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ARKADELPHIA — Bill Vining athletic director and head basketball coach at Ouachita Baptist University, has been elected president of the National Association of Intercollegiate AthleticsCoaches iNAIAC),The NAIAC is the largest organization of college coaches in the world, representing more than 530 schools with membership in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, headquartered at Kansas City.Vining serves as first vice-president of the organization, but will assume his new post July 1. He has served as head coach for the Tigers since 1954Vining is also taking a part in the 1980 Olympic men's basketball trials being held May 18 23 at Lexington, Ky.Vining serves as a Games Committee member of the event sponsored by the Amateur Basketball Association of the United States (ABAUSA) He is the only Arkansas coach to be included in the Olympic men’s basketball program this year.The trials are being held in the 23,000-seat Adolph Rupp Arena on the c ampus of the University of Kentucky At stake are 12 berths on |he Olympic team, which will play a newly organized set of five $0llt;1 Medal Games against NBA all stars in June, then cap it offtth a game against the 1976 U S Olympic team at Greensboro. C on ei’her June 26or 28 at the Breenstxwo Coliseum.The Gold Medal Games are the result of an agreement between fhe NBA Players Association, ABAUSA and the NBAFifty seven players are competing for the 12 spots on the Olympic team under the eyes of head cokh Dave Gavitt, now the athletic director at Providence College and assistant coach LarryBrown of UCLAThe five-game Gold Medal Games series against the NBA all-stars breaks down this way June 16 at the Forum in Los Angeles. June 18 at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix; June 20 at the King Dome in Seattle: June 22 at Madison Square Garden in New York City; and June 23 at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis Then comes the contest agaiast the 76 Olympic team, which won the Gold Medal at MontrealTh« Olympic team, after its selection on May 23, will head to Providence, R 1 , to train from May 27-June 6 then to the U S Olympic Committee's national training center in Colorado Springs from June 7-14 for final training ahead of the Gold Medal Games.
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Fayetteville Northwest Arkansas Times
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Wed, May 21, 1980
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