I do the best I can to help them succeed regardless of their sex. She says that every department in the athletic association has reorganized over the last 25 years to support both men's and women's sports. They're very supportive of each other, she says. It's been great to have the stability we've had with him being here all these years. Now it's a cool thing to be a gymnastics fan or to follow the women's basketball team.
Efforts are under way to build scholarship endowments for women's sports.
The gymnastics program, for instance, has developed priority seating arrangements similar to those used by the football program to provide scholarship support. We just need to make sure that continues.