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THEINDIANAPOLISSTAR WWW.INDYSTAR.COM 3RD C5 Sports Lauryn diver at the University of Tennessee, was honored Saturday night as the 2005 NCAA Woman of the Year. She is the 15th woman to earn the award, which recognizes a college senior for outstanding achievements in athletics, academics and community service. McCalley has a 3.93 grade-point average in microbiology and plans to attend the University of Georgia to become a compounding pharmacist. McCalley said the benefits of being a student-athlete taught her discipline, to focus under pressure and to never give up. Acommittee chose state finalists from 352 nominations.

Forty-five state finalists attended the dinner at the Westin in Indianapolis. From those winners, another committee selected 10 finalists: Michelle Reeser, Alabama, gymnastics; Alisha Williams, Western State College of Colorado, cross and field; Leah Geib, Delaware, field hockey; Melissa Lehman, Barry University, Florida, volleyball; Jennifer Skolaski, Iowa, swimming and diving; Richelle Simpson, Nebraska, gymnastics; Deirdre Dlugonski, Penn State, swimming and diving; Janiva Willis, South Carolina, Winthrop University, softball; Lindsay Hagerman, Washington and Lee University, tennis; and McCalley. Tracy Dodds NCAA WOMAN OF THE YEAR Tennessee diver McCalley honored Lauryn McCalley Fort Harrison State Park 8 a.m. today: Fall Creek Bird Walk with Don Gorney. Bring field guide and binoculars.

2 1 2 hours. Indianapolis Hiking Club 1p.m. today: A Great Fall Hike. Meet at 6901 Derbyshire Road behind the Southport Police Station. 5-10 miles.

Leader: (317) 859-8159. 9 a.m. Saturday: Brown County State Park. Meet in the parking lot of Rally Campground and Ogle Hollow Preserve. 8 miles.

Leader: (317) 784-3721. 2 p.m. Saturday: Shades State Park. Meet at Dell Shelter. Take I-74 west to Jamestown exit, drive through town, follow Ind.

234 to park (entrance fee). 6-to 7- mile challenging hike. Leader: (317) 328-9284. 9:30 a.m. Nov.

6: Hike. Meet in Gene Glick Junior Achievement Center parking lot at intersections of 74thStreet and Keystone Avenue. 5 miles, with a 3-mile option. Leader: (317) 2518210. Indiana Crossroads Orienteering Nov.

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indyo.org. Send outdoors calendar items at least seven days before the desired publication date to Sports, Outdoors Calendar, The Indianapolis Star, P.O. Box 145, Indianapolis, IN 46206-0145, or fax them to (317) 444-6500. OUTDOORS CALENDAR he Indiana Department of Natural Resources issues hundreds of permits each year to disabled Hoosiers who want to hunt on public properties. There were 867 permits issued in 2004.

DNR spokeswoman Kimberly Brant said that as of last week, 677 permits had been granted this year. Steve Doudt 36, Indianapolis, has one of those permits. He lost both of his legs in a traffic accident 13 years ago and is in a wheelchair. It surprises nobody who knows him that he tent camps with his family and hunts deer, turkeys, doves, pheasant and waterfowl. After all, when Doudt married and a self-proclaimed at-home with kids ages 17, 10 and 4 home, he could be refereeing a basketball game somewhere in the state.

He is a licensed Indiana High School Athletic Association official and can get up and down a gym floor in a wheelchair as fast as the players. Doudt built his chair speed by playing for the Indiana Wheelchair Pacers from 1993-2003. He also played on the U.S. Paralym- pic volleyball team in Atlanta in 1996. pretty he said.

One might understand the negative reaction of basketball fans whosee him for the first time, wheeling onto the floor, wearing a shirt and a whistle around his neck. think it all goes out the window when they see the quality job that I he said. first couple of times down the floor, they see that I can push fast enough to keep up. The biggest thing is that I see a call and there to make Doudt says the real challenge for himand other hunters in wheelchairsare places where there are no level floors and paved drives. Those places, where wildlife are found, are off the beaten path where impossible for some- one in a wheelchair to reach.

It takes more than a with Disabilities Hunting issued by the state to get them there. They need accessibility, too, and not there on most public hunting properties. Even if it is there, Doudt said the information is not getting to disabled hunters. biggest thing seen over the years is that there has been no communications on he said. knows what is or is not available for disabled Thatprobably is going to change.

In July, Doudt arranged a lunch date with another former basketball star, DNR director Kyle Hupfer an all-tournament basketball player for Manchester College in the 1995 NCAA Division III tournament. Also at the luncheon was Sgt. Dean Shadley a DNR law enforcement division official and a strong supporter of disabled hunters. Doudt made his pitch to Hupfer and Shadley for help in conducting a deer hunt for disabled persons. The DNR officials listened but made no promises.

Ashort time later, Doudt said he got a call from Ron Ronk property manager for the new Fairbanks Landing Fish Wildlife Area along the Wabash River. said, about putting together a hunt late in the year? thinking about a muzzleload- er I said that was an excellent idea and that time of the year was good because not competing with lottery draws (for hunting Doudt said. rest is ADNR-sponsored disabled hunt will be held at Fairbanks Landing on Dec. 10. The first hunt will focus on the needs of hunters, so partici- pants will be limited.

