practice field and demand that his son play is ridiculous. That coach is following rules handed down to him. Furthermore to disrupt and then have practice time cancelled or postponed is harmful to all the other kids involved. All of whom had nothing to do with his issue. If Mr May wants to do something to benefit everyone he should be stepping up to find another player or two for the boys team. Or maybe even give of his time to coach and look to find teams they could play against. Did he think of that? If this is truly about letting the kids play why is he not doing anything for the other boys too. This a girls team, find a mature way around the issue!
We've been seeing a lot of that in recent years...using Title IX in ways it was never intended. A few parents used Title IX to ruin girls' soccer in New York City. One parent used Title IX to thrwart an attempt to unify the girls' seasons in Nevada. Mr. May's complaint is just another example of why Title IX reform is needed...
The Sun Devil Swimming Association is having their third annual golf tournament. If you'd like to play - and support ASU swimming - you'll need to sign up by April 7. Info is here. The amount of time and effort Simon Percy has put into saving that program is incredible!
Annie Chandler (S.A. Churchill, '08) set a new NCAA record last night in the 100 breast. The Arizona star went :58.06!! Read more here.
Remember that Title IX petition? Folks are still signing. You can sign it here. You can see who's already signed here.
Here are a few comments:
6588. Sarah Cardey
Loosing the softball field was enough hurt for Point Loma. Taking away the boy's Cross Country, Track, and Golf teams is only cutting the wound deeper. I don't believe we have weighed out all of our options and I feel for all the students it has affected.
6591. Pati Jones
Reinstate PLNU's men's cross-country & track
6620. Sarah Laine
DONT CRUSH OUR DREAMS! WE HAVE WORKED SO HARD!!!
6626. Kristina Schwartz
I'm all for gender equality, but as an athlete I can sympathize with the men not being able to compete.
Brainiac Aggie Ella Doerge has the highest GPA among swimmers in the women's NCAA D-I meet. Read more here. The freestyle standout didn't get that GPA - cubed root of 64 - by taking blowoff classes, either. She's a genetics major.
Here's one I'm pretty sure y'all have never heard. It's called Throw That Beat in the Garbage Can.
Here it comes again,
drivin' me nuts!
Can't control my feet,
or stop shakin' my butt!
Want data on NCAA student-athletes? The data archive is here.
Think Congress is doing nothing but wasting their time on a health care reform bill most of us don't want? Think again! There's some real "work" going on in Washington and here's a perfect example:
This site was originally supposed to be about Texas swimming (club, high school, college), Title IX reform, and a few other odds and ends.
I hadn't planned to post about the topic that's resulted in the greatest number of readers, comments, and news tips - that of swimmer abuse at the hands of a coach.
A few posts on Don King and his history of abuse can be read here, here, here, and here.
This sort of story needs to be told - I'm just not sure I'm the one to tell it. As y'all know, I really love our sport. It pains me to delve into ugly stories like King's.
If someone out there has the desire to tell these stories, it might be time for you to start a site.
On that note, here's the latest on the subject. A San Jose attorney is going after USA Swimming. B. Robert Allard represented one of the girls Andrew King was found guilty of abusing at SJA. He's alleging widespread abuse within USA Swimming. Read more here.
According to the complaint, gold medal winner Schmidt was continuously and repeatedly molested by a former swimming coach, who is not named but is described as a "legendary USA swimming coach."
When she tried to complain about the abuse in the 1980s, Schmidt said she was told she'd have to have another coach file the complaint for her, to "vouch" for her, which she was unable to do, the lawsuit says. Years later, Schmidt said she was contacted by a top official at USA Swimming about her former swim coach being considered for the International Swimming Hall of Fame. At that time, Schmidt reiterated her allegations of sexual abuse against the coach, according to the lawsuit. Even so he was elected to the Hall of Fame.
That's about it for me, folks. That's all I can stands...I can't stands no more!!
Check out Garrett Weber-Gale's new breath control workout here. Yes, pun was intended.
Now that the dust has settled in Canton, Ohio, you might want to check out the D-II results here.
