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2008 LADY VOL CROSS COUNTRY
QUICK FACTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Location .................................................................. Knoxville, TN 37996-3110
Founded ..................................................................... 1794 as Blount College
Enrollment .............................................................................................26,400
Nickname ........................................................... Lady Volunteers (Lady Vols)
Colors ................................................................................. Orange and White
Affiliation ................................................................................. NCAA Division I
Conference...................................................................... Southeastern (SEC)
Region .................................................................................................... South
Home Course .............................. Lambert Acres Golf Club (Maryville, Tenn.)
President ...........................................Dr. John Petersen (Cal State - L.A. ’70)
Interim Chancellor .........................................Jan Simek (UC Santa Cruz ’76)
Faculty Athletics Rep.............. Dr. Todd A. Diacon (Southwestern [Kan.], ’78)
Athletics Director ........................................................ Joan Cronan (LSU ’66)
Sr. Associate A.D. ........................................Donna Thomas (Tennessee ’88)
Assoc. A.D. – Media Relations ...................Debby Jennings (Tennessee ’77)
Assoc. A.D. – Marketing & Promotions... Chris Fuller (Shepherd [W.Va.] ’88)
Assoc. A.D. – Development .....................Dara Worrell (Tennessee Tech ’93)
Assoc. A.D. – Sports Medicine ..........Jenny Moshak (Western Michigan ’85)
Asst. A.D. – Ticket Operations .............. Joe Arnone (Merrimack [Mass.], ’88)
Asst. A.D. – Facilities & Ops. ....................Angie Boyd Keck (Tennessee ’94)
Asst. A.D. – Compliance & Ops. ...................... Todd Dooley (Tennessee ’97)
Asst. A.D. – Strength & Conditioning ........... Heather Mason (Cincinnati, ’96)
Internet Communications Director ......... Rick Starratt (Wheaton [Mass.], ’96)
Athletics Department Web Page.....................................www.utladyvols.com
GENERAL INFORMATION
Team Photo And Roster .....................................................Inside Front Cover
Quick Facts ....................................................................................................1
Media Information/Phone Directory ...............................................................2
2008 SEASON PREVIEW
Season Preview ..........................................................................................4-5
Travel Plans/SEC And NCAA Information .....................................................6
COACHING STAFF
Head Cross Country And Track & Field Coach J.J. Clark ....................... 8-10
Assistant Track & Field Coach Pauline Davis-Thompson ........................... 11
Assistant Track & Field Coach John Frazier................................................ 11
Cross Country Support Staff ........................................................................12
MEET THE LADY VOLS
Lady Vol Biographies ............................................................................. 14-21
Squad Breakdown........................................................................................22
CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD STAFF
Head Cross Country/Track & Field Coach ...............J.J. Clark (Villanova ’86)
Clark’s Record at UT .......................................................622-181-1/Six Years
Cross Country Office Phone ...................................................(865) 974-4275
Assistant Track & Field Coach ........ Pauline Davis-Thompson (Alabama ’89)
Assistant Track & Field Coach ..................................John Frazier (UCLA ’86)
Director of Operations ......................................Amy Ranker (Tennessee ’05)
Asst. Athletic Trainer/CC Ath. Trainer .............Abe Kiggins (West Florida ’05)
Grad. Asst./CC Athletic Trainer .......................Casi Dailey (Hope [Mich.], ’08)
2007 SEASON IN REVIEW
Season In Review .................................................................................. 24-25
Lady Vol Individual Results ..........................................................................25
Lady Vol Meet Results .................................................................................26
2007 Lady Vol Cross Country Team Photo..................................................26
THE SEC / LADY VOL HISTORY
The Southeastern Conference.....................................................................28
2007 SEC Records, Results And Awards ....................................................29
SEC Opponents ...........................................................................................30
Championship Meet History................................................................... 31-32
Lady Vol Honor Roll .....................................................................................33
All-Time Roster....................................................................................... 34-35
Year-By-Year History & Coaching Records .................................................36
All-Time Lady Vol Coaches ..........................................................................36
Lady Vol School And Course Records.........................................................37
All-Time Series Records ........................................................................ 38-39
Where We’ve Competed Through The Years ..............................................39
All-Time Results ..................................................................................... 40-42
Managers ........................Chelsea Boling, Emerald Bronson, Brittiny Cooper
MEDIA RELATIONS
Mailing Address .................................................. 117 Stokely Athletics Center
Knoxville, Tenn. 37996-3110
Cross Country Contact..........................................Eric Trainer (Arkansas ’88)
Media Relations Office ............................................................(865) 974-8173
Media Relations Home Phone ................................................(865) 531-1767
E-Mail Address .....................................................................etrainer@utk.edu
Media Relations Fax ...............................................................(865) 974-8875
TEAM INFORMATION
2007 Overall Record ............................................................................ 140-19
2007 SEC Record .................................................................................... 18-5
2007 SEC Championships Finish ..............................................................2nd
2007 NCAA South Region Finish................................................................4th
2007 NCAA Championships Finish ............................................................n/a
Letterwinners Returning/Lost ......................................................................8/1
Newcomers .................................................................................................. 11
THIS IS TENNESSEE
Excellence In Athletics ........................................................................... 44-45
History Of The Lady Vols ....................................................................... 46-47
Tennessee Facilities/Lady Vol Facts ..................................................... 48-51
Academics And Student Life .................................................................. 52-53
The University of Tennessee.................................................................. 54-55
Welcome To Knoxville ............................................................................ 56-57
Women’s Athletics Director Joan Cronan .............................................. 58-59
Women’s Athletics Staff ......................................................................... 60-61
Lady Vol Head And Assistant Coaches .......................................................62
The 2008 Volscars .......................................................................................63
Lady Vol Traditions .......................................................................................64
Lady Vol Endowments .................................................................................65
Lady Vol Hall Of Fame .................................................................................66
Lambert Acres/All-Time Top Performances ........................................... 67-68
“Count On Us” ................................................................... Inside Back Cover
2008 Schedule ..............................................................................Back Cover
ABOUT THE COVER
Pictured on the JumboTron video board on the front cover of the 2008
Tennessee Lady Volunteer Cross Country Media Guide are seniors Sarah
Bowman and Katie Van Horn, and junior Jackie Areson, who have been AllSEC and All-South Region caliber runners on which UT Head Coach J.J. Clark
could depend. Now in his seventh year at the helm of the UT women, Clark
has built a four-time regional champion and three-time SEC-winning cross
country program in Big Orange Country by grooming leaders such as these
to lead the charge. When student-athletes opt to don a Tennessee uniform
and earn a degree on “The Hill,” Clark’s mantra is that you can “Count On
Us,” whether that means pursuing academic excellence, providing maximum
effort, serving the community, competing for championships or being prepared
for life.
CREDITS
The 2008 University of Tennessee Lady Volunteer Cross Country Media Guide was written, edited and designed by Eric Trainer, with assistance from Debby Jennings,
Brian Davis, Cameron Harris, Marcus Dittmer, Kelly Hayes and Zach Stipe, and produced by UT Graphic Arts Services. Photos by Nick Myers of the UT Photography
Center, Elizabeth Olivier and Rick Starratt of UT Internet Communications, Ron Irby, Geoff Thurner, Eric Trainer and Will Ewart. Cover and some interior graphic
enhancement by FMB Advertising, Knoxville, Tenn. Printing Authorization Number E01-0245-061-003-09.
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LADY VOL MEDIA INFORMATION
PHONE DIRECTORY
COVERING THE LADY VOLS
MEDIA OUTLETS
(Area Code 865 Unless Noted)
Outlet
Phone
Fax
Associated Press (Knoxville) ......................522-3963 ............ 523-5904
Associated Press (Nashville) ............ (800) 453-1282 .. (615) 376-0947
Chattanooga Times Free Press ........ (423) 757-6357 .. (423) 757-6383
Kingsport Times News ...................... (423) 246-8121 .. (423) 392-1385
Knoxville News Sentinel ..............................342-6259 ............ 342-6402
Maryville Daily Times................................... 981-1145 ............ 981-1175
Rocky Top News..........................................558-9791 ............ 558-9221
The Daily Beacon (UT).......................974-3226/0646 ............ 974-5569
The Tennessean (Nashville) ............. (615) 259-8010 .. (615) 259-8826
USA Today ......................................... (703) 276-3735 .. (703) 276-3721
WATE-TV 6 (ABC)/WTNZ-TV 43 (FOX) ....637-6397 ............ 523-3561
WBIR-TV 10 (NBC) .....................................637-1272 ............ 522-7341
WNML AM & FM.......................................... 588-6511 ............ 558-4218
WTNZ-TV 43 (FOX) ....................................588-1747 ............ 450-8944
WUTK-FM ....................................................974-2228 ............ 974-2814
WVLT-TV 8 (CBS) .......................................450-8888 ............ 584-1978
ERIC TRAINER
ASSOCIATE MEDIA
RELATIONS DIRECTOR
Associate Media Relations Director Eric Trainer is in his 12th
consecutive year and 15th season overall with the Lady Vol
media relations office and is enjoying his 22nd year in the sports
information profession. Trainer works directly with the nationalcaliber women’s track & field and cross country teams and assists
in the coordination of home game media operations for the eighttime NCAA champion Lady Vol basketball team, with whom he has
traveled to eight NCAA Final Fours and assisted in the hosting
of the 1990 Final Four in Knoxville. Prior to his current position
at Tennessee, Trainer handled a six-year stint as the director of
media relations and marketing at Carson-Newman College (Tenn.)
from 1991 to 1997, was a sports information G.A. and intern at
UT from 1988 to 1991 and spent the 1987-88 school year as a
student worker in the University of Arkansas women’s sports info.
office. He earned a degree in journalism from Arkansas in 1988
and completed his master’s in sports administration at UT in 1991.
A native of Princeton, Mo., Trainer has received numerous awards
for his publications, including nine “Best In The Nation” citations
and seven “Best Cover” accolades. He and his wife, Laura, a
former Lady Vol basketball manager, reside in Knoxville with their
10-year-old son, Cameron, and four-year-old son, Griffin.
WOMEN’S ATHLETICS
(Area Code 865)
Department
Phone
Academics ................................................................................ 974-1250
Athletics Director....................................................................... 974-0001
Coaches’ Fax Machine............................................................. 974-8914
Compliance/Operations............................................................ 974-4275
Lady Vol Hotline........................................................................ 974-8700
Marketing/Promotions .............................................................. 974-1734
Media Relations Fax Machine ................................................. 974-8875
Media Relations Home Phone (Eric Trainer) .......................... 531-1767
Media Relations Office ............................................................. 974-4275
Strength & Conditioning ........................................................... 974-4275
Ticket Office .............................................................................. 656-1200
Training Room .......................................................................... 974-6485
University Information............................................................... 974-1000
MEDIA INFORMATION
The 2008 Cross Country Media Guide has been written to provide
members of the media with information needed to adequately
cover the Lady Vols throughout the season. If you need further
assistance, please contact Eric Trainer in the UT women’s media
relations office at (865) 974-4275.
LADY VOL HOTLINE
Updated information on Lady Vol athletic teams can be obtained
24 hours a day by calling the Lady Vol Hotline at (865) 974-8700.
The hotline provides voice reports on every UT women’s team.
LADY VOLS ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
The official UT women’s web site, www.utladyvols.com, ranks
among the best in the country as evidenced by the number of users
who view the site on a daily basis. The site totaled more than 15
million page views for the 2007-08 academic year. In excess of 1.5
million fans visited the web site last season.
It has welcomed visitors from more than 50 countries and every
U.S. state with up-to-the-minute news and information. Live event
coverage and photo galleries from nearly every home event and
many away competitions can be viewed as well. The Lady Vol web
site is also your best source for rosters, schedules, team news and
athlete biographies.
Last year UTLadyVols.com streamed more than 50 live audio
and video events free of charge. This year even more events will
be aired using the latest in video and audio streaming technology.
CoSIDA AWARD
In three of the past five
years, the Lady Vol Cross
Country Media Guide was
judged “Best in the Nation”
among all NCAA Division I
cross country brochures by
the College Sports Information
Directors of America (CoSIDA).
The UT guide also earned “Best
Cover” honors in 2006.
Keeping tabs on the Lady Vol cross country team, or any UT women’s
team for that matter, is easy at www.utladyvols.com.
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IN THIS SECTION...
SEASON PREVIEW ....................... 4-5
TRAVEL PLANS ............................... 6
SEC/NCAA MEET INFO. .................. 6
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Heidi (Magill-Dahl) for
more than 60 percent
of the season. We
persevered and ended
up taking second at the
SEC
Championships
and fourth at the regional
meet.
“We stuck together,
tried to be the best we
could possibly be and
really had a growing
experience for our entire
team. I believe that will
help us get through
whatever obstacles are
in our way this year and
aid in our goal to become
a championship-caliber
team.”
Tennessee will head
into 2008 with eight
returning letterwinners,
including four who have
previously earned either
All-SEC or All-South
Region accolades. The
sole loss from a year ago
was all-league and allregion performer MagillDahl, who appeared Katie Van Horn enters her senior year hoping
in only two meets after to improve upon her All-South Region and AllSEC performance of a year ago.
transferring from BYU.
Returning to lead the
charge once again in 2008, though, will be the squad’s top two returnees in
seniors Sarah Bowman (Warrenton, Va.) and Katie Van Horn (Glendora,
N.J.). Bowman has earned All-SEC acclaim three times and All-South
kudos the past two seasons, while Van Horn reaped all-region accolades
the past two years and all-league acclaim for the first time in 2007.
Bowman is coming off a season where she stepped to the forefront
and took a leadership role for the Big Orange. She paced UT in five of six
races, winning the Belmont Opener for the second time in three years,
and posted career-best finishes at the conference (fourth) and regional
(14th) meets.
“This is probably the team with the most experience and leadership
that I’ve ever had,” Clark said. “You have Sarah, who is a senior, now
running very, very well in cross country. She is definitely able to show and
guide a team in how I like things to be done.”
Van Horn, meanwhile, also matured into a team leader, heading the
pack for the second straight year at the regional meet and filling the No.
2 role on the team behind Bowman on nearly every other occasion. Her
work and gritty competitive attitude netted her finishes of seventh at the
SEC meet and 11th at the South Regional.
“Katie also is a good leader and runs very consistently,” Clark said.
“You put those two together, and it makes this team very special. I’m
excited about having Sarah and Katie at the helm together, guiding us
through a season.”
Being counted on to provide close support to Bowman and Van Horn
are junior Jackie Areson (Delray Beach, Fla.) and senior Rolanda Bell
(Laurelton, N.Y.). Clark hopes Areson can return to her 2006 All-South
Region form, and he expects that Bell will be poised to step into the
limelight in her final season in orange.
Areson has run 11 races for the Lady Vols, and she has been in the
squad’s top five in each of those races. She had four starts for Clark in
2007, contributing a key fifth-place team scoring role that enabled UT
to snare second place at SECs. She did not compete in another cross
country or indoor track meet the rest of the campaign, and her return to
health would be a huge boon to Tennessee’s plans this season.
Consistency. Persistency. Intensity. These are not just buzz words to
seventh-year University of Tennessee Cross Country Head Coach J.J.
Clark. They are proven, connectable keys in striving to be the best -athletically, academically and in life.
When analyzing his Lady Vol program, one cannot argue with Clark
about the reliability of those principles. His teams have won four NCAA
South Region titles and three Southeastern Conference crowns in the
past six years. They’ve also competed in five NCAA Championship meets.
The raw numbers prove the Big Orange will be in the hunt, fighting tooth
and nail each and every meet to be the first to reach the finish line.
Evidence of Clark’s methods also extends beyond the competitive
realm. His athletes have been nationally recognized for academic
achievement. They’ve given back to the community. They’ve graduated.
Then, they have taken the leadership and character traits they learned
during their UT stay into the world as productive members of society.
It all adds up to Tennessee being a place that has strong leadership,
a national-caliber program, outstanding academics, great expectations,
a sense of responsibility, unwavering commitment, and a treasure trove
of resources. Do those components insure that the Lady Vols will be a
perennial player in the world of cross country? As long as Clark is at the
helm in Big Orange Country, you can “Count On Us.”
“You can count on the University of Tennessee putting studentathletes out on the competition field who will give their best,” Clark said.
“You can bank on these young ladies giving a great effort in the classroom
and graduating. You can count on Tennessee competing for conference
and regional titles and chasing national berths.
“Those things reflect the reputation that we have developed and the
consistency we have shown. It’s not that we’re trying to be brash or bold
and make predictions. Our theme is based on what has happened and
projecting that we would like to continue moving forward in a positive and
productive way.”
Since Clark’s addition to the department in June of 2002, UT has been
nothing but productive. UT reeled off SEC titles from 2003 to 2005 and
region crowns from 2002-05. What’s more, the Big Orange women made
five straight trips to the NCAA meet from 2002 to 2006. Even when it wasn’t
bringing home trophies,
though, Tennessee was
certainly within striking
distance of getting the
job done.
That was the case
in 2007, when the Lady
Vols handled an array
of misfortunes with
tremendous
aplomb.
Despite a handful of
challenges that left his
roster extremely thin,
Clark’s team surprised
many with a runnerup finish at the SEC
meet, placed fourth at
the South Regional and
just missed extending
the program’s string of
NCAA appearances to
six in a row.
“I always say the
road to the top is never
easy,” Clark said. “We
had a kind of ‘rough
side of the mountain’
experience last year,
losing Jackie (Areson)
to injury, having Rolanda
(Bell) disqualified at the Sarah Bowman is poised to become just the
regional meet in bizarre second woman in school history to earn Allfashion and not having SEC cross country honors four times.
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In her junior season, Bell developed into a contributing runner for the
initial time in her collegiate career, scoring three times for Team Orange.
She was on her way to being a counter at the South Regional before
a bump during convergence at the finish line surprisingly earned her a
disqualification from the meet. Based upon her growth last fall and her
progression into a scoring runner in the mile and 1500m on the track last
spring, all indications are that Bell will rise to the occasion in her final
season in Knoxville.
“You can’t forget about Jackie Areson, now that she’s a junior,” Clark
said. “Her leadership also is known and respected, as is Rolanda’s. It’s a
nice experienced group. I’m really going to need that, because we have
some young kids behind them.
Rounding out the returnees are three more who have been in
Tennessee’s top five and a pair who have yet to break into the regular
rotation.
Senior Leah Soro (Knoxville, Tenn.) was an All-SEC and All-South
runner as a freshman in 2005, but she hasn’t run for UT since 2006 due to
injuries. Sophomore Brittany Sheffey (Bellport, N.Y.) returns after scoring
in all six races a year ago, holding down the three and four spots for Clark.
Also back is junior Phoebe Wright (Signal Mountain, Tenn.), a three-time
scorer a year ago in the five slot.
“We know what Leah Soro has done in the past,” Clark said. “Her
injuries have limited her the past couple of years from achieving what she
is capable of doing. We believe we have that under control now and look
forward to her getting back in the fold and having fun.
“Brittany was really learning the ropes in cross country last season
and hadn’t really run a full season in quite some time. She surprised
herself in how well she ran as a freshman and by scoring in every meet. I
look forward to seeing her grow in cross country as the years go by.
“Phoebe definitely has the talent, and I believe she can do well in
cross country. It’s just a matter of whether she wants do it or not and
making a commitment to run at this level. I believe she can do it and will
train to do it. It will be exciting to see what she can do and how far she’ll
get.”
Senior Kimarra McDonald (Lumberton, N.J.) and junior Alyssa
Bryant
(Andersonville,
Tenn.) round out the
returnees. McDonald has
eight races under her
belt, including one last
year, while Bryant has
yet to compete for the Big
Orange.
“Kimarra and Alyssa
are very similar,” Clark
said. “If they can stay
healthy, those two will do
their best to contribute.
They have to run diligently
to break into a spot that
would travel, but they
have the ability to do it.”
New to the team in
2008 will be 11 studentathletes, giving Clark
the largest cross country
roster in school history.
The Lady Vol skipper
points to a trio of products
from the Volunteer State,
touting rookies Elizabeth
Altizer (Bartlett), Ally
Colvin (Maryville) and
Kelsey Kane (Knoxville),
as the three likely to
make
the
quickest Jackie Areson hopes to recapture the allcontributions.
region form she displayed as a rookie in 2006
Altizer and Kane and help UT contend for trophies once again.
each earned all-state
honors three times during
their prep careers in
cross country for their
respective classifications.
Kane, too, is the daughter
of former Lady Vol coach
and runner, Missy (Alston)
Kane Bemiller, so she has
some knowledge of the
expectations of collegiate
running.
Also new on the
scene are junior Jená
Murphy
(Memphis,
Tenn.), sophomores Tyler
Barnes (Ewing, N.J.) and
Kim White (Memphis,
Tenn.), and freshmen
Ramzee
Fondren
(Detroit, Mich.), Charity
Honeycutt (Burnsville,
N.C.), Chelsea Knotts
(Ripley, W.Va.), Chanelle
Price
(Easton,
Pa.)
and Elizabeth Tiller
(Tuscaloosa, Ala.).
“In the state of
Tennessee, Kelsey and
Elizabeth
were
very
highly ranked in cross Brittany Sheffey scored in all six meets for UT
country,”
Clark
said. as a freshman, and her continued development
“They both stood out and will be a key for the Lady Vols in 2008.
grabbed my attention at
the state meet. I believe they’ll be able to step up and contribute right
away, as should Ally, who had a really big PR in the mile last season.
“The rest of the group will have an impact as time goes along. I’m
just not sure whether it will be this year or next. If it’s not this season in
cross country, at the least they’ll get themselves strong for the track & field
campaign and be ready to help.”
For those who are ready to step into the fray, the 2008 slate gets
underway on Sept. 5, as UT travels to Nashville and the 4K Belmont
Opener for the fourth straight season. Bowman will be attempting to
match personal victories in 2005 and 2007.
The Lady Vols play host to the first of two events this season at
Lambert Acres Golf Club in Maryville on Sept. 19. The UT women will run
a 5K race, seeking to prevail at their home meet for the sixth time, and
Bowman will try to win the race as a senior after doing so in 2005.
After making the trek to a pair of 6K meets in the Brooks Paul
Short Run and the Penn State National Invitational on Oct. 3 and Oct.
17, respectively, the Big Orange will turn its focus toward the SEC
Championships. The meet will be held on a Monday this season, taking
place Nov. 3 in Starkville, Miss. UT, which was the runner-up a year ago,
has won five league titles in its history, and Clark’s club has never finished
lower than third since taking over at Rocky Top.
On Nov. 15, the action returns to Lambert Acres, where UT will
showcase the NCAA South Regional for the third time in seven seasons.
The Lady Vols will be seeking their fifth title and sixth NCAA Championship
appearance under Clark’s tutelage. If they make the national field, they
will travel to Terre Haute, Ind., to take part in that race on Nov. 24.
“Coming into this fall, only one person has left the group from a year
ago,” Clark said. “Everyone else is back, and we’re adding 11 others to the
group.
“We have the maturity now of Sarah, Katie and Jackie; Sheffey was
a staple for us last year, and Rolanda has shown she can answer the
bell. We have some others who are going to help round out our team as
well. I’m very excited about the coming season and what could possibly
happen.”
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2008 SEASON INFORMATION
TRAVEL PLANS
BELMONT OPENER
Date: Friday, Sept. 5
Hotel: None
Address: N/A
Phone: N/A
Arrive: Friday, Sept. 5
Depart: Friday, Sept. 5
Travel: Charter Bus
SEC CHAMPIONSHIP
Host: Mississippi State University
Course: MSU Cross Country Course
Distance: 6K
Location: Starkville, Miss.
Date: Mon., Nov. 3, 2008
Time: 10 a.m.CT
Media Contact: Joe Galbraith
Address: Mississippi State University
Sports Information Office
First Floor, Bryan Bldg.
Lakeview Dr.
Mississippi State, MS 39762
E-mail: jgalbraith@athletics.msstate.edu
Phone: 662-325-2703
Fax: 662-325-2563
Web sites: www.mstateathletics.com or www.secsports.com
PENN STATE NATIONAL INV.
Date: Friday, Oct. 17
Hotel: Hampton Inn
Address: 1101 E. College Ave.
State College, PA 16801
Phone: 814-238-7320
Arrive: Thursday, Oct. 16
Depart: Friday, Oct. 17
Travel: Commercial Airline
BROOKS PAUL SHORT RUN
(First Of Two-Night Stay)
Date: Friday, Oct. 3
Hotel: Hampton Inn & Suites
Address: 200 Gateway Dr.
Bethlehem, PA 18017
Phone: 610-868-2442
Arrive: Thursday, Oct. 2
Depart: Friday, Oct. 3
Travel: Commercial Airline
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
Date: Monday, Nov. 3
Hotel: Hampton Inn
Address: 700 Hwy. 12 East
Starkville, MS 39759
Phone: 662-324-1333
Arrive: Sunday, Nov. 2
Depart: Monday, Nov. 3
Travel: Charter Bus
BROOKS PAUL SHORT RUN
(Second Of Two-Night Stay)
Date: Friday, Oct. 3
Hotel: Hampton Inn
Address: 8600 Bartram Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19153
Phone: 215-966-1300
Arrive: Friday, Oct. 3
Depart: Saturday, Oct. 4
Travel: Commercial Airline
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
(Contingent on making field)
Date: Monday, Nov. 24
Hotel: Hampton Inn
Address: 3325 U.S. Hwy. 41
Terre Haute, IN 47802
Phone: 812-242-2222
Arrive: Saturday, Nov. 22
Depart: Monday, Nov. 24
Travel: Charter Bus
NCAA SOUTH REGIONAL
Host: University of Tennessee
Course: Lambert Acres Golf Club
Distance: 6K
Location: Maryville, Tenn.
Date: Sat., Nov. 15, 2008
Time: 11 a.m. ET
Media Contact: Eric Trainer
Address: University of Tennessee Women’s Athletics
Lady Vol Media Relations Office
1720 Volunteer Blvd./117 Stokely Athletics Center
Knoxville, TN 37996-3110
E-mail: etrainer@utk.edu
Phone: 865-974-8173 or (C) 865-603-2916
Fax: 865-974-8875
Web sites: www.utladyvols.com, www.tenntrack.com or www.
ncaasports.com
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP
Senior Leah Soro hopes to close her career the way she started it as a
rookie, by running to All-SEC and All-South Region honors.
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Course: LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course
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COACHING STAFF
IN THIS SECTION...
HEAD COACH J.J. CLARK ........ 8-10
ASSISTANT COACHES....................
COACHES....................11
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SUPPORT STAFF ...........................
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LADY VOL COACHING STAFF
J.J.
CLARK
HEAD CROSS COUNTRY/
TRACK & FIELD COACH
Rejuvenated and empowered by his valuable experiences in China
as the middle distance coach for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Women’s Track
& Field Team, Lady Vol Head Coach J.J. Clark is back for his seventh
season at the helm of the Tennessee women’s cross country and track &
field squads. Under his command this year will be the largest roster in the
34-year history of the women’s program at UT.
Clark will continue to impart the valuable principles he has always
shared with his runners, helping them be successful in competition, in the
classroom and in life. Those ideals have allowed Tennessee to consistently
compete for championships and NCAA berths, develop All-SEC and AllSouth Region caliber runners and produce well-rounded student-athletes
who have garnered such honors as NCAA Woman of the Year finalist,
United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association and
SEC Scholar Athlete of the Year, and Academic All-American.
Since leaving his post at Florida and taking over the Big Orange
reins in 2002, Clark wasted little time in becoming Tennessee’s all-time
winningest cross country coach. He shot past that threshold in 2005,
surpassing Terry Crawford (303-76-1 from 1974-83), and hasn’t looked
back since.
The Tennessee skipper begins the 2008 campaign with a sterling
record of 622-181-1 (.774) in six seasons, and he has led his charges to
five NCAA Championship berths, four NCAA South Region titles and three
Southeastern Conference trophies -- all program bests.
During his time in Knoxville, Clark’s Lady Vols also have claimed
17 team victories in 41 competitions and charted UT season-best victory
totals in 2003 (99-31), 2004 (121-25) and 2005 (125-32). Additionally,
his squads have sported a stellar 116-18 (.866) overall record versus
Southeastern Conference teams from 2002-07.
J.J. Clark is flanked by Sarah Bowman (L) and Katie Van Horn (R), who
both earned All-SEC and All-South Region accolades in 2007.
After missing out on the NCAA meet in 2007 for the first time during
his stay in Big Orange Country, Clark is anxious to get the ball rolling in
2008. His optimism is buoyed by the fact that he returns eight letterwinners
and loses only one from last season’s squad, which tallied a 104-19 record
and finished second in the SEC and fourth in the NCAA South Region.
During his 16-year cross country coaching career, which also includes
10 seasons at the University of Florida, Clark has totaled six NCAA South
crowns, coming in 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005, and five SEC
titles, occurring in 1996, 1997, 2003, 2004 and 2005. He also has piloted
10 different clubs to NCAA Championships berths, including his Florida
teams in 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 1999, and his Tennessee squads
from 2002 to 2006. His 1997 UF entry at the NCAA meet logged his top
national finish at 16th.
Those kinds of results have left Clark’s cross country peers with a
very favorable impression about his leadership abilities. On five occasions,
he has been named NCAA South Region (1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)
and SEC (1996, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005) Women’s Coach of the Year.
Joining soccer’s Angela Kelly and volleyball’s Rob Patrick as UT’s fall
sport SEC Coaches of the Year in 2004, Clark also aided Tennessee in
becoming the first school since Florida in 1996 to claim that trifecta of
awards. Clark, who was on the UF staff at the time, is the only coach to
help two different SEC schools accomplish that feat.
During his first six seasons at UT, Clark groomed 12 athletes who
combined for 24 All-South Region certificates, including the entire scoring
five in 2004. In conference action, his totals include 11 runners with 17
citations.
Among his most-decorated standouts have been Sharon Dickie, the
program’s first four-time NCAA qualifier and four-time recipient of All-South
and All-SEC accolades (1998-2002); Brooke Novak, who was awarded
all-region and all-conference recognition three times during her career
(2001-04); Katie Flaute, who snared All-SEC and All-South accolades
three seasons in a row (2004-06); and Felicia Guliford, a three-time AllSouth and two-time All-SEC runner (2002-05).
Adding her name to that illustrious group in 2007 was Sarah Bowman,
who picked up the third All-SEC nod of her career and her second All-South
citation as a junior. This season, the Warrenton, Va., native will attempt to
join Dickie as the only four-time conference honorees in program annals.
In the classroom, Clark’s high expectations have been met with equal
success, as his cross country troops have tallied 56 SEC Academic Honor
Roll recognitions since 2002. Five members of his squad, Bowman (2007,
2008), Megan Cauble (2004), Flaute (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007), Guliford
(2005, 2007) and Phoebe Wright (2008), earned ESPN The Magazine
The ability to find a way to communicate with and motivate each individual
Lady Vol is a gift that J.J. Clark possesses.
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Academic All-District IV Cross Country/Track & Field Team acclaim.
Guliford became Clark’s first Academic All-American in fall 2004, when she
was recognized by the Women’s Intercollegiate Cross Country Coaches
Association. Flaute was the second, earning second-team ESPN The
Magazine honors in spring 2007, while Bowman joined the club in 2008 by
garnering ESPN The Magazine second-team esteem.
Additionally, his team and individuals are consistently honored by
the USTFCCCA for academics, including 2007-08. Bowman, too, earned
2008 USTFCCCA Indoor Track & Field Scholar Athlete of the Year.
Prior to his stint with the Lady Volunteers, Clark spent his previous 10
seasons at Florida. While in Gainesville, Clark led the Lady Gators to their
first-ever team appearance at the NCAA Cross Country Championships
in 1994. Following that campaign, UF was extended invitations four more
times to the national meet under Clark’s supervision as cross country
coach.
In SEC action, Clark guided Florida to league titles in 1996 and
1997 and runner-up outcomes in 1998 and 1999. Among his UF athletes
drawing kudos for their standout cross country performances were Becki
Wells, the 1995 and 1996 SEC champion, and Hilary White, the 2000 SEC
Freshman Athlete of the Year. Additionally, Wells and Coralena Velsen
picked up All-America citations during his watch in Gator Country.
While Clark has shown a knack for producing successful cross
country runners and teams, it is his work on the track that first earned
him credit as one of the nation’s best coaches. At the 2004 Olympics in
Athens, Greece, Clark had a pair of pupils participating. His wife, Jearl
Miles-Clark, and his sister, Hazel Clark, competed in the 800-meter run.
Miles-Clark, who finished sixth, made her fifth appearance at the Games,
while Clark participated for the second time after joining Miles-Clark and
older sister Joetta Clark to comprise the U.S. 800m contingent at the 2000
Olympiad in Sydney. In 2008, Hazel Clark again made the U.S. team, this
time with her brother as a member of the women’s coaching staff.
As the head of the UT women’s track & field program, Clark has
already taken the Orange and White to the mountaintop in that sport. His
2005 squad grabbed the first NCAA women’s track & field championship
in school history when it won the indoor affair at the Randal Tyson Center
in Fayetteville, Ark., after also hoisting the SEC Indoor trophy in that venue
a couple weeks earlier. Outdoors in 2005, Clark’s unit saw its league and
national title hopes dashed when indoor 800m collegiate record-holder
Nicole Cook suffered a leg injury at the end of the indoor campaign. Still,
UT muscled out placings of third and fourth, respectively, at the SEC and
NCAA Championships.
Those performances resulted in multiple accolades for the thenthird-year head man. Among his haul of kudos were U.S. Track Coaches
Association Indoor National Coach of the Year, South Region Indoor Track
& Field Coach of the Year and SEC Indoor Track & Field Coach of the
Year. After his outdoor squad added the 2005 NCAA Mideast Regional
hardware to its trophy case, he also collected USTCA Mideast Region
Coach of the Year distinction as well.
In 2007, Clark assembled another talented track & field unit. That
group bonded together to win Tennessee its second SEC Indoor crown
in the past three years and went on to compete for a national title before
securing third place at the NCAA Indoor Championship meet. His peers
recognized him yet again, naming him the SEC Women’s Indoor Coach of
the Year and the USTFCCCA Indoor South Region Women’s Coach of the
Year as well. He would repeat the latter of those honors in 2008.
One of the most respected distance coaches in the world, Clark was
hired to direct the women’s cross country and track & field programs at
Tennessee on May 23, 2002. After a decade of success as an assistant
Three members of the cross country team played key roles at the 2008 NCAA
Indoor Track & Field Championships, as UT ran a school best to win the
DMR.
coach from 1992 to 2002 at the University of Florida and spending the
1991-92 year there as a graduate assistant, Clark accepted the challenge
of awakening a sleeping giant and restoring the UT program to the luster
of its heyday during the 1980s and early 1990s.
