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Western Carolinian 1981 Fall Special Edition

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  • Eddie McGill, expected to be a standout at the tight end position this year. Looks Good Ready for an exciting sports year? You do not have to look to the ACC or the NFL or the NBA or major league baseball to find the excitement. It's all here at Western Carolina University The action comes to you, compliments of the WCU athletic Department, and begins September 5 with the first kickoff for the 1981 football season and runs virtually non-stop through the spring. WCU sponsors intercollegiate competition in 17 different sports, so there is a very good chance that you will be interested in at least one. Our football Catamounts and their fans suffered through the first losing season in five years last fall, but hopes are high for a turnaround this season. The Cats will be playing their toughest schedule ever this season with the likes of Florida State, East Carolina, and seven Southern Conference teams. Coach Bob Waters will have his team throwing the ball as much as ever, but expects the running game to be much improved by highly touted transfer Melvin Dorsey running behind an offensive line that averages 6-4'/$,236 pounds. Dorsey was picked by Playboy Magazine to be one of the top new players in college football this season to make it big. Tight end Eddie McGill, an All-Southern Conference selection last season, has been named to several pre-season all-star teams, including a couple of All-America squads. The football season begins September 5 at East Carolina and The Cats will continue on the road for the following two weeks at VMI (Sept. 12) and The Citadel (Sept. 19) before opening their home schedule (Sept. 26) in Whitmire Stadium against Furman, the defending Southern Conference champion. The WCU soccer team takes to the field in the fall and will face some of the South's best in Whitmire Stadium, including last year's number two team, Alabama A&M, along with South Carolina and Southern Conference powers The Citadel and Furman. The kickers also open their season on the road, Sept. 8 at Central Wesleyan, and will play their first home game Sept. 10 against Warren Wilson. Twenty games are on tap with 10 scheduled for the Astroturf in Whitmire Stadium. Hugh Jones, a Welchman by birth, heads the program. Western Carolina is a regional power in women's volleyball and is the defending state champion. Coach Betty Peek's team posted a 37-11 record last season and is looking for an even bigger season this fall. The women's volleyball team plays its home matches in Breese Gymnasium. Cross country is a fourth fall sport and has a six meet schedule this season. Dan Kenney, an assistant basketball coach.coaches the distance runners as they compete against Southern Conference, Atlantic Coast Conference, and other area schools. The team utilizes the campus roads as its course that measures in the area of five miles. Basketball takes over the spotlight in the winter months and warms up the cold evenings. Coach Steve Cottrell's Catamounts have challenged for the Southern Conference title during the past three seasons and this might be the year that they go all the way to the top and an NCAA tournament birth. Basketball fever ran unchecked last season when over 53,000 fans packed into Reid Gymnasium to see The Cats go undefeated in 15 games. With all five starters returning, including all-conference performers Ronnie Carr and Greg Dennis, excitement is already building. The Cats will play 14 games in Reid Gymnasium this winter and will face the likes of Brigham Young, LaSalle, and South Carolina on the road. The Lady Cats, WCU's women's basketball team, will have a new coach this season in Judy Stroud, one of the school's all-time outstanding players. Women's basketball here has a rich tradition as no WCU squad has ever experienced a losing season. The Lady Cats will play nine games in Reid Gymnasium this winter with five scheduled as part of a women's/ rrien's doubleheader. Women's gymnastics is another highlight of Cullowhee winters. Coach Susan Field's program will return to the heights it attained during the early 1970's when WCU dominated women's gymnastics in North Carolina. Auburn, Clemson, North Carolina State, Virginia Tech, Radford, Georgia College and East Tennessee State will visit Reid Gymnasium this winter. The track and field program begins during the winter months as Coach Dan Millwood takes his thinclads to a limited number of indoor meets to prepare for the Southern Conference championships. Two of the university's newest sports compete during the winter-rifle and swimming. The rifle team participated for the first time last year as an intercollegiate unit and fared well against a heavy schedule of teams from throughout the southeast. The team is coached by Sgt. John Stanfield of the Department of Military Science. The swimming program was also started last year under Coach Malcolm Loughlin and participated in seven meets, including the Southern Conference championships. The swim team is open to both male and female swimmers. With the coming of spring, Western Carolina University experiences its busiest time of the sports years with seven teams competing on the intercollegiate level. WCU won a share of the Southern Conference championship'last season and with the entire lineup scheduled to return for the 1982 season, optimism is running high for another championship season. East Sylva Shopping Center Tel. 586-4047 SELLERS and FISHER FLOWERS and GIFTS, Inc. "For Better Flowers Send Ours' SYLVA, N. C. 28779 Welcome New and Returning Students We have flowers for all occasions, and we send them anywhere. Coach Bill Haywood, who has guided the WCU baseball team for 13 years, was voted the conference's coach of the year last spring and Catamount outfielder Mel Kinsey was selected Southern Conference player of the year after batting .400, hitting 15 home runs and knocking in 50 runs. The baseball Cats perennially play an impressive schedule that includes ACC, Southern Conference and even Big Ten schools. WCU has become known as a power in women's Softball in just three seasons.Coach Betty Peek's team have averaged winning 30 games a year WCU competes on the intercollegiate level in both men's and women's tennis. The golf team plays its home matches on Maggie Valley Country Club's championship course and is coached by Don Dalton, who also serves as an assistant football coach. The track and field team participates in such meets as the Georgia Relays and Duke Invitational and last season dominated the jumping events at the Southern Conference championships. Long jumper Anthony James set a new conference record last spring. Men's volleyball, under the guidance of Sgt. Richard Jenkins, began competing last spring and interest is growing in the sport that heretofore was played only on the intercollegiate level, on the west coast. Several of WCU's teams offer scholarships, but most operate on a walk-on basis with tryouts announced throughout the academic year. What To Do? by Larry Hardin Western Carolina has been called a "suitcase college" by people who have observed one of Cullowhee's traditional rituals; the case being the strange phenomenon of the Friday-go-for-home fanatics. With dirty clothes and who knows what else piled in the back of their cars, they head for that mystical pllace called home. As to where that is and what they all do there (other than wash their dirty clothes) is beyond any serious speculation. Nobody could keep track of the miles logged by these weekend pilgrims on their ritual migration in and out of Cullowhee. When questioning migrants about the whys of their weekend wanderings, one is give a varied answer over and over concerning the idea that there is nothing to do "up here". This answer is most bewildering to students who really live in and around the Cullowhee area. It leaves one wondering if they even get off the campus ( other than for a beer run to Sylva ). Their answer only adds to the mystery of why they leave every weekend and spend all their money on gas going back and forth. They could be spending some of that gas money doing any number of activities that are going on in Jackson County and some of the other counties here in Western North Carolina. Without getting into all the planned activities that the college has to offer, one is still left with a wide choice of places to go and things to see and do. Even if you do not have a car you and some friends can walk up to the Jackson County Airport and get a flight and sight-see by air. What you need to do is contact Ken Seleman or Dave Curtis up at the airport for all the details. If you give them a call at 586-2960, it might surprise you to see how reasonable a plane ride can be, and how much fun. If your really get into flying, Ron or Dave can teach you how to fly the airplane as well. continued on page 32 NAUTILUS I FITNESS AND RACQUETBALL CENTER "Student Rates" Director Don Davies I26tf Sulphur Springs Rd. Waynesville. NO 28786 Scientific Conditioning Through Full Range Exercise and Fitness Sports 28 Fall Special Edition
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