Henderson State's Zach Interrante (Cleburne, '09) won the 100 fly (:48.08). Head coach Coak Matthews and assistantMatt Schneider have got to be proud of that one. Zach was last year's UIL 4A 100 fly runner-up. He dropped a full second this year - no small feat in the post-tech suit era!
Missouri Tiger head coach Brian Hoffer has resigned and the team will finish the season with assistant Chris Peters at the helm. Read more here.
Budget issues could force Georgia Southernto cut athletic programs. Wonder how Title IX will play into it? Read more here.
Georgia Southern $14,706,294 proposed cut: The institution would eliminate some sports programs and put its Title IX compliance, conference affiliation and NCAA classification at risk...
Don't worry about the men's swimming program being cut, though. The Eagle women have a team, but the men don't.
So, how does it feel to be discriminated against, boys?
Ummmm...not so good. Is your desire for revenge the real issue here?
FYI:
This generation hasn't lived in the pre-Title IX world. They're going off to college thinking they'll have equal opportunities in life. Young women find that to be the case, while young men are getting a rude wake-up call.
Girls on my teams have always had the same opportunities as the boys. Same pool, same equipment, same budget, same travel, same coaching...same everything! If you look around, this is not the exception, but the rule. Our sport is one of the most gender-equitable around.
Two wonderful nuggets:
Title IX is not to blame. America's obsession and priority for football, basketball, and baseball is the reason boys in other sports don't get the funding they want/need.
and
Instead of harping on Title IX, take off the gloves and go after the real culprit...men's football. They have scarfed away scholarships from men's 'minor' sports for decades. No rocket science needed to figure that one out.
Sounds like someone needs to enroll in Logic 101.
Anonymous, where do you think the money to pay for pseudo-sports like sand volleyball comes from? Do you think it's from all that equestrian revenue?
In case you're wondering, I didn't plant these comments. It might be useful to post highly illogical and vengeful comments to make Title IX activists look bad, but there's no need to go to all that trouble. I simply post a piece on the facts of the matter, and they come in with their tirades that help make the case for me.
The Title IX quota crowd is hoping to have it both ways. They demand proportionality based on undergrad population numbers, not on undergrad population interests. As undergrad numbers start to even out, they'll go berserk if women's sports are cut to maintain the quota system they themselves have set up.
The budget crunch group says it's just an insurmountable budget problem when men's sports are cut, but can't wait to line up the lawyers when money troubles mean a women's sport feels the budget ax.
Finally, the revenge folks say it's only fair that today's young males should feel the pain yesterday's young females felt. They don't want equality, they want "justice".
These groups seem to have no problem with universities fielding half a swim team, half a lacrosse team, half a tennis team, etc.
It's supposed to be all about equality, right?
What a bunch of hypocrites!
Today's young women aren't buying into the revenge thing. They understand what a joke the quota system is. They know what's really happening when men's swimming gets cut and administrators cite money problems.
They're doubting the garbage Title IX extremists have been spouting. They're standing up to the radicals that are intent on turning college swimming into a "ladies only" club.
Welcome to the wacky world of D-I athletics, where despite a national explosion of youth and high school lacrosse participation only 60 teams compete at the men’s level.
"It is really frustrating to see the tremendous growth at the high school level," Urick said. "We’re seeing kids from Minnesota, Texas, California and Colorado playing our sport at the highest level, yet the growth has been painstakingly slow at the college level."
The reason is Title IX, or gender-equity ammendment mandating that if a college wants to maintain its federal funding it must offer athletic scholarships based on the proportion of male and female students enrolled. It is basically impossible for a college that fields a Division I-A football team and its 85 scholarships to be in compliance.
p.s. That's lax All-American Jim Brown. He didn't just carry the football for Syracuse...
But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues. George Herbert Walker Bush
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only the truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. Bertrand Arthur William Russell
Aggie diver suspended! No, it's not what you think. Funny, actually. Ever see a diver hoisted up in the harness, only to have the rope tied to the rail? They let her down a few minutes later.
