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‘Is this a true measure of adversity?’

Associate vice president and dean of admissions has no plans on using SAT adversity scale when looking at future applicants.

By Alyssa Stewart E D I T O R

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College board — the creator of the SAT — will now provide students a score not based on their academic skills, but the environment they grew up in.

It is being called an adversity score.

The score will take 15 factors into account and will vary from crime rate, poverty level, race, rental property percentage rates and the student’s neighborhood.

The measurement is based on a scale one through 100. If a student scores below a 50 they are considered privileged and if it is above, then it designates hardship, according to The Wall

Street Journal.

The universities will be able to have access to the adversity score but the student will not.

The adversity score will be eligible to every university in the country by 2020, however, Associate Vice President and Dean of Admissions Glen Besterfield does not foresee this measurement in USF’s future.

Besterfield said he learned about the adversity score in May and instantly had some reservations.

“It is about the community that the student grew up in, it has nothing to do with the student,” Besterfield said. “Two

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Students displaced by Hurricane Maria fight to keep in-state tuition

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The Boricua Student Association is requesting an in-state tuition extension through 2023 for Puerto Rican students affected by Hurricane Maria. ORACLE PHOTO/LEDA ALVIM

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The future of 20 Puerto-Rican and U.S. Virgin Island students at USF is undecided as the in-state tuition waiver, offered after Hurricane Maria hit the islands, expired at the end of the spring semester.

With the financial burden of paying out-of-state tuition, students from the Boricua Student Association (BSA) wrote an open letter to USF System President Judy

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Genshaft and the Board of Trustees (BOT) requesting an extension of the waiver.

The waiver, granted in 2017 by several public universities across Florida, offered in-state tuition prices to all students displaced by the hurricane to continue their studies and recover from the storm’s aftermath.

With the waiver’s expiration, a full-time student would have to pay $17,324 for 30 credit hours, compared to $6,410 should they

maintain their in-state status.

In the letter, BSA requested the waiver extension through 2023 to ensure that displaced students can finish their academic careers at USF. University of Central Florida (UCF) and Florida International University (FIU) are among the public universities in Florida that extended the in-state tuition waiver until the same year.

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students in the same apartment complex can get the same score but it’s not about the student, it’s about the community, so how do I really use that in the admissions process.”

Each of the 15 factors are weighted at the same level which means crime rates and rental percentages in the area would be measured at the same capacity.

“It seems like one should be weighed heavier than the other, so it’s interesting,” Besterfield said. “Is this a true measure of adversity?”

College Board conducted a pilot with 50 universities last year and they plan to expand it to 150 this fall.

Among the 50, FSU was the only Florida university included.

FSU administration claimed that the adversity scale has “increased its non-white enrollment from 37 percent to 42 percent among its incoming freshman class,” according to the Florida Daily.

Besterfield does not believe diversity is an area that USF lacks in.

“In 2015, we were ranked 6th in the nation for closing the gap for black students and in 2017 we were voted number one in the nation for Latino students,” Besterfield said. “We are doing phenomenal.”

USF receives over 40,000 applications every year for the admissions process and accepts approximately 17,000.

Besterfield said he believes a more “holistic approach” is not realistic considering the

Besterfield said the USF admissions process is “black and white” due to the fact that GPA, Advanced Placement scores, dual-enrollment and standardized-test scores are the only factors taken in account.

Besterfield said he believes the adversity scale will open students to try and use it to their advantage.

“If people knew that checking a box means that you would get more points, then I wouldn’t have control of my admissions process,” Besterfield said.

He said the adversity scale could be considered a “fundamental flaw” because the SAT and ACT are not being provided with the same criteria.

“Am I going to discriminate toward one student and give more points in admission to another because they have an adversity score?” Besterfield said. “A student may have more adversity in their life but they choose to take a different test instead.”

After the data is released for the first year, Besterfield said he will consider using the scale for the admissions process in 2021 the earliest.

“At the end of the day, we want a student who can succeed at this university,” Besterfield said. “We are getting more applicants every year, so it’s my job to retain diversity, grow the academic profile and maintain the numbers.

“Unless I get significantly more information about the adversity score, I will not be using it.”

