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a' Thursday January 21, GAMECOCK ?S>?IR?g ? ;' [| Katrina Anderson Sacoco Ex-USC All-Am. Desires Coaching BY JOHNNY BOGGS Playing high school A?st sports Editor basketball was really "just TIMMONSVILLE? When someting to do after school" one looks at the USC for her and she never exwomen's basketball team pected anything to come records, there is one name from it. And coming to a that appears constantly. large university can be Katrina Anderson. scary for a girl who went to a school with an enrollment of The Ail-American college about 500 (kindergarten palyer from an unheralded through 12th grade). small private school in Lynchburg named Roy think Mom and Dad HudgensAcademy won a th m , wou,d ,)e just scholarship at Anderson * ? d (h Jt jt Junior College, then played |d t ^ ,jk |t t with Carolina from 1977 Anderson through 1979 and later went dld[,.t find that t0 on to play women s ? she continued found professional basketball. thore were a lot of pe0p|e The records she set at involved in the women's Carolina include: most program and took interest m points scored in a game (41 1 ' ,. . ,. against Florida State); most The ^est adjustment o was not going from high <754 in 1978); most field school to college but from goals in a season*306 in 1978 ??"eg* ?t0 Passional in 34 games); highest field basketball. goal percentage in a season and career (.563 and .543, The Timmonsville native respectively); highest was drafted by Philadelphia scoring average in a season and then traded to the New and career (22.2 and 20.5, Orleans Pride. After being respectively); most released by the Pride, she rebounds in a season (436 in was picked up by Dallas, 1978); and the list goes on. where she worked her jvay She currently lives in New into the starting lineup. Orleans and works at the "It's so funny," she said Southeast Louisianna wnn a warm smne, Emergency Medical Ser- "because in college if you vices Council where she is don't play well they (the coordinator of the CPR coaches) try to find out why. program for southeast In the pros, they sit you on Louisianna, but she said she the bench and put somebody is interested in getting back else in." in South Carolina and into coachinc. She thinks t.hp rpasnn "I'd like to coach at women's professional college level," she said. "I basketball is not going over don't think I would want well is because they cannot anything lower than high get the people to the games school level. I don't have the that they need to support it. patience for that." "1 think the talent is there and I think the people would She also had praise for enjoy watching that level of former USC Women's basketbll, but it has got to be Basketball Coach Pam an interest for the public," Parsons who resigned Jan. 4 she stated. in confusing circumstances. "The same people come timo and timp aaain " , . , ,, added. "Getting them tc She s a good coach, come to the first game is commented the 6-1 center the problem " about Parsons, who came to fIer husband> chariic Sacoco, said, "To get tht miuws uci ua?Kt;iuaii. inai s people there, they are going one thing for sure. You can have to go to the smallei te"* cities lake baseball has done with the minor leagues." Going to Anderson Junior College before arriving at Athletic ability seems tc Carolina helped her a lot run in the genes for th( because shp went to a small Anderson clan. Oldei private school. brothers Butch and Mik( "Coming from Hudgens both signed with Carolina t< where you knew everybody play baseball. Butch wor and going to Anderson first Carolina's valuable playei . made it much easier going award for three consecutiv< .a _ 1? ?? _ J i LY A 4 ^ ~ 1 ? _ inio Carolina, sne said. l years anu weiu UII iu pia^ just started off small and got five seasons in the minors just a little bit larger at working his way up to A/ Anderson and then came to ball for the Philadelphia USC.'' Phillies in Reading? Pa jM ii| i flnnSiV^ Mike signed in 1969 to go to I Carolina, but became a first round draft pick by the Phillies and went on to play with them instead. He won the Rookie of the Year J^^W||J|P Award in 1971 in the AAA ^ Pacific Coast League in ^ Oregon and later broke into the Majors. H Younger brother Kent is olaving baseball for USC 1& ^ However, she does think ? that athletic ability is * ormer Gamecock Kati inherited. "I think it's a big factor in | j your sport's makeup if you I V CrSlOIlS (jcllOl grow up arouna it, snesaia. I "I remember Butch getting me outside and LOUGH Showing me hOW tO Shoot ? Intramunk Editor jump shots. I think it's all COMMENTARY inherited and runs in the Th , t f family. It s a big part of it. aroum, ag