Inside RecSports: Fall/Winter 2012

YOUR CONNECTION TO UT INTRAMURALS

Vol. 12, No. 1 Fall 2012

EDUCATION THROUGH RECREATION FE ATUR E A RTICLE

Women's Intramural Posture

From the Director Dear Friends: A new academic year is now well underway, and we are delighted to share some recent news and a number of exciting developments that are on the horizon. We are especially excited to welcome Dr. Gage Paine as the new Vice President for Student Affairs (see back page article). As a Student Affairs agency, Recreational Sports works closely with the Vice President to bring about world-class programs and enrich the lives of Longhorn students. There is no greater champion of Recreational Sports than Dr. Paine, and I hope you will join me in welcoming her to the UT Austin family.

The new academic year also brought with it several record numbers of significance to RecSports and the University. Among the many, I will share three. First, we are pleased to report that Recreational Sports–formerly Intramurals– is marking its 96th year as a University department and is making plans for a grand celebration of its 100th

"Over the 12-year lifespan of this newsletter, we’ve heard hundreds of you express how RecSports contributed significantly to your educational experience.

We want to ensure that UT students today and in the future enjoy the same experiences you’ve cherished all these years."

Cover Image Clockwise from Left: Marilyn (Rowe) Drinker and Dorothy Horak, 1942 Posture Winners The Players, 3-time 6 ft. & Under Champions SAE, Champions of the 50s The Bombers, 3-time National Champions

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year in 2016. Also of great significance, the University welcomed its largest freshman class ever, with the enrollment of 8,214 new students comprising the class of 2016. Last but not least, student participation in RecSports has reached an all-time high of 91 percent of students, as reported in the spring student survey. All in all, this academic year promises to be one of record successes.

In this issue, we look back at one of the most unique women’s intramural competitions dating back to the 1940s, the posture contest. Additionally, we recognize the 13 student employees who earned scholarships this past year, which were made possible by the generous contributions of RecSports alumni.

Look inside for additional ways to support the Division. These include your support of the UT RecSports Bob Childress Classic this fall, the Gregory Gym paver project and the various RecSports endowments. As part of the University’s Capital Campaign, RecSports represents an ideal option for giving back to the University and positively affecting a large number of students. Your continued support is critical toward meeting our goals by 2016–17, the centennial anniversary of RecSports.

Over the 12-year lifespan of this newsletter, we’ve heard thousands of you express how RecSports contributed significantly to your educational experience. We want to ensure that UT students today and in the future enjoy the same experiences you’ve cherished all these years. We are extremely appreciative of the past support you’ve provided and look forward to your continued involvement.

As always, we invite you to stay in touch and be sure to stop by Gregory Gym for a visit whenever you’re on campus.

All the Best, Design: Jess Moss Thomas W. Dison Associate Vice President and Director

Recognizing Students & Alumni William Luke Cragin, President, UT Sailing Team Luke Cragin is a junior mechanical engineering student from Flower Mound, Texas. He became president of the UT Sailing Team in the spring of 2011, his freshman year. His first task as president was to continue the team’s bid to host the 2012 Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association’s (ICSA) Spring National Championships, college sailing’s biggest regatta of the year. He worked tirelessly with his team to bring the Austin Yacht Club as co-host and to also help buy a new fleet of boats. He was successful on all counts, and, in fact, his efforts earned him ICSA’s coveted James Rousmaniere Award, which recognizes extraordinary achievement in leadership and efforts which have made a significant contribution to the development, progress and success of the student’s club, team, conference or the ICSA itself. This honor resulted in Luke’s induction into the ICSA Hall of Fame. His name now appears on the ICSA College Sailing Hall of Fame, which is on permanent display in the Robert Crown Center at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Luke acknowledges that the successes that led to the honor “was a group effort” and credits the team and team alumni for their contributions.

John Bike, Jr., National Handball Champion and RecSports Wall of Famer John Bike, Jr., ’89 (Psychology), is a husband, father of two (son, age 12; daughter, age 11), and second grade teacher in Victorville, Calif. His name appears on the RecSports Intramural Wall of Fame multiple times and he was recently inducted into the prestigious U.S. Handball Association Hall of Fame. He has excelled on the handball court for the past 25 years and continues to play world-class handball, ranking in the top 15. He fell into the sport by following his dad around the East Coast weekend tournament circuit, noting, “I stayed first for the challenge and then the camaraderie and unique life experiences.” His travels led him to Coach Pete Tyson at UT where he continued playing handball while studying psychology.

Before John Bike, Jr., there was Naty Alvarado, Sr. (John’s father-in-law), who dominated the handball scene in years past. He describes his father-in-law as, “the greatest player in the history of our sport,” although others say John “may be the most influential handball player the game has ever seen.” Evidence of his storied career bears out in his vast accumulation of awards. John has won 18 national championships in the pro division, not to mention awards in multiple categories including collegiate, world, age play and pro stops. These days, this dedicated father simply aspires to be a viable doubles partner to his kids when they grow up.

Texas Rock Climbing Wins National Title Texas Rock Climbing was crowned National Champions at the 2012 USA Climbing Collegiate Climbing Series National Championships held on April 21, 2012, in Boston, Mass. Eight members of the club – four men, four women –represented UT at the nationals competition and bested 30 other collegiate teams to win the title. Texas Rock Climbing is one of 45 sport clubs sponsored by RecSports and also one of its newest, having gained official club status in the fall of 2011. Club president Will Butcher, a Plan II Honors Program senior in the School of Business, says the team’s goal was to do well at the regionals competition. “We didn’t expect to win,” he says. The club, comprised of members ranging from skilled climbers to beginners, practices four times a week during long semesters at the indoor Climbing Wall in Gregory Gym. “What’s cool about it is that everyone can be challenged at their own level,” Will says.

The club’s coach, John Myrick, is credited for having advanced climbing to become a college sport and, in fact, tripled the size of the Collegiate Climbing Series and has catapulted rock climbing to be an internationally acclaimed sport. Club members proudly stood in front of the Tower as it glowed orange in celebration of its first national championship victory.