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Library establishes earlier card swipe times

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By Alyssa Stewart E D I T O R

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If you’re planning on bringing your textbooks, MacBook and $5 for Starbucks in preparation for your all-nighter in the library, you may need to start adding your student ID to that checklist.

On May 12, the library started requiring students to swipe their USF ID’s in order to enter the building after 8:45 p.m.

Previously, students had to swipe their cards after midnight.

Along with the security enhancements, the library will also be opened longer hours during the intermission between semesters. Beginning August 4, hours of operation will be 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. until the fall semester begins.

The library is open 24 hours, five days a week until then.

Library Operations Manager Terry Hutchings said the library invited the University Police (UP) Relations Unit to conduct a building tour in July of 2017.

As a result, UP provided a “recommendation packet” which included suggestions for safety and security.

Specifically, earlier swipe times and an increase in security.

The Shimberg Health Sciences Library and other buildings have earlier swipe times around 9 p.m. so it made sense for the library to align with the rest of campus.

Hutchings said there have been issues with patrons creating disturbances at 1 a.m. to 2 a.m. while people are studying. This is based on feedback from faculty

The library is changing its swipe card access to 8:45 p.m. for safety and security reasons. ORACLE PHOTO/LEDA ALVIM and students.

“More often than not its members of the community and not USF students,” Hutchings said.

Spring of 2019, Hutchings met with Student Government (SG) representatives to create a “Library Access Survey,” which included questions about renovations, the study environment and safety.

According to the survey, 78.26 percent of students believed that the card swipe access should be changed to 8:45 p.m. in order to increase security and 21.74 percent said it should not change.

“The reason we did the survey was to find out if we needed to increase safety in any way because we care about student feedback and the environment they’re in,” Hutchings said.

Changing the card swipe hours was the easiest

recommendation on the UP list, according to Hutchings, because it only requires altering the programming on the door.

The other recommendation made by UP was to add security guards during the nights.

Because there are fewer students on campus, summer semester will have one security guard from 8:30 p.m. to midnight and the rest of the year will have two security guards from midnight until 7:30 a.m.

“Security guards are pretty expensive so we wanted to make sure that we have them for the late nights,” Hutchings said.

During the school year, one security guard will check ID’s and the second is required to walk throughout each floor.

“We want to make sure we provide a safe and secure area around the library,” Hutchings said.

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president for Student Success, the request to extend for four more years is unnecessary.

“I have no doubt that the island hasn’t fully recovered from the hurricane … but a lot of these students are about to graduate,” Dosal said. “I don’t think they’re going to be here in 2023. When the students requested for all waivers to be extended to 2023, it struck me as unnecessary.”

In addition, the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) requested all universities across Florida in a letter to stop accepting transfer students as a way to help its recovery. According to Dosal, USF didn’t want to be seen as taking advantage of the crisis to boost the student enrollment.

“We need to be very careful about being seen as trying to take students who should rightfully be at the University of Puerto Rico, which is kind of tough,” Dosal said. “So what we have done in our policy is

to try to take a moderate and case by case approach. We were taking them in an emergency situation and then once the emergency was passed and UPR was ready to take them back, those students would go back.”

Joel Yap Santana, president of BSA, said that the education of the students under the in-state tuition waiver are at risk without the waiver’s extension.

“On top of dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, students have this insecurity with their education,” Joel said. “Other universities have done it and, taking into consideration what USF stands for, it just makes sense that they would try to put their students’ needs a priority as much as they can.”

In response to the letter, the university determined that they will use a case-by-case approach to analyze each student’s financial needs individually, due to the small number of students previously

eligible for the in-state tuition waiver.

The student must have been admitted to USF in spring 2017 and have a completed Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) on file, along with any required supporting documentation to demonstrate financial need for the year the benefit is approved.

If the criteria are met, the student’s respective college will be required to send a degree audit to determine the minimum number of hours needed for the student to graduate.

Monica Santana, the former treasurer of BSA, said students from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are still dealing with the hurricane’s aftermath and by extending until 2023, it will help students finish their education at USF. “By extending it to 2023, it will allow students to finish what they started here USF paying the in-state tuition,” Monica said. “Although it’s

been almost a year and a half since the hurricane hit the island, Puerto Rico is still in a huge economic crisis where many people lost their jobs, including the parents of some of our students.”

