To the Commission on Opportunity in Athletics:    I am sending you a paper on the issues that are involved since people who appear on panels or who are going to speak from the floor need to give some written comments to the Commission.  This in no way lessens my desire to be able to speak to the Commission but I am putting down in writing some details of what I would say.      My name is Sam Bell and I am the President of the United States Track Coaches Association which represents coaches at the secondary level, the college and university level, the club level and the college and universities include the NAIA, the NCAA, Division I, II and III, the National Junior College Association and the Junior College from the Northwest as well as the state of California.      I would like to speak to you on several fronts but to start with I want to talk about the issue of the non-scholarship athlete who goes out for sports at the collegiate level.  I want to tell you five stories.     The first is of a young man named Norman Hoffman who came to Oregon State University when I was there in the fall of 1958. It was my first year of collegiate coaching.  Norm was a so-so high school runner, he had run 2:03 in the 880 yards in high school and had run a 4:31 mile. His academic credentials were even more ordinary than his track performances.  Those were not credentials that would have caused us to recruit him but he showed up with a great deal of enthusiasm. In his senior year he competed on a 4x880 yard relay team, which set a world record at that distance.  He also ran 1:48.0 while in college and the next year ran 1:47.3 when the World Record was 1:46.2.  He finished fourth in the Olympic Trials in 1964. This is a young man who walked on with what would appear to be no talent if we went by today's standards of what you could keep on a team, due to artificial quotas.  He graduated, came back and got a Masters and became a professor of Health Education at Bakersfield College in Bakersfield, California and was the author of at least four textbooks.     The second person that I would like to mention is Dan Hayes who was from Shelbyville, Indiana and came to Indiana University as a string bean runner without very good credentials.  He was a kid that we didn't even know about until he came out for track and cross-country.  He eventually competed in the NCAA Championships in cross-country and ran on a World Record Indoor 4x1 mile relay team while he was here.  He ran 4:26 in high school and ran 4:05 in college and went on to med school, dropped out for a year, got a masters in chemistry, went back to med school.  He did his residency at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, went to Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Harvard and then went to Georgetown University still working in cancer research and he is now at the University of Michigan still doing cancer research.  He was a young man who came to me in the middle of his sophomore year and talked about changing majors and going into coaching. Through our conversation he decided to stay with what he was doing.  He is an example of the fact that there are people out there who aren't going to attract notice in high school but who can go on and do great things.  Dan has told me his most meaningful experiences in college took place in track and field and cross-country.    The third person that I would like to mention is a young woman named Judy Bogenschutzt-Wilson who graduated from Indiana University in 1989 and got a masters degree from Indiana University in 1995.  She was the Head Girls Track and Cross Country Coach at Bloomington High School South in 1988-1990.  In 1990-1991 an Assistant Men's and Women's Coach at the University of South Florida, in Tampa, Florida.  In 1992-1996 Director/Head Coach for Men's and Women's Track and Cross Country at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.  In 1996-1998 the Assistant Coach of Women's Track and Cross Country at the University of Connecticut. In 1998 she came back to Indiana University as the Head Women's Cross Country Coach and the Assistant Track Coach.  She progressed while she was here from 5:26 miler in high school to where she was fifth in the 10K at the Big Ten Championships as a senior and third in the 5K at the Big Ten meet as a senior.  She still holds one of the top five fastest times at IU for 3K and 10K and fourth fastest IU time on the IU Cross Country Course. She was a member of the 1988 Indoor Big Ten Championship teams being the first one for IU's women in track.  She participated in the Olympic Trials in 1988 and in 1989 was the Olympic Festival Half Marathon Champion and record holder.      The fourth person I would like to mention is a young woman named Roseanne Barnhill-Wilson.  She ran 2:22.1 for the 880 yards in high school and did not run cross-country.  In college she ran a 2:13 800 meters, a 4:30 1500 meters and 17:11 4K in cross-country.  She competed in the NCAA Cross Country Championships in 1981 and was a graduate assistant at IU from 1984-1986.  She left here to be the Head Women's Coach at the University of Connecticut in 1986-1989 and in 1989 came back to Indiana University as a Head Women's Coach in a combined program and coached here from 1989-1998.  She left because her husband had a taken a professors job at  the University of Evansville at Evansville, Indiana.  She is now teaching elementary school in Evansville.  Both of these young women are examples of people who were not good enough in high school to attract the attention of the coaching staff but came to Indiana and made great progress and broadened their education and created life paths by what they did.     The last person that I want to speak about is Robert Cannon who came to Indiana University from a high school in Columbus, Ohio as non-scholarship athlete.  The first we knew about him, he and his father showed up on campus during the summer after his senior year in high school asking about him attending school here.  He tripled jumped 45 feet in high school,  not the kind of a mark that would attract attention of college coaches.  While in college he triple jumped 55' 4", which is a fairly dramatic improvement, and he long jumped over 25 feet.  He continued to compete after finishing his degree and took a job with the Toyota Corporation at Long Beach, California through the Olympic job development program.  He made the Olympic team in 1988 and ended up with the best jump of 56' 8". He is a kid that under today's limitations of the politically correct term of "roster management" would probably not have been on our team.     The squad limitations in order to satisfy someone's bean counting in Washington or somewhere else is an illustration of a good law gone wrong by interpretation.  I've told you the stories of five people.  I could go ahead and talk to you about 30 or 40 more who had their lives influenced by being able to come out for track and field and going far beyond what they ever envisioned when they started or what seemed possible when they enrolled in college.      I'll list a few more but not dwell on each one.    Marv Radloff, Oregon State, a 10'6" pole vaulter in high school who was the first NCAA Indoor Pole Vault Champion at 16' when the World Record was 16'4".    Tom Wyatt, a 15.2 120 yard high hurdler from Portland, Oregon.  He ran :14.0 in college and became a competent 440 yard hurdler.  After college he went to seminary in Berkeley, California and continued to train as I had gone to the University of California.  He eventually ran :49.2 and was 4th at the 1968 US Olympic trials.    Bob Price, a 4:43 high school miler at Upland California Academy at the University of California he ran 4:04 for the mile but ran 8:34 for the 3000meter steeplechase.  The altitude at Echo Summit, California in the 1968 Olympic trials did him in and he finished 4th, just missing the team.    Bob McLennon of the University of California ran :15.6 for 120 yard high hurdles in high school and ran :14.2 in college plus running :51.4 in the 440 yard hurdles.    John McNicholas from Edgewood High School, Indiana, who stayed out for 4 years, never lettered but grew.  He coached at three