GENERAL INFORMATION CORNELL QUICK FACTS Location ................................................. Ithaca, N.Y. 14853 Founded ..................................................................... 1865 Enrollment .............................................................. 13,700 President .................................................... David J. Skorton Colors .......................................... Carnelian Red and White Affiliation ................................................................ NCAA I Conference ......................................................... Ivy League Home Court ................................... Newman Arena (4,473) ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATION Director ................................................... J. Andrew Noel, Jr. Associate Director .......................................... Anita Brenner Associate Director ...................................... Stephen P. Erber Associate Director/Physical Education .................. Al Gantert Associate Director/Business & Finance .................. Alan Katz Assistant Director/Operations ............................ Matt Coats Assistant Director/Sports Medicine .............. Bernie DePalma Assistant Director/Athlete Performance ............ Tom Howley Asst. Director/Student Svcs. & Compliance .. Chris Wlosinski
TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents/Quick Facts .......................................... 1 Head Coach Deitre Collins-Parker ...................................... 2 Assistant Coach Sarah Bernson .......................................... 3 Faculty Adviser Dr. Robert Babcock .................................... 4 Athletic Trainer Jocelyn Stark ............................................. 4 Strength and Conditioning Coach Tom Howley ................. 4 2006 Season Outlook .................................................... 5-6 2006 Roster ...................................................................... 6 MEET THE BIG RED Elizabeth Bishop ................................................................ 7 Emily Borman, Alex Dyer ................................................... 8 Lia Gaetano, Amy Gordon ................................................. 9 Hilary Holland, Jessica Misse ............................................ 10 Katie Rademacher, Alaina Town ....................................... 11 Joanna Weiss ................................................................... 12 Kathryn Woodbury, Kara Zaragoza ................................... 13 Stephanie Comon, Katelyn Fitzpatrick .............................. 14 Megan Mushovic, Juliana Rogers ..................................... 14 2005 Year in Review ........................................................ 15 2005 Statistics and Results .............................................. 16 Cornell Volleyball Success ............................................... 17 All-Time Records ........................................................ 18-19 Record vs. All Opponents ................................................ 20
TEAM INFORMATION Head Coach ...................... Deitre Collins-Parker (Hawaii ‘95) email ............................................... dec33@cornell.edu phone ................................................... (607) 255-3813 Assistant Coach ............................................ Sarah Bernson email ............................................... sgb28@cornell.edu phone ................................................... (607) 254-4971 Athletic Trainer ................................................ Jocelyn Stark Strength Coach ............................................... Tom Howley Faculty Adviser ..................................... Dr. Robert Babcock ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Director ...................................................... Jeremy Hartigan Office Phone ............................................. (607) 255-9788 Associate Director .............................................. Julie Greco Email ................................................... jag235@cornell.edu Office Phone ............................................. (607) 255-5627 Assistant Director ........................................... Tyler Denison Office Phone ............................................. (607) 255-3753 Accounts Representative ........................ Marlene Crockford Office Phone ............................................. (607) 255-3752 Office Fax .................................................. (607) 255-9791 Hotline ...................................................... (607) 255-2385 Website ........................................ www.CornellBigRed.com CREDITS: The 2006 Cornell women’s volleyball media guide is a publication of the Cornell Athletic Communications Office. The guide was written and designed by Marlene Crockford. Editorial contributions from Jeremy Hartigan and Julie Greco. Photography: Patrick Shanahan, University Photography, Darl Zehr. Front: Seniors Joanna Weiss (4) and Elizabeth Bishop (12) are two of the five returning first-team All-Ivy selections from 2005. Bishop was named honorable mention AllAmerica, the first Cornell player to earn that honor.
Back: (clockwise from top to bottom) Seniors Alaina Town, Alex Dyer and Katie Rademacher will attempt to add another banner to the wall in Newman Arena.
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THIS IS CORNELL UNIVERSITY/CORNELL ATHLETICS Realizing a Bold Dream .............................................. 22-23 This is Ithaca ................................................................... 24 University Leadership ...................................................... 25 Cornell Athletics Leadership ............................................. 26 Meet the Big Red Coaches ............................................... 27 Ivy League ...................................................................... 28 Friedman Center ............................................................. 29 Support Services .............................................................. 30 Athletic Training .............................................................. 31 Prominent Alumni ........................................................... 32 Newman Arena ............................................................... 33 Facilities ..................................................................... 34-35 Success In and Out of the Classroom ............................... 36 2006 Schedule ................................................... Back Cover
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DEITRECOLLINS-PARKER Third Season at Cornell Hawaii ‘95 The Wendy Schaenen ‘79 Head Coach of Volleyball Deitre Collins-Parker, a two-time national collegiate player of the year, was named the eighth head volleyball coach at Cornell on June 1, 2004 by The Meakam!Smith Director of Athletics and Physical Education Andy Noel. Collins-Parker is Cornell’s second Wendy Schaenen ’79 Head Coach of Volleyball since the position was endowed in March 2002. Cornell’s high-flying ways have led to great success in the first two years under Collins-Parker, as her teams have posted the top two season marks in kills per game and assists per game, while her total for blocks per game rank among the top three and the attack percentage rankings are in the top four all-time. Collins-Parker directed Cornell to one of its great seasons in a storied volleyball history, going 19-6 and winning the Ivy title outright with a 12-2 mark. The Big Red earned its second NCAA tournament appearance in program history, dropping a tight 3-0 decision to Northeast Conference champion Long Island. Elizabeth Bishop ‘07 earned Ivy League Player of the Year honors after setting the school record for career kills, while classmate Joanna Weiss developed into a first-team all-league selection. In her first season at the helm, the Big Red finished with an overall record of 17-9 and a 10-4 mark in Ivy League play. That record was good for a four-way tie for the league title, Cornell’s first since 1993. The team fell just two points short in game five of the Ivy League playoff final which determined the league’s automatic berth in the NCAA tournament. Along the way, the Big Red set numerous team and individual records. The nine straight matches won between Sept. 17 and Oct. 18 are tied for the second-longest streak since the NCAA went to the best-of-five game format in 1989. Hidden within that run is the school’s longest string of consecutive games won (22) over that same span. Collins-Parker spent the previous eight seasons as head coach at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, earning Western Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 1998 after picking up a dormant volleyball program and leading the Lady Rebels to a 23-8 record and a WAC tournament semifinal appearance. The all-time winningest
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Collins-Parker Season-by-Season Year 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Team UNLV UNLV UNLV UNLV UNLV UNLV UNLV UNLV Cornell* Cornell*
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W 5 9 23 12 6 10 11 13 17 19
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Pct. .185 .333 .742 .462 .222 .385 .355 .433 .654 .760
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The Collins-Parker File Education University of Hawaii B.A., Broadcast Communications, 1995 Head Coaching Experience Record at Cornell: 36-15 (Third Season) Career NCAA Record: 125-151 (11th Season) Cornell University, 2004-present University of Nevada-Las Vegas, 1995-2003 U.S. Junior National Team, 1998, 2000-01
coach in UNLV history, Collins- Playing Experience Parker posted an University of Hawaii, 1980-84 •1983-84 - Broderick Award Winner 89-136 (.396) ca•1983 - Broderick Cup recipient reer record. Her •1982, 83 - National championship teams teams also had •1981-83 - AVCA first-team All-American unprecedented •NCAA Division I 25th Anniversary Team success off the U.S. National Team, 1985-88, 91-92 •1988, 92 - U.S. Olympic Team court, posting a •1986 - Goodwill Games team grade point •1986 - World Championships average of 3.0 or •1987 - Pan-Am Games better in each sea- Professional, 1985-88, 91-92 •1988-89 - Conad Fano Volleyball Club son, including a •1989-91 - French Champion Racing Club Mountain West Conference record 10 academic all-conference selections in 2002. Prior to her stint at UNLV, Collins-Parker served as an assistant coach at South Alabama, Northern Arizona and Houston for one year each. Collins-Parker has plenty of international coaching experience as well. She served as head coach of the 1998 U.S. junior national team, directing her squad to a gold medal in the national qualifier. She served in the same capacity during the summer of 2000 (silver medal) and 2001 (bronze medal). In 1999, she was an assistant coach and was part of the selection committee to find a coach for the national team for the World University Games. She began her
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international coaching career as an assistant on the 1994 U.S. squad at the Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg, Russia, helping the team to a silver medal. A former member of the U.S. national team and a three-time AVCA All-American at the University of Hawaii, Collins-Parker was the starting middle blocker for the 1988 Olympic Team in Seoul, South Korea, and was an alternate for the 1992 team in Barcelona, Spain. She played in over 130 international matches and earned bronze medals at the 1986 Goodwill Games and the 1987 Pan-Am Games. As a collegian, Collins-Parker was a two-time Broderick Award honoree as the national player of the year (1983, 1984) after leading the Rainbow Wahine to consecutive national titles and a 110-5 record in her final three seasons. Collins capped off her career as the Broderick Cup recipient as the nation’s best collegiate athlete in all sports. She was twice named to the NCAA all-tournament team and still holds the record for solo blocks in one NCAA tournament (15 in 1982). She was named as one of six players named to the NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball 25th Anniversary Team in October 2005. Collins-Parker spent three years playing professionally in Europe before getting into the coaching ranks, playing one season for Conad Fano Volleyball Club in Italy (1988-89) and two years for French Champion Racing Club of France (1989-91). She helped the Racing Club team to a fourth-place finish at the 1991 European championships. A 1995 graduate of Hawaii with a bachelor of arts in broadcast communications, Collins-Parker is a member of the USA Volleyball Coaching Accreditation Program and is a CAP level III accredited coach. She is also a member of the American Volleyball Coaches
Association (AVCA), the Black Coaches Association. Collins-Parker and her husband, Dale, reside in Ithaca.
