Homecoming 2000 Athletic Events
Gender Equity Plan Includes a New Sport in 2003-2004
Eagles Back on KEYF 1050-AM in 2000-2001
Track Team Places a Best-Ever Third
44 Athletes Honored as BSC All-Academics
Hansen, Maxwell Named Big Sky Scholar-Athletes
Freshmen Have High GPA
2000-2001 Schedules
Homecoming 2000 Athletic Events
Homecoming 2000 features a trio of athletic events:
- Eastern's football showdown with Sacramento State at Woodward Stadium starting at 12:35 p.m. on Saturday (Oct. 21). (Televised regionally on Fox Sports)
- Eastern's women's soccer team against Northern Arizona at 2 p.m. on Friday (Oct. 20) at the Sports and Recreation Center fields
- Eagle
(women's) volleyball match against Gonzaga U. on Oct. 17 at 7 pm in
Reese Court, and versus Portland at 7 p.m., Oct. 20.
Gender Equity Plan Includes a New Sport in 2003-2004
Increases in scholarships, salaries, operations and facilities– as well as a new sport for the 2003-2004 school year– are included in Eastern Washington University's new Gender Equity Plan approved recently by the EWU Board of Trustees.
The new plan includes increased funding for women's athletics and the addition of a ninth women's sport by 2003-2004. Swimming/diving and softball are among the sports being considered.
Eastern athletic director Scott Barnes expects 30 new full-equivalency scholarships for women athletes to be added to enable female participation in athletics to increase by at least 45 total student-athletes. The plan also includes increased funding for salaries for coaches and support staff, as well as increased operating funds.
In addition, $650,000 in capital improvements will be made, starting with a locker room project expected to begin this fall. The project will create 2,500 square feet of increased space and nearly 100 new lockers for women's athletic teams and staff. It will also create a new locker facility to be used by Eastern's football program and the Seattle Seahawks. That project will also use private funding for additional enhancements.
In a recent gender equity report submitted to the Higher Education Coordinating Board, Eastern showed the largest increases among the state's four-year colleges in both the numbers of female student-athletes and the proportion of female student-athletes to female students in general.
State institutions are required to show continual progress in eventually providing athletic opportunities for women in proportion to the school's female enrollment. In just the last three years alone Eastern has increased salaries/benefits 34 percent, scholarships 32 percent and operations 12 percent. That represents an overall increase of nearly 26 percent, compared to an eight percent increase in men's athletics.
Eagles Back on KEYF 1050-AM in 2000-2001
Radio station KEYF Oldies 1050 AM is Eastern's new flagship radio station, Eastern Athletic Director Scott Barnes and Impact Sports Inc., President Paul Sorensen jointly announced this past spring.
Eastern has come to terms on a new, three-year agreement with Impact Sports to broadcast all Eastern football and men's basketball games. Eastern will also have a feed of the games on KEWU Jazz 89.5 FM and via the internet next fall and winter. Fox Sports will televise regionally the homecoming game against Sacramento State and the Nov. 4 game against Northern Arizona.
Track Team Places a Best-Ever Third
Junior Ryan Cole successfully defended his javelin title to help lead Eastern to its best-ever finish – third – at the Big Sky Conference Track and Field Championships in May. Helped also by a pair of top three finishes by sprinter Johnnie Williams and a 2-3 finish in the triple jump by Tim Archer and Kurt Kraemer, the Eagles ended the meet with 97 points. Eastern's previous highest place was fifth on two other occasions, and its previous highest point total was 82 1/2 in 1999 when the Eagles placed sixth.
44 Athletes Honored as BSC All-Academics
A total of 44 Eastern student-athletes have been selected to the Big Sky Conference All-Academic team for the 2000 spring sports season, bringing the total number of All-Academic honors won by Eagle athletes to 128 for the 1999-2000 school year. Those honored in the spring included 19 members of the women's track and field squad, 12 from the men's team, five women's tennis players, four from the men's tennis squad, three men's golfers and one golfer on the women's team.
To qualify for the team, athletes must have at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average or a 3.20 in the previous three quarters. Athletes must also have participated in at least half of the team's competitions. In the fall and winter, a new Big Sky rule required transfer students and freshmen to wait a year until they were eligible for All-Academic honors. However, that rule was rescinded in May, resulting in 23 additional All-Academic honors won by Eastern athletes.
Hansen, Maxwell Named Big Sky Scholar-Athletes
Eastern basketball player Ryan Hansen and volleyball player Kim Maxwell have been honored as Eastern's recipients of the 1999-2000 Big Sky Conference Scholar-Athlete Award. One senior male and one senior female from each school in the conference are honored for their athletic and academic achievements.
Hansen, a 1996 graduate of Cascade High School in Leavenworth, Wash., finished with a 3.80 accumulative grade point average and received his physical education degree in the spring. Maxwell, a 1996 graduate of William Aberhart High School in Calgary, Alberta, had a 3.81 GPA as a biology major.
For the season, Hansen led the Eagles with a 12.4 scoring average that ranked 17th in the Big Sky. With 1,381 assists in 1999 and 3,745 career assists, Maxwell set a pair of new school records in volleyball. Maxwell was selected to the GTE Academic All-District VIII second team and earned All-Big Sky first team honors.
Associate Athletic Director Pamela Parks reports that Eastern's incoming freshman class of student-athletes includes 10 athletes who had perfect 4.0 grade point averages in high school and another nine who had averages of at least 3.9.
As of July 15, 2000. Times Pacific. Times are subject to change „ contact the athletic department for updates. Home events in Bold.
* Big Sky Conference Games.
# Homecoming.
$ Televised on Fox Sports Net NW.
Unless noted, Home Football Games at Woodward Stadium in Cheney, Wash. Home Volleyball and Basketball at Reese Court in Cheney. Home Soccer at the Sports and Recreation Center Playing Fields in Cheney.
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