The decision will be based upon if the student was displaced by the hurricane and if they would experience extreme financial difficulty if required to pay out of state tuition.

“If a student who can go home and doesn’t have financial need, then we don’t have to extend the waiver,” Dosal said.

USF first announced the decision to grant the in-state tuition waiver following a request by former Governor Rick Scott (R) in 2017.

After offering the waiver for a year, USF extended it until spring 2019.

According to Monica, until the decision is final, students taking summer classes are having to pay for out-of-state tuition, which could later impact their graduation plans.

One of these students is Natalia

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Requejo, who is having to take out loans as a way to pay for her out-ofstate tuition.

“It’s really frustrating,” Requejo said. “They are saying that they will look into it case-by-case but they didn’t give us any date of when the decision will be made. I’m taking loans to pay out-of-state tuition for the summer classes which I might not even be able to transfer if I have to go back to Puerto Rico. At this point, I’m just wasting money.”

For students in a similar situation to Requejo’s, Monica said some are being forced to take fewer classes due to a lack of financial resources.

“Most of them have reached out to us and they’ve told us they’re going to become part-time to be able to cover the difference,” Monica said. “Others don’t even know what option they have right now.

“Going back home isn’t a feasible option.”

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two-for-ones: they can.

Make no mistake, USF and UCF need Florida, Miami and Alabama on their schedules more than the inverse. The CFP committee has made it clear playing in the ACC and SEC is enough and Alabama can play its traditionally laughable nonconference slate for the rest of eternity and still make the Playoff.

White’s views on two-forones are also driven by money.

UCF has made it a point to schedule seven home games each season in an effort to sell more tickets.

“It’s opposite our scheduling model,” White said in the same interview on WYGM. “We’re scheduling the way we schedule to build our season ticket base, our revenue, build our budget and build our fan base.”

That’s fine.

Different programs, with different stadium situations, can — and probably should —

have different scheduling philosophies. But UCF’s clearly isn’t resulting in the national respect it thinks it deserves.

Meanwhile, USF’s “wherever, whenever” method has precedent for that.

Some “old” timers — at least old as far as a program entering its 23rd season goes — remember the buzz USF received nationally in 2007 after it beat then No. 17-Auburn and followed it up with a home win a few weeks later against thenNo. 5 West Virginia in front of a sold-out Ray Jay. The road victory against Auburn was enough to get a previously unranked Bulls team to No. 23, marking the first time in program history USF entered the Top 25. USF eventually turned that appearance in the Top 25 into a No. 2 ranking by Week 7.

Then there was the 2009 victory against then-No. 18 FSU in Tallahassee and the 2011 win against then-No. 16 Notre Dame in South Bend. Both of those wins also got unranked USF

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teams into the Top 25.

The FSU game was part of a home-and-home series and West Virginia was a Big East home game, but none of those other teams ever paid a return trip to Raymond James Stadium.

Granted, this all happened during the days of the BCS and while the Big East was considered the equivalent of what we call Power conferences today, but USF’s strategy obviously worked back then.

Meanwhile, there’s no reason to believe UCF’s method of playing mid-tier Power programs in home-and-homes will ever pay off. It hasn’t so far, at least.

Going forward, USF is likely to have an advantage over its War on I-4 rival, at least when it comes to strength of schedule.

If the Bulls can even pull off a few of these games against the monsters of college football, it’s going to do so much more good than UCF’s home-and-home with Pittsburgh ever did.

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She holds the program record for wins (101), saves (20), innings pitched (844.1), strikeouts (1,103), strikeouts per seven innings (9.14), opponent batting average (.170) and appearances (190). Nevins pitched in two of the three perfect games in program history and nine no-hitters. She also was a member of the USA Women’s National Team from 2013-15, winning five medals.

Shanita Grace Grace was a three-time All-Big East selection, earning a first-team selection in 2008-09. She was named most valuable player of the 2009 Women’s NIT after the Bulls won their first, and to date only, postseason championship. In addition to being third all-time in scoring (1,941 points), seventh in steals (194) and third in games played (132), Grace also holds the program record for single-game scoring at 44 points, set in 2008 against Coppin State.

The third women’s basketball

5 player to be inducted, Grace joins Wanda Guyton (2009) and Jessica Dickson (2012). She is currently the head coach at Booker High School in Sarasota after playing professionally in Poland.