SARAHBERNSON Third Season At Cornell St. Mary’s (Calif.) ‘99 Assistant Coach
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Sarah Bernson returns for her third season at Cornell after joining the Big Red volleyball staff in July 2004. She spent the previous three years as assistant coach at Cal State-Monterey Bay. In her first two seasons with the Big Red, Bernson has helped the program to a pair of Ivy titles (2004 and 2005) and an NCAA tournament appearance in 2005. She has helped develop seven All-Ivy performers over that span. Bernson is in charge of the program’s recruiting and works with the outside hitters, including the Big Red’s all-time kills leader and first All-America in school history, Elizabeth Bishop. She helped guide the Otters to the school record for wins in a season in 2003, earning a league playoff bid and winning their first postseason game. She helped Monterey Bay jump from ninth place in the league in her first year to a third-place finish in 2002. Bernson’s player development skills led to the program’s first all-conference players in 2003. In addition to assisting the Otter volleyball program, Bernson was the sports information, marketing, and promotional coordinator for the athletic department. She also started and operated the Monterey Volleyball Club, a youth development program geared to middle school and high school student-athletes. As club director, she incorporated Otter volleyball players as coaches for the program. Bernson played on the right side and outside at Saint Mary’s (Calif.) before a severe knee injury ended her collegiate career in 1998. She remained active as team captain as a senior before graduating in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in English and art. During college, Bernson served as a coach for Albuquerque Elite and Lamorinda Volleyball Clubs. For Albuquerque, she assisted for two seasons for the 18-and-unders and helped them to regional titles along with wins at large tournaments such as the Colorado Crossroads. While on the coaching staff, she coached her sister, Nora, a former player under Deitre Collins at UNLV, and former Ivy League Player of the Year and Cornell grad Robin Moore ‘00. At Lamorinda, she worked with 16-and-under athletes. Bernson was an all-state honoree as a middle blocker for St. Pius X High School in Albuquerque before moving on to Saint Mary’s.
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DR. ROBERTBABCOCK 11th Season At Cornell as Faculty Adviser
Volleyball Faculty Adviser Professor Emeritus Dr. Robert Babcock, who is in the College of Human Ecology's department of policy analysis and management, is beginning his 11th season as the volleyball program's faculty adviser. Some of Dr. Babcock's duties as faculty adviser include assisting the volleyball staff in coordinating university academic support resources, academic and career advising for the volleyball student-athletes and serving as a liaison between the coaching staff and the faculty. He can be seen at nearly every match and has also travelled to select tournaments with the team. The time he spends with the program allows him to give more personalized attention to each player.
Dr. Babcock holds a bachelor's degree from the State University of New York, a master's degree from New York University and a doctorate from Cornell. His academic interests include organizational behavior, conflict management and career development. He received both the College of Human Ecology Distinguished Teaching Award and the Human Service Studies Department Teaching Award. As professor emeritus, he is in the office daily and continues with many of his academic duties, especially those which are student oriented. Dr. Babcock’s love for athletics and the studentathletes goes beyond the volleyball program, as he also serves as a member of the athletic department’s faculty committee. An avid runner, Dr. Babcock has participated in several marathons, including competitions in Hawaii and Italy.
JOCELYNSTARK Third Season at Cornell Ithaca ‘00 Athletic Trainer Jocelyn Stark joined the Big Red athletic training staff in August 2004 and will begin her first season working with the volleyball program. She has also worked the last two years with the Big Red volleyball team. A 2000 graduate of Ithaca College with a bachelor’s degree in
athletic training and exercise science, Stark worked as a student athletic trainer at both IC and Cornell. She received her master’s om physical education and sport administration from Florida State in 2001, working in the athletic department as a marketing intern. Stark, who holds certification by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, and her husband, Jason, reside in Newfield with their daughter Mackenzie.
TOMHOWLEY 11th Season at Cornell Tulane ‘88
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Head Strength and Conditioning Coach Tom Howley enters his 11th year as the head strength and conditioning coach at Cornell. In that role, he oversees the design and implementation of athletic performance programs for the Big Red’s 36 varsity sports. The comprehensive, year-round programs include strength and power development, mobility skill training and conditioning, and are implemented in a motivating, team-oriented environment. A member of the Green Wave football team as an undergraduate student at Tulane, Howley has played on and worked with championship teams throughout his years in intercollegiate athletics. One of his most recent success stories is the 2004 Cornell volleyball team that won a share of its first Ivy League title since 1993. Under his watchful eye, Cornell teams have won a school-record 22 Ivy League titles in the past three years and qualified for numerous
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appearances in NCAA postseason tournaments. He has helped the Big Red volleyball team set and achieve goals in the weight room. The coaching staff has seen improvement in the quickness, vertical leap and overall strength of each individual in the last year. Howley’s long list of accomplishments includes successful stints at East Carolina and Auburn. While he was at East Carolina, the Pirates participated in the 1992 Peach Bowl and the 1995 Liberty Bowl, qualified for the 1994 NCAA regional baseball tournament and played in the 1993 NCAA basketball tournament. During Howley’s tenure at Auburn, he served as a graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach and assistant special teams coach with the football team. He helped the team to a Southeastern Conference co-championship in 1989 and victories in the 1990 Hall of Fame Bowl and the 1991 Peach Bowl. Howley and his wife, Amanda, reside in Ithaca with their daughter, Anna Corrine.
2006 SEASON OUTLOOK While hard to replicate a season like 2005 that included a class of four seniors leading the Big Red to an Ivy League title and the program’s second NCAA tournament berth, head coach Deitre Collins-Parker sure is ready to try for an encore. With the talent remaining in 2006, it’s not hard to believe that Cornell will be in position to defend its title and again earn the league’s bid to the national tourney. A third straight Ivy title is the goal when Cornell’s 16 players report in the fall, and three All-Ivy players return to help make that a reality. Senior outside hitter Elizabeth Bishop and senior middle blockers Joanna Weiss and Katie Rademacher join junior setter Amy Gordon as the core of the Big Red’s attack. Bishop, Weiss and Rademacher join classmates Alex Dyer and Alaina Town in providing senior leadership to a squad that will incorporate several freshmen and sophomores with limited or no previous varsity experience into the rotation. Cornell continues to upgrade its non-conference schedule to provide it opponents with postseason aspirations. A trip to the University of Portland Tournament opens the season with opponents like Montana, Portland State, UT-Pan American and High Point. After hosting Buffalo, American, St. John’s and 2005 NCAA qualifier Binghamton in its own tournament the following weekend, the Big Red will travel to compete in Long Island’s tournament featuring San Francisco and St. Francis (N.Y.). Other non-conference opponents include Central New York rivals Colgate and Syracuse. Outside Hitters: Cornell has had many impressive hitters in program history, but
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none compare to senior Elizabeth Bishop. The unanimous selection for Ivy League Player of the Year in 2005 is the first Big Red player to become an AVCA All-Northeast Region and All-America selection. She capped off her junior season by snapping the school’s career kills record, and is poised to break the digs record as a senior. Before she is finished, Bishop will hold nearly every Cornell attacking and defensive record. Bishop will serve as team co-captain as a senior, though she has served as a team leader since she joined the team. A true winner who has battled through a multitude of injuries during her first three years, Bishop has ranked among the top 25 nationally in kills per game each year. She will be in search of her fourth straight first-team All-Ivy selection, a Cornell first. While Bishop is the obvious attention-grabber, classmates Alex Dyer and Alaina Town join sophomores Emily Borman and Kathryn Woodbury in giving the Big Red an extremely athletic and talented group of hitters. Dyer was one of the top attackers in the Big East as a sophomore at Seton Hall before transferring to Cornell, then put up 2.45 kills on .246 hitting a season ago. She will look to grab an even bigger role as a senior after playing in just 22 games as a junior. A hardhitting 6-0 player out of Denver, Colo., Dyer will get an opportunity to break into the rotation. She is arguably the Big Red’s top athlete. Town is a tremendous athlete, and at 6-1, continues to be one of the top hitting threats in the Ancient Eight. She has become one of the team’s most consistent and toughest players after joining the program as a walk-on during her rookie campaign. She averaged a career-high 1.85 kills per game as a junior while hitting .269. Town also averaged an impressive 0.86 blocks per game on the outside. Sophomore Kathryn Woodbury is a candidate to earn a spot as the team’s right side. The 6-2 Woodbury was extremely impressive in limited action as a freshman, averaging 1.5 kills on .429 hitting. The former player of the year in Connecticut has great potential to have a breakout season. Borman will split time on the outside and at middle blocker and has the potential to be an All-Ivy selection down the road at either spot. She is incredibly athletic and powerful at 6-0, with long arms and good timing at the net.
