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Today is Wednesday, May 20th, 2020. This is an interview\nfor the oral history project of Trinity University's women's intercollegiate\nathletics. My name is Betsy Gerhardt Pasley. I'm a 1977 grad and also a former\nathlete. We also have Dr. (Doctor) Douglas Brackenridge, Professor Emeritus,\nDepartment of Religion from 1962 to 2002, and Shirley Rushing Poteet, Associate\nProfessor of the Department of Physical Education from 1960 to 1995, and also\ndepartment chair from 1985 to 1995. Our interviewee today is Amy Waddell\nStewart, class of 1994 and 1997 with a Master's degree, and a volleyball player.\nIs that correct?\n\nSTEWART: That's correct.\n\nPASLEY: Okay. All-American, as I understand, but we'll get to that. So that's\nthe official intro so that we have that for the people who have to document it\nlater. Amy, what I'd like to do is kind of start from the beginning, and that is\nhow did you get to Trinity? Were you recruited? What was it that appealed to you\nabout Trinity?\n\nSTEWART: Sure. My first experience with Trinity was as a sophomore in high\nschool, and I was in San Antonio for a volleyball tournament and my mom\nencouraged me to take a look at the university. And at that time, as a\n15-year-old girl, I had zero thoughts of college. And so I noticed that it was a\npretty place, but I didn't give it much thought after that. Flash forward about\na year and a half and I had received several offers of Division I full-ride\nscholarships, but was a little bit torn about changing my love of volleyball\ninto a paid position, for lack of a better term. I was reticent to have my\nathletic department own my existence. And my parents, being the wonderful,\ngenerous people that they were, they allowed me to look in several places. And\nthree and a half hours from my home in Houston was a good distance, and Trinity\nhad a fantastic reputation. So after being contacted by Julie Jenkins, I decided\nto take a look.\n\nPASLEY: So, Julie did recruit you. Is that the right term?\n\nSTEWART: Absolutely.\n\nPASLEY: Where did you go to high school in Houston by the way?\n\nSTEWART: I went to Cypress Creek.\n\nPASLEY: I was also in Houston, high school. My high school's I don't think even\nthere anymore.\n\nSTEWART: Where were you, Betsy?\n\nPASLEY: Robert E Lee. It's over on kind of the southwest kind of Galleria area.\n\nSTEWART: Yeah. I had friends from Lee.\n\nPASLEY: And you just told me the high school. Again, remind me?\n\nSTEWART: Cypress Creek.\n\nPASLEY: Okay. Cypress Creek.\n\nSTEWART: We actually won state my senior year, undefeated in the 5A division, so\nwe were a bit of a powerhouse.\n\nPASLEY: Do you remember some of the other schools, the D1 (Division I) schools\nthat you were talking to?\n\nSTEWART: Yeah, I had full ride offers at Ole Miss, and somewhere in southern\nFlorida. I can't remember.\n\nPASLEY: You know what's neat is what you're describing I think is what I'm\ncalling the D III (Division III) philosophy. So we might want to talk a little\nbit more about that because I think now that you've had a chance to look back\ntoo, that seems to be a a narrative in there. How would you describe the\nrecruiting part of it? I imagine it was different than D1, or was it?\n\nSTEWART: It was somewhat different, and really cinched my decision to come to\nTrinity. Julie was extremely thoughtful. I believe at the Division III level,\nyou have to recruit the whole person, not just the athlete. And so when I went\non recruiting trips to the other schools, the coaches had me stay with players,\nand those players on a Wednesday afternoon or Wednesday evening in the middle of\nthe school year took me out to parties where everybody was getting drunk and\ndoing all sorts of different things. And that was not my scene at all. And Julie\ndid her research. And I'm not sure if she talked to my coach or to whom she\nspoke, but she set up for me to attend a Young Life leadership training meeting,\nbecause Young Life was an important part of my high school experience. And when\nI was there, I met some people who were friends of friends, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=0.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/transcript/30546/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it\nfelt very much like this place could be my home. And so I think her research and\nattention to that kind of detail helped me to understand that she cared about\nwho I was more than just as a volleyball player.\n\nPASLEY: Cool. And I don't know if you know; she's still there.\n\nSTEWART: Oh, yeah. Now that there are two schools in the conference in Colorado,\nI get to go down and watch the Tigers whenever they're in the state.\n\nPASLEY: Oh, so where do you live now?\n\nSTEWART: I'm up north of Denver.\n\nPASLEY: Loveland, right?\n\nSTEWART: Not quite to Loveland. We're only about 20 minutes north of Denver in Broomfield.\n\nPASLEY: Broomfield, okay. So you've gotten to see Trinity play a few times. What\nschool do they play at?\n\nSTEWART: So down in Colorado Springs, there's Colorado College. And just\nrecently, there's a provisional school in the conference. And Dr. Brackenridge,\nyou may know better than I, or maybe Shirley. It's a very small school in\ndowntown Denver and I can't really remember the name, but they were there this\npast year. They competed there.\n\nPASLEY: Yeah, I know there's a University of Denver.\n\nSTEWART: No. It's a strange name.\n\nPASLEY: Okay. Regis?\n\nSTEWART: No.\n\nPASLEY: That's fine. I was just curious.\n\nSTEWART: See if I can find it. It's Johnson \u0026 Wales.\n\nPASLEY: Oh, wow. Okay. Have you all heard of that? Shirley or Doug?\n\nPOTEET: What was it?\n\nSTEWART: Johnson \u0026 Wales.\n\nPOTEET: Oh, no. I'm not familiar.\n\nBRACKENRIDGE: (INAUDIBLE)\n\nSTEWART: I think they're provisional members of the Southern Collegiate Athletic\nConference this year.\n\nPASLEY: I'm gonna back up a second into high school and before then. How did you\nget into volleyball and what other sports were available? Did you play any other\nsports before you came to Trinity?\n\nSTEWART: Yeah. So, in middle school, we had the standard offerings of\nvolleyball, basketball, and track, which went all season, all year long, and I\nplayed all of those in middle school. I also was a competitive diver in middle\nschool. For a time period, the schedule got too rigorous with before-school\npractices and after-school practices, so I had to drop diving. But then my\nfreshman year of high school, played volleyball, which was the first season of\nthe year. And then the basketball coach let me know that I had made junior\nvarsity. And I said, \"Well, but I'm not playing basketball.