Sports
Daly provides
model for women
By, Terry McCarthy
There is nothing new about
women collegiate athletes.
Every year, colleges award
millions of dollars in athletic
scholarships to women in
sports ranging from tennis to
archery. What is an un
common sight is see a woman
participate on a team that
had traditionally been all
male. Deb Daly is one of
those rare women who has
the courage to cross the
sexual boundary of male
athletics.
Deb, who has just com
pleted her first year as a right
wing -on the Condors soccer
team, claims that being the
only girl on the team was not
such an awkward situation.
"At first I felt a little strange,
but some of the guys gave me
encouragement right away.
They (the team) were always
`busting my horns' but they
also gave me plenty of en
couragement." According to
Deb, chivalry is not dead with
the young men on the soccer
team. It paid off being the
only girl. "They mostly
treated me like one of the
guys, but if I was carrying
the medicine kit, one of them
would usually walk up to me
and ask if I needed any help."
Some people did not take
the situation as well as Deb
and the team. "A few , ,of the
opponents asked to be taken
out of the game because they
didn't want to play against a
girl. They were afraid to play
as hard as normal and there
was also a lot of pressure not
to be `burned' by a girl." Deb
also was put under pressure
by other women. Deb stated,
"Many of the women who
attended the games walked
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Women in sports
up to me and congratulated
me, and said I was doing a
great thing, but there were
others who would walk up to
me and accused me of only
joining to meet guys and
show off."
One player who has respect
for Deb as a player is
"At first I felt a little
strange, but some of the guys
gave me encouragement
right away."
Sophomore Steven Bunn, a
second year man on the team.
When asked what he thought
of having a girl on the squad
Bunn stated, "It was really
no problem. We just treated
her as if she was another
player. It was good in some
Ways to have her on the team
because she tried harder than
some of the guys and she
always showed up for
practice. She also isn't a bad
soccer player."
Deb is no stranger to the
rigors of soccer. Back in her
hometown, Locust Valley in
Long Island, Deb played for
four years and in her senior
year led her team with 35
assists and was third in
scoring with 15 goals. Locust
Valley High School did not
even have a girls' soccer
team until Deb and a few of
her friends got together
enough interested girls and
received permission from the
school board to organize a
varsity team. By her senior
year, Deb's team had a
record of 12-2, defeating
teams that had been
organized for twelve years.
Deb's role has changed
from high school to college in
terms of her participation. "I
am used to playing every
game from start to finish, but
now I must accept my role of
coming off the bench," stated
Deb. "I also used to be very
aggressive in high school.
Now I have to be careful
because some of these guys
out weigh me by forty or fifty
pounds." She still managed to
knock over an opponent in an
effort to head a ball they were
both fighting for.
Hazleton campus is not the
place for female athletes
according to Deb. "I think
this is a. male-oriented
campus. Hazleton only has
volleyball and tennis for
women. Part of the problem
is the girls, too. Most of them
are too content to sit back and
let things happen for them
which is not the way it should
be. At other schools, girls go
out and do things. Here all
they do is keep , the books. A
lot of girls played soccer in
high school. They are afraid
to do things for women."
Deb Daly is a person that
all women can look to for an
example of a person who has
the courage to leap over the
boundary line of six, not only
in sports, but in all aspects of
life.
Women need
assertiveness
By Diedre Jago
Women students at our
campus and throughout our
society face a very real
problem that most male
students and the majority of
male professors tend to
ignore. It is subtle, yet
pervasive attitude that the
women in general are in
ferior, less intelligent,
weaker, and lack the
necessary stamina
demanded of them in their
chosen careers. This un
derlying attitude creates a
wide range of,responses in
our women students. Some
women become very hostile.
These girls do everything in
their power to show that they
are equal, if not superior, in
intellect, strength and
stamina. Most men become
highly defensive in their
presence. On the other hand,
some girls remain passive.
They sit back and let the
world revolve around them,
thus perpetuating this per
vasive attitude of inferiority.
Male students usually flirt
with these girls and play the
game to the hilt. These are
the same girls who get
trapped into doing the
laundry, cooking meals, and
Support one another as you strive for common goals;
stick to the values that you feel are right, and keep your
mind and body strong.
handing over carefully
prepared class notes.
Perhaps the best way to
recognize the problem is to
look at some specific
examples of what some of the
girls at our campus have
been doing to break this
barrier. For instance, in
intramural volleyball con
tests (and even in some class
settings) it has been . a
common occurrance for a
male player to jump in front
of a female player just as the
ball is coming to the girl. How
are the men ever going to
know whether or not the girl
can handle the ball if the girl
never has a chalice to even
touch the ball? Give her the
opportunity to play and she
will soon show that she has
the ability. Some girls have
already begun to verbalize
their dissatisfaction with the
"ball hogs" and the situation
has quickly changed. This
assertiveness must be
learned, but once learned the
girl realizes a decrease in the
amount of stress that had
previously been internalized.
Another specific example
of how a female intruded the
male dompin at the Hazleton
Campus was that a girl
played on the men's soccer
team this fall. She was not the
first girl to have played
soccer at our campus and she
will probably not be the last,
but many insinuations were
made by individuals who do
not understand females can
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and do enjoy participation
and competition in strenuous
sports. is it not sufficient to
say that a person plays a
sport for the joy of par
ticipation and the exercise
and not necessarily for the
novelty or attention that is
bestowed just because the
player is a member of the
opposite sex?
Females have been known
to possess higher levels of
skills than their male
counterparts in sports such
as tennis. Remember back a
few years ago when Billie
Jean King. beat Bobby. Riggs
in the well publicized "Battle
of the Sexes". We presently
have a female tennis player
on campus who has beaten
some of the members of the
men's team. Why is it that the
male students feel that they
have to tease the guys who
have lost to a girl? Why not
admit that she has attained a
higher level of skill than her
opponents?
Sports are but one aspect of
the problem on our
predominantly male-oriented
campus. Some colleges' have
very few females enrolled
'compared to the relatively
high numbers of male
students. Engineering
specifically is a college in
which the female student
population is rather small.
Girls in engineering have to
be strong willed, determined,
• bright and willing to prove
that they can make it through
all the rough times. Finding
role models for our female
engineering majors is a hard
task. We have no female
engineering professors and
most of the female
engineering majors do not
even know any other female
engineers who are already
working. These girls usually
have to wait until they either
graduate or transfer to
University Park to meet
other females with similar
interests. It is only then that
they can find a role model in
the form of an up
perclassman or a colleague.
The male engineers have a
much easier time identifying
a role model and this alone
can ease some of the stress
associated with obtaining
that much sought after
degree.
Life at the Hazleton
Campus can be rewarding,
happy experience for most of
the students. To insure your
success on the sports field
and in the classroom, set
realistic goals, develop an
awareness of yourself,
support one another as you
strive for common goals,
stick to the values that you
feel are right, and keep your
mind and body strong.