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"Highly successful - the highlightof the year for the girls," were thecomments Barbara Barnes, director ofwomen's intramural sports activitiesfor 12 years, had for the first Women'sI ntramural Sports banquet held Apri I23, 1977, at Bill's Restaurant. Invitedto the banquet were those people whohad been on championship teams, AII­Star teams, individual champions andintramural assistants. Speaker was KaySmith Gowen, former StudentAssociation vice president and intramuralassistant, who is Director ofPublic Relations for Crowley's RidgeCollege.I nterest and participation inwomen's intramural athletics maintainedthe same high level in 1977-78that prevailed the previous year whenan extensive increase was made in thebudget to implement a strongerprogram for the women. The regularintramural program was enhanced byinterclub competition which involvedmore students than the regularprogram .Team sports for 1977-78 were softball, speedball, volleyball, swimming,and track and field. Individual skillsports included racquetball, tennis,badminton, and ping pong. In clubcompetition, team tennis for th~ firsttime was scheduled for the late spring.To stimulate participation in theprogram in both team and individualsports, a point system was kept andjackets were awarded to the 10 womenwho achieved the highest number ofpoints throughout the school year.Jacket winners for 1976-77 were SandyKinder, Vicki Emery, Jill Osborne,Jeanne Tanner, Suzanne Wilborn,Brenda Garner, Paula Warnack, ShelbyKritz, Pam Housley, and TammiIsaacs. Receiving the trophy for thehighest number of points was SandyKinder. Debbie Brown received theindividual sportsmanship award andOmega Phi received the club sportsmanshipaward.As a furthur stimulus to increaseparticipation by as many women aspossible, clubs were able to field A, B,C, and D teams in basketball andvolleyball. To equalize as much aspossible competitive ability, clubswere separated into IIlarge" and"small" team categories, based uponthe athletic potential of the clubs.In the fall of 1977, winner of clubspeedball was Tri Sigma. Winners inclub softball were Kappa Phi and TriKappa, and winners in club volleyballwere Kappa Phi and Beta Tau Gamma.In the spring of 1977, Kappa Phi andTofebt were winners in club basketball,Omega Phi in swimming andKappa Phi in track and field.Mrs. Barnes depended upon capablestudent assistants to help her indirecting the program. Assistants forthe fall semester were Sandy Kinderand Kim Gibson. Assistants for thespring semester were Paula Warnack,Brenda Garner, and Beverly Jo Pryor.212