Posture Perfect

Three Decades of Women Compete in Intramural Posture

Freshman Fundamentals Class Leads to Posture Perfect Anna Hiss, who served as director of Physical Training for Women from 1921 to her retirement in 1957, placed great emphasis on the way young ladies carried themselves. This focus on posture touched all freshman women with the required Freshman Fundamentals class. With three options to choose from – team sports, exercise or dance – the classes emphasized posture as well as fitness and sports skills. Many a freshman woman spent hours walking circles in the gym and observing body alignment in the large wall mirrors specifically ordered by Professor Hiss to help the young students improve their posture. These Freshman Fundamental classes eventually led to the intramural posture contests.

In a 1993 Alcalde article, “Womanhood Discovered,” Anita Walker Howard of Austin wrote that as part of the Freshman Fundamentals class, “freshman girls were required to take a posture test where they were photographed and measured. Each woman’s memory of this requirement is individual. Some are embarrassed and some laugh. A year of Freshman Fundamentals literally straightened out many young women.”

1954 posture finalists

She also recalls that in her days, the 1940s, full-length mirrors were everywhere in the women’s gym as testament to Professor Hiss’ concern with posture. “She always reminded her students to pull their shoulders back and their tummies in,” she notes.

1941 Marilyn (Rowe) Drinker is measured for Freshman Fundamentals

Marilyn “Sandy” (Rowe) Drinker, remembers being measured in September of 1941 in Anna Hiss’ office as part of the Freshman Fundamentals class. She says, “I was pretty active in the gym with dancing, fencing and swimming and diving, but I really took to Freshman Fundamentals, which later became a contest” (the posture contest).

The late Jane Homeyer Weems of Waco, Texas, wrote Anita with her memories about Freshman Fundamentals. “The room I remember was the dance studio with draped floor-to-ceiling windows. There were large mirrors on the walls, one near a four-step stile and another on a facing wall. The teacher, Miss Shirlee Dodge, was a real role model for an 18-year-old with unremarkable posture and self-esteem. The thing I remember best about that gym are the miles we walked in a circle around the edges and the way it felt with rib cage lifted, chin up, stomach in, hips pulled under, knees in line and weight on the outsides of the feet, arches lifted. Each time a mirror was passed, a check of posture was made. I’ve even explained to my four daughters how good it felt.”

1965 finalists

Anna Hiss Gymnasium

1938 Posture finalists

Rosemary Slacks, now retired and living in Austin, recalls her early days at UT on the physical education faculty. She says, “Proper alignment was considered to be important for good health, so it, too, was assessed. Each fall, the instructors took their classes to room 13 for posture pictures. An antique camera (complete with black drape) was set up along with the posture frame. Girls stripped down to their underwear and were photographed. The faculty member then had to take the ‘plate’ and develop it into a negative. This data was the basis for the next class lesson –posture.”

Intramural Posture Competition (1937–67) For 30 years, UT women’s participation in intramural sports included the posture contest, an activity equal to basketball, volleyball, tennis and golf. Due to its popularity as a spectator event, early posture contests were held in Hogg Auditorium where the competition was judged by various Austin personalities such as local radio and TV funnyman Cactus Pryor.

1938 Posture winners (L-R): Ruth Spargo, Jane Loomis and Glenn Appeling

The 1957 winner, Beverly Klaver Lewis, was featured in a Daily Texan article dated March 12, 2004, and included a photograph from that era of her wearing high heels and a bathing suit. “I was very proud to have been a part of that,” said Beverly, now retired and living in Florida. The headline over the picture of the winners read, “Posture Perfect,” so consequently her friends began referring to her as “Miss P.P.” The 1967 winner, Carol (Carpenter) Powell, ’68, remembers, “We all went to the dance studio in the women’s gym where they lined us up in a large circle with the judges (P.E. staff) in the center. We walked around while the judges decided on the winners.” She says her posture contest photograph in the Cactus yearbook and on the Wall of Fame in Gregory Gym is her “claim to fame.”

Glenn Appeling

1957 winner Beverly Klaver Lewis

1967 finalists

Shudde Fath, ’37, an Austin resident, graduated the year the posture contest began but remembers the importance Anna Hiss placed on the health and well being of all young ladies. “My tennis partner and sorority sister, Glenn Appeling, won the first posture contest,” Shudde recalls. Another early winner, Marilyn (Rowe) Drinker says that following her freshman fundamental course, “I won the posture contest in 1942 with my sorority sister, Norma Niemeyer,” noting that she recalls winning the posture contest two other times.

(See Where Are You Now).

Even with the retirement of Anna Hiss in 1957, intramural posture continued to be part of the women’s program. As the decade of the ‘60s closed, the posture contest quietly ended because physical education became less emphasized and the seeds of a women’s intercollegiate sports program were planted. Michele Moore Inman, ’68, who competed in the 1965 posture contest says, “I’m the last of the generation where girls were not encouraged to be athletic. It was the end of the period where ladies didn’t sweat.”

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Sigma Alpha Epsilon

Intramurals in the Fabulous 50s

The decade of the 50s was one of growth and expansion for the Men’s intramural program. Three fraternities–Kappa Sigma, Delta Tau Delta and Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE)–were clearly the class of the Fraternity division. During this decade, the SAEs won nine championships and finished second six times in the major team sports. The team won the All-Year Trophy twice and finished second or third four more times. Meet many of the SAEs who played a key role in this success.

Class A Football Champions 1952-53 Front (L-R): Bill Chapman, Bill Scott, Milton Black, Abbe Ledbetter, Lee Douty. Back (L-R): Paul Green, Maxey Hart, Roger Tolar, Finley Ewing, Pat Jones.

Dr. Roger Tolar, ’52, ’55, ’71, arguably one of the most decorated intramural athletes in the history of the program based on his 16 All-Intramural team selections in football, volleyball and even water polo, started with Oak Grove in 1949–50 but made his mark with the SAEs throughout the next decade. “After carefree years of study, intramurals and a couple of degrees,” Roger reminisces, “I married Betty Carolyn Siptak, ’61, on July 4, 1964.” After a year teaching in Puerto Rico, he returned to UT for his doctorate then spent 20 years teaching at UT Pan American University. He also bought and ran River Ranch, a day camp for kids. Four children and “11 very athletic grandkids” fill Roger’s and Betty’s retirement days.

