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  • . November 22nd, 2011 WESTERN CAROLINIAN Page B-4 SPORTS Before They Were Coaches: Danny Williamson, Cross Country/Track and Field Asia Buss, Contributing Writer (Editors Note: The fol- lowing is part of an ongo- ing series of articles where Western Carolinian writers profile the lives and careers of coaches before they ar- rived at WCU.) Danny Williamson grad- uated from Western Carolina University in 1987. with a masters degree in physical education. and is now. the head coach for the WCU Cross Country and Track and Field teams. Williamsons love for sports sprouted from his childhood memories. All of my _ cousins Binaye sports and were really good athletes. I was always around it so I just wanted to do it, Williamson said. His interest in athletics followed him to high school where he participated in football, basketball and ran for his track team. . -T wanted to play sports in college, but I wasnt very good, Williamson said. . Instead of abandoning his dreams of being a part of a team, Williamson put his interest in sports towards coaching. T have such a love for athletic sports in general so I started studying the games and thought that I had a pretty good mind for it and I wanted to put it to use, Wil- liamson said. Williamsons _ favorite sport to coach is track and field and eross country. Dur- ing graduate school, he was able to experience coaching with WCUs track and field, cross country, and football teams. _ T was a student assistant and then a graduate assistant in the football program un- der Bob Waters, William- son said. While still in graduate school, Williamson worked as the assistant womens track and field coach and later the head coach for WCUs womens track and field. Looking back at his experiences, he recalls the first cross country meet he coached and ended up mak, . ing the athletes miss their race times. T wasnt that knowledge- able about it at the time and mixed up the girls and guys race times, Williamson said. if Despite being a runner in high school, Williamson did not find it hard becoming a coach. Moving on from being a player to a coach was a smooth transition, William- son said. : Instead of playing, Wil- liamson now enjoys help- ing others play. His most memorable moment in his career was during the 2008 NCAA regionals for Track and Field. Tt was during the meet of a lifetime and I am walking behind the bleachers and a _ man wearing a University of Georgia coat comes up to me and says, Westrn Carolina University made me very proud today, Williamson said. My greatest accomplish- mient as a coach is seeing a smile come across a student athletes face when they know they have reached their goals. Even before the inter- view, I noticed William- sons commitment to his career. Witnessing some of his athletes lined up outside of his door waiting to speak with him emphasized his approachable _ personality and the care he has for his Williamson athletes both on and off the field. _Pve always wanted to be a coach and nver really wanted to try anything else. Coaching is what I do, Wil- - liamson said. Thoughts from the Sports Desk: WCU athletics budget reduction, aonkerence change Ryan Aeeie: Sports Editor Earlier this month, in- terim athletic director Fred Cantler notified all 16 ath- letic teams at Western Caro- lina. University that there would be a 5 percent budget decrease, effective immedi- ately. Recently departed Chip _ Smith had been operating " at a deficit this year, a factor that could have held signifi- cant weight in regards to his dismissal. The budget reduction is a sign that the sour economy affects millions of Ameri- cans and can also affect even public universities like ours. Cantler explained to me that the reduction isnt a budget cut, with money coming out of teams pock- ets, but a budget balancing, like what you do with your checkbook. We hadnt met our projections in terms of _ UPSET corrections. The reduction will not affect our sports teams in a huge way, maybe making them pick more economic restaurants to eat at while on road trips, or leaving the morning of a game instead of the night before to save on hotel spending. The resignation of Den- nis Wagner also doesnt af- fect the current budget, but did save money on future _ athletic budgets by prevent- ing the paying of a two year, $390,000 extension he was given by Smith. - Wagner was guaranteed that money, even if fired, but because Wagner resigned _ and reached an undisclosed . settlement with the univer- sity, a significant amount of money will be saved. _ Cantler said that he wasnt surprised by Wag- ners tsignation, that they '. (the athletic department) had _ revenue, so we had to make MEDWEST URGENT CARE CENTE SYLVA (IN THE WALMART PL been evaluating the coach STOMACH? for a while and it was time to: make a move. We gave Coach Wagner options, and resigning was one of them, Cantler said We were going to move forward. Cantler said that the stu- dent experience was a factor in the decisions, because he understands that students want to see winning athletic programs. Should WCU leave the Southern Conference? There have been whisper- ings around campus recently and those whisperings are students and faculty wonder- .ing if Western Carolina is competitive enough athleti- cally to remain a member of the Southern Conference. Now, at most colleges and universities in America, football is the flagship pro- gram of the athletic depart- . ment. It is the sport that genetates the most revenue, it has the most athletes at- tached to it, and it is the sport that can really get a college campus buzzing on a week- end. If there is any doubt * about this, look at Ohio State University on a non-football weekend, or at the Univer- sity of Oregon. Those campuses are no- ticeably different places . when the football team isnt _ playing. So when the ques- tion is asked if Western should stay in the Southern Conference, the answer in regards to football could be no, and people wouldnt look at you like are out of your mind. But the thing about WCU is we are very competitive athletically in the SoCon, just not in football at the mo- ment. Our mens basketball program won our division last year, and has won 39 of the last 45 games at home. If students cant get: excited TELL US WHAT HURTS: MedWest Health System is pleased to provide the region with an urgent care center, conveniently located in the Walmart Plaza in Sylva. Urgent care provides a faster, less costly alternative to an emergency department visit, caring for illnesses like sore throats and upset stomachs, or injuries like sprains and cuts. The -MedWest Urgent Care Center in Sylva is staffed with caring physicians, nurses, and techs to take care of what hurts. MedWest Urgent Care - can even help you become established with a aciets care physician . for follow- -up. and show up for a team Car- rying a 87 percent home winning percentage in the last few years, then I dont know what will. Our track program has won both.indoor and outdoor conference titles three times apiece in the last decade. Our volleyball program is competing in the conference tournament this year, our soccer program made it to the conference tournament, our baseball program is very good. The point is that Western is very competitive in conference, its just that nobody notices. Everyone is so hung up on the football program and the dismal per- formances over the last few years that the good teams we put out on the field have slipped by unnoticed. As Cantler told me in an interview, We are most def- initely competitive. We are in a conference with schools with similar mission state- excellence. our passion. * www.medwesthealth.org _ ments and goals, and the So- Con is where we belong. We just have to turn the football program around. So to all of the people wondering if we as a school belong in the Southern Con- ference, .the answer is em- phatically yes. We are where we belong. Our football pro- gram is having a bad time, but that doesnt mean we as a student body shouldnt show up for the games. Go out and see our bas- ketball programs, go watch our softball and baseball teams on the beautiful spring days we have, go watch our track athletes fly around the track. Support the people who we all see in class every day, writing the same papers and taking the same tests as - you. Get your friends, walk into the games for free be- cause we get tickets for free, and watch our athletes com- pete in a conference that we : belong in.
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