New Faces to a a For SUU Playing Time : rT By Peter Behle THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE CEDARCITY — Withjust one starter and six players returning ‘trom last season, Southern Utah anen's basketball Coach Bill Evans ‘will be hard-pressed to even equal das year’s 17-11 record. e have so many new guys ‘thatit’s going to be a wide-open battle for playing time,” Evans ‘said. “We've gotto get this group dogether quickly, because our first seven to 10 gamesarebetter Suited for a veteran club.” That difficult part of the SUU schedule includes home games ‘against Idaho, Idaho State and Pepperdine, along with road con‘tests at Arizona State, Boise State and Montana State. The T-Birds open the season Friday against (Cal State-Stanislaus. SUU'’son-court leader will no ‘doubt be senior point guard Reg»gie Ingram, whoplayed shooting guard the last two seasons. Last year, Ingram was named the American West Conference tournament MVP,as well as receiving All-AWCfirst-team honors. Inthe AWCtourney, Ingram hit the game-winningjumperwith six secondsleft to boost SUU past Cal State-Northridge. “Tt will be an adjustment moving back to the point [where he started 20 gamesas a freshman], but his size, skills and quickness _will enable him to do that,” Evans said. “Reggie will be critical to SUU MEN __ Opponent Th CS-STANISLAUS 7: 30p.m. ‘at N. lowa 12:35 p.m at ArizonaState? p.m. atGonzaga 8 pm. IDAHO 7:30 p.m. PEPPERDINE —_7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Tour or Team each race’s fee is 5 Qualifying reducesthefield from training camps. as manyas 80 contestants to 32 depthin slalom and giant slalom costs $350 to join the tour and “It’s ironic that I earned so much more as an amateur. Cup, the highest level. This weekend, World Cup men’s skiers come to Park City Ski Area for America’s Opening Racers criss-cross the world in a chess game played by the Ski Team to build national and team __7:30 p.m. atPortland 8 p.m ORALROBER 9 COLO.CS. N. points — the more points a country has, the more race slots availableto it. 10.1 rebounds a year ago. “I love his game because he thinks he can get every single rebound,” Evanssaid. The forward slots may remain a question mark until the opening tip-off Friday. Returning veterans Vic Saunders and Aaron Morrison will compete for playing time with JC transfers Russ Caton, Brad Bodily and Jon Gaines. After leaving the team at the endof last year, Morrison recently rejoined the T-Birds as a walkon. As a juniorlast year, Morrison averaged 5.8 points and 2.9 rebounds, while playing 16.3 minutes a game. Saunders shot 75.6 percent from thefield last year, including a 5-for-5 performance in the AWCtourneytitle game. Caton averaged 15 points and six rebounds at Colorado North- with the lifestyle mostly, he just wanted to race in the United States. But the ProTour is not easy. It Weiche says. The most he ever 7:30 p.m. IDAHO STATE GtN.M, State 28 W.OREGON 2 at C§-Sacra. The constanttravel is demanding. Often, racers will arrive at a hotel in Europe and sleep a few hours beforeskiing early the next day. But the Pro Tourlifestyle is even tougher; skiers have to make and pay forall their own travel arrangements, and often drive Pl 2pm. 4_atCal Poly-SLO2p.m. Mar.1-2_at AWC TourneyTBA All Times MST across the country for the next weekend's competition. After the season, each Ski Team athlete is assigned a workout program. At dryland camps, the racers train together and undergo conditioning tests and drills — emphasizing jumping and sprinting. In November, coaches and athletes go to Europe for intense, regimented training every day: stretching, breakfast, skiing, lunch, moreskiing, dryland training, dinner, video critiques, a few hoursoffree time, then bed Last summer,four racers — including Utahns Jeremy Nobis (Shannon’s brother) and Erik Schlopy — left the Ski Team for the Pro Tour. Nobis was unhappy eastern JC last year, while Bodily tallied 13 points and eight boards at Snow. Gaines averaged 15.3 points from the shooting-guard spot for Otero JC in Colorado. After fighting through the nonconference schedule, SUU will then defend its AWCtitle. Last year, the T-Birds romped through the six-gameregular season undefeated, before claiming the tourneytitle. “Every team in the leagueis improved and they're going to be gunning for us,” Evans said. “I don’t expectit to be anything like last year,” Veterans Lead T-Birds’ Women’s Hoop Squad Betee THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE CEDAR CITY — After compiling a 17-9 recordlast year, Southern Utah women’s Coach Larry Shurtliff isn’t looking for a lot of changesfrom his '95-96 Thunderbirds when they open the year Friday agianst BYU in the Portland Invitational. Leading the Birds again this season will be the duo of senior Cherri Frandsen and junior Myndee Larsen. Frandsen, a 5-foot-11 forward IF YOU OR YOUR FAMILY ENJOY EATING SNACK FOOD Parisien re The team could have used her, because it lacks events. But she did not like the atmos phere. “They thought I was there r es, rather than ure athletic reasons,’ she says. ‘hey