He says, “I am currently writing a family history, teaching Sunday school, practicing organic gardening and I do still work out but my last accomplishment was running marathons [Boston Marathon participant in 1974] during my Pan American days.” He says he’s done a lot in his life “but the most fun times I remember are those intramural years.”

The Honorable Bill Archer, Jr. ’50, ’51, managed the SAEs in 1950–51 to a third place finish and was named the Best All-Around Athlete in the intramural program. After four years in the Texas House of Representatives, he was elected to the 92nd and 14 succeeding Congresses (1971–2001). Today, Bill resides in Arlington, Va., where he serves as senior advisor for PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Dale Cheesman,’55, came to UT in 1949, was drafted and served in the Air Force before returning to UT in 1954. He says, “I was a swimmer but played whatever sports I was needed in for the fraternity. Intramurals was a big part of everyone’s life at UT.” He is now retired from CICO Oil & Gas, a third-generation, family-owned and operated, independent oil and gas company. His son, Dale Cheesman, III, ’82, a former SAE member, is president of the company.

Milton Black, ’54, says the intramural program “was the most important thing at the whole University.” He notes, “I swam three years on the varsity team but got more satisfaction playing intramurals.” He was a football champion, a track champion and an all-around participant for the SAEs. Milton, who was primarily responsible for recruiting Roger Tolar to the fraternity, retired in Houston after a long career in banking, the last 21 as president of Cullen Bank.

Pat Jones, ’54, excellent all-around athlete who competed in football, volleyball, basketball, softball and track, spent three years in the Marine Corps following graduation. He worked as an investor in the insurance business in Houston before returning to school to obtain a physical education degree in 1969. Today, Pat has 11 grandchildren, lives in Austin and is semi-retired while working as an investor.

Dr. Abbe Ledbetter, ’56, recollects “the intramural program at Texas was incredible and very popular with the students.” He received his medical degree from UT-Galveston then interned and completed his residency at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center. Later he was drafted and assigned to Fort Hood as an Army medical captain. In 1966 he entered practice with his father at the Ledbetter Clinic. Now retired in Houston, Abbe and his wife have two sons and a daughter.

Ronnie Tynes, ’56, was a multi-sport athlete, participating in football, basketball, softball and track. He recalls, “The intramural program at that time was outstanding. There were capable varsitycaliber athletes playing so the competition was very good.” Today, Ronnie works as a real estate agent and lives in Salado, Texas. He and his wife have three girls and eight grandchildren. “Playing intramurals was easily the highlight of my college career,” he notes.

John Schmid played for the SAEs while attending the University on a basketball scholarship. He was named to the All-Intramural football team three times. John left UT before graduating, got married and spent 14 years in California before returning to UT and earning a degree in architecture in 1964. Now semi-retired in Austin, he does a little consulting as a one-man shop. His daughters, Vanderlyn and Vanessa, graduated from UT and A&M, respectively.

Tom Crittenden, ’56, ’57 (MBA), worked in the oil business before spending his career in investment banking. Born and raised in Detroit, Texas, he played all the team sports for the SAEs and appears on the Wall of Fame for football, basketball and volleyball.

He also excelled in handball. Tom lives in Houston and has two sons, Bob and Mike.

Class B Football Champions 1957-58 Front (L-R): Ed McCullough, Graham Luhn, Peter Pratt, Frank Tompkins, L. Wildman. Back (L-R): Wayne Windle, John Wagstaff, Fred Lohmeyer, James Mashburn, G. Howard, B. Geirhart.

Not pictured: Tom Blakely.

Marshall Harrell, ’57, ’58, a high school state basketball champion with Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio, played football, volleyball, basketball and softball for the SAEs. He was named First Team All-Intramural in softball and won the Frank Evans Sportsmanship Trophy for 1955–56. Marshall is in the land title business with offices in San Antonio and Caldwell, where he works with his son, Marshall, III. Rebby Gregg, ’58, ’60, swam for the SAEs and also excelled in football and track. A former Legal Eagle, Rebby is a licensed attorney in Houston and has worked primarily with recreational adventurebased programs for the past 15 years. He is a leading practitioner, lecturer and writer in managing legal liability issues for recreational programs. Outdoor Magazine named him “The Dean of the Outdoor Bar” in 2002.

Ed McCullough, ’61, served as team manager for the SAEs in 1959–60 when the team finished second in All-Year points. He says, “Intramural sports was a passion for many of the SAEs and I enjoyed serving as team manager.” Following graduation Ed worked as a stockbroker then as an investment banker until he retired in 2003.

He’s still active as a member of the board for Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, where he makes his home.

John Patton, ’63, ’65, swam for the SAE swimming and water basketball champs, won the 120 yard low hurdles in the 1960 intramural track meet and added a summer softball championship with Sleep And Eat in 1962. A former Legal Eagle, he is now retired from a career first in private practice then corporate law.

Graham Luhn, ’60, won a Class B softball championship in 1958 while studying architecture. “The good thing about having the IM fields on campus was that I could run over for a six o’clock game and then go back to the studio and work until 10,” Graham notes. He opened his own firm in 1970 where he focuses on historical restorations such as railroad depots, courthouses and banks. Graham also builds sporting venues like the softball field at The University of Houston.

Wayne Windle, ’61, still practicing law in El Paso, Texas, at age 75, recalls one very memorable football game. He says, “A head guy from the home office was sent to check out the fraternity. We had a game that day and everyone was required to attend, including girl friends. Trailing near the end of the game, we threw a short pass to our center, Jim Mashburn, who lateraled it to me and I ran all the way for the winning touchdown. After the game Mashburn nicknamed me ‘crazy legs’.”

Fred Lohmeyer, ’60, ’62 (law), a multi-sport athlete for the SAEs recalls, “I was put on the A football team my freshman year and our first game was against Kappa Sigs. They had a receiver, Bobby Whilden, who kept easily running right by me.” Fred won a football championship his second year playing class B. Fred has been practicing law for over 40 years.