tQ p'm Parsons here. Notice the word "resignat "That's not to say if you used, nor was "fired." Why? I don't come from an athletic five people really know whet lamny you can t ao well, resigned, was forced to resign, she gunned quickly. "You and it was made to look like a can develop your talent. If Pam Parsons is somewhere, I you come from an athletic get her. Her attorney is Jean ' family it's just sort of a gift. was unavailable for com You don't have to work so President James B. Holderm hard at it." legal counsel Paul Ward could She thinks it would be because of the universit great it she could get a agreement with Toal that they collegiate coaching job in anything. When the Gamecock South Carolina so that she kept the agreement intact with could follow Kent through Ron Dickerson talked, but didn his college days. The Greenville News reporte in a copyrighted story on p< She does miss basketball a Parsnnu uririvpn frnm hpr | lot but reflects, "At An- by an allegation of "sexual derson I was on two national involving team members." championship teams. At Hopefully, the sources th? Carolina, we won the talked to are willing to back all national championship in the the News had better have exce National Women's In- and a lot of money. vitational Tournament. Everything involved in this That's three championship touchy. Holderman and War teams I played on. because they are honoring T< "I WP nlavpfi in (hp ic TaoI iiiom* Hie I - ?' ? ? ' - ... v.x, fV 11U V 10 It JL U? A uv/voii V yycuit UK i national championship but as the News put it, "lesbian s lost." At Hudgens, she one player and ... sexual advi > played on two junior varsity another."? } state championship teams, Chances are that the "p 1 and was on the 26-0 state differences that Parsons ha phamninn vnr?itv tpam hf?r nlannrl o ?>nln nlthminh > [ 1 ? - ?- -"v- |/iajruu a uip, t uiv, wnnuu^n i ; sophomore year. those allegations made by the I / Ask Bill Goldstein, Parsons "I had a good team at about those differences. i every place I played," she "I think they've always b i concluded. "That's one thing her," Goldstein commen I can always think about." Gamecock. "She was hired to 1 : . .. . ; V . 1 '.. \ : :.. ^ .; '.. .. . ^ ' ;v : .,. ' .... ... v-v :/ . , : | HIHHHHH1HHBI W?HMM 9 X ; ^ 77 ^T-^{h _ =!_, r^ Irl A'p?1^" ^ ~" - .1 x. -V^T." ^ " ] rina Anderson Wants To Coach Basketball. e On Parsons Controversy I director. Now she's the coach. "Her supervisor (Ron Dickerson) is a man. her assistant is a man. and he has a contract. Her supervisor is a man and he [>ns running has a contract." ^ 1 i is no longer Didn't Parsons have a contract? j ion" was not "Hell no," Goldstein fumed. "Women because only don't get contracts." her Parsons Goldstein couldn't figure why Parsons j or was fired was no longer an employee when she was j resignation, winning. * t>ut we can't "How can they disagree with the one who roal and she Was winning? Everybody else was losing. M ment. USC what was their point to disagree?.. j an and USC Goldstein isn't sure who is behind things, Jf , n't comment the athletic department or the ad y's verbal ministration. But he has strong feelings on j wouldn't say both. : called, both "i don't know who runs the athletic flying colors, department," Goldstein said, "and I don't 't say much, think they even know who runs the show. It's rl WfHnpsrlav !- k-li; ? uuviuua nicic & el 1UIU1 IH-Ilgliung. ige one that "Holderman wants to run it. And that's in coaching job the papers. He's wanted to run it since he impropriety g0t here. There's a lot of money there, man. i "Personally, I think they're a bunch of it the News fools." of this up, or Hon Dick son, sources allege, pulled the ? * llent lawyers duty of getting Parsons letter on Dec .31. Whon tho riaront flf O nlownr " ,, ,IV/Ii V11V/ pUt viii v/* u piu j v-i v.v/ii.pic*iii^u iu | ^ ? situation is the university about the player spending the / d won't talk holidays at Parsons, Dickerson got the task >al's request. 0f talking to Parsons. The sources continue .cussed? Is it, that the talking resulted in the letter. The ?ituation with first one, that is. ances toward Maybe because she still didn't want to believe everything was happening, Parsons hilOSODhical" rloniorl it A rpl? ? vivoivu ??.. uut uaiua^c wd? nunc, liicii ts spoken of Parsons, probably disgusted with the whole lot as big as situation, "officially resigned" on Jan. 4. _ Vetvs. Not only did the university and Toal work W close friend, ()Ut a verbal agreement, but also a four-page agreement, all written in lawyer-talk. een hard on The aernorripnt rhitpd Jan 4 save that in ted to the effect, both parties release each other from I mmmmm?immmm J