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The UNL women's athletic teams will be better dressed
and better trained this fill tfuutis to an increase of
$50,CC0 in their budget, said Alcen SvofTord, UNL
women's athletic director. -
The women's budget for 1976-77 w21 be $215,CCO,
which compares with a budget of $2,5 CO in 1972-73.
Uore money means the university can now hire a
trainer who wEl work part time, Swofford said. The larger
budget will aSow women athletes to travel to athletic
contests at reasonable hours, Swofford said.
'Before, the girls often had to travel 3 night since
they couldn't afford motel rooms," she said. "Now
they will have the money they need. X!e always told the
tpis if yon qualify for nationals well get you there, but
sometimes it was hard."
Six of the nine women's athletic teams sponsored by
UNL competed in national competition this school year,
year.
Last year the girls raised over J20.CC0 for themselves,
this year they w3 have to raise $13,000 of the 5215,000
budget, Swofford said.
The new money also w21 buy new uniforms and better
equipment for the women's sports teams. -
Swofford said UNL is spending more money on
women's athletics in an attempt to comply, by 1978, with
the US. Department of Health Education and Welfare's
Title IX. Title DC stipulates that women athletes must
have equal opportunities with male athletes.
"This doesn't mean just money and scholarships,'
Swofford said, "but improved medical care, travel'
schedules, coaches salaries and practice times.
Swofford doesn't agree with critics who say that
women's athletics should take a back seat because they do
not pay for themsclres.
"Women's athletics are part of the intercoUcgate
system, and part of the university's educational system,"
she said. "We're just like any department at the university,
so the university should foot the bZL"
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