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Middle Blockers: While Bishop is the most dominating player in the Ivy League, senior Joanna Weiss may be the most dominant player at her position in the league. In concert with classmate Katie Rademacher and a group of young middles, the Big Red has quality options at the net as Cornell tries to continue its reputation as one of the nation’s most intimidating squads. A first-team All-Ivy selection in 2005, Weiss is one of the most improved players in the history of the Big Red program. Standing 6-4, the senior is an intimidating presence at the net just standing still, but factor in her outstanding foot speed and quick hands and Weiss becomes a dominant figure on offense and defense. She ended her junior year averaging 2.97 kills and 1.24 blocks while hitting .406, good for seventh nationally. Her hitting percentage broke the previous school record by more than 60 points. Cornell was so deep and talented that few people realized much of the success came without the services of Rademacher, an All-Ivy selection in 2004, who missed extensive time during the year due to injuries. She led the circuit in blocks per game as a sophomore (1.45).
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2006 SEASON OUTLOOK/ROSTER She also holds the school record for blocks in a match (16 vs. Princeton in 2004), and if she maintains her current pace, will set the record for career blocks per game (1.35 bpg.). A little undersized at 5-11, Rademacher makes up for it with long arms and tremendous timing. She is also a fiery competitor who wills her team to win. Sophomores Jessica Misse and Lia Gaetano, as well as Borman, spent a majority of their rookie seasons behind Weiss and All-Ivy second-team pick Heather Young ’06, but will have opportunities to break into important roles this year. All three impressed the coaching staff a season ago in spring practice. Borman and Misse are outstanding athletes, while Gaetano is a polished player with great size at 6-1. Freshman Juliana Rogers will add depth to the middle, and may be tested on the outside as well.
Kara Kara Zaragoza Zaragoza
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Setters: The Big Red is in good hands at setter, where junior co-captain Amy Gordon is expected to take the reigns of the offense full-time. She will be pushed by sophomore Hilary Holland. Gordon has proven to be a tremendous offensive leader who spreads the ball out well in the Big Red’s balanced offense. She also has made great strides in her defense and blocking, allowing her to become one of the top setters in the Ancient Eight. After splitting time her first two seasons with former captain Whitney Fair ’06, Gordon came into her own during the spring season. She averaged 11.11 assists and 2.43 digs per game, including a season-high 57 assists and a career-best 19 digs in a win over IPFW to claim alltournament honors. She has averaged 10.78 assists per game in her first two seasons, a mark that would rank second in Cornell history. Holland possesses great size (5-11) at the setter position, allowing her to look over the defense and adding a blocking presence at the net. She also adds quickness and great defense, possessing the ability to see time on the floor in the back row, or alongside Gordon. She saw limited action a season ago behind Gordon and Fair, averaging 3.0 assists per game in seven games. Holland has a good sense of the game and understands how to get her teammates involved offensively. She is fully capable of earning significant playing time. No. 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Name Zaragoza, Kara Holland, Hilary Rademacher, Katie Weiss, Joanna Comon, Stephanie Town, Alaina Gordon, Amy Mushovic, Megan Fitzpatrick, Katelyn Bishop, Elizabeth Rogers, Juliana Gaetano, Lia Borman, Emily Woodbury, Kathryn Misse, Jessica Dyer, Alex
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* Letters Won Head Coach: Deitre Collins-Parker (Hawaii ‘95), third season Assistant Coach: Sarah Bernson Volunteer Assistant Coach: Mike Forster Strength and Conditioning Coach: Tom Howley Student-Athlete Services: Chris Wlosinski Faculty Adviser: Dr. Robert Babcock
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Back Row: Cornell will have to replace the substantive defensive ability and leadership of the graduated Kelly Kramer ’06, the school’s career leader in digs. Also gone is Kristen Hughes, one of the top weapons in the service game for Cornell a season ago. Making a bid to replace both will be junior Kara Zaragoza and freshmen Stephanie Comon and Megan Mushovic. Zaragoza is primed for a breakout year after seeing spot duty during her first two campaigns. She averaged 1.92 digs per game as a sophomore, including posting a career-best 16 at Penn. The 56 Zaragoza has quick feet and good instincts, and her impressive ball control allows her to serve as a primary passer in the offense. She also is a very tough server, recording 35 aces in her first two years. Both Comon and Mushovic have vast experience at the libero position. Both pass well and have good defensive instincts. Each will compete for substantial playing time. The Big Red hope both players skills in ball control will help increase the offense’s efficiency.
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School/Hometown St. Mary’s HS/Stockton, Calif. Lincoln HS/Stockton, Calif. Walled Lake HS/White Lake, Mich. Darien (Conn.) HS/Brewster, Mass. Bishop Montgomery HS/Redondo Beach, Calif. Jackson Hole HS/Jackson Hole, Wyo. Highland Park HS/Highland Park, Ill. Coronado HS/Coronado, Calif. St. Anthony’s HS/Port Jefferson, N.Y. Jesuit HS/Portland, Ore. Marcus HS/Flower Mound, Texas Ursuline HS/Santa Rosa, Calif. Merrill F. West HS/Tracy, Calif. Souhegan HS/Amherst, N.H. Ridgecroft School/Ahoskie, N.C. East HS/Denver, Colo.
PRONUNCIATION RONUNCIATION GUIDE UIDE Deitre ................................................................................ DEE-tra Comon ............................................................................ KO-mun Lia Gaetano ..................................................... LEE-uh GUY-tan-oh Misse ................................................................................ miss-AY Mushovic ............................................................ mah-SHOW-vick Rademacher ................................................... RADD-ah-mock-err Alaina ......................................................................... uh-LANE-uh Weiss .................................................................................... WICE Zaragoza ............................................................. zare-uh-GO-zuh
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Senior Outside Hitter • 6-0 Portland, Ore. Jesuit HS Applied Economics and Management
At Cornell A team co-captain in 2006, Bishop has set the course as one of the great volleyball players in Ivy League history after becoming Ivy League Player of the Year and becoming Cornell’s first volleyball All-American in 2005. An honorable mention All-American by the American Volleyball Coaches’ Association, Bishop is a two-time AVCA All-Northeast region selection, including a first-team pick a season ago. A unanimous Ivy League Player of the Year and first-team All-Ivy pick as a junior, she helped lead the team to the outright league title one year after Cornell shared it with three other teams. The team also made its first NCAA tournament appearance since 1993. The 2003 Ivy League Rookie of the Year, Bishop is just the 17th player in league history to earn first-team All-Ivy at least three times. She again led the circuit with 4.88 kills per game, a mark that was good for 20th in the nation. Bishop tallied at least 20 kills in 11 matches and recorded 14 double-doubles in a season that saw her become the school’s career kills leader and crack the top 10 in total digs. She ranked 14th in the nation with 5.28 kills per game as a sophomore, reaching double figures in kills in all but three matches, posting 15 double-doubles and setting the school record with 33 kills against Yale in the Ivy playoff Career Statistics Year GP 2003 85 2004 88 2005 85 Career 258
Kills 374 465 415 1,254
K/G 4.40 5.28 4.88 4.86
Career Highs Kills .......................... 33 vs. Yale (Ivy), 11/21/04 Digs ................................. 32 vs. Penn, 11/7/03 Assists ............................ 5 vs. Fairfield, 9/19/03 Aces .......................... 4 at Dartmouth, 10/8/04 Blocks .......... 9, two times, last at Yale, 10/28/05 Att. 909 1,265 1,143 3,317
Pct. .322 .243 .233 .261
Ast. 25 19 11 55
Aces 11 35 29 75
Digs 331 299 276 906
Blks. 69 52 66 187
final. Bishop was named Ivy Player of the Week three times and ECAC Player of the Week once. As a freshman, Bishop was a first-team All-Ivy pick and conference-record seven-time league Rookie of the Week selection, ending the 2003 season ranked second in the Ancient Eight in kills per game (4.40 kpg.), third in hitting percentage (.322) and seventh in digs (331). Bishop posted 20 matches with double-figure kills and 16 double-double efforts. She was named most valuable player in helping lead the Big Red to the Albany Challenge tournament title and was an all-tournament selection at the Seton Hall Spikefest. Bishop is enrolled in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences. At Jesuit A two-time Metro player of the year, Bishop was a three-time firstteam all-league honoree at Jesuit HS. She led her Portland Volleyball Club team to top-five finishes at the Las Vegas Invitational four consecutive years. The four-year letter winner was also named to the all-state tournament squad in 2001 and 2002.