George Selvie Selvie is the third football player to be inducted, joining Anthony Henry (2011) and Marquel Blackwell (2013). He is the only two-time, first-team AllAmerican in program history (2007 & 2008). The 2007 Big East Defensive Player of the Year, Selvie was a major factor in the Bulls’ eventual rise to No. 2 in the nation, setting program records for tackles for loss (31.5) and sacks (14.5). Selvie remains as the program leader in tackles for loss (69.5), sacks (29), forced fumbles (9) and starts (50).

He was drafted in the seventh round in the 2010 NFL Draft by the St. Louis Rams and went on to play six seasons in the NFL with the New York Giants, Dallas Cowboys, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Carolina Panthers and St. Louis Rams.

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What you said Multimedia Editor Leda Alvim asked students to weigh in on the national debate surrounding different state’s abortion laws.

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46 years after the historic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, which determined that women have the right to choose whether or not they are going to have an abortion, regressive states like Alabama have reopened Pandora’s box on this issue.

Alabama is not alone in taking fundamental steps backward when it comes to the argument over a woman’s right to choose. States such as Texas, Missouri and Georgia have proposed bills that ban abortion once a fetal heartbeat has been detected — and conservatives all Republican male representatives need to leave the conversations across the country are fighting for about women’s bodies to women. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE the same actions to be taken.

Out of the states, Alabama is percent of women experience rape The recent Texas bill that failed one of the most restrictive because or sexual abuse. This ban is putting would have charged doctors who it excludes rape and incest cases. these students at risk for unsafe performed abortions with assault The only conditions acceptable abortions. or criminal homicide, which could in terminating the pregnancy is if Most recently, it was announced potentially result in the death it is ectopic — the fertilized egg Tuesday that Missouri will be one of penalty. implants outside the uterus — or the first states in the U.S to offer no Yet, the average rapist serves if the unborn baby has a “lethal abortion services since Roe v. Wade, about 10 years in prison. anomaly.” according to the New York Times.

We live in a system where a doctor But beyond the issue of Young women will not have could serve a longer sentence than a conservatives voicing their stance, it the support of their lawmakers rapist for performing a procedure. seems that one group of individuals to terminate their pregnancies so If men were put in these situations, are most vocal: men. they may be forced to endure life- would these laws still be in place?

Specifically, the Alabama State threatening procedures and use State Legislators are failing Senate made up of 25 upper-class unsafe tools. Unfortunately, some women and everything Roe v. Wade white Republican men. become a part of the statistic of stands for.

Besides licensed professionals, 30,000 women who die from unsafe It shouldn’t matter if you are there will rarely be a time or place abortions every year, according to personally anti-abortion or if you where a man will know the best The Atlantic. are pro-life. interest of a woman’s body more With this anti-abortion bill, the You can have a personal stance than a woman herself. number of fatalities is bound to without limiting the right for Excluding rape cases from this increase. women to choose. law is dangerous considering the Under the Alabama abortion millions of rapes that are reported ban, a doctor who performs an Alyssa Stewart is a junior majoring every year. abortion could be charged with up in integrated public relations and On a college campus alone, 11 to 99 years in prison. advertising.

“This is not only a war for women, but also a war for all people who have uteruses.”

— Ashton Pennington, a senior majoring in social work.

“I’m against the recent ban on abortion in Alabama because I believe women should have the right to decide what to do with their bodies.” ­— Manushi Shah, a senior majoring in cellular molecular biology.

“I’m pro-life but I also consider myself pro-choice.

I feel like if it’s something that I wouldn’t do doesn’t give me the right to decide for someone else.

— Genesis Ford, a junior majoring in biomedical sciences.

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on a plane, his wife insisted he not go on an upcoming road trip. Eriksen stayed home and the Bulls, under just Moore and Ricciardone, swept the series.

Eriksen joked that maybe they were better off without him.

Get ready for Olympians in Tampa Bay — and don’t rule out some exhibitions against USF Team USA will obviously need to train together prior to the Olympics, and while it’s too early to try to figure out where the U.S. will be spending the majority of its time in early 2020, Eriksen’s ties to Tampa Bay — as well as the area holding events in years past — make it a strong favorite to host events related to Team USA as the Tokyo Games approach.

