ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL WOMEN'S SPORTS TEAMS

Golf program set for next season

by Ken Dunkin

With an eye towards gender equality, athletic director Pat Dolan announced that a women's golf team will be formed for the 1998-99 season.

The men have an existing program, and Dolan feels it is only right for the women to be similarly represented.

"If you have men's golf, you should have a women's golf," Dolan said. "It is just like the soccer teams and the softball and baseball programs."

Getting the program going will require the entire 1997-98 school year. The program has never been attempted at UM-St. Louis, and the idea is to get it done right the first time.

"We are going to bring in a coach later this fall," Dolan said. "We're going to give that person enough time to recruit and set up a schedule."

The team will also have money for costs it will incur.

"We've relocated some money to get gender equality going," Dolan said. "The students have been great. They even gave more last year to help gender equity along."