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Personal Elizabeth Lang Bishop is the daughter of Mary Lang and Mort Bishop, and she has a younger brother. Her father is a 1974 Cornell graduate.
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Sophomore Middle Blocker • 6-0 Tracy, Calif. Merrill F. West HS Biological Sciences At Cornell An athletic middle blocker with great raw potential, Borman will have additional opportunities to join the rotation as a sophomore. She had three kills and two blocks as a freshman while playing in two games. Borman had a career-best three kills in a win over Colgate. She is enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences. At Merrill F. West Borman won awards for both academics and athletics throughout her career at Merrill F. West HS. As a sophomore, she was second-team all-league and was named most inspirational player on her team. In 2003, she was named San Joaquin player of the week and was first-team all-league for both academics and performance on the court. She repeated those honors as a senior, was named San Joaquin athlete of the week twice and was named MVP of her team. Borman also earned a nod on the all-city first team and played in the city’s all-star game. Personal Emily Kristine Borman is the daughter of Gregg Borman and the late Lisa Borman, and she has one brother.
Career Statistics Year GP 2005 2 Career 2
Kills 3 3
K/G 1.50 1.50
Career Highs Kills ............................... 3 vs. Colgate, 9/17/05 Digs ..................................................... None Assists ............................ 1 vs. Colgate, 9/17/05 Aces ..................................................... None Blocks ..... 1, two times, last vs. Colgate, 9/17/05 Att. 5 5
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At Cornell Dyer provided great depth in a stable of talented outside hitters, ending her first year with the Big Red averaging 2.45 kills on .246 hitting in 22 games. Dyer will have an opportunity to earn an even larger role as a senior. Another athletic player with good size, Dyer had a season-high 12 kills and three blocks against Belmont and posted eight kills in three other matches. She is enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences. At Seton Hall Dyer played in all 110 games for the Pirates in 2004 and led the team in kills with 412 (3.75 kpg.). The kills per game mark was seventh-best in the Big East. She also had 216 digs (1.96 dpg.) and 41 total blocks (0.37 bpg.). She was an ESPN The Magazine CoSIDA District 2 All-Academic selection as a sophomore, and tied the ninth-best single-game kills total in Seton Hall history in a match against Princeton with 24. Her 412 kills as a sophomore ranked fifth on the Pirates’ single-season list, and her 1,139 attacks ranked third.
Career Highs Kills ............................. 12 vs. Belmont, 9/23/05 Digs .............................. 7 vs. La Salle, 9/16/05 Assists ................................. 1 at IPFW, 9/24/05 Aces ..................................................... None Blocks ..... 3, two times, last vs. Belmont, 9/23/05
At East Dyer was a four-sport athlete at East HS. She won a total of 10 varsity letters in volleyball (three), soccer (three), track and field (three) and swimming (one). A two-year captain on the East volleyball team, Dyer earned all-district first-team honors in 2002 and 2003. She also earned the Student-Athlete Award, given to the top 25 scholar athletes at the school. Career Statistics Personal Year GP Kills K/G Att. Alexandra M. Dyer is the daughter of John 2005 22 54 2.45 138 Dyer and Diane Mazur Dyer. Her older Career 22 54 2.45 138 brother, Jonny, played baseball at Stanford University.
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Pct. .246 .246
Ast. 1 1
Aces 0 0
Digs 17 17
Blks. 9 9
MEET
THE
BIG RED LIAGAETANO
14 Sophomore Middle Blocker • 6-1 Santa Rosa, Calif. Ursuline HS Biological Sciences
At Cornell A hard-working middle blocker with great potential, Gaetano made her contributions in practice while playing behind a bevy of upperclassmen. She saw action in one contest as a freshman and hopes to play a larger role on the court as a sophomore. Gaetano is enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences. At Ursuline Gaetano was named a North Coast Section Scholar Athlete for volleyball in 2002 and 2003, and also in basketball in 2002 while playing at Ursuline HS. She helped her team to the North Coast Section scholastic championship in 2002, a season for which she was named team MVP. Gaetano earned All-America honors for the 16 and under Division at the 2003 AAU Girls’ Junior National Volleyball Championships. She has earned highest honors in the classroom twice and was named to the Principal’s List twice for earning a GPA between 4.00 and 4.50. She has also earned honors in English and Latin as well as magna cum laude recognition on the national Latin exam. Personal Lia Marie Gaetano is the daughter of Paul and Donna Gaetano, and she has one younger brother.
Career Statistics Year GP 2005 1 Career 1
AMYGORDON**
Kills 0 0
K/G 0.00 0.00
Career Highs Kills ...................................................... None Digs ..................................................... None Assists ................................................... None Aces ..................................................... None Blocks ................................................... None Att. 0 0
Pct. .000 .000
Ast. 0 0
Aces 0 0
Digs 0 0
Blks. 0 0
Co-Captain
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Junior Setter • 5-9 Highland Park, Ill. Highland Park HS Applied Economics and Management
Career Highs Kills .............................. 5 at Harvard, 10/22/05 Digs .................................. 19 at IPFW, 9/24/05 Assists ........................... 62 at Harvard, 10/9/04 Aces ............................ 4 at Columbia, 10/1/05 Blocks . 4, three times, last at Dartmouth, 10/21/05
At Highland Park Gordon was a three-time all-conference selection at Highland Park HS. She was a four-year starter, earning all-county honors each year. She was named team MVP and to the all-area team three times as well. Gordon served as team captain in each of her final three campaigns, as well as for five years on her Adversity Club team, which earned second place at the Career Statistics competitive Phoenix Invitational. Gordon also Year GP Kills K/G Att. played varsity soccer at Highland Park. 2004 40 11 0.28 39 2005 46 20 0.43 48 Personal Career 86 31 0.36 87 Amy Elizabeth Gordon is the daughter of Rich and Julie Gordon, and she has a younger brother and sister.
Pct. .154 .250 .207
Ast. 416 511 927
Aces 10 13 23
Digs 80 112 192
Blks. 23 28 51
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At Cornell Gordon has earned the respect of her teammates and is expected to take over the starting setting role as a junior while serving as co-captain in 2006. An athletic setter with soft hands, she has done a good job running the Big Red offense. Gordon split time with Whitney Fair last season, playing in 20 matches and averaging 11.11 assists per game. She also tallied 112 digs, 26 blocks, 20 kills and 13 service aces. Gordon had one of the best games of her career in a win over IPFW to win the Mastodon’s tournament, posting a season high 57 assists and a career-best 19 digs to earn all-tournament honors. Gordon played 40 games as a freshman, averaging 10.40 assists, 2.00 digs and 0.57 blocks per contest. She got her first collegiate start against St. Francis (N.Y.) at the Binghamton Invitational and handed out 40 assists in the sweep. Throughout the season, she split duties as the starting setter and topped the 40-assist mark three more times, including a career-high 62-assist performance at Harvard. Over the summer, Gordon joined her teammates at the Sibillini Tournament in eastern Italy, where the team faced some quality international competition in preparation for the 2005 season. She was named the tournament’s best setter.
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THE
BIG RED
HILARYHOLLAND
2 Sophomore Setter • 5-11 Stockton, Calif. Lincoln HS
Undecided - Arts and Sciences At Cornell Holland brings great size and game control to the setter position and will battle Amy Gordon for the position after having a solid rookie campaign. In limited action, Holland averaged 3.0 assists per game to go along with a kill and eight digs. She had a career-best eight assists in a win over Colgate. Holland is enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences. At Lincoln Holland was a four-year starter at setter for Lincoln HS, leading the team to a perfect 180 record in league play as a senior. In both the 2003 and 2004 seasons, the team played in the CIF Nor-Cal Division I Championship final and reached the California state volleyball tournament Division I final four. A team captain as a senior, Holland was twice named the team MVP, was a four-time first-team All-San Joaquin Athletic Association selection and was named the outstanding setter in the SJAA as a senior. She was named to the Stockton Record’s All-Area team four times and was the All-Area MVP in her last two seasons. In the club ranks, she was a captain of the Club Pacific squad. Holland has excelled in the classroom as well, earning honor roll status all four years. She has been awarded the California Governor’s Scholarship, is a life member of the California Scholastic Federation and was a member of Mu Alpha Theta, a mathematics honor society. Personal Hilary Morgan Holland is the daughter of Lesley and Susan Holland, and she has an older brother and a younger brother.