“We’ve [Tampa Bay] provided a lot of opportunities for Team USA to come in here and train and work over the last three-four years,” Eriksen said. “And now, Michael Kelly is also talking to me about negotiating things about players here and staying and training here and this and that.

Because it is a good opportunity for all the young women in the Tampa Bay area to see some of these great players.”

With that also comes the opportunity for exhibition games, including the possibility for games against USF — although, the 750-seat USF Softball Stadium may not be big enough to host such an event, according to Eriksen.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if we tried to put together some packages where we’re [USF] playing exhibition games against Team USA out here in the softball stadium — or the baseball stadium, because softball might not be able to hold the crowds

that you have,” Eriksen said. “I would be looking forward to the future on that scheduling tour that would open up a lot of opportunities for this area to cheer on some of the greatest players to ever play the game.”

Hosting Olympic training is not unprecedented for the Tampa Bay area. The gold-medal winning U.S. women’s hockey team trained in Wesley Chapel in advance of the 2018 Winter Olympics and even played several exhibitions against USF’s club hockey team at the Center Ice complex.

USF is going to get the kind of international exposure money could never buy A lot of people watch the Olympics.

The 2016 Olympics had an estimated viewership of 3.6 billion people, according to Statista. That’s almost half the world’s population.

Eriksen’s involvement with USF dates back to 1979, when he first played for USF baseball, so it’s safe to say any feature NBC or other international networks do on him will focus heavy on his time at USF. “Everyone always love to watch the Olympics and learn more about the men and women that are representing our country,” Kelly said. “And in this case, the human-interest story is local and here and one of USF’s own.”

So while all of this will undoubtedly create more work for everyone at USF — from Eriksen to Moore and Ricciardone, all the way to Kelly even — the payoff will be worth it.

“There’ll be adjustments,” Kelly said, “but in the full spirit of BullSpeedAhead, this is an opportunity you can’t pass up. And you can’t pass it up personally, as a program or as a university.”

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USF, UCF and the 2-for-1

By Brian Hattab S P O R T S

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USF captured the attention of the college football world last week when it was announced the Bulls did what few nonPower Five programs have been able to do — schedule a home game against Alabama.

USF luring the Crimson Tide out of Tuscaloosa is a big deal.

Alabama has not played a road game against a nonPower team since 2003, when the Crimson Tide traveled to Hawaii in what was a de facto bowl game while the program was under NCAA sanctions.

Prior to 2002, also at Hawaii for similar reasons, Alabama’s last non-Power road game came against Tulane in 1992.

Of course, the Bulls’ home game comes with a caveat: USF must travel to Tuscaloosa twice while the Crimson Tide will only roll into Raymond James Stadium once.

This type of deal, otherwise known as a two-for-one, is becoming common for Group of Five programs when scheduling marquee Power Five teams — and it isn’t popular with everyone in the AAC. In response to USF announcing a two-for-one with Miami the week prior to the Alabama news, UCF Athletic Director Danny White was critical of USF’s acceptance of two-for-ones.

“It’s a precedent I don’t like being set in our conference for schools to start doing a lot higher volume of two-for-ones,” White said in an interview on Orlando’s WYGM-AM. “We’ve been successful, historically, of getting home-and-homes with Power 6 opponents, and I’d like to see our conference peers continue to do that as we intend to do.”

When taken at face value, White’s comments are

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accurate. The Knights have several home-and-home series scheduled with Power Five teams in the coming years and wrap up two in 2019 alone.

But not all Power Five teams are equal, and because of that, White’s argument doesn’t last.

The home-and-homes UCF wraps up this year are against Stanford and Pittsburgh.

Stanford finished third in the Pac-12 last season, a conference which hasn’t had a team in the College Football Playoff (CFP) since the 2014 season.

Pittsburgh won the ACC Coastal in 2018 before being blown out by Clemson in the conference championship game, its first appearance in one since escaping the Big East after 2012.

Unfortunately for UCF, while it’s a solid lineup, it’s not going to be solid enough to help the Knights’ strength of schedule get where it needs to be, especially since the rest of UCF’s nonconference schedule consists of Florida Atlantic and

Florida A&M. It’s well documented what the CFP committee thinks about strength of schedule, after all.

