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...tournament has always been the high point of the season, the equivalent of the Beanpot for the men. But the league's athletic directors are now in the process of phasing out the Ivy Tournaments for women's basketball, swimming, ice hockey, softball and soccer in favor of round robin matches, with the championship to be decided based on regular-season Ivy League records...
...athletic directors were hardly rooting out an ivy-encrusted tradition when they made their decision last May: women's athletics at Ivy League schools have only been flourishing for the past seven or eight years. Rather, the athletic directors feel that round-robin matches will upgrade women's athletics at Ivy schools and encourage them to put the same amount of commitment and funds into the women's programs as they have for men's sports...
...want to establish a strong committment to women's athletics," said Brown University athletic director John Parry. The round-robin system is "a purer way to define a champion" He added, "If a team can sustain its winning streak through seven games, that team is certainly worthy of the Ivy championship. But what happens if the star player happens to be injured the one weekend of the tournament...
...round-robin system will force coaches to reassess their teams, especially the fledgling one such as ice hockey--to which the commitment and intensity of the Ivy schools ranges from "quasi-club" to varsity. Coaches will have to ask themselves if their team is of a high-enough caliber to survive continuous Ivy League competition. Before, Parry said, "it was all too easy to jump into a championship meet." The round-robin system, he added, "will lead to consistency in all our programs...
...Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, said yesterday although Corporation approval of the compromise plan is not guaranteed, yesterday's agreement was "very significant...