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By Richard Garland
Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The KWIC Records consists of tournament records, meeting minutes, financial records, member correspondence, photographs, and handbooks. The records cover the entire period the KWIC was organized as a conference. After the organization became a consortium the records become a bit more intermittent. These records are divided into five series: Tournament Records, Coaches/Season Reports, Administrative Records, Awards Records, and Photographs.
Collection Historical Note
In 1967 a committee was appointed by the chair of the Division of Girls and Women's Sports within the Kentucky Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreation to study the expanding interest in women's intercollegiate athletics. This committee met for the first time on December 2, 1967, with the purposes to develop state guidelines and policies for the development of intercollegiate programs for college women. Representatives from nine institutions attended this first meeting. In 1970 the first formal operating code was passed and the committee's name was changed to the KWIC (Kentucky Women's Intercollegiate Conference). The first state tournament was held in 1971, and the KWIC participated in the first AIAW (Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women) regional tournament and national tournaments in 1972.
Over the course of the KWIC's history, many Kentucky colleges and universities have at one time been members, with the largest membership enrollments coming in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1981, however, the NCAA established championships for women's Division I sports, and there was no longer a need for Division I Kentucky schools to participate in the KWIC state tournaments. NCAA participation began the slow but inevitable erosion of the KWIC as an athletic conference.
In 1996 the KWIC changed its name to the Kentucky Women's Intercollegiate Consortium, and abandoned the state tournaments it had sponsored since its inception. KWIC's mission became 1) the promotion of women's intercollegiate athletics in Kentucky, and 2) providing opportunities for professional development. KWIC continues to adhere to this mission today.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Access Restrictions:
Box 11 is not available for use due to presence of social security numbers. Please use the online version which has been scanned and has redacted social security numbers.
Acquisition Source:
Mullins, Martha
Acquisition Method:
gift
Finding Aid Revision History:
Processed as separate collections in 1984 and 1987, combined with other accessions and reprocessed in 2006 and reprocessed with additional accessions in 2010.
Other Note:
Photographs were initially numbered with the accession number; however, a decision was made to change to collection number. The database was changed, but the numbers written on the images were not changed.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
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Series 1: Tournament Records],
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Series 2: Coaches/Season Reports],
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Series 3: Administrative Records],
[Series 4: Awards Records],
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Series 5: Photographs],
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All]
- Series 4: Awards Records
- The Awards Records series contains lists of award winners, correspondence, a KWIC medal from an unknown year, and voting ballots.
- Box 20
- Barcode: 31234014040701
- Folder 21: Awards Correspondence, 1978-1979
- Contains correspondence concerning awards committee appointments and meetings, coach of the year awards, honor awards, conference cup awards, and other awards.
- Folder 22: Awards Correspondence, 1979-1980
- Contains correspondence concerning awards committee appointments and meetings, coach of the year awards, honor awards, conference cup awards, and other awards. Also contains ballots for nominations of said awards.
- Folder 23: Awards Correspondence, 1980-1981
- Contains correspondence concerning awards committee appointments and meetings, press releases, coach of the year awards, honor awards, conference cup awards, and other awards. Also contains ballots for nominations of said awards.
- Folder 24: Awards Correspondence, 1981-1982
- Contains correspondence concerning awards committee appointments and meetings, coach of the year awards, honor awards, conference cup awards, and other awards. Also contains ballots for nominations of said awards.
- Folder 25: Awards Correspondence, 1982-1983
- Contains correspondence concerning awards committee appointments and meetings, coach of the year awards, honor awards, conference cup awards, and other awards. Also contains ballots for nominations of said awards.
- Folder 26: Awards Correspondence, 1983-1984
- Contains correspondence concerning awards committee appointments and meetings, coach of the year awards, honor awards, conference cup awards, and other awards. Also contains ballots for nominations of said awards.
- Folder 27: Awards Correspondence, 1984-1985
- Contains correspondence concerning awards committee appointments and meetings, coach of the year awards, honor awards, conference cup awards, and other awards. Also contains ballots for nominations of said awards.
- Folder 28: Awards Correspondence, 1985-1986
- Contains correspondence concerning awards committee appointments and meetings, coach of the year awards, honor awards, conference cup awards, and other awards. Also contains ballots for nominations of said awards.
- Folder 29: Awards Correspondence, 1986-1987
- Contains correspondence concerning awards committee appointments and meetings, coach of the year awards, honor awards, conference cup awards, and other awards. Also contains ballots for nominations of said awards.
- Folder 30: Awards Correspondence, 1987-1988
- Contains correspondence concerning awards committee appointments and meetings, coach of the year awards, honor awards, conference cup awards, and other awards. Also contains ballots for nominations of said awards.
- Folder 31: Awards Correspondence, 1988-1989
- Contains correspondence concerning awards committee appointments and meetings, coach of the year awards, honor awards, conference cup awards, and other awards. Also contains ballots for nominations of said awards.
- Folder 32: Awards Correspondence, 1990-1991
- Contains correspondence concerning awards committee appointments and meetings, coach of the year awards, honor awards, conference cup awards, and other awards. Also contains ballots for nominations of said awards.
- Folder 33: Awards Correspondence, 1991-1992
- Contains correspondence concerning awards committee appointments and meetings, coach of the year awards, honor awards, conference cup awards, and other awards. Also contains ballots for nominations of said awards.
Browse by Series:
[
Series 1: Tournament Records],
[
Series 2: Coaches/Season Reports],
[
Series 3: Administrative Records],
[Series 4: Awards Records],
[
Series 5: Photographs],
[
All]