Doudt has located nine disabled hunters. Most of them are in wheelchairs. The hunters include Landon Turner Turner played on Indiana 1981NCAA national championship basketball team. He was paralyzed from the waist down four months later in a car accident. goal is to have the Fairbanks hunt an annual event, with adraw (random draw for participants) next Doudt said.

like to see the start of events around the state at different (public) property locations. My secondary goal is to have properties developed to make them better accessible for hunting, by building deer stands and duck blinds. They have them, but they are very Amajor roadblock for disabled hunters is getting into the fields to hunt. if I want to go hunting in eastern Indiana, I have to drive an hour, go out and scout an area, set up a meeting with the property manager, which could result in a second trip to coordinate the opening of certain gates and Doudt said. process is lengthy and What would simplify that process would be for the DNR to list accommodations for disabled hunters and anglers at all its public properties in the Indiana Hunting and Trapping Guide and Indiana Fishing Guide, he said.

Eventually, Doudt said like to become a professional hunter or fisherman. But the former Air Force Special Operations Command airman saidhis making the conversion from traveling hundreds of miles per hour in an aircraft to 20 mph in a wheelchair would be easier than becoming a pro hunter or angler. I think I could convince my he said. Skip Hess is the outdoors columnist for The Indianapolis Star. Call him at (317) 862-1994 or e-mail skiphess.outdoor@sbcglobal.net.

Disabled hunter works to improve access to sport OUTDOORS Skip Hess By Michael Pointer michael.pointer@indystar.com Purdue basketball player Tarrance Crump faces three misdemeanor charges for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol and being involved in a hit-and-run accident last month. According to the Tippecanoe County Superior Court Web site, charges filed against Crump on Friday are: Operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Operating a vehicle with a blood-alcohol content between .08 and .15 percent. Leaving the scene of an accident in which there was bodily injury. The junior point guard is expected to appear before Superior Court Judge Michael Morrisey on Monday morning.

His 2002 Chevrolet TrailBlazer struck Purdue student Robert Brunner at an intersection near campus early Sept. 25, according to police. Crump left the scene before being arrested by West Lafayette police a short time later. Brunner suffered a head injury. He was treated at a Lafayette-area hospital and released.

Crump still is enrolled at Pur- duebut is not practicing with the team. Coach Matt Painter said during the media day last week he would wait until formal charges are filed be- fore deciding on any further discipline. Purdue spokesman Elliott Bloom said Painter is reviewing developments and likely will make an announcement this week. Crump transferred from Shelton (Ala.) State Community College after last season and was expected to be starting point guard before the incident. Call Star reporter Michael Pointer at (317) 444-6641.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL Crump charged in Sept. 25 SUV crash Purdue guard Tarrance Crump from 1991-93 when the presidency was a voluntary position and not the highest-ranking within the association. Sweet currently is the only woman among the four senior vice presidents who report to NCAA president Myles Brand. Her primary responsibility is to oversee the championships for 84 of the 88 sports. She also is in charge of the educational services group that governs leadership programs.

status and history within the NCAA are such that she and Brand occasionally meet in the Judith Sweet Room at the Downtown headquarters. Only a handful of NCAA luminaries have been honored in that manner. All of the others are deceased or retired. Sweet is an icon in college Brand said. contentious as college sports is, everybody respects Judy.

Everybody has the highest opinion of her and her knowledge and her goodwill and her interest in Limited opportunities In Milwaukee, Sweet grew up an avid fan of the Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Braves and a willing participant in all sports. She had few opportunities to exercise her interests outside her neighborhood, however, because high schools and colleges at that time offered nothing for women beyond intramural programs. Her playing career was spent mostly in sandlot and backyard games. Title IX, the 1972 federal legislation that banned sexual discrimination in athletics and academics in schools, changed that for many. Unfortunately for Sweet, though, it came three years after she graduated from the University of Wisconsin.

timing was horrible for being an athlete, but my timing has been very opportune for changing the landscape and trying to provide opportunities for young girls and women to enjoy whatever level of sports they have interest she said. first job out of college was as a physical education teacher at Tulane University. That modest beginning set her on a career path that blossomed quickly. After one year she moved to Arizona State, where she taught for two years and earned a degree. She stayed on to work in athletic administration for one year, then wanting to be near the ocean moved to San Diego.

After teaching at a high school for one year, Sweet was hired to teach and coach at UC- San Diego. She became an associate athletic director her second year there, and the athletic director her third year. Awoman overseeing and athletic programs was a revolutionary concept in 1975. Some of her fellow athletic directors were reluctant to accept her, and those coaches whose budgets were cut because of her efforts to strike a better funding balance between programs bristled. all learned to live together and we survived it and we developed a healthy she said.

She also faced resentment from anonymous letter-writers who expressed their disapproval in response to the national publicity she received for being an administrative pioneer. She estimated that she received more positive responses, but the negative ones were most surprised me that people would take the time to write those kinds of she said. opened my eyes to the biases that existed and the hurdles that had to be Proving herself According to colleagues, Sweet has cleared those hurdles through competence and persistence rather than calling attention to herself. a quiet, effective fighter for opportunities and she does her work so capably and professionally that she is not minimized by being seen as said Dale Neuburger, the former president of the Indiana Sports Corp. now avice president for PROS Consulting.

come through the volunteer governance side of the association and are recognized as a great leader, you then have impact. ideally suited to do her Added Brand: almost as if a conscience of college sports. always trying to do the right thing and make sure the well-being of student-athletes is The payoff for her 36 years of labor is watching athletes have an opportunity she get. greatest satisfaction comes from seeing both young men and women who have so much self-confidence as a result of their participation in athletics that they are true she said. know going to continue to contribute to society in a positive way as a result of the experiences had being a part of a team, learning how to compete, handling victory, handling defeat, being Call Star reporter Mark Montieth at (317) 444-6406.

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