Sports Editor
Peter Hockaday
petertiockaday@dailyemerald.com
Tuesday, February 4,2003
-Oregon Daily Emerald
Sports
Best bet
NCAA men's basketball:
Florida at Kentucky
6 p.m., ESPN
IX lives
Title IX has been bad and good for
sports, most recently benefiting
Oregon’s female athletes
Mindi Rice
Freelance Sports Reporter
A hockey team that had been to every
national tournament in five years.
A men’s gymnastics program that
was consistently ranked in the top 10
in the country.
A baseball program that is part of
Oregon’s rich athletic history — in the
early 1880s, a baseball game against
Monmouth College was one of the first
documented Oregon athletic events.
While officials say these programs,
along with women’s gymnastics,
women’s field hockey and men’s and
women’s swimming and diving squads,
were cut by the Athletic Department
mainly because of budgetary reasons,
there was also another factor.
Title IX.
Tide IX, technically, prohibits gender
discrimination in public and private
schools that receive federal funding.
Passed in 1972, it applies to high schools
and colleges, and to opportunities both
on the field and in the classroom.
However, the most widely-used in
terpretation of Title IX is the gender
equity law that has spurred the mass
entrance of women’s athletics and fe
male athletes into existence and the
national spotlight.
Monday, the Athletic Department
announced that a varsity women’s
lacrosse program will begin at Oregon
in fall 2004. The announcement came
four days after a Title IX Commission
appointed by the Bush administration
approved recommendations to make
minor, but calculated, changes to Ti
tle IX that will, if approved, affect how
schools determine whether they are
in compliance.
Currently, schools must show that
they meet three standards.
One standard is athlete scholarships,
and making sure they are given propor
tional to student-athlete participation
according to gender. Oregon is in com
pliance with this standard — in the
2001-02 school year, 37.47 percent of
Oregon’s student-athletes were female,
and 37.36 percent of scholarship mon
ey went to those females.
Another standard schools must
comply with is the “laundry list.” This
list of 11 items includes travel expens
es, publicity and equipment. The
school must show that men and
women have equal funding and access
to these items.
The third, and most difficult to inter
pret, is “accommodation of interests
and abilities,” a three-prong test.
Schools must meet one of three crite
ria: Athlete gender percentage must be
proportional to the student body, the
school must demonstrate a history and
continuing practice of program expan
sion for the underrepresented gender,
or the school must show that it fully
and effectively accommodates the in
terests and abilities of the underrepre
sented gender.
For Oregon, the prong choice is a
simple one — the second prong. Oregon
strives to demonstrate a history and
continuing practice of program expan
Turn to Title IX, page 12
Adam Amato Emerald
Lauren Peters and the women's lacrosse team are the subject of Title IX reform, as Oregon will add the sport in 2004.
Club lacrosse still looks forward to ‘03 season
The Ducks are excited their sport will
soon be a varsity one, but they are
currently focusing on 2003
Women’s lacrosse
Jon Roetman
Freelance Sports Reporter
They sprint around an area of the field, look
ing for any way they can help the team win.
Leaving everything out on the field, they go
almost entirely unnoticed.
They’re driven by the desire to win and a
commitment to the team.
Sound like the life of an offensive lineman?
Try a West Coast women’s lacrosse player.
The sport of lacrosse is a monster on the
East Coast, but for athletes on the West
Coast, like those on the Oregon women’s
club lacrosse team, their efforts have gone
mostly unnoticed.
“I didn’t realize that it’s not a big sport out
here at all,” said senior Tina Thompson,
who grew up playing lacrosse in Washing
ton, D.C. “People (on the West Coast) are
like, ‘What’s lacrosse?’”
With Monday’s announcement that Oregon
will feature women’s lacrosse as a varsity sport
for the 2004-05 season, it appears lacrosse out
west is heading toward a growth in popularity.
“(Lacrosse) is a wonderful sport,” stu
dent club coordinator Louisa Dorsch said.
“It will elevate the school in general just to
have the program.”
This year; the women’s club team returns
half of its players from a team that finished
tied for sixth in the Northwest Women’s Club
Lacrosse League.
The Ducks feature a mixture of youth and
experience. Dorsch and Thompson, two of
the Ducks’ most experienced players, lead
the team into battle.
Dorsch is in her third season with the
Ducks. A goalkeeper from Hagerstown, Md.,
Dorsch said the Ducks have shown potential
for the upcoming season.
“We have some terrific players,” Dorsch
said. “The team is very dedicated and a great
group of girls.”
Thompson is the only Duck in her fourth
season. She said the biggest ally the Ducks
have for potential success is that they’ve had
the same coordinator for two years. In her
first two seasons, the team switched coordi
nators, essentially having to start from
scratch each season. With half of the roster
returning, they can continue to build on what
is already established.
“We have a little foundation going,”
Thompson said.
A talented group of underclassmen will con
tribute to the Ducks as well. Freshmen Leslie
Turn to Lacrosse, page 12
Sun sets early, Oregon finishes Ping first round in ninth
Emerald
Golf head coach Steve Nosier said he was pleased
witfvhowthe Ducks played in their opening round.
Jimmy White and Gregg LaVoie lead
the Ducks with opening round
par-71 s, and both sit 22nd overall
Men’s golf
Scott Archer
Freelance Sports Reporter
After the sun set early at the first day of the
2003 Ping-Arizona Intercollegiate tourna
ment, the Oregon men’s golf team found itself
tied for 9th when play was suspended mid
way through the second round at the 6,973
yard, par-71 Arizona National Golf Course.
The second round of play was suspended due
to darkness.
Junior Jimmy White led the Ducks with a
saac#s»-low round of 71, also the second-low—
est round for his career. Also scoring an open
ing-round score of 71 was freshman Gregg
LaVoie. Both White and LaVoie are tied for
22nd overall. Freshman Justin St. Glair set his
lowest round score of his young career while
tying teammate and senior John Ellis at 72.
Senior Chris Carnahan finished the day with
a two-over-par 73.
“Our guys played pretty well for our open
ing tournament, especially with two fresh
men,” head coach Steve Nosier said. “We left
a lot of shots out there on the course, but we’re
not that far off.”
The Ducks concluded the first round with a
team score of 286, 16 strokes behind current
leader and Pacific-10 Conference rival, No. 17
UCLA. No. 10 Arizona was second on the day,
shooting a 276, followed by No. 21 Pepperdine
with a team score of 280.
• »©nly«K<earas*oompleted the second round)
Monday, leaving two thirds of the field with one
hole left to play when the event was ended for
the night. Oregon will continue with the second
and final round of the tournament today with
playing commencing at 7:45 a.m., followed im
mediately by the final round at 8:15 a.m.
Leading the field after Monday’s 18 holes
were Arizona’s Reid Hatley and UCLA’s Roy
Moon, who each shot a six-under-par 65.
There were 14 players within four strokes of
the lead after the first round.
Fresno State brings up the rear of the 16
team field, with a 22-over-par 306, while Ore
gon is only four strokes removed from a top
five finish. It would be an impressive feat,
considering 11 of the top 50 teams are repre
sented in the Ducks’ first tournament of the
second half of the 2002-03 season.
i ScQtLAfche&is a freelance-writer Jfor the Emerald