Clark has experience in that area, as he arrived in Gainesville in
1991 and helped transform a once dormant middle distance/cross country
program into one that was respected, both nationally and internationally.
In fact, his group of athletes played a key role in Florida’s Southeastern
Conference indoor and outdoor track & field titles in 1997 and 1998, its
indoor crown in 2002 and its third-place national finish indoors in 2002. It
has been estimated that his charges accumulated more than 650 points
in SEC action and 110-plus at the NCAA level during his 10 seasons as a
full-time aide at UF.
Known as much for his character as his coaching ability, Clark’s
sterling reputation for a near perfect graduation rate and a habit of
developing student-athletes into champions and confident young ladies
has been well received by recruits and their families. Those traits enabled
him to attract several of the nation’s number-one prospects in a variety of
events to his former school and are serving him well as he and his staff
have built a perennial contender at Tennessee.
During his tenure with the Gators, Clark groomed two athletes who
combined for three SEC Athlete of the Year awards in cross country
and track, and he developed competitors who racked up 44 NCAA AllAmerica citations and 32 conference championship plaques. Among
those were his sister, Hazel, a three-time national champ in the 800
meters and the SEC Indoor Track & Field Athlete of the Year in 1998 and
1999, and Wells, a two-time victor in the mile/1500 meters and the 1996
SEC Cross Country Athlete of the Year. Both own the school records in
their respective events, part of a total of 12 such marks accomplished by
Clark-tutored athletes at Florida.
COACH CLARK'S YEAR-BY-YEAR PERFORMANCES AT TENNESSEE
YEAR
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
Totals
RECORD
59-34-1
99-31-0
121-25-0
125-32-0
114-40-0
104-19-0
622-181-1
SEC
3rd
1st
1st
1st
3rd
2nd
Three Titles
REGION
1st
1st
1st
1st
3rd
4th
Four Titles
NCAA
28th
24th
21st
28th
28th
N/A
Top 30 (5)
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AWARDS
South Region Coach of the Year
South Region & SEC Coach of the Year
South Region & SEC Coach of the Year
South Region & SEC Coach of the Year
None
None
Four-time South Region/Three-time SEC Coach of the Year
LADY VOL COACHING STAFF
Outdoors, Clark coached two national champions and six SEC
winners in the middle distance events. Those athletes contributed to
Florida’s top-10 NCAA appearances in 1992 (2nd), 1997 (6th) and 2002
(6th) as well as SEC crowns in 1992, 1997 and 1998 and a runner-up
outcome in 1999. Both Hazel Clark and Wells advanced to NCAAs and
carried home the top prize, as Clark won the 800m in 1998 and Wells was
victorious in the 1500m in 1997. Clark was also SEC 800m champ in 1997
and 1998 and claimed the 1500m title in 1999.
Indoors, J.J. Clark’s UF ledger included three national titles and
15 SEC crowns, spreading across the 800m, mile, 3000m and distance
medley relay. That talent was reflected in Florida’s taking of the conference
hardware in 1992, 1997 and 2002 and achieving runner-up status in 1993,
1999, 2000 and 2001. In NCAA action, the Gators accumulated enough
points to collect top-10 finishes in 1992 (1st), 1993 (3rd), 1996 (t4th), 1997
(5th), 1998 (6th), 1999 (4th), 2000 (t8th) and 2002 (3rd). Most notable
among his individual indoor conference title-holders were Clark (800m,
1996-99) and Wells (mile, 1997 / 3000m, 1996-97), who went on to
capture NCAA Championships in the 800m (1998-99) and mile run (1997),
respectively.
As mentioned earlier, Clark’s influence also extends into the
international arena. Proof of that was most evident in 2000, when his
sisters, Joetta and Hazel, and wife, Jearl, finished one-two-three in the
800 meters at the U.S. Olympic Trials and went on to represent the
United States in Sydney. It is also reflected by Joetta’s appearance in four
Olympiads, Hazel’s three Games appearances and seventh-place effort in
2000 and Jearl’s incredible run of five Olympic trips. His spouse, a two-time
gold medallist with U.S. 4x400m relays and the American record-holder in
the 800m since 1999, won the half-mile race at the 2004 Olympic Trials
and is a four-time U.S. outdoor champion in the 800m (1998, 1999, 2003,
2004) and the 400m (1993, 1995, 1997, 2002).
Clark also coached three-time Olympian Mark Everett to a No. 1 USA
ranking and fourth-place world rating in the 800 meters and has recently
CLARK'S CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
J.J. Clark’s wife, Jearl Miles-Clark, and son, Jorell, can frequently be
found cheering on the Lady Vols, at home and on the road.
* Served as middle distance coach for the 2008 U.S. Olympic
Women’s Track & Field Team
* Winningest women’s cross country coach in UT history with a
622-181-1 record and 17 victories out of 41 meets in six years
* Posted school-record season win totals three consecutive
seasons, with the 125-32-0 mark in 2005 ranking as number one
* Guided Tennessee to five straight NCAA Cross Country
Championships appearances (2002-06)
* Directed Lady Vols to four NCAA South Region titles (2002-05)
and three SEC Championship trophies (2003-05)
* Five-time NCAA South Region Women’s Cross Country Coach of
the Year (1997 at Florida/2002-05 at Tennessee)
* Five-time Southeastern Conference Women’s Cross Country
Coach of the Year (1996-97 at Florida/2003-05 at Tennessee)
* Has groomed 12 cross country athletes who have combined for
24 All-South Region awards in six seasons at Tennessee
* Developed 11 cross country runners who tallied 17 total All-SEC
honors since 2002
* Guided UT’s track & field program to an NCAA Indoor National
Championship in 2005, the school’s first and only other nonbasketball NCAA women’s title
* Track team has posted five consecutive top-three SEC Indoor
finishes since 2004 and was third at 2005 NCAA Outdoor meet
* Produced SEC Indoor Track & Field Championships in 2005 and
2007, UT’s first league titles in that sport since the Lady Vols
swept the indoor and outdoor crowns in 1984
* Named 2005 USTCA National and South Region Indoor Coach of
the Year
* Chosen USTFCCCA South Region Indoor Coach of the Year in
2007 and 2008
* Named 2005 and 2007 SEC Indoor Coach of the Year
* Named 2005 NCAA Mideast Region Outdoor Coach of the Year
* Coached his wife (Jearl Miles-Clark) and sisters (Joetta Clark,
Hazel Clark) to berths in the 2000 Olympic Games as the United
States’ three 800m qualifiers
coached Hazel (2000, 2005, 2006, 2008) and Treniere Clement (2005,
2006, 2007) to USA Outdoor titles in the 800m and 1500m, respectively.
Nike recognized Clark for his work in continuing to develop world-class
athletes, naming him the 1998 USA Elite Coach of the Year. Those kinds
of results were also noticed and rewarded by his sport’s national governing
body, as he was named an assistant for the U.S. women at the 1999 IAAF
World Track & Field Championships in Greece and later head coach of the
2001 team in Edmonton, Canada. The latter squad would achieve one of
the best medal counts ever charted by an American contingent.
A product of Maplewood, N.J., and a graduate of Columbia High
School, Clark made trips to Knoxville as a teen to watch his sister Joetta
compete for the Lady Vols and saw her help UT win the 1981 AIAW
National Outdoor Championship. Those examples left an impression on
the younger brother, and he blazed his own trail in track and field.
First, he set his own standard of excellence in running, winning the
New Jersey state title in the mile and two mile as a senior in 1982. With
that kind of effort, he then earned a scholarship to run at Villanova, where
he would develop into a sub-four minute miler in his competitive days en
route to qualifying for the 1988 U.S Olympic Trials.
After graduating from VU in May of 1986 with a B.A. in communications,
he would return to his prep alma mater and serve as assistant track coach.
While at CHS from 1986 to 1989, he worked with the girls’ and boys’ middle
distance and sprints corps. Then, in 1991, he would make his transition
into collegiate coaching, serving as a graduate assistant at Florida for one
year before being hired full time there.
Clark, who resides in Knoxville with his wife, Jearl, and son, Jorell,
studied anatomy and physiology in graduate school at UF. Bridging the gap
between his high school coaching and college experience, he also took
courses in nutrition and exercise physiology in 1990 at Kean College in
Union, N.J., and became certified as a licensed sports massage therapist
in 1991 from the Florida School of Massage in Gainesville. His father is
Joe Lewis Clark, the bat-wielding principal of Paterson, New Jersey’s
Eastside High School, depicted by actor Morgan Freeman in the 1989
movie “Lean on Me.”
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LADY VOL COACHING STAFF
PAULINE
DAVIS-THOMPSON
JOHN
FRAZIER
TRACK & FIELD
ASSISTANT COACH
TRACK & FIELD
ASSISTANT COACH
Pauline Davis-Thompson is in her first year as a full-time assistant coach
on J.J. Clark’s staff at Tennessee, working with the Lady Vol sprints/jumps/
hurdles group. The elite level coach, who was an Olympic gold medalist for
the Bahamas and an NCAA and Southeastern Conference champion at
Alabama during her collegiate career, spent the 2007 campaign serving as
a volunteer coach.
Davis-Thompson joined the Lady Vol program after a stint as the
founder and coach of PDT International Track Club, where she trained elitelevel post-collegiate athletes. Additionally, she had served since 1989 as the
district marketing manager of sports tourism for the Bahamas Ministry of
Tourism in Atlanta, Ga.
Since founding PDT International Track Club in 2002, Davis-Thompson
has been coaching world-class sprinters, such as two-time Olympic gold
medalist Monique Hennagan of the U.S., Olympian Christine Amertil and
Addis Huyler of the Bahamas and Pete-Gaye Dowdie of Jamaica.
In addition to her two previously-mentioned duties, Davis-Thompson
also has held two key track & field governance positions since 2003,
underscoring the high regard accorded her from people in the sport. Globally,
she has served as a women’s committee member for the International
Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), responsible for establishing
policies and procedures for promoting women in track & field throughout the
world. For her home country, she has filled a role as Bahamas Association
of Athletic Associations (BAAA) international coordinator, serving as a liaison
between the BAAA federation and overseas-based athletes.
The first Bahamian to win an individual Olympic medal on the oval,
Davis-Thompson claimed silver in the 200 meters at the 2000 Olympic
Games in Sydney, Australia, finishing behind American Marion Jones. With
Jones’ admission of using performance-enhancing substances and the
return of her gold medal, Davis-Thompson might one day trade her silver
medal for a gold one to match the first-place award she won when she joined
her countrywomen as the third leg in winning the 4x1 at that Olympiad.
The five-time Olympian and seven-time World Championships
competitor retired after that career-topping effort in the 4x1 in 2000 but
not before achieving status as a heroine in her country. Because of her
performance with the Bahamian 4x100m relay team that earned a silver
medal at the 1996 Olympiad in Atlanta, that group of young ladies became
known as “The Golden Girls.” They have been honored with a mural bearing
their image that greets visitors at the Nassau International Airport, a postage
stamp was issued in their honor, and, in 1998, the Governor-General of the
Bahamas presented the Golden Girls with a silver Jubilee Award for their
contributions to athletics.
The Bahamas’ former national record-holder in the 400 meters, DavisThompson ran collegiately at Alabama, where she graduated in 1989 with a
B.A. in communications and a minor in English. The Crimson Tide standout
won the NCAA Indoor 200m dash in 1988 and took the NCAA Outdoor
400m crown in 1989, setting a collegiate record of 50.18 seconds.
On the SEC level, Davis-Thompson was a multiple champion, winning
outdoor crowns in the 100m dash from 1986 to 1988 and in the 200m
dash in 1986 and 1988, and claiming indoor titles in the 55m and 200m
in 1988. UA also raced to SEC Outdoor 4x100m relay titles in 1986 and
1987 and hoisted the SEC Outdoor team trophy in 1986. In 2005, she was
recognized in the SEC Greats Program, which was designed to honor those
who helped establish the rich athletic tradition in the conference.
Davis-Thompson is married to Jamaican Olympian and Brown
University graduate Mark Thompson. The two met at the 1992 Games and
were wed in 1998.
John Frazier is in his third season as throws coach for the Lady
Volunteers. He joined the Tennessee staff in August 2006 after serving
six years as an assistant men’s and women’s track & field coach at the
University of Arizona.
Frazier’s reputation in his profession earned him the honor of coaching
on the international stage for the United States. In August 2007, he traveled
to Osaka, Japan, and worked with the U.S. women’s throws contingent as it
competed at the IAAF World Track & Field Championships.
Demonstrating how he earned that reputation and awards such as
2005 USTCA National and West Region Assistant Coach of the Year for
Throws, Frazier has produced impressive results in his first two seasons with
the Lady Vol program. Among the accolades his charges have earned in
his brief time at Rocky Top include All-American, NCAA Regional champion,
SEC champion and school record-holder.
Annie Alexander had a sensational freshman campaign in 2008,
sweeping SEC Indoor and Outdoor shot put titles and snapping 26-year-old
school records indoors and out. She also added a league discus title, and
became the first SEC freshman female to win all three of those events in a
single season.
Other UT standouts for Frazier include two-time All-American Shanna
Dickenson, the 2007 third-place NCAA discus finisher, a 10-time scorer
at the SEC level and school record-holder in the hammer throw; Amara
McKell, an SEC scorer in the shot and discus; and Nia Ali, who learned the
shot under Frazier and went on to win the 2007 SEC heptathlon title in her
first career attempt at the event.
Frazier joined the Big Orange from an Arizona program where
he produced 11 All-Americans and two U.S. Junior champions. In his
final year in Tucson in 2006, he had seven athletes qualify for the NCAA
Championships. His pupils collectively accumulated five All-America
certificates in the discus and shot put.
Before joining the Arizona staff, Frazier spent two seasons at the
University of Florida, where he worked alongside J.J. Clark. During his
tenure in Gainesville, Frazier helped Emily Carlsten earn a runner-up finish
in the javelin at the 2000 NCAA Outdoor Championships and a third-place
showing at the U.S. Olympic Trials that season. His athletes at UF also set
school records in the javelin, hammer throw and 20-pound weight throw
under his tutelage.
Frazier’s coaching career dates back to 1988, when he joined the
staff at UC Irvine. He also spent some of his formative professional years
at Humboldt (Calif.) State, Cal State Northridge and Cal State Los Angeles
before making the jump to the Pac-10 and SEC level.
During his 20 years in the track & field coaching community, Frazier’s
athletes have attained 34 All-America awards, including 13 at the NCAA
Division II level. Additionally, he coached four NCAA Division II national
champions and has tutored several athletes in the professional ranks.
As a collegiate performer from 1982-86, Frazier was a three-time AllAmerican at UCLA in the shot put and also competed in the hammer throw.
He is the second Bruin track & field standout to grace the UT staff, as former
sprint/jumps coach Caryl Smith Gilbert (2002-06) graduated from UCLA in
1991 after a successful career on the oval.
Frazier earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from UCLA
in 1986, and he has a master’s in kinesiology from his time at Cal State
Northridge.
A product of Lancaster, Calif., Frazier is married to the former Julia
Barnes. They have two daughters, Lana (11) and Courtney (8), and one
son, John Jr. (6).
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CROSS COUNTRY SUPPORT STAFF
CHELSEA BOLING
CASI DAILEY
Manager
Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer
Chelsea Boling is in her second year as a manager
for the Lady Volunteer cross country and track & field
programs. The sophomore hails from nearby Seymour,
Tenn., and is a 2007 graduate of Heritage High School.
Boling is majoring in nursing at UT and hopes to become
a nurse anesthetist. She has been very active in volunteer
work and community service and was a member of the
National Honor Society at Heritage. Boling has been a competitive drag racer
since the age of eight, driving a rail dragster.
Casi Dailey is a first-year graduate assistant for the
Lady Vol Athletic Training Department and will be working
with cross country and track & field. Dailey is a May 2008
graduate of Hope College in Holland, Mich., with a bachelor
of arts degree in athletic training. The Stevensville, Mich.,
native worked with Hope’s basketball, football, baseball
and soccer teams as well as interning at a local high school
and sports medicine clinic. At UT, Dailey is pursuing a master’s degree in sport
management.
ANGIE BOYD KECK
ABE KIGGINS, ATC
Assistant Athletics Director for Facilities and Operations
Assistant Athletic Trainer
Angie Boyd Keck is in her 15th year as a full-time
staff member at UT and was promoted in October 2000
to assistant athletics director for facilities and operations
after serving as the coordinator of event management
and facilities for the previous three years. Her primary
responsibilities include supervision of the golf, rowing,
and volleyball programs, event management for golf,
rowing, track and field and volleyball, as well as staff job searches and business
duties consisting of team travel and recruiting expenses. She also oversees
facility construction and renovation, and assists with day-to-day operations.
These day-to-day operations include ordering and distributing letter awards
for student-athletes and overseeing the All-Sports Banquet. A member of
UT’s inaugural golf team, a former assistant golf coach here and a member
of the Lady Vol Hall of Fame, Boyd Keck is also the tournament director
for the Mercedes-Benz Women’s Collegiate Golf Championships. A 1994
graduate of Tennessee, Boyd Keck earned her bachelor’s degree in public
administration. In 1997, she received her master’s in sport administration from
UT. Boyd Keck and her husband, Kelly, reside in Dandridge with their son,
Josh, and daughter, Sidney.
EMERALD BRONSON
Manager
Emerald “Emme” Bronson is in her first year as a
manager for the Lady Vol cross country and track & field
programs. The sophomore is a graduate of Hughes High
School in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is majoring in physical
therapy and following a pre-med track. At Hughes, she
worked as a student trainer for football, boys’ basketball
and track during her junior and senior years, and she
participated in Key Club in addition to doing community service projects.
Abe Kiggins is in his second year full time and his fourth
year overall working with the cross country/track & field
teams. In his spare time, he treats elite level runners, such
as Olympians Hazel Clark, Jearl Miles-Clark and DeeDee
Trotter and U.S. champion Treniere Clement. He traveled with
Trotter to the 2006 and 2007 USA Outdoor Championships,
where she won silver and gold, respectively, and to the
2008 U.S. Olympic Trials (bronze) and Olympic Games (semifinalist) in Beijing.
Kiggins graduated from the University of West Florida with a bachelor’s degree in
exercise science/athletic training. While at UWF, Kiggins worked with the men’s
and women’s soccer teams and the baseball and softball teams. He also covered
football and a variety of other sports through local high schools and interned
with the Pensacola Pelicans baseball organization. Kiggins earned his master’s
degree in sport psychology at UT in May 2007.
AMY RANKER
Cross Country/Track & Field Director of Operations
Amy Ranker is in her ninth year of involvement with the
Lady Vol cross country and track & field programs. After
coming to UT on a track & field scholarship and later serving
as a student assistant and graduate assistant on the staff,
she became the program’s first full-time director of operations
in the summer of 2007. A native of Great Bend, Kan., and a
graduate of Liberal High School, her responsibilities include
handling daily office work and travel arrangements, managing the recruiting
database, organizing and distributing inventory, and assisting the coaching staff
at practice. Ranker graduated from UT as a double major in finance and business
management in 2005 and earned a master’s in sport administration in 2007.
COLLIN SCHLOSSER, C.S.C.S.
Associate Strength and Conditioning Coach
DAN CARLSON
Academic Counselor
Dan Carlson is in his sixth year at UT and fourth
season as an academic counselor. He is in his first
year working with cross country and track & field
and has previously worked with football, women’s
tennis and the Renewing Academic Commitment
Program (RAC). A native of Kansas City, Mo., Carlson
received dual undergraduate degrees from St. Thomas
University and possesses graduate degrees from UT in sports management
and college student personnel, which he earned while serving as a G.A.
with football. He also has worked at Mercer University and Georgia Tech.
Collin Schlosser is in his sixth year with the Lady Vol
strength and conditioning staff. His responsibilities include
creating and implementing strength, speed and conditioning
programs for the Lady Vols. A 2000 graduate of Miami (Ohio)
University with a bachelor’s degree in exercise science,
Schlosser also earned a master’s degree in developmental
kinesiology from Bowling Green State University in 2002. A
native of Napoleon, Ohio, he has been certified by the National Strength and
Conditioning Association and the National Collegiate Strength and Conditioning
Coaches Association, and he is a 2008 graduate of the Sports Management
Executive Institute.
JOE WHITNEY, Ph.D.
BRITTINY COOPER
Director of Mental Training
Manager
Brittiny Cooper is in her second year as a manager
for the Lady Volunteer cross country and track & field
programs. Cooper, who graduated from Craigmont High
School in Memphis, is a senior majoring in exercise
science. She is interested in a career in physical therapy
or athletic training. A lover of sports, Cooper ran track,
played tennis and soccer, and found time to also be a
majorette at Craigmont.
Now in his 14th year with Lady Vol athletics, Joe Whitney
oversees the provision of mental training services to all UT
athletes and teams. A 1982 graduate of Springfield College,
he coached basketball and football in New York City for 13
years before leaving coaching to pursue graduate study in
sport psychology. Whitney obtained a master’s from the
University of Virginia in 1997 and a Ph.D. from Tennessee in
2000. He served as a graduate assistant and sport psychology consultant at UT
before being named director of mental training in January 2002.
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JACKIE ARESON
5-4 * JUNIOR
DELRAY BEACH, FLA.
ATLANTIC COMMUNITY H.S.
2007: Took part in four of Tennessee’s six meets as a sophomore before
a foot injury ended her season...Helped the Lady Vols to a runner-up
finish at the SEC Championships by placing fifth on the team and 38th
overall in 22:01.58 for 6000 meters during her final appearance of the
2007 campaign...Ran second for UT and was 13th at the Penn State
National Invitational in 21:31...Came in third on the team and fifth
overall at the season-opening 4K Belmont Opener in 14:33.73...Logged
a time of 22:15 to score in fourth position and wind up 77th overall
at the 6K Brooks Paul Short Run...Academically, she was named to
the SEC Academic Honor Roll for the second time...2006: Competed
in all seven meets as a rookie and contributed to the scoring cause
each time...Was one of four Lady Vols to earn All-South Region acclaim
and narrowly missed adding All-SEC to her list of accomplishments as
well...Held down UT’s number-two spot and placed 10th overall at the
6K NCAA South Regional in 21:35.4...At the SEC Championships, she
was the team’s third finisher in 15th place with a career-best 6K readout
of 20:42.65 that left her one spot out of all-league acclaim...Ran second
for Tennessee at the 6K Paul Short Run, winding up 16th in 21:19...
Crossed the line third for her team and 55th overall in 21:16.2 at the
“White Race” at the ISU Pre-National Invitational in Terre Haute, Ind....
About two months later, she returned to the same course for the NCAA
Championships, running fourth for Team Orange and taking 161st
overall in 22:35.6...Also scored in the fourth and fifth slots, respectively,
for UT at the season’s first two
meets...Those performances left her
12th at the 4K Belmont Opener in a
personal-best 14:32.81 and ninth
at the 5K Tennessee Invitational in
18:49...Was recognized for her work
in the classroom by being named to
the SEC Freshman Academic Honor
Roll...Also earned USTFCCAA AllAcademic Team honors in track &
field...HIGH SCHOOL: Lettered four
years in cross country and track &
field during her high school career,
which included stints at Cardinal
Newman for the 2002 cross country
season, Pope John Paul II High
School from 2003-05 and Atlantic
Community High School in 200506…Jackie was the runner-up twice
at the Florida 2A Cross Country
championships (18:45 in 2003 and
18:25 in 2004) and was third at the
4A meet (19:02) in 2005…Finished
seventh in the 2002 FHSAA 2A
Cross Country Championship as a freshman with a time of 19:46…
Areson is the state record-holder for both the Florida high school mile
(4:45.01 converted) and middle school mile…She was also part of the
2004 PJP squad which broke the Florida distance medley record with a
11:56 readout…Jackie is a four-time high school state champion…She
won championships in the 800m twice (2:13.54 in 2004 and 2:12.25
in 2005), and once each in the mile (4:55.72 in 2006) and the 4x800m
relay (9:30.75 in 2004)…Competed in four Nike National indoor and
outdoor meets, winning the mile in 4:50.13 indoors in 2006, taking third
in the freshman mile indoors in 2003 at 5:18 and grabbing fifth in the
indoor mile (4:55) in 2004, sixth in the outdoor mile (4:46.67) in 2005
and eighth in the outdoor mile (4:54) in 2006…Was a Nike All-American
each season…With Pope John Paul II, Jackie enjoyed a 2003 Florida 2A
team state championship…Other top finishes for Areson include a third-
14
place finish in the 800m during her senior campaign (2:14) and a fourthplace outcome in the 1600m in 2003 (5:08.26)…In 2000, she finished
13th in the 3000m at USATF Junior Olympics…Career bests include
2:12.25 for 800m, 4:46.67 for the mile, 10:33.00 for 3200m and 17:40
for 5000m…Academically, she was a four-year honor roll student and
a member of National Honor Society…PERSONAL: Jackie is majoring
in ecology and evolutionary biology…Would like to one day compete
in the Olympics and World Championships…Chose UT because of
the “relaxed, but hard working and disciplined, program”…She has
two brothers, William, 22, a student at Florida Atlantic University, and
James, 18…Jacqueline Ann “Jackie” Areson was born in Hong Kong
on March, 31, 1988…Her parents are Mary E. Areson and William H.
Areson.
ROLANDA BELL
5-5 * SENIOR
LAURELTON, N.Y.
SACRED HEART ACADEMY
2007: Ran in six meets for UT as a junior, scoring in three of them...
Would have scored in a fourth race, but she was given an unusual
disqualification at the NCAA South Regional as she and another runner
converged at the finish line...Ran fourth for the Big Orange at the
Bulldog Stampede, finishing 25th overall in a career-best 5K time of
19:35.36...Charted a pair of fifth-place team outings in 6K races at the
Brooks Paul Short Run and the Penn State National Invitational...Her
times were 22:41 and 23:21, respectively, good for 113th and 118th
positions...Wound up sixth for the Lady Vols at the SEC Championship
meet, crossing the line 54th in 22:56.21 for the 6K course...Made the
SEC Academic Honor Roll for the first time...2006: Appeared in five
meets as a sophomore for the Lady
Volunteers...Posted career bests at
4K, 5K and 6K during the course
of the season...Her best-ever 6K
clocking of 21:41.34 put her eighth
on the team and 36th out of 108
runners at the SEC Championships...
Competed in the open division at
the 6K Paul Short Run, finishing
16th out of 401 entries in a time
of 22:26...Ran sixth on the team
in the lid-lifting Belmont Opener,
placing 31st overall in a careerbest 15:09.79 over the 4K trail...
Had a then-5K personal record of
19:38 en route to 27th place at the
Tennessee Invitational...Was 48th
out of 226 competitors in the “White
Race” at the ISU Pre-National
Invitational in 22:25.1...Chosen as
the team’s alternate for the NCAA
South Regional and the NCAA
Championships...2005: Competed
in all seven meets as a rookie and
was team’s sixth finisher on five occasions…Charted career-best times
in four of those outings…Was 10th overall at the Tennessee Invitational
at Lambert Acres Golf Club, finishing in a time of 20:26 for 5K…Recorded
her second 6K personal best of the season at the SEC Championships
in Columbia, S.C., clocking in at 21:52.76 to wind up 51st…Bettered
her previous mark by over a minute…Had a 4K topper of 15:57.56 in
her first collegiate race at the Belmont Opener in Nashville to place
45th…Crossed the line 56th at the NCAA South Regional in Gainesville,
Fla., in 22:41.08 and was 243rd at the NCAA Championships in Terre
Haute, Ind., at 23:09.8...HIGH SCHOOL: Lettered four years in cross
country and indoor and outdoor track, serving as team captain during
her final campaign at Sacred Heart Academy…Four-time All-Long
Island selection in track & field from 2002-05 and three-time All-CHSAA
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(Catholic High School Athletic Association) choice over her final three
seasons…Named 2005 Sister Virginia Crowley Athlete of the Year at
Sacred Heart…Competed in both the Penn Relays and Milrose Games
in 2004 and 2005…Placed seventh in the mile run at Penn as a senior
in 5:01.12 behind victorious Lady Vol teammate Sarah Bowman…
Was eighth in Milrose Games high school girls’ mile at 5:02.92…Set
a CHSAA Intersectional meet record in the 1500 meters in 2005 at
4:37.67…Named the CHSAA MVP for indoor and outdoor track her final
two campaigns…Claimed fourth in the 1500 meters at 4:42.95 at the
2005 New York State Indoor Championships…Won the 2004 Colgate
Women’s Games 1500 meters at New York’s Madison Square Garden
in 4:49.60…Running for Awesome Power Track Club, Rolanda seized
victory in the young women’s division 1500 meters with a time of 4:38.22
at the 2004 USA Track & Field Junior Olympics in Eugene, Ore…Also
won the 1500m at the 2004 AAU Junior Olympics with a time of 4:42.22…
Fourth in the 2004 National Scholastic Indoor Championship in the mile
at 4:57.77…Prep cross country bests include 15:10 for 2.5 miles and
19:14 for 3.1 miles…Track & field prep bests included 2:16 indoors and
2:12 outdoors in the 800 meters, 2:58 indoors in the 1000 meters, 4:57
indoors in the mile, and 4:36 outdoors in the 1500 meters…Recipient of
the Hispanic Leaders of Tomorrow Award…Would like to one day run in
the Olympics for Panama…Extracurricular activities include tap dancing
and membership in Spanish Club, the gospel choir and prayer group...
PERSONAL: Rolanda is majoring in exercise science at the University
of Tennessee…Is interested in physical therapy as a possible course
of study and career…Activities outside competitive athletics include
playing tennis, tutoring and serving as a volunteer track official at meets
and as an altar server at her church…She has an older sister, AlanaPaige, 24…Rolanda Bell was born in Queens, N.Y., on Oct. 27, 1987…
Her parents are Rolando and Karen Bell.
SARAH BOWMAN
5-7 * SENIOR
WARRENTON, VA.
FAUQUIER H.S.
2007: Sarah emerged as the team’s lead runner as a junior, pacing the
squad in five of six races...Earned All-SEC acclaim for the third time and
All-South Region kudos for the second occasion in her career...Carded her
best-ever SEC finish when she crossed the line fourth out of 99 runners
in 20:58.13 for 6K...The only race she did not set the tone for her team
was the NCAA South Regional, where she ran second and placed 14th
overall in 21:12.19...It was still the best regional outcome of her career...
Claimed her second victory in three seasons at the Belmont Opener in a
4K personal-record time of 14:00.58...Came in second overall and was
the top collegiate finisher at the 5K Bulldog Stampede, covering that
length in a PR of 17:37.45...Earned SEC Athlete of the Week honors
after both of those efforts...Came in fifth out of 198 runners (21:07)
and ninth of 317 (20:51), respectively, at the Brooks Paul Short Run
and Penn State National Invitational...Named Lady Vol Cross Country
Team MVP at the squad’s banquet in January...Once again thrived in
the classroom...She earned second-team ESPN The Magazine Track
& Field/Cross Country Academic All-America, USTFCAAA All-Academic
for cross country and track & field and USTFCCCA and SEC Scholar
Athlete of the Year for track & field...Additionally, she was first-team ESPN
The Magazine Track & Field/Cross Country Academic All-District IV and
once again made the SEC Academic Honor Roll...2006: Sarah stepped
up her game as a sophomore, securing both All-South Region and AllSoutheastern Conference acclaim and leading UT to the finish line in
two of the last three meets of the season...Posted her second-straight
top-10 effort at the SEC Championships, placing seventh in 20:23.09 as
UT’s best finisher to garner all-league honors...Added all-region kudos
under her belt at the next meet, running fourth for Tennessee and 23rd
overall in 22:06.4 at the NCAA South meet at Lambert Acres Golf Club in
Maryville...Led the Big Orange to the tape at the NCAA Championships,
checking in 97th out of 255 runners in 22:08.1...As Tennessee’s second
finisher, she came in 34th of 253 runners in the “White Race” at the ISU
Pre-National Invitational with a readout of 20:55.9...Placed third for the
home team and fifth overall in 18:27 at the 5K Tennessee Invitational...
Ran fourth for the Big Orange and wound up 34th out of 237 entrants in
21:37 at the 6K Paul Short Run...Rewarded for her academic pursuits,
she was a second-team member of the ESPN The Magazine All-District
IV Academic Track & Field and Cross Country Team...Also made the SEC
Academic Honor Roll as well as the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team for
track & field...2005: As expected, Sarah made an immediate impact
to the program, earning All-SEC honors during her rookie campaign…
Opened her career by winning her first two races, becoming the first
Tennessee freshman harrier since Lynn Lashley in 1976 to accomplish
that feat…Won the 4K Belmont Opener in Nashville with a career-best
14:09.82 and came back two weekends later to capture the title at the
5K Tennessee Invitational in a personal-best 17:50…That clocking was
the fourth-fastest 5K hitch ever recorded by a Lady Vol on the Lambert
Acres course…In her first race at 6K, she was UT’s number five scorer,
covering the distance in 22:11 at the Penn State National Invitational…
Stepped up her game significantly at the SEC Championships in
Columbia, S.C., running the 6K trail at Fort Jackson in a PR of 20:02.47
to wind up sixth and help the Lady Vols win their third straight conference
trophy…Was one of four Big Orange women to earn all-league acclaim
for her performance at that meet…Faltered a bit near the middle of
the 6K race at the NCAA South Regional in Gainesville, Fla., but she
rallied to score in fifth position and wound up 35th out of 171 runners in
22:12.22…Aided the UT cause as her squad won its fourth consecutive
region title…Also ran fifth for Team Orange at the NCAA Championships,
covering the acreage in Terre Haute, Ind., in 22:40.4 to finish 231st…
Academically, Sarah was named to the Thornton Academic and Student
Life Center Honor Roll...HIGH SCHOOL: Named to the All-USA Today
Track & Field Team from 2003 to 2005…Gatorade Female Track Athlete
of the Year in Virginia from 2003 to 2005…Washington Post Athlete of
the Season for 2004 and 2005 outdoor track…Member of the Post’s AllMet squad all four years for outdoor track and her final three campaigns
for indoor track…Also made the
newspaper’s cross country squad
in 2002…2005 Fauquier Times
Democrat and Fauquier Citizen
Athlete of the Year…Tallied 15
Virginia High School League Group
AA state championships during her
illustrious prep career…Victories
included cross country (2002), 800
meters outdoors (2003-05), 1000
meters indoors (2003-05), 1600
meters indoors (2003-04), 1600
meters outdoors (2002-2005), 3200
meters outdoors (2005) and 4x400meter relay outdoors (2004)…Won
the 800m, 1600m and 3200m and
finished third in the high jump (5-3)
to help Fauquier claim the Group
AA outdoor state championship in
2005…Top ranked prep woman
outdoors in the mile in 2005
(4:36.95), third in the 800 meters
(2:05.41) and third in the two-mile
run (10:19.61)…That mile time,
recorded en route to victory at the 2005 Nike Outdoor Nationals, is the
fastest ever run by a female at a high school-only competition…Indoors
in 2005, she was tops in the mile (4:46.79) and 1000 meters (2:43.40),
setting a national prep record in the latter…Was a member of the
2005 Pan Am Juniors and 2004 U.S. World Juniors Team in the 1500
meters…Major meet championships include the 2005 Pan Am Juniors
and 2005 USATF Junior Nationals 1500 meters, 2002, 2003 and 2005
Nike Indoor Classic mile run, 2004 and 2005 Penn Relays mile run,
2004 and 2005 Taco Bell Classic 800 meters, 2004 adidas Outdoor
Championships 800 meters, 2002 AAU Junior Olympics 1500 meters
and 2002 adidas Outdoor Championships freshman mile…Outdoor
personal bests include 2:04.94 in the 800 meters, which led the nation
in 2004, 4:17.61 in the 1500 meters, 4:41.17 in the 1600 meters (and
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2008 LADY VOL RETURNEES
a 4:35.35 converted from mile time), 4:36.95 in the mile and 10:16.03
in the 3200 meters…Her 4:17.61 1500m clocking at the 2005 Pan Am
Juniors was fourth all-time among U.S. prep women…Indoors, she
ran a U.S. prep-record 2:43.41 in the 1000 meters, hit 4:46.79 in the
mile and logged a 2:08.2 in the 800 meters...PERSONAL: Sarah has
chosen human resource management as a major…Also aspires to have
a professional career in track & field…Has two older siblings: Daniel,
26, and Rachel, 23…Sarah Michelle Bowman was born in Warrenton,
Va., on Oct. 15, 1986...Her parents are Gary and Gail Bowman.