Frank Tompkins, ’58, became a partner in his dad’s real estate business, the John L. Tompkins, Co., upon graduation. His dad was the original developer of South Padre Island and Frank remembers, “People would arrive by boat and get on an old army half-track called the Sand Crab Taxi that would carry them over the dunes to a gambling casino.” Frank retired in 2001 and moved with his wife to Sun City in Georgetown, Texas.

Randy Moore, ’53, played a little intramurals for the SAEs appearing on the Wall of Fame for class B basketball in 1951–52. “ I was a calf roper from Omaha, Texas,” says Randy. “I tried to start a college rodeo team but didn’t get much help from the deans.” He was selected into the Silver Spurs to transport Bevo to games and events, which he did for three years.

Today, Randy is an agent with Redfearn Real Estate Co. in Mount Pleasant, Texas.

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The Players

6 Foot & Under Basketball Champions

In the fall of 1982, two freshmen – Kevin Williams and Jerome Solomon – put together an intramural basketball team for the new Six Foot & Under Division. While struggling to come up with a team name, Jerome noted, “We have the players to win it all.” Kevin responded, “Then that’s the name of the team – The Players!” Most of the members of the original team were also members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. After going 7–1 that first season, losing a controversial quarter final playoff game to the Kool Birds, The Players won three championships in a row. Kevin made it a point to scout and recruit the absolute best players for those championship teams that posted a 37–1 record from 1982 to 1985. If you were part of the huge crowds that came to Gregory Gym to watch The Players during seasons three and four, you probably can still hear Curtis Blow’s shout of “basketball” blaring from a boom box as the team warmed up.

First championship team 1983–84 Front (L-R): Todd Brooks, Lewis Wright, IV, Kevin Williams, James Webb. Back (L-R): Henry Maddox, Jerome Solomon, Harold Hubbard.

Meet members of the team with a little descriptive help from Kevin “Slo” Williams.

Kevin “Slo” Williams, ’87, retired from the U.S. Army as a chief warrant officer four (CW4) after serving for 22 years. He lives in Killeen, Texas, with his wife, Lisa, and two sons, Kevin, Jr. and Joseph. He deployed to Kosovo four times and to Iraq twice. Today, he owns a night club/lounge (The Crescent Lounge) in Killeen where former teammate Lewis “Sweet Lew” Wright often performs.

Kevin coaches AAU youth football, remains involved with Phi Beta Sigma and in various mentorship programs. “Every time I bring up The Players,” Kevin says, “my wife rolls her eyes like she doesn’t want to hear the story anymore. If she (had seen) us play, she’d have a different attitude.”

Jerome “Spider” Solomon played during the initial year and on the first championship team before leaving Texas and attending The University of Houston. “Jerome could score the ball and start the break like no other,” says Kevin. After graduation, he worked as an engineer for a couple of years, became a flight attendant for nearly 10 years then became interested in writing. Jerome has been a journalist since 1995, starting with The Houston Chronicle, where he covered the Big 12 and was the lead basketball writer. He then spent two years in Boston from 2005 to 2007 covering the New England Patriots for The Boston Globe before returning to Houston to become a columnist for The Chronicle. Jerome has covered the Olympics in Athens, Beijing, Vancouver and London, as well as Super Bowls and a host of Final Fours, Masters tournaments and bowl games. Even after 30 years, Jerome laments, “The loss to the Kool Birds is the worse loss of my life.”

Henry “Hank” Maddox arrived at UT in the fall of 1983. He met and became friends with Kevin and Jerome during a game of dominoes in the west lobby of Jester Residence Hall. Kevin notes that “picking up Maddox year two was crucial to our future success and he became our main catalyst.” A high school ballplayer from LaMarque, Henry played all three years that The Players were champions and remembers that “our toughest game was against a team called THE in the first round of the playoffs in 1983. I had a good game against those guys and was even carried off the court on my teammate’s shoulders.”

Henry officiated basketball at UT and left school after three years, eventually receiving his degree from Texas Southern University and working in the petrochemical industry. Married in 2005, he and his wife, who is a math teacher, have one son, 5, and a daughter, 3.

“I still play ball pretty good and one day hope to show my son and daughter their dad’s pictures on the Wall of Fame in Gregory Gym,” he says.

Darrell Harris, a high school teammate of Henry Maddox, met Kevin and Jerome in the gym his freshman year and played on the last Player’s championship team in 1985–86. “Big D” (Darrell) was a good shooter and rebounder,” Kevin notes. Darrell left UT and worked as an assistant manager for Wal-Mart for seven years before joining an engineering firm in Clear Lake, Texas, where he still works. Darrell has a 14-year-old son, Dayln Hoke, of whom he is very proud and who might one day bring his game to UT.

Lewis Wright, IV, ’86, met Kevin in Gregory Gym his freshman year and was recruited to play for The Players. “Sweet Lew was a deadly, clutch jump shooter,” Kevin remembers, noting that he played on all three championship teams. Since graduation, he has worked in the insurance industry with an eye on the live music performance business. Lewis is currently a program specialist at the Texas Department of Insurance and an emerging musician, composer and performer. In January 2005, he co-founded Jazzopoly, a smooth jazz ensemble described as “smoov grooves for sophisticated moods.” He’s also been a saxophonist at One Way Baptist Church since 2006. Lewis is the proud father of four– son Lewis Wright, V, a sophomore at UT and “quite a ballplayer,” a daughter and two stepsons.

Michael Phoenix dunks vs. the Advocates

Joe Herbert, ’94 (UT law),* was a member of the 1984–85 Players team. He received his undergraduate degree from The University of Houston in 1988. Following law school, he worked for HewlettPackard for three years, served as managing counsel for Gulf States Toyota for six years and today is an attorney at Phillips & Reiter in Houston. His specialty is providing strategic advice for small business owners. Joe and his wife, Monica, have three daughters– Tedria, Taylor and Jordan. “ I get out-voted on everything,” Joe cheerfully laments.

James “Chella” Webb, ’86, was one of the four-year “lettermen” for The Players whose strengths were post-play and rebounding.

“I worked real hard on dunking the ball and got a dunk of an alley-oop pass in one game that really excited the fans,” he says.

James had been with Merck Pharmaceuticals for 26 years and was inducted into the company’s Hall of Fame for selling in the top 10 percent seven times. He and his wife of 24 years have two children, Donavon, who attends UT-Tyler, and Carmen, a 10th grader at Longview High School.

