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Women's Sports Awareness Week

Women's Sports Awareness Week
Ole Miss to host event during week of March 30-April 6.

March 30, 1998

OXFORD, Miss. -- For the second consecutive year, Ole Miss will hold Women's Sports Awareness Week on the campus from Mar. 30 through Apr. 6.

The week's activities will include several athletic events, a visit from former Lady Rebel basketball assistant coach and player Peggie Gillom and a panel seminar on women's athletics.

"We hope our second Women's Sports Awareness Week will be a time to promote community support for our women's athletic programs," said Derek Horne, Ole Miss Assistant Athletic Director. "The schedule for the week includes not only a variety of sporting events, but also an educational and entertaining discussion on women's athletics at Ole Miss over the last two decades. I encourage everyone to come out for these events and celebrate with us the accomplishments of our female student-athletes."

On Friday, Apr. 3, Ole Miss will hold a panel seminar in the team meeting room of the Michael S. Starnes Training Center at 6:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend to seminar which will focus on the changes in women's athletics over the past two decades. The panelists who will speak at the seminar include Yolanda Moore Washington (former Lady Rebel basketball player and current member of the WNBA's Houston Comets), Taylor Fleming Mott (former Ole Miss volleyball player), Dr. Joanne V. Hawks (Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women's Studies at Ole Miss), Sheila Sullivan (former Lady Rebel basketball player and current head coach for the girls' team at Louisville High School) and Jeanne Taylor Rice (former head volleyball coach and assistant athletic director at Ole Miss).

The following are the other events taking place during Women's Sports Awareness Week at Ole Miss:

Monday, Mar. 30 -- Peggie Gillom visits the Ole Miss campus
Rebel Tennis versus Kentucky -- 2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, Mar. 31 -- Ole Miss Fastpitch Softball versus Mississippi State -- 5:00 p.m.
Ole Miss Baseball versus NE Louisiana -- 7:00 p.m.
Friday, Apr. 3 -- Panelist Seminar and Reception -- 6:30 p.m.
(Team meeting room of the Starnes Center)
Lady Rebel Tennis versus South Carolina -- 2:30 p.m.
Rebel Baseball versus South Carolina -- 7:00 p.m.
Rebel Tennis versus Auburn -- 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, Apr. 4 -- Ole Miss Track and Field Invitational -- 11:00 a.m.
Rebel Baseball versus South Carolina -- 2:00 p.m.
Rebel Tennis versus Vanderbilt -- 1:00 p.m.
Sunday, Apr. 5 -- Lady Rebel Tennis versus Georgia -- 1:00 p.m.
Rebel Baseball versus South Carolina -- 1:00 p.m.
Monday, Apr. 6 -- National Student-Athlete Day