ALYSSA BRYANT
5-7 * JUNIOR
ANDERSONVILLE, TENN.
ANDERSON COUNTY H.S.
2007: Did not compete in any meets in her second year as a Lady
Vol...2006: Alyssa did not see action in any meets in her first season at
Tennessee...HIGH SCHOOL: A three-sport athlete at Anderson County
High School, she competed in basketball, soccer and track…A fouryear letterwinner and two-time team captain on the oval, Alyssa was an
all-state performer in 2005 and 2006…Named to the Knoxville News
Sentinel Prep Xtra Team as an 800m runner as a senior after claiming
both a state and sectional championship in that event…Won section
titles in the 400m in her first three years at ACHS…Ran on victorious
sectional relays in 2004 (4x200m) and 2005 (4x400m)…Career bests
include 57 seconds for the 400m and 2:19 for the 800m…Owns school
records in the 200m, 400m and
800m and with the 4x100m, 4x200m
and 4x400m relays…Helped Mavs
win sectional track & field titles all
four years and regional crowns her
final two seasons…Aided soccer
program to district championships in
2002 and 2003…Earned all-district
in basketball as a junior…Was a
member of Fellowship of Christian
Athletes and Leo Club at her school…
PERSONAL: Alyssa is enrolled in
the College of Arts & Sciences…Was
a Tennessee Stars AAU basketball
teammate of Lady Vol basketball
player Cait McMahan…Admires
former hoops legend “Pistol” Pete
Maravich…Enjoys being on Norris
Lake and spending time with friends
and family…An only child, Alyssa Jo
Bryant was born on Jan. 5, 1988…
Her parents are Tony and Sherry
Bryant.
KIMARRA McDONALD
5-9 * SENIOR
LUMBERTON, N.J.
RANCOCAS VALLEY REG. H.S.
2007: Made one meet appearance as a junior...Was on the trip to
Nashville for the Belmont Opener, where she was UT’s seventh runner
and placed 63rd overall in 16:56.14 on the 4K course...For the second
straight season, she made the SEC Academic Honor Roll...2006: Saw
action in two meets as a sophomore as she trained for the track &
field season...Placed 53rd of 114 runners at the 4K Belmont Opener in
Nashville with a 16:09.62 readout...Logged a 22:46 effort to place 61st
16
at the 5K Tennessee Invitational...
Did not compete in a meet the
rest of the season...Fared well
academically, earning a spot on the
SEC Academic Honor Roll...2005:
Competed in Tennessee’s first
five meets during her rookie
season…Began her collegiate
career by running seventh on the
team and 74th overall in a careerbest 17:00.14 at the 4K Belmont
Opener…Was the Big Orange’s
seventh finisher and was 12th overall
at the 5K Tennessee Invitational in
a personal-record 21:04…Ran in
the open division of the Paul Short
Run in Bethlehem, Pa., covering
the 6K layout in 24:51.9 to place
158th…Notched a pair of eighthplace finishes among UT runners at
the Penn State National Invitational
and SEC Championships, coming
in 274th at 26:30 and 98th at
24:37.78, respectively…Her time
at the conference meet was a PR…Named to the Thornton Academic
and Student Life Center Honor Roll for her prowess in the classroom...
HIGH SCHOOL: Raced to New Jersey indoor state championship at
800 meters in 2004, becoming the first female athlete from Rancocas
Valley to win an indoor state title since former Lady Vol Tonya Lee did so
for RVRHS in the 400 meters and high jump in 1987…Competing in the
Keystone State during her first two years of high school, Kimarra earned
all-state honors in 2003 after finishing third in the 800 meters outdoors
at the Pennsylvania state meet while representing Merion Mercy High
School…Was the runner-up at the Pennsylvania indoor state meet in
2002…Finished eighth at the 2002 National Scholastic Indoor track
meet…Won Colgate Women’s Games 800 meters in 2005 and 2002 and
placed second in 2003 and fourth in 2004…Ran for United Stars Track
Club, winning the 800 meters at the Simplot Games in 2003 and finishing
sixth in 2004 and seventh in 2005…Authored school records in the 400,
800 and 1000 meters, the mile and indoor sprint medley relay…Career
bests include 2:10.87 for 800 meters, 4:56 for 1500 meters indoors and
5:20 for the indoor mile...PERSONAL: Kimarra is majoring in exercise
science…Is considering a career as a pediatrician…Has one sibling:
Jarrytt McDonald, 17…Admires former Lady Vol great Joetta Clark…
Enjoys reading, traveling and shopping…Kimarra Danielle McDonald
was born in Newark, N.J., on Aug. 14, 1987…Her parents are Rodney
and Lisa McDonald.
BRITTANY SHEFFEY
5-5 * SOPHOMORE
BELLPORT, N.Y.
BELLPORT H.S.
2007: Scored in all six meets as a rookie and received the team’s
Freshman of the Year award...Filled the No. 4 spot for UT at both the
SEC Championships and the NCAA South Regional...Wound up 28th at
the SEC meet in a career-best 6K time of 21:46.03...Placed 33rd at the
South Regional in 22:01.87...Ran third for Team Orange at the 5K Bulldog
Stampede and 6K Brooks Paul Short Run, placing 15th (18:36.65) and
66th (22:03), respectively, with a PR at the Paul Short meet...Began her
collegiate career by scoring in fourth position and placing 16th overall in
15:07.33 at the Belmont Opener...Also ran fourth and took 28th overall
at the 6K Penn State National Invitational in 21:46.03...HIGH SCHOOL:
Competed in cross country and track & field on the varsity level since
seventh grade, helping her school win conference championships from
2002 to 2006, county track & field championships indoors and outdoor in
2004 and 2005 and a cross country county title in 2004...In cross country,
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Brittany was a three-time all-state
selection and was named Suffolk
County Outstanding Athlete in 2004
and 2005...Lists her 5K career best
on the trails as 17:35.8...On the oval,
she was an All-American indoors in
2006 and earned all-state acclaim
as the state champion in both the
1000m (2006) and 1500m (2005)
runs...Was chosen Suffolk County
Outstanding Athlete in each of those
two seasons...Outdoors, Brittany
was all-state in 2004 after winning a
state title in the 800m and in 2005
after claiming the state crown in the
1500m...She was chosen Suffolk
County Outstanding Athlete on each
of those occasions...Took second in
2007 at the state indoor meet, running
2:55.07 in the 1000m...Ranked fourth
on Track & Field News’ indoor prep
list in the 800m at 2:10.77...Placed
fifth in the 1500m at 2007 state
outdoor meet in 4:40.05...Was ninth
in the 800m at the 2007 Nike Outdoor Nationals in 2:09.15...Bests on
the track include 2:09.01 for 800m, 2:49.48 for 1000m (Suffolk County
and national sophomore record), 4:26.13 for 1500m (Suffolk County
record) and 4:50.10 for the mile (Suffolk County indoor record)...Made
the high honor roll at BHS...Was a member of National Senior Honor
Society, National Science Honor Society and Athletes Helping Others...
PERSONAL: Brittany is enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences at the
University of Tennessee...Is considering political science as a major and
is interested in becoming a lawyer...Her uncle is Justin Gatlin, a former
NCAA champion at Tennessee and U.S. Olympian...Lists the inspiring
hockey movie “Miracle” as an influence in her sports career...Cites U.S.
Olympic distance standout Shalane Flanagan as an athlete she models
herself after...Plays the violin...Has five siblings: Paxton, 28; William,
16; Angel, 12; Patricia, 10; and Yahannah, 8...Brittany Sheffey was born
in Hempstead, N.Y., on Dec. 18, 1988...Her parents are William and
Patricia Sheffey.
LEAH SORO
5-4 * SENIOR
KNOXVILLE, TENN.
WEST H.S.
2007: Leah did not compete during her junior campaign...She did fare well
in the classroom, though, earning SEC Academic Honor Roll recognition
for the second time...2006: Leah battled some nagging injuries early in
the year before appearing in the last four meets of the season...The
best performance was a gutsy effort at the SEC Championships, where
she scored in the fifth position for the Lady Vols by taking 21st in a
season-best time of 21:06.05 on the 6K course in Baton Rouge, La....
Her first appearance of the campaign, she ran in the “Open Race” at the
6K ISU Pre-National Invitational and came away with an eighth-place
outcome in 21:45.0...Reported in sixth for UT and 238th overall at the
NCAA Championships in 24:00.9...Was 43rd of 155 entries and UT’s
seventh runner at the NCAA South Regional in 22:38.6...Off the course,
she was a member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll...2005: With only
one season of high school distance running under her belt, Leah proved
to be a very pleasant surprise as a freshman for UT Head Coach J.J.
Clark…Earned both All-SEC and NCAA All-South Region accolades as
a rookie…Wasted little time demonstrating her talents, as she was UT’s
second finisher and was third overall in a career-best 14:28.92 at the
4K Belmont Opener…In the Lady Vols’ home opener, the Tennessee
Invitational, she was third again and was the third Big Orange scorer
in a 5K personal-record 18:21 as UT claimed victory…Ran second
for the squad and was 21st overall
in her first 6K foray, checking in
with a time of 21:10.5 at the Paul
Short Run in Bethlehem, Pa….Was
team’s No. 3 scorer and was 26th
overall in 21:40 at the 6K Penn State
National Invitational…Contributed to
Tennessee winning its third-straight
SEC trophy by placing 11th overall
and running fourth on the squad in
a 6K career-best 20:20.22 at the
league meet in Columbia, S.C….
Was one of four Lady Vols to earn
All-SEC acclaim…Elevated her
game and was UT’s number-two
finisher, taking ninth out of 171
entrants in 21:01.54 at the NCAA
South Regional…Earned All-South
distinction for that performance…
Closed out her first season in orange
by running fourth for Tennessee and
placing 199th in a time of 22:04.9
at the NCAA Championships…Also
excelling in the classroom, she was
a member of the Thornton Academic and Student Life Center Honor
Roll...HIGH SCHOOL: Attended Knoxville’s Catholic High School as a
freshman and sophomore before completing her final two years and
graduating from West High…Began her prep track career as a sprinter,
running 100, 200 and 400 meters…Was on Irish 4x100-meter relay that
placed eighth at state in her freshman season…Helped that relay take
sixth the next year…When she transferred to WHS, however, coach
Sam Roberts converted her into a distance runner…Saw action in only
a junior varsity track meet as a junior before blossoming into the 2004
Prep Xtra Girls’ Cross Country Runner of the Year in Knoxville as a senior
in addition to being named the regional and Knoxville Interscholastic
League Runner of the Year…Helped the Rebels win KIL and regional
cross country titles that season, finishing first individually in each race…
Was unable to run in the state meet due to injury, but West still came
in fifth in the team standings…Logged a readout of 11:30.73 to win the
3200 meters at the 1-AAA sectional track & field meet in 2005…Charted
a fifth-place effort of 11:59.26 in the 3200m at the AAA state meet…
Career bests include 18:15 for three miles in cross country and 11:13 for
3200 meters, 5:21 for 1600 meters, 2:20 for 800 meters and 61 seconds
for 400 meters in track…Also played volleyball for two seasons and
swam one year during her high school career…Member of National
Honor Society, Young Life and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes at
WHS...PERSONAL: Leah is majoring in environmental and soil science
at UT…In her free time, she enjoys hiking, biking and reading...Her
father and uncle competed in track & field at the University of Memphis,
while her grandfather was a four-sport athlete during his college days
at Southwestern…Has an older sister, Holley, 23…Leah Denise Soro
was born in Knoxville, Tenn., on July 22, 1986…Her parents are Chris
and Anne Soro.
KATIE VAN HORN
5-6 * SENIOR
GLENDORA, N.J.
TRITON REG. H.S./RICHMOND
AT TENNESSEE: 2007: Consistently filled a role as one of the team’s
leaders, finishing second on the team on four occasions and running
first and third in her other two races...Now has scored for Tennessee in
12 of 13 career races...Picked up the first All-SEC nod of her career and
her second All-South Region award...For the second straight season,
she was UT’s top finisher at the NCAA South Regional, taking 11th in
21:06.48 over the 6K trail...Placed seventh at SECs and second on her
team, running the 6K course in 21:09.20 for the best league result of her
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2008 LADY VOL RETURNEES
college career...Posted a 4K PR at
the Belmont Opener, grabbing thirdplace honors in 14:24.32 as the Big
Orange’s No. 2 runner...Was 11th
overall and second for UT at the 5K
Bulldog Stampede in 18:31.33...In
UT’s two middle of the season 6K
tests, she was her squad’s No. 2 and
No. 3 scorer, respectively, winding
up 16th at the Brooks Paul Short
Run in 21:03 and 17th at the Penn
State National Invitational in 21:36...
Collected the squad’s Most Improved
award at the team banquet...Named
to the USTFCCCA All-Academic
Team and SEC Academic Honor
Roll for the second consecutive
season...2006: Began the year as
a candidate to fill the number four
or five positions in the lineup and
wound up among the team’s leading
runners in the final two meets of the
season...Ascended to head of the UT
pack at the NCAA South Regional,
earning all-region accolades alongside three of her teammates for an
eighth-place showing of 21:33.0...Was the squad’s second scorer at
the NCAA Championships, completing the course in 22:14.6 to finish
113th...Missed making All-SEC by only two spots, as she ran fourth on
the team and 16th overall in a 6K career-best of 20:43.71 at the SEC
Championships...Was Tennessee’s third scorer, crossing the line 21st
in 21:24 at the 6K Paul Short Run...Held down the four slot at the ISU
Pre-National Invitational, finishing 86th overall in 21:36.2...Made her
UT cross country debut in Nashville at the Belmont Opener, filling the
fifth scoring position and winding up 29th overall in 15:08.48...At the
Tennessee Invitational in week two, she was the Lady Vols’ sixth finisher
and grabbed 10th place overall in 18:51...Also excelled in the classroom,
earning a spot on the SEC Academic Honor Roll and the USTFCCCA
All-Academic Team...SPRING 2006: Katie transferred to Tennessee in
January 2006 from the University of Richmond and competed in three
track & field meets indoors and four outdoors…Established career
bests indoors in the mile and 3000 meters and outdoors from 800 to
5000 meters...AT RICHMOND: FALL 2005: Katie was an All-Atlantic
10 selection in cross country during the fall and collected A-10 Rookie
of the Week honors three times…Placed eighth individually at the A-10
meet with a time of 18:26.7 over 5,000 meters…Her effort helped the
Spiders finish third as a team…Notched a 28th-place result at the NCAA
Southeast Regional, just missing all-region accolades with a 21:14.7
readout for 6K…Was 44th out of 299 runners earlier in the year at the
Arkansas-hosted Chile Pepper Festival, covering 6K in 22:07.2...HIGH
SCHOOL: Was an all-state performer in cross country and track & field
at Triton Regional High School in Runnemede, N.J….Won the 2005
New Jersey Group IV title in the 3200 meters with a career-best time of
10:40…Also claimed a 3200m crown at the 2005 Meet of Champions
with a readout of 10:44…Took second in the group meet in the 1600m in
a personal-record 4:59…Placed seventh in the 3000 meters in the 2005
Penn Relays, covering the distance in 10:08…Her 3K time ranked her
seventh nationally among prep seniors, while her 3200m performance
placed her ninth among high school seniors…Was 12th in 19:00 at the
Cross Country Meet of Champions…Graduated in the top 10 percent
of her class and was a member of National Honor Society, Key Club,
Interact and Student Council…PERSONAL: Katie is majoring in
statistics…She enjoys bicycling, skiing, traveling and playing soccer…
Has two siblings: Alicia, 26, and Brett, 24…Catherine Janel Van Horn
was born in Abington, Pa., on Nov. 21, 1986.
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PHOEBE WRIGHT
5-7 * JUNIOR
SIGNAL MOUNTAIN, TENN.
RED BANK H.S.
2007: Competed in all six meets as a sophomore, scoring in three of them
and recording career bests at 4K, 5K and 6K...Was Tennessee’s fifth
scorer at the NCAA South Regional
meet, placing 87th in 23:57.91...
Recorded PRs in the first two
meets...Ran 4K best at the Belmont
Opener, winding up fifth on the team
and 28th overall in 15:31.71...Came
back two weeks later to chart a 5K
topper at the Bulldog Stampede,
covering the acreage in 19:51.69 to
wind up fifth on the squad and 29th
overall...Notched her 6K career best
at the Brooks Paul Short Run, where
she finished 137th overall and sixth
on the squad in 22:55...Was sixth
for UT and 120th overall at the Penn
State National Invitational in 23:23...
In SEC action, she was seventh
on the team and 60th overall in
23:04.17...Her work in the classroom
was recognized, as she was a
second-team ESPN The Magazine
Academic All-District IV selection
and a member of the SEC Academic
Honor Roll for the second time...
Recipient of team’s Scholar-Athlete Award...2006: Joined the team as a
walk-on...Participated in five cross country meets for the Lady Vols as a
rookie...Her debut came at the Belmont Opener in Nashville, where she
logged a 44th-place finish as Tennessee’s seventh runner in 15:37.65...
Career best for 6K came at the Paul Short Run in Bethlehem, Pa., where
she finished 39th out of 401 runners in the “Open” race with a readout
of 23:03...Her 5K best of 20:13 came at the Tennessee Invitational,
where she was 35th overall and ninth on the team...Competed in the
SEC Championships, finishing 10th on the squad and 93rd overall
in 23:57.33...Earned a spot on the SEC Academic Honor Roll for her
efforts in the classroom...HIGH SCHOOL: Phoebe was a four-year
letterwinner and three-time team captain for both the cross country and
track & field teams at Red Bank...Made three appearances at the state
championships with each of those squads and helped RBHS win a region
track title in 2006...Carded a 12th-place finish at the 2005 TSSAA Cross
Country Championships to garner all-state honors...Competed at the
2005 Foot Locker Cross Country South Regional, placing 98th…On the
oval, she finished sixth, fourth and fifth in the 800 meters, respectively,
at the state meet in her final three years of high school...Likewise helped
the Lions finish eighth, seventh and sixth, respectively, in the 4x400m
relay at state...Had a fourth-place state outcome in the 1600 meters as a
junior...Won the 800m and 1600m at the 2005 Volunteer Track Classic at
UT’s Tom Black Track, earning the Best Distance Female Award...Holds
Optimist Meet 800m record with a 2:17 and Best of Preps record with
a 5:15 1600m...Personal bests include 2:15.95 in the 800m and 5:15 in
the 1600m...Graduated fifth in her class at RBHS...Received the Athlete
Scholar Award and the Mrs. Hysinger Math Award...Was a member of
the BETA Club and National Honor Society and served as features editor
for her school newspaper...In addition to her athletic pursuits, Phoebe
planned the Red Bank Fun Run to raise money for the cross country
and track & field teams...PERSONAL: Phoebe is majoring in ecology
and evolutionary biology..Enjoys hiking, swimming and camping...Her
mother graduated from law school at UT...Has a younger sister, Chloe,
nine...Phoebe Elizabeth Wright was born in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Aug.
30, 1988...Her parents are David and Lucy Wright.
2008 LADY VOL NEWCOMERS
ALLY COLVIN
ELIZABETH ALTIZER
5-8 * FRESHMAN
MARYVILLE, TENN.
MARYVILLE H.S.
5-10 * FRESHMAN
BARTLETT, TENN.
ST. BENEDICT AT AUBURNDALE H.S.
HIGH SCHOOL: Competed three seasons in cross country and four in
track & field for St. Benedict at Auburndale High School...Named both
cross country and track’s Most Valuable Runner and Scholar-Athlete
recipient in her final three seasons...Was track & field’s Rookie of the
Year and Scholar-Athlete award recipient as a freshman...Was regional
cross country champion in 2005 and finished second in 2006 and 2007
and finished fourth, fifth and third, respectively, at the state cross country
meet in her final three seasons at St. Benedict after participating on the
dance team as a freshman...Won the Shelby County title in her first
career cross country race...Nine-time region champion on the oval and
scored 12 times at the state track & field meet, finishing fourth in the
800m, 1600m and 3200m and third in the 4x800m relay as a senior...
Helped St. Benedict to the school’s first-ever regional track & field titles
in 2007 and 2008...Career bests include 19:10 for three miles in 2005
and 19:27 for 5000 meters in 2007 for cross country...Track personal
records include 2:18.35 for 800m, 4:56.98 for 1500m, 5:08.20 for
1600m and 11:32.95 for 3200m...Holds school records at 800m and
1600m and with 4x400m and 4x800m relay teams...Also a member of
National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, Photography Club, French
Club, Latin Club, Junior Classical League, Teens For Life, Make-AWish and student government...PERSONAL: Elizabeth is enrolled in
the College of Arts & Sciences at UT...She is interested in biology as a
major...Enjoys photography, ceramics and attending religious retreats
in her free time...Has one sister, Mary Katherine, 13...Elizabeth Anna
Altizer was born in Memphis, Tenn., on June 14, 1990...Her parents are
Captain Philip and Lisa Altizer.
HIGH SCHOOL: Ran cross country and track four years at Maryville High
School and also participated in basketball for part of her prep career...
Earned all-region acclaim in cross country as a freshman, sophomore
and senior...Was the Blount County champion as a freshman...Collected
all-region accolades in track her final three seasons and was named
Blount County Best Female Distance Runner her final two years...
Garnered all-state honors in the 800 meters and 4x400m relay as a
senior, finishing third and second, respectively...Contributed to MHS
finishing third at the 2008 Class AAA state meet...Owns school records
in the 800m, 1600m, 3200m, 4x400m relay and 4x800m relay...Career
bests include 2:19 for 800m, 5:13.5 for 1600m and 11:38 for 3200m...
Member of National Honor Society and active with Maryville Singers
and church youth group...PERSONAL: Ally is enrolled in the College of
Arts & Sciences...Is interested in a career as a sports nutritionist...In her
spare time, she enjoys playing ultimate frisbee or basketball, swimming
and hanging out with friends...Joins the track & field program at UT
along with fellow Maryville High School product Ellen Wortham...Says it
had always been a dream of hers to be a Lady Volunteer...Comes from
a long line of Tennessee alums, including her grandmother, mother and
father...Has an older brother, Michael, 22...Alecia Nicole “Ally” Colvin
was born in Maryville, Tenn., on May 24, 1990...Her parents are Robert
Colvin Jr. and Susan Kelley.
TYLER BARNES
RAMZEE FONDREN
5-3 * SOPHOMORE
EWING, N.J.
EWING H.S.
AT TENNESSEE: 2007-08: Did not compete in cross country last
season but ran for the track team...Saw action in three meets indoors
and three outdoors as well...Named to SEC Freshman Academic Honor
Roll...HIGH SCHOOL: Competed in track & field for four years and
served as captain twice at Ewing High School, earning second-team
all-county honors as a senior in the 800 meters...Also ran cross country
three years and played soccer for one season...Was her school’s
Senior Track & Field and Cross Country Athlete of the Year in 2007 and
received the Cross Country Outstanding Senior Award that season as
well...Earned All-America honors in the sprint medley relay at 2005 Nike
Indoor Nationals and also competed at that meet in 2006...Took part in
the 2007 Nike Outdoor Nationals and traveled with EHS to run in the
prestigious Penn Relays in Philadelphia, Pa., all four years...Additionally,
she competed for the Trenton (N.J.) Track Club...Her prep career bests
include 2:20 for 800 meters, 58.8 for 400 meters and 20:41 for 5K in
cross country...Participated in both marching and concert bands at EHS
and was involved in Peer Leadership...Was a member of National Honor
Society and earned the school’s Scholar-Athlete Award...PERSONAL:
Tyler is enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences...Is interested in
majoring in history, minoring in secondary education and becoming
a high school history teacher...Enjoys photography and playing tenor
saxophone...Has played that instrument for nine years...Models herself
after Wilma Rudolph...She has five siblings, including Tiara Bolden, 29;
Tiana Barnes, 28; Taylor Barnes, 16; Traevon Harmon, 14; and Brandon
Davis, 21...Tyler Chanel Barnes was born in Trenton, N.J., on Jan. 20,
1989...Her parents are Jimmy Barnes and the late Tracey Barnes.
5-7 * FRESHMAN
DETROIT, MICH.
DETROIT RENAISSANCE H.S.
HIGH SCHOOL: Ran cross country and track at Detroit Renaissance all
four years of her prep career...Won four straight city cross country titles...
Three-time 800m Michigan Division 2 state champion and a 2007 winner
at 1600 meters after finishing second in 2006...Set state meet record in
800m as a sophomore and junior, improving the mark to 2:11.08...Won
1600m her junior year in 4:58.23...Did not run either event as a senior
while recovering from a leg injury...Three-time Nike Indoor All-American
from 2004-05 to 2006-07, finishing third in the 800m in 2007 and taking
sixth in 2005 and 10th in 2006...USATF Outdoor All-American in 2007...
Helped Renaissance win state track & field titles in 2006 and 2007 and
ran on 2004 city and regional cross country title squad...Also competed
for the Cheetah and Motor City Track Clubs...Career bests include
2:06.8 for 800m, 4:58.23 for 1600m, 55.0 for 400m, 4:38 for 1500m
and 18:36 for 5K in cross country...Ran her top half-mile clocking in the
prelims of the 2007 USA Junior Championships before logging a 2:08.64
readout to wind up seventh...Was active in choir at DRHS...PERSONAL:
Ramzee is enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University
of Tennessee...She is interested in pursuing study in the areas of
Spanish and education...Is considering a career as a translator...Chose
UT because she was impressed with the surroundings, the coaching
staff, the team and the academic counselors when she made her visit
to Knoxville...Credits her father, a track & field coach, with exposing her
to the sport...Has three siblings: August, 22; Shareef (a.k.a. Zeus), 19;
and Malcolm, eight...Ramzee Victoria Lyn Ramzee was born in Detroit,
Mich., on March 24, 1990...Her parents are Ben and Jaki Fondren.
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2008 LADY VOL NEWCOMERS
CHELSEA KNOTTS
CHARITY HONEYCUTT
5-5 * FRESHMAN
RIPLEY, W.VA.
RIPLEY H.S.
6-0 * FRESHMAN
BURNSVILLE, N.C.
MOUNTAIN HERITAGE H.S.
HIGH SCHOOL: Ran track four seasons and participated in cross
country and basketball three years at Mountain Heritage High School...
Served as team captain two seasons each for all three squads...Was
a four-time all-conference honoree in track and claimed four regional
titles in the 800 meters...Named MVP of the track team all four seasons
and in cross country all three years she ran...Holds five school records
and was a four-year state qualifier...Was 2008 runner-up in the 800m at
the North Carolina 2A state meet and placed third in 2005 and 2007...
Personal records include 2:23.10 for 800m and 59.09 for 400m...Named
all-conference in basketball in 2007 and 2008 and was chosen as team
MVP on each occasion...Helped the hoops squad win conference
tourney and sectional titles in 2006 with a 25-6 record...Earned academic
all-conference accolades her final three years at MHHS...Served as
president of National Honor Society and vice president of Skills USA
and was active in Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)...Also a
member of National Technical Honor Society and named a North Carolina
Scholar...PERSONAL: Enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences...Is
interested in pursuing a degree in business...Her maternal grandmother
graduated from UT...Charity enjoys hiking in her spare time as well as
taking her dog on walks to the river...Charity Dawnanne Honeycutt was
born in Spruce Pine, N.C., on Feb. 18, 1990...Her parents are Danny
and Rebecca Honeycutt.
KELSEY KANE
HIGH SCHOOL: Ran cross country and track all four seasons at Ripley
High School...Captained the squads in two of those years...Was a
cheerleader for two seasons...Finished 20th at the West Virginia State
AAA Cross Country Championships as a freshman, covering the 5,000meter distance in a personal record of 20:15...Qualified for the state
track & field championships in her first three seasons...Placed fourth as
a freshman in 2:21.24...Came in ninth in that event in 2006 and eighth
in 2007...Also finished third at the state meet as a freshman in the 400
meters in 59.79...Competed at the club level with the AAU Capital City
Striders...Her travels with that organization took her to USATF/AAU
Nationals in Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Oregon and Tennessee...
Posted a finish of fifth in the 800 meters at the 2004 USATF/AAU
National Championships and placed seventh in 2003 and 2005...Career
best times include 2:16 for 800 meters, 59.1 for 400 meters and 5:30 for
1600 meters...PERSONAL: Enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences...
Is interested in exercise science and a pre-med course of study...
Came to UT in the inaugural 15-member class of Haslam Scholars, a
premier honors program aimed at attracting the nation’s top students to
campus...She joins teammate Elizabeth Tiller in that esteemed group...
Her hobbies include biking, dancing, going to movies, listening to music,
reading, photography...Enjoys volunteering with Special Olympics and
loves animals...Has a younger brother, Bradley, 12...Chelsea Marie
Knotts was born in Morgantown, W.Va., on Jan. 6, 1990...Her parents
are Stephen and Melinda Knotts.
JENÁ MURPHY
5-5 * FRESHMAN
KNOXVILLE, TENN.
WEST H.S.
5-5 * JUNIOR
MEMPHIS, TENN.
GERMANTOWN H.S.
HIGH SCHOOL: Ran track four years and cross country for three at
Knoxville’s West High School...Also had brief stints on the dance and
soccer teams there...Helped the Rebels claim state track & field team
titles in 2006 and 2008...Earned all-state accolades all four seasons on
the oval and her final three years in cross country...Posted Class AAA
state cross country finishes of eighth as a senior, 10th as a junior and
fifth as a sophomore...Charted a 5K PR of 18:57 in finishing 72nd at
the 2007 Foot Locker South Regional Cross Country Championships
in Charlotte, N.C....Was all-state in track in the 800m, mile, 3200m and
4x800m relay in each of her final three seasons...Named Knoxville
Interscholastic League Outstanding Distance Runner in April 2008 after
claiming victory in both the 1600m and 3200m...PRs include 18:57
for 5K and 19:25.52 for three miles in cross country, and 5:10.15 for
1600m, 5:15.63 for the mile, 11:20.36 for 3200m and 2:21.37 for 800m
on the oval...PERSONAL: Enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences...
Is considering communications or exercise science as a major...Enjoys
being outdoors, going to the lake and traveling...Will join former West
standout Leah Soro on the UT squad...Has been around athletics her
entire life...Mother is a Lady Vol Hall of Famer, TV personality, 1984
U.S. Olympian middle distance runner and the coach of UT’s 1990 SEC
Cross Country Championship team during Kelsey’s first year of life...
Father is a UT professor and a former UT men’s volunteer assistant
who coached 2004 U.S. Olympic gold medalist Tim Mack among a host
of others...Has one sibling: Gracie Bemiller, seven...Kelsey Catherine
Kane was born in Knoxville, Tenn., on Aug. 17, 1990...Her parents are
Missy (Alston) Kane Bemiller and Jim Bemiller.
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AT TENNESSEE: 2007-08: Did not compete in cross country a year
ago, but she joined the track & field team and worked toward becoming
a heptathlete...Saw action both indoors and out during the 2008
campaign...Her first foray in the heptathlon resulted in a 13th-place
score of 4,186 at the SEC Outdoor Championships...Also competed in
the open 100m hurdles at the SEC meet but did not advance out of the
prelims...Took care of business in the classroom, earning a spectacular
4.00 grade point average...HIGH SCHOOL: Participated in track,
soccer, volleyball and cheerleading during her high school days...Had a
career best of 15.37 seconds in the 100-meter hurdles to finish in fourth
place at the 2006 TSSAA Class AAA Section 4 meet...Placed ninth at
the 2006 TSSAA AAA State Championship Meet in the 100m hurdles,
charting a time of 15.77 against a 2.5 meters per second headwind...A
member of National Honor Society and the Beta Club at Germantown
High School...Was president of the 56th Kappa Alpha Psi Debutante
Presentation and was involved with Gamma Sigma Sigma, Phi Eta
Sigma and National Society of Collegiate Scholars...PERSONAL: Jená
is enrolled in the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences...
Recipient of the African American Image Award while at UT...She is
interested in pursuing a degree in exercise science with a minor in
business...Aspires to open her own fitness complex and expand to
multiple sites around the country...Models herself after Jackie Joyner
Kersee and lists her parents as the people she most admires...Has one
sibling, Justina Murphy, 21...Jená Emily Murphy was born in Mississippi
on March 19, 1988...Her parents are Ursula Thomas and Jim Thomas.
2008 LADY VOL NEWCOMERS
CHANELLE PRICE
KIM WHITE
5-6 * FRESHMAN
EASTON, PA.
EASTON AREA H.S.
LIK
HIGH SCHOOL: Mentioned with the likes of Joetta Clark, Kim Gallagher
and Mary Decker as one of the finest middle distance runners ever
to come out of the U.S. prep ranks...Named 2008 Gatorade National
Female Athlete of the Year and was recognized for that honor at the
ESPYs...Also named the Gatorade Track & Field Athlete of the Year as
well as state winner for Pennsylvania...Ran a 2:01.61 personal record
in the 800 meters in June 2008 at the Prefontaine Classic in Oregon...
