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HEAR THEM ROAR SU Athletics and The Spectator team up to honor women athletes By Diana Chamorro, ’11 MSAL
Names such as Elgin Baylor, Eddie and Johnnie nnie O’Brien and Tom Workman often come to eattle mind when talk turns to the glory days of Seattle o University athletics and student athletes who helped put SU on the map. But what aboutt the women who were pioneers in athletics? This year the Athletics Department is partnering with the student newspaper The Spectator to sponsor the Year of the Woman series that recognizes integral women who helped make strides in the development of sports programs at SU. The Spectator is highlighting accomplished women in school history such as Ingrid wna Gunnestad, Sue Stimac, Sue Turina, LaShawna eries White and Julie (Holmes) Woodward. The series will culminate with a tribute dinner for Pat Lesser and Janet (Hopps) Adkinson, May 1 at the Space Needle. In the 1950s, while students at SU, Lesser, who played golf and Adkinson, a tennis player, earned national ms. They were championships playing on the all-men’s teams. e university. the first national champs in any sport for the
Visit www.goseattleu.com for tickets and more information on the dinner.
THE GOOD WORD
SPRING AWAKENING Here is an excerpt from the latest the Good Word column, penned by Mike Bayard, S.J., director of Campus Ministry:
“As new life blossoms all around us in this springtime, we might ask ourselves this question: How do we cultivate the spirit within so that each one of us might be most authentic and faithful to what God calls us to, to our greater purpose?” Read the Good Word column in its entirety online at www.seattleu.edu/magazine/.
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