Third championship team 1985-86 Front (L-R): Henry Maddox, Lewis Wright, IV, Darrell Harris. Back (L-R): Mike Davis, Ron Small, Kevin Williams, James Webb.

Not Pictured: Marc Newsome.

Ron “Remington Steele” Small was a member of the fourth team, played in the post and was a good rebounder and shot blocker. Kevin notes that “Ron and James blocked more shots than the rest of the team combined!” Ron married his college sweetheart and is raising a five-year-old daughter, Sierra. He is the training manager for a large call center for a major bank. Ron says, “What I remember most playing intramurals was the competitiveness and the friendliness of the teams. Everyone was just having fun and trying to win.” Ron and his family reside in Pearland, Texas.

Other Players of Note

* These individuals are featured on the team picture that appears on the cover.

Although these members of the team could not be located for this feature article, Kevin Williams shares his recollections of these valued Players.

Mike “The Truth” Phoenix*“had the total package,” Kevin says. “He actually finished off our 20–0 run in the finals against the Advocates with a thunderous dunk off an assist from me.”

Marc Newsome* played from 1984–86. “He and Henry were a beautiful tandem to watch,” Kevin remembers.“People said it was unfair to play those two together.”

Todd Brooks contributed to the 1983 and 1984 championships.“He was a strong on-the-ball-defender,” Kevin notes.

“Harold Hubbard played from 1982–84,” says Kevin. “He was a powerful guard that could handle the rock, shoot and defend.”

Mike Davis joined The Players for season four. “He was a real smart ball player and ran the floor well,” Kevin remembers.

The Bombers

Three-Time Women’s National Collegiate Flag Football Champions

Bomber National Champs 1983 Front (L-R): Sarita Null, Suzanne Sims, Beth Coblentz, Katrina Dornseifer, Evwella Munn. Back (L-R): Nancy Walling, Jackie Lee, Jeannette Hatch, Fran Teeter, Kelly Haddox, Annette Kolodzie, Brenda Corley.

Coaches: Kevin McCalla and Chris Schultz.

Linda (McCalla) Williams, ’82,* quarterbacked The Bombers to the 1982–83 national championship held in New Orleans in conjunction with the Sugar Bowl. Today, Linda and her husband, Mark Williams, current members of the RecSports Leadership Team, live in Austin and have three children–Michael, 21 (University of Georgia), Kelsey, 19 (Vanderbilt University) and Justin, 17 (Austin High School).

Sheree Stewart, ’84, played for the 1982 and 1983 national champions and notes, “The experience of being part of a successful team like The Bombers gave me an understanding of teamwork that I use every day at work. Caring about the success of those around you is such an important life lesson and I trace most of that back to what we shared those years playing flag football. I will always be grateful for Kevin and Chris. It takes good leadership to build success.“ Sheree lives and works in Portland, Ore. Katrina Dornseifer, ’82, played for the 1982 national champions.

She lives in Richardson, Texas, and works as a buyer/merchandiser for two golf shops in the area, Northwood Club and Sherrill Park.

She is single and an aunt of two great kids, Taylor and Kole.

Annette Kolodzie, ’82, ’85, assumed quarterback duties after Linda (McCalla) Williams graduated and earned the offensive Most Valuable Player Award for the 1983 champs. Annette practiced law for 13 years before returning to school in Cambridge, England, to earn a Ph.D. in physics. Today, she works for FEI, Co. in Hillsborough, Ore., just outside Portland. FEI is the world leader in electron microscopy technologies and applications.

Sarita Null catching a pass

In 1978 Kevin McCalla, ’79, organized a coed football team with his younger sister, Linda McCalla, ‘82, as quarterback. The Bombers, as the team was called, derived its name from Linda’s unusual arm strength and her ability to “throw the bomb.” This success at coed football led to the formation of a women’s Bombers football team in 1982 that proceeded to post an astounding 75– 3 won/loss record over the next five seasons. The Bombers, with Kevin coaching the offense and Chris Schultz ’82 overseeing the defense, were UT intramural champions in 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1986 having suffered their only intramural loss to the Trainers in the 1982 finals. Moreover, The Bombers won the national collegiate flag football championship in 1982, 1983, and 1985 and were runners-up in 1984. * These individuals are featured on the women's flag football team pictured on the cover.

Jan (Corley) El Wardani,* assistant volleyball coach at UT, was named the defensive Most Valuable Player at the 1982 nationals. She has two daughters and since the 90s has been involved in software engineering. She is still active (volleyball, beach volleyball and body surfing) and also collects and rides old Schwinn bicycles.

Beth Coblentz, ’84, who played volleyball for UT, launched her intramural career in 1982 playing on The Bombers’ Women and Coed football teams. After graduation, she worked in sales for Reebok and then Nike before joining Academy Sports and Outdoors as an executive. Today, she lives in Houston and is a single mom with two adopted children, Karis, 3, and Caden, 9.

Lisa (Joiner) Wesley, ’83, ’87, played for The Bombers while attending UT law school. After a career with Royston, Razor, Vickery & Williams, L.P. in Houston, she now serves as a municipal judge for the City of Bellaire, Texas. Lisa has four children, two with their college degrees, one currently in college and one more in high school.

Sarita Null, ’88, was one of only two women who played in all four national tournaments for The Bombers. She earned a master’s degree in counseling from Corpus Christi (Texas) State University “while taking care of my three mentally challenged brothers,” she notes. After 13 years as a hospice counselor for CHRISTUS Spohn Health System in Corpus Christi, she earned an MBA at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, and, this fall, after eight years as manager of an Edward Jones financial services office in Corpus Christi, she moved to Austin.

Marcy (Word) Clements, a member of the 1985–86 champions, is an orthopedic surgeon with Tulsa Bone and Joint Associates, Tulsa, Okla. She has been married for 22 years to Eric Clements and has two sons, Joshua, 15, and Nathan, 12. She stays busy as a wife, mother and surgeon, and tries to keep in shape with CrossFit and jogging while occasionally playing golf.

