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Student attendance key to wins
As I sat on press row to
cover the Lady Dogs
basketball game
Sunday—just Uke I have for
every Georgia home game this
season I look across the
court toward the student sec
tion and noticed something
missing.
Students were missing.
The silent stare from hun
dreds of empty red seatbacks
is almost criminal and down
right depressing.
So much so, in fact, that I
decided to take a look at the
attendance numbers, and it
wasn’t pretty.
In the Lady Dogs' 14 home
games this season, the aver
age attendance has been a rel
atively meager 4,259.
Compare that to an aver
age attendance of 6,121 fans
that have Oiled the stands for
the 12 Georgia men’s team
home games and you've got a
30 percent drop off in fan sup
port.
So why aren’t students
coming out to support one of
the University’s most compet
itive sports teams?
People will argue the men’s
game is simply more enter
taining, and the women’s
games aren’t as much fUn to
watch.
While that is a valid point,
the statistics of other schools’
attendance numbers beg to
differ.
The Tennessee Lady
Volunteers boast the highest
attendance among women’s
teams in the country as they
average 12,873 fans for each of
their home games.
In addition to Tennessee,
schools like Connecticut, lowa
State, Purdue and Notre
Dame have already crossed
the 100,000 attendance pla
teau for the 2009-10 season
while Georgia still sits below
the 60,000 mark with only
59,632 people walking through
the turnstiles of Stegeman
Coliseum.
Maybe that’s the problem:
Stegeman simply doesn’t
attract a lot of fans because
it’s so old.
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Not true.
The Georgia gymnastics
team averages 10,224 patrons
to every home meet they’ve
hosted this season inside the
now 46-year-old monstrosity
we call Stegeman.
It can’t be the team’s per
formance that scares students
away. The No. 19 Lady Dogs
got off to their best start in
program history this season
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their sixth Final Four appear
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they watched one of the best
performances in Lady Dogs
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If Georgia ever wants to be
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or the SEC for that matter
students need to branch
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other 15 sports programs.
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MAKE SOME NOISE?
Attendance at Georgia
women’s basketball games
proves to be thousands behind
that of the Lady Dogs' toe
Tennessee.
Average attendance at Lady
Dogs home games: 4,259
Average attendance at Lady
Vols home games: 12,873
Difference in venue size of
Georgia's Stegeman Coliseum
and Tennessee's Thompson-
Boting Arena: 14,012, Tennes
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Capacity percentage at Lady
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WORLEY: Freshman goes all out
with the tasks she undertakes
► From Pago 1
Worley had no trouble adjusting.
In fact, she embraced it.
“She walked into our team In the
first team.meeting and said, ‘We’re
gonna win. We’re here to win.’ She
knows what Georgia’s about,”
senior Courtney McCool said.
Worley Is a winner. She won a
gold medal at the 2007 World
Championships as a part of Team
USA as well as a plethora of medals
In national competition.
“Her personality Is of a winner in
every aspect of her life,” McCool
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core at sleeping, she Is hardcore at
resting, she Is hardcore at every-
thing. ... Sometimes Its like
‘Whoa whoa whoa, you don’t
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thing,’ but that’s her person-,
ality. She wants to be great
at everything she does.”
Worley knows she has an
outspoken personality. She
wants to be the best, and she
wants her team to be the
best.
“I do have a very outspo
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well and winning, and I’m very con
fident all the time about our team,
and I think we have the greatest
team athletically and talent-wise,”
Worley said.
“I’m not afraid to tell everyone
that we are the best, and we are
always going to succeed.”
And for her first few meets as a
Gym Dog she struggled, falling
below the expectations placed on
her by herself and others.
But following Georgia’s shocking
loss to Auburn on Jan. 29, some
thing clicked. She called head coach
Jay Clark to set up a meeting In his
office the following Monday. She
wanted to know what she could do
better to help the team, and in
practice that day, something was
different about her.
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a teammate’s attitude, she says so.
“She loves speaking her mind,”
sophomore Kat Ding said.
“Sometimes the filter is lacking, but
that’s the fun part. She likes to tell
you how it is, and she’s not afraid to
tell you. I love the way she talks to
you. She’s so honest, and it’s a
refreshment from everything else.”,
Added freshman Christa Tanella:
“Shayla Is a highly Intense person. I
call it a ‘D personality.’ She Is direct,
she takes control of the situation.
She likes short statements, she
doesn’t like you going on and on
about stuff. She is very to the point
and very aggressive... even in her
conversations. In conversations
with other athletes she is always
trying to be right ... She’s as stub-
bom as a mule and you
gotta love her"
This past Christmas,
Worley endured the loss of
her grandmother, which
continues to affect her. Prior
to every routine on the bal
ance beam, Worley looks
skyward and says, “This is
for you, Grandma."
“She has been to every
one of my competitions
since I started, and it’s real-
MCCOOL
ly special for me to do beam for
her,” Worley said.
Even the song that is played dur
ing her beam routine, has added
significance for her. A piano player
at her church in Orlando, Fla.,
played the song, “You Raise Me
Up,” at Worley’s grandmother’s
funeral and recorded it specially for
Worley.
In Friday’s win over Kentucky,
Worley became the first Gym Dog
to win the all-around this season
and earned a 9.925 on the beam and
a 9.95 on the floor exercise.
None of which surprised her
teammates, they knew it was only a
matter of time before she fourid her
feet.
“She’s finally getting things
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“Freshman year is really hard
because it takes awhile to get into
that rhythm, and we can all talk
because we’ve all been through the
stage of where we suck for a while.
And this is the Shayla Worley we
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