\" And so I narrowed\ndown to just predominantly volleyball in high school. I also played club which\nwas really blossoming at that time frame. We only had one available club in\nHouston whereas now there's probably 20 different volleyball clubs in Houston.\nBut I also played a season of soccer because they needed a goalie, and then a\nseason of golf, because my family golfs and Debbie Yaney (SP), who was my high\nschool volleyball coach, was also the golf coach. So I dabbled a little bit.\n\nPASLEY: But volleyball was your thing and obviously you were recruited for it.\n\nSTEWART: Absolutely.\n\nPASLEY: And you played varsity all four years in high school?\n\nSTEWART: No. In high school, I played two years of junior varsity and two years\nof varsity.\n\nPASLEY: And y'all won state your senior year, right?\n\nSTEWART: That's correct. Yep.\n\nPASLEY: Guys, jump in at any time if you've got some follow-up questions. I have\nothers too.\n\nBRACKENRIDGE: Can you all hear that noise in the background? No?\n\nSTEWART: It's not bothersome.\n\nBRACKENRIDGE: Okay, okay. The yard man's out there doing some work.\n\nPASLEY: I'm just jealous that you have a yard man.\n\nSCHNUR: Real quick, real quick--I can mute people if I need to, so Dr.\nBrackenridge, I'm just going to mute you, and then if you have a question to\nask, you can unmute yourself with the microphone icon.\n\nPASLEY: Is that okay? Cool, okay. Yeah, that'll make it easier for the person\nwho gets to listen to this later. So you came on in Trinity in 1990, correct?\n\nSTEWART: Yes.\n\nPASLEY: So in your four years--well, really more than four years--but in your\nyears there, we were also going ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=300.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/transcript/30546/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"through a renovation from the Sams to\nthe Bell Center.\n\nSTEWART: Absolutely.\n\nPASLEY: How do you remember that working out?\n\nSTEWART: I've kind of blocked out my freshman year. I don't have a ton of\nrecollection of the Sams Center. We played my sophomore year down at the--what's\nthe--I think the high school stadium that's down by the zoo?\n\nPASLEY: Oh, Alamo Stadium?\n\nSTEWART: Yeah, we played my sophomore year down there, which was hard but okay.\nAnd then junior and senior year with the Bell Center, it was absolutely fantastic.\n\nPASLEY: How did the team do those years? I should know this but--\n\nSTEWART: Yeah, so I think that my freshman year was, as far as I know, our first\nwinning season at least in some time. And I believe we went something like\n17-and-6 that year. My sophomore year, again a strong season. My junior year was\nthe first year we went to the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association)\ntournament, and I believe they've been back almost every year, if not every year\nsince. So it was a really amazing time to be part of the program.\n\nPASLEY: And really the first years I think that the team truly got into a\nsuccessful winning program, I think, right?\n\nSTEWART: Correct, yeah.\n\nPASLEY: Why do you think that is?\n\nSTEWART: I think that there's a little bit of a snowball effect. My freshman\nyear, we had a handful of girls who had played club volleyball, who were amazing\nathletes. And Julie continued to do a really good job of recruiting up. So we\nsort of broke through and then had a history of success that she built on.\n\nPASLEY: It makes sense. By the way, you may or may not know this, but we\ninterviewed Kerry Eudy yesterday.\n\nSTEWART: Oh, did you?\n\nPASLEY: She says hello.\n\nSTEWART: Oh, that's fantastic. If you would share her contact information with\nme, I would love to connect with her.\n\nPASLEY: I'm happy to. I'll do it after this call. I'll send you a follow-up on\nthat. Yeah, no, that was really fun. Sounds like y'all had some really good players.\n\nSTEWART: Oh, we did. We had a lot of talent and we also just had a lot of fun.\n\nPASLEY: By the way, I'm typing some notes here so I apologize. I'm kind of\ngiving us time to breathe in here, and let anybody else jump in. How would you\ndescribe Julie's coaching style? What did you get out of playing for her?\n\nSTEWART: So, Julie has always been a student of the game. She has been flexible\nand she has grown as the game has developed and changed. I think what I got to\nsee from her was a significant evolution. I think that her coaching skills were\nalways there, but she finally had the talent to work with to implement what she\nwanted to accomplish. As I have seen her year after year with the different\ntalent, and the way that she has just built this program into a Division III\npowerhouse, it's really impressive to see the way that she works with what she\nhas. She runs an offense that's comparable to a Division I level but just played\nabout a foot and a half lower. So, comparable ball control, comparable power,\nbut just a different elevation because those are the players that you get at\nDivision III, the girls that aren't tall enough to play in Division I.\n\nPASLEY: By the way, you're not--Kerry and I were talking about this\nyesterday--neither one of y'all are terribly tall.\n\nSTEWART: I was regularly across the net from somebody who was four or five\ninches taller than I was.\n\nPOTEET: How tall are you?\n\nSTEWART: Uh, I was five nine. I'm a little shorter now, as we all understand.\n\nPASLEY: When you start at 5'2\" there's not much place to go. (laughs) ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=600.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/transcript/30546/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nBy the way, what do you do now?\n\nSTEWART: So, I'm fortunate enough to get to predominantly stay home. I do some\npart-time work with keeping books and accounting for one of my friends' small\nbusinesses. I do some part-time light construction work. But mostly I am mom to\ntwo teenagers.\n\nPASLEY: Oh, wow, okay. Well, that's pretty crazy. So take us through then those\nyears after you graduated from Trinity.\n\nSTEWART: After I graduated from Trinity? I spent my first two years out of\nTrinity working full-time for Young Life in San Antonio. It's an outreach\nministry to high school, if you're unfamiliar. At that point I made a decision.