Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, May 29, 1993 TAG: 9305290212
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B5 EDITION: METRO
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The conference executive committee awarded the event on Thursday, thwarting Asheville, N.C.'s effort to keep the tournament.
The 23,000-seat Greensboro Coliseum guaranteed the conference $450,000. The Asheville Sports Committee, acting on a mandate from City Council, offered it $390,000.
The Asheville Civic Center, with its 6,522 seats, has staged the event since 1984. The tournament drew increasingly larger crowds, after playing to half-full arenas in other cities. The Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce has estimated the five-day event pumps $2 million into the local economy.
Asheville, centrally located to the 10 conference schools, will be host to the 1994 and 1995 tournaments. Greensboro has the contract from 1996 to 2000.
Three former University of Virginia women's basketball players are finalists for two national teams after the completion of the 1993 USA Basketball National Team Finalists mini-camp in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Heather Burge and Dawn Staley are among 16 finalists for the USA Women's World Championship Qualifying Tournament Team, and Heidi Burge is among 12 finalists for the USA World University Games Team.
The 12-member tournament team will be chosen during a June 14-25 camp at Stanford. The four finalists who are not chosen are eligible for the 12-player university games team, which will be chosen during a June 25-July 3 camp at Colorado Springs.
Virginia Tech volleyball player Lisa Pikalek and UVa point guard Dena Evans were two of 10 National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics/Walt Disney Company Scholarship recipients.
The scholarships, worth $5,000 each, were awarded to five football players and five athletes from all other sports, and must they be used for postgraduate study. The 10 winners were selected from a pool of 331 applicants. Scholarship winners receive their awards on June 7 during NACDA's 28th annual convention in San Diego.
Virginia Tech basketball center Jimmy Carruth underwent surgery at Montgomery Regional Hospital to repair his right wrist, which was fractured in a pickup game. Dr. Duane Lagan, the team physician, said a screw was inserted into the wrist bone and that Carruth will wear a protective cast for about three months. Lagan said Carruth, a rising senior from Port Arthur, Texas, and a 20-game starter last season, will be ready to practice with the team in November.
by CNB