Brenda Corley, ’84, holds the distinction of being the second player to compete in all three national championship teams plus with the ’84 finalists. She credits coaches Kevin McCalla and Chris Schultz “for their energy, organizational skills and their amazing system” that worked so successfully for the teams. Today, Brenda teaches adaptive physical education at six different middle schools in Austin. “Intramurals is what kept me in college,” Brenda confesses.

Tina Morton, ’85, played for the 1985 national champion Bombers.

As an all-around intramural athlete, she set the women’s record for the 100m low hurdles in the 1985 track meet, finished second in the 100 meters, second in the softball throw and third in the high jump.

Tina was an elementary school physical education teacher in Austin and now is a stay-at-home mom with two children, 7 and 8.

Bombers 1985-86 Front (L-R): Nancy Walling, Sarita Null, Di Collins, Jackie Lee, Lisa Joiner. Back (L-R): Chris Schultz, Kriss Ethridge, Marcy Word, Tina Morton, Brenda Corley, Kevin McCalla.

Sally (Schlobohm) Tan, ’82,* an outstanding volleyball player for UT, was voted into The University of Texas at Austin Athletics Hall of Honor in 2003. A 20-year career as a teacher and volleyball coach

Annette Kolodzie quarterbacks the ’83 team

at Leander (Texas) High School ended when Sally married and started a family. She is the mother of an eight-year-old and fouryear-old twins.

Traci Giuliano, ’89, ’94 (Ph.D.), was an offensive star for the 1985 Bombers. After UT, she enrolled at The University of California–Los Angeles in 1990 where she earned a Ph.D. in social psychology “while also playing on some first place intramural teams,” she adds. Dr. Giuliano was hired by Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, and has worked there for 18 years.

“Even at 44, I still love playing intramural sports,” she says.

Nancy Walling, ’83, ’86, says, “Being a Lady Longhorn (basketball player) will always be a highlight in my life, but being a Bomber ranks right up there with it. I’ll always be thankful for the years that I got to participate in UT intramurals. What a great time in my life!” Nancy is the athletic coordinator and head women’s basketball coach at Pflugerville (Texas) High School. She just completed her 28th year in coaching, with 26 of those at Pflugerville. For the foreseeable future, she plans to continue to coach, travel, read, work in the yard and spend time with family and friends. Nancy was inducted into the Collegiate Flag Football Hall of Fame in 2009.

Fran (Teeter) Flory, ’84, married club volleyball player John Ralston, ‘84, in May of 1984. The couple first lived in Dayton, Ohio, then College Station, Texas. Following John’s passing in 1988, Fran returned home to Baton Rouge, La., to attend graduate school and assist with the volleyball team. In 1992, she took the head coaching job at Southeastern Louisiana University and married Ken Flory. After a five-year coaching stop at the University of Kentucky, she was named head coach at Louisiana State University in 1997 where she works today. Her family consists of Mandy, 35; Adam, 32; Lindsay, 15; and Nick, 13.

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Linda McCalla on the move in ‘82

Individual Honors 1982

Linda McCalla – 1st team All-American Quarterback Sheree Stewart – Offensive MVP Jan Corley – Defensive MVP Annette Kolodzie – 2nd Team Offense (end) Suzanne Sims – 2nd Team Defense (rusher)

1983

Annette Kolodzie - Offensive MVP Brenda Corley – 1st Team Offense Evwella Munn – Defensive MVP Kelly Haddox – 1st Team Defense Nancy Walling – 1st Team Defense

1984

Annette Kolodzie – 1st Team Offense (QB) Tina Morton – 1st Team Offense Nancy Walling – 1st Team Offense Lisa Joiner–1st Team Defense Sportsmanship Award – UT Austin

1985

Nancy Walling – Offensive MVP Traci Giuliano – 1st Team Offense Brenda Corley – Defensive MVP Tracy Kennedy – 1st Team Defense Sarita Null – 1st Team Defense Nancy Walling – Flag Football Hall of Fame Induction (2009) Women’s Collegiate Division – University of Texas at Austin 1982, 1983 and 1985 National Champions 1983 Defensive All-American 1984 National Finalists 1984 and 1985 Offensive All-American 1985 Offensive MVP

Host a Reunion Let RecSports help your group host a memorable reunion on the UT campus.

RecSports will provide you with a room–free of charge– at Gregory Gym or the Recreational Sports Center. You are welcome to choose the venue that best meets your needs. To make your event even more special, RecSports invites your group to schedule a game of softball or football at Whitaker (intramural) Fields or basketball or volleyball at Gregory Gym (pending available space). To ask about scheduling your reunion contact Bob Childress at 512-475-7180 or bobc@austin.utexas.edu.

A Message from Joe Bill Watkins ’65, ’68 RecSports Leadership Team Chair

Dear Friends: It seems like only yesterday that a country boy from Llano arrived at this great University ready to take on the world. With degrees from Plan II Honors and UT Law, my real education occurred on the courts and fields playing intramural sports for seven years. After a short 43-year career with Vinson & Elkins, I’m now retired and living in Austin and I often find myself back on campus where it all began.

As the chair of the RecSports Leadership Team for the past four years, I’ve witnessed firsthand the absolute critical need for alumni support of this program that will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2016.

Recreational Sports, which encompasses the intramural program that was so much a part of our lives, attracts 91 percent of the student body to its programs and services.

Read inside or go online to find out about the many opportunities available to you to give back to the University through RecSports and help continue the tradition of Education through Recreation.

I wish the best to all of you in 2012–13 and look forward to visiting with you via email, by phone or at the RecSports Tailgate by the Pool to be held at the Gregory Gym Aquatic Complex prior to the Baylor game.

All the Best and Hook ‘em!

Alpha Epsilon Pi Reunion On April 27, 28 and 29, Alpha Epsilon Pi held a reunion in Austin for the 1970–75 classes. Bill Rubinsky, ’74, ’75, organized the event and even got the guys out to the intramural fields for a softball game.