\nI was either going to go into the Marines, or eventually I decided a better\ndecision for me was back to Trinity for the Master's program. John Moore\nconvinced me that that was the right decision. And went back and finished my\nfifth year for my Master's in teaching. Then I spent two years as a teacher at\nLackland Air Force Base. And during that time, I spent a year as the assistant\ncoach for Julie. I want to say that it was 1997, but I'm not sure. I'd have to\nlook. And I also spent some time coaching Trinity's college--the men's team,\ntheir club team, which was really fun. I'm not sure if that still exists, but we\nhad a good group of guys playing back then. At that point, I got married, and my\nhusband's job was up in Austin, so we moved up there. I spent five years as a\nfinancial advisor with Ameriprise. Then had kids, got a chance to stay home, and\nmostly stayed home. We moved quite a bit. We moved to northern California and\nthen Colorado and then Connecticut and then back to Colorado, where we decided\nwe were done moving. And have worked for my church part-time. I have done a\nsmattering of things. I did go back to teaching for a year while we were in\nConnecticut for a year and a half there. But have just been super fortunate to\nwork as an option instead of needing to.\n\nPASLEY: Thanks for catching us up on that. Going back, and I don't know if you\nwould know this, one of the things we're by the way having trouble with is\nfinding really good reliable information. Things started to get better in the\n1990s, but in terms of statistics and things like that. It seemed like I read\nsomewhere, Amy, that you might have been the first All-American from Trinity.\n\nSTEWART: I was the first Division III All-American at Trinity (SP).\n\nPASLEY: Congratulations, by the way, late.\n\nSTEWART: Thank you.\n\nPASLEY: How did that feel? What was that about? How'd that work out?\n\nSTEWART: It was amazing. I think I had a unique opportunity at Trinity. My first\nyear to get All-American was my sophomore year and, unfortunately, we had an\ninjury early in the season where our setter blew out her knee, and so I had a\nvery unique opportunity to play middle in the front row and set while I was in\nthe back row.\n\nPASLEY: Wow.\n\nSTEWART: Which I think was part of what drew a little bit of attention. That\nyear, we did not go to the NCAA tournament, which it's unusual to receive that\nhonor when your team isn't successful enough to get into the tournament. And so\nI think that unique role maybe got some attention from other coaches, that I was\nsuccessful in a difficult circumstance. So that first year when I got that\naward, it was great fun. Julie and my mom and I flew to the NCAA tournament and\nI was there at the awards presentation, and I have pictures from that, and just\nvery fun memories. I think it was as much an award for Julie as it was for me.\nIt was a recognition of her as well. And, it really, I think pushed us again\nforward, toward ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=900.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/transcript/30546/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that successful powerhouse that they are now.\n\nPASLEY: You mentioned pictures. We're always looking for pictures. Would you\nmaybe have some either digitally or some way we could--?\n\nSTEWART: I could maybe get a hold of some. I would need to be at my mom's house\nin Houston. I know she has some in a frame that I could scan for you.\n\nPASLEY: That'd be good, wouldn't it, Doug or Shirley?\n\nPOTEET: Yes. Yes.\n\nBRACKENRIDGE: I think we'd also like a current photo of you. But we try to do\nthat--usually if we can do the interviews in person, we can get a current\nphotograph. So that that would be nice if you could send it to Betsy or to Abra\nto the archives. I think that would be helpful.\n\nPASLEY: Yeah, if you want to just use my email, Amy, since you already have\nthat, that'd be great. But yeah, whatever you can. I know I don't throw any of\nmy son's stuff away, so hope your mom's the same way.\n\nSTEWART: Absolutely. I have programs from volleyball tournaments from my high\nschool years so--probably have newspaper clippings and other things, too, if you\nneed any of that.\n\nPASLEY: Okay. I'll let Doug make that call.\n\nSCHNUR: I'm gonna unmute and just say yeah, just (laughs) anything from your\ntime at Trinity would be great.\n\nPASLEY: Yeah, that would be, so we can have that collected with this project.\nThat'd be good. It sounds like--and it's always fun to look back--you really\nwere at the front end of this really great program. And you mentioned Julie. Is\nthere anything else that you've thought about to say, \"Wow, it was amazing I was\nthere. Here's what happened or why it happened\"?\n\nSTEWART: Well, I remember when I was recruited that Dr. Calgaard had really\npushed for the athletic and intramural facilities and programs at Trinity to be\ntop-notch. I think what I understood was that they were pretty pleased with\ntheir academic experience at that point, but that the university was really\nputting a shoulder to their student life outside of the classroom. And that was\nalso when the intramural fields were built. The baseball field I think got a new\nlook. So it was a pretty amazing time to be at Trinity, to get to see a lot of\nthat change but also get to spend my sophomore, junior year enjoying those new\nfacilities. Really, I've always been thankful for that.\n\nBRACKENRIDGE: I think President Calgaard, his goal was to make Trinity a truly\nresidential university. And they started having requirements about living in the\nresidence halls. You had that?\n\nSTEWART: I did. I actually lived on campus freshman and sophomore year, moved\noff my junior year and then back onto campus my senior year. That was just\nbecause my roommate my junior year wanted to live off campus.\n\nPOTEET: Tell us a little bit about your Trinity experience other than athletics.\nYour interaction with other students or other athletes.\n\nSTEWART: I had a magical four years. The faculty accessibility was fantastic. I\nkind of soaked it all up. I participated in intramurals. I got to play all the\nsports that I loved. I actually had bowling as a class in the Sams Center before\nthey tore that down. That was actually my only B my first semester was bowling.\nMy mom gave me a really hard time. She said it was good I didn't take fencing\nbecause I might have failed that one. But I took a long time to figure out what\nI wanted to major in and that was okay. That wasn't unusual. I didn't fall\nbehind. Every semester I took maybe two classes of things that were just\ninteresting to me, that were fun, which was great, and I still finished in four\nyears. My undergraduate degree was in English, so some of my upper level\nclasses, I still ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=1200.