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The Salt Lake Tribune SPORTS that wantto dropit for whatever reason they comeup with,” he said. “There’s no reason to wrestling.It’s far too valuable for Sports Affected By Title IX whatit costs.” In expressing his frustration, ou wrote an article for an Innet wrestling website that blasts the world, ranging from a “feministliberal” at the Office of Civil Rights to the BYU football @ Continued from C-1 The University of Utah offers 11 sports for womenandeight for men. team forstaying at a hotel the night before home games. Epitomizing the wrestler’s never-say-die spirit, Schultz also Twenty-five years ago, when Utah colleges launched full varsity schedules, women’s sports were patched together on inade- quate budgets. In the currentclimate, womenenjoy the same benefits as men. As basketball player at Boise State from 1974-77, Elaine Elliott remembers piling into a van for day-long drives to games. As the University of Utah women’s coach,Elliott and herteam fly to away gamesandstay in nice ho- tels. “Gender equity is whatitis: a wonderful opportunity for wom- rips Mountain West Conference presidents whovoted to expand the old Western Athletic Conference to 16 teams. Although hedid not advocate it, Schultzthinks BYU could have dropped baseball — whicheats up more moneythan wrestling. The ball program, which has fallen dramatically in the past 10 years, appears safe. This month, BYU brokegroundfor a $7 million softball-baseball complex on campus. The numberofcolleges that of- fer wrestling has declined sharply in 20 years. The Mountain West does not sponsor wrestling or en,” said Elliott, who had no access to an athletic scholarship un- til her senioryear at Boise State. “That’s the only thing thatit is. men’s gymnastics. It’s not a reasonfor anything bad to happen.” Eventhough the wrestling foundation has raised $1 million, its fate appears sealed. Whena sport is eliminated, blamescatters in all directions. Invariably, mostfingers pointat Title IX. “Wecan probably identify with whatthey’re going through better than almost anyone, because we've been there and westill are there to someextent,” said Elaine Michaelis, BYU’sdirector of women’s athletics and women’s volleyball coach. Attempting to comply with federal regulations, NCAA schools havecut non-revenue men’s sports. Mountain West member San Diego State dropped volleyball last month. Tobalance the numberof scholarships, BYU has added women’s softball andsoccerin thelast five years and beefed up the track program. Utah has done the same with soccer and track. Depending onfuture budgets, otherthan football and basketball, men’s sports are in danger. Utah has avoided slashing men’s sports, but Athletic Director Chris Hill ope“It may catch up to us oerNon-revenue men’s sports are the place you wouldcutif you had tocut,” he said. “Gender equity is probably factorin lotofplaces. To denythat there’s numbers involved, you’ve got your head in the sand. Butto think that’s the only reason is not the right way to go, for us. “Tt is complicated.” OPPOSING VIEWS:Title IX has turned friends into foes and coach against coach. Fehlberg, the athletic director when BYU cut the two programs,said Title IX is the root of wrestling’s demise. Wrestling Coach Mark Schultz blames BYU's administration. “Title IX is being used as a “The real culpritiis finances,” said BYU Athletic Director Val Hale. “BYU athletics, contrary to what manypeople think,is not rolling in the money.” In fact, the 16-team WAC and a drastic decline in basketball attendance has put BYU in deficit. Butthe athletic departmentis close to Title IX compliance. TheCivil Rights Office opened acase with BYU for noncompliance in 1993. Noncompliant schools could lose PELL Grantand otherfederal money. By adding two women’s sports and dropping two men’s sports, BYU expects the Civil Rights Office to close the case nextyear. “We'll be right where we need to belong after one more year,” said Michaelis, who attended an annual NCAA-sponsored Title IX seminar two weeks ago in Indianapolis. “We're going to manage the squadsizes a little bit and not have the men carry a huge number whenthey don’t need to'and maybe bumpup the women’s numbers bit.” With football accounting for 85, schools struggle to divide scholarships evenly or according to the ratio of enrollment. Unlike with other sports, no women’s team matchesthe sheer numbers ofa DivisionI football squad. Butusing “participation opportunities” as a gauge, the number ofwomen’s sports can approach whatis offered to men. Track,for example, helps make up differences for women. Onefemale athlete who runs cross country,in door and outdoortrack counts as three participation opportunities. Women’s