Dear Horizon editors,

This letter is in response to the article on the front page of the paper dated March 8, showing a picture and storyline of the IUS men’s basketball team winning the KIAC tournament.

It is a great article and well deserved recognition for the men’s team, but in the same paper, there is an article about the IUS Women’s basketball team winning the conference tournament on the third page without a picture.

This is a gross injustice to the young women of the IU Southeast Women’s basketball team.

They deserve to be on the front page, with a team picture, along side the men.

These young ladies work just as hard as the men and have had as much success as the men.

In fact, they have only lost one game in the last two years in the conference.

It is women’s basketball who were the first team to win a game in the NAIA National Tournament in 2002.

Pushing their story to the third page like second class citizens is discriminatory, unfair and just plain wrong.

I would also like to correct a couple of factual errors in the article.

The team had won 14 of their last 15 games, not 13 of 15 as stated in the article.

Also, Whitney Duncan is the fifth Grenadier to be named player of the year in the conference during Farris’ 21 seasons, not the third.

I truly appreciate all the support and recognition given to all athletics at IU Southeast by The Horizon, but give women’s athletics their recognition when it is warranted.

Bernie Merkel

assistant coach, women’s basketball