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/transcript/30546/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"talk about. I took a poetry class that was based on\nkeeping a dream log that we all discussed sitting around a table because there\nwere 12 of us. And I still tell friends about that amazing experience and how\nfun it was to look inside our dreams as a source of poetry. The getting to play\nDivision III volleyball at a high level so that we got to travel was again just\nso much fun. It felt like a Division I experience but I still got to play\nintramurals because my coach didn't own me. Now, after our setter blew out her\nknee our sophomore year, she encouraged us strongly not to play intramurals,\nbecause that was how she blew out her knee. So as the program got a little more\nserious, we had a few more regulations. Does that answer that question?\n\nPOTEET: Sure. Sure.\n\nSTEWART: I also got to--I was a volunteer with Young Life the whole time I was\nat Trinity, so I was able to be active in a church and in outside organizations.\nI was on the Country Western dance troupe. So it was a very full experience.\n\nPASLEY: Some of the athletes we've talked to, Amy, have talked about the\nchallenge of Trinity being such a well-regarded academic institution, pretty\ntough curriculum, and keeping up their intercollegiate athletic experience. Did\nyou ever encounter any issues or were there stories about how the professors or\nother people were able to support you?\n\nSTEWART: I actually didn't struggle too much there. I always knew that if I\nneeded to, I could place my academics in front of my athletics. That was not a\nquestion whatsoever. The way I was wired is that I would tend to take more hours\nduring volleyball season because of the structure. I was always more successful,\nbetter GPA (Grade Point Average), with more hours during season, because you\njust had to get everything done. You didn't mess around. You didn't\nprocrastinate. It actually helped me to have that kind of structure.\n\nBRACKENRIDGE: I've mentioned this with other interviews, Amy, that as a\nprofessor, the biggest problem with most students was time management. And with\nmany of them, they had all kinds of time. They had lots of time, but they didn't\nknow how to use it. But I found the athletes and often the people in drama, they\nhad to spend a lot of time outside of class, that they found the time and that\nwas a skill that I would think would carry over into your life after school, to\nlearn how to manage time.\n\nSTEWART: Oh, definitely. It requires a discipline that is a tremendous life\nskill, to be able to prioritize your academics. I know to this day, when Julie\nbrings a volleyball team to town, she'll often send me their itinerary so we can\nfigure out when to connect and grab a meal together. And they have lots of time\nset aside for study hours, even when they travel. So I know at least in the\nvolleyball program, and I expect in all of the sports, that the coaches are\nalways aware that, especially at the Division III level, they are coaching\nstudent athletes.\n\nPASLEY: This may seem like it's a little off topic, but in 1993, would you have\nmaybe attended the Midnight Madness basketball kickoff?\n\nSTEWART: Probably.\n\nPASLEY: At the Bell Center?\n\nSTEWART: I took stats for the basketball team, the men's basketball team, so\nlikely I was there.\n\nPASLEY: This might seem awkward, but we interviewed Yanika Daniels the other\nday. Do you remember her? African American.\n\nSTEWART: Her name sounds familiar.\n\nPASLEY: One of the things that in fact Doug actually mentioned ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=1500.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/transcript/30546/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in his\nTrinity history and it'll probably get re-mentioned in this whatever this book\nturns into, but they had the very first--this is when basketball teams would\nstart the Midnight Madness to kick off the season. And she was all excited\nbecause she's on the women's basketball team thinking they're gonna have both\nteams kick it off. And they never invited the women's team. And she mentioned\nthat she decided just to keep shooting baskets until they kicked her off. And\nshe ended up later writing a letter to the Trinitonian that Bob King kind of\nresponded to. But do you happen to recall that event?\n\nSTEWART: No.\n\nPASLEY: I would have loved to have been there. I think that would have been\nreally interesting!\n\nSTEWART: So, I think volleyball, without having to compete directly with male\nathletes in our sport, we had a little bit of a unique position. I don't envy\nthe basketball players and the soccer players, even softball or tennis, who have\nto compete for fans when men are playing their sport also. My senior year at\nhigh school, we actually put together a poster for my high school that had all\nof the senior volleyball players and football players together. And the title at\nthe bottom of the poster was, \"Volleyball, the other Fall sport.\"\n\nPASLEY: The other what sport?\n\nSTEWART: The other Fall sport.\n\nPASLEY: Oh, okay. (laughs) I like it.\n\nSTEWART: And it was funny because that poster was quite popular. Our football\nteam was good but not great. And the volleyball team won state undefeated. And\nso we were pulling as many fans as the football team was really, by the end of\nthe season. But that was a very unique experience.\n\nPASLEY: No kidding. Yeah.\n\nBRACKENRIDGE: Well, did you find when you were playing at Trinity--what kind of\nattendance did you get? From my research, I've realized that volleyball probably\ngot more attention than any of the other women's sports in terms of attendance.\nBut a lot of times you see the photos and you can see a lot of empty seats. That\nthere weren't a whole lot of people there. Was that--?\n\nSTEWART: You're right, especially our sophomore year when we were over at the\nhigh school stadium. That was difficult. Few people wanted to trek over there. I\nthink a couple things played into that. Of course, in volleyball, we wore bun\nhuggers at the time, which were sort of like bathing suit briefs almost, for our\nbottoms. I think that maybe helped with fan attendance. I think as we\nexperienced more success, and we actually got to host the NCAA tournament at\nsome point, we started to have a pretty strong following. So that was a lot of\nfun to have so much noise and cheering and excitement in the Bell Center.\n\nBRACKENRIDGE: Didn't--Dr. Calgaard and his wife usually attended those matches\nfairly regularly?\n\nSTEWART: Oh, yes. He and (INAUDIBLE) were absolutely there. I would say they\ndidn't miss very many.