Section V Information on Campus Efforts to Improve Opportunities for Women in Athletics, Including: Addition of Sports, Reallocation of Resources, and Construction or Renovation of Facilities • California State University, Bakersfield California State University, Bakersfield added women's soccer in 1996-97, women's water polo in 1997-98 and women's cross-country in 1998-99. During the 1999-2000 academic year, the university will hire a women's basketball coach and the women's basketball program will be implemented in the fall of 2000. The university made major improvements to the women's softball complex, including new backstop, dugouts, irrigation system, electronic scoreboard, new bleachers, landscaping, and an additional practice facility. The soccer facility has been improved with lights, additional seating and an electronic scoreboard to facilitate the women's program and provide doubleheader opportunities. New bleachers, scoreboard, decking and awnings have improved the Aquatic Facility and improved access for the women's swimming and women's water polo programs. The tennis facilities for women's tennis teams have also been improved, including resurfacing of the courts, a new press box, a back court wall, and significant landscaping features. By the end of the 2000-2001 academic year, CSU Bakersfield will have at least nine sports for women and six sports for men and will be spending approximately 60 percent of its resources on women's sports and 40 percent on men's sports. • California State University, Chico California State University, Chico eliminated the men's football program in the spring of 1997. Men's golf was added in the summer of 1998. Women's swimming will be added upon the completion of the university's future aquatic center as needed to meet goals of the decree. The university is considering the possibility of the addition of women's tennis in the spring of 2001 in order to continue to remain in compliance. In the spring of 1997, renovation of the baseball stadium was completed, including new and modern locker room space for the women's soccer and softball programs. In June of 1999, renovations of the seating in the basketball arena were completed which provide a more desirable venue for the women's volleyball and women's basketball programs. In the fall of 1999, renovations began on the soccer stadium. This will improve facilities for the women's soccer program and will also continue to upgrade the complex surrounding the women's softball field. • California State University, Dominguez Hills California State University, Dominguez Hills added women's tennis, women's cross-country and women's indoor/outdoor track. • California State University, Fresno California State University, Fresno eliminated men's swimming and men's water polo in 1994-95. Women's soccer was added in 1995-96 and women's equestrian in 1996-97. The university constructed a new softball stadium and press box (1995-97). A new women's locker room was constructed in 1995. A new women' volleyball/sport court was constructed in 1996. The university constructed a new men's and women's weight facility in 1996. The women's soccer office was renovated in 1997. The men's and women's training facilities were renovated in 1997-98. New air conditioning was added to the North Gym for women's basketball and volleyball in 1995. New chair back seating was added to the North Gym for women's basketball and volleyball (1997). A new men's and women's tennis center complex was constructed in 1997. The women's swimming locker room was renovated in 1998. The university renovated the women's soccer field, locker rooms, and training area in 1998-99. A long jump pit for women's track was constructed in 1998. Equestrian facility improvements were made in 1996-97. The total cost of constructing and renovating the above facilities for women's programs was $8.3 million. • California State University, Fullerton California State University, Fullerton added women's indoor track in 1998-99. The university has remodeled the women's varsity locker room. The university has renovated the gymnasium and improved the facility with chair back seating for both women's and men's basketball, women's volleyball, women's gymnastics, and wrestling. The university has completed the soccer stadium support building which houses men's and women's soccer, softball, and baseball. Chair back seating has been added to the first base side of the women's softball facility. A major construction project is underway this year to finish the baseball stadium and reconfigure the softball complex to provide additional seats, office space, locker rooms, and a donor hospitality area for both baseball and softball. • California State University, Hayward A major restructuring of the athletic program at California State University, Hayward occurred in the spring of 1992 due to fiscal exigencies. As resources became available, a number of athletic programs which were eliminated in 1992 were restored. Numerous factors were considered when final decisions were made about restoration of programs or the addition of a new program, e.g. the addition of women's water polo in 1997. Some of the factors considered included student interest, department curriculum, gender equity, faculty expertise, program costs, availability of competition, athletic facilities, and NCAA, NAIA and conference affiliation issues. The existing field house facility was reconfigured in the fall of 1994 to accommodate women's soccer, cross-country and softball athletes, in addition to athletes in men's cross-country, baseball and soccer. In the fall of 1996, gymnasium space was reassigned for a women's locker room for basketball athletes to create a facility that was comparable to the one made available for men. In the fall of 1997, the athletic training facility in the main gymnasium was relocated to a larger room to serve more effectively the increased number of female athletes in the intercollegiate athletic program. In the winter of 1998, the former athletic training facility in the main gymnasium was modified to create a separate locker room facility for women's volleyball. • Humboldt State University Humboldt State University added women's varsity soccer and women's varsity rowing in 1995-1996. The university added the above programs in order to comply with the consent decree and both women's soccer and women's varsity rowing have developed into strong programs that compete on a regional and national level. Humboldt State University has implemented a broad-based Division II intercollegiate athletics program which is comprised of seven women's sports and five men's programs. The university is in the planning stage of construction for a boating instruction safety center which will provide a new $1.7 million facility for the campus' intercollegiate women's rowing program. The new facility will include a boat bay, training room, locker room area and equipment room. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2000. • California State University, Long Beach California State University, Long Beach added women's water polo and women's soccer to increase opportunities for women athletes. The university made improvements to an existing field where soccer matches are held, including athletic field maintenance and upgrades that were necessary in order to start up a new sport such as women's soccer. Bleachers were brought in to the university's pool deck so that the university could seat the number of spectators who were drawn to the women's water polo contests. The university undertook the resurfacing of the tennis courts. Improvement continues to be made to the university's softball field each year. Padding was added to the backstop and bleachers were painted and maintained. Women's volleyball and women's basketball locker rooms were painted and upgraded. The university constructed volleyball offices and conference rooms for the coaches. The university resurfaced the track.