The College Sports Council, a group of sports coaches associations that is working to support fairness in sports opportunity, has requested that its members and other citizens contact Congress to push forward the nomination process for an important judicial appointment.    In a letter distributed to its supporters, College Sports Council Executive Director Eric Pearson makes an appeal for people to support President Bush's appointment of Thomas B. Griffith to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.    The College Sports Council is devoted to advancing the student athlete ideal through the cooperative efforts of coaching associations, alumni and parent groups, and educational institutions to support broad-based intercollegiate athletic programs for men and women.     Members of the College Sports Council include the College Gymnastics Association, the College Swimming Coaches Association of America, the National Wrestling Coaches Association, the Golf Coaches Association of American and the United States Track Coaches Association.    COLLEGE SPORTS COUNCIL LETTER    Dear CSC member;    Although the elections are less than two weeks away, the current Congress will remain in session until January 2005. And Congress has important unfinished business, including several judicial nominations that have been pending for months without a vote. The College Sports Council urges you to write the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Orrin G. Hatch, and both of the senators from your state to urge that the Senate have a vote on President Bush's appointment of Thomas B. Griffith to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.    From June of 2002 to July of 2003, Mr. Griffith served as a member of the President's Commission on Opportunity in Athletics and was a strong proponent for reasonable reforms of Title IX regulations. Mr. Griffith fully understood the damage caused by the proportionality prong of the Three Part Test. As part of his work on the Commission, he proposed that the Department of Education eliminate proportionality as a measurement for compliance with Title IX, which would have put an end to the unfair gender quota system that eliminates opportunities for young men to play sports.    Mr. Griffith's appointment to the DC Circuit would place a reasonable voice and highly qualified jurist on the bench. For months, gender quota advocates have aggressively lobbied to deny Mr. Griffith a vote, which is the only way they can prevent his appointment.    We ask that you immediately write your senators to insist that (1) the Senate vote on Mr. Griffith's nomination, and (2) that they vote in favor of his nomination.    Go to www.senate.gov to find your senators' mailing and e-mail addresses.    Please cc: info@collegesportscouncil.org    Sincerely,  Eric Pearson  Executive Director  College Sports Council  www.collegesportscouncil.org