That mark was the second-fastest time in scholastic history, placed
her sixth against a world-class field and earned her an invitation to the
2008 U.S. Olympic Trials...Finished seventh at the 2007 U.S. Outdoor
Championships in 2:02.38...Three-time Pennsylvania Class 3A state
champ in the 800 meters, setting a state meet record of 2:02.90 that
also shattered the National Federation of High Schools mark as well...
Two-time Nike Outdoor Nationals 800m champ, winning in 2007 with a
time of 2:02.76...Went on to finish seventh at 2007 IAAF World Juniors...
Three-time state medalist and all-state honoree in cross country...Twotime district champ on the trails...PRs include 54.55 outdoors and 55.32
indoors for 400m, 2:04.96 indoors for 800m, 4:50.65 indoors for the mile
and 2:45.76 indoors for 1000m...Made the high honor roll and graduated
in the top five percent of her class...Volunteered with Special Olympics...
PERSONAL: Enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences...Is interested
in pursuing a degree in communications...Lists publishing a women’s
sports magazine among her objectives...Has one brother, Domenique,
20...He plays football at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania...
Chanelle Pinease Price was born in Livingston, N.J., on Aug. 22, 1990...
Her parents are Harry and Yolanda Price.
5-5 * SOPHOMORE
MEMPHIS, TENN.
WHITE STATION H.S.
AT TENNESSEE: 2007-08: Was not on the cross country team a year
ago, but she did join the track & field team and compete during the
indoor and outdoor seasons...Runs 800 meters on the oval and assists
with relays...HIGH SCHOOL: Competed four years in track & field and
three years in basketball at White Station High School in Memphis...
Helped the Spartans win state, sectional and city titles during her
senior season...Was a sixth-place finisher in the long jump at the city
championships with a career-best leap of 17-9...Was a key member of
relay teams, helping WSHS win sectional titles in 2007 in the 4x100m
and 4x200m relays and take third in the 4x400m relay...Aided the 4x1 and
4x2 to victory at the city championships meet as well...Was a member
of White Station’s runner-up 4x1 unit and sixth-place 4x2 tandem at
the state championship meet in 2007...Awards included Team MVP
and Most Valuable Sprinter in 2005 and 2007, Team MVP in 2006 and
Best Athlete in 2005...Recognized for perfect attendance and was the
recipient of the Citizenship Award at WSHS...Was a member of the honor
roll and Mu Alpha Theta Mathematics Honor Society...Active in Ballroom
Dance Club and Child Advocacy Club...PERSONAL: Kim is enrolled
in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Tennessee...She
is interested in studying forensic anthropology...Admires former Lady
Vols DeeDee Trotter and Kelli White as well as U.S. Olympians Gail
Devers and Allyson Felix...Favorite leisure time activities include playing
basketball, dancing, watching sports and movies, drawing and listening
to music...Has one brother, Brandon, 22...Kimberly Essie White was
born in Memphis, Tenn., on March 16, 1989...Her parents are Vickie
White and Willie White.
ELIZABETH TILLER
5-7 * FRESHMAN
TUSCALOOSA, ALA.
AMERICAN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
HIGH SCHOOL: Five-year member of the cross country and track &
field teams at American Christian Academy...Earned all-state acclaim
in cross country in her final three seasons there...Finished fifth at the
1A-2A state meet in 2007...On the oval, she was a six-time 2A all-state
honoree, earning recognition her final three years with the 4x800meter relay team, her sophomore and junior years in the 3200m and
as a sophomore in the 1600m...The 4x8 won state titles in 2007 and
2008 and was runner-up in 2006, as was she in 2006 and 2007 in the
3200m...Finished third in the 1600m in 2006...Earned all-section team
status in the 1600m, 3200m and 4x800m relay her final three seasons
and in cross country in 2005 and 2007...Helped ACA sweep state cross
country and track & field team titles in 2007 and a snare a track crown
in 2008...Owns a 20:09 5K cross country PR...Named Miss ACA, the
highest award given by the school, and was a member of National
Honor Society, Forerunners, Tuscaloosa Belles and Scrapbook Club,
and graduated with honors from that institution...Among many others,
she earned the following academic awards: Excellence in Chemistry,
Excellence in Physics and Excellence in Spanish I, II, III...PERSONAL:
Enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences...Is considering a double
major in Spanish and public administration with a minor in Portuguese...
Came to UT in the inaugural 15-member class of Haslam Scholars, a
premier honors program aimed at attracting the nation’s top students to
campus...She joins teammate Chelsea Knotts in that esteemed group...
Also the recipient of the 2008 Peyton Manning Scholarship...Has one
brother, Eric, 15...Elizabeth Joyce Tiller was born in Northport, Ala., on
April 7, 1990...Her parents are Charles and Debbie Tiller.
The 2008 Lady Vol freshman class (L-R/front to back): Kelsey Kane,
Chelsea Knotts; Chanelle Price, Elizabeth Tiller, Ramzee Fondren; Charity
Honeycutt, Elizabeth Altizer and Ally Colvin.
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2008 SQUAD BREAKDOWN
LADY VOLS BY STATE
Alabama (1):
Florida (1):
Michigan (1):
New Jersey (3):
Elizabeth Tiller
Jackie Areson
Ramzee Fondren
Tyler Barnes, Kimarra McDonald, Katie
Van Horn
New York (2):
Rolanda Bell, Brittany Sheffey
North Carolina (1): Charity Honeycutt
Pennsylvania (1): Chanelle Price
Tennessee (8):
Elizabeth Altizer, Ally Colvin, Alyssa
Bryant, Kelsey Kane, Jená Murphy,
Leah Soro, Kim White, Phoebe Wright
Virginia (1):
Sarah Bowman
West Virginia (1): Chelsea Knotts
LADY VOLS BY HEIGHT
6-0:
5-10:
5-9:
5-7:
5-6:
5-5:
5-4:
5-3:
Charity Honeycutt
Elizabeth Altizer
Kimarra McDonald
Sarah Bowman, Alyssa Bryant, Ally
Colvin, Ramzee Fondren, Elizabeth
Tiller, Phoebe Wright
Chanelle Price, Katie Van Horn
Rolanda Bell, Kelsey Kane, Chelsea
Knotts, Jená Murphy, Brittany Sheffey,
Kim White
Jackie Areson, Leah Soro
Tyler Barnes
In his first six years at UT, Lady Vol Head Coach J.J. Clark has produced
a 622-181-1 record and his teams have tallied five NCAA Championship
appearances, four NCAA South Region titles and three SEC trophies.
LADY VOLS BY CLASS
Seniors (5):
Juniors (4):
Sophomore (3):
Freshmen (8):
Rolanda Bell, Sarah Bowman, Kimarra
McDonald, Leah Soro, Katie Van Horn
Jackie Areson, Alyssa Bryant, Jená
Murphy, Phoebe Wright
Tyler Barnes, Brittany Sheffey, Kim
White
Elizabeth Altizer, Ally Colvin, Ramzee
Fondren, Charity Honeycutt, Kelsey
Kane, Chelsea Knotts, Chanelle Price,
Elizabeth Tiller
LADY VOL BIRTHDAYS
As a sophomore, Phoebe Wright contributed to Tennessee’s team scoring
tally on three occasions, including here at the NCAA South Regional meet
in Gainesville, Fla.
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Aug. 14
Aug. 17
Aug. 22
Aug. 30
Oct. 15
Oct. 27
Nov. 21
Dec. 18
Jan. 5
Jan. 6
Jan. 20
Feb. 18
March 16
March 19
March 24
March 31
April 7
May 24
June 14
July 22
Kimarra McDonald
Kelsey Kane
Chanelle Price
Phoebe Wright
Sarah Bowman
Rolanda Bell
Katie Van Horn
Brittany Sheffey
Alyssa Bryant
Chelsea Knotts
Tyler Barnes
Charity Honeycutt
Kim White
Jená Murphy
Ramzee Fondren
Jackie Areson
Elizabeth Tiller
Ally Colvin
Elizabeth Altizer
Leah Soro
2007 SEASON IN REVIEW
IN THIS SECTION...
SEASON IN REVIEW ............... 24-25
INDIVIDUAL RESULTS ...................
...................25
25
MEET RESULTS .............................
.............................26
26
2007 TEAM PHOTO .....................
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26
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2007 SEASON IN REVIEW
"IN IT TOGETHER...FOR THE LONG RUN"
UT Head Coach J.J. Clark knows the path to excellence and achieving
one’s goals is not an easy one. That sort of journey comes with its ups and
downs, with obstacles that challenge even the most determined among us.
Such was the case for the 2007 Lady Vol cross country team.
Had the members of last year’s Big Orange squad not followed their
coach’s lead, they may have been overcome with frustration from a season
that provided lots of roadblocks to maneuver around along the way. Yet,
they did realize, through all the difficult times, that they do not face adversity
alone at Tennessee, and brighter days are always ahead. Through success
and struggle, triumph and disappointment, as Lady Vols, they are “In It
Together...For The Long Run.”
Just getting together as one unit in 2007 proved to be one of the most
difficult challenges. It wasn’t until the SEC meet that Clark was able to
assemble his top lineup. The call for others to step up in the absence of
teammates, however, will certainly pay dividends down the road.
It all began on a warm Aug. 31 evening in Nashville’s Percy Warner
Park, as the Lady Vols, chosen No. 26 in the United States Track & Field and
Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) rankings, popped the top
on their campaign for the third straight time at the Belmont Opener. And, for
the second occasion in three years, Sarah Bowman began her season with
a victory. The UT junior rolled to a career-best clocking of 14 minutes, 0.58
seconds on the 4,000-meter course to lead the Big Orange to the team title
after settling for runner-up honors the past two years. For her efforts, she
was named the SEC Runner of the Week.
Lending a hand for Clark’s crew and posting top-five finishes were junior
Katie Van Horn and sophomore Jackie Areson, who crossed the line third
and fifth in 14:24.32 and 14:33.73, respectively. They helped UT tally 53
points to hold off runner-up Vanderbilt (58) and 14 other squads.
Freshman Brittany Sheffey made her collegiate debut a memorable one,
scoring in fourth position and finishing 16th overall in 15:07.33. Sophomore
Phoebe Wright, meanwhile, contributed to the team cause for the first time
in her career by holding down the fifth point-producing slot and placing 28th
in 15:31.71. Also running but not scoring were juniors Rolanda Bell (39th,
16:03.23) and Kimarra McDonald (63rd, 16:56.14).
After the Tennessee Invitational on Sept. 14 was scaled back to a time
trial, Clark added the Sept. 22 Bulldog Stampede in Athens, Ga., to the
schedule to replace it and
traveled only five runners.
Bowman was sharp once
again, pacing No. 26
Tennessee to second-place
in the team race, finishing
as the top collegian and
placing second overall on
the 5K UGA Golf Course in
17:37.45.
The other Lady Vol
participants included Van
Horn (11th, 18:31.33),
Sheffey (15th, 18:36.65),
Bell (25th, 19:35.36) and
Wright (29th, 19:51.69).
For the second meet in a
row, Bowman was named
SEC Runner of the Week.
Road trip number
three saw Team Orange
make its fifth straight trek
to Bethlehem, Pa., to take
part in the 6K Paul Short
Run at Lehigh University’s
famed Goodman Campus
Course. UT, now No.
28 nationally, again was
paced by Bowman.
After coming in 34th
at the meet in 2006, the
third-year performer rose
to a ninth-place outcome After transferring from BYU, Heidi Magill-Dahl
a year later in 20:51. That was a difference-maker, earning All-SEC and
result enabled the Big All-South Region accolades.
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Orange to wind up eighth
out of 47 teams.
Also running a strong
race was Van Horn, who
covered the distance
in 21:03 to place 16th.
Sheffey (66th, 22:03),
Areson (77th, 22:15) and
Bell (113th, 22:41) were
the other three scorers,
while Wright was UT’s sixth
finisher and 137th overall
in 22:55.
Two weeks later,
Tennessee had slipped
out of the rankings, but
the squad followed suit by
placing eighth as it made
its fourth appearance at
the Penn State National
Invitational in the past six
seasons. Bowman once
again led the orange-tinted
charge, navigating the
PSU Golf Course trail in
21:07 to check in fifth.
Areson demonstrated
her growing confidence,
running second behind
Bowman and knocking
out a 13th-place output in
21:31. Van Horn wasn’t far
behind, hitting the finish Rolanda Bell made huge strides in 2007,
chute in 21:36 to clock scoring in three meets and nearly doing so at
the South Regional before misfortune struck.
in 17th. Sheffey and Bell
nailed down the four and
five positions by taking 60th in 22:23 and 103rd in 23:21, respectively, while
Wright just missed scoring with her 104th-place showing of 23:23.
Meet number five would bring the SEC Championship race, and Clark
finally would be able to send his projected lineup onto the course. Junior
Heidi Magill-Dahl, who had been unable to compete up to this point while
waiting to make sure all the necessary credits would transfer from her
previous school, BYU, finally had been cleared. Still, questions remained
about how well she would compete in her first race and how her presence
would affect team chemistry.
The former Cougar proved to be up to the task, finishing ninth overall
in 21:16.45 to garner All-SEC acclaim. Fortunately for Tennessee two Lady
Vols did even better en route to all-league honors. Bowman, posting her
highest ever conference result at fourth, handled the Kentucky Horse Park
course in 20:58.13 to collect her third All-SEC certificate. Van Horn wasn’t
far behind, traversing the trail in 21:09.20 to snag seventh and earn her first
All-SEC nod.
Sheffey and Areson, who began to experience injury trouble during the
race, rounded out the scoring five, finishing 28th in 21:46.03 and 38th in
22:01.58, respectively. Bell (54th, 22:56.21) and Wright (60th, 23:04.17) also
competed as unranked Tennessee (84) carded a second-place team finish
behind Arkansas (39) and one spot ahead of Georgia (85) that surprised
many of the league’s coaches.
“A lot of coaches congratulated me more for this finish than they did
the years when we won the meet,” Clark said. “I think we shocked a lot of
people, because we hadn’t been doing as well as we were expected to do
at the beginning of the season. It was our best performance of the year,
absolutely.
“We did insert Heidi, but everyone else stepped up also. Sarah ran
another good, solid race, Katie answered the bell and our freshman, Brittany
Sheffey, improved her time by a minute. It was very good to see the team
pull together like that. I was very proud of the effort they put forth.”
Coming off the program’s sixth consecutive top-three SEC effort and
a very satisfying performance, the UT camp should have been entering
the NCAA South Regional on a high note. Instead, the paper thin lineup,
which had recently become satisfactory with the addition of Magill-Dahl, took
2007 SEASON IN REVIEW
"IN IT TOGETHER...FOR THE LONG RUN"
another hit. It was revealed that Areson had a foot injury that would sideline
her for the rest of the cross country season and, as it turned out, the entire
track campaign.
With that thought weighing on his mind, Clark rallied the troops and they
soldiered on, heading to Gainesville, Fla., for the NCAA South Regional.
Now back in the rankings at No. 25 after their SEC performance, and with
a sixth-straight NCAA Championships appearance at stake, Tennessee’s
runners toed the starting line with a never-say-die attitude.
Van Horn, Bowman and Magill-Dahl did their part to put UT into position
for a national berth, crossing the finish line at the University of Florida Golf
Course in 11th (21:06.48), 14th (21:12.19) and 16th (21:15.36) places,
respectively. For those performances, all three were accorded All-South
Region recognition.
As the rest of the runners came to the finish chute, it was apparent that
the Lady Vols would not be among the top two team finishers who receive
the automatic qualifying berths to the national meet. They were within reach,
though, of placing third or fourth and garnering an at-large invitation.
Sheffey had run well enough to place 33rd in a time of 22:01.87, and
Bell was in the same neighborhood, giving Clark hope of a trip to nationals
in Terre Haute, Ind. That optimism was quickly extinguished, however, when
Bell was disqualified for inadvertently tangling with a competitor as she
neared the finish line. As a result, Tennessee had to count Wright’s 87thplace time of 23:57.91 in its team total.
That blow resulted in the Big Orange still winding up fourth, but a very
distant fourth with 152 points instead of a more competitive score in the
90s. When it came time for the selection committee to choose teams, that
performance was not enough to merit UT’s inclusion in the NCAA field. For
Clark, it seemed on par with the difficulties his team had to face in 2007.
“We had three all-region runners and some outstanding performances,
but we just had so many obstacles this year,” Clark said. “Losing Jackie the
week before the race was very tough. We probably would have advanced
(to nationals) without much problem.
“Losing her was tough, and to put the nail in the coffin, so to speak,
was Rolanda getting disqualified. It was very, very disappointing to hear the
officials’ ruling on that.”
Despite the misfortune, Clark found some silver linings.
“Our season was successful,” Clark said. “We were second at SECs
and fourth at regionals. We have a very high expectation for ourselves, and
our goal was to win both of them before the season started, not knowing
what was in store for us from a standpoint of Heidi not being eligible until
SECs, the injury to Jackie or Rolanda’s disqualification.
“There were just a lot of things going on that were hindering us this
season, and as a result we’ll be stronger next season and hungrier to win.
The critical thing is how we came together many times during the year as a
team and supported each other. That is important when you are developing
a program for the long run.”
2007 TENNESSEE LADY VOL CROSS COUNTRY INDIVIDUAL RESULTS
FINAL OVERALL RECORD: 104-19; RECORD VS. SEC OPPONENTS: 18-5
NAME
OF MEET
DISTANCE
Belmont
Opener
Bulldog
Stampede
Brooks Paul Short
Run (Inv.)
Penn State
Nat’l. Inv.
SEC
Champs.
NCAA South
NCAA
Regional
Champs.
4K
5K
6K
6K
6K
6K
6K
UT TEAM FINISH
# OF RUNNERS
1st of 16
134
2nd of 9
80
8th of 47
317
8th of 25
198
2nd of 12
99
4th of 20
145
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ARESON, Jackie
14:33.73
----
22:15
21:31
22:01.58
----
----
5th/3rd
----
77th/4th
13th/2nd
38th/5th
----
----
16:03.24
19:35.36!
22:41
23:21
22:56.21
----
----
So., Delray Beach, Fla.
BELL, Rolanda
Jr., Laurelton, N.Y.
39th/6th
25th/4th
113th/5th
118th/5th
54th/6th
DQ
----
BOWMAN, Sarah
14:00.58!
17:37.45!
20:51
21:07
20:58.13
21:12.19
----
Jr., Warrenton, Va.
1st/1st
2nd/1st
9th/1st
5th/1st
4th/1st
14th/2nd
----
BRYANT, Alyssa
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
So., Andersonville, Tenn.
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
MAGILL-DAHL, Heidi
----
----
----
----
21:16.45
21:15.36
----
Jr., Orem, Utah
McDONALD, Kimarra
----
----
----
----
9th/3rd
16th/3rd
----
16:56.14
----
----
----
----
----
----
Jr., Lumberton, N.J.
63rd/7th
----
----
----
----
----
----
SHEFFEY, Brittany
15:07.33!
18:36.65
22:03!
22:23
21:46.03!
22:01.87
----
Fr., Bellport, N.Y.
----
16th/4th
15th/3rd
66th/3rd
61st/4th
28th/4th
33rd/4th
SORO, Leah
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
Jr., Knoxville, Tenn.
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
VAN HORN, Katie
14:24.32!
18:31.33
21:03
21:36
21:09.20
21:06.48
----
Jr., Glendora, N.J.
3rd/2nd
11th/2nd
16th/2nd
17th/3rd
7th/2nd
11th/1st
----
WRIGHT, Phoebe
15:31.71!
19:51.69!
22:55!
23:23
23:04.17
23:57.91
----
So., Signal Mountain, Tenn.
28th/5th
29th/5th
137th/6th
120th/6th
60th/7th
87th/5th
----
Individual finishes reflect overall/team places,
25
! – Denotes Career Best Time
2007 LADY VOL MEET RESULTS
BELMONT OPENER * 4K
5:30 P.M. CT * AUG. 31 * NASHVILLE, TENN.
Team Standings (16 teams)
1. #26 Tennessee
2. Vanderbilt
3. Belmont
3. UAB
5. Alabama
6. Murray State
7. Middle Tennessee
8. Lipscomb
9. Eastern Illinois
10. Mercer
11. UT-Martin
12. Alabama State
13. Asbury
14. Christian Brothers
15. Bethel
16. Crichton
Individuals (134 runners)
1. Sarah Bowman, Tennessee
2. Elizabeth Ambrus, UAB
3. Katie Van Horn, Tennessee
4. Rita Jorgenson, Vanderbilt
5. Jackie Areson, Tennessee
6. Adrienne DiRaddo, Vanderbilt
7. Brittany Thune, Belmont
8. Haley Moody, Alabama
9. Lauren Williams, Belmont
10. Carmen Mims, Vanderbilt
16. Brittany Sheffey, Tennessee
28. Phoebe Wright, Tennessee
39. Rolanda Bell, Tennessee
63. Kimarra McDonald, Tennessee
53
58
75
75
117
146
175
195
226
265
346
375
400
450
468
487
14:00.58
14:10.88
14:24.32
14:28.31
14:33.73
14:36.25
14:37.56
14:46.55
14:48.24
14:49.86
15:07.33
15:31.71
16:03.24
16:56.14
BULLDOG STAMPEDE * 5K
8 A.M. ET * SEPT. 22 * ATHENS, GA.
Team Standings (9 teams)
1. #13 Georgia
2. #26 Tennessee
3. Auburn
4. Emory
5. Miami (Fla.)
6. Georgia Southern
7. South Alabama
8. Young Harris
9. Piedmont
Individuals (80 runners)
1. Jill Steffens, New Balance
2. Sarah Bowman, Tennessee
3. Natalie Picchetti, Georgia
4. Sarah Madebach, Georgia
5. Kiah Vernon, Georgia
6. Nicole DeMarco, Georgia
7. Emily Houston, Georgia
8. Laurel Pritchard, Auburn
9. Sabrina Fischer, Auburn
10. Jill Skinner, Georgia
11. Katie Van Horn, Tennessee
15. Brittany Sheffey, Tennessee
25. Rolanda Bell, Tennessee
29. Phoebe Wright, Tennessee
20
64
75
84
128
171
194
219
255
17:34.78
17:37.45
18:00.92
18:09.14
18:15.27
18:15.65
18:16.16
18:19.08
18:27.90
18:29.85
18:31.33
18:36.65
19:35.36
19:51.69
BROOKS PAUL SHORT RUN * 6K
1:40 P.M. ET * SEPT. 28 * BETHLEHEM, PA.
Team Standings (47 teams)
1. #13 Princeton
2. West Virginia
3. #23 Texas Tech
4. #5 Wisconsin
5. Stony Brook
6. Syracuse
7. Cornell
8. #28 Tennessee
9. Penn
45
118
154
157
185
191
280
281
308
10. Harvard
11. Villanova
12. Coastal Carolina
13. Plattsburgh State
14. LaSalle
15. Duquesne
16. Navy
17. James Madison
18. Bucknell
19. Colgate
20. Elon
21. Kutztown
22. Binghamton
23. Bloomsburg
24. Dickinson
25. Pittsburgh
26. Buffalo
27. Delaware
28. Ithaca
29. Appalachian State
30. Rutgers
31. Central Florida
32. Lehigh
33. The College of New Jersey
34. Haverford
35. Johns Hopkins
36. Massachusetts
37. Monmouth
38. Loyola (Md.)
39. Radford
40. Virginia Military Institute
41. Lafayette
42. Winthrop
43. Maryland-Baltimore County
44. Rider
45. Ottawa
46. Temple
47. Mt. Saint Mary’s
Individuals (317 runners)
1. Sally Kipyego, Texas Tech
2. Irene Kimaiyo, Texas Tech
3. Marie-Louise Asselin, W. Virginia
4. Christy Johnson, Princeton
5. Cassie Hintz, Wisconsin
6. Liz Costello, Princeton
7. Keri Bland, W. Virginia
8. Hanna Grinaker, Wisconsin
9. Sarah Bowman, Tennessee
10. Jolee Van Leuven, Princeton
16. Katie Van Horn, Tennessee
66. Brittany Sheffey, Tennessee
77. Jackie Areson, Tennessee
113. Rolanda Bell, Tennessee
137. Phoebe Wright, Tennessee
361
371
429
483
498
522
523
541
546
549
655
669
672
679
687
697
739
741
744
772
776
805
837
854
856
867
891
898
925
974
1069
1116
1125
1152
1267
1277
1367
1425
19:59
20:16
20:19
20:24
20:27
20:36
20:41
20:50
20:51
20:52
21:03
22:03
22:15
22:41
22:55
22.
23.
24.
25.
South Carolina
Slippery Rock
Lock Haven
Rider
Individuals (278 runners)
1. Marie-Louise Asselin, W. Virginia
2. Lindsay Carson, Guelph
3. Maddie McKeever, Duke
4. Keri Bland, W. Virginia
5. Sarah Bowman, Tennessee
6. Bridget Franek, Penn State
7. Clara Grandt, W. Virginia
8. Catherine Parker, New Hampshire
9. Nana Sang-Bender, Syracuse
10. Kristen Stevens, Quinnipiac
13. Jackie Areson, Tennessee
17. Katie Van Horn, Tennessee
60. Brittany Sheffey, Tennessee
103. Rolanda Bell, Tennessee
104. Phoebe Wright, Tennessee
608
612
740
751
20:46
20:49
20:51
20:56
21:07
21:13
21:17
21:22
21:25
21:26
21:31
21:36
22:23
23:21
23:23
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS * 6K
11 A.M. ET * OCT. 27 * LEXINGTON, KY.
Team Standings (12 teams)
1. #13 Arkansas
2. Tennessee
3. #29 Georgia
4. #27 Florida
5. Kentucky
6. Auburn
7. Mississippi State
8. Vanderbilt
9. LSU
10. Alabama
11. South Carolina
12. Mississippi
Individuals (99 runners)
1. Sarah Madebach, Georgia
2. Christine Kalmer, Arkansas
3. Natalie Picchetti, Georgia
4. Sarah Bowman, Tennessee
5. Jillian Rosen, Arkansas
6. Denise Bargiachi, Arkansas
7. Katie Van Horn, Tennessee
8. Jacy Kruzel, Florida
9. Heidi Magill-Dahl, Tennessee
10. Dani Parry, Arkansas
28. Brittany Sheffey, Tennessee
39
84
85
96
104
171
209
217
259
275
290
352
20:49.11
20:53.02
20:55.93
20:58.13
21:01.76
21:05.20
21:09.20
21:12.49
21:16.45
21:17.49
21:46.03
38. Jackie Areson, Tennessee
54. Rolanda Bell, Tennessee
60. Phoebe Wright, Tennessee
22:01.58
22:56.21
23:04.17
NCAA SOUTH REGIONAL * 6K
11 A.M. ET * NOV. 10 * GAINESVILLE, FLA.
Team Standings (20 teams)
1. #3 Florida State
2. #29 Georgia
3. Florida
4. #25 Tennessee
5. UAB
6. Georgia State
7. Georgia Tech
8. Samford
9. Chattanooga
10. Belmont
11. Vanderbilt
12. Mississippi State
12. Florida International
14. Auburn
15. Central Florida
16. Tennessee Tech
17. Florida Atlantic
18. South Florida
19. Austin Peay
20. Mississippi
Individuals (145 runners)
1. Susan Kuijken, Florida State
2. Barbara Parker, Florida State
3. Lauren Blankenship, Samford
4. Hannah England, Florida State
5. Lauren Weaver, Belmont
6. Sarah Madebach, Georgia
7. Natalie Picchetti, Georgia
8. Rachel Hannah, Georgia State
9. Elizabeth Ambrus, UAB
10. Lindsay Sundell, Florida
11. Katie Van Horn, Tennessee
14. Sarah Bowman, Tennessee
16. Heidi Magill-Dahl, Tennessee
33. Brittany Sheffey, Tennessee
87. Phoebe Wright, Tennessee
---- Rolanda Bell, Tennessee
40
75
94
152
184
210
237
249
258
272
295
322
322
324
347
398
399
445
512
513
20:19.01
20:35.69
20:45.23
20:48.55
20:51.49
20:52.85
20:55.05
20:55.91
20:58.79
21:00.78
21:06.48
21:12.19
21:15.36
22:01.87
23:57.91
DQ
Tennessee Runners Highlighted In Bold
2007 LADY VOL CROSS COUNTRY TEAM
PENN STATE NATIONAL INVITATIONAL * 6K
10 A.M. ET * OCT. 12 * UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.
Team Standings (25 teams)
1. #21 West Virginia
2. #30 Penn State
3. Kentucky
4. Syracuse
5. Wake Forest
6. #17 Duke
7. Cornell
8. Tennessee
9. Guelph
10. Villanova
11. LaSalle
12. Oklahoma
13. New Hampshire
14. Quinnipiac
15. Pittsburgh
16. Lehigh
17. Connecticut
18. St. Francis (Pa.)
19. Clarion
20. Cortland State
20. Bloomsburg
86
110
127
128
173
185
192
198
204
237
248
282
314
333
500
511
521
561
585
603
603
26
Front Row (L-R): Rolanda Bell, Leah Soro, Jackie Areson, Brittany Sheffey. Back Row (LR): Katie Van Horn, Sarah Bowman, Heidi Magill-Dahl, Kimarra McDonald, Phoebe Wright,
Alyssa Bryant.
THE SEC/LADY VOL HISTORY
IN THIS SECTION...
THE SEC/2007 SEC RECAP ...... 28
SEC OPPONENTS .......................... 29
CHAMP. MEET HISTORY .........30-32
......... 30-32
LADY VOL HONOR ROLL ............. 33
ALL-TIME ROSTER...................
...................34-35
34-35
YEAR-BY-YEAR HISTORY ............ 36
ALL-TIME COACHES .................... 36
COURSE RECORDS........................ 37
SERIES RECORDS ................... 38-39
WHERE WE'VE COMPETED ......... 39
ALL-TIME RESULTS .................
.................40-42
40-42
27
THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE
SEC QUICK FACTS
"THE STANDARD FOR EXCELLENCE"
The Southeastern Conference, with its
storied 76-year history of athletic achievements
and academic excellence, has built perhaps the
greatest tradition of intercollegiate competition of
any league in the country since its inception in
1933.
The 2007-08 academic year was another
season to remember for the SEC, as conference
teams captured five national titles and posted
five national runner-up finishes. The SEC won
consecutive national championships in football,
gymnastics, women’s basketball and men’s tennis.
Since 1990, the SEC has claimed 126 national team championships for an average of
nearly seven per year.
LSU won the SEC’s first national title of the campaign with its triumph in the BCS
National Championship Game in football. The Tennessee Lady Vols won their second
consecutive women’s basketball national championship. Georgia earned a pair of national
championships, as the Gym Dogs won their fourth straight gymnastics championship,
while the men’s tennis team won back-to-back national titles. LSU won its second national
championship of the year when women’s track & field won the NCAA Outdoor title.
Overall, the SEC finished in the top two in nine of its 20 sponsored sports and in the
top five in 13 of the 20 sports. Ten SEC teams participated in football postseason bowls
with Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, South Carolina and Tennessee winning
the Cotton, BCS National Title Game, Chick-Fil-A, Music City, Sugar, Liberty and Outback
Bowls, respectively.
A league record-tying six men’s basketball teams were invited to the NCAA Tournament
with Tennessee advancing to the Sweet Sixteen. The SEC now has sent at least one team
to the Sweet Sixteen for 19 straight years. Five women’s basketball teams also were invited
to the NCAA Tournament with Tennessee winning the NCAA National Championship and
LSU advancing to the Women’s Final Four for the second straight year.
The SEC had a record-tying nine teams advance to postseason play in baseball, with
league teams hosting two super regionals and Georgia finishing second and LSU also
participating in the College World Series. With 168 teams advancing to NCAA postseason
competition, the SEC continued to solidify its place as the nation’s premier conference.
In addition to the five team championships, 46 SEC student-athletes garnered individual
national championships, while 457 individuals were awarded with first-team All-America
honors. Student-athletes around the league continued to excel in the classroom, as well,
with over 2,300 earning recognition on the SEC Academic Honor Roll.
On the national all-sport level, the SEC placed nine teams in the top 50 of the NACDA
Director’s Cup rankings. Florida led the league with a sixth-place finish. LSU placed eighth,
while Georgia was 10th; Tennessee finished 16th, Auburn 20th, Arkansas 24th, Alabama
25th, Kentucky 36th and South Carolina 48th to round out the league’s top-50 finishes.
SEC WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
After winning Southeastern Conference Cross Country Championship meets in
2003, 2004 and 2005, Tennessee placed third behind Arkansas and Georgia in 2006 and
second behind Arkansas in 2007. Lady Vols Sarah Bowman (4th), Katie Van Horn (7th)
and Heidi Magill-Dahl (9th) made the All-SEC Team a year ago. Bowman is a three-time
honoree, while Van Horn and Magill-Dahl picked up all-league honors for the first time in
their careers.
2007 SEC ATHLETES
OF THE WEEK
Week 1:
Week 2:
Week 3:
Week 4:
Week 5:
Week 6:
Week 7:
Sarah Bowman, Tennessee
Lindsay Sundell, Florida
Jessica Ortman, Kentucky
Sarah Bowman, Tennessee
Jacy Kruzel, Florida
No Recipients
Sarah Madebach, Georgia
2007 SEC FRESHMEN
OF THE WEEK
Week 1:
Week 2:
Week 3:
Week 4:
Week 5:
Week 6:
Week 7:
Rita Jorgensen, Vanderbilt
Catherine White, Arkansas
Haley Moody, Alabama
Emily Houston, Georgia
Jillian Rosen, Arkansas
No Recipients
Leah Ryan, Kentucky
Founded:
1933
SEC Members: Univ. of Alabama, Univ.
of Arkansas, Auburn Univ., Univ. of Florida,
Univ. of Georgia, Univ. of Kentucky, Louisiana
State Univ., Univ. of Mississippi, Mississippi
State Univ., Univ. of South Carolina, Univ. of
Tennessee, Vanderbilt Univ.