Career Statistics Year GP 2005 7 Career 7
Kills 1 1
K/G 0.14 0.14
Career Highs Kills ............................... 1 vs. Colgate, 9/17/05 Digs .......................... 3 vs. Princeton, 10/14/05 Assists ............................ 8 vs. Colgate, 9/17/05 Aces ..................................................... None Blocks ................................................... None Att. 2 2
Pct. .500 .500
Ast. 21 21
Aces 0 0
Digs 8 8
JESSICAMISSE
Blks. 0 0
17 Sophomore Middle Blocker • 5-11 Ahoskie, N.C. Ridgecroft School
Industrial and Labor Relations
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At Cornell Misse spent much of her freshman season backing up upperclassmen in the middle, but was recognized as the team’s most improved player in a vote of her teammates. In limited action, she racked up eight kills and six blocks in just four total games. She had four kills in a win over Colgate and a career-best four blocks in an Ivy League win over Columbia. Misse is enrolled in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. At Ridgecroft Misse was a standout volleyball and basketball player at the Ridgecroft School during her high school career, earning four varsity letters in each sport. She led her volleyball team to the final four in the North Carolina state tournament for the first time in school history as a junior and repeated the feat as a senior. She was a four-time academic all-conference selection in both basketball and volleyball, has been named to the all-conference tournament team three times, to the all-conference team three times, and was selected as the conference player of the year in 2004. An all-conference performer in basketball as a senior, Misse has a long list of other academic and athletic awards, and served as a hospice volunteer. Personal Jessica Rose Mbongue Misse is the daughter of Edouard and Maria Misse, and she has one older brother. Career Statistics Year GP 2005 4 Career 4
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Kills 8 8
K/G 2.00 2.00
Career Highs Kills ............................... 4 vs. Colgate, 9/17/05 Digs ..................................................... None Assists ................................................... None Aces ..................................................... None Blocks ......................... 4 vs. Columbia, 11/7/05 Att. 22 22
Pct. .091 .091
Ast. 0 0
Aces 0 0
Digs 0 0
Blks. 6 6
MEET
THE
BIG RED KATIERADEMACHER***
3
Senior Middle Blocker • 5-11 White Lake, Mich. Walled Lake HS American Studies At Cornell One of the top middle blockers in the Ivy League when healthy, Rademacher was able to play just 17 games as a junior. She averaged 1.18 kills and 1.35 blocks in limited action, including season-highs of five kills and 11 blocks against Charlotte. She made her mark on the front lines as one of the Ivy League’s premier blockers. An intelligent player at the net, she has the attacking skills to keep a defense honest and tremendous timing and quick feet. As a sophomore, she lead the Ivy League with 1.45 blocks per game. She helped the squad post 3.04 bpg, good for 18th in the nation. Despite missing time with an illness, Rademacher was named honorable mention All-Ivy. Rademacher had at least five blocks in a team-high 13 matches, including at Princeton where she set school single-match records with 15 block assists and 16 total blocks. She added 1.90 kills per game in 73 games as well. As a freshman in 2003, Rademacher averaged 2.00 kills per game on .457 hitting to go along with 0.75 blocks per game. She posted season highs of seven kills and three blocks in an Ivy League home win over Columbia. She is enrolled in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences. At Walled Lake Rademacher was a two-time all-state selection at Walled Lake Central HS. The academic all-state pick was a two-time all-conference, all-region, all-metro and all-area pick. During her four seasons, Walled Lake won four district and league crowns and three division championships. As a senior, Rademacher recorded 590 kills and 342 blocks. Rademacher also earned four letters in basketball. Career Statistics Year GP 2003 12 2004 73 2005 17 Career 102
Personal Kathryn Georgia Rademacher is the daughter of Mark and Mary Rademacher, and she has an older sister.
Kills 24 139 20 183
K/G 2.00 1.90 1.18 1.79
Career Highs Kills ........................... 13 at Columbia, 10/2/04 Digs ....... 3, two times, last vs. Charlotte, 9/9/05 Assists .......... 2, three times, last vs. SMU, 9/9/05 Aces ...... 1, four times, last at Harvard, 10/22/05 Blocks ......................... 16 at Princeton, 11/6/04 Att. 46 351 58 455
Pct. .457 .222 .207 .244
Ast. 1 7 3 11
Aces 2 0 2 4
Digs 3 17 10 30
Blks. 9 106 23 138
ALAINATOWN**
7
Senior Outside Hitter • 6-1 Jackson Hole, Wyo. Jackson Hole HS Biological Sciences
Career Highs Kills .......................... 15 vs. Yale (Ivy), 11/21/04 Digs ........................... 5 vs. Yale (Ivy), 11/21/04 Assists .................................. 6 vs. Yale, 10/8/05 Aces ... 1, two times, last vs. Fairleigh Dickinson, 9/27/03 Blocks .......... 6, five times, last at Yale, 10/28/05
At Jackson Hole Town was a two-time all-state selection at Jackson Hole HS, helping lead the team to a state runner-up finish as a junior. The conference player of the year and team MVP as a senior, Town also played for the Western Wyoming club Career Statistics team in each of her last two seasons. Year GP Kills K/G Att. 2003 12 20 1.67 76 Personal 2004 89 142 1.60 342 Alaina Janine Town is the daughter of Mary Town 2005 73 135 1.85 334 and Phil Town, and she has an older sister. Career 174 297 1.71 752
Pct. .158 .284 .269 .265
Ast. 0 38 40 78
Aces 2 0 0 2
Digs 12 38 38 88
Blks. 3 83 63 149
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At Cornell An outstanding athlete who has become one of the team’s most consistent players, Town brings a high energy level to every practice and game. She averaged a career-high 1.85 kills per game as a junior while hitting .269. She also averaged 0.86 blocks per game. A high-flyer, Town had 13 kills and six blocks in a win over IPFW, one of three matches in which she hit double figures in kills. Last season, Town finished fourth in the Ivy League with a .284 hitting percentage. Town knocked down 142 kills (1.60 kpg.) while hitting .257 as a sophomore. She saved the best match of her career for the Ivy League playoff against Yale, a match in watch she tallied career bests with 15 kills and five digs. She also had two assists and three blocks in the match. Town was strong on the defensive side as well, registering six blocks on three different occasions. She ended her rookie campaign averaging 1.67 kills and 1.00 digs per game, including notching five kills in a sweep of Hartford at the Seton Hall Spikefest. She is enrolled in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences.
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MEET
THE
BIG RED
JOANNAWEISS**
4
Senior Middle Blocker • 6-4 Brewster, Mass. Darien (Conn.) HS Psychology At Cornell Weiss earned first-team All-Ivy honors in 2005 and will again be one of the league’s most dominant forces at the net again as a senior. She led the league with a .406 hitting percentage, which ranked seventh in Division I. That mark broke the single-season Cornell record by an astounding 60 points. During one five-match stretch which began with the Big Red’s stunning comeback win at Yale, Weiss recorded 74 kills with just 13 errors on 118 total swings for a .517 hitting percentage. She also had 1.67 blocks per game during that stretch. For the season, she ranked second in the league with 1.24 blocks per outing in helping the team to a total of 3.01 which was 22nd in the nation. Weiss had 14 matches with double figure kills and 10 matches with five or more blocks. She had 10 kills on 12 swings in a win over Columbia and notched a career-best 21 kills in the five-set win at Yale. Weiss had been named the team’s Most Improved Player following each of her first two seasons, continuing her upward trend. The tallest player on the team, she became an offensive weapon as a sophomore. Weiss averaged 1.59 kills per game and hit .325 in 2004. Her best work came in November when she posted a career-high 10 blocks at home against Yale. In the Ivy League playoff, also against the Bulldogs, she knocked down a personal-best 12 kills on .458 hitting and added four blocks. As a rookie, Weiss averaged 0.91 blocks per game to help the Big Red finish second in the nation in that category. She also averaged nearly a kill per game while hitting a solid .255. Weiss posted seven blocks, five digs and two service aces against Hartford and notched six kills against Fairfield. She is enrolled in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences.
Career Highs Kills .................................. 21 at Yale, 10/28/05 Digs ............................. 5 vs. Hartford, 9/14/03 Assists . 1, six times, last vs. Binghamton, 9/28/05 Aces ............................. 2 vs. Hartford, 9/14/03 Blocks .............................. 10 vs. Yale, 11/12/04
Career Statistics At Darien GP Kills K/G Att. Pct. Ast. Aces Digs Blks. Weiss was a two-time first-team all-state Year 23 21 0.91 55 .255 4 2 12 21 selection at Darien HS, helping the team to 2003 22 35 1.59 77 .325 0 0 7 30 three state titles in her four seasons. The 2004 county MVP as a senior, Weiss capped off a 2005 86 255 2.97 485 .406 2 0 17 110 career that featured two all-county selections Career 131 311 2.37 617 .382 6 2 36 161 by being named MVP of the 2002 Connecticut High School Coaches Association All-Star team. Weiss averaged 4.22 kills and 2.22 blocks per game while hitting .458 as a senior, including 17 matches with double-figure kills and nine with at least 10 blocks.
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Personal Joanna Mara Weiss is the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Weiss, and she has a younger brother, Matthew, who will enroll at Cornell as a freshman this fall.
