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Show ; Girls9 soccer,- softto'all "r . ........, :-:.'.- .. - . b " - 1 - l vgaip. approval for ' '89-'90 school vear I , Bj TOM HARALDSEN Sports Editor Q . , ' f , A ' SALT LAKE CITY-Thc Legislative Legis-lative Council of the Utah High School Activities Association (UH-SAA), (UH-SAA), which consists of school board members from throughout the state, approved sanctioning of girls' high school softball and soccer programs pro-grams Wednesday aftanoon at the Little Amerjca HoteLi, :XV All that now awaits Official for-maUonof for-maUonof ; those sports 1 in. Davis : County schools next year is appro--ValbyUie Davis School Board, ac-' . UonwHctrrowld take place within - the next 30 to 60 days. District officials offi-cials are now finalizing costs and studying the interests and abilities of students m the district, with a recommendation forthcoming to the . .-'lI-l-: -- avoided many of the. pitfalls that their peers fell prey to. ' V. UHSAA executive director Glen Bcere told the council that he had ; - discussed a recent suit filed against six school districts with the Office;, of Civil Rights in Denver. Beeret said it was. his understanding that .sanction of girls' Softball and soccer "would likely eliminate the need for a Title IX investigation." .." "It is not the number of activities that Tide DC Uooks at," he ex?!; plained, "it's the number of opportunities. oppor-tunities. Right now we have 31,799 - boys participating - in extra-,, extra-,, curricular activities, while 20354 girls participate. That is roughly a 60-40 ratio statewide." ' The motion to give Softball sanc-tification sanc-tification passed without much difficulty. That was not truefsj-cer. truefsj-cer. a. Ut.:. ' v , sports now rests with each individual indivi-dual district Jim Hill, district athle-: tic . director for Davis - County , Schools, was pleased with the vote, Ihough ."pleasantly surprised. J; would be hopeful that the district will go alongwith both sports. To . my knowledge, we always have in other sports." Hill had told the' school board earlier this month that-. - total costs to initiate those sports would come to roughly $12,000 per, ' school, an estimate that will now be ' more well-defined. ' ." One of the two" sports, probably; girls soccer, will be held in the fall, while the other will be in the spring. .This will impact volleyball and! track, as well as girls' tennis, sports ! held in those "seasons. Should the ! board give its approval to the sports, I they would begin next year. -. - The realignmentand reclassifies. , ,TTTi i ' , |
