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University Press
Wednesday November 10,1993
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Lamar University
Swoopes sweeps Zaharias Award
By Brad McBride
UP assistant sports editor
All-American basketball player
Sheryl Swoopes was awarded the
fourth annual Babe Zaharias
Award at a banquet in the
Beaumont Civic Center Monday
night.
The award, which honors the
premiere amateur female athlete,
is named for Beaumont native
Babe Didrikson Zaharias who is
generally considered the best
female athlete in history.
Swoopes scored 47 points to
lead Texas Tech to the 1993
NCAA Final Four championship
over Ohio State 84-82. She also
broke numerous Southwest
Conference and NCAA tourna-
ment marks.
After five-time Olympian
Willye White presented the award
to Swoopes, tears streamed down
her face.
“I promised I wouldn’t cry if I
lost, but 1 didn’t promise I
wouldn’t cry if I won,” she said
after taking the trophy.
“This is something I will trea-
sure for the rest of my life, which
I hope will be another 100 years,”
she added.
All of the finalists received a
$5,000 scholarship. Swoopes
brought home an additional
$5,000 scholarship for winning
the award.
The other candidates for the
award were UCLA softball stand-
out Lisa Fernandez, Olympic
gymnast Shannon Miller and
Olympic swimmer Jenny
Thompson.
Swoopes intends to pursue a
career coaching basketball after
she completes her degree in exer-
cise and sports science at Texas
Tech.
Swoopes just completed play-
ing in an Italian professional
league, but said she was unhappy
with the experience — from the
level of play to the management
of the team.
“It was one of the worst expe-
riences I’ve been through. I wish
we had women’s pro basketball in
the U.S.,” Swoopes said.
Previous Zaharias award recip-
ients are distance runner Suzy
Favor Hamilton (1990),
sprinter Carlette Guidry
White (1991) and swimmer
Summer Sanders (1992).
A teary-eyed Sheryl
Swoopes, below, hugs
keynote speaker Nancy
Hogshead shortly after
being presented with the
Zaharias award. At
right, Swoopes address-
es the crowd at the
Beaumont Civic Center.
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Spikers keep rolling,
seeded third in SBC
By Tom Riley
UP sports editor
The Lamar Volleyball team
nailed down the third seed in the
SBC tourney at Arkansas State
Nov. 19 to 21 with a pair of road
wins this past weekend.
Arkansas State holds the top
spot with an unblemished 9-0 mark
while Arkansas-Little Rock sits in
second showing an 8-1 record.
Lamar, who was seeded fifth
last season, swept South Alabama
Friday and New Orleans Saturday
in three straight to up their confer-
ence record to 7-2.
“We are little higher (in the
seedings), so that makes your con-
fidence a bit higher going in,” head
coach Katrinka Crawford said.
Louisiana Tech, Western
Kentucky and New Orleans round
out the six-team tournament field.
Crawford said she thinks the
tourney is up for grabs and anyone
can win it to take the automatic bid
for the NCAA 48-team field.
Shawn Flowers continues to
lead the conference with her 12.49
assist average and Kim Green now
occupies third in hitting percentage
with a .313 mark and fifth in
blocking with just under a block
per game.
Miriam Erickson shares 10th in
the SBC in hitting with a .269 and
second in kills per game with 4.19.
Erickson holds the sixth spot in
digs per game with 3.52 while
Gena Farris moves up to 10th with
her 3.35.
Despite the impressive individu-
al stats, Crawford said it’s an all-
around team effort that has kept
LU on a winning roll.
“We’ve got good teamwork
right now. We have hitters who are
struggling coming back to dig or
serve aces,” Crawford said.
“This is where you try to get
right now — at this point in the
season.”
Overall, LU is pounding out a
SBC-best 15.81 kills a game on a
fourth-best .236 clip. Lamar is also
the conference leader in assists at
13.38.
Lamar will host Rice Nov. 16
before facing the Lady Techsters of
Louisiana Tech in the first round of
the conference tournament.
\l Women’s golf concludes fall season, men stuggle in Austin
Women start fast before fading at A&M
By Brad McBride
UP assistant sports editor
Lamar, led by Andrea Dobson, took a first round
lead in this weekend’s Texas A&M Bookstore/Welsh
Memorial Invitational women’s golf tournament,
before slipping to their final seventh-place finish.
The Lady Cardinals led the pack of 17 teams fol-
lowing the first round with Dobson, Bresha Marshall
and Karen Saevarsdottir leading the way.
Dobson finished the first day with a 73, tied for first
place with Clara Rodriguez of Wichita State and
Kristina Edfors of A&M. Marshall shot a 76 and
Saevarsdottir registered an 80.
Dobson recorded scores of 86 and 80 in the final
two rounds to finish seventh individually at 239.
Karen Saevarsdottir had the second-best Lamar
score (242), followed by Bresha Marshall (243),
Allison Kirkpatrick (258) and Kelly Kirkpatrick (273).
Edfors won individual honors by recording 222.
A&M (956) edged Florida International (959) for the
team title.
Missouri (970), Oregon State (972), Ohio State
(973) and Wichita State (979) also finished ahead of
Lamar.
The tournament completes the Lady Cardinals’ fall
schedule.
The women’s team will return to competition Feb.
21-22 at the Oklahoma State-Guadalahara Invitational
in Guadalahara, Mexico.
Men finish last in Harvey Penick tourney
By Brad McBride
UP assistant sports editor
TCU recorded a team total of 864 to easily outdis-
tance Texas for first place in the 24th annual Harvey
Penick Intercollegiate Golf Tournament in Austin this
weekend.
Robert Boisvert (210) and Slade Adams (214) fin-
ished first and second to lead the Homed Frogs. Kory
Bowman of Baylor (218) and Dean Larssen of
Houston and Justin Leonard of Texas (219) rounded
out the top five.
Lamar finished with a team score of 960 to place
last in the 13-team field that included all eight of the
Southwest Conference schools.
Chad Norris led the Cardinals with a 233.
Robin Raymond (239), Glynn Johnson (244), Javier
Molano (248), Tim Segura (252) and Johnithan
Richards (255) rounded out the Lamar team.
Lamar was able to finish the first round one stroke
ahead of Stephen F. Austin and Sun Belt foe
Southwestern Louisiana with Norris shooting a 75, but
the Cardinals second-round total of 319 dropped them
into last place.
Texas finished second with a score of 886, followed
by Texas Tech (895), Texas A&M (897), Houston and
Baylor (902), SMU (907), North Texas (910), USL
(925), Rice (928), Sam Houston (930) and SFA (944).
Lamar concludes its fall season with the Columbia
Lakes Invitational in West Columbia Friday, Nov. 26.
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