basketball offers 15 scholarships, two more than men. “The scholarship dollars are still something we're trying to work out,” Michaelis said. Arizona Cruises to Its Second NCAA © the sport does not need 85 scholarne!noting NFL rosters do not ceed 50. College football coaches are Golf Championshipin the Past 5 Years quickto say injuries and players who redshirt quickly eat up the difference. Since Title IX began, football has gradually cut from unlimited scholarships to its ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SUNRIVER, Ore. — The University of Arizona wonits second NCAA women’s golf title in five years Saturday, completing one of the most dominating perfor- ee allotment. general, administratorsee fa to further cut programs that in somecases, subsidize nonrevenuesports. “It’s hard to justify cutting mances in tournamenthistory. back, basically clipping the goose The Wildcats’ four-roundtotal of23-over-par 1,175 gave them a 21stroke victory, the third largest in the tournament's 19-year history. Arizona also tookthe individual title, with Jenna Daniels shooting thatlaid the golden egg,” Hale said. “If anything, we've got to keep football and men’’S besteall strong. Ifwe do an those sports, the whole nee departmentis going to be in trouble.” Both Hill and Hale support a college football playoff, which a5-over 77 in stormyconditions for - a lunder 287 total. Teammate Julia Kraschinski of New Zealand shot an 80 to finish second at 290, wouldhelp schools with funding and Wake Forest’s Marta Prieto and Title IX compliance.In the was third at292. current system,the six conferBrigham Young sophomore ences that make up the Bowl Carrie Summerhays, competing ChampionshipSeries generate individually as only the second huge dollars for their schools. The Cougar to play in the tournament Mountain West and WAC, among since 1985, tied for 50th place in the others, pick up the scraps. 126-playerfield. She shot 76-75-76-78 “A football playoffwould give for a total of305. BYU’s mostrecent you some hope to be able to generentrant, Lisa Christie, tied for 38th ate more dollars andto putit into those other sports you need to add to get your genderequity up,” Hill in 1993. said. “Tfyour pie doesn’t get any bigger, the only thing you can dois make somecuts.” Othercost-containmentalter- NCAA tournamentis all you can “To have a clean sweep of the dream for,” said Arizona Coach Todd McCorkle, whose team had a 22-over 310 total Saturday. Also scoring for Arizona were natives includecutting coaching staffs, reducing the number of scholarships and realigning non- Cristina Baena (74) and Jill Gomric revenuesports accordingto region instead ofconferences. Nonrevenuesports also may have to start fund-raising. Fehlberg acknowledges his group should have formed before BYU wrestling reached crisis stage. The warnings were obvious, as Utah schools and others aroundthe country dropped the sport. Other proposals include counting|dance and cheerleading as Division I sports. In Utah hi schools,drill team is considered a (79). “There are a lot of mixed emotions right now,” said Daniels, a senior.“I'll neverbe able to play as a Wildcatagain, but what a way to finish. What a wayto go out.” Stanford had the lowest team score of the day, shooting a 300 to finish second at 1,196. Texas finished third at 1,198, and Southern Cal was fourth, giving Pacific-10 schools three ofthe top four places. Tennessee rounded off the top five on a day that saw considerable movementin team placings due to “If you could add cheerleading againstfootball, everybody would be happy,including thegirls,” Fehiberg said. “Unfortunately, this whole’Title IX thing has become a runawayfreighttrain.” Even with BYU’srejection, the Utah foundation vowsto help support any schoolinterested in establishing thesport. As Title IX continuesits progression, some groupshavefiled lawsuits, charging that the current systemviolates the civil rights of men. The outcomes could be rendered irrelevant. “You cannotbreathelife back into a corpse. Programs that have beendead are going to be difficult to resuscitate,” Fehlberg said. “It maybe the courts come back closer to center, but the gates may well be latched after the horse has long bolted.” 5 WOMEN’S GOLF considering the course conditions,” ‘aiid Stanford Coach Caro- difficult wind conditions at the 6,502-yard Crosswater Club. ‘We played extremely well the bestfinish in team history. “The wind was blowing monsoon-like on thefirst hole and they showed a lot ofperseverance.”~ line O'Connor, whose squad had'* SUNRIVER,Ore. — ro scores Satuday from the NCAA women's got championship, payed onthe 6502yard par72 Crosswater Golf Cub cours. 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