thought I wastrying totake potential earnings on the World stresses on team members. “You have to travel around with a groupof people that you may not Cup circuit. Whydoes the Ski Team attract more money and sponsors than the Pro Tour? against the team. So I left Shannon Nobis acknowledges get along with all the time. Nobis says independenceis not “The World Cup program of enough incentive to leave the Ski racing goes back 50 years,” says Team, as her brother did. She Ski Team operations director Tom Kelly. ‘Skiers who compete on that circuit generally are tracking to and from the Olym- pies. It has a visibility at the highest levels of sport Two other reasons: Historically, tour racers have come from Europe, and lack an American media following. Andrightly or wrongly, they are perceived as not measuring up to the national team level Some racers have accused the Ski Team of havingan unfair hold on the ski industry The Ski Teamdoes offer builtin advantages to sponsors, says Jeff Askwig, a sales manager for TOKO, a Norwegian ski wax manufacturer with U.S. headquarters in Salt Lake City. Sponsors pay into a pool, which covers several athletes. And fans recognize the Ski ses Winter Sale!) bee Begins Today fromthe team becauseof sub-par performance Now, shetravels nine months a year with teammates and coaches, sticking to the team formula — in- cluding a 10 p.m. bedtime. “If 1 keep my focus on skiing fast, everything will come,” she says Parisien has spent $2,500 for starting gates, allowing her to practice for the tour. And Weiche is hoping to make enough money this season to afford flying to someraces — in two years, he has put 60,000 miles onhis truck. for becoming rich, like Ski ‘eam amateurs TommyMoe and Picabo Street? “I like to dream about it,” Weiche says. “The opportunityis there, even though by U.S. Ski Team standards, I’m over the hill at 28. But I'm in my primefor ski racing right now." INJURED? DeegPsp NECK Over 50 years I in business I Foreign & Domestic, ! Young & Old paid her own way to compete for one year, after being dropped : "A 231 slo [FS 1-800-924-9383 CALL TOLL FREE IN UTAH Dog Bite Cases WRONGFUL DEATH 24 HOUR MESSAGE 942-7252 CAN SEE YOU TODAYIl! LEW HANSEN ATTORNEY 963-2222 SAY ‘MERRY CHRISTMAS’ mYNALNoESace)Ee TO YOUR NEWSPAPER No Cover Charge CARRIER WITH A GIFT SUU opens the home season Dee. 11 against OregonState. will be sophomore Mandi Sha- Sports, Theatre. 12 ft. Jumbo-Tron Private Club for Members WORLDS OF PETS 675 E. 2100 South 467-6478 Last summer, paying to attend two Ski Team some sponsors away and work Since the T-Birds play just six American West Conference games, the majority of the schedule is filled with non-conference encounters. Shurtliff upgraded the schedule with games against such schools as Utah, Oregon, Oregon State, Arizona, New Mexico and OklahomaState. SUU from Salt Lake Community College. Adding depth to the backcourt points and 6.9 reboundslast year, while shooting 53.5 percent. Larsen, a,6-5 center from Twin Falls, Idaho, posted similar numbers. She shot 57.7 percent from the field, while scoring 12.6 Do you feel like giving someoneTheBird ken arm, and freshman Jaycee Webster of American Fork. JC transfer Wendy Welch and walkon Hadley Black should also play. miliar with the racer. thought her decision to turn pro. Even Parisien, who ranked second on the tour last year, made only $25,000 — abouthalf of her BURETORS|i despite missing time with a bro- nior from Sandy, transferred to from Enterprise, averaged 16.7 won in a pro tour season is $15,000; he made about $30,000 a year with the Ski Team = oo oe oe oy heen, who started twice last year points a game and taking down 8.6 boards. Also on the frontline will be 511 Linsey Mortensen. Comingoff the bench will be Toni Torres, 6-6 Monica Doman, Kris King and freshman Jessica Sparrow. The starting guards will be returning starter Tami Newton and transfer Krista Wardle. Newton, a 5-9 senior from Everson, Wash., averaged 8.0 points last year. Wardle, a 5-4 ju- By Peter Behle SUU WOMEN Teamlogo, evenif they're not fa Skiers Face Choice: @ Continued from D-1 42_otBoise State 7:30 p.m at MontanaSf. 7:30 p.m. whateverwedothis season.” Senior Daryl Christopher should start at shooting guard Christopher finished ninth nationally in three-point shooting last year, hitting 47.3 percent. Additional depth will be provided by junior-college transfer Marcus Covington and Jim Crosbie, who can also play small forward. In the middle, Evans welcomes the ruggedstyle of 6-foot-8, 222pound Salt Lake Community College transfer Don Faux. At SLCC, Faux averaged 13.3 points and D5 <S © The Salt Lake Tribune SPORTS Wednesday, November22, p43-3 Beeied LIKE BEEF JERKY, FRUIT BARS OR BEEF STICKS, WE WOULDLIKE TO INCLUDE YOUR OPINIONS IN A MARKET RESEARCH STUDY. PLEASE CALL 363-8726, Ask FORHEIDI tt 1737 N. Beck-(300 W) :SLC >OAIER YOU WILL BE ASKED QUESTIONS AND IF YOU QUALIFY, YOU WILL BE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN A FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSION. 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