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Upset Kathy Shields resigns• ■ ■ “ “ • . ■ m s '1 1 • i: * * % ^ *c**d*nPr*** program — which would have Slill, Trier admits more money * A livid Kathy Shields has t|uit as : s«n the national women’s team could be r«i«d if the women or the national women's basketball i^n ^ woti together from this mw qualify for the Olympics. coach, ievelling a broadside at fall until the Olympics. ; : .“Obviously tha|'becomes a Basketball'Canada which ste says '“We've been told to expect a 25 *' much more martetable commodity I the legs out from under her per ccnt cut (in federal funding) ty,” he said. program. • and it could be worse,” Rick Shields, whose husband Ken re-Shields resigned in protesl Traer, the'group's executive-direc- signed as the national men's coach Friday — three months before the lor said from Ottawa. , : in December, thinks Basketball qualification tournament tor the “The board has said we're pre- Canada’s marketing should have .19% Atlanta Olympics — because pared to make a full commitment., started much sooner.Basketball Canada officials with- lo the men’s- and women’s “What’s really disapointing isdrew a commitment.to fund a cen- Olympic qualification programs, that they knew cuts were comingtrailed training program in the Everything beyond that becomes a la§i December and ,., there wasyear leading up the the Games. lower priority.” • - no fund-raising ckxve by anybody,, I just can’t live with the conj- . Basketball Canada has a no revenue generation done andmitment being broken,” Shields $330,000 surplus from the fiscal they’ve got a huge surplus theysaid from her home in Victoria, year which ends this month. How- won’t touch,” she said. ;‘’This is the only way we can ever, Traer said the group’s board The most immediate concern forcompete, 1 know this in my bean.” won't spend It on a “one-time” officials is how to find a replace;: HuWever, Basketball Canada of-, expense of centralization faced meni,1 The Olympic qualifyingficials say they just don't have the with an unspecified cut from the tournament is scheduled for Junemoney to fund the centralization government this year, and training camp is in mid-Apfil.
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Lethbridge Herald
Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Sat, Mar 25, 1995
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