Commissioner:
Michael L. Slive
Address:
SEC Headquarters, 2201
Richard Arrington Blvd. North, Birmingham,
AL 35203
CC Contact:
E-mail Address:
Phone Number:
Media Relations:
Fax Number:
Ayanna Wakefield
awakefield@sec.org
(205) 458-3000
(205) 458-3010
(205) 458-3030
SEC MEET RECORDS
TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
Arkansas 12, Tennessee 5, Kentucky 3,
Florida 3, Alabama 2
INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS
Arkansas 10, Alabama 4, Florida 4, Auburn 3,
Tennessee 2, Georgia 1, Kentucky 1
MOST INDIVIDUAL TITLES
3 - Becki Wells, Alabama (1)/Florida (2); Amy
Yoder, Arkansas; Angela Homan, Auburn
FASTEST 5K TIME
16:45, Patty Wiegand, Tennessee, 1990
FASTEST 6K TIME
19:07.29, Andreina Byrd, Arkansas, 2001
2007 SEC
CHAMPIONSHIPS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
#13 Arkansas
Tennessee
#29 Georgia
#27 Florida
Kentucky
Auburn
Mississippi State
Vanderbilt
LSU
Alabama
South Carolina
Mississippi
2007 SEC AWARDS
Athlete of the Year
Sarah Madebach, Georgia
Freshman of the Year
Jillian Rosen, Arkansas
Coach of the Year
Lance Harter, Arkansas
28
39
84
85
96
104
171
209
217
259
275
290
352
SEC OPPONENT INFORMATION
ALABAMA
ARKANSAS
AUBURN
FLORIDA
LOCATION:
Tuscaloosa, Ala.
ENROLLMENT:
25,580
NICKNAME:
Crimson Tide
COLORS:
Crimson & White
HOME COURSE:
Harry Pritchett Course
CROSS COUNTRY COACH (ALMA MATER, YR.):
Randy Hasenbank (Wichita State ’90)
2007 SEC FINISH:
10th
2007 REGIONAL FINISH:
N/A
2007 NCAA FINISH:
N/A
LETTERWINNERS RETURNING/LOST:
6/6
SID CONTACT:
Rod Black
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
rblack@ia.ua.edu
OFFICE PHONE:
(205) 348-6734
CELL PHONE:
(256) 654-0015
OFFICE FAX:
(205) 348-8841
WEB ADDRESS:
www.rolltide.com
SERIES RECORD:
Tennessee leads, 37-30
LOCATION:
Fayetteville, Ark.
ENROLLMENT:
18,647
NICKNAME:
Razorbacks
COLORS:
Cardinal & White
HOME COURSE:
Agri Park XC Course
CROSS COUNTRY COACH (ALMA MATER, YR):
Lance Harter (Texas Tech ’72)
2007 SEC FINISH:
1st
2007 REGIONAL FINISH: 2nd (South Central)
2007 NCAA FINISH:
13th
LETTERWINNERS RETURNING/LOST:
7/4
SID CONTACT:
Molly O’Mara
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
momara@uark.edu
OFFICE PHONE:
(479) 575-3114
CELL PHONE:
(479) 236-1077
OFFICE FAX:
(479) 575-74810
WEB ADDRESS: www.ArkansasRazorbacks.com
SERIES RECORD:
Arkansas leads, 21-4
LOCATION:
Auburn, Ala.
ENROLLMENT:
24,137
NICKNAME:
Tigers
COLORS:
Burnt Orange & Navy Blue
HOME COURSE:
Indian Pines Golf Course
CROSS COUNTRY COACH (ALMA MATER, YR.):
Peter Watson (West Virginia ’01)
2007 SEC FINISH:
6th
2007 REGIONAL FINISH:
14th (South)
2007 NCAA FINISH:
N/A
LETTERWINNERS RETURNING/LOST:
8/4
SID CONTACT:
Amanda Dahl
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
acd0010@auburn.edu
OFFICE PHONE:
(334) 844-9900
CELL PHONE:
(712) 251-9271
OFFICE FAX:
(334) 844-9807
WEB ADDRESS:
www.auburntigers.com
SERIES RECORD:
Tennessee leads, 52-20
LOCATION:
Gainesville, Fla.
ENROLLMENT:
51,520
NICKNAME:
Gators
COLORS:
Orange & Blue
HOME COURSE: University of Florida Golf Course
CROSS COUNTRY COACH (ALMA MATER, YR.):
Mike Holloway (Florida ’00)
2007 SEC FINISH:
4th
2007 REGIONAL FINISH:
3rd (South)
2007 NCAA FINISH:
11th
LETTERWINNERS RETURNING/LOST:
11/5
SID CONTACT:
Suzanna Ollove
E-MAIL ADDRESS: ZannaO@gators.uaa.ufl.edu
OFFICE PHONE:
(352) 375-4683, ext. 6128
CELL PHONE:
(352) 318-4710
OFFICE FAX:
(352) 375-4809
WEB ADDRESS:
www.gatorzone.com
SERIES RECORD:
Florida leads, 33-30
GEORGIA
KENTUCKY
LOUISIANA STATE
MISSISSIPPI
LOCATION:
Athens, Ga.
ENROLLMENT:
33,831
NICKNAME:
Bulldogs
COLORS:
Red & Black
HOME COURSE:
UGA Golf Course
CROSS COUNTRY COACH (ALMA MATER, YR.):
Jeff Pigg (Florida ’88)
2007 SEC FINISH:
3rd
2007 REGIONAL FINISH:
2nd (South)
2007 NCAA FINISH:
22nd
LETTERWINNERS RETURNING/LOST:
5/5
SID CONTACT:
Leland Barrow
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
leland@sports.uga.edu
OFFICE PHONE:
(706) 542-1621
CELL PHONE:
(678) 378-3085
OFFICE FAX:
(706) 542-9339
WEB ADDRESS:
www.georgiadogs.com
SERIES RECORD:
Tennessee leads, 36-25
LOCATION:
Lexington, Ky.
ENROLLMENT:
27,000
NICKNAME:
Wildcats
COLORS:
Blue & White
HOME COURSE:
Kentucky Horse Park
CROSS COUNTRY COACH (ALMA MATER, YR.):
Don Weber (Kentucky ’73)
2007 SEC FINISH:
5th
2007 REGIONAL FINISH:
4th (Southeast)
2007 NCAA FINISH:
N/A
LETTERWINNERS RETURNING/LOST:
8/2
SID CONTACT:
Jeremy Strachan
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
JStrachan@uky.edu
OFFICE PHONE:
(859) 257-8431
CELL PHONE:
(859) 619-7268
OFFICE FAX:
(859) 323-4310
WEB ADDRESS:
www.ukathletics.com
SERIES RECORD:
Tennessee leads, 47-21
LOCATION:
Baton Rouge, La.
ENROLLMENT:
25,896
NICKNAME:
Tigers
COLORS:
Purple & Gold
HOME COURSE:
Highland Road Park
CROSS COUNTRY COACH (ALMA MATER, YR.):
Mark Elliott (LSU ‘91)
2007 SEC FINISH:
9th
2007 REGIONAL FINISH: 11th (South Central)
2007 NCAA FINISH:
N/A
LETTERWINNERS RETURNING/LOST:
2/7
SID CONTACT:
Ashley Bourdier
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
Abourd1@lsu.edu
OFFICE PHONE:
(225) 578-1867
CELL PHONE:
(225) 266-1983
OFFICE FAX:
(225) 578-1861
WEB ADDRESS:
www.lsusports.net
SERIES RECORD:
Tennessee leads, 27-5
LOCATION:
Oxford, Miss.
ENROLLMENT:
17,325
NICKNAME:
Rebels
COLORS:
Cardinal Red & Navy Blue
HOME COURSE:
N/A
CROSS COUNTRY COACH (ALMA MATER, YR.):
Joe Walker (Mississippi College ’69)
2007 SEC FINISH:
12th
2007 REGIONAL FINISH:
20th (South)
2007 NCAA FINISH:
N/A
LETTERWINNERS RETURNING/LOST:
8/4
SID CONTACT:
Jay D’Abramo
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
jdabramo@olemiss.edu
OFFICE PHONE:
(662) 915-7522
CELL PHONE:
662-816-3060
OFFICE FAX:
(662) 915-7006
WEB ADDRESS:
www.OleMissSports.com
SERIES RECORD:
Tennessee leads, 37-0
MISSISSIPPI STATE
SOUTH CAROLINA
VANDERBILT
SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE
LOCATION:
Starkville, Miss.
ENROLLMENT:
17,039
NICKNAME:
Lady Bulldogs
COLORS:
Maroon & White
HOME COURSE: MSU CC Course at South Farm
CROSS COUNTRY COACH (ALMA MATER, YR.):
Al Schmidt (St. Louis ’73)
2007 SEC FINISH:
7th
2007 REGIONAL FINISH:
12th (South)
2007 NCAA FINISH:
N/A
LETTERWINNERS RETURNING/LOST:
2/5
SID CONTACT:
TBA
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
TBA
OFFICE PHONE:
(662) 325-2703
CELL PHONE:
TBA
OFFICE FAX:
(662) 325-2563
WEB ADDRESS:
www.mstateathletics.com
SERIES RECORD:
Tennessee leads, 41-6
LOCATION:
Columbia, S.C.
ENROLLMENT:
27,390
NICKNAME:
Gamecocks
COLORS:
Garnet & Black
HOME COURSE:
Hilton Field
CROSS COUNTRY COACH (ALMA MATER, YR.):
Stan Rosenthal (Indiana [Pa.] ’75)
2007 SEC FINISH:
11th
2007 REGIONAL FINISH:
25st (Southeast)
2007 NCAA FINISH:
N/A
LETTERWINNERS RETURNING/LOST:
12/7
SID CONTACT:
Megan Holt
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
Holtmg@mailbox.sc.edu
OFFICE PHONE:
803-777-5204
CELL PHONE:
803-537-0169
OFFICE FAX:
(803) 777-2967
WEB ADDRESS:
www.gamecocksonline.com
SERIES RECORD:
Tennessee leads, 31-6
LOCATION:
Nashville, Tenn.
ENROLLMENT:
6,532
NICKNAME:
Commodores
COLORS:
Black & Gold
HOME COURSE:
Warner Park
CROSS COUNTRY COACH (ALMA MATER, YR.):
Steve Keith (Vanderbilt ’81)
2007 SEC FINISH:
7th
2007 REGIONAL FINISH:
11th (South)
2007 NCAA FINISH:
N/A
LETTERWINNERS RETURNING/LOST:
20/2
SID CONTACT:
Josh Arntz
E-MAIL ADDRESS: joshua.arntz@vanderbilt.edu
OFFICE PHONE:
(615) 322-7846
CELL PHONE:
(615) 830-3407
OFFICE FAX:
(615) 343-7064
WEB ADDRESS:
www.vucommodores.com
SERIES RECORD:
Tennessee leads, 47-14
29
CHAMPIONSHIP MEET HISTORY
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
Oct. 29, 1983 (1st of 7)
SEC CHAMPIONS
UT finishers (46 runners)
1
*Alison Quelch
2
*Liz Natale
5
*Monica O’Reilly
7
*Alisa Harvey
9
*Susan Baxter
30
Pam Fillmore
17:14
17:14
17:27
17:40
17:58
19:49
Nov. 2, 1984 (3rd of 8)
UT finishers (54 runners)
2
*Alisa Harvey
7
*Alison Quelch
8
*Monica O’Reilly
24
Jill Weber
26
Donna McLain
29
Kathy Bryant-Hadler
44
Pam Fillmore
16:42
17:18
17:27
18:32
18:37
18:47
19:43
Nov. 8, 1985 (3rd of 10)
UT finishers (65 runners)
2
*Alisa Harvey
5
*Monica O’Reilly
21
Gina Wilbanks
35
Jill Weber
41
Michelle Winterer
45
Vonda Hammons
51
Bridgette White
16:49
16:57
17:59
18:35
18:49
19:13
19:47
Nov. 7, 1986 (6th of 10)
UT finishers (70 runners)
23
Alisa Harvey
31
Tere Stouffer
35
Gina Wilbanks
39
Vonda Hammons
49
Valerie Bertrand
51
Gena Clare
54
Janet Easterday
19:12
19:40
19:53
20:06
21:01
21:16
21:40
Nov. 2, 1987 (4th of 10)
UT finishers (64 runners)
6
*Patty Wiegand
8
*Jasmin Jones
13
Gina Wilbanks
34
Vonda Hammons
35
Valerie Bertrand
45
Janet Easterday
17:44
17:54
18:05
19:29
19:31
20:02
Oct. 31, 1988 (4th of 9)
UT finishers (70 runners)
11
Patty Wiegand
16
Jasmin Jones
27
Michelle Strothers
31
Valerie Bertrand
33
Gina Wilbanks
34
Vonda Hammons
60
Lisa Richardson
17:50
18:17
18:42
18:54
19:00
19:01
20:53
Oct. 30, 1989 (2nd of 10)
UT finishers (70 runners)
2
*Patty Wiegand
4
*Jasmin Jones
9
*Valerie Bertrand
16
Michelle Strothers
35
Christy Cupp
53
Lynne Collazo
58
Lisa Richardson
59
Kristen Permakoff
17:04
17:25
17:39
18:02
19:18
20:09
20:20
20:21
Oct. 29, 1990 (1st of 10)
SEC CHAMPIONS
UT finishers (70 runners)
1
*Patty Wiegand
4
*Megan Thompson
5
*Jasmin Jones
8
*Celeste Susnis
23
Michelle Strothers
34
Dina Spagnoli
49
Lynne Collazo
56
Lisa Richardson
16:45
17:19
17:22
17:31
18:07
18:38
19:23
19:48
Nov. 4, 1991 (7th of 12)
UT finishers (83 runners)
24
Megan Thompson
25
Michelle Strothers
31
Celeste Susnis
41
Lisa Richardson
48
Dina Spagnoli
52
Lynne Collazo
54
Staci Snider
66
Monica Olkowski
19:04
19:05
19:27
19:50
20:09
20:11
20:16
21:19
Nov. 2, 1992 (5th of 12)
UT finishers (85 runners)
13
*Page Kunst
16
Megan Thompson
28
Celeste Susnis
32
Amanda Gillam
37
Lynne Collazo
40
Cindy O’Bryant
83
Teal Mowery
19:07
19:15
19:49
19:59
20:14
20:17
23:38
Oct. 30, 1993 (5th of 12)
UT finishers (85 runners)
14
*Celeste Susnis
15
*Megan Thompson
26
Michelle Reasor
34
Jennifer Brewer
51
Cindy O’Bryant
56
Amanda Gillam
17:54
17:55
18:28
18:43
19:15
19:26
Oct. 29, 1994 (8th of 12)
UT finishers (88 runners)
10
*Michelle Reasor
42
Jennifer Brewer
44
Maureen Ferris
50
Amanda Gillam
54
Katrice Malcom
63
Amy Reeves
74
Krista Stewart
18:07.6
19:26.9
19:39.2
19:51.4
19:58.8
20:19.6
20:59.1
Oct. 30, 1995 (9th of 12)
UT finishers (88 runners)
48
Katrice Malcom
52
Laura Haynes
56
Beth Marlow
57
Melissa Hiller
70
Maureen Ferris
19:36
19:41
19:47
19:49
20:36
Nov. 2, 1996 (9th of 12)
UT finishers (92 runners)
23
Mindy Watkins
27
Kristen Ritter
51
Maureen Ferris
58
Meghan Mantlo
61
Beth Marlow
71
Katrice Malcom
83
Allison Clary
84
Melissa Hiller
18:51.9
18:56.7
19:29.8
19:41.5
19:49.6
20:08.2
21:08.6
21:12.1
Nov. 1, 1997 (6th of 12)
UT finishers (86 runners)
16
Kristen Ritter
30
Mindy Watkins
39
Meghan Mantlo
42
Dorothy Denko
56
Amy Bartosik
66
Katherine Green
68
Melissa Hiller
18:10.5
18:41.5
18:54.4
18:57.9
19:32.9
19:50.4
19:53.6
Oct. 31, 1998 (3rd of 12)
UT finishers (89 runners)
7
*Sharon Dickie
11
*Maureen Ferris
17
Kristen Ritter
18
Angie Pothier
20
Dorothy Denko
22
Mindy Watkins
35
Meghan Mantlo
52
Amy Bartosik
17:41.65
17:53.13
18:10.22
18:13.79
18:15.63
18:21.19
18:47.10
19:10.06
Oct. 30, 1999 (9th of 12)
UT finishers (85 runners)
30
Mindy Watkins
34
Amy Bartosik
35
Angie Pothier
43
Meghan Mantlo
49
Christy Baird
19:08.70
19:15.10
19:17.50
19:32.30
19:44.10
Oct. 30, 2000 (8th of 12)
UT finishers (85 runners)
3
*Sharon Dickie
17
Jessica Southers
34
Erin Anderson
70
Amber Ayub
82
Kameisha Bennett
20:47.15
22:17.01
22:58.59
24:51.29
26:03.10
Oct. 29, 2001 (2nd of 12)
UT finishers (6K race, 86 runners)
3
*Sharon Dickie
10
*Brooke Novak
13
*Jessica Southers
20
Christy Baird
25
Elizabeth McCalley
42
Erin Anderson
71
Amber Ayub
19:36.28
20:04.79
20:17.86
20:39.24
20:46.05
21:22.65
23:04.52
Nov. 4, 2002 (3rd of 12)
UT finishers (6K race, 88 runners)
5
*Sharon Dickie
8
*Brooke Novak
20
Megan Cauble
27
Jessica Southers
21:42.64
21:54.94
22:28.57
22:51.30
30
29
30
48
DNF
Erin Anderson
Felicia Guliford
Mindy Sullivan
Elizabeth McCalley
22:56.21
22:57.79
23:51.54
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Nov. 3, 2003 (1st of 12)
SEC CHAMPIONS
UT finishers (6K race, 88 runners)
3
*Brooke Novak
6
*Megan Cauble
11
*Mindy Sullivan
17
Lindsay Hyatt
20
Elizabeth McCalley
22
Katie Flaute
30
Carly Matthews
61
Jessica Southers
21:58.45
22:09.20
22:44.54
22:53.47
23:03.71
23:09.73
23:33.85
24:48.44
Oct. 30, 2004 (1st of 12)
SEC CHAMPIONS
UT finishers (6K race, 97 runners)
4
*Felicia Guliford
8
*Elizabeth McCalley
10
*Katie Flaute
15
Carly Matthews
18
Megan Cauble
28
Mindy Sullivan
38
Brooke Novak
49
Nicole Cook
21:06.23
21:11.03
21:17.62
21:27.19
21:40.57
22:14.15
22:31.30
22:52.01
Oct. 29, 2005 (1st of 12)
SEC CHAMPIONS
UT finishers (6K race, 102 runners)
2
*Felicia Guliford
6
*Sarah Bowman
8
*Katie Flaute
11
*Leah Soro
21
Carly Matthews
37
Mindy Sullivan
51
Rolanda Bell
98
Kimarra McDonald
19:46.23
20:02.47
20:12.26
20:20.22
20:45.69
21:26.30
21:52.76
24:37.78
Oct. 28, 2006 (3rd of 12)
UT finishers (6K race, 108 runners)
7
*Sarah Bowman
12
*Katie Flaute
15
Jackie Areson
16
Katie Van Horn
21
Leah Soro
26
Rose-Anne Galligan
32
Felicia Guliford
36
Rolanda Bell
46
Kelly Parrish
93
Phoebe Wright
20:23.09
20:38.80
20:42.65
20:43.71
21:06.05
21:16.43
21:25.56
21:41.34
21:59.94
23:57.33
Oct. 27, 2007 (2nd of 12)
UT finishers (6K race, 99 runners)
4
*Sarah Bowman
7
*Katie Van Horn
11
*Heidi Magill-Dahl
28
Brittany Sheffey
38
Jackie Areson
54
Rolanda Bell
60
Phoebe Wright
20:58.13
21:09.20
21:16.45
21:46.03
22:01.58
22:56.21
23:04.17
* - Denotes All-SEC
Sarah Bowman has earned All-SEC acclaim three
times and All-South kudos on two occasions.
CHAMPIONSHIP MEET HISTORY
DISTRICT/REGION CHAMPIONSHIPS
AIAW REGION 2
Nov. 4, 1977 (1st of 12)
REGION 2 CHAMPIONS
UT finishers (78 runners)
1
Brenda Webb
6
Lynn Lashley
7
Barb Tieperman
17
Lynn Emery
20
Cathy Kirchner
27
Lori Bertelkamp
31
Betty Shell
17:11
18:14
18:26
19:26
19:48
20:25
20:44
Nov. 3, 1978 (3rd of 11)
UT finishers (196 runners)
4
Brenda Webb
14
Barb Tieperman
19
Lynn Emery
23
Cathy Kirchner
28
Susan Cobb
39
Joanne Soldano
17:18
18:30
19:06
19:21
19:31
19:57
Nov. 3, 1979 (3rd of 9)
UT finishers (67 runners)
5
Linda Portasik
7
Miriam Boyd
13
Shannon Cline
15
Lynn Lashley
20
Ellen McCallister
23
Sally Thomas
27
Joanne Soldano
16:58
17:17
17:34
17:39
18:04
18:10
18:23
Nov. 2, 1980 (3rd of 7)
UT finishers (48 runners)
5
Linda Portasik
6
Kathy Bryant
10
Eileen Hornberger
11
Donna McLain
29
Ellen McCallister
31
Beth Huff
16:31
16:32
16:49
16:54
18:02
18:08
NCAA DISTRICT III
The Lady Vols take a seat on a fence at Lexington’s Kentucky Horse Park after racing to second place
at the 2007 SEC Championships and charting UT’s seventh straight top-three outcome at that meet.
Nov. 15, 1986
UT finishers (207 runners)
2
Alisa Harvey
65
Gina Wilbanks
102
Vonda Hammons
112
Valerie Bertrand
17:26
18:43
19:25
19:33
108
244
Nov. 14, 1987 (9th of 32)
UT finishers (231 runners)
15
Patty Wiegand
33
Jasmin Jones
51
Gina Wilbanks
110
Vonda Hammons
115
Valerie Bertrand
139
Janet Easterday
18:20
18:42
19:05
20:08
20:11
20:32
Nov. 7, 1981 (4th of 7)
UT finishers (49 runners)
8
Kathy Bryant
18
Linda Portasik
19
Donna McLain
22
Susan Baxter
30
Miriam Boyd
35
Eileen Hornberger
40
Ellen McCallister
17:34
18:14
18:22
18:32
18:55
19:03
19:23
Nov. 13, 1982 (3rd of 17)
UT finishers (130 runners)
2
Kathy Bryant-Hadler
10
Susan Baxter
12
Liz Natale
25
Monica O’Reilly
32
Donna McLain
33
Joetta Clark
72
Eileen Hornberger
Nov. 12, 1988 (11th of 30)
UT finishers (227 runners)
19
Patty Wiegand
40
Valerie Bertrand
53
Gina Wilbanks
73
Jasmin Jones
77
Michelle Strothers
97
Vonda Hammons
158
Lisa Richardson
16:54
17:16
17:23
18:04
18:14
18:16
19:31
Nov. 12, 1983 (1st of 15)
DISTRICT 3 CHAMPIONS
UT finishers (80 runners)
2
Liz Natale
4
Alison Quelch
7
Monica O’Reilly
16
Susan Baxter
18
Alisa Harvey
76
Pam Fillmore
Nov. 11, 1989 (4th of 34)
UT finishers (233 runners)
3
Patty Wiegand
8
Jasmin Jones
18
Valerie Bertrand
30
Michelle Strothers
98
Christy Cupp
117
Lynne Collazo
181
Lisa Richardson
17:05
17:22
17:41
18:02
19:11
19:29
20:42
16:55
17:05
17:15
17:47
17:49
19:33
Nov. 10, 1984 (8th of 23)
UT finishers (163 runners)
7
Alisa Harvey
15
Monica O’Reilly
46
Alison Quelch
62
Kathy Bryant-Hadler
63
Jill Weber
67
Donna McLain
127
Pam Fillmore
Nov. 10, 1990 (4th of 29)
UT finishers (236 runners)
3
*Jasmin Jones
8
*Megan Thompson
15
*Patty Wiegand
17
Celeste Susnis
64
Michelle Strothers
121
Lynne Collazo
151
Dina Spagnoli
17:08
17:35
17:41
17:46
18:39
19:31
19:48
17:36
17:50
18:54
19:19
19:20
19:22
20:50
Nov. 16, 1985 (8th of 26)
UT finishers (186 runners)
11
Alisa Harvey
12
Monica O’Reilly
46
Gina Wilbanks
66
Jill Weber
113
Michelle Winterer
Nov. 16, 1991 (8th of 33)
UT finishers (231 runners)
25
Michelle Strothers
33
Megan Thompson
43
Celeste Susnis
90
Staci Snider
117
Lynne Collazo
123
Lisa Richardson
147
Monica Olkowski
18:12
18:25
18:36
19:23
19:41
19:47
20:05
17:43
17:45
18:43
19:06
20:03
Nov. 14, 1992 (9th of 38)
UT finishers (274 runners)
25
Page Kunst
30
Megan Thompson
44
Celeste Susnis
78
Cindy O’Bryant
97
Lynne Collazo
18:10
18:43
18:53
19:14
19:16
19:30
20:44
18:05
18:11
18:22
18:49
19:00
31
Amanda Gillam
Teal Mowery
19:06
21:16
Nov. 13, 1993 (10th of 40)
UT finishers (289 runners)
28
Celeste Susnis
40
Michelle Reasor
53
Megan Thompson
84
Jennifer Brewer
128
Cindy O’Bryant
182
Amanda Gillam
191
Laura Haynes
17:51
18:06
18:19
18:46
19:14
19:53
20:02
Nov. 12, 1994 (27th of 37)
UT finishers (279 runners)
35
Michelle Reasor
86
Jennifer Brewer
169
Krista Stewart
177
Amy Reeves
193
Amanda Gillam
228
Maureen Ferris
245
Katrice Malcom
18:21
18:55
19:46
19:50
20:01
20:40
21:10
Nov. 11, 1995 (no team finish)
UT finishers (297 runners)
105
Laura Haynes
165
Melissa Hiller
197
Beth Marlow
20:08
20:52
21:20
Nov. 16, 1996 (24th of 46)
UT finishers (317 runners)
63
Kristen Ritter
66
Mindy Watkins
151
Meghan Mantlo
186
Maureen Ferris
201
Beth Marlow
235
Melissa Hiller
281
Katrice Malcom
18:32
18:33
19:15
19:37
19:47
20:09
20:54
NCAA SOUTH REGIONAL
(formerly DISTRICT III, IX)
Nov. 15, 1997 (9th of 26)
UT finishers (177 runners)
21
*Kristen Ritter
45
Mindy Watkins
61
Meghan Mantlo
81
Dorothy Denko
85
Amy Bartosik
91
Katherine Green
18:15
18:40
18:57
19:18
19:22
19:29
Nov. 14, 1998 (3rd of 23)
UT finishers (171 runners)
4
*Maureen Ferris
12
*Sharon Dickie
18
*Angie Pothier
27
Mindy Watkins
34
Kristen Ritter
35
Dorothy Denko
56
Meghan Mantlo
17:24.14
17:38.86
17:51.20
18:06.62
18:16.57
18:17.56
18:42.52
CHAMPIONSHIP MEET HISTORY
Nov. 13, 1999 (9th of 23)
UT finishers (156 runners)
16
*Angie Pothier
34
Mindy Watkins
43
Amy Bartosik
50
Christy Baird
65
Meghan Mantlo
17:31.21
17:55.95
18:07.05
18:13.79
18:32.74
Nov. 11, 2000 (no team finish)
UT finishers (133 runners)
1
*Sharon Dickie
37
Jessica Southers
79
Erin Anderson
20:38.79
22:07.09
23:16.30
Nov. 10, 2001 (6th of 18)
UT finishers (6K race, 141 runners)
6
*Sharon Dickie
30
Christy Baird
42
Erin Anderson
43
Elizabeth McCalley
44
Jessica Southers
60
Brooke Novak
109
Amber Ayub
21:26.71
22:31.55
22:48.62
22:49.32
22:50.89
23:10.02
25:17.69
Nov. 16, 2002 (1st of 16)
SOUTH REGION CHAMPIONS
UT finishers (6K race, 125 runners)
2
*Sharon Dickie
4
*Brooke Novak
14
*Felicia Guliford
20
*Megan Cauble
36
Jessica Southers
47
Erin Anderson
69
Elizabeth McCalley
Nov. 15, 2003 (1st of 25)
SOUTH REGION CHAMPIONS
UT finishers (6K race, 176 runners)
5
*Brooke Novak
7
*Megan Cauble
9
*Lindsay Hyatt
24
*Elizabeth McCalley
26
Katie Flaute
35
Carly Matthews
38
Mindy Sullivan
Nov. 13, 2004 (1st of 23)
SOUTH REGION CHAMPIONS
UT finishers (6K race, 163 runners)
7
*Brooke Novak
11
*Elizabeth McCalley
14
*Felicia Guliford
21
*Katie Flaute
25
*Megan Cauble
32
Carly Matthews
37
Mindy Sullivan
21:43.13
22:02.65
22:34.20
22:44.79
23:21.57
23:46.39
24:27.68
20:54.80
20:59.21
21:02.73
21:44.16
21:45.21
22:02.56
22:06.82
21:15.04
21:28.71
21:34.62
21:48.87
21:57.80
22:09.85
22:21.50
Nov. 12, 2005 (1st of 24)
SOUTH REGION CHAMPIONS
UT finishers (6K race, 171 runners)
5
*Felicia Guliford
9
*Leah Soro
12
*Katie Flaute
15
*Carly Matthews
35
Sarah Bowman
56
Rolanda Bell
70
Mindy Sullivan
20:43.47
21:01.54
21:13.78
21:30.55
22:12.22
22:41.08
22:54.77
Nov. 11, 2006 (3rd of 23)
UT finishers (6K race, 155 runners)
8
*Katie Van Horn
10
*Jackie Areson
13
*Katie Flaute
23
*Sarah Bowman
26
Felicia Guliford
27
Rose-Anne Galligan
43
Leah Soro
21:33.0
21:35.4
21:42.7
22:06.4
22:10.1
22:12.6
22:38.6
Nov. 10, 2007 (4th of 20)
UT finishers (6K race, 145 runners)
11
*Katie Van Horn
14
*Sarah Bowman
16
*Heidi Magill-Dahl
33
Brittany Sheffey
87
Phoebe Wright
--Rolanda Bell
21:06.48
21:12.19
21:15.36
22:01.87
23:57.91
DQ
41
117
142
155
170
Barb Tieperman
Lynn Emery
Cathy Kirchner
Betty Shell
Lori Bertelkamp
18:42
19:33
19:52
20:06
20:29
Nov. 18, 1978
UT finisher (233 runners)
5
*Brenda Webb
17:20
Nov. 17, 1979 (14th of 24)
UT finishers (# of runners n/a)
50
Shannon Cline
60
Linda Portasik
71
Miriam Boyd
109
Lynn Lashley
120
Ellen McCallister
145
Sally Thomas
193
Joanne Soldano
17:47
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Nov. 15, 1980 (6th of 25)
UT finishers (214 runners)
8
*Kathy Bryant
15
*Linda Portasik
64
Donna McLain
83
Eileen Hornberger
175
Ellen McCallister
189
Beth Huff
108
130
172
179
Celeste Susnis
Michelle Strothers
Lynne Collazo
Dina Spagnoli
Nov. 23, 1998 (31st of 31)
UT finishers (255 runners)
74
Sharon Dickie
153
Mindy Watkins
176
Angie Pothier
196
Kristen Ritter
205
Dorothy Denko
228
Meghan Mantlo
239
Maureen Ferris
18:02.65
18:41.18
18:56.20
19:09.10
19:12.98
19:39.05
20:06.30
Nov. 20, 2000
UT finisher (215 runners)
29
*Sharon Dickie
21:21.8
Nov. 19, 2001
UT finisher (6K race, 249 runners)
136
Sharon Dickie
17:16
17:31
18:15
18:27
19:12
19:22
NCAA
Nov. 21, 1981
UT finisher (# runners n/a)
9
*Kathy Bryant-Hadler
16:41
Nov. 22, 1982 (12th of 15)
UT finishers (132 runners)
7
*Kathy Bryant-Hadler
63
Susan Baxter
81
Donna McLain
87
Liz Natale
106
Monica O’Reilly
114
Eileen Hornberger
118
Joetta Clark
17:14
18:13
18:36
18:42
19:18
19:35
19:42
Nov. 22, 1983 (4th of 16)
UT finishers (133 runners)
4
*Liz Natale
16
*Alison Quelch
33
Monica O’Reilly
45
Susan Baxter
53
Alisa Harvey
129
Pam Fillmore
16:42
17:05
17:28
17:40
17:51
19:59
Nov. 24, 1986
UT finisher (129 runners)
71
Alisa Harvey
18:25
Nov. 20, 1989 (6th of 22)
UT finishers (183 runners)
5
*Patty Wiegand
32
*Jasmin Jones
33
*Valerie Bertrand
71
Michelle Strothers
160
Christy Cupp
176
Lynne Collazo
183
Lisa Richardson
16:47
17:23
17:23
17:57
19:02
19:38
21:03
Nov. 19, 1990 (12th of 22)
UT finishers (179 runners)
44
Patty Wiegand
55
Megan Thompson
62
Jasmin Jones
17:12
17:17
17:24
17:47
18:10
19:20
20:35
22:27
Nov. 25, 2002 (t28th of 31)
UT finishers (6K race, 254 runners)
50
Sharon Dickie
103
Brooke Novak
164
Megan Cauble
238
Jessica Southers
246
Felicia Guliford
250
Elizabeth McCalley
253
Erin Anderson
20:48.8
21:19.8
21:48.3
22:39.7
23:00.4
23:27.9
23:51.3
Nov. 24, 2003 (24th of 31)
UT finishers (6K race, 252 runners)
58
Brooke Novak
100
Lindsay Hyatt
155
Elizabeth McCalley
166
Megan Cauble
178
Katie Flaute
200
Mindy Sullivan
249
Nicole Cook
20:56.7
21:15.9
21:34.9
21:41.8
21:50.0
22:03.0
23:24.1
Nov. 22, 2004 (21st of 31)
UT finishers (6K race, 248 runners)
81
Felicia Guliford
97
Katie Flaute
125
Elizabeth McCalley
169
Carly Matthews
175
Brooke Novak
192
Mindy Sullivan
----Megan Cauble
21:45.5
21:53.7
22:12.3
22:34.4
22:38.8
22:53.8
DNF
Nov. 21, 2005 (28th of 31)
UT finishers (6K race, 253 runners)
58
Felicia Guliford
113
Katie Flaute
197
Carly Matthews
199
Leah Soro
231
Sarah Bowman
235
Mindy Sullivan
243
Rolanda Bell
20:45.9
21:14.9
22:03.7
22:04.9
22:40.4
22:48.8
23:09.8
Nov. 20, 2006 (28th of 31)
UT finishers (6K race, 255 runners)
97
Sarah Bowman
113
Katie Van Horn
158
Katie Flaute
161
Jackie Areson, Tennessee
188
Felicia Guliford, Tennessee
238
Leah Soro, Tennessee
DNF
Rose-Anne Galligan, Tennessee
22:08.1
22:14.6
22:34.1
22:35.6
22:53.1
24:00.9
N/A
* - Denotes All-American
- Denotes All-District/Region
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
AIAW
Nov. 19, 1977 (8th of 23)
UT finishers (218 runners)
2
*Brenda Webb
20
Lynn Lashley
17:24
18:16
UT again hosts the NCAA South Regional at Lambert Acres in 2008, and the Lady Vols hope to run
out front and earn the program’s sixth NCAA Championship team berth in the past seven seasons.
