Women administrators take a bow at NACWAA fall forum

The National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators (NACWAA) will host its 23rd annual Fall Forum October 12-15 at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at Union Station.

The Honor Award Breakfast this year will feature Billie Jean King, who is being honored for her support of women in athletics.

NACWAA also will honor seven women as NACWAA Administrators of the Year.

This award, which recognizes administrative excellence, is presented annually in seven categories.

This year's winners are: Andrea Seger, former director of athletics at Ball State University -- Division I-A; Andrea Meyers, director of athletics at Indiana State University -- Division I-AA; Roxanne Levenson, senior woman administrator and associate athletics director at Pepperdine University -- Division I-AAA; Lynn Dorn, director of women's athletics at North Dakota State University -- Division II; Laurie Priest, director of athletics at Mount Holyoke College -- Division III; Karen Sykes, assistant director of athletics at Dean College -- NAIA/
junior and community colleges; and Carolyn Femovich, executive director of the Patriot League -- organizations/conferences.

Also honored will be Toni Morgan, this year's winner of the NACWAA Nell Jackson Award, which honors an up-and-coming athletics administrator.

Morgan is senior woman administrator for the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association.

The Fall Forum also will include a variety of seminars, presentations and exhibits, including a panel discussion featuring Jane Gottesman, co-editor of the book and exhibit "Game Face," and three-time Olympian Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

Division breakout sessions also will be conducted to facilitate in-depth discussion of specific topics.

For more information, see www.
nacwaa.org. Deadline for registration is September 10.

Sports law conference set for Marquette

Marquette University is hosting a sports law conference Friday, October 25. The title is "Intellectual Property Issues in Sports: How they have affected the modern sports industry and its business practices."

Panel topics include rights related to publicity, licensing, merchandising, event trademarks and logos.

A number of speakers are tentatively scheduled for the all-day conference, including Jeffrey G. Benz, general counsel for the United States Olympic Committee; Ken Kwartler, assistant general counsel at Nike; Michelle Bugbee, associate patent attorney for Spalding Sports Worldwide; and Matt Mitten, director of the National Sports Law Institute and associate dean for academic affairs and professor of law at Marquette.

For more information and registration, see www.marquette.edu/law/
sports/events.html or call 414/288-5815.

-- Compiled by Kay Hawes

Number crunching

Looking back

Anniversary also an ending

The 20th annual NACDA Kickoff Classic August 31 between the University of Notre Dame and the University of Maryland, College Park, marked a two-decade anniversary as well as an end to what has been the traditional start of the college football season.

The Kickoff Classic began in 1983 after legislation was passed that would allow participating teams an exempted 12th game.

Recently, though, legislation was approved that provided teams with a 12th game in certain years and eliminated exempted games, such as the Kickoff Classic, beginning in 2003.

The Classic always was held at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, defeated Pennsylvania State University, 44-6, in the first Kickoff Classic August 29, 1983. Nebraska quarterback Turner Gill was named the game's most valuable player.

The annual Classic featured just one one-point outcome, that being in 1987 when a last-second field goal lifted the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to a 23-22 win over the University of Iowa.

NACDA used proceeds from the Kickoff Classic, as well as from the Pigskin Classic, which NACDA began conducting in 1990, to help fund postgraduate scholarships to selected participants in the two games.

Kickoff Classic results

1983 Nebraska 44, Penn State 6

1984 Miami (Florida) 20, Auburn 18

1985 Brigham Young 28,
Boston College 14

1986 Alabama 16, Ohio State 10

1987 Tennessee 23, Iowa 22

1988 Nebraska 23, Texas A&M 14

1989 Notre Dame 36, Virginia 13

1990 Southern California 34,
Syracuse 16

1991 Penn State 34, Georgia Tech 22

1992 North Carolina State 24,
Iowa 14

1993 Florida State 42, Kansas 0

1994 Nebraska 31, West Virginia 0

1995 Ohio State 38, Boston College 6

1996 Penn State 24, Southern California 7

1997 Syracuse 34, Wisconsin 0

1998 Florida State 23, Texas A&M 14

1999 Miami (Florida) 23, Ohio State 12

2000 Southern California 29,
Penn State 5

2001 Georgia Tech 13, Syracuse