“Play a good schedule, win your games, and you’re going to be in the hunt for the College Football Playoff,” CFP executive director Bill Hancock said regarding UCF’s chances at making the Playoff last season.

Because of the perceived inferiorness of the AAC — whether fair or not — USF’s and UCF’s schedules are never going to impress the powers that be in college football without a few big names on the schedule.

But, hindering UCF’s quest for the big names are two-forones. White may act like he doesn’t understand why he can’t get a home-and-home with teams like Florida, but there’s a pretty simple explanation of why big name programs offer

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What Eriksen’s Olympic job means for USF

By Brian Hattab S P O R T S

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It may not have been the most surprising announcement in recent memory, but the important thing is it’s official.

USF softball coach Ken Eriksen was named head coach of Team USA for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics last week. The 2020 Games will be the first time softball has been in the Olympics since 2008.

Though the announcement may not have been shocking — after all, he has been head coach of Team USA since 2011 — Eriksen can now move forward with planning for next year’s Summer Games, which the U.S. has already qualified for by way of winning the 2018 World Baseball Softball Confederation World Championship in 2018.

Though, fortunately for Eriksen, some of that work has already been completed.

“Right after the World Championships, even though I

may not have been given the [Olympic] job yet,” Eriksen said, “I think it was really responsible for me to continue in the job that I was at — was deciphering all the information still, putting together the plan for the next two years — no matter who took over, that you would just hand off the component of power to that person, whoever it might be.

“Everything is in boxes and stacks and videos and everything else to hand off — except, I don’t have to hand it off now.”

So, at least the preliminary work is complete for the 58-yearold Eriksen. But what are the other things that will come with his appointment as leader of Team USA on the grandest stage Ken Eriksen was named head coach of Team USA for the 2020 Olympics last week. ORACLE PHOTO/BRIAN HATTAB of all?

Get ready for more Jess and Laura than Ken Now that the job is officially Eriksen’s, one of the harder parts must be sorted out. Eriksen

must figure out how to balance his responsibilities at USF with those of being the leader of an Olympic team.

It wasn’t clear last week just

how much the responsibility of leading a team into the Olympics would take Eriksen away from USF, but the Tokyo Games start July 24, just a month and a half

after the Women’s College World Series, so it’s more than likely a question of when, rather than if, Eriksen will be unavailable next season.

But, as he and Vice President of Athletics Michael Kelly work out a plan for the next year that involves him and assistant coaches Jess Moore and Laura Ricciardone, Eriksen will have full support.

“Ken knows that he has my full support as we look into the next year together in terms of how it’ll impact his availability, how it’ll impact his staff, who I have tremendous faith and confidence in,” Kelly said.

Kelly’s confidence in Moore and Ricciardone isn’t misguided either apparently.

After the press conference announcing his appointment to the Olympic job, Eriksen shared a story about a time he was having back problems during the 2019 season. Not wanting to further the problem by getting

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USF Athletics Hall of Fame class announced

By Brian Hattab S P O R T S

E D I T O R

The USF Athletics Hall of Fame will have three new names this fall.

Shanita Grace (women’s basketball, 2005-09), Sara Nevins (softball, 2011-14) and George Selvie (football, 2006-09) will be the next class to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, USF Athletics

announced Tuesday.

The Class of 2019 will be the sixth inducted into the Hall of Fame — which began in 2009 — and the first since 2013. Vice President of Athletics Michael Kelly announced the return of the Hall of Fame in February.

“We are very excited to welcome this tremendous class of Bulls that have had such a significant impact on USF Athletics to the Hall of

Fame,” Kelly said in a statement Tuesday. “I would like to thank the Hall of Fame committee for their time and effort in selecting an outstanding class and we look forward to welcoming the inductees home during a great event this fall.”

The induction ceremony will take place Friday, Nov. 15 at the Marshall Student Center, the night before USF football plays

Cincinnati at Raymond James Stadium. USF Athletics plans to release further details on the ceremony at a later date.

About the inductees Sara Nevins Nevins is the second softball player to be inducted, joining Monica Triner (2011). The ace of

the team that went to the 2012 Women’s College World Series, she is considered by many to be the best pitcher in USF softball history. She was a four-time allconference selection and was named the 2014 AAC Pitcher of the Year.

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