AEPi Alumni Softball Game Front (L–R): Jonathan Hinajosa, Even Tenenbaum, Matt Friedman, Aaron Hellman, Joe Cukier, Bill Becker, Mike Znilek, Paul Levine. Back (L–R): Dan Fertel, Eddie Davis, Adam Kaiser, Mark Kogut, Donny Greenspan, Greg Taub, Larry Silverman, Mark Weiner, Kenny Reichek, Mike Hopkovitz, Ted Tobolowsky, Jim Schwartz, Paul Gubin, Chuck Green, Bill Dubois, Jack Cotlar, Bobby Wizig, Bill Rubinsky.

To read more and view additional photos visit http://www.utrecsports.org/friends/newsletter/current_newsletter.

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2012 Scholarship Recipients

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This past August, 13 student employees of the Division of Recreational Sports were awarded scholarships for their outstanding work and contributions to the Division.

Read about each award winner online at http://www.utrecsports.org/friends/initiatives/scholarships.php.

Front row (L–R):

Back row (L–R):

Sylvie & Gary Crum Endowed Scholarship

Phi Gamma Delta Endowed Scholarship

Kathryn Mendenhall

Chris Trachier

Senior Biology major from Cedar Hill, Texas

Junior Master’s in Public Accounting major from Frisco, Texas

Head lifeguard

Gregory Gym building coordinator and cashier

Division of Recreational Sports Endowed Scholarship

Mark L. Hart, Jr., Endowed Scholarship

Leticia Hogeda

Gregory Hodges

Senior Kinesiology major from Austin, Texas

Senior Business and Education major from Fort Worth, Texas

Indoor satellite building coordinator

Intramural Sports supervisor, official and flag football sport coordinator

Thomas W. Dison Endowed Scholarship

Acacia Fraternity Endowed Scholarship

Caitlyn Leal

Jeff Hartsock

Senior Exercise Science major from Spring, Texas

Junior RTF major from Plano, Texas

Indoor satellite building coordinator

Human Resources assistant and business clerical

Mark L. Hart, Jr., Endowed Scholarship

Bill Patman Endowed Scholarship

Brittany Caporale

Sonny Tran

Senior English major from The Woodlands, Texas

Senior Biomedical Engineering major from Bedford, Texas

Sport Club supervisor, Programs assistant/clerical, Intramural Sports official

Business Services cashier

Delta Tau Delta Endowed Scholarship

DeDe and Joe Bill Watkins Scholarship

Sarah Luckey

Armin Salek

Senior Classical Archaeology, Ancient History and English Major from Dallas, Texas

Senior Government and Sociology major from Austin, Texas

Intramural Sports official and scorekeeper

Intramural Sports official

Charles & Carolyn Spence, James & Kathryn (Spence) Nance, and William (Spence) & Edith Nance Endowed Scholarship Honoring Michael Monsoor

Kenneth Ford Family Endowed Scholarship

Natalie Tully Senior Human Biology major from Chester Spring, Pa. Intramural Sports official, supervisor, office assistant and softball sport coordinator

Derek Yang Senior Human Biology major from Arlington, Texas Programs clerical

Thomas W. Dison Endowed Scholarship Cole Cappel Senior Urban Studies major from Dallas, Texas Fields/tennis building coordinator

Where are you now?

Lost touch with former intramural teammates or fellow RecSports employees? Want to find out what happened to your old workout buddies? Here’s what some of you are doing now.

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Marilyn (Rowe) “Sandy” Drinker, ’45, came to UT from San Antonio in 1941.

She enrolled in Freshman Fundamentals and subsequently became a three-time posture champion. Sandy says she was pretty active in the gym with dancing, fencing, and swimming and diving. She

H. Rad Eanes, III, Ph.D., ’66, ’69, ’71, a member of the Lambda Chi summer softball champions in 1965–66, is a licensed psychologist who specializes in change management and executive development.

Before he became an Innolect consultant, he served as the chief human resources

Jim Love, ’70, made his mark at UT playing handball.

What began with a tennis ball in the corner of the gym in junior high school turned into four appearances on the Wall of Fame for handball as well as four national championships as a member of the Handball Club. After a 13-year career with

also notes, “Although there were not many males around due to the draft, we had many good times at Barton Springs (pool).”

She married a Philadelphia doctor and had three boys. When her sons were teenagers, Sandy attended Drexel University and earned her master’s in library science. A diehard Texas fan living in Wyndmoor, Pa., she still follows the Longhorns and bleeds burnt orange.

officer for two different large Fortune 500 companies. He has also acted as the dean of St. Edward’s University and taught at several other universities. Rad and his wife, who now make their home in San Antonio, have two children, both UT grads.

Erin is a pediatrician in Houston and Brian is a teacher in San Antonio. As a Texas Exes member, Rad presently serves on the Advisory Council for the Texas Union and the UT Friar Society. Rad enjoys taking on new challenges and plans to motorcycle across Australia or New Zealand.

Houston Lighting and Power as an electrical engineer and 25 years as head of IT at Pacesetter Personnel, Jim and wife, Linda, are retired and living in Houston. Jim has played handball with the likes of Wayne Graham (Rice baseball coach and UT Wall of Fame handball champion) and astronaut Alan Shepard. He has also played with several famous pro players, such as Jim Jacobs and Paul Harbor. In retirement, Jim enjoys playing his grand piano, his classical guitar and riding his Harley motorcycle.

1970s»

Jack Tyler, Jr., ’72, is the “not pictured” member of the 1967–68 Class A runner-up basketball team, Jr. Farcity. He relates, “I wasn’t in the photo because of a fight with my girlfriend. She cancelled at the last minute and I was late because we were arguing.” After graduating in December 1972, Jack went to work for his dad’s company, Jack Tyler Engineering, in Little Rock, Ark. He married Vickie McNeill from Little Rock in August 1973 and after 39 years of marriage, they have three children and four grandkids. “We moved to Memphis, Tenn., in 1984, and started our own Jack Tyler Engineering,” says Jack. “I’ll turn 62 in a couple of weeks and life is grand!”

1950s» Richard Broderick, ’58, won the 1956–57 softball championship with Brunette House where he lived and served meals for four years. “UT was a great (and inexpensive) learning experience for me and I’ll always be thankful for it,” he says.

After receiving “one of the best engineering educations in the nation” he worked as a consulting structural engineer in Houston and is now retired in Georgetown, Texas.