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MEET
THE
BIG RED KATHRYNWOODBURY
16
Sophomore Outside Hitter • 6-2 Amherst, N.H. Souhegan HS Policy Analysis and Management At Cornell Woodbury showed great potential as a freshman while serving as a backup at outside hitter and will attempt to move into a bigger role in 2006. Woodbury had three kills and a .429 hitting percentage while seeing action in two matches as a rookie. She added two blocks, two assists and a dig. She is enrolled in the College of Human Ecology. At Souhegan Woodbury helped her Souhegan HS team to reach the New Hampshire Class I state final four as a junior. The team went even further in 2004 winning the New Hampshire Class I state championship. Woodbury was named New Hampshire Volleyball Coaches Association Class I state player of the year as a senior and was a three-time player of the year at Souhegan HS. She was named NHIAA first-team All-State in 2003 and 2004 after receiving honorable mention as a sophomore in 2002. Her club team was ranked first in New England. Woodbury, who was a member of the National Honor Society, was an honor roll student for all four years and won numerous academic awards. Personal Kathryn Wilich Woodbury is the daughter of Mark and Karen Woodbury, and she has an older sister. Career Statistics Year GP 2005 2 Career 2
Kills 3 3
K/G 1.50 1.50
Career Highs Kills ............................... 2 vs. La Salle, 9/16/05 Digs .............................. 1 vs. La Salle, 9/16/05 Assists ............................ 2 vs. Colgate, 9/17/05 Aces ..................................................... None Blocks ..... 1, two times, last vs. Colgate, 9/17/05 Att. 7 7
Pct. .429 .429
Ast. 2 2
Aces 0 0
Digs 1 1
Blks. 2 2
KARAZARAGOZA**
1
Junior Libero/Defensive Specialist • 5-6 Stockton, Calif. St. Mary’s HS Developmental Sociology At Cornell After two seasons of serving a part-time role in the back row, Zaragoza will have a chance to take over as the team’s libero. An athletic player who can run down balls and a is a good passer, Zaragoza will also be a key part of the team’s service game. As a sophomore, Zaragoza averaged 1.92 digs per game, including a career-high 16 at Penn. She ended the season with three matches with double figure digs. Zaragoza also had a career-best four service aces in a five-game win over Yale and had three in a win over NCAA qualifier Binghamton. As a freshman, she piled up 18 aces in 55 games to rank ninth in the Ivy League with 0.33 sapg. She also came through with 1.60 digs per game. She had at least seven digs on six different occasions, including nine against Yale in the Ivy League final. Zaragoza also had three service aces in back-to-back matches at Dartmouth and Harvard. She is enrolled in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Personal Kara Rose Zaragoza is the daughter of Frank and Barbara Zaragoza, and she has a younger brother and sister.
Career Statistics Year GP 2004 55 2005 63 Career 118
Kills 1 1 2
K/G 0.02 0.02 0.02
Career Highs Kills .............. 1, two times, vs. Colgate, 9/17/05 Digs ................................ 16 at Penn, 11/11/05 Assists .......... 2, two times, last at Yale, 10/16/04 Aces .................................. 4 at Yale, 10/28/05 Blocks ................................................... None Att. 11 45 56
Pct. -.091 -.067 -.071
Ast. 11 9 20
Aces 18 17 35
Digs 88 121 209
Blks. 0 0 0
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At St. Mary’s A first-team all-league selection at St. Mary’s HS, Zaragoza was part of two league championship teams. The two-year volleyball letter winner also competed in soccer, track and field and basketball. Zaragoza was named the most inspirational player for the soccer team as a senior and was part of a state-title winning basketball team as a sophomore.
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MEET STEPHANIECOMON
5
THE
MEGANMUSHOVIC
BIG RED 9
Freshman Defensive Specialist • 5-5 Redondo Beach, Calif. Bishop Montgomery HS
Freshman Libero/Defensive Specialist • 5-7 Coronado, Calif. Coronado HS
Engineering
Human Biology, Health and Society
At Bishop Montgomery Comon was a two-year varsity starter and team captain as a senior at Bishop Montgomery HS. Her play earned her South Bay Athletic Club all-star honors as a senior. A scholar-athlete award winner in both 2004 and 2005, she was given the 2005 Black & Gold Award. Comon’s team placed second at the 2004 Volleyball Festival. She also spent two seasons playing on the junior varsity, earning team captain honors as a sophomore. She competed in soccer for one season as a midfielder.
At Coronado A three-time first-team all-league selection at Coronado HS, Mushovic was named league most valuable player as a sophomore outside hitter. A first-team all-area pick as a senior and second-team selection as a junior, Mushovic was chosen as team MVP in each of her final three years. She was a member of two league champion teams and was selected to play in the San Diego high school all-star game. Mushovic was chosen to receive the ISF Award by the Islander Sports Foundation in 2005. A three-sport star, she also excelled in soccer and track and field. Mushovic was the team’s most valuable player as a senior in soccer, and was the league runner-up in the discus in track.
Personal Stephanie Marie-Tamiko Comon is the daughter of Mark and Sheryl Comon, and she has two younger brothers.
Personal Megan Christine Mushovic is the daughter of Jim and Janis Mushovic, and she has two older sisters.
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KATELYNFITZPATRICK
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JULIANAROGERS
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Freshman Outside Hitter • 5-11 Port Jefferson, N.Y. St. Anthony’s HS
Freshman Middle Blocker • 6-1 Flower Mound, Texas Marcus HS
Applied Economics and Management
Physics
At St. Anthony’s A two-year starter at St. Anthony’s HS, Fitzpatrick helped her squad to a state title as a junior and a spot in the state semifinals as a senior. An all-league selection and team captain as a senior, Fitzpatrick was given the Gregoire Award as the school’s top female studentathlete. She also was given the Suffolk County Zone Award and competed in the 2005 Junior Olympics, earning a 2005 GEVA regional championship. Fitzpatrick also competed for the Long Island United Club and Long Island Volleyball Academy club teams.
At Marcus Rogers accumulated a number of accolades while at Marcus HS. She was a two-time first-team all-district selection, team captain and most valuable player leading her team to a district championship in 2003. She was given the Dallas Force hustle Award in 200405 and the Dallas Force MVP Award in 2005-06. A National Honor Society member and recipient of the English department award, Rogers also was a Science Department National Merit finalist.
Personal Katelynn Ann Fitzpatrick is the daughter of John and Mary Fitzpatrick, and she three younger sisters and a younger brother. Her mother was a 1984 Cornell graduate, while her uncle, Robert Arao ‘84, competed on the Big Red wrestling team.
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Personal Juliana Marie Rogers is the daughter of Charles and Candy Rogers and has an older and younger brother. Her father played football at Northwestern.
2005 SEASON REVIEW
IVY CHAMPIONSHIP LEADS TO PROGRAM’S SECOND NCAA TOURNAMENT BERTH Collins-Parker, Bishop push team to unbeaten home record, numerous school records en route to 19-6 campaign
win streak was over, but a new one would get started the following weekend with sweeps of Penn and Princeton at Newman Arena. Bishop returned to the court, and the following weekend, she again put up stunning numbers in a pair of wins at Dartmouth and Harvard. She averaged 5.75 kills and 3.75 digs per game to earn her second Ivy League Player of the Week honor of the season. On a four-match winning streak, Cornell headed to Yale for a showdown at the John J. Lee Amphitheater. The Big Red dropped the first two games by scores of 30-20 and 35-33. The home team took a 28-23 lead in game three and appeared set to close out the match and draw even in the Ivy League standings. The Big Red launched an epic comeback, however, and over the course of the next three games, stared down match point four times before finally taking the victory and a twomatch lead in the Ivy League standings. That cushion would prove to be huge down the stretch. Senior libero Kelly Kramer set the school record for digs in a match with 39. It was the fifth time in her career that she had reached 30 digs and the third time she had done it against Yale. The next afternoon, Kramer had 25 digs in a four-game win at Brown, giving her 7.11 digs per game for the weekend. The Big Red returned to Newman Arena to close out the home slate with three Ivy matches. The team swept Harvard on Saturday and Columbia on Monday, and downed Dartmouth 3-1 on Saturday to complete the first perfect home schedule since 1992. Cornell was 11-0 at Newman Arena in 2005. In the Senior Day contest against Dartmouth, Kramer recorded 16 digs to become Cornell’s all-time digs leader. In the home finale against Columbia, the Big Red clinched at least a tie for the Ivy League title with the victory. Bishop entered the match needing 16 kills to tie the school career kills record. Sitting at 13, she scored the last three Cornell points of the match to tie it in front of the home crowd. She set the record early in the next match at Penn. Having won nine straight matches for the second time on the season and needing just one win to earn the outright Ivy title, Cornell headed to Penn and Princeton looking to become the time in Ivy League history to go 14-0 in league play. Unfortunately, the team stumbled in both matches, and Yale won both of its matches, leaving the Bulldogs just a half-game back with one more to play. The Big Red was prepared to play in a playoff for the second straight year, but found out late on the night of Nov. 16 that Brown had defeated Yale 3-2, and given Cornell the title and NCAA berth. With the league’s automatic bid in hand. Cornell travelled to Penn State for an opening round NCAA game against Northeast Conference champion Long Island. The Big Red was a step behind all night, falling by scores of 31-29, 30-24, 35-33 to end its campaign. The Big Red was honored regionally and nationally for their efforts. Bishop, a unanimous selection for Ivy League Player of the Year, was a first-team all-region pick for the second straight year and was an honorable mention AllAmerican by the AVCA, the first Cornell player to earn national honors. Weiss also was named to the All-Ivy first team, while Kramer and senior middle blocker Heather Young were second team picks. The team also was rewarded for its efforts in the classroom, as senior setter Whitney Fair, junior outside hitter Alaina Town and sophomore setter Amy Gordon all were named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District second team.
