Nanook Notes

The men’s basketball team was picked to finish last in the GNAC. The Nanooks return only four players from last year– two starters, Colin Matteson and Mladen Begojevic, who dealt with numerous injuries last year.

Here’s an article in the UAA student paper, the Northern Light, about how much rivalry losses stink for the Seawolves’ volleyball team. The Nanooks have defeated the Seawolves twice this year, both in five-set matches.
UAA was also hit with a Title IX complaint. Here’s the Anchorage Daily News article. Ironically, we just talked about Title IX in my sport law class last night. UAF was hit with a similar complaint in 2001. Then, there were only 16 scholarships for women and 34 for men (I think those numbers are right). Here’s an article that former Nanook swimmer Rebecca George wrote about UAF’s ordeal with Title IX in April 2007. The article was later adapted for the News-Miner, where George is currently a writer. Now, the Nanooks have two more scholarships for men than women, I don’t remember the precise number, but I do remember that it was just about two.

Apparently, Anchorage’s six women’s team share just two locker rooms, while the men have three locker rooms between them, with the men’s hockey and men’s basketball teams having their own locker rooms.