\n\nPASLEY: Amy, one of the things that really kicked this off was those of us in\nthe 1970s who got there right after Title IX passed--and by the way, I'm jealous\nof the fields because our softball team never had a field to practice or play\non. But that's neither here nor there. The question I wanted to ask was in the\n1990s, you're now literally 20 years after Title IX. Did that ever affect you or\nwas that ever top of mind in any way in terms of equity or what Title IX did for\nwomen's sports or any of that?\n\nSTEWART: I don't think that I was terribly aware. I would have recognized what\nTitle IX was, but I don't think that it would have been at the forefront. I\nthink because volleyball was always volleyball, that it didn't affect my world\nas much.\n\nPASLEY: Yeah, and that's fine. But here's an example; you mentioned the setter\ninjured herself. So what kind of training and other support did ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=1800.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/transcript/30546/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your\nteam get? You felt like it was the same as what the men's basketball team might\nhave gotten, for example?\n\nSTEWART: Yeah. We had full access to the same training facilities. I was\nsomebody with terrible ankles and had several ankle injuries throughout my time\nat Trinity. So actually had quite a lovely relationship with the trainer.\n\nPASLEY: Is that Janet, by the way?\n\nSTEWART: It was Janet. Yeah. So that's hard. But I think one of the things that\nalso is true, after the renovation and we got into the Bell Center, we had\ncomplete access to the weight room, the training facility there, and it became a\npart of volleyball to build strength. Previously, it wasn't much of a focus. My\nson plays volleyball now, and strength training and agility is 30% of what they\ndo in practices. And that wasn't the case when I was playing. But as we got the\nnew facilities, strength training, especially in the off season, became an\nexpectation of what we were doing. So it was quite nice to have the new weight\nroom, the new locker rooms. I never felt at all a second-class citizen when it\ncame to what was available to us as athletes.\n\nPASLEY: Your timing was great, wasn't it? (laughs)\n\nSTEWART: It really was. Plus Matt Sands (SP) I think was his name, who was the\nequipment manager for so long, he took care of all of our equipment and our\npractice clothes and everything. And he was also a dear friend of mine. He made\nsure that we didn't lack anything.\n\nBRACKENRIDGE: Amy, one of the reasons we started this project was we were\ninterested in the women back in the 1960s and 1970s when there wasn't anything\nlike that. The women were indeed second-class citizens. And I think Betsy was\nsaying that they ran some track and they had to run it in tennis shoes, or they\nhad to have their own shoes. And they got second-hand uniforms and part-time\ncoaches. So one of the things we wanted to--the reason they kind of started this\nwas to make people aware that what they enjoy today, a lot of women had to make\nsome sacrifices to get there. And just really glad to hear that your experience\nwas so different than what people from Betsy's era would have had to put up with.\n\nSTEWART: Oh, definitely. And the weight of that is not lost on me at all. I\nthink that when I was at Trinity, there were possibly a few remnants of the old\nguard, mostly in the male coaching staff, where I didn't feel maybe the respect\nthat I felt like our program had earned, from some of those coaches. But I would\nsay the overwhelming majority of the athletic staff really supported what we\nwere doing and the success we were having.\n\nPASLEY: And really it was interesting, Amy, because we first started just\ninterviewing folks in the 1970s, and then we kind of said, \"Well, let's talk to\npeople in the 1980s,\" which is of course when Julie showed up, in the mid 1980s.\nAnd I think she had some pretty difficult years there at first. But this is so\nmuch fun. I'm so glad we've extended this into the 1990s. Because now we really\nsee the fulfillment of all that work that was done up to that point.\n\nSTEWART: Well, and I do think that it's normal for any significant change like\nthat to take time to mature, right? To gain teeth. And that we ought to always\nkeep in mind the people who went before us and fought the battles that made it\nvery easy for us to do what we love.\n\nPASLEY: And, frankly, it was the coaches. One thing we're finding--and when I\nasked you about Title IX, that was probably not top of mind. To a person, no\nmatter what our conditions were or what our facilities were, we were just so\nhappy to be playing. It's 18- and 19- and 20-year-olds that you look back now\nand you say, \"Wow, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=2100.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/transcript/30546/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I could have gotten a lot more out of it.\" But to\na person, we haven't heard that from anyone, any complaints. So that's been\nanother fun part of this project.\n\nPOTEET: Amy, I was one of those people who was there in the 1960s and 1970s when\nwe had nothing, and I have seen such a tremendous change happen over the last 25\nyears. I can't tell you what a thrill it is to see the end results of what we\nwere doing back then.\n\nSTEWART: It's fantastic.\n\nPASLEY: Yeah. So glad we're here to see this. (laugh)\n\nSTEWART: Well, it's interesting, because we're in an interesting position in\nColorado. I mentioned that my son plays volleyball. He's a freshman in high\nschool. And Colorado just adopted boys volleyball as a sport, with Title IX\nbeing one of the difficulties in making that possible. Because adding a boys\nsport now is quite hard. So they had to pair that with girls wrestling to be\nable to adopt them both at the same time.\n\nPOTEET: What? I'm sorry, with what?\n\nSTEWART: Girls wrestling.\n\nPOTEET: Oh! (laughs)\n\nSTEWART: So, for the first time in I think over 20 years, they adopted new high\nschool sports in Colorado, and it was boys volleyball, girls wrestling, and\nunified bowling.\n\nPASLEY: Oh! Cool.\n\nSTEWART: That are all now officially sanctioned high school sports.\n\nPASLEY: Unified bowling, okay, which is really how the Trinity bowling team\nstarted out, by the way. So I want to respect our time. Amy, you've been\nfabulous. It's been such a great interview so far. When you look back at being\nan athlete at Trinity, how do you feel that's helped you in your other lives?\nYour career? Family? Those kinds of things?