Word: mergers
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Harvard women's varsity teams will have more regional championship tournaments and better officiating next year as a result of a recent merger between two athletic associations, officials said this week...
...result of the merger the ECAC will thus remove an administrative burden while providing better and more consistent officialing for women's sports, officials said...
...EAIAW really couldn't provide the same level of officials, so the merger seemed particularly attractive in that regard," said Harvard Athletic Director John P. Reardon '60. Reardon participated in the merger discussions...
...merger discussions started shortly after the national bodies governing college athletics joined nearly two years ago. Talks between the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) were acrimonious and AIAW administrators filed an antitrust suit against the NCAA...
...ECAC and EAIAW reached a more amicable agreement. "There was an atmosphere of trust and faith from the start," EAIAW president-elect Jane Betts said. "Ours was a very carefully orchestrated consolidation." Betts added, calling the national merger "a blatant, monopolistic takeover...