Amateur Athletic Foundation Los Angeles

Joan Cronan, women's athletic director at Tennessee, urged women to be more attentive to opportunities than obstacles and to show more initiative as the women's sports movement enters its 20th year since the adoption of Title IX. Gender discrimination at schools that receive federal funds was banned in 1972 with the adoption of Title IX. Cronan's comments came Thursday at the National Girls and Women in Sports Day, sponsored by the Amateur Athletic Foundation, at a downtown hotel.

Four new minority members have been added to the board of the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles, the group that distributes the $95-million share of 1984 Olympics surplus for Southern California youth. The appointments come several weeks after Mayor Tom Bradley, U.S. Circuit Court Judge Stephen Reinhardt and labor leader William Robertson resigned from the board, complaining that old-guard members refused to bring in young minority activists.

The Amateur Athletic Foundation (AAF) of Los Angeles, has awarded $623,555 in grants to 23 Southern California organizations. The foundation has provided more than $23 million in grants for youth sports since 1985 when it received a $90-million share of the $222-million surplus from the Olympic games held in Los Angeles. Here are the latest recipients: Velodromes in Carson, Encino and San Diego: $140,790 Southern California Tennis Assn.'s National Junior Tennis League: $125,000 Mt.

For the last six years, the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles has been doling out millions of dollars in leftover profits from the 1984 Olympics with scant public notice. But behind the foundation's closed doors, some of the city's most influential figures have been wrangling over control of the organization and its policies. The long-brewing conflict surfaced publicly last week when it was revealed that three of its most prominent directors had resigned--Mayor Tom Bradley, U.S.

Mayor Tom Bradley, U.S. Circuit Court Judge Stephen Reinhardt and Los Angeles County labor leader William Robertson have resigned from the board of a foundation that distributes surplus funds from the 1984 Olympics, charging that other directors are unwilling to add young activists to the board. A two-page resignation letter signed by Bradley, Reinhardt and Robertson said that for several years they have tried to persuade the 17-member board to expand its membership.

Barry Zepel, assistant athletic director and sports information director at Loyola Marymount for 11 years, has been named communications director for the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles.

Elizabeth Primrose-Smith, executive director of the local organizing committee, said that the final day before the opening of the U.S. Olympic Festival was "hectic but not frantic" as she attended to ordinary last-minute details--if borrowing $1 million can be described as ordinary. Citing a "temporary cash-flow problem" caused by bills arriving before revenues, Primrose-Smith called upon one of the Festival's largest sponsors, the Amateur Athletic Foundation, for a $1-million loan.

The Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles, the group charged with disseminating the Southern California share of the 1984 Olympic surplus, has authorized $670,860 in 22 new grants to youth sports projects. Total grants since 1985 now surpass $20 million. The largest single new grant was $100,000 to the Child Victims in Court Foundation, to provide sports and recreation equipment for youngsters at the new Children's Court in Monterey Park. A $98,900 grant went to San Pedro Baseball Inc.