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Hw w? 8 Gamecock & goes up for a scrimmage. Ho leading the wh over the red tes Cha By Tammv Gamecock Changing gym sport would hari and the gymnas former USC gym women's athletic Timmermans. Timmermans, from 1967-1973, Sc the athletic de harm the girls' c a backwards step "WHEN THE1 flBk ' . -: \. ,. < m v W&#* W. Russell K. Paca - GAMECOCK itar forward Cedric Hordges n/r _/ I. * I a ./ a/airr uunn m ivsonaay mgnt S irdges pumped in 44 points in ite team to a 123-104 victory tm. inqe of qv ' Kilpatrick that will be the er staH writer don't believe th nasties to a club We're talking n both the sport scholarship gii its, according to mermanssaid. nasties coach and The gymnastic s director, Helen started in 1967 ur of Timmermar gymnastics coach started, the gii lid the decision by doughnuts and apartment would money for travel < ompetition and be Gymnastics w? ) for the sport. under the dire< Affairs until V, V become a club, mermans was athletics direct HHHHHH were first offere 1977 'Mm KM first," Timmerm m ^?wt^ r?te {jM ? ?, 'f TTHHB onu pumifu uu B r IBS I ^outh Carolina hf \ ' and 12 high schoc Jjt ' 1 w!P^'-J. would really h except for a shor fered the posil vjfl women's athleti chose to beco teacher. Path P as women's athl r,^ women's basketb White was hire iimrmans coach timmermai Baskei open USC head basketball cos Gamecock basketball team 1 squau uiviueu meniscivca in full forty minute scrimmage The white team, composc Strickland, Kenny Reynolds 123-104. The red team mei natughton, Jim Graziano, K Atkins. The victorious white team and Wimbush added 21 api Strickland chipped in 16 and THE RED TEAM was le freshmen, Kevin Darmondj points in the scrimmage romorl/ahlo civvv anH nnic freshman also had 21 points I "This was one of the best t time," McGuire commente pleased with the play of our the jitters and I think they ai McGuire elaborated on tl (Darmondy) has a real ins) Cunningham (Billy Cunnii Philadelphia 76'ers). Some basketball, it's like a sixth s< MCGUIRE'S TEAM will and the Gamecock coach is feel like we have the makin "All of the guys have shown tonight and Strickland look looking forward to the start Senior captain Mike Do> mage. Doyle, who is recu] ready by the start of the st Despite the many positiv said he feels that his team their opening game against work hard to develop an e season and will also dev defense. One area in particular th is his team's stamina. Mc( problem. "The kids are not in th< tomorrow we'll start them McGuire said with a gleam Former j i mnasi] id of them. I just reasons 1 ey can survive. Athletic about eight switching rls ...," Tim- sport. Th not at a :s program was petition ider the direction (2)facilit is. When first for a vi rls had to sell gymnast candy to raise age, ther expenses. too old is a varsity sport economic !tion of Student make ti )73, when Tim- (5)gymn made women's classifiet or. Scholarships art. d to gymnasts in Timmc has had past, f HAI) a winning regional; ^ear except the top gyn ans said. She said unable ti of gymnastics in how goot been tremendous record w )lympics and the record," Russian gymnast THE t that the state of south h is 52 private clubs nastic t< I l nrt lU -iL rn:, ?i leains. oiuwui wim 111 ave skyrocketed south ha tage of coaches," clubs. A ones wh< lermans was of- are So ;ion of full-time Winthroj cs director, but a club) me a full-time team,"s arson was hired "To n etics uuector and with th< >all coach, and Bot gymnast d as gymnastics that th competii hold w? MS SAID five must go tball tear s prutut ly Mike Chibfoaro iamecock Staff Writer ich, Frank McGuire unveiled his Monday night at the Coliseum. Th< to two six-man teams and particip ?d of Cedric Hordges, Zam Fredr and Mike Schwartz defeated the i l^t TV A? IlUCIi^ W CI C IVCV111 UUIIIVUVJ, iVAl evin Darmondy, Derrick Scott, ar was paced by Hordges' 44 points, iece for the winners, while Reyn 15 respectively. d by the performance of highly i The 6-7 Alexandria, Va. native j and according to McGuire, he >e for a freshman. Derrick Scott, for the red team. jpening scrimmages that I've seen id after the contest. "I was par! freshman. They showed no signs < *e really going to help us this year.' tie strong performance of Darmoi tinct for the game. He reminds m igham, former all-pro forward i players just have a knack for mse." begin afternoon practice sessions I enthusiastic about the upcoming j gs of a real good club here," McGii i improvement. Jimmy Graziano pi s like he's ready to play this year, of the season." /le was unable to participate in t perating from recent knee surger ;ason, according to McGuire. e aspects of Monday's scrimmage still has a lot of work to do in prepf : Biscayne. McGuire said the Game ffective fast-break offense for the ote concentrated efforts on theii lat McGuire feels has room for im] iuire, however has an apparent cu 3 kind of shape that they need to on the sprints and we'll get them i. coach comment ics to clu have been given by the comp Department for the team [ of gymnastics to a club only ese are: (l)the team was Virgil varsity level and com- Tinr in the south was poor, Wash ies were not good enough gynui irsity sport, (3)01ympic holds 5 are 13 and 14 years of this 1 efore college age girls are with to compete, (4)the we dc : crunch and gas shortage she s?ravel imparactical and lastics should not be "11 i as a sport since it is an beaut fine jrmans said the USC team sa>d. an excellent record in the Cor inishing sixth in the dePai ; in 1Q7Q pvpn thnncfh fhpir said nnast was injured and gymr 0 compete. "I don't know j^| 1 they have to be, but their ; as 8-3 and that is not a bad : ^ she said. STATEMENT that the iff as no competitive gym- ; ?ams was also in conflict mmermans views. "The s 19 teams and only three s far as I know, the only ) have dropped their teams uth Carolina schools, p and USC. Clemson (now is thinking of becoming a ggj he said. le, there's nothing wrong |g| 5 level of competition in g|g tics." She said the excuse ?8g ere is poor gymnastic tion in the south "does not iter" since softball also Imm outside the region for good wm B ^B^Xf i 1979-80 ^kHhI^B i 12-man ated in a W^? will i^ir t;?^ ^M*mm[ I iv-i\ , unit ed team Fredrick Wk olds and regarded ^mPF^HynjAS1 34 ^jmBBJN* showed ^^F-r .* another jfR^O^T/ ] in a long lirp nntpd upcoming ? r pressing f ^ arovement _ , . ire for that Gamecock fc fires a shot p* be in, but scrimmage. Cat in shape," practices this wt s b level d etition. The USC Softball a: plays a fast pitch game, and hi two teams from Texas to gi lia also play fast pitch. i' SI lmermans said the Booker T. c< i ndtnn f o r?i 1 i f i tic uihoro tVio nl lll^VVII iUVIIlUVd) fTIlVl V v? IV lastics club practices and meets, serves their needs at p ime. "There's nothing wrong n the building. The only thing n >n't have is air conditioning," tl aid. p w 1 WOULD be nice to have a fi :iful gym, but it's all right. It's a for gymnastic meets," she w ltrary to what the athletic rtment claims, Timmermans tl nldpr E?ir1s dn rnmnpfp in tl D- ? ? ??I lastics. "Russian gymnasts zitt! ' JF8BB& >: :: -*>"?I> *?T: |W?% | '>-V-:-^P^ M? :v;l{SH^ - ' IfllRilS r^iv'^rc';-!" -Ht : ? Russsll K. Pace ? GAMECOCK irward Mark Connaughton ass in the teams opening ro/ina will begin afternoon 98k. isputed re often older than 13 or 14. They ave a gymnastic college age roup just like we do," she said, lie also' said there is world ^mpetition for college age girls ther than the Olympics. 44I don't think economics is a roblem," Timmermans comlented. She said other teams are ot being cut back, and pointed out lat the athletic department is lanning to announce a new fnmpn's vnr?itvr crinri ?r? tho v*??vr?a ?u? * Ml tjl VJ upvi t AAA 11IU jture. "They're going to cost just s much when they come in, so 'hy get rid of this one," she said. SHE DISAGREED with the idea lat gymnastics was an art rather lan a sport. "You tell me how see gym page 15 - Jr jfl I wBBSm- wGH ' -iis* IIIbhR '::'^1IBHBHBnHiB^^ '^ bI -: y;---' x- . ,.- A.-..v; ,-jx,.,; ;l BcHt Andrew ? GAMCCOCK