Melvin Blumberg, ’56, who lives and works in San Antonio, received his law degree in 1960 from The University of Houston. This fall marks his 50th year practicing law. Melvin appears twice on the Intramural Wall of Fame, once as a 123 lb. runner-up wrestler in 1952–53 and again as the 130 lb. wrestling champion for Campus Guild in 1953–54.

Kenneth Dale Walker ’70, a Wall of Famer with the 1968–69 summer softball champions the Rookies, was named Outstanding Intramural Official in 1968–69. Ken, who officiated in all the intramural sports, says, “The intramural program was so much a part of my life at UT. I was either running a team (Royal Coop, Slippery Rock), playing or officiating.” Ken is president and CEO of Driven Brands, Inc., the holding company, which is the parent company of numerous other automotive related companies including Meineke Car Care Centers, Inc., Maaco Franchising, Inc., and Econo Lube. He lives in Charlotte, N. C., and has four children and six grandchildren.

Dale McKown, ’72, a Wall of Famer for the 1972–73 Akala Class A football team and the BSU Class B softball team, worked for the Texas House of Representatives for four years before entering the real estate business. Over the years he has been a substitute teacher in the Houston, Round Rock and Eanes school districts. He currently lives in Austin, and owns property in both Houston and Austin.

1980s» Kirk Teal, ’87, a six-time Wall of Famer in football, soccer and softball, organized a group called Quiet Storm when he was a freshman. Players’ members Lewis Wright and James Webb won a football championship with Quiet Storm, and Lewis also played soccer on the Quiet Storm championship coed soccer team.

Kirk works as a software and project management consultant for ISG (Information Service Group). He has three children and lives in Round Rock, Texas.

The following players were members of Hind’s Feet, 1984–85 Class A soccer champions. The team name comes from Psalm 18:33 that reads: “He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he enables me to stand on the heights.”

Scott Neely ,‘86, the founding member of Hind’s Feet, has had a successful 25-year career in real estate in both Hawaii and his hometown of Fort Worth where he resides “with the love of his life” and two amazing children. He is an avid quail hunter and fisherman who aspires to compete professionally on the golf course when he retires in the next few years. Scott was a Young Life College Fellowship leader while at UT and is still involved today.

Michael McGaw, ‘88, one of two freshmen on the team, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in advertising. After graduation, he moved to Houston to begin a marketing career. He worked for two local newspapers then with BBDO Advertising and for the past 12 years has worked with Live Nation, the world’s largest concert promoter. Looking back on his college days, he says, “I was fortunate to win an intramural championship my freshman year. Subsequent teams made two semis and one quarter final but never another final game. I made some lifelong friends on the teams I played with and against in UT intramurals. I proudly tell anyone who will listen that I am ‘on the wall’ at Gregory Gym.” Michael married UT alumna, Trisha, ’88, and has two daughters at the Kinkaid School. He spends his free time playing golf and tennis.

Mike Waltrip, ’89, moved back to his hometown, Fort Worth, where he worked for Hill Trusts, now Petrohill Resources LLC, as a Landsman. He currently serves as general manager of Petrohill Resources with primary focus on oil and gas mineral management and exploration. He is active in the Fort Worth Stock Show Syndicate, the Fort Worth Texas Exes and several other community organizations. Mike enjoys skiing, hunting, fishing, and spending time with his two high school boys and UT alumna wife, Letty.

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Peter Ewan, ‘88, was a member of FC Teradactyl, runners up to Hind’s Feet, and a groomsman in Mike McGaw’s wedding. He moved to Houston in ‘89 where he began an 11-year career at Barrios Technology Inc., contracting for NASA as an aerospace engineer. In 2000, he changed careers and started flying for Continental Express. As a naval reservist, he returned from an eight-month deployment in Iraq in November 2011. Pete is single and still plays soccer in the Clear Lake area every weekend.

1990s/2000s» Shannan L. Mattiace, ’98 (Ph.D.) was a government major. Her claim to fame in intramurals is her mixed doubles racquetball championship with partner Thach Ho. Today, Shannan is an associate professor of political science and chairperson of the International Studies Program at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa. Her research interests include identity politics and social movements in the Americas, racial and ethnic politics, Yucatan economic history and Yucatan migration to United States.

Carlos Gutiérrez, ’02, received his BA degree from Texas Tech University in 1997 before graduating from the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He won the graduate division basketball championship with the LB Cool J’s in 2000. Carlos is a lobbyist for the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) in Washington, D.C. He advocates on behalf of CHPA and advises member companies on legislation and regulations affecting their interests.

Prior to joining CHPA, Gutiérrez served as assistant vice president of state and local government affairs for the National Association of Home Builders. He is a member of the Washington Area State Relations Group, the State Government Affairs Council, the LBJ School D.C. Alumni Group, and serves on the professional advisory board for Texas Tech University’s College of Mass Communications.

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New Vice President for Student Affairs

Friday, Oct. 19

1pm Shotgun Start Falconhead Golf Club

Austin, Texas Proceeds benefit the RecSports Excellence Fund, a critical, unrestricted resource for the Division.

Entry fees:

$125/person, $500/foursome Format:

Four-person scramble Fee includes:

Golf, prizes, lunch & happy hour For more information, please contact Nicole Olmeda at 512-475-7177 or Chad McKenzie at 512-475-7174.

Staying the weekend? Join us at the RecSportsTailgate by the Pool on Saturday, Oct. 20, three hours before kickoff.

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RecSports is pleased to announce that Dr. Gage E. Paine, ’96, returned to her alma mater of Texas on Aug. 1 to serve as Vice President for Student Affairs. For the last five years, she served as Vice President for Student Affairs at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Dr. Paine held similar student affairs leadership posts at four other Texas universities including Associate Dean of Students at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Paine received her Ph.D. in educational administration from The University of Texas at Austin in 1996. She also earned a J.D. from Texas Tech University in 1982 and a bachelor of arts in letters from The University of Oklahoma in 1979.

In her new post, Dr. Paine will oversee the Division of Recreational Sports, as well as the Office of the Dean of Students, the Counseling and Mental Health Center, the Division of Housing and Food Service, Texas Student Media, the Texas Union, University Health Services, the Student Activity Center, Texas Parents and the Office of Assessment.