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COLLEGE PRESS EXCHANGE
So much for Sunday being a day of
rest.
If the National Collegiate Athletic
Association has its way, student athletes
won't have a choice about playing
at events scheduled on the Christian
Sabbath.
The NCAA is considering Proposal
98-32, which would no longer require
the association to reschedule Division
I Sunday championship events at an
institution's request. The plan has outraged
many school officials ? particularly
those who lead religiously affiliated
schools. More than 100
institutions have signed a petition
against the policy change.
The NCAA has a rule that student
athletes need one day off a week," said
Tom Collins, athletic director of Camp
Dell university, a boutnern Baptist
school in North Carolina. "For us
that day should be Sunday."
The proposed policy change
stems from the NCAA's desire to be
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champion in 1998 with the shot put,
threw a toss of 64-feet-4 1/2 to place
sixth. Snyder, a rising junior, was the
only collegiate in the competition. Snyder
went in seated ninth.
"I had a pretty good opener and
then I didn't throw very well," Snyder
said. "I was trying to hard I guess and
my technique kind of fell apart. It's
getting easier for me to compete at this
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level.
"I am not as nervous. I would like
to have done a bit better, but I always
feel that way. You are never in
a situation where you say you couldn't
have done any better," he said.
Carolina throws coach Mike Sergent
was pleased with Snyder's performance.
"It was a good performance for Brad
after a lonsr vear" Sereent said. "It was
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more inclusive of student athletes wh
observe the Sabbath on days other thai
Sunday, said Tricia Bork, an NCAj
staff administrator.
"We looked at the impact of havin,
to adjust the schedule for all other pai
ticipants and what would be better fo
a larger number of athletes," she saic
The University of California at Lo
Angeles cited similar reasons for it
decision not to sign the petition, sai
Betsy Stephenson, one of UCLA's as
sociate athletic directors.
"We are an extremely diverse com
munity, ethnically, religiously and cul
turally, and we believe it is difficul
to accommodate any one part," she saic
"If you can't accommodate all groups
then it is unfair to protect some o
them."
But school officials and student ath
letes protesting the change aren't buj
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nig mat eapimiauuii. ?iiey insist ui
almighty dollar is behind the NCAA'
deliberations.
"A lot of decisions are based on mon
ey, and that's not always right," sail
tishes sixth
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international competition. He is show
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The USA went 1-2-3 in the even
with world record holder John Go din;
winning it all at 70-feet-4 1/2.
Snyder, a native of Windsor, On
tario, is training for the Canadian Na
tionals in August.
Snyder will compete in the discus;
and the shot put. He is ranket
eighth in the world.
In her first competition as a pro
fessional, South Carolina's two-tim<
NCAA champion Lisa Misipeka place(
seventh in the women's hammer throv
last Tuesday at the Goodwill Games
Former Carolina NCAA chamnior
Dawn Ellerbe finished sixth.
Romania's Mihaela Melinte woi
the event with a world-record toss o
238'4.
Misipeka, a native of Temecula
uam., tnrew zuo-ieei-n w piace sev
enth. Misipeka will bring home a checl
for $750.
Ellerbe threw one inch better tc
finish sixth at 206-feet. Ellerbe, an as
sistant coach at the University ol
Wyoming, will cash a check for $1,000
Misipeka competes under the American
Samoa flag. She is the first femalt
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Goodwill Games.
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present will be allowed to cast a ballot.
If the NCAA approves the policy
change, officials at Campell and
Rrifham Younp University, an insti
tution affiliated with the Mormon
church, which also recognizes Sunday
as the Sabbath, say they will not allow
their athletes to play on Sunday.
While their tough stance might prohibit
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