Speaking of Aggie diving, the timing of this next item is pretty danged suspect if you asked me. You did ask, didn't you?
Last week, The Battalion posted an update on former A&M diving coach Kevin Wright's lawsuit. Read it here.
Regardless (or "irregardless" if you want to irritate your English-teacher friends) of the case Wright may (or may not) have, it's the timing that bothers me most.
The Aggie women are coming off a great Big XII meet and are prepping for the NCAA's. They don't need this sort of distraction and it's surprising that this kind of thing would come from their own campus newspaper.
Kind of reminds me of the way they timed the campaign against Skip Kenney out in Stanford a few years back - just in time for NCAA's. Steve Bultman's done a fantastic job in College Station and this certainly can wait until the season's completed.
After he fed The Battalion just what he wanted to see printed, you know what Wright's lawyer followed up with, right?
Joe Crews, Wright’s attorney, said only that Wright would not be “litigating this case publicly.”
Back to the Big XII meet for a second. Ask one of the Longhorn gals how that return bus trip went. Sounded memorable!
High school coaches should check the All State lists Ron's posted on the TISCA site. Please get him corrections right away. The lists will become official on April 1. 4A, 5A, and Private School lists are here.
Also on the TISCA site is info on the Theron L. Pickle Memorial Scholarship. View it here. Get your applications to Toni Schramme by April 1.
Wondering about the latest on the Bay City pool renovation? You've just been on pins-n-needles, haven't you? Latest promise to Coach Terri (she was Junior's 6 & under coach a few years - make that a lot of years - back) is that they'll be under a roof by the time the season starts this fall. Start holding your breath..............now! Seriously, they need to follow through with those promises they made...five years ago!
Did you read about Matt Biondi's pool record?
If you asked "Matt who?", you're too danged young to be up this late, bambino!!
Now, where was I? Oh yeah, Biondi. Read the Austin American-Statesman article (via GWG) about the 100 free pool record here.
Toyota speeding out of control? Turn the danged key to "off"!!! I gotta do all the thinkin' 'round here???
'66 Chevy's had motor mount issues. Okay, it wasn't just an "issue" - the motor mounts broke easily, giving your V-8 free rein to jump up into the hood! Got recalled after all was said and done. Unfortunately, many people didn't bother to take them in and get the extra safety cables installed.
Seems when you put your foot into that four barrel carb, the whole engine would rotate (if motor mounts had finally failed) and linkage would then be stuck - wide open! Had an exciting little ride in my old Impala (327) back in '77. No, that's not what scarred me for life. Leon took a screamin' trip in his Bel Air (283) a few years back. You'll have to ask him if he has nightmares...
Ready for a surprise? Don't look here, then. You didn't have to be NostraButton to predict the gals at Delaware State would sue when equestrian was dropped...
Eric McErlain over at Saving Sports looked into the Point Loma situation and has a great post here. Softball players led a protest. The field they use is being dismantled in a "back-to-nature" move by the city.
Some carried signs that said “Title IX sucks” and “Save our sports.” Others said federal gender equity regulations “backfired” on them and called it “reverse discrimination” against male sports."
So, the Point Loma Nazarene University softball team - an NAIA powerhouse - is being dropped because of the environmental-wacko-Title IX-radical crowd. Nice going, folks...
Congrats to 500 free 3A state champ Grant Koudelka of Gilmer. Okay, he was second at the 4A meet. Grant swims for Clark Wilson at Champion. Read more here.
Tis easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows along like a song, but the person worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Junior had some excellent short course swims last year. He went :21.30/:46.64 at the high school state meet and 1:45.13 at sectionals. Those were swum in the BlueSeventy.
Fast-forward through a year of tough training, but take away the tech suit. :46.05/1:39.81 at this year's state meet. Both swims are below.
Earlier this year, Leon took his second trip to Costa Rica and it was fantastic. Check out Costa Rica Sailfish Adventure at The Waterman's Journalhere. His buddy put together highlights of the trip. Very well done!
