![]() ![]() “The physics community here has always been small, but pretty tight,” Brosing said. It can still be a struggle to attract women to physics, specifically, but once they begin, they are well supported in Pacific’s program. Pacific has a strong balance of men and women studying science, Brosing said. “I think it helped Jill see herself as a physics major.” “At the time Jill was a student, we had more women professors than men (in the Physics Department),” recalled Physics Professor Juliet Brosing. Pacific offered a welcome environment for her to explore her interest in science, though. According to the American Physical Society, when Uyeda was a student, roughly 22 percent of bachelor’s degrees in physics were earned by women. Like wrestling, physics is a field not frequently tackled by women. ![]() “I guess they built it around me because I was there and I wasn’t going anywhere,” Uyeda said.Īt the same time, Uyeda’s love of math and science inspired her to major in physics. Pacific is one of just a handful of colleges nationwide to offer a women’s wrestling program, and it grew up around Uyeda. “She inspired me more than I inspired her.” ![]() “The only thing she ever asked for was a chance to practice,” her coach, Frank Johnson ’90, later said, as she was inducted into Pacific’s Athletic Hall of Fame as one of the school’s first women wrestlers. ![]() “I knew I’d be happy if the coach just let me practice,” she said. She requested permission to attend practice with the men’s team. She liked Pacific’s academics and the opportunity to study Japanese along with math and science.īut she didn’t want to give up wrestling entirely. Uyeda had recently turned down a full-ride wrestling scholarship to Missouri Valley College, because she was committed to Pacific, where her older brother Randy Remiticado ’02 was already attending. When Jill (Remiticado) Uyeda ’03 arrived on campus in 1999, Pacific University did not have a women’s wrestling program. ![]()
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