\n\nSTEWART: I think that being part of a team is valuable in what it teaches you\nabout accomplishing goals and working together despite differences, appreciating\npeople's strengths and weaknesses. I think having an opportunity to take a role\nof leadership has been unique in my life. I think that was a venue where even\nthough I don't think I'm necessarily a leader personality, it was an opportunity\nfor me to step into that role and try on things that I probably wouldn't have\ngotten to try on in other circumstances. I liken it to getting to be a big fish\nin a small pond. And it was truly a gift to be there at that time, with the\npeople that I got to share that time with. It has instilled a confidence in me\nfor my adult life that runs deep.\n\nPASLEY: Were you a captain on the team?\n\nSTEWART: Yes.\n\nPASLEY: Just your senior year?\n\nSTEWART: I think I was captain all four years.\n\nPASLEY: Well, there's the leadership. So I assume you learned from that, with\nyour peers, being a captain. Do you remember any stories about having to bring\nthe hammer down or anything like that?\n\nSTEWART: We had a pretty congenial group. There wasn't too much difficulty.\nKerry might remember it differently. (laughs) I just love Kerry. But no, I don't\nremember ever having to exercise any authority in a negative fashion. I think we\nall had goals that we wanted to accomplish, and we worked together, and it was fun.\n\nPASLEY: It's fun to be a leader in a situation like that, isn't it?\n\nSTEWART: It is.\n\nBRACKENRIDGE: Amy, one of the things that I found and going back to what Julie\nwas doing back in the 1980s, was they were losing, you know, 0-19, you know. But\nthe comments of the women, they were almost always positive about--they enjoyed\nplaying, they loved ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=2400.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/transcript/30546/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"being together, and they felt that they improved.\nThat they kept improving. And I thought that's what really the goal of athletics\nis. It's not just the winning season record. It's all these other things that\ncan be accomplished that carry over into life. And I think that if we go\nback--and we have talked to some from that early era, and they say a lot of the\nsame things that you say about how that affected their lives and carried over\ninto later lives. And this is what makes this so interesting to me and I think\nothers on the committee. That it's a positive aspects of athletics that often\ngets overlooked. We hope we can kind of correct this.\n\nSTEWART: Well, and I think that that's also why I'm a big fan of Division III\nathletics, is that at that point, when you're playing Division III athletics,\nyou are not going to play professionally. This is not going to be your career in\nlife. You are playing because you love the sport. You're not getting any\nfinancial help because of athletics. It is just purely the love of the sport\nthat keeps you going. So you take out the money, and the big fans and whatnot,\nand you have pure sport.\n\nPASLEY: And you've never looked back? I'm sorry, Shirley. Go ahead.\n\nPOTEET: It's just sounds pure.\n\nPASLEY: And you've never looked back and said, \"Boy, I wish I'd taken that\nscholarship to Ole Miss\"?\n\nSTEWART: Well, now as my kids are approaching college, I certainly recognize the\nsacrifice that it was that my parents gave me that freedom to choose. No, I\nnever say I wish. I wonder how much better I could have become, being pushed,\nbut I wouldn't trade my experience as an athlete at Trinity for anything.\n\nPASLEY: What else? What have we missed, Shirley or Doug? Anything else?\n\nPOTEET: I'm trying to think.\n\nBRACKENRIDGE: One question, one thing that has concerned us or interested us is\nthat we've tried to identify African American women intercollegiate athletes,\nand we really don't find any until we get up until about your time frame. And I\nwondered, did you have any comments about that, or was that an issue? Or were\nyou aware of the fact that although Trinity had a lot of diversity then,\ncertainly racial-ethnic was pretty low on the on the totem pole at that time?\n\nSTEWART: Yes, definitely. I think my four years at Trinity, we maybe had one\nplayer who was African American? And I think with volleyball especially, the\nclub volleyball program that's available to high school students is, like many\nclub programs, very expensive and quite cost-prohibitive for a lot of families.\nWe see it in Colorado, too. We are not a very racially diverse state, but it is\ntrue that it's a good car payment (laughs) to be able to put our son in club\nvolleyball every year. So I find that it tends to eliminate a lot of folks who\ndon't have the financial resources to play. So it's sad, and I appreciate that\nthere are some organizations here that are trying to provide accessibility and\nentrance at a different level. Maybe not a travel team, but still good coaching.\nSo I imagine that in several sports, that that's a little bit of a barrier to\npeople of color.\n\nPASLEY: So, Amy, it sounds like you were on the very front end also of the club\nconcept when you were in high school.\n\nSTEWART: Yes.\n\nPASLEY: And one of the conversations we've had, by the way, is I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=2700.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/transcript/30546/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grew\nup--I was lucky at Trinity; I got tons of work grants and scholarships. My\ngrandparents made up the difference because they wanted me to go to Trinity. And\nI was happy to leave Houston. But the point being that I would have loved to\nhave played on a team, but had we had club or select sports as almost a\nprerequisite to play on a high school or a college team, we couldn't have\nafforded it. And so would I even have been able to play all the sports I played\nat Trinity, had it been 20 years later? So, as you look back with that long\nintro--sorry--is the honing in on a single sport in adolescence a good thing,\nversus the world that you and I grew up in, where you could kind of play anything?\n\nSTEWART: It's hard. It almost seems like a necessary evil these days to focus\nfairly early on one sport. My son has a friend whose family is quite opposed to\nthat, and he plays five or six sports. And it's hard for me because I see that\nhe could be a really phenomenal volleyball player, but they won't put him in\nclub. So there's that side of things. And he has a possibility of playing in\ncollege just based on pure talent, but he won't get the recognition that he\ncould get if he focused on one sport. On the flip side of things, my son has\nfriends who have been playing very elite-tier soccer for so many years that they\nhave been in and out of rehab five or six times, nagging injuries that happen,\nbecause they don't cross-train. They only train the muscles that they use, and\nthat creates a lot of trouble with our bodies, especially through developmental\nyears that you are not training your whole body, that it's so sport specific.