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After missing out on the Ivy League’s automatic NCAA tournament berth by just two points in a playoff in 2004, the Big Red returned to the big dance for the first time since 1993. Under the direction of head coach Deitre CollinsParker, Cornell closed a story book 2005 season with a 19-6 mark. The Big Red got an early jump on preparations for the season at the Sibillini Tournament in Comunanza, Italy, in late June and early July. Once the team returned to campus, the focus shifted to defending the 2004 Ivy League championship that the Big Red shared with three other teams, and earning the title outright. The season opened at the Duke Invitational at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C., where the team avenged a 2004 seasonopening loss to SMU with a sweep of the Mustangs. That would be the first of nine matches the Big Red would play against regionally ranked teams. Cornell finished with a 5-4 mark in those matches. After downing SMU, Cornell returned to the court later in the day against Charlotte. The 49ers took a 3-2 decision, but the first game was significant in that it was the highest-scoring in Cornell volleyball history. Charlotte outlasted the Big Red by a 40-38 count. The following day yielded a 3-1 loss to the host Blue Devils, also a member of the 2005 NCAA tournament field, but it would be the last defeat for Cornell for three-and-a-half weeks. The team swept three matches to take its own tournament title. Senior outside hitter Rachel Adomat was named tournament MVP after averaging 4.75 kills per game on .329 hitting for the weekend. The following weekend saw Cornell earn a pair of 3-1 wins over Belmont and IPFW to close out the tournament schedule. Junior outside hitter Elizabeth Bishop dominated play with 6.25 kills per game on .308 hitting and added 3.38 digs per game. She was named tournament MVP, Ivy League Player of the Week and ECAC Division I Player of the Week for her efforts. On the same day Bishop earned ECAC Division I Player of the Week honors, the team returned home to Newman Arena to face Binghamton. The Big Red swept the Bearcats, who went on to win the America East championship and earn their first NCAA tournament bid. In the match, Bishop became just the fifth Cornell player to record her 1,000th career kill. Ivy League play began that weekend, and Cornell went to New York City and swept Columbia in the midst of what ultimately was a 13-game winning streak, which tied for the fourth-longest by a Cornell team since 1989. Sporting an 8-2 record, Cornell reached back into the past and welcomed numerous alumni, family and friends back to the East Hill for a Banner Weekend on Oct. 7-8. The school raised banners in recognition of the volleyball team’s 1991, 1992, 1993 and 2004 Ivy League titles. The current team celebrated in style, sweeping Brown and defeating Yale 3-1. The Bulldogs had beaten the Big Red three times in 2004, including in the Ivy League playoff final, so it was a big step toward the season’s goal to knock off Yale and get the early lead in Ivy play. Junior middle blocker Joanna Weiss was named Ivy League Player of the Week for the first time in her career after knocking down 24 kills with just five errors on 41 swings (.463). She averaged 3.43 kills and 1.29 blocks per game on the weekend. On the following Wednesday, the Big Red went to Syracuse to take on the Orange and pushed the home squad to five games despite playing without Bishop. The team’s nine-match
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2005 STATISTICS & RESULTS 2005 Statistics 12 13 4 18 17 11 7 10 15 16 3 5 8 2 6 9 1 14
Player Elizabeth Bishop Rachel Adomat Joanna Weiss Alex Dyer Jessica Misse Thais Mirela Alaina Town Heather Young Emily Borman Kathryn Woodbury Katie Rademacher Whitney Fair Amy Gordon Hilary Holland Kristen Hughes Kelly Kramer Kara Zaragoza Lia Gaetano Team Cornell Totals Opponent Totals
G 85 73 86 22 4 57 73 85 2 2 17 56 46 7 79 91 63 1
K 415 224 255 54 8 110 135 149 3 3 20 29 20 1 7 2 1 0
K/G 4.88 3.07 2.97 2.45 2.00 1.93 1.85 1.75 1.50 1.50 1.18 0.52 0.43 0.14 0.09 0.02 0.02 0.00
E 149 102 58 20 6 47 45 70 0 0 8 11 8 0 11 1 4 0
TA Pct 1143 .233 656 .186 485 .406 138 .246 22 .091 322 .196 334 .269 348 .227 5 .600 7 .429 58 .207 69 .261 48 .250 2 .500 65 -.062 29 .034 45 -.067 0 .000
91 1436 15.78 91 1281 14.08
540 679
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A A/G 11 0.13 4 0.05 2 0.02 1 0.05 0 0.00 13 0.23 40 0.55 8 0.09 1 0.50 2 1.00 3 0.18 652 11.64 511 11.11 21 3.00 28 0.35 10 0.11 9 0.14 0 0.00
SA 29 1 0 0 0 15 0 26 0 0 2 18 13 0 15 30 17 0
SE 14 1 0 0 0 29 0 17 0 0 3 10 7 0 24 25 16 0
RE DIG D/G 15 276 3.25 2 58 0.79 1 17 0.20 2 17 0.77 0 0 0.00 16 138 2.42 2 38 0.52 1 83 0.98 0 0 0.00 0 1 0.50 0 10 0.59 1 127 2.27 1 112 2.43 0 8 1.14 13 185 2.34 33 433 4.76 16 121 1.92 0 0 0.00 16 1316 14.46 166 146 119 1624 17.85 1199 13.18 119 187 164 1549 17.02
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2005 Results (19-6, 12-2 Ivy League) Ivy League Champions Date 9/9 9/9 9/10 9/16 9/17 9/17 9/23 9/24 9/28 10/1 10/7 10/8 10/11 10/14 10/15 10/21 10/22 10/28 10/29 11/4 11/5 11/7 11/11 11/12 12/2
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Opponent vs. Southern Methodist vs. Charlotte at Duke LA SALLE COLGATE BUTLER vs. Belmont at IPFW BINGHAMTON at Columbia BROWN YALE at Syracuse PRINCETON PENN at Dartmouth at Harvard at Yale at Brown HARVARD DARTMOUTH COLUMBIA at Penn at Princeton vs. Long Island
Result W L L W W W W W W W W W L W W W W W W W W W L L L
^ - Duke Invitational (Durham, N.C.) @ - Cornell Invitational (Ithaca, N.Y.) # - IPFW Invitational (Fort Wayne, Ind.) & - NCAA tournament first round (University Park, Pa.) * - Ivy League game
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Game Scores 3-0 (30-23, 30-22, 32-30) 2-3 (38-40, 30-15, 30-20, 27-30, 14-16) 1-3 (24-30, 30-27, 24-30, 24-30) 3-0 (30-19, 30-15, 30-18) 3-0 (30-20, 30-19, 30-14) 3-0 (30-18, 30-19, 30-23) 3-1 (23-30, 30-18, 30-24, 30-22) 3-1 (28-30, 30-24, 30-24, 32-30) 3-0 (30-21, 30-27, 30-22) 3-0 (30-18,30-24, 30-16) 3-0 (30-25, 30-25, 30-21) 3-1 (30-28, 27-30, 30-28, 30-23) 2-3 (21-30, 33-31, 24-30, 30-26, 11-15) 3-0 (30-17, 30-24, 30-26) 3-0 (30-18, 30-17, 30-26) 3-1 (30-23, 30-21, 26-30, 30-23) 3-1 (23-30, 30-20, 30-22, 30-21) 3-2 (20-30, 33-35, 32-30, 30-26, 19-17) 3-1 (30-18, 30-23, 24-30, 30-20) 3-0 (30-19, 30-19, 30-13) 3-1 (30-21, 26-30, 30-20, 30-26) 3-0 (30-25,30-15, 30-28) 2-3 (30-22, 25-30, 20-30, 30-25, 10-15) 0-3 (24-30, 25-30, 30-32) 0-3 (29-31, 24-30, 33-35)
BS 4 1 13 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0
BA 62 26 97 9 6 27 63 119 2 2 23 33 26 0 2 0 0 0
Tot 66 27 110 9 6 27 63 123 2 2 23 34 28 0 2 0 0 0
B/G 0.78 0.37 1.28 0.41 1.50 0.47 0.86 1.45 1.00 1.00 1.35 0.61 0.61 0.00 0.03 0.00 0.00 0.00
25 42
497 308
273.5 196.0
3.01 2.15
BIG RED VOLLEYBALL HISTORY Cornell Volleyball: A Story Of Success
All-Time Cornell Coaching Records Coach Sue Nattrass Debbie Nelson Andrea Dutcher Jolene Nagel Merja Connolly Sue Medley Christie Roes Deitre Collins-Parker Total
Record 2-2 (.500) 7-5 (.583) 346-158-7 (.684) 85-40 (.680) 36-21 (.766) 53-79 (.402) 84-54 (.609) 36-15 (.706) 649-374-7 (.633)
Years One (1972) One (1973) 14 (1974-87) Four (1988-91) Two (1992-93) Four + (1994-98) Five + (1998-2003) Two (2004-pr.) 34 (1972-2004)
Cornell Volleyball By The Numbers . . . .633 2 2 2 3 5 6 6 27 35 649
All-Time Winning Percentage NCAA Tournament Appearance Eastern District Tournament Titles Undefeated Ivy League Seasons Ivy League Tournament Titles Ivy League Players of the Year Ivy League Regular Season Titles New York State Tourney Titles Winning Seasons Seasons of Volleyball at Cornell All-Time Wins - 18.5 wins per year
The 1993 squad made the program’s first NCAA tournament appearance. Deitre Collins-Parker, one of the greatest players in NCAA history as a middle blocker at Hawaii, became the program’s eighth head coach in June, 2004 and wasted no time in adding her name to the list of coaches who have guided successful squads on the East Hill. She has already led Cornell to at least a share of the Ivy League title in each of her first two seasons with the program’s second NCAA tournament appearance coming in 2005. The 2004 team finished 17-9 overall and 10-4 in Ivy play, finishing in a four-way tie for the league championship. It marked the first time since 1993 that Cornell earned at least a share of the crown. A four-team playoff was held to determine which school would represent the Ivy League in the NCAA tournament, and the Big Red fought Yale for every point in a 3-2 loss. The Big Red went a step further in 2005, advancing to the NCAA tournament after securing the outright Ivy title with a 19-6 overall record and a 12-2 Ancient Eight mark. Two of the school’s major career records also fell during the year, as Ivy League Player of the year Elizabeth Bishop set the kills record, while Kelly Kramer claimed the digs mark. With Collins-Parker’s entire staff back intact and four starters returning from the 2005 squad, the Big Red will look to continue writing the current chapter in the program’s ever-growing success story. 2000 Ivy League Player of the Year
