SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, May 2, 1994
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JOINING THE VARSITY RANKS
"The University of Kansas" image is enhanced by athletics. We think the students benefit from this."
What about the athletes?
Away from the shuffle of compliance with gender equity and funding, the women's crew and soccer athletes are still training.
Source: Athletic Department
Romens said she had been a part of crew since she was a freshman.
"Part of the reason I came to KU was because it had a crew program," she said. "The fact that I do something I love at college makes it all the better."
Despite little financial assistance from the University so far, the women's crew team has managed to make a name for themselves.
Romens remembered a stop at a Massachusetts toll booth at about 1 a.m. last year. The attendant at the booth recognized them as the team from Kansas.
"You guys are really good. I've read about you." he said.
Romens said that she thought the crew team's situation was ironic.
"We're getting national attention but no money," she said.
Lori Zito, Omaha, Neb., senior, said she had coached the women's soccer team since her sophomore year and
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had pushed for the women's team to gain varsity status.
"I think soccer is going to be big in the next couple of years," she said. "I would guarantee that KU could fill the scholarships for a varsity team.
"Academics will draw prospective students. There are people who are strong academically who want to play soccer and come to KU."
Both the women's crew and soccer teams have been limited by the same problem — funding.
Zito said the biggest limitation for the team had been who they could play. Kansas competes against other club teams at Big Eight Conference schools and other colleges and universities around the Midwest
But a lack of money has kept them from going outside of the Midwest.
Romens said the funding that would come with varsity status could help make Kansas the best crew team in
the conference.
"As athletes, it will be nice just to worry about rowing," she said. "We won't have to worry about paying for the next regatta."
If women's soccer becomes a varsity sport, Zito said that she believed its campus image would improve.
"It's frustrating now because people don't realize how skilled these people are," she said. "People think it's a wimp sport,
What happens next?
The final decision about both sports rests in the votes of the faculty, students and alumni of the KUAC.
that it's not a tough sport."
Ambler said the corporation members would have several questions about the sports.
"Will they add diversity to our collection of women's sports?" he said.
"Will they be attractive to women and what will they require in equipment, facilities and operating budgets?"
If the proposal does not pass, Kansas will have to start again, Ambler said.
"We will have to look at other sports?" he said. "I don't think there's any question. KU has to add a women's sport or subtract a men's sport to achieve gender equity."
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