\nThat's hard.\n\nPASLEY: By the way, when we were talking to Kerry, she said she just started to\npick up playing recreational volleyball. Have you played since college?\n\nSTEWART: Oh, I've played all along. I'm in a women's indoor sixes league on\nThursday nights. Unfortunately, with COVID, we didn't get to play this season,\nbut yeah, I've pretty much played the whole time.\n\nPASLEY: And your knees are holding up; I'm impressed. And your ankles.\n\nSTEWART: Yeah. I had to have an ankle reconstruction back in 2013, but\neverything else is fine. We don't jump that high anymore, but it's mostly women\nwho played in college and we still have a great time.\n\nPASLEY: What fun. Yeah, I played softball for many years until my knees started\nto give out but that was fun.\n\nSTEWART: I played a couple years of recreational softball and I was terrible.\n\nPASLEY: (laughs). Awesome. I think that's all I want--the transcriber doesn't\nneed to transcribe this part, but you're active in Young Life. Are you familiar\nwith a camp down in Buena Vista, Colorado?\n\nSTEWART: Yeah, Frontier?\n\nPASLEY: Yeah. We actually just got a place in BV (Buena Vista). We're supposed\nto be heading there tomorrow, but we're waiting.\n\nSTEWART: Oh, nice.\n\nPASLEY: But anyway, so I'll be waving at you from down south.\n\nSTEWART: Sweet. There are actually two camps outside of Buena Vista that\nare--Frontier Ranch and then Trail West Lodge. Trail West is more of a family\ncamp and Frontier Ranch is middle school and high school students.\n\nPASLEY: We just think it's a neat little town, so it gets away from the heat.\nIt's like 97 right now.\n\nSTEWART: (pronouncing) Byoo-nee. You have to say it. Yeah, you'll give yourself\naway if you're not from Colorado and you say (pronouncing) Buena Vista. You have\nto say (INAUDIBLE).\n\nPASLEY: Yeah. We're thinking about switching out our Texas plates. Yeah if we\nsay Buena Vista, people are going to automatically know where we're from.\n\nSTEWART: That's right. (laughs). You have to say (pronouncing) Byoo-nee.\n\nPASLEY: So, we just say BV because that gets it through, too.\n\nSTEWART: Perfect.\n\nPASLEY: Amy, before we wrap up, are there any other thoughts or stories or\nthings that we didn't cover in this last hour that you can think of?\n\nSTEWART: Not that jump to mind. No.\n\nPASLEY: Okay. Well, you've given us some tremendous input here. This has been a\nreally fun conversation. Your timing is impeccable to Trinity.\n\nSTEWART: Yeah. It really was. (laughs)\n\nPASLEY: Congratulations on that! Thank you so much, Amy, for all of your time.\nBest to you. I will send a follow-up email because I will also need to get you a\nconsent form, but I'll get you Kerry's contact information. And a reminder that\nany clippings or pictures, especially the All-American one--we'd love to get\nthat--would be fabulous.\n\nSTEWART: I'll be back in Houston to visit my mom within a month, so I'll dig\nthrough closets.\n\nPASLEY: That would be fantastic. Well, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=3000.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/transcript/30546/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'll send you a follow-up\nemail, but thanks again for all your time and we'll let you get back to your teenagers.\n\nSTEWART: Oh, boy. It was a joy. Thanks. It was great to see you all.\n\nPASLEY: I see him in the back. Say hi.\n\nPOTEET: Nice seeing you again, Amy.\n\nBRACKENRIDGE: Enjoyed getting to meet you and wish you well.\n\nSTEWART: Good to see you.\n\nBRACKENRIDGE: Thank you.\n\nSTEWART: Thank you, you too. Bye.\n\nPASLEY: Bye.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=3300.0,3600.0"}]},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Interview_with_Amy_Waddell_Stewart_.xml [Index]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Introduction","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=0.0,63.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Why Trinity?","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=63.0,331.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Life Today and Life in High School","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=331.0,589.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bell Center","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=589.0,781.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Julie Jenkins","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=781.0,905.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Life After Trinity","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=905.0,1092.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"All-American Athlete","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=1092.0,1418.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Trinity Experience","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=1418.0,1765.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Volleyball as a Women’s Sport","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=1765.0,2502.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Pasley brings up the story of Yanika Daniels at Midnight Madness. Stewart does not recall this incident but claims that she is grateful that the volleyball team did not have to compete for fans against their male counterparts, unlike the basketball or soccer teams. Brackenridge then asks about fan attendance at volleyball games. Stewart says that attendance gradually increased over her four years. It was difficult to maintain attendance during games at Alamo Stadium but, once the Bell Center was complete, more fans attended games.\n\tPasley asks Stewart about the implications of Title IV during her time at Trinity. Stewart says that it did not affect her athletic career greatly. The women’s teams had access to the same facilities and training as the men, so there was never a sense of inequity. Stewart does, however, recognize that this was not always true before the Bell Center was built. Strength training became a huge focus of the volleyball program after the new weight rooms were built. She says that Matt Sans, the equipment manager, always made sure that the women had whatever they needed. Aside from a few male coaches, the “overwhelming majority” of the athletic staff respected the women’s teams. The interviewers discuss the change that the women’s athletic program has seen since the 1970s.\n","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=1765.0,2502.