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ALL-TIME LADY VOL HONOR ROLL
JACKIE
ARESON
SUSAN
BAXTER
VALERIE
BERTRAND
SARAH
BOWMAN
KATHY
BRYANT-HADLER
MEGAN
CAUBLE
SHARON
DICKIE
MAUREEN
FERRIS
KATIE
FLAUTE
FELICIA
GULIFORD
ALISA
HARVEY
LINDSAY
HYATT
JASMIN
JONES
PAGE
KUNST
HEIDI
MAGILL-DAHL
CARLY
MATTHEWS
ELIZABETH
McCALLEY
LIZ
NATALE
BROOKE
NOVAK
MONICA
O’REILLY
LINDA
PORTASIK
ANGIE
POTHIER
ALISON
QUELCH
MICHELLE
REASOR
KRISTEN
RITTER
LEAH
SORO
JESSICA
SOUTHERS
MINDY
SULLIVAN
CELESTE
SUSNIS
MEGAN
THOMPSON
KATIE
VAN HORN
BRENDA
WEBB
PATTY
WIEGAND
PHOEBE
WRIGHT
LADY VOL INDIVIDUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
JACKIE ARESON
* All-South Region ’06
SUSAN BAXTER
* All-SEC ’83
VALERIE BERTRAND
* All-America ’89
* All-SEC ’89
SARAH BOWMAN
* All-South Region ’06,’07
* All-SEC ’05,’06,’07
* CoSIDA Academic All-District IV ’07,’08
* CoSIDA Academic All-America ’08
* USTFCCCA All-Academic ’07
FELICIA GULIFORD
* All-South Region ’02,’04,’05
* All-SEC ’04,’05
* WICCCA Academic All-America ’04
* CoSIDA Academic All-District IV ’05,’07
MONICA O’REILLY
* All-SEC ’83,’84,’85
LINDA PORTASIK
* All-America ’80
* Academic All-America ’82
ALISA HARVEY
* All-SEC ’83,’84,’85
ANGIE POTHIER
* All-South Region ’98,’99
LINDSAY HYATT
* All-South Region ’03
JASMIN JONES
* All-America ’89
* All-District III ’90
* All-SEC ’87,’89,’90
PATTY WIEGAND
* All-America ’89
* All-District III ’90
* All-SEC ’87,’89,’90
* CoSIDA Academic All-America, ’89
MICHELLE REASOR
* All-SEC ’94
PHOEBE WRIGHT
* CoSIDA Academic All-District IV ’08
PAGE KUNST
* All-SEC ’92
KRISTEN RITTER
* All-South Region ’97
MEGAN CAUBLE
* All-South Region ’02,’03,’04
* All-SEC ‘03
* CoSIDA Academic All-District IV ’04
HEIDI MAGILL-DAHL
* All-South Region ’07
* All-SEC ’07
LEAH SORO
* All-South Region ’05
* All-SEC ’05
CARLY MATTHEWS
* All-South Region ’05
JESSICA SOUTHERS
* All-SEC ’01
ELIZABETH McCALLEY
* All-South Region ’03,’04
* All-SEC ’04
MINDY SULLIVAN
* All-SEC ’03
MAUREEN FERRIS
* All-South Region ’98
* All-SEC ’98
KATIE FLAUTE
* All-South Region ’04,’05,’06
* All-SEC ’04,’05,’06
* CoSIDA Academic All-America ’07
* CoSIDA Academic All-Dist. IV ’04,’05,’06,’07
CELESTE SUSNIS
* All-SEC ’90,’93
LIZ NATALE
* All-America ’83
* All-SEC ’83
MEGAN THOMPSON
* All-District III ’90
* All-SEC ’90,’93
BROOKE NOVAK
* All-South Region ’02,’03,’04
* All-SEC ’01,’02,’03
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BRENDA WEBB
* All-America ’77,’78
ALISON QUELCH
* All-America ’83
* All-SEC ’83,’84
KATHY BRYANT-HADLER
* All-America ’80,’81,’82
SHARON DICKIE
* All-America ’00
* All-South Region ’98,’00,’01,’02
* All-SEC ’98,’00,’01,’02
KATIE VAN HORN
* All-South Region ’06,’07
* All-SEC ’07
* USTFCCCA All-Academic ’07
NCAA ALL-AMERICANS
1981: Kathy Bryant-Hadler (9th)
1982: Kathy Bryant-Hadler (7th)
1983: Liz Natale (4th)
1983: Alison Quelch (16th)
1989: Patty Wiegand (5th)
1989: Jasmin Jones (32nd)
1989: Valerie Bertrand (33rd)
2000: Sharon Dickie (29th)
AIAW ALL-AMERICANS
1977: Brenda Webb (2nd)
1978: Brenda Webb (5th)
1980: Kathy Bryant (8th)
1980: Linda Portasik (15th)
ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICANS
1982: Linda Portasik
1989: Patty Wiegand (CoSIDA A-L)
2004: Felicia Guliford (WICCCA)
2007: Katie Flaute (CoSIDA CC/TF)
2008: Sarah Bowman (CoSIDA CC/TF)
USTFCCCA ALL-ACADEMIC
2007: Sarah Bowman
2007: Katie Van Horn
USTFCCCA ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM
2007
ALL-TIME LADY VOL ROSTER
Missy Alston, Nashville, Tenn., 74-75-76
Elizabeth Altizer, Bartlett, Tenn., 08
Erin Anderson, Kent, Ohio, 00-01-02
Leah Anderson, Chattanooga, Tenn., 96-97
Jackie Areson, Delray Beach, Fla., 06-07-08
Amber Ayub, Knoxville, Tenn., 99-00-01-02
Christy Baird, Knoxville, Tenn., 99-01-02-03
Tyler Barnes, Ewing, N.J., 08
Amy Bartosik, Kingsport, Tenn., 96-97-98-99
Susan Baxter, Seymour, Conn., 81-82-83
Rolanda Bell, Laurelton, N.Y., 05-06-07-08
Kameisha Bennett, Dayton, Ohio, 00-01-03
Monique Berarducci, Knoxville, Tenn., 01
Lori Bertelkamp, Knoxville, Tenn., 77
Valerie Bertrand, Coram, N.Y., 86-87-88-89
Deedie Bise, Knoxville, Tenn., 74
Sarah Bowman, Warrenton, Va., 05-06-07-08
Miriam Boyd, Port Huron, Mich., 79-80-81
Jennifer Brewer, Lincoln Park, Mich., 93-94-95
Janelle Briggs, Stone Mountain, Ga., 97
Alyssa Bryant, Andersonville, Tenn., 06-07-08
Kathy Bryant-Hadler, Delaware, Ohio, 80-81-82-84
Megan Cauble, Knoxville, Tenn., 02-03-04-05
Gena Clare, Fairfax, Va., 85-86
Joetta Clark, South Orange, N.J., 81-82
Allison Clary, Columbia, S.C., 96
Shannon Cline, Columbus, Ohio, 79
Jane Cobb, Ronceverte, W.Va., 78
Lynne Collazo, Ridgewood, N.J., 89-90-91-92
Rebecca Collins, Loveland, Ohio, 99-00-01-02
Ally Colvin, Maryville, Tenn., 08
Nicole Cook, Petersburg, Va., 01-02-03-04
Cathy Corpeny, Kansas City, Mo., 81-82-83-84
Christy Cupp, Lake City, Tenn., 89
Tanya Dawson, Memphis, Tenn., 92
Shari Demarest, Washington, Ind., 75
Dorothy Denko, Krakow, Poland, 97-98
Sharon Dickie, Grand Blanc, Mich., 98-RS 99-00-01-02
Sharon Dickie earned All-America kudos in 2000 and is the only Lady
Vol to earn All-SEC and All-South Region accolades four times.
Janet Easterday, Oak Ridge, Tenn., 86-87
Lynn Emery, Wichita, Kan., 76-77-78
Ann Farrar, Oak Ridge, Tenn., 75
Maureen Ferris, Cleveland, Ohio, 94-95-96-RS 97-98
Sara Fieweger, Hope, Maine, 93
Pam Fillmore, Knoxville, Tenn., 83-84
Edra Finley, Mobile, Ala., 05
Shara Flacy, Ardmore, Tenn., 74-75
Katie Flaute, Dayton, Ohio, RS 02-03-04-05-06
Ramzee Fondren, Detroit, Mich., 08
Rose-Anne Galligan, County Kildare, Ireland, 06
Amanda Gillam, Finksburg, Md., 92-93-94
Jennifer Gordon, Burke, Va., 01
Antoinette Gorham, Glenarden, Md., 03-04
Sharon Gough, Pittsburgh, Pa., 76
Katherine Green, Alpharetta, Ga., 97-98
Felicia Guliford, Gallup, N.M., 02-RS 03-04-05-06
Jill Hall, Knoxville, Tenn., 75
Vonda Hammons, Jefferson City, Mo., 85-86-87-88
Alisa Harvey, Fairfax, Va., 83-84-85-86
Laura Haynes, Knoxville, Tenn., 93-94-95-96
Sue Anne Heins, Knoxville, Tenn., 85
Laura Heiser Knoxville, Tenn., 95
Melissa Hiller, Nashville, Tenn., 94-95-96-97
Charity Honeycutt, Burnsville, N.C., 08
Eileen Hornberger, Laureldale, Pa., 80-81-82
Beth Huff, Janesville, Wis., 82
Lindsay Hyatt, Auburn, Calif., 03
Alicia Johnson, Carrollton, Texas, 89-90-91
Jasmin Jones, Hackensack, N.J., 87-88-89-90
Kelsey Kane, Knoxville, Tenn., 08
Cathy Kirchner, Wilmington, Del., 77-78
Amy Kirkland, Knoxville, Tenn., 75
Chelsea Knotts, Ripley, W. Va., 08
Page Kunst, Cincinnati, Ohio, 92
Lynn Lashley, Raleigh, N.C., 76-77-79
Tonya Lee, Mount Holly, N.J., 91
Sigrid Lokrhiem, Oak Ridge, Tenn., 95
Three-time All-SEC and All-South performer Brooke Novak owns the
UT 5K record on the Lambert Acres course at 17:16.96.
34
ALL-TIME LADY VOL ROSTER
Pam Lyons, Memphis, Tenn., 97
Katrice Malcom, Decatur, Ga., 93-94-95-96
Meghan Mantlo, Nashville, Tenn., 96-97-98-99
Beth Marlow, Memphis, Tenn., 94-95-96-97
Carly Matthews, Winston-Salem, N.C., 03-04-05
Elizabeth McCalley, Knoxville, Tenn., 01-02-03-04
Ellen McCallister, Bristol, Tenn., 79-80-81
Kimarra McDonald, Lumberton, N.J., 05-06-07-08
Heidi Magill-Dahl, Orem, Utah, 07
Donna McLain, York, Pa., 80-81-82-84
Shawn Moore, Philadelphia, Pa., 89
Robin Mortel, Brooklyn, N.Y., 04-05
Teal Mowery, Rochester, N.Y., 91-92
Jená Murphy, Memphis, Tenn., 08
Sharon Mustin, Oak Ridge, Tenn., 81
Tiffany Myers, Germantown, Tenn., 90
Liz Natale, Newton, Mass., 82-83
Brooke Novak, Kaukauna, Wis., 01-02-03-04
Cindy O’Bryant, Chattanooga, Tenn., 90-91-92-93
Monica Olkowski, Marlton, N.J., 90-91
Monica O’Reilly, Abbeyleix, Ireland, 82-83-84-85
LeAnn Parker, Kingsport, Tenn., 85
Kelly Parrish, Ocala, Fla., 06
Kathy Perez, Knoxville, Tenn., 84
Kristen Permakoff, Knoxville, Tenn., 89-90
Linda Portasik, Alexandria, Va., 79-80-81-82
Angie Pothier, Vancouver, Wash., 98-99
Chanelle Price, Easton, Pa., 08
Alison Quelch, MacQuarie Fields, Australia, 83-84
Amy Ranker, Liberal, Kan., 01
Michelle Reasor, Fort Worth, Texas, 93-94
Amy Reeves, West Point, Ga., 94
Lisa Richardson, Nürnberg, Germany, 88-89-90-91
Kristen Ritter, Frederick, Md., 96-97-98
Brittany Sheffey, Bellport, N.Y., 07-08
Betty Shell, Kettering, Ohio, 76-77
Sally Sligar, Louisville, Ky., 75-76
Staci Snider, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 91
Academic All-American Katie Flaute collected All-SEC and All-South
Region recognition three times each during her UT career.
Joanne Soldano, Oak Ridge, Tenn., 78-79
Leah Soro, Knoxville, Tenn., 05-06-07-08
Jessica Southers, Ashland, Ky., 00-01-02-03
Dina Spagnoli, Arlington, Va., 90-91
Krista Stewart, Drexel Hill, Pa., 93-94
Brenda Stone, Newport, Tenn., 74-75
Tere Stouffer, Auburn Hills, Mich., 86-87
Michelle Strothers, Williamsport, Pa., 88-89-90-91
Marianne Sturr, Dayton, Ohio, 76
Mindy Sullivan, Lubbock, Texas, 02-03-04-05
Celeste Susnis, Wheatfield, Ind., 90-91-92-93
Lauren Taylor, Morristown, Tenn., 97
Sally Thomas, North Indialantic, Fla., 79
Megan Thompson, Florissant, Mo., 90-91-92-93
Barb Tieperman, Arkansas City, Kan., 76-77-78
Elizabeth Tiller, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 08
Leslie Treherne, Chesapeake, Va., RS 03-04-05-06
Katie Van Horn, Glendora, N.J., 06-07-08
Lynn Waldrop, Alto, Ga., 74
Caitlin Ward, Gibsonia, Pa., 05
Mindy Watkins, Canastota, N.Y., 96-97-98-99
Renn Watkins, Wake Forest, N.C., 00
Brenda Webb, Kettering, Ohio, 77-78
Jill Weber, Celenia, Ohio, 84-85
Bridget White, Birmingham, Ala., 85-86
Kim White, Memphis, Tenn., 08
Laurel White, Rocky Mount, N.C., 96
Patty Wiegand, Canastota, N.Y., 87-88-89-90
Gina Wilbanks, Springfield, Mo., 85-86-87-88
Scottie Wilkerson, Hermitage, Tenn., 83
Charlotte Williams, Knoxville, Tenn., 74-75
Michelle Winterer, Lake St. Louis, Mo., 85-86
Phoebe Wright, Signal Mountain, Tenn., 06-07-08
Roberta Wright, Greeneville, Tenn., 78
Rachel Zamata, Henderson, Tenn., 03-04-05
Sharon Zook, Boca Raton, Fla., 74
Felicia Guliford was a 2007 NCAA Woman of the Year finalist, academic
All-American and multi-time All-SEC and All-South honoree.
Current Lady Vols in bold
35
YEAR-BY-YEAR LADY VOL HISTORY
ALL-TIME SEASON RESULTS & COACHING RECORDS
Year
W
L
Pct.
SEC
Dist./Reg.
1974
3
1
.750
----1975
12
5
.706
----1976
27
3
.900
----1977
47
*11
.805
--1st
1978
15
3
.833
--3rd
1979
24
18
.571
--3rd
1980
42
10
.808
--3rd
1981
39
7
.848
--4th
1982
52
14
.788
--3rd
1983
42
4
.913
1st
1st
1984
30
22
.577
3rd
8th
1985
58
*31
.650
3rd
8th
1986
20
18
.526
6th
#
1987
51
31
.622
4th
9th
1988
49
19
.721
4th
11th
1989
85
9
.904
2nd
4th
1990
74
17
.813
1st
4th
1991
61
15
.803
7th
8th
1992
88
16
.846
5th
9th
1993
77
29
.726
5th
10th
1994
28
*33
.456
8th
27th
1995
25
37
.403
9th
#
1996
38
64
.373
9th
24th
1997
68
23
.747
6th
9th
1998
74
*34
.683
3rd
3rd
1999
43
*37
.537
9th
9th
2000
65
30
.684
8th
#
2001
95
35
.731
2nd
6th
2002
59
*34
.633
3rd
1st
2003
99
31
.762
1st
1st
2004
121
25
.829
1st
1st
2005
125
32
.796
1st
1st
2006
114
40
.740
3rd
3rd
2007
104
19
.846
2nd
4th
Terry Crawford
303
*76
.799
Gary Schwartz
159
*102
.609
Missy Kane
269
60
.818
Ann Bertucci
193
*78
.711
Dorothy Doolittle
25
37
.403
Brenda Webb
213
**158
.574
Rodney Rothoff
160
65
.711
J.J. Clark
622
*181
.774
TOTAL
1,944
******757
.719
District - AIAW Region 2 1977-80, NCAA District 3 1981-1996, South Region 1997-present
National - AIAW 1977-80, NCAA 1981-present
* - each represents one tie
# - individual participants only
National
------8th
#
14th
6th
#
12th
4th
----#
----6th
12th
--------------31st
--#
#
t28th
24th
21st
28th
28th
---
Coach
Crawford
Crawford
Crawford
Crawford
Crawford
Crawford
Crawford
Crawford
Crawford
Crawford
Schwartz
Schwartz
Schwartz
Schwartz
Kane
Kane
Kane
Kane
Bertucci
Bertucci
Bertucci
Doolittle
Webb
Webb
Webb
Webb
Rothoff
Rothoff
Clark
Clark
Clark
Clark
Clark
Clark
10 yrs.
4 yrs.
4 yrs.
3 yrs.
1 yr.
4 yrs.
2 yrs.
6 yrs.
34 yrs.
ALL-TIME LADY VOL CROSS COUNTRY COACHES
Terry Crawford
(1974-83)
Gary Schwartz
(1984-87)
Missy Kane
(1988-91)
Ann Bertucci
(1992-94)
Dorothy Doolittle
(1995)
Brenda Webb
(1996-99)
Rodney Rothoff
(2000-01)
J.J. Clark
(2002-)
36
LADY VOL COURSE RECORDS
LAMBERT ACRES COURSE
Maryville, Tenn. (5 kilometers)
LAMBERT ACRES COURSE
Maryville, Tenn. (6 kilometers)
Course Record:
16:52.22, Amy Yoder, Arkansas, 10/31/98, SEC Championships
Opponent Record:
16:52.22, Amy Yoder, Arkansas, 10/31/98, SEC Championships
Course Record:
20:54.1, Susan Kuijken, Florida State, 11/11/06, NCAA South Regional
Opponent Record:
20:54.1, Susan Kuijken, Florida State, 11/11/06, NCAA South Regional
UT Top 10 Performances/Performers:
1
1 17:16.96
Novak
2
17:39.20
Novak
3
2 17:41.65
Dickie
4
3 17:50h
Bowman
5
4 17:53.13
Ferris
6
17:54.59
Dickie
7
17:56.60
Dickie
8
17:59.55
Ferris
9
5 17:59.67
Pothier
10
18:03.81
Pothier
6 18:04.08
Matthews
7 18:04.99
Cauble
8 18:06.11
Ritter
18:06.73
Dickie
9 18:09h
Flaute
18:10.22
Ritter
10 18:13h
Guliford
UT Top 15 Performances/Performers:
1
1 21:33.0
Van Horn
11/11/06
2
2 21:35.4
Areson
11/11/06
3
3 21:42.7
Flaute
11/11/06
4
4
21:43
Dickie
11/16/02
5
5
22:02
Novak
11/16/02
6
6 22:06.4
Bowman
11/11/06
7
7 22:10.1
Guliford
11/11/06
8
8 22:12.6
Galligan
11/11/06
9
22:34
Guliford
11/16/02
10
9 22:38.6
Soro
11/11/06
11 10
22:44
Cauble
11/16/02
12
11
23:21
Southers
11/16/02
13 12
23:46
Anderson
11/16/02
14 13
24:27
McCalley
11/16/02
10/01/04
09/12/03
10/31/98
09/16/05
10/31/98
09/15/00
09/13/02
09/18/98
09/17/99
09/18/98
09/12/03
09/12/03
09/18/98
09/18/98
09/16/05
10/31/98
09/15/06
Tenn. Invite
Tenn./adidas Inv.
SEC Champs.
Tenn. Invite
SEC Champs.
UT Invite
Tenn. Invite
UT Invite
UT Invite
UT Invite
Tenn./adidas Inv.
Tenn./adidas Inv.
UT Invite
UT Invite
UT Invite
SEC
Tenn. Invite
NCAA South Reg.
NCAA South Reg.
NCAA South Reg.
NCAA South Reg.
NCAA South Reg.
NCAA South Reg.
NCAA South Reg.
NCAA South Reg.
NCAA South Reg.
NCAA South Reg.
NCAA South Reg.
NCAA South Reg.
NCAA South Reg.
NCAA South Reg.
Current Lady Vols in bold
Current Lady Vols in bold/h = hand time
LAKESHORE COURSE
Knoxville, Tenn. (4 kilometers)
LAKESHORE COURSE
Knoxville, Tenn. (5 kilometers)
Course Record:
14:28, Jasmin Jones, Tennessee, 9/15/89, VPI dual
14:28, Patty Wiegand, Tennessee, 9/15/89, VPI dual
Opponent Record:
14:59, Gwen Roller, Virginia Tech, 9/16/88, VPI dual
UT Top Ten Performances/Performers:
1
1
14:28
Jones
1
1
14:28
Wiegand
3
14:34
Jones
4
3
14:57
Bertrand
5
4
15:00
Thompson
6
5
15:03
Reasor
7
6
15:05
Susnis
8
15:09
Wiegand
9
7
15:20
Wilbanks
10
15:24
Reasor
15:33
Bertrand
8
15:35
Strothers
9
15:37
Brewer
10
15:37
Gillam
9/15/89
9/15/89
9/21/90
9/15/89
9/21/90
9/9/94
9/10/93
9/16/88
9/16/88
9/10/93
9/16/88
9/15/89
9/9/94
9/10/93
Course Record:
17:25, Mary Shea, N. Carolina St., 9/27/80, Lady Vol
Opponent Record:
17:25, Mary Shea, N. Carolina St., 9/27/80, Lady Vol
UT Top Ten Performances/Performers:
1
1
17:36
Bryant-Hadler
2
2
17:37
Baxter
3
3
17:37
Natale
4
17:45
Baxter
5
4
17:53
Quelch
6
17:58
Bryant-Hadler
7
18:00
Natale
8
18:03
Natale
9
5
18:10
Portasik
10
6
18:12
McLain
7
18:20
Hornberger
8
18:23
O’Reilly
9
18:25
Harvey
10
18:36
Clark
VPI dual
VPI dual
ETSU dual
VPI dual
ETSU dual
GT dual
GT dual
VPI dual
VPI dual
GT dual
VPI dual
VPI dual
GT dual
GT dual
10/16/82
10/30/82
10/30/82
10/16/82
10/22/83
9/26/81
10/16/82
10/22/83
9/27/80
10/30/82
9/27/80
10/30/82
10/4/86
10/30/82
Lady Vol
Fla. Dual
Fla. Dual
Lady Vol
Lady Vol
Lady Vol
Lady Vol
Lady Vol
Lady Vol
Fla. Dual
Lady Vol
Fla. Dual
Tenn. 5-Way
Fla. Dual
Katie Van Horn (far right of photo) set
the Lambert Acres/Lady Vol 6K course
record on Nov. 11, 2006, when the
University of Tennessee played host
to the NCAA South Regional meet.
Current team members Jackie Areson
(third from left), Sarah Bowman (fourth
from left) and Leah Soro (second from
right) also posted top-10 UT 6K times
at that meet and will join Van Horn in
trying to lower those marks on Nov. 15,
as Tennessee hosts the 2008 NCAA
South Regional at Lambert Acres.
37
ALL-TIME SERIES RECORDS
RECORDS VS. SEC OPPONENTS
OPPONENT
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana State
Mississippi
Mississippi State
South Carolina
Vanderbilt*
SEC Totals*
W
37
4
52
30
36
47
27
37
41
31
47
389
L
30
21
20
33
25
21
5
0
6
6
14
181
RECORDS VS. ALL OPPONENTS
OPPONENT
Air Force Academy
Akron
Alabama-Birmingham (UAB)
Ala.-Huntsville
Alabama A&M
Alabama State
Albany
American
Anderson
Appalachian State
Arizona
Arizona State
Arkansas-Little Rock
Arkansas State
Army
Asbury
Augustana (Ill.)
Austin Peay
Babson
Baldwin-Wallace
Ball State
Baylor
Belmont
Benedict
Benedictine
Berea
Berry
Bethel
Bethune-Cookman
Bevill State CC
Binghamton
Birmingham-Southern
Bloomsburg
Boston College
Bowling Green
Bradley
Brevard J.C.
Brigham Young
Brown
Bryan
Bryn Mawr
Bucknell
Buffalo
Butler
California (Berkeley)
Cal. Irvine
Cal. Los Angeles (UCLA)
Cal. Poly
W
3
3
29
1
6
9
1
1
1
16
2
0
2
2
3
1
2
13
1
1
2
6
19
1
1
2
5
1
4
1
5
7
3
1
6
0
7
2
1
2
1
6
7
2
1
2
2
2
L
0
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
3
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
4
7
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
1
1
0
13
0
0
0
0
1
1
2
1
6
1
OPPONENT
Cal. San Diego
Cal. Santa Barbara
Cal. State - Long Beach
Cal. State - Northridge
Calvin
Campbell
Canisius
Carson-Newman
Central Florida
Central Michigan
Central Missouri State
Charleston Southern
Chicago State
Christian Brothers
Christopher Newport
Cincinnati
Citadel
Clarion
Clayton State
Clemson
Cleveland State
Coastal Carolina
Colgate
College of Charleston
College of New Jersey
Colorado
Colorado-Colorado Springs
Colorado State
Columbia
Columbus State
Concordia
Connecticut
Converse
Cornell
Cortland (SUNY)
Covenant
Crichton
Cumberland College
Cumberland University
Dartmouth
Davidson
Dayton
Delaware
DePaul
Detroit Mercy
Dickinson
Drake
Duke
Duquesne
East Carolina
East Stroudsburg
East Tennessee State*
Eastern Illinois
Eastern Kentucky*
Eastern Michigan
Eckerd
Edinboro
Elmhurst
Elon
Emory
Evansville
Fanshawe
Ferris State
Findlay
W
L
1
3
1
1
1
7
2
5
13
3
0
6
1
2
2
2
1
1
1
9
1
7
5
3
5
2
0
7
3
1
1
3
1
6
4
2
2
5
1
2
14
1
4
3
1
2
0
13
4
4
1
26
4
20
4
1
2
1
2
5
2
1
1
2
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
25
0
3
0
0
0
11
1
4
7
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
9
0
0
0
2
0
14
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
38
OPPONENT
Fisk
Florida ‘B’
Florida A & M
Florida Atlantic
Florida C.C.
Florida International
Florida Memorial
Florida Southern College
Florida State*
Florida State ‘B’
Florida Tech
Florida TC
Furman
Gardner-Webb
George Mason
George Washington
Georgetown
Georgetown (Ky.)
Georgia Southern
Georgia State
Georgia Tech
Grand Valley State
Greenville College
Grove City
Guelph
Hanover
Harding
Harper
Harvard
Haverford
Heidelberg
High Point
Hope
Houston
Howard
Huntington
Huntsville TC
Idaho
Idaho State
Illinois
Illinois Institute of Tech.
Illinois State
Indiana*
Indiana “B”
Indiana (Pa.)
Indiana-Purdue Ft. Wayne
Indiana State
Indianapolis
Iona
Iowa
Iowa State
Ithaca
Jackson State
Jacksonville
Jacksonville State
James Madison
John Carroll
Johns Hopkins
Juniata
Kalamazoo
Kansas
Kansas State
Kennesaw State
Kent State
W
L
2
1
4
10
1
16
1
1
29
1
1
1
14
1
1
3
4
2
14
25
15
0
1
1
3
1
1
1
4
1
1
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
0
4
1
4
16
1
3
1
4
1
1
4
3
4
2
10
5
12
1
1
1
1
1
6
3
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
12
0
0
1
3
0
0
0
11
0
0
0
13
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
5
0
1
7
0
0
0
1
0
1
3
7
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
1
4
0
1
OPPONENT
Kettering Striders TC
Kutztown
Lafayette
LaSalle
Lake Forest
Lake Superior State
Lander
Lee
LeGrange
Lehigh
Liberty
Lincoln Memorial
Lipscomb (David Lipscomb)
Louisiana-Monroe
Louisville
Lock Haven
Longwood
Loyola (Ill.)
Loyola (Md.)
Lynchburg
Malone
Mansfield
Marist
Marquette
Mars Hill
Marshall
Maryland
Maryland “B”
Maryland-Baltimore County
Maryville
Massachusetts
Memphis
Mercer
Messiah
Miami (Fla.)
Miami (Ohio)
Michigan
Michigan State
Michigan Tech
Middle Tennessee State
Millersville
Milligan
Minnesota
Missouri
Missouri State (SW Mo. St.)
Mobile
Monmouth
Montana
Montana State
Morehead State
Mott C.C.
Mt. Olive
Mt. Saint Mary’s
Muhlenburg
Murray State
Navy
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Mexico
New Orleans
North Alabama
North Carolina
North Carolina - Asheville
North Carolina - Charlotte
W
L
1
6
5
6
1
1
1
2
1
8
8
3
12
1
14
2
1
1
4
1
1
1
1
4
1
9
10
1
5
1
4
13
4
1
11
6
4
5
1
7
3
2
9
3
5
1
4
1
0
5
1
1
6
2
22
3
3
1
1
0
4
17
7
11
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
13
11
0
0
1
0
5
7
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
5
0
1
1
0
18
2
3
ALL-TIME SERIES RECORDS
OPPONENT
W
L
North Carolina - Greensboro 3
North Carolina - Wilmington 12
North Carolina A&T
1
North Carolina State
8
North Florida
8
North Georgia
1
North Greenville
1
Northern Arizona
4
Northern Illinois
2
Northern Kentucky
1
Northwestern
5
Northwood
1
Notre Dame
0
Nova Southeastern
1
Oakland
1
Ohio
5
Ohio State
13
Ohio TC
2
Oklahoma
3
Oklahoma State
1
Old Dominion
8
Olivet Nazarene
1
Oregon
1
Oregon State
1
Ottawa
1
Paine
1
Parkland College
1
Penn State
7
Penn State Berks--Lehigh Valley 1
Pennsylvania
8
Piedmont
2
Pittsburgh
8
Plattsburgh State
1
Pony Express NVTV
1
Portland
3
Portland State
3
0
1
0
31
0
0
0
7
0
0
1
0
5
0
1
2
1
0
1
4
0
0
8
0
0
0
0
14
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
OPPONENT
Princeton
Providence
Purdue
Purdue “B”
Queens (Canada)
Quinnipiac
Radford
Rhode Island
Rhodes
Rice
Richmond
Rider
Roanoke
Robert Morris
Roberts Wesleyan
Runners’ Forum TC
Rutgers
Saginaw State
St. Augustine’s
St. Francis (Pa.)
Saint Joseph
St. Joseph’s (Pa.)
St. Leo
Saint Louis
St. Norbert
St. Olaf
St. Peter’s
Saint Xavier
Samford
Savannah State
Sewanee (U. of South)
Shippensburg
Siena Heights
Slippery Rock
South Alabama
South Carolina ‘B’
W
L
2
1
7
1
2
1
12
3
3
3
13
5
1
1
1
1
4
1
1
6
1
5
1
3
1
1
1
1
19
1
2
2
1
3
15
1
7
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
OPPONENT
South Carolina State
South Dakota State
South Florida*
South Florida ‘B’
Southeast Missouri State
Southern Illinois
Southern Indiana
Southern Methodist
Southern Mississippi
Spartanburg Methodist
Stanford
Stephen F. Austin
Stetson
Stony Brook
Swarthmore
Syracuse
Tampa
Temple
Tennessee - Chattanooga
Tennessee - Martin
Tennessee State
Tennessee Tech
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
Texas Woman’s
Toledo
Troy
Tulane
Tulsa
Union (Tenn.)
Utah
Utah State
Valparaiso
Vermont
Villanova
W
L
2
0
15
1
5
6
2
1
14
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
18
10
6
8
7
4
1
1
0
13
1
2
1
1
2
2
1
9
0
1
11
0
1
2
0
0
0
0
8
0
0
1
0
2
0
0
6
0
0
0
3
2
2
0
1
0
3
0
0
1
0
0
0
12
OPPONENT
STATES WHERE WE'VE COMPETED THROUGH THE YEARS
During the past 34 years,
Tennessee women’s cross country
has gone coast to coast, with the
team or an individual participating in
meets in 23 different states against
the nation’s best competition. In
addition to a home meet (Tennessee
Invitational) and the NCAA South
Regional at Lambert Acres Course
in Maryville this season and a crossstate trek to Nashville to compete in
the Belmont Opener, the Big Orange
will revisit Mississippi (Starkville)
and
Pennsylvania
(Bethlehem
and University Park), and will eye
another trip to Indiana (Terre Haute)
in 2008 for a visit to the NCAA
Championships on Nov. 24. The
shaded areas mark states where
UT student-athletes have previously
run.
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W
L
Virginia
8
25
Virginia Commonwealth
5
0
Virginia Military Institute
4
0
Virginia Tech
27
4
Wake Forest
15
21
Washington
9
4
Washington CYO
1
0
Washington State
3
0
Wayne State
3
0
Weber State
1
1
West Alabama
1
0
West Chester
1
0
West Florida
1
0
West Georgia
3
0
West Suburban TC
1
0
West Virginia
4
6
Western Carolina
12
0
Western Illinois
6
0
Western Kentucky
24
4
Western Michigan
0
3
Western Ontario
1
2
Wichita State
0
1
William & Mary
7
4
Windsor
1
0
Winthrop
16
0
Wisconsin
4
15
Wittenberg
1
0
Wofford
5
0
Wright State
1
0
Wyoming
1
0
Yale
5
1
Young Harris
1
0
Youngstown State
1
0
Totals ******
1,944
757
(.719)
* - each represents one tie
ALL-TIME LADY VOL RESULTS
DATE
1974
11/9
n/a
1975
10/4
10/18
10/25
11/9
11/16
1976
9/25
10/2
10/16
10/30
11/6
HOST
Cherokee Blvd.
not known
Kentucky
Southern Illinois
Cherokee Blvd.
site unknown
Great Smoky Mountains NP
(only women’s team entered)
Eastern Kentucky
Florida State
Southern Illinois
Cherokee Blvd.
site unknown
1977
9/17
Eastern Kentucky
10/8
Dayton
10/15
Southern Illinois
10/22
Orange Tee GC
AIAW REGION 2 CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/4
North Carolina State
AIAW CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/19
Southwestern (Texas)
1978
9/30
Eastern Kentucky
10/21
Orange Tee GC
AIAW REGION 2 CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/3
North Carolina State
1979
9/22
Kentucky
10/13
Orange Tee GC
10/20
Florida State
AIAW REGION 2 CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/3
Murray State
AIAW CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/17
Florida State
1980
9/20
Kentucky
9/27
Lakeshore Course
10/4
Piedmont C.C.