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Volleyball, which has been a varsity sport at Cornell for 35 years, is one of the university’s most decorated women’s programs. Since hitting the hardwood in 1972, the Big Red has posted a 649-374-7 record, with three Ivy League tournament titles, seven first-place finishes during the regular season, six New York state crowns and a pair of Eastern championships. The Big Red made history in 1993 when it became the first Ivy League volleyball team to participate in the NCAA championship tournament and returned in 2005. It all began when Sue Nattrass guided the Big Red to a 2-2 slate back in 1972. After dropping the first two matches, the spikers downed Colgate in five games and swept Eisenhower College in three. Debbie Nelson took over the program the following year, as the Big Red went 7-5 and placed sixth at the New York state tournament. Andrea Dutcher took over in 1974 and coached for 14 years, with the Big Red posting 346 victories against only 158 losses with seven ties. In just her third season, Dutcher guided the spikers to a 2411 season and second-place finishes at the New York state, EAIAW and Ivy League tournaments. In 1981, Cornell posted a school record 47 wins with only six losses. The following year, Dutcher led the squad to its first of four straight New York state tournament championships, while posting a 40-8 campaign. That team also won its first EAIAW championship. The 1983 team went 41-4 to conclude a string of three straight 40-win campaigns. Dutcher led her squad to two more New York state titles before ushering in Ivy League play in 1986 — the first year for round robin competition in the league. In 1988, Jolene Nagel was hired to replace Dutcher, who retired from the coaching ranks, and led the Big Red to a 25-9 campaign and a New York state title. The following year, Cornell went 25-8 on the year, won its second consecutive New York state crown and went 7-0 against Ivy competition. In Nagel’s final year, the Big Red won its first Ivy League championship and qualified for the National Invitational Volleyball Championships. Nagel finished her Cornell career with an 85-40 slate. In 1992, Merja Connolly took over the program and guided the Red to consecutive Ivy League championships. Her 1992 squad went 19-11 and participated in the NIVC, while the 1993 team went 17-10 and earned a berth to the NCAA championships, losing to Nebraska in the first round. Sue Medley took over the reins of the Big Red in 1994 and guided the squad to a 20-10 mark — its first 20-win campaign since 1989 — and a first-place finish in the Ivy regular season in just her second year. Medley ended her tenure during the 1998 season and was replaced by Christie Roes. Roes guided the Big Red to a runner-up finish in the 2000 Ivy League tournament, helped develop 2000 Ivy League Player of the Year Robin Moore and directed 15 All-Ivy League players. She became the third-winningest coach in school history and recorded a pair of 20-win campaigns in her five full seasons with a league regular season runner-up finish in 2003. That team won 14 straight matches en route to a 21-4 record.
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ALL-TIME RECORDS INDIVIDUAL SEASON RECORDS Kills 465 415 405 400 396
Elizabeth Bishop ......................... 2004 Elizabeth Bishop ........................... 2005 Becky Merchant .......................... 1987 Debbie Quibell .......................... 2000 Alex Gross ................................... 1990
Kills 5.28 4.88 4.40 4.18 4.00
Per Game Elizabeth Bishop ......................... 2004 Elizabeth Bishop ........................... 2005 Elizabeth Bishop ......................... 2003 Robin Moore ............................... 1999 Alex Gross ................................... 1990
Attack Attempts 1,265 Elizabeth Bishop ......................... 2004 1,143 Elizabeth Bishop ........................... 2005 1,094 Debbie Quibell .......................... 2000 1,060 Alex Gross ................................... 1990 997 Robin Moore ............................... 2000 Attack Percentage .406 Joanna Weiss ................................. 2005 .343 Ashely Stover .............................. 2003 .333 Vanessa Richlin ........................... 1997 .330 Shelley Zierhut ........................... 1991 .326 Rachel Rice ................................. 2000 Assists 1,280 Rachel Rice ................................. 2000 1,221 Adrienne Greve .......................... 1995 1,129 Jen Strazza .................................. 1991 1,053 Sara Thomas ............................... 1993 1,050 Tere Duran .................................. 1987 Assists Per Game 12.17 Whitney Fair ............................... 2003 11.96 Rachel Rice ................................. 2000 11.85 Whitney Fair ............................... 2004 11.64 Whitney Fair ................................. 2005 11.11 Amy Gordon ................................. 2005
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Service Aces 66 Ann Korioth ................................ 1988 63 Tere Duran .................................. 1988 60 Michele Scherer .......................... 1988 58 Tere Duran .................................. 1987 51 Jen Strazza .................................. 1989 Digs 468 433 403 389 361
Kelly Kramer .............................. 2004 Kelly Kramer .................................. 2005 Tere Duran .................................. 1988 Kelly Kramer .............................. 2003 Jen Strazza .................................. 1991
Digs 5.09 4.76 4.18 3.89 3.73
Per Game Kelly Kramer .............................. 2004 Kelly Kramer .................................. 2005 Kelly Kramer .............................. 2003 Elizabeth Bishop ......................... 2003 Meredith Doughty ...................... 1992
Block Solos 71 Becky Merchant .......................... 1987 67 Becky Merchant .......................... 1988 61 Becky Merchant .......................... 1989 50 Shelley Zierhut ........................... 1991 48 Shelley Zierhut ........................... 1989
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Block Assists 119 Heather Young .............................. 2005 116 Jamie Lugo ................................. 2003 114 Heather Young ........................... 2004 101 Jamie Lugo ................................. 2001 97 Joanna Weiss ................................. 2005 97 Ashely Stover .............................. 2003 97 Carol DeZwarte ......................... 1995 Total Blocks 149 Becky Merchant .......................... 1988 143 Carol DeZwarte ......................... 1995 132 Jamie Lugo ................................. 2003 128 Becky Merchant .......................... 1989 127 Becky Merchant .......................... 1987 127 Heather Young ........................... 2004 Blocks Per Game 1.61 Jamie Lugo ................................. 2003 1.45 Heather Young .............................. 2005 1.45 Katie Rademacher ...................... 2004 1.42 Ashely Stover .............................. 2003 1.38 Heather Young ........................... 2004 INDIVIDUAL CAREER RECORDS Kills 1,254 Elizabeth Bishop ..................... 2003-pr. 1,212 Debbie Quibell .................... 2000-03 1,190 Robin Moore ......................... 1997-00 1,052 Becky Merchant .................... 1987-89 1,009 Jennifer Borncamp ................ 1998-01 Kills Per Game 3.52 Debbie Quibell .................... 2000-03 3.28 Angela Barbera .................... 2001-02 3.11 Robin Moore ......................... 1997-00 3.07 Michelle Kizorek ......................... 1993 3.06 Becky Merchant .................... 1987-89 Active Players 4.86 Elizabeth Bishop ..................... 2003-pr. Attack Attempts 