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"PASLEY: This may seem like it's a little off topic, but in 1993, would you have maybe attended the Midnight Madness basketball kickoff?\n\nSTEWART: Probably.\n\nPASLEY: At the Bell Center?\n\nSTEWART: I took stats for the basketball team, the men's basketball team, so likely I was there.\n\nPASLEY: This might seem awkward, but we interviewed Yanika Daniels the other day. Do you remember her? African American.\n\nSTEWART: Her name sounds familiar.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=1765.0,2502.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"“Big Fish in a Small Pond”","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=2502.0,2841.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Stewart discusses the lifelong benefits of being an athlete at Trinity. She says that being part of a team was an invaluable experience that taught her the importance of leadership and working together. She compares her experience to being a “big fish in a small pond;” she was able to assume a leadership role and explore facets of herself that she could not have explored at other schools. Her time in the Trinity volleyball program instilled a sense of confidence in her that has lasted her whole life. \n\tPasley asks Stewart about her time as a captain. Stewart says that the team was quite congenial and did not require much discipline. The team worked together to accomplish goals. Stewart claims that this passion for the game stemmed from the fact that Trinity was a division three program. Since there were no athletic scholarships, the players just wanted to be there because they loved their sport.\n\n","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=2502.0,2841.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"PASLEY:...So I want to respect our time. Amy, you've been fabulous. It's been such a great interview so far. When you look back at being an athlete at Trinity, how do you feel that's helped you in your other lives? Your career? Family? Those kinds of things?\n\nSTEWART: I think that being part of a team is valuable in what it teaches you about accomplishing goals and working together despite differences, appreciating people's strengths and weaknesses. I think having an opportunity to take a role of leadership has been unique in my life. I think that was a venue where even though I don't think I'm necessarily a leader personality, it was an opportunity for me to step into that role and try on things that I probably wouldn't have gotten to try on in other circumstances. I liken it to getting to be a big fish in a small pond. And it was truly a gift to be there at that time, with the people that I got to share that time with. It has instilled a confidence in me for my adult life that runs deep.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=2502.0,2841.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Limitations of Club Volleyball ","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=2841.0,3130.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Brackenridge asks Stewart if she remembered any African American players on the volleyball team. Stewart says that there was only one woman that she could recall. She believes that this is likely due to the fact that club teams are incredibly expensive and provide a barrier to communities that cannot afford to pay high fees.\n\nPasley brings up the changing world of college sports, claiming that most students today have to focus on one sport during high school. Stewart discusses her own son, who plays club volleyball. She believes that students who do not focus on one sport will not be as highly regarded by collegiate programs. On the flipside, she recognizes that, when student athletes do not cross train, they develop injuries due to overuse.\n","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=2841.0,3130.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BRACKENRIDGE: One question, one thing that has concerned us or interested us is that we've tried to identify African American women intercollegiate athletes, and we really don't find any until we get up until about your time frame. And I wondered, did you have any comments about that, or was that an issue? Or were you aware of the fact that although Trinity had a lot of diversity then, certainly racial-ethnic was pretty low on the on the totem pole at that time?\n\nSTEWART: Yes, definitely. I think my four years at Trinity, we maybe had one player who was African American? And I think with volleyball especially, the club volleyball program that's available to high school students is, like many club programs, very expensive and quite cost-prohibitive for a lot of families. We see it in Colorado, too. We are not a very racially diverse state, but it is true that it's a good car payment (laughs) to be able to put our son in club volleyball every year. So I find that it tends to eliminate a lot of folks who don't have the financial resources to play. So it's sad, and I appreciate that there are some organizations here that are trying to provide accessibility and entrance at a different level. Maybe not a travel team, but still good coaching. So I imagine that in several sports, that that's a little bit of a barrier to people of color.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=2841.0,3130.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Conclusion","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=3130.0,3321.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Pasley asks Stewart if she still plays volleyball. Stewart says that she has played since she graduated from Trinity. Currently, she plays in an indoor league. The interviewers and Stewart close out the interview and say their goodbyes.\n","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=3130.0,3321.0"},{"id":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127/index/48423/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"PASLEY: By the way, when we were talking to Kerry, she said she just started to pick up playing recreational volleyball. Have you played since college?\n\nSTEWART: Oh, I've played all along. I'm in a women's indoor sixes league on Thursday nights. Unfortunately, with COVID, we didn't get to play this season, but yeah, I've pretty much played the whole time.\n\nPASLEY: And your knees are holding up; I'm impressed. And your ankles.\n\nSTEWART: Yeah. I had to have an ankle reconstruction back in 2013, but everything else is fine. We don't jump that high anymore, but it's mostly women who played in college and we still have a great time.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://trinityuniversity.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1501/collection_resources/46071/file/119127#t=3130.0,3321.0"}]}]}]}