10/11
Penn State
AIAW REGION 2 CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/2
Piedmont C.C.
AIAW CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/15
Washington
1981
9/19
Kentucky
9/26
Lakeshore Course
10/3
Piedmont C.C.
10/10
Indiana
NCAA DISTRICT 3 CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/7
Piedmont C.C.
1982
9/18
9/25
Kentucky
North Carolina
DATE
HOST
10/9
Indiana
10/16
Lakeshore Course
10/30
Lakeshore Course
NCAA DISTRICT 3 CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/13
Furman
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/22
Indiana
FINISH
3-1
2nd of 4
1st of 2
12-5
2nd of 2
3rd of 10
3rd of 6
1st of 3
1st of 15
1983
10/1
Florida State
10/15
Clemson
10/22
Lakeshore Course
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
10/29
Kentucky
NCAA DISTRICT 3 CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/12
Clemson
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/21
Lehigh
27-3
1st of 3
2nd of 5
3rd of 14
1st of 11
1st of 2
1984
9/22
Maryland
9/29
North Carolina
10/6
Piedmont C.C.
10/13
Wisconsin
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/2
Louisiana State
NCAA DISTRICT 3 CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/10
Furman
47-11-1
2nd of 2
1st of 5
3rd of 14
2nd of 9
t1st of 12
8th of 23
1985
9/21
Kentucky
9/27
Eastern Kentucky
10/5
Indiana
10/12
Furman
10/26
Alabama-Birmingham
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/8
Mississippi
NCAA DISTRICT 3 CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/16
Furman
15-3
1st of 3
2nd of 7
3rd of 11
24-18
2nd of 6
1st of 3
3rd of 5
FINISH
2nd of 15
1st of 5
1st of 2
3rd of 17
12th of 16
42-4
1st of 4
2nd of 6
1st of 4
1st of 7
1st of 15
4th of 16
30-22
2nd of 2
5th of 10
2nd of 5
8th of 10
3rd of 8
8th of 23
58-31-1
t5th of 12
2nd of 3
11th of 19
7th of 19
2nd of 8
3rd of 10
8th of 26
3rd of 9
14th of 24
42-10
1st of 13
1st of 8
2nd of 2
3rd of 3
3rd of 7
6th of 25
39-7
2nd of 12
1st of 8
3rd of 7
2nd of 17
4th of 7
52-14
1st of 13
1st of 5
The Tennessee Lady Vols have won five Southeastern Conference titles
in cross country, including the first-ever trophy back in 1983.
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ALL-TIME LADY VOL RESULTS
DATE
HOST
1986
9/27
Lakeshore Course
10/4
Lakeshore Course
10/11
Furman
10/25
Eastern Kentucky
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/7
Lakeshore Course
FINISH
20-18
5th of 7
4th of 5
5th of 17
3rd of 4
6th of 10
1987
9/19
Lakeshore Course
9/26
Vanderbilt
10/3
Miami (Ohio)
10/17
Virginia
10/23
Eastern Kentucky
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/2
Vanderbilt
NCAA DISTRICT 3 CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/14
Furman
51-31
1st of 2
4th of 14
1st of 4
17th of 21
2nd of 6
1988
9/16
Lakeshore Course
9/24
UT Chattanooga
10/8
Furman
10/21
Eastern Kentucky
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
10/31
Alabama
NCAA DISTRICT 3 CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/12
Furman
49-19
1st of 2
1st of 8
6th of 21
2nd of 4
1989
9/9
Georgia
9/15
Lakeshore Course
10/2
Auburn
10/14
Furman
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
10/30
Auburn
NCAA DISTRICT 3 CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/11
Furman
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/20
Navy
1990
9/15
Georgia State
9/21
Lakeshore Course
10/6
Miami (Ohio)
10/15
Pine Lakes GC
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
10/29
Florida
NCAA DISTRICT 3 CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/10
Furman
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/19
Pine Lakes GC
1991
9/21
UT Chattanooga
10/5
Pine Lakes GC
10/12
Furman
10/18
Eastern Kentucky
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/4
Georgia
NCAA DISTRICT 3 CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/16
Furman
1992
9/12
Western Carolina
4th of 10
9th of 32
4th of 9
11th of 30
85-9
1st of 10
1st of 2
1st of 6
1st of 17
2nd of 10
4th of 34
DATE
HOST
9/19
Indiana
9/26
Clemson
10/10
Furman
10/17
Vanderbilt
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/2
Kentucky
NCAA DISTRICT 3 CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/14
Furman
FINISH
5th of 8
1st of 5
1st of 22
1st of 19
5th of 12
9th of 38
1993
9/10
Lakeshore Course
9/18
Miami (Ohio)
9/25
Vanderbilt
10/9
Lehigh
10/16
UT Chattanooga
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
10/30
Louisiana State
NCAA DISTRICT 3 CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/13
Furman
77-29
1st of 2
3rd of 6
2nd of 17
13th of 32
2nd of 4
1994
9/9
Lakeshore Course
9/17
Lakeshore Course
10/1
Arkansas
10/8
Furman
10/15
Auburn
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
10/29
Arkansas
NCAA DISTRICT 3 CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/12
Furman
28-33-1
2nd of 2
t3rd of 4
16th of 21
6th of 19
4th of 10
1995
9/8
Morgan Hill Course
9/15
Indiana
9/23
Vanderbilt
9/30
Auburn
10/14
Furman
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
10/30
Mississippi State
25-37
2nd of 2
4th of 4
2nd of 7
16th of 20
10th of 23
1996
9/7
Panther Creek
9/20
Panther Creek
10/5
Southern Illinois
10/12
Auburn
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/2
Mississippi
NCAA DISTRICT 3 CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/16
Furman
38-64
3rd of 3
2nd of 2
5th of 11
27th of 34
1997
9/6
Appalachian State
9/13
Georgia State
9/19
Indiana
10/4
Southern Illinois
10/11
Furman
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/1
South Carolina
NCAA SOUTH REGIONAL
11/15
Samford
58-23
5th of 6
2nd of 7
3rd of 3
1st of 13
4th of 21
5th of 12
10th of 40
8th of 12
27th of 37
9th of 12
6th of 22
74-17
1st of 16
1st of 2
2nd of 6
3rd of 13
1st of 10
9th of 12
24th of 46
4th of 29
12th of 22
61-15
2nd of 11
1st of 2
1st of 16
2nd of 8
7th of 12
8th of 33
88-16
1st of 7
1998
9/5
9/18
10/4
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Western Carolina
Lambert Acres GC
Southern Illinois
6th of 12
9th of 26
74-34-1
1st of 8
1st of 6
1st of 14
ALL-TIME LADY VOL RESULTS
DATE
HOST
10/16
South Florida
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
10/31
Lambert Acres GC
NCAA SOUTH REGIONAL
11/14
Samford
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/23
Kansas
FINISH
3rd of 23
31st of 31
73-37-1
3rd of 7
t1st of 3
9th of 30
12th of 12
2000
9/2
Belmont
9/15
Lambert Acres GC
9/30
Loyola (Illinois)
10/14
Furman
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
10/30
Alabama
65-30
3rd of 7
2nd of 3
14th of 46
8th of 31
2001
8/31
Appalachian State
9/22
Vanderbilt
9/29
Auburn
10/13
Furman
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
10/29
Auburn
NCAA SOUTH REGIONAL
11/10
Alabama
95-35
4th of 12
5th of 25
8th of 32
16th of 37
HOST
2003
9/12
Lambert Acres GC
9/19
Alabama
10/4
Lehigh
10/18
Penn State
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/3
Georgia
NCAA SOUTH REGIONAL
11/15
Auburn
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/24
Northern Iowa
3rd of 12
1999
9/4
Western Carolina
9/17
Lambert Acres GC
10/1
Auburn
10/17
Michigan
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
10/30
Vanderbilt
NCAA SOUTH REGIONAL
11/13
Auburn
2002
9/13
Lambert Acres GC
9/21
North Carolina State
10/12
Penn State
10/19
Tennessee-Chattanooga
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/4
Florida
NCAA SOUTH REGIONAL
11/16
Lambert Acres GC
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/25
Indiana State
DATE
t1st of 22
2004
9/11
Bowling Green
9/25
Lehigh
10/1
Lambert Acres GC
10/16
Indiana State (White)
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
10/30
Arkansas
NCAA SOUTH REGIONAL
11/13
Alabama
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/22
Indiana State
9th of 12
9th of 23
8th of 12
2005
9/2
Belmont
9/16
Lambert Acres GC
10/1
Lehigh
10/15
Penn State
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
10/29
South Carolina
NCAA SOUTH REGIONAL
11/12
Florida
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/21
Indiana State
2nd of 12
6th of 18
59-34-1
1st of 8
1st of 7
6th of 19
1st of 8
2006
9/1
Belmont
9/15
Lambert Acres GC
9/29
Lehigh
10/14
Indiana State (White)
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
10/28
Louisiana State
NCAA SOUTH REGIONAL
11/11
Lambert Acres GC
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
11/20
Indiana State
3rd of 12
1st of 16
t28th of 31
2007
8/31
Belmont
9/14
Lambert Acres GC
9/22
Georgia
9/28
Lehigh
10/12
Penn State
SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
10/27
Kentucky
NCAA SOUTH REGIONAL
11/10
Florida
FINISH
99-31
3rd of 3
1st of 15
3rd of 32
5th of 19
1st of 12
1st of 25
24th of 31
121-25
1st of 13
1st of 35
1st of 3
6th of 36
1st of 12
1st of 23
21st of 31
125-32
2nd of 14
1st of 2
3rd of 47
3rd of 34
1st of 12
1st of 24
28th of 31
114-40
2nd of 12
1st of 11
3rd of 35
7th of 37
3rd of 12
3rd of 23
28th of 31
104-19
1st of 16
Unofficial
2nd of 9
8th of 47
8th of 25
2nd of 12
4th of 20
HOME COURSE HISTORY
J.J. Clark’s 2004 squad, shown hoisting the SEC trophy here, also won the
NCAA South Regional and finished 21st at the NCAA Championships.
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1974-76
1977-79
1990-91
1980-1994
1995
1996-97
1998-PRESENT
THIS IS TENNESSEE
IN THIS SECTION...
EXCELLENCE IN ATHLETICS ... 44-45
HIST. OF LADY VOL ATH. ......... 46-47
UT ATHLETIC FACILITIES ......... 48-51
LADY VOL FACTS ....................... 48-51
ACADEMICS/THORNTON CTR ....52-53
.... 52-53
UNIV. OF TENNESSEE................
TENNESSEE................ 54-55
ABOUT KNOXVILLE .................... 56-57
A.D. JOAN CRONAN .....................
.....................58-59
58-59
ATHLETICS DEPT. STAFF.......... 60-61
LADY VOL COACHES ........................ 62
2008 VOLSCARS ............................... 63
LADY VOL TRADITIONS .................... 64
LADY VOL ENDOWMENTS................ 65
LADY VOL HALL OF43FAME ............. 66
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The winningest coach in the game, Pat Summitt finished
the 2007-08 season with 983 career wins and picked
up NCAA title No. 8. Additionally, she has directed the
Lady Vols to 14 Southeastern Conference titles and 13
conference tournament championships.
Eight former Lady Vols competed in the 2008 Beijing
Olympic Games. The trio of Tamika Catchings, Kara
Lawson and Candace Parker helped lead USA Basketball,
while Monica Abbott pitched for USA Softball.
Christine Magnuson won the silver medal for the USA
in the 100m butterfly and Fabiola Molina swam in
the 100m backstroke for her native Brazil. Dee Dee
Trotter ran in the 400m for the second consecutive
Olympic Games as a member of Team USA and Rhian
Wilkinson was a member of Team Canada’s soccer
team.
In 2008, former Lady Vol Candace Parker was awarded the
Honda Cup as the NCAA female athlete of the year.
Head Track & Field/Cross Country Coach J.J. Clark served as
an assistant coach for the U.S. women in Beijing.
Sophomore Nikki Fowler was named the SEC’s Freshman
of the Year for her efforts on the volleyball court. She also
garnered three SEC Freshman of the Week honors and a
spot on the postseason all-freshman team.
In 2007, former Vol Peyton Manning led his Indianapolis Colts to
victory in the Super Bowl. In 2004, he set the NFL record with 49
touchdown passes.
Phillip Fulmer led the Vols football team to the
1998 National Championship and has coached
17 first-team All-Americans.
Goalkeeper Jaimel Johnson has recorded 15
solo shutouts in her time at Rocky Top, putting
her in third place all-time in the UT record
books. In 2007, the Dayton, Ohio, native
notched 10 shutouts for the third-best single
season performance by a Lady Vol.
■ The women’s basketball team has won eight NCAA titles and has had
19 players earn Kodak All-America status. In 2008, Candace Parker
earned her second consecutive John R. Wooden Award to go with the
2008 Naismith Player of the Year and AP Player of the Year awards.
■ UT’s softball team has made trips to the Women’s College World
Series in three of the past four years, including a second-place finish in
2007. In 2006, five women earned first-team All-America status and in
2007, Monica Abbott earned the prestigious Honda Sports Award for
softball.
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Though female athletes have
competed at UT since 1903, they
have been managed by a separate
administration only since 1976. For
more than 30 years, athletics for
women at Tennessee have enjoyed
an enormous amount of growth and
success. The department has been a
model for other women’s programs
across the country because of its
competitive teams, outstanding
facilities, quality staff members and
excellent graduation rates among
student-athletes.
Intercollegiate athletics for women at
the University of Tennessee officially
began during the 1976-77 academic
year. The UT women’s department
had nine intercollegiate sports at
that time, including basketball, cross
country, field hockey, gymnastics,
swimming and diving, tennis, indoor
and outdoor track and field, and
volleyball. In the inaugural year, the
staff numbered 17 and a budget of
$120,000 serviced approximately 75
athletes.
Despite the fact that field hockey and
gymnastics are no longer a part of the
department, growth in staff, budget
and sports continually increased
through the 1970s and into the
21st century. Under current athletics
director Joan Cronan, nearly 85 staff
members are on hand to support
around 235 student-athletes. Cronan
directs a department that posts an
operating budget of nearly $11
million.
With the passage of the Restoration
Act of 1988, the original mandates of
Title IX have been met at Tennessee
with the annexation of four sports.
Golf was the first added to UT’s
plate in 1992. Rowing and softball
joined the family during the 1995-96
season, and soccer, the 11th women’s
intercollegiate sport at Tennessee,
began play in the fall of 1996.
The 2007-08 academic and athletic
campaigns for the University
of Tennessee Lady Volunteers
culminated with 132 of 183 studentathletes earning academic honors
(an astounding 72 percent) while
the Orange and White teams
placed fourth in the Southeastern
Conference All-Sports standings. In
the field of competition, the overall
winning percentage for all Lady Vol
teams during the 2007-08 season
was an outstanding 69.2 percent.
A total of 26 All-America citations
were handed out to 22 Tennessee
student-athletes.
UT claimed the SEC postseason
basketball title and its eighth
national championship during the
2007-08 campaign. Ten of the
Lady Vols’ 11 teams advanced
to their respective NCAA
Championships. The Lady Vol
soccer team advanced to its
seventh consecutive NCAA
tournament and the tennis team
earned its 14th straight NCAA
bid.
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■ 1 of every 7 Lady Vols has achieved All-America status
■ 1 of every 3.5 Lady Vols has garnered All-Southeastern Conference honors
■ 1 of every 3 Lady Vols has earned All-Academic recognition
■
1,622 student-athletes have competed for the Lady Vols through
the 2007-08 school year
■
45 of the 50 states within the U.S. have been represented, along with
29 foreign countries
■
36 Lady Vols have combined to make 50 appearances in the Olympics,
with a contingent of eight (Monica Abbott, Tamika Catchings, Kara
Lawson, Christine Magnuson, Fabiola Molina, Candace Parker, Dee Dee
Trotter and Rhian Wilkinson) making the trip to Beijing, China, for the
Games of the XXIX Olympiad
■ 498 Lady Vols have received 829 All-SEC honors
■ 256 UT women have garnered 978 All-America awards
■ 64 student-athletes have totaled 105 Academic All-America
accolades
■ 620 Lady Vols have been awarded 1,211 Academic All-SEC citations
■ 72 national titles have been brought back to Knoxville by 36
individuals in the sports of swimming and diving and track
and field
■ Tennessee women’s teams have celebrated 10 national
championships during the existence of the women’s athletics
department. Track and Field claimed the first crown in 1981
at the AIAW Outdoor Championships and the 2005 trophy
at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Legendary UT Head
Coach Pat Summitt, meanwhile, has guided her Lady Vol
squads to NCAA hoops triumphs in 1987, 1989, 1991, 1996,
1997, 1998, 2007 and 2008.
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The University of Tennessee women’s athletics
training room is a state-of-the-art, 5,600 square-foot
sports care center for female athletes that stacks up
as one of the nation’s best facilities devoted solely
to women. It features a modality area and adequate
space for functional rehabilitation, aerobic training,
hydrotherapy and practice preparation (taping).
Additionally, there are administrative areas, a private
exam room and a private bathroom for drug testing.
The Lady Vol weight room is approximately
4,500 square feet and equipped primarily with
free weights, which allow for optimal functional
training and athletic enhancement. The Lady
Vol weight room environment is one of both
camaraderie and competition at the highest
levels. This facility and its staff are dedicated to
meet the unique needs of Tennessee’s female
student-athletes.
Fox Den Country Club is home
to the Lady Vols’ Mercedes-Benz
Collegiate Championships. The
par-72, 6,000-yard course presents
players with numerous challenges.
The fairways are narrow, tree-lined
and well-bunkered. Additionally,
three greens (#13, 16 and 18) are
almost completely surrounded by
water. The course received a millondollar renovation in 2004 and hosts
the Nationwide Tour’s Knoxville
Open.
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Thompson-Boling Arena is one of the largest on-campus
arenas in the country and has been one of the hardest
places for visiting opponents to play since its opening in
1987. During the summer of 2007, the arena underwent
major renovations including the addition of luxury suites, a
center-court suspended scoreboard with video screens and
remodeled concourses to make the facility more fan-friendly.
After 10 years in Stokely Athletics Center, the University of
Tennessee volleyball team made the move to ThompsonBoling Arena for the 2008 campaign. The Lady Vols hope
to continue the home-court dominance they displayed in
Stokely, where they amassed an impressive 98-34 record
during their decade-long stay in the facility. The volleyball
configuration at Thompson-Boling Arena will provide seating
for up to 7,500 Rocky Top faithful.
Directly connected to the arena is the new Pratt Pavilion
which opened in October 2007. The state-of-the-art practice
facility houses two full-size gymnasiums, one for each of
the men’s and women’s varsity basketball teams, an athletic
training room, a weight room, a film study room and space to
host recruits. The facility is a 70,000-square-foot structure with
four short courts within each of the two full size courts,
secured practice facilities and spacious locker rooms.
Tom Black Track at LaPorte Stadium is an eight-lane Olympic-style
oval situated in the heart of campus. The track was resurfaced in
2002 and has been the host site for several SEC Championships,
USA Track & Field Youth National Championships, the 1995
NCAA Championships, the 2006 NCAA Mideast Regional and
most recently the 2007 AAU Junior Olympics.
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Lambert Acres Golf Club in Maryville, Tenn.,
serves as the cross country home for the Lady
Vols. The 27-hole golf course is nestled in the
foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains and
boasts 9,525 yards of rolling hills with sloping
grades throughout the entire layout. The course
hosts the Tennessee Invitational and was home to
the 2002, 2006 and 2008 NCAA South Regionals,
in addition to the 1998 SEC Championships.
The new Sherri Parker Lee Softball Stadium features a stateof-the-art press box, private boxes and VIP suites, a digital
scoreboard with video playback capabilities, 1,614 seats and
three locker rooms. The Lady Vols have a 6,900 square-foot
training facility directly adjacent with a locker room, film
room, player lounge, training room, kitchen and meeting
rooms plus coaches offices. The dimensions are 220’ to
center field and 200’ to left and right field.
The new Regal Soccer Stadium includes seating
for approximately 3,000 fans, with player support
facilities below the bleachers and a media area
on the upper deck. Included are home and
visiting team locker rooms and team meeting
areas, a players’ lounge for the Lady Vols, a
video room with theater seating and concession
areas on both the lower level and upper deck.
The $24.3 million Allan Jones Aquatic Center is
the new home of the swimming and diving teams.
Highlighted by an eight-lane, 50-meter-by-25-yard
competition pool with a depth of eight feet from end to
end, it will be one of the fastest collegiate pools in the
country. A separate competition diving well features five
platforms varying in height from 1/2-meter to 10 meters,
and two one-meter and two three-meter springboards
on the main competition end of the well. In addition, five
three-meter and five one-meter auxiliary springboards
will surround the diving pool. The facility hosted USA
Diving’s 2008 Olympic Team Selection in July.
The Varsity Courts at the UT Tennis Stadium feature
a 2,500-seat stadium, six Lykold surface courts and
overhead lights. The Goodfriend Tennis Center features
four Decoturf surface courts, permanent seating for 500
spectators and men’s and women’s locker rooms. A new
team building with a spacious team room, a large film
study room and a display area for various awards will be
included in the first phase of renovations following the
conclusion of the 2008 season.
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■ UT’s softball team has made trips to the Women’s College
World Series in three of the past four years, including a
second-place finish in 2007. In 2006, five women earned
first-team All-America status and in 2007, Monica Abbott
earned the prestigious Honda Sports Award for softball.
■ The women’s basketball team has won eight NCAA titles
and has had 19 players earn Kodak All-America status.
In 2008, Candace Parker was honored with the HondaBroderick Cup Award as the collegiate woman athlete of
the year. She also earned her second consecutive John R.
Wooden Award to go with the 2008 Naismith Player of the
Year and AP Player of the Year awards.
■ The Lady Vol soccer team has been to the NCAA
Tournament seven years in a row.
■ The women’s rowing team captured the NCAA Southern
Regional Championship in 2006 and finished 11th at the
NCAA Championship in 2008.
■ The Lady Vol tennis team has advanced to the NCAA
Tournament for 14 consecutive years.
■ The women’s track program won the 2005 and 2007 SEC
Indoor Championships and the 2005 NCAA Indoor National
Championship.
■ The Lady Vol volleyball team advanced to the National
Semifinals in 2005.
■ In three of the past four years, all 11 Lady Vol sports teams
have advanced to their respective NCAA Championships.
■ Tennessee finished 16th in the nation in the U.S. Sports
Academy Directors’ Cup Standings in 2008.
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“The University of Tennessee and its Athletics Departments
are fully committed to the academic success of each
student-athlete. The mission of the Thornton Center
and its staff is to provide the academic support,
the educational programs and the learning
environment in which all student-athletes have
the opportunity to achieve their academic
and personal goals. The Center also will
encourage the student-athletes’ participation
in the many enriching opportunities available
at the University and in the surrounding
community.”
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The Thornton Athletics Student Life
Center, completed in the spring of
2001, is the hub for all academic
support and student life activities for
Lady Volunteer and Volunteer studentathletes.
The Thornton Center houses two study
rooms: the Peyton Manning Study
Area, located on the main level, and
the Lyle Finley Study Area, located on
the second floor. Each comfortably
accommodates 60 students.
The David L. Howard & Family
Computer Lab provides up-to-date
technological facilities for University
of Tennessee student-athletes. The
computer lab houses 48 computers,
three laser printers and five scanners.
The CHAMPS program helps student-athletes realize higher academic achievement
and increases the likelihood of retention. Student-athletes graduate and enter a chosen
profession with a higher level of vision, maturity, knowledge, motivation and greater
overall success. The Tennessee/CHAMPS LifeSkills program has also been honored
with the Program of Excellence Award by the Division I (D1A) Athletic Directors
Association. The award is given annually to a school that displays excellence in
meeting the five components of a student-athlete’s total development: academics,
athletics, career and personal development and community service.
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■ 132 Lady Vol student-athletes earned academic honors
■ 72 percent of Lady Vol student-athletes earned a 3.0 GPA
or higher
■ Five Lady Vols earned various Academic All-America honors
including basketball star Candace Parker being named the
CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American of the Year.
■ The Lady Vol academic honorees sported nearly 50 different
majors including accounting, advertising, art, aerospace
engineering, biochemistry, business, cellular and molecular
biology, exercise science, finance, graphic design, journalism
and electronic media, language and world business, nursing,
plant and soil sciences, psychology, retail and consumer science,
sociology, special education, sport management and tourism.
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Founded as Blount College in
1794, the University of Tennessee
became the state’s first public
university and its comprehensive
land-grant research institution in
1879. Tennessee’s only public
Carnegie Doctoral/ResearchExtensive University, UT ranks
among U.S. News and World
Report’s Top 50 Public Universities
in the country.
The The University of Tennessee
colleges and schools offer more
than 400 degree programs to its
26,400 students, who come from
every county in Tennessee, every
state in the nation and more than
100 foreign countries. Females
account for 52 percent of the
student body and the university
has a 13 percent total minority
enrollment.
In 2004, former
University of Connecticut
provost and executive
vice president Dr. John
Petersen became the
23rd president in the
history of the University
of Tennessee. Petersen
is often seen at Lady Vol
events.
■ Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine ranked UT as one of
the top 50 universities in the nation in 2006 for “best value,”
a measure of the quality of academic programs compared to
costs and financial aid.
■ Over the past three years, seven UT faculty members have
received National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships,
making UT one of only nine universities in the nation so honored.
■ Fully one-third of the nearly 4,200 entering freshmen admitted
in fall 2006 had a core high school GPA of 4.0, the highest-ever
percentage of straight-A students in an entering freshman class.
■ The U.S. News and World Report placed the College of Law in
26th place among national public institutions.
■ The UT nuclear engineering program ranks 11th in the country,
according to U.S. News & World Report.
■ The MBA ranked fifth overall among U.S. public universities,
according to the Wall Street Journal.
■ The UT minority engineering program is among the top 40
in the nation in educating African-American engineers.
Jan Simek became
interim chancellor
for the University
of Tennessee in
January 2008.
Dr. Todd A. Diacon
assumed the role of the
NCAA faculty athletics
representative for UT
in 2004.
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When Tennessee became
a state on June 1, 1796,
Knoxville was distinguished
as its first capital. The capital
has since moved to Nashville,
but the Blount Mansion and
James White’s Fort still stand
as gentle reminders of
Knoxville’s historic past.
The city of Knoxville has
grown into a cosmopolitan
area with numerous
attractions and more than
500 restaurants. It serves
as the headquarters to the
TVA, the nation’s largest
public utility, and is known
as a technology corridor
of the Southeast.
Knoxville is located in the
geographical center of the
eastern United States and
is within a day’s drive of half
of the nation’s population.
Knox County is situated at
the crossroads of three major
interstates, I-75, I-40 and I-81.
Knoxville’s city population
is 177,661 with a metropolitan area population
of approximately 704,431,
which includes Knox,
Anderson, Blount,
Loudon, Sevier
and Union
counties.
Knoxville is located in a
temperate climate zone
936 feet above sea level,
with an annual average
temperature of 69 degrees.
The annual average
precipitation is 47 inches.
Knoxville’s McGhee Tyson Airport
serves the East Tennessee region
with more than 120 flights daily.
The Women’s Basketball Hall of
Fame, the only museum devoted
to women’s basketball, is located
in downtown Knoxville.
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Knoxville was ranked the
“best place to live in the
United States and Canada”
by the Places Rated Almanac
among cities with a population
of fewer than one million.
The Sunsphere, built for the
1982 World’s Fair, is 266
feet tall. The actual
ball itself houses
five levels.
Famous East Tennesseans or
UT alumni include James
Agee, Howard Baker, Ralph
Boston, Dixie Carter, Tamika
Catchings, Kenny Chesney, Mary
Costa, Phil Garner, William Henry
Hastie, Todd Helton,
Chamique Holdsclaw,
Allan Houston, David Keith,
Johnny Knoxville, Peyton
Manning, Lindsey
Nelson, Dolly Parton,
Quentin Tarantino, Tina
Wesson, and Reggie White.
Several companies have
gotten their start or maintain
a headquarters in Knoxville,
including ALCOA, Clayton
Homes, Goody’s Clothing,
Home and Garden Television
Network, Pilot Oil, Regal
Entertainment Group,
Ruby Tuesday, Sea Ray
Boats, and the Tennessee
Valley Authority (TVA).
The 13-foot statue of Alex Haley
in Morningside Park is thought
to be the largest bronze statue
of an African-American
in the country.
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academic realms speak
volumes to her decisionWomen’s Athletics Director
making and leadership
Triumphant
collegiate
programs ability, as demonstrated
are able to distinguish themselves from by her recent recognition
their counterparts because of superiority by her peers at the
on the field of competition and within the National Association of
classroom.
Collegiate Directors of
Under the vision and direction of Athletics (NACDA) as they
Women’s Athletics Director Joan Cronan, named her as president
a heavily-requested speaker on leadership of their organization for
and motivation on the national and local 2008-09. Cronan is also
levels, the University of Tennessee Lady a former president of
Vols have garnered a reputation as one of National Association of
the most visible and respected programs Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators
throughout the nation.
(NACWAA).
UT’s successes in both the athletic and
Both organizations have also honored
Cronan as well.
She was
Overall Cumulative Record (25 Years)
selected by NACWAA to receive
• 7,103-3,144-63
their 2005 Athletic Director of the
• .692 Winning Percentage
Year award. In 2004, Cronan
was honored by NACDA with
Team Highlights
their Southeast Region Athletic
• Nine NCAA Titles
Director of the Year award.
• 41 Top-Five NCAA Finishes
Now entering her 26th
• 74 Top-10 NCAA Finishes
year at Tennessee, Cronan’s
• 27 SEC Regular-Season Crowns
continued admiration by her
• 19 SEC Tournament Championships
peers and the community is well
deserved because of her efforts
Individual Accomplishments
in facilitating the operation of
• 2008-09 NACDA President
a first-class program, which
• 2008 Tennessee Sports
has captured the Southeastern
Hall of Fame Inductee
Conference’s Women’s All• 2008 Florence Crittenton Agency spokesperson
Sport Award from The New
• 2007-08 NACWAA President
York Times for three of the past
• 2006 Directed Lady Vols to SEC’s Women’s
five years, including a second
All-Sport Award
place finish in 2007. In three
• 2005 NACWAA Athletic Director of the Year
of the past four years, all 11
• 2005 Directed Lady Vols to SEC’s Women’s
Lady Vol teams participated
All-Sport Award
in postseason play. The UT
• 2004 Directed Lady Vols to SEC’s Women’s
women’s athletics department
All-Sport Award
achieved a seventh place finish
• 2004 NACDA Southeast Region
in the 2007 Director’s Cup –
Athletic Director of the Year
Tennessee’s highest finish
• 2003 FCA Hall of Champions Inductee
ever. She strives not only to
• 1998 Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame
keep UT as one of the premier
Administrator of the Year
women’s athletics departments
• 1995 NACWAA Regional Athletic Director of the Year in the nation but also to improve
• 1995 LSU’s Alumni Hall of Distinction Inductee
women’s athletics on a local,
• 1994 Toastmaster’s International Communication and regional and national level.
Leadership Award Recipient
Cronan joined UT from the
• 1994 AOPi Citizen of the Year Award
College of Charleston in South
• 1990 College of Charleston Hall of Fame Inductee
Carolina, where she served as
• 1987 WBCA Leadership Award Recipient
the athletics director for 10 years
• 1980 Directed No. 1 Women’s athletics
and was later inducted into that
program in country as voted by AWSF
institution’s hall of fame. Under
Cronan, the school was
w selected
JOAN CRONAN
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as the No. 1 women’s athletics program
in the country in 1980 by the American
Women’s Sports Foundation.
Closer to home, Cronan is a past president
of the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, is
active on the boards of First Tennessee
Bank and the YMCA, and has served as
vice chair of the Leadership Knoxville board.
She also works closely with the Fellowship
of Christian Athletes and Athletes in Action,
having served as a board member for the
local FCA chapter and as a national trustee.
In 2003, Cronan was inducted into the FCA
Hall of Champions. Additionally, she finds
time to be a deacon at Central Baptist
Church-Bearden.
In 1998, Cronan’s work earned her
accord from the Knoxville Sports Hall of
Fame, as she was named its Administrator
of the Year. Other honors include chairing
the 1991 Knoxville area United Way Fund
Drive, serving as president of the Executive
Women’s Association, receiving the 1994
Toastmaster’s International Communication
and Leadership Award and earning the
1994 AOPi Citizen of the Year Award. In
March of 1987, the Women’s Basketball
Coaches Association honored her hard
work, dedication and success by presenting
her with its leadership award. She also won
the 1995 regional award for the National
Association of Collegiate Women’s Athletic
Administrators.
Cronan has served on the NCAA’s
Executive Committee, Management Council,
as well as the NCAA’s Council, and is
a member of the NCAA Championship
Cabinet. She also has been a member
of the Southeastern Conference Executive
Committee.
As a former coach, Cronan served a twoyear stint at Tennessee from 1968 to 1970. In
1969, she led the women’s basketball team
to an alternate berth in the first-ever National
Invitational Collegiate
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While at Charleston, she 1983-84 129
42
1
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continued her success, 1984-85 120
70
0
.632
not only as a basketball 1985-86 135
93
1
.592
coach but in tennis as 1986-87 110
64
1
.631
well. In 1981, she gave 1987-88 147
71
0
.674
up coaching to devote 1988-89 148
47
0
.759
her full-time attention to 1989-90 168
45
0
.789
her duties as teacher 1990-91 172
61
0
.738
and athletics director.
1991-92 157
58
0
.730
A graduate of LSU, 1992-93 283
104
5
.728
Cronan earned her B.S. 1993-94 282
118
0
.705
in 1966 and her M.S. in 1994-95 209
137
2
.571
1968, both in physical 1995-96 269
146
2
.647
education. She was a 1996-97 316
182
2
.634
fall 1995 inductee into 1997-98 395
179
3
.687
LSU’s Alumni Hall of 1998-99 368
187
7
.661
Distinction. Currently 1999-00 306
195
3
.610
an avid golfer and 2000-01 367
176
1
.676
tennis player, Cronan 2001-02 393
197
4
.662
was ranked as high as 2002-03 391
188
4
.674
second in the South in 2003-04 462
186
5
.706
doubles and is a former 2004-05 540
124
7
.810
state and Southern 2005-06 426
155
4
.732
doubles champion.
2006-07 450
147
8
.749
Cronan makes her 2007-08 360
172
3
.676
home in Gettysvue. She TOTALS 7103 3144
63
.692
and her late husband
Tom, who passed away
on Aug. 18, 2006, after a valiant battle with pancreatic cancer,
have two daughters; Kristi (Mrs. Rhett Benner) and Stacey (Mrs.
Kent Bristow), both 1994 graduates of UT; three grandsons, Chase
Thomas and Reed Kent Bristow, and Quinn Leighton Benner; and two
granddaughters, Reese Lauren Benner and Larkin Ann Bristow.
Cronan with Larkin, Stacey, Kristi and Reese (back row), Chase, Quinn and Reed (front row).
ALL-SPORTS AWARDS
For three of the past five years, the University of Tennessee
Women’s Athletics Department, the Lady Vols, have claimed the
Southeastern Conference women’s all-sports award as presented
by The New York Times Regional Newspaper Group. In 2008, the
Lady Vols placed fourth, totaling 64 points for an 8.00 average (in
eight sports).
In 2007-08, 10 of 11 teams sponsored by the UT women’s
athletics department (basketball, cross country, golf, indoor track &
field, outdoor track & field, rowing, soccer, softball, swimming & diving,
and tennis) participated in postseason play. Tennessee finished third
overall, with 128.50 points.
The New York Times Regional Newspaper Group, which
includes 14 newspapers throughout the Southeastern United States,
awards trophies to the league school that captures each of the three
all-sports titles. A first-place SEC finish is worth 12 points, second is
given 11 points, and so on. A school’s point total is divided by the
number of sports it fields to arrive at the average. The New York
Times Regional Newspaper Group took over coordination of the
SEC All-Sports rankings in 1994-95. Prior to that, the league office
tabulated the SEC All-Sports totals from 1973-94 and it was given
out annually as the Bernie Moore Trophy.
As a combined men’s and women’s program, UT finished 16th
in the U.S. Sports Academy Director’s Cup with 952.75 points.
Tennessee used a women’s basketball national championship and
top-ten finishes in women’s soccer, women’s swimming & diving and
women’s track & field, as well as men’s basketball, men’s swimming
& diving, men’s track & field and men’s tennis to earn the top 20
finish.
Developed jointly by the National Association of Collegiate Directors
of Athletics (NACDA) and USA Today newspaper, the Director’s Cup
standings combine points awarded based on each institution’s finish in up
to 20 sports - 10 women’s and 10 men’s.
2007-08 FINAL SEC ALL-SPORTS STANDINGS OVERALL
Place
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
School
Florida
Georgia
Tennessee
LSU
Auburn
Alabama
Arkansas
Kentucky
Mississippi
South Carolina
Vanderbilt
Mississippi State
Points
159.50
140.00
128.50
136.50
106.50
98.00
89.50
93.50
69.50
75.50
59.00
56.50
Sports
16.00
16.00
15.00
16.00
16.00
16.00
15.00
16.00
13.00
15.00
12.00
13.00
Average
9.97
8.75
8.57
8.53
6.66
6.13
5.97
5.84
5.35
5.03
4.92
4.35
Place
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
School
Florida
Georgia
LSU
Tennessee
Auburn
Arkansas
Kentucky
Alabama
Mississippi
Vanderbilt
South Carolina
M
Mississippi
State
WOMEN
Points
96.00
82.50
81.50
64.00
64.50
55.00
52.50
50.00
38.50
31.50
40.00
23.00
Sports
9.00
9.00
9.00
8.00
9.00
9.00
9.00
9.00
7.00
6.00
8.00
7.00
Average
10.67
9.17
9.06
8.00
7.17
6.11
5.83
5.56
5.50
5.25
5.00
3.29
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THE STAFF...
ACADEMICS
ERIC BREY
FERNANDEZ WEST
Director of
Thornton Center
Associate Director,
Football, W. Golf
JACQUI SCHUMAN SCOTT SWAIN
Assistant Director of Assistant Director,
Student Development
M. Tennis
COMPLIANCE AND OPERATIONS
KELLY BROCK
KERRY HOWLAND DONNA THOMAS
Assistant Director, Assistant Director,
Senior Associate
Counseling, M. W. Basketball, Rowing, Athletics Director
Basketball, Volleyball
M. Golf
HEATHER BELL
DAN CARLSON
Academic Counselor, Academic Counselor,
Cross Country, Track
Football
& Field, W. Tennis
BROOKE RICHARDSON
ASHLEY WHEELIS
EARL SCHLIESMAN
Academic Counselor,
Swimming & Diving, Soccer
Tutor Coordinator,
Academic Counselor,
Softball, Baseball
Compliance Officer
GEORGIA CAVER
SHANNON CRABTREE
MARTI McCLARD
Writing Specialist
Learning Specialist
Math Specialist
ANGIE BOYD KECK
TODD DOOLEY
Assistant Athletics Director Assistant Athletics Director for
for Facilities and Event
Compliance and Operations
Management
TARA BROOKS
CINDY HARTMANN
Director of StudentAthlete Services
Compliance Specialist
FINANCE
BILL MYERS
TYLER JOHNSON
Senior Associate Athletics Director
for Business Operations/CFO
Associate Athletics Director
for Business Operations
MARKETING AND PROMOTIONS
CHRIS FULLER
JIMMY DELANEY
ROCKY KUNDERT
Associate Athletics Director
for Sales & Marketing
Director for Sales &
Marketing
Associate Director for
Sales & Marketing
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
VELMA
ALLEN
CINDY
CONNATSER
BARBARA
CRADDOCK
BEVERLY
DUNKIN
DEBBIE
GOLDEN
TERRI
HANSEN
LINDA
LEWIS
DONNA
MUIR
BECKY
NARVEL
JUDY
PORTERFIELD
ALBERTA
RANDLES
SUZY
SUTTON
STEPHANIE DAWKINS
LAUREN WEY
Graduate Assistant
Marketing
Graduate Assistant
Marketing
INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS
KATIE
WYNN
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RICK STARRATT
JEFF MUIR
ELIZABETH OLIVIER
Director of Internet
Communications
Associate Director of
Internet Communications
Internet Photographer
THOMAS MOATS
KEN DUNCAN
EDDIE HOWELL
Director o
of IT Services
IT Specialist II
Senior Program Analyst
MEDIA RELATIONS
SPORTS MEDICINE
DEBBY JENNINGS
ERIC TRAINER
BRIAN DAVIS
CAMERON HARRIS
Associate Athletics
Director for Media
Relations
Associate
Media Relations
Director
Assistant
Media Relations
Director
Assistant
Media Relations
Director
DR. BECKY MORGAN JENNY MOSHAK
CHRIS HOFMANN CATHERINE JOHNSON
Team Physician
Assoc. Ath. Dir. for
Sports Medicine
AMANDA SHIELDS KRISTEN MARTIN
MARCUS DITTMER
KELLY HAYES
ZACH STIPE
ABE KIGGINS
Graduate Assistant
Media Relations
Graduate Assistant
Media Relations
Graduate Assistant
Media Relations
Assistant
Athletic Trainer
Assistant
Athletic Trainer
Associate
Athletic Trainer
Assistant
Athletic Trainer
Team ENHANCE
Coordinator
PRISCILLA BOLIN
Eating Disorders/
Addiction Specialist
DEVELOPMENT
DARA WORRELL
ANDREA PIERCY
Associate Athletics
Director for Development
Assistant Director
for Development
ALLISON MAURER
CASI DAILEY
BETHANY GAFFNEY
Sports Nutritionist
Graduate Assistant
Athletic Training
Graduate Assistant
Athletic Training
GARY HERMAN
KARI KEBACH
JENNIFER TAYLOR
Graduate Assistant
Athletic Training
Graduate Assistant
Athletic Training
Graduate Assistant
Athletic Training
PUBLIC RELATIONS
TIFFANY CARPENTER
KASSIDIE BLACKSTOCK
Director of Public Relations
Assistant Director of
Public Relations
TICKET OFFICE
STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING
JOE ARNONE
SARA GRAY MACKIN
KAREN SEAL
HEATHER MASON
COLLIN SCHLOSSER
JESSICA KINDER
Assistant Athletics
Director, Ticketing
Associate Director of
Ticket Operations
Ticket Office
Assistant
Assistant Athletics
Director for Strength
& Conditioning
Associate Strength &
Conditioning Coach
Assistant Strength &
Conditioning Coach
MENTAL TRAINING
JOE WHITNEY, PH.D.
LAUREN LOBERG
Director of Mental
Training
Graduate Assistant
Sport Psychology
KRISTEN KINDER
NATHAN STEINMETZ
Assistant Strength &
Conditioning Coach
Graduate Assistant
Strength and Conditioning
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION STATEMENT: University of Tennessee does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability or veteran status in provision of educational programs and services or employment opportunities and benefits. This policy extends to both employment by and admission to the University. The University does not
discriminate on the basis of race, sex, or disability in its education programs and activities pursuant to the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education
Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in its efforts to ensure
a welcoming environment for all persons, does not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation in its campus-based programs, services, and activities. Inquiries and complaints should
be directed to the Office of Equity and Diversity. Inquiries and charges of violation concerning Title VI, Title IX, Section 504, ADA or the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) or
any of the other above referenced policies should be directed to the Office of Equity and Diversity (OED), 1840 Melrose Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37996-3560, telephone (865) 974-2498 (V/
d be directed to the ADA Coordinator
Coord
TTY available) or 974-2440. Requests for accommodation of a disability should
at the UTK Office of Human Resources, 600 Henley Street, Knoxville,
ection 504/ADA/ADEA institution
institutio in the provision of its education and employment programs and services.
TN 37996-4125. The University of Tennessee is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section
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THE COACHES...
JEN ARNDT
Assistant
Swimming Coach
SONIA
HAHN-PATRICK
DAEDRA
CHARLES-FURLOW
Assistant
Basketball Coach
J.J. CLARK
PAULINE
Head Track & Field/ DAVIS-THOMPSON
Assistant
Cross Country Coach
Track & Field Coach
KEELEY DOWLING
JOHN FRAZIER
LISA GLENN
Assistant
Soccer Coach
Assistant
Track & Field Coach
Head Rowing
Coach
JAKE HATCH
ANGELA KELLY
JOE KIRT
MATT KREDICH
Assistant
Rowing Coach
Head
Soccer Coach
Assistant
Soccer Coach
Head
Swimming Coach
Assistant
Basketball Coach
MARTY McDANIEL
KATIE NOBLE
DAVE PARRINGTON
MIKE PATRICK
ROB PATRICK
JUDI PAVON
Assistant
Softball Coach
Assistant
Volleyball Coach
Head
Diving Coach
Co-Head
Tennis Coach
Head
Volleyball Coach
Head
Golf Coach
Co-Head
Tennis Coach
DEAN LOCKWOOD DANELLE LOEBAKA
Assistant
Rowing Coach
ANDREW PRATT
Assistant
Golf Coach
PAT SUMMITT
HOLLY WARLICK
KAREN WEEKLY
RALPH WEEKLY
GREGG WHITIS
Head
Basketball Coach
Associate Head
Basketball Coach
Co-Head
Softball Coach
Co-Head
Softball Coach
Assistant
Volleyball Coach
UT WOMEN’S ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the Women’s Athletics Department at the University of Tennessee
is to provide opportunities for intercollegiate athletic participation and academic
excellence at the highest possible level. Our goal is to enable outstanding studentathletes to maximize their potential both athletically and academically, while maintaining an environment which fosters sportsmanship and integrity.
UT ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT COMPLIANCE STATEMENT
Compliance with NCAA rules is one of the highest priorities for the University of
Tennessee and our athletics department. As a member of the NCAA, the University
of Tennessee is responsible for the actions of its boosters and fans. Even the best
intentions may violate NCAA rules. We need your help in observing all SEC and
NCAA regulations. Boosters and fans must be careful of their interaction with prospective and current student-athletes. Therefore, we encourage our boosters and
fans to “Ask Before You Act” by contacting the Compliance Office staff: Assistant
Athletics Director for Compliance Todd Dooley or Senior Associate Athletics Director
Donna Thomas (865-974-4275).
REPRESENTATIVES OF ATHLETICS INTERESTS, BOOSTERS
There are many ways an individual can be classified as a representative of
Tennessee’s athletics interests. You are a “representative of The University of
Tennessee’s athletics interests,” if you have been involved in a booster club, made
financial contributions to the athletics program or booster organizations; provided
benefits to an enrolled student-athlete; assisted in the recruitment of prospective
student-athletes, or been involved in the promotion of UT athletics. Please note that
once you have been identified as a representative of University of Tennessee athletics interests, you retain that identity indefinitely.
RECRUITING, EXTRA BENEFITS AND INDUCEMENTS
volved in the
Only coaches and athletics department staff members can be involved
recruiting process. All “athletics representatives” who are not employees of UT
are prohibited from contacting a prospect by telephone, letter or in-person, on- or
off-campus, for the purpose of encouraging participation in athletics at UT. It is not
permissible for prospects, student-athletes or their relatives and friends to receive
any extra benefits or special arrangements from a booster. Extra benefits include,
but are not limited to: cash or loans in any amount; co-signing or arranging a loan;
providing gifts of any kind (e.g. clothing, airline tickets, or holiday cards); providing
special discounts for goods and services; use of an automobile.
If you are an established friend or neighbor of a prospect, you may have contact
with the prospect provided you do not try to recruit the prospect on behalf of UT, and
that such contacts are not made at the direction of UT’s coaching staff. Please note
that a prospect is a person who has started classes for the ninth grade.
EMPLOYMENT
The Compliance Office must keep written records verifying all student-athlete
employment. NCAA rules stipulate that compensation may be paid to a student-athlete only for work actually performed and at a rate commensurate with the going rate
in that locality for similar service. NCAA rules also prohibit employers from using the
name or picture of a student-athlete to directly or indirectly advertise, recommend or
promote the sale or use of a commercial product or service of any kind. Do not provide an honorarium to a student-athlete for a speaking engagement. Compensation
may not include any remuneration for value or utility that the student-athlete may
have for the employer because of publicity, reputation, fame or personal following
that he or she has obtained because of athletics ability.
REMEMBER:
“PLAY BY THE RULES”
TENNESSEE ATHLETICS COMPLIANCE
(865) 974-3871 (Men’s)
(865) 974-4275 (Women’s)
www.VolsPlayByTheRules.com
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The 2008 VOLSCARS
The concept for the VOLSCARS was developed by the Student Athlete-Advisory Committee (SAAC) as a way to showcase and celebrate the
accomplishments of both the men’s and women’s athletics departments. The event is a sports award show modeled after the ESPYs. Tennessee studentathletes begin the evening on the “orange” carpet with media interviews in true Hollywood style, followed by a dinner and awards show. Some of the
awards of the evening include: Best TV Moment, Best Comeback Game, Best Supporting Role (male and female) and Mr. Tennessee and Miss Tennessee.
The 2008 ceremony was the second annual edition of the VOLSCARS.
Female Volscars Best Athlete
Candace Parker
Basketball
Awarded to the female student-athlete who is the most
valuable, highest impact player on her teams. She has
also achieved All-America status within her sport.
Lady Vol Team of the Year
Basketball
Awarded to the women’s team with the best year-end finish.
Lady Vol Coach of the Year
Pat Summitt
Basketball
Awarded to the women’s coach with the best year-end results.
Best TV Moment
Basketball - Alexis Hornbuckle’s last second, gamewinning tip-in vs. LSU in 2008 NCAA Semifinals.
Awarded to the most exciting TV moment of the year.
Female Rookie of the Year
Aleksa Akerfelds
Swimming
Miss Tennessee
Nicky Anosike
Given to the rookie in women’s athletics who made a direct
Basketball
impact through hard work and dedication.
Given to the female student-athlete who exemplifies the spirit of
based on academics, athletics, team
Best Supporting Staff Member Tennessee and is awarded
leadership and service.
Dean Lockwood
Basketball
Awarded to the staff member who has helped, through constant
support, make it possible for the head coach to do his or her job.
Female Big Orange Award
Caitlin Ryan
Softball
Given to a female student-athlete who exhibits high character and
enthusiasm, has a positive attitude and encourages her teammates.
Female Scholar-Athlete Award
Lillian Hammond
Softball
Also called the Alpha Chi Omega Award, this is awarded to the female
student-athlete with the highest GPA.
Female Supporting Role
Shannon Doepking
Softball
Given to the unsung hero, a high impact player who does not always
get credit, but that the team needs for success.
Female (Howard Aldmon) Volunteer Award
Marisa Mohan
Rowing
Presented to the female
e a e student-athlete
stude t at ete who showed commitment to
service,
rvice, volunteerism and leadership.
le
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THE TRADITIONS...
NICKNAME
The formation of the Women’s Intercollegiate Athletics Department
for the 1976-77 academic year prompted much discussion concerning
a proper nickname for the distaff athletes. After long consideration and
debate, it was decided the female student-athletes would be known as
“Lady Volunteers” or “Lady Vols.”
The University of Tennessee, as the state’s land grant university,
draws the nickname of its athletic teams (Volunteers) from the name most
associated with the state. Tennessee acquired the name “The Volunteer
State” in the early days of the 19th Century when General Andrew Jackson
mustered large armies from his home state to fight the Indians and later the
British at the Battle of New Orleans.
The name became even more prominent in the Mexican War when
Governor Aaron V. Brown issued a call for 2,800 men to battle Santa Anna,
and some 30,000 volunteered. The name “Volunteers” or “Lady Volunteers”
is frequently shortened to “Vols” or “Lady Vols” for the men’s and women’s
athletic teams.
MASCOT
The official mascot is Smokey, a rather pleasant blue tick coon
hound that has been on the job since 1953. The dog is a native breed of
Tennessee and is in a line of canines used for hunting raccoons. The present Smokey, the ninth in a line of such dogs provided by the family of the
late Rev. W.C. Brooks of Knoxville, is appropriately called Smokey IX.
Smokey was chosen as a result of the 1953 Pep Club contest to select
a mascot. At Lady Vol events, a human version of Smokey accompanies
the cheerleaders.
CHEERLEADERS
Tennessee is one of a handful of women’s athletics programs that
sponsors its own varsity cheerleading squad complete with full grant-in-aid.
The Lady Vol cheerleaders and mascot Smokey are chosen from a large
try-out group in the spring.
SCHOOL COLORS
The colors Orange and White were selected by Charles
Moore, a member of the first football team in 1891, and were
later approved by a vote of the student body. The colors were
those of the common American daisy which grew in profusion
on “The Hill.”
ROCKY TOP
Over 40 years ago, a husband-wife song writing team, Boudleaux and
Felice Bryant from Gatlinburg, Tenn., penned the song “Rocky Top.” Since
that time, the tune has emerged as the unofficial fight song for UT athletic
teams.
Rocky Top
Wish that I was on ol’ ROCKY TOP,
Down in the Tennessee hills;
Ain’t no smoggy smoke on ROCKY TOP,
Ain’t no telephone bills.
Once I had a girl on ROCKY TOP,
Half bear, other half cat;
Wild as mink, but sweet as soda pop,
I still dream about that.
[CHORUS]
ROCKY TOP, you’ll always be
Home sweet home to me;
Good ol’ ROCKY TOP-ROCKY TOP Tennessee.
Once two strangers climbed ol’ ROCKY TOP
Looking for a moonshine still;
Strangers ain’t come down from ROCKY TOP,
Reckon they never will.
Corn won’t grow at all on ROCKY TOP,
Dirt’s too rocky by far;
That’s why all the folks on ROCKY TOP
Get their corn from a jar.
[CHORUS]
(Copyright 1967 by HOUSE OF BRYANT Publications,
P.O. Box 120608, Nashville, TN 37212)
GRADUATION RATE
The Women’s Athletics Department at the University of
Tennessee is fully committed to the academic progress of
each student-athlete in the Lady Vol program. When coaches
recruit, they look for talented athletes who will work as hard
in the classroom as they do during competition.
In fact, nearly all Lady Vol student-athletes who have
remained with the program through their senior years have
earned, or are in the process of earning, their degrees. In
addition, 620 Lady Vols have been awarded a sum of 1,211
Academic All-Southeastern Conference citations after 47
student-athletes joined the ranks in 2007-08.
SPORTSMANSHIP
Good sportsmanship is a necessary ingredient for
wholesome athletic competition. The University of Tennessee
cherishes the reputation its fans, students and athletes have
earned for sportsmanship and for extending hospitality to
our visitors. The Athletics Department urges Lady Vols fans
to conduct themselves in such a way that will enhance the Felicia Guliford, shown here with her parents, UT administrators and Lady Vol coach J.J. Clark at
University’s reputation for providing a cordial atmosphere at the 2007 NCAA Woman of the Year Banquet, was one of nine national finalists for the prestigious
sporting events.
award. Guliford continued a proud Tennessee tradition as the seventh Lady Vol to be so honored.
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THE ENDOWMENTS...
Scholarship endowments are an integral aspect of the UT Women’s
Athletics Department. In order to ensure the continuance of the Lady
Volunteer program in the future, the department has set a goal of having
all women’s athletics scholarships fully endowed.
Cross Country/Track & Field Endowed Scholarships
(2008-09 Recipients)
Wayne Basler Women’s Track & Field Athletic Scholarship Endowment
(Brittany Jones)
Evelyn & Jim Claxton Track & Field Scholarship Endowment
(Sarah Bowman)
Harold Phillips Track & Field Scholarship Endowment
(Lynne Layne)
Patrick L. & Deborah N. Martin Track & Field Scholarship Endowment
(Annie Alexander)
Smolik Family Track & Field Scholarship Endowment
(Chanelle Price)
Women’s Athletics General Endowments/Scholarships
(2008-09 Cross Country Recipients)
Chris Abbay Women’s Athletics Scholarship Endowment
(Brittany Sheffey)
Bob DeVault & Julie Watts Scholarship Endowment
(Celriece Law)
Hartman Endowment for the Thornton Athletic Center/Jack & Trich Mills
(Leah Soro)
Janet McKinley “Women in Business” Women’s Athletics Endowed Scholarship
(Katie Van Horn)
Patricia Purvis - Kim Crane Scholarship
(Rolanda Bell)
A. Dean & Ann Skadberg Fund for Student-Athlete Academic Excellence
(Phoebe Wright)
Gordon J. Wilder Scholarship
(Jackie Areson)
Joan W. & Neal M. Allen Women’s Athletics Scholarship Endowment
Bruce & Shirley Avery Gift
Cindy & Rick Bernstein Academic Enrichment Fund
Blalock Family Scholarship Endowment
Judy Cowan Women’s Athletic Scholarship Endowment
Tom & Joan Cronan Scholarship Endowment
Marilyn & Bobbie Elrod Thornton Center Endowed Scholarship
Margaret Burke Emmett & John Wells Wachter Scholarship Endowment
Kelly L. Fifer Scholarship Endowment
Flickinger Family Scholarship Endowment
R.C. & Maude Fox Scholarship
Audrine Clinton Honey Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund
Beverly Ann Huff Memorial Scholarship
Jack Hughes - Hollingsworth Hughes Trust Women’s Athletics Endowment
William & Elaine Jenkins Endowed Scholarship
Bernard Kaplan Scholarship Endowment
Lem & Hilda Keith Women’s Athletics Endowment
Doug & Ruby Ketner Women’s Athletic Endowed Scholarship
Martha W. King Athletic Scholarship Quasi-Endowment
Fred R. & Faye T. Langley Scholarship Endowment
Mallicote Family Women’s Athletic Endowed Scholarship
Sandra G. Powell Athletic Endowed Scholarship
Beville Hal Reagan Scholarship Endowment
Georgia Willi Roussin & Robert W. Roussin Scholarship Endowment
Rod & Sandy Rzezutko Scholarship Endowment
W.P. Thurman & Carleen Thurman Memorial Scholarship Fund
Frankie E. Wade Scholarship
Gary Frank Wallace Scholarship Endowment
Hundreds of Lady Vol supporters, adorned in black tie and tennis shoes,
gather at the Knoxville Convention Center for the annual Salute to
Excellence. The event features a sit-down dinner, live and silent auctions,
music and dancing. Salute is the biggest fundraising event of the year for
the women’s athletics department.
Friends of the Lady Vol program may bid on a large variety of items during
the silent and live auctions.
Lady Vol fans who attend Salute get the chance to interact with some of the
athletes from various teams, such as these two ladies with Alex Fuller.
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THE HALL OF FAME...
The six inductees in the Class of 2007 represent former student-athletes
from four Lady Vol teams and one administrator. The athlete honorees include
Tennessee’s first softball inductee, Bridget Jackson Chaira, as well as Nicole
deMan Dewes (swimming), Dianne Shoemaker DeNecochea (volleyball) and
basketball players Shelia Collins and Carla McGhee. The administrator in the
2007 induction class is the late Dr. Helen B. Watson. Each of these outstanding
individuals exemplifies the true spirit of the Tennessee Lady Volunteers.
Enshrinement activities included a private induction ceremony on Nov. 2 at
The Crowne Plaza. A full day followed on Sat., Nov. 3, when the Hall of Famers
met with the current athletes and staff of their respective former Lady Vol teams.
Later that day, the celebration moved to Neyland Stadium, where the honorees
were saluted during the Tennessee versus Louisiana-Lafayette homecoming
football game.
The new group of inductees joins six prior classes of Lady Vol Hall of
Famers. The Sept. 22, 2006 honorees included Tracy Bonner (diving), Karla
Driesler McQuain (swimming), Alisa Harvey (track & field/cross country), Bonnie The 2007 Inductees at the Lady Vol Hall of Fame Banquet (l-r): Shelia Collins,
Kenny (volleyball), Tonya Edwards (basketball) and Mary Ostrowski (basketball). Carla McGhee, Bridget Jackson, Nicole deMan, Dianne Shoemaker and acceptThe Sept. 30, 2005, class consisted of Missy Alston Kane Bemiller (track & field/ ing on behalf of his late aunt, Don Watson.
cross country), Angie Boyd Keck (golf), Tanya Haave (basketball) and Lea Henry
Manning (basketball). In 2004, the Oct. 22 honorees included former UT President Dr. Joseph E. “Joe” Johnson and athletes Jasmin Jones Keller (track
& field/cross country, 1987-91), Robin Maine Bugg (volleyball, 1980-84), Nikki McCray Pinson (basketball, 1991-95), Jenny McGrath Weaver (swimming,
1988-92) and the late Ilrey Oliver Sparks (track & field, 1983-87). The Class of 2003 recipients included former UT Vice-Chancellor, the late Dr. Howard
Aldmon and athletes Cindy Brogdon (basketball, 1977-79), April Chapple (volleyball, 1981-84), Elizabeth Brown Jarvis (swimming, 1981-84), Cathy Rattray
(track & field, 1981-84) and Patricia Roberts (basketball, 1976-77). The Class of 2002’s six Oct. 4 inductees were former Head Track & Field/Cross Country
Coach Terry Crawford (1974-84) and athletes Catherine Byrne Maloney (swimming, 1989-92), LaVonna Martin Floreal (track & field, 1984-88), Cindy Noble
Hauserman (basketball, 1978-81), Holly Warlick (basketball, 1976-80) and Patty Wiegand Pitcher (track & field/cross country, 1987-91).
The inaugural class selected for the Lady Volunteer Hall of Fame was inducted on Oct. 26, 2001. The 10 original members were former UT President
Edward J. Boling, first-ever Lady Vol Athletics Director Gloria Ray (1976-83) and athletes Daedra Charles-Furlow (basketball, 1988-91), Joetta Clark Diggs
(track & field, 1981-84), Benita Fitzgerald Mosely (track & field, 1980-83), Bridgette Gordon (basketball, 1985-89), Tracy Ignatosky Long (swimming, 198789), Peta and Paula Kelly (tennis, 1978-82) and Beverly Robinson Buffini (volleyball, 1981-83).
A selection committee, chaired by UT Lady Vol Senior Associate Athletics Director Donna Thomas, chose each of the hall of fame classes. For consideration of induction into the Lady Vol Hall of Fame, eligible athletes must have graduated from UT and exhausted their collegiate eligibility at least 10
years ago, while administrators and coaches are eligible for induction five years after their last service to UT.
HOWARD
ALDMON
MISSY
ALSTON
ED
BOLING
ANGIE
BOYD
TRACY
BONNER
CINDY
BROGDON
LIZ
BROWN
CATHERINE
BYRNE
APRIL
CHAPPLE
DAEDRA
CHARLES
JOETTA
CLARK
SHELIA
COLLINS
TERRY
CRAWFORD
NICOLE
deMAN
KARLA
DRIESLER
TONYA
EDWARDS
BRIDGETTE
GORDON
TANYA
HAAVE
ALISA
HARVEY
LEA
HENRY
TRACY
IGNATOSKY
BRIDGET
JACKSON
JOE
JOHNSON
JASMIN
JONES
PAULA
KELLY
PETA
KELLY
BONNIE
KENNY
ROBIN
MAINE
LAVONNA
MARTIN
NIKKI
MCCRAY
CARLA
MCGHEE
JENNY
MCGRATH
CINDY
NOBLE
ILREY
OLIVER
MARY
OSTROWSKI
CATHY
RATTRAY
GLORIA
RAY
PATRICIA
ROBERTS
BEVERLY
ROBINSON
DIANNE
SHOEMAKER
HOLLY
WARLICK
HELEN B.
WATSON
PATTY
WIEGAND
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FITZGERALD
HOME COURSE
IN THIS SECTION...
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THE LAMBERT ACRES COURSE
For the 11th year in a row, the Lambert Acres Golf Club in
Maryville, Tenn., will serve as one of the nation’s most scenic
courses for the Tennessee Lady Volunteer cross country
team. A 27-hole golf course, Lambert Acres is nestled in
the foothills of the breathtaking Great Smoky Mountains
and boasts 9,525 yards of rolling hills with sloping grades
throughout the entire layout.
The Lady Vols have hosted 11 meets at Lambert Acres in
the previous 10 years they have competed there. In addition
to playing host to the Tennessee Invitational eight times and
the NCAA South Regional in 2002 and 2006, the Orange
and White also welcomed the rest of the Southeastern
Conference for the 1998 SEC Championships. It was at that
meet that Amy Yoder of Arkansas set the 5K course record
with a 16:52.22 pace en route to victory. Florida State’s
Susan Kuijken posted the 6K standard of 20:54.1 at the 2006
NCAA South Regional.
In 2008, the Lady Vols will make two appearances on
the picturesque Blount County course, as they run at home in
the Tennessee Invitational on Sept. 19 as well as the NCAA
South Regional on Nov.15.
This year’s Tennessee Invitational will feature the 5K
women’s race at 5:30 p.m. ET, while the men’s 8,400-meter
affair will be contested at 6:15 p.m. The 2008 Tennessee
Invite will be the ninth edition of the meet after the 2007
version was contested as only a time trial.
The Big Orange women captured the Tennessee
Invitational in 1998, 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006, and they
tied for the title in 1999. Maureen Ferris (1998), Sharon
Dickie (2000, 2002) and Brooke Novak (2004) each legged
out individual titles for the Lady Vols during their respective
careers, and current UT standout Sarah Bowman began
hers with one in 2005. In addition to the downgrading of the
Tennessee Invitational in 2007, no meet was held in 2001.
That season, the tragic events of Sept. 11 brought about the
cancellation of the Sept. 14-scheduled event.
Two seasons ago at the Tennessee Invite on Sept. 15,
the No. 14 UT women scored 28 points to roll past runner-up
Georgia Tech (77) and nine other schools. Felicia Guliford
set the tone, placing third in 18:13 to spur a 3-4-5-7-9 Lady
Vol binge. Katie Flaute was fourth in 18:24, while Bowman
was the Lady Vols’ third top-five finisher at 18:27.
The Big Orange’s hosting of the NCAA South Regional
this season will be the school’s third in the past seven
years. UT began a spree of four straight regional titles by
triumphing at Lambert Acres in 2002. The Lady Vols were
third on their home course in 2006 and placed fourth last
year in Gainesville, Fla.
Lambert Acres All-Time Top 10 5K Performances
Lambert Acres All-Time Top 10 6K Performances
1. Amy Yoder
Arkansas
16:52.22
10/31/98 SEC Champs.
1. Susan Kuijken
Florida State
20:54.1
11/11/06 NCAA South Regional
2. Jessica Koch
Arkansas
16:54.72
10/31/98 SEC Champs.
2. Vicky Gill
Florida State
21:03.87
11/16/02 NCAA South Regional
3. Tracey Robertson
Arkansas
16:56.28
10/31/98 SEC Champs.
3. Lanni Marchant
Chattanooga
21:15.3
11/11/06 NCAA South Regional
4. Kristin Price
N.C. State
17:15.68
09/12/03 UT/adidas Inv.
4. Jill Steffens
Georgia
21:17.8
11/11/06 NCAA South Regional
5. Brooke Novak
Tennessee
17:16.96
10/01/04 Tenn. Inv.
5. Kristin Heffelfinger
Georgia
21:24.7
11/11/06 NCAA South Regional
6. Catherine Berry
East Tenn. St.
17:19.19
09/17/99 UT Inv.
6. Lindsay Sundell
Florida
21:27.8
11/11/06 NCAA South Regional
7. Shannon Wommack Chattanooga
17:28.95
10/01/04 Tenn. Inv.
7. Natalie Picchetti
Georgia
21:31.2
11/11/06 NCAA South Regional
8. Ashley LaBudde
17:32.50
10/31/98 SEC Champs.
8. Sarah Madebach
Georgia
21:31.8
11/11/06 NCAA South Regional
9. Karen Bockel
10. Elizabeth Reed
Alabama
Arkansas
17:33.60
10/31/98 SEC Champs.
Florida
17:36.82
10/31/98 SEC Champs.
9. Katie Van Horn
10. Julia Hicks
Tennessee
21:33.0
11/11/06 NCAA South Regional
Alabama
21:34.3
11/11/06 NCAA South Regional
Directions to Lambert Acres From University of Tennessee Campus
Take Cumberland Avenue west to Alcoa Highway/129 South. Follow 129 South for 11 miles to TN 35, which is about one mile past
McGhee-Tyson Airport. Merge left onto TN 35 and travel approximately five miles before bearing left onto 321 North. Stay on 321
North for five miles until you come to Tuckaleechee Pike. Looking for landmarks, you will see a gas station on the left and a Lambert
Acres Golf Club sign on the right just as you approach Tuckaleechee. Make the right-hand turn onto Tuckaleechee Pike, and Lambert
Acres will be a half-mile up the road on the left.
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