INSIDE LMU Lions and went on to host events with the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The year prior to the Olympics, the NCAA takes over women’s sports as the National Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) is dissolved. In Women’s Tennis, the Lions finished 12th in the nation in their division as Debbie Delgado is first recipient of All1970s The University merged American status. with Marymount ColSunderland, lege to become Loyola Paul Marymount University and in 1971 women’s athletics who played both begins to appear as the Association for Intercollegiate volleyball and basAthletics for Women is formed to plan, govern and pro- ketball at LMU, mote the growing number of college tournaments for went on to earn women athletes. That same year the five-player, full- All-America honors court game and the 30-second shot clock is introduced in volleyball at LMU and then played 10 years of the to women’s basketball. And then one year later one U.S. National Volleyball Team, earning U.S. Player of the of the most important pieces of legislation for wom- Year honors three times (1978, 79, 82). He played in en’s athletics is put into place as Congress passes Title the 1978 and 1982 World Championships and then as IX, setting into motion the Lions success to come in a member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic Team, he helped women’s sports. Title IX officially went into effect on the team to the Gold Medal. June 21, 1975. In 1973, Marv Wood’s baseball squad brought LMU its first West Coast Conference Champi- Paul Westhead is hired as head coach of the men’s onship after a 13-game win streak allowed the Lions basketball team, replacing Ed Goorjian, who coached from 1980-1985. In his first season, he leads the Lions to clinch the title on back to the postseason for the first time since 1980. the final weekend of In 1985, US International and LMU begin a four-year the season over secseries that would result in the highest scoring games in ond place Santa Clara. NCAA history. After defeating USIU 84-65 in January of USC knocked off the 1985, the “track meets” would begin. In Westhead’s Lions and Cal State Los first season in 1985-86, the Lions would defeat USIU Angeles in the NCAA 151-107. District 8 regionals and eventually won its The 1986 LMU baseball team had the best season in fourth consecutive naprogram history. It was also one of the best overall seational championship. In sons of all time for LMU Athletics. Following a 1985 1976 the first full scholseason in which the Lions did not have a winning rearship for a female is cord at 27-28, the program performed one of the best given and LMU adds turnarounds in LMU athletics history. They finished the its first varsity program season with a program-best 50 wins and wrapped up in Women’s Tennis as the season at 50-15, a 23-game improvement from alum Jamie Sanchez the previous year. LMU produced a 13-game winning begins the program streak from March 21 through April 11, and won 20 with a 13-6 record. of 21 games in the middle of the season. With the They went on to win a conference championship (AIAW), the first in women’s winning streak came the nation’s top ranking by the programs at LMU. They went 10-0 and won the title in ESPN/Collegiate Baseball National Poll. The Lions never 1977 and 1978 as they combined for a record of 28-2 looked back, finishing tied with Pepperdine for first place in the West Coast Athletic Conference at 19-5, in conference play. setting up a one game playoff to determine the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Regional. Played 1980s The decade started with men’s basketball earning a bid at Jackie Robinson Stadium on the campus of UCLA, to the NCAA West Regional, losing to Arizona State in the Lions defeated the Waves 14-9 to earn the bid to the NCAA West Regional. LMU would reel off its next the first round, 99-71. four games, fighting through four separate elimination Then in 1981, with the opportunity for women to games to earn a bid to the school’s first appearance in compete at the collegiate level, LMU athletes waste the College World Series. On May 30, the Lions opened no time in making their mark. Therese Kozlowski ran a up their first World Series trip with a 4-3 win over petime of 17:34.9 to win the 1981 AIAW Individual Na- rennial power LSU, to earn a two-day rest and play in tional Championship in cross country while women’s the winner’s bracket. The Lions played the University of volleyball begins as a varsity program at LMU with the Arizona on June 2 and lost a heartbreaker 7-5 to drop NCAA hosting as a championship in 1981. The banner to the elimination bracket to face Oklahoma State. The year continued as the Women’s Rowing Varsity Four Cowboys were too much for the Lions, as they went team won the 1980-81 National Championship and on to an 11-5 win. Tim Layana was a member of the the brand new Gersten Pavilion opened as home to the 1990 World Series Champion Cincinnati Reds. The Limember of the Rowing Eight with Coxswain Team that won the Gold Medal. In 1968, NBA coach Rick Adelman finished his threeyear playing career with 1,425 points, averaging 18.8 points in his career at LMU. The 1960s ended with the final curtain call of the football team as they went on to win the 1969 National Club Football National championship with an 8-1 record.
Loyola finished the CBA with a 9-5 record, second in the conference. 1960s In 1960, Loyola men’s basketball tied for first with a 9-3 record in the West Coast Athletic Conference. The title was shared with Santa Clara, who defeated the Lions in a playoff game to end the season. The Lions closed the regular season with eight straight wins. Then in 1961, LMU basketball had a record breaking season for the Lions, earning their second 20-win season, finishing 20-7 overall and earning their first-ever out-right WCAC title with a 10-2 mark. Loyola started the season 3-4, but responded with 17 wins in their final 20 games, including a nine-game winning streak. It was the Lions’ first trip to the NCAA tournament, a date in the Far West Regional at Portland. The Lions fell to Utah, 91-75 in the first round, and fell to the consolation bracket. Utah, who Loyola defeated in exhibition play 85-64 earlier in the season, went on to the Final Four. Loyola defeated USC, 69-67, to earn their 20th win of the season. It was head coach William Donovan’s final year at the helm of the Lions. In his eight years as coach, he earned 107 wins, the most among all LMU coaches. In 1964 Hugh Miller Foley rowed in the 1964 Olympics. He was a
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