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Women need a Pac-10 meet
Head coach Tom Heinonen stood in the in
field of Hayward Field savoring his team’s
powerful showing in the first Northern Pacific
Athletic Conference track and field
championships.
The man who had just been named the
NorPac’s track coach of the year was ecstatic
over his team’s 215 point effort which more
than doubled the 105 points collected by
second-place .Vashington.
But there was one number that was bother
ing him. That was the paultry 1,395 spectators
who showed up during the two-day meet last
weekend.
“The only thing that disturbs me is the
small crowd,” said Heinonen. “We’re so much
a part of the scene now that we need the Pac-10
to catch people’s attention.”
Unfortunately, the women don’t have the
Pac-10, and probably won’t for sometime to
come. That’s too bad.
There is room now for a women's Pac-10,
and being associated with an established con
ference would give women’s sports a shot in
the arm in terms of visibility.
Track is one sport where a conference
meet for women would not only be appropriate,
but a boost for the Pac-10 as well. By adding
the women to the fold, the Pac-10 could make
its meet one of the top track and field spec
tacles in the nation each year.
“The Pac-10s would be the second best
track meet in the country," said Heinonen of
what combining the men’s and women's meets
would mean. The top meet, of course, is the
NCAA meet, which now sparkles with both
men's and women’s competition since the
demise of the Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics for Women two years ago.
With national powers in track like UCLA
and Oregon in the lineup, it is unfortunate that
the women don’t get to test their skills in a high
quality meet like the men do prior to the NCAA
meet
“We’re in the 19th century in terms of con
ferences," said Heinonen.
That was evident last weekend as the
Ducks ran roughshot over the five other NorPac
track teams. Not that there was a lack of quality
athletes giving strong efforts. Oregon’s Lexie
Miller Beck entertained with record-setting ef
forts in the hurdles, Cal’s Connie Culbert sped
to quick wins in the 200 and 400 meters, and
Washington’s Donna Dennis provided world
class sprinting in the 100-meter dash.
What was lacking was competition. There
was no biting suspense to hold fans interest
through the two hot days. The meet champion
was decided long before the nrst starling gun
went off.
Keeping fans interest became even
tougher with the several lulls in activity during
the meet. Several qualifying events were
cancelled Friday afternoon which left gaps in
the program of up to 20 minutes.
That is just one of the problems that could
be solved by combining the men and women for
a Pac-10 track extravaganza. With both meets
running simultaneously, there would not be
time for lulls, just competition from wire to
wire. And it would be competition of an NCAA
meet caliber.
But, even though a Pac-10 women’s meet
seems the logical way to turn in the future, it is
going to be a while before that turning point is
reached. The problem is money. The schools
down south don’t want to spend the money to
send their women’s teams to the Northwest to
compete, since the women’s teams don’t make
enough money at the gate to support
themselves.
While it is easy to see why the southern
schools, who are nestled comfortably into their
own little conference for women’s sports, are
reluctant to team up with the Northwest
schools in sports like basketball and volleyball
that require a lot of travel, a Pac-10 track meet
doesn’t seem as unrealistic.
Travel costs would be minimal, since the
teams would not have to meet in dual meets if
they chose not to. The Pac-10 meet alternates
between north and south sites each year, so a
Pac-10 meet would require the southern
schools to send their tracksters north just once
every two years. And the payoff is bound to be
bigger than it was at the NorPac meet last
week.
It is not as if the Pac-10 hasn’t loosened up
with other sports. They let four non-conference
schools (Portland State, Portland, Eastern
Washington and Gonzaga) into the Northern
Division of the Pac-10 for baseball. If the con
ference will let different teams in to boost com
petition in one sport, why would it hesitate to
bring the women into the fold for at least one
event each year?
With that in mind, it is easy to see why five
of the six NorPac track schools are anxious to
see a Pac-10 meet. Fresno State is the only Nor
Pac track school whose men’s program is not
in the Pac-10, and the Bulldogs are the only
NorPac school which doesn't favor a move to
the Pac-10 meet, according to Heinonen.
Still Heinonen does not see a women's
Pac-10 on the horizon. He notes that decisions
like that rest in the hands of school presidents
and athletic directors, whose first concern is
money.
So the battle is a common one — logic ver
sus economics. The loses are the athletes and
the fans.
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