University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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UJ o 85 g Ricky Hunley: All A merican! What do you do if you ' re a young boy and want something bad enough? When you are a young boy growing up in a small town of 40,000 people, and you have a woman like Scar- lette Hunley as your mother. You learn about such virtues as strength of charac- ter and strength of purpose. When Ricky Hunley was growing up in Petersburg, Virginia, his mother Scarlette, taught Ricky (and his 10 brothers and sisters) discipline: respect for others, as well as yourself. His mother and father, Jim, also had over 25 foster children in their home while bringing up their own family. The remarkable thing about Hunley isn ' t that he is so remarkable; but rather how much s of a gentleman and typical student he is. jhHe was brought up to understand the 1 importance of all the right virtues. As a freshman, he finished the year with a 1.6 GPA but ended his junior year by making the Dean ' s List. It is all the more remark- able because he will also graduate this spring, on time. T t ' s nice to hear (positive) things JL said about you, but I can ' t let it get out of proportion. I can ' t live off it. The old cliche is true: I ' ve got to get the job done every week. Hunley was al- ways conscious of the fuss being made about him week after week during the football season. Every day there ' s a new day and another one that ' s gone. This is a pretty good summary of his attitude. He is Arizona ' s most honored athlete on the football field and Head Coach Larry Smith called him a pleasure to coach; and one of the finest athletes he ' d ever had underneath him. The other coaches in the conference had even more praise, calling him perhaps the best linebacker in the last ten years, in a league known for the quality and quantity of its (9 players. y 196 SPORTS PROFILES

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1) The University of Arizona Cheerleaders were among the best in the nation of collegiate squads. Their enthusiasm fired up the Arizona fans and created an atmosphere of excitement in Arizona stadium. 2) Gavin Binzer and Coleen Lennox. 3) Kevin Teed and Felicia Beasley. 4) Kim Bird and Lisa Chan. 5) The cheerleaders worked hard but they also knew the value of playing hard. 6) Jim Rollison and squad captain Nancy Neuheisel. 7) Dale Kidd and Laura Booth. Spirit 195

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LJnce upon a time, there were two institutions of higher learning in this state, that Great Desert Institu- tion and the Other School. The peo- ple that lived in and around the Other School had always had a complex because they knew they weren ' t a real institution; during the great years B.K. (before Kush) they couldn ' t whip the Great Desert Institution academically or athleti- cally. Then Frank came to town and things changed. Or did they? He punched someone out and got the axe and this man was hired (who lost). And the other man lost too! Poor Other School, first football, then basketball, what next? LOOK TO LUTE! Lute Olson has always been a win- ner. He spent twelve years coaching high school athletes and then went on to Long Beach City College. With a four year season of 104-20. He then took over the program at Long Beach State and took it to a 24-2 record before Iowa of the big Ten conference knocked on his door. He and his team established many con- ference records that still stand. This success made many people wonder (and many Iowa fans upset) when Olson decided to give it all up to take on the challenge of rebuild- ing the University of Arizona bas- ketball program. And a challenge it would be. He took the smallest team in the conference and made them contenders, coming to within a handful of points many times. He improved upon a 4-22 record and seems to have made important recruiting efforts. Olson stated that he wouldn ' t talk in terms of how many games his team would win or lose, but that they would ' represent the University in a manner that we should expect ' them to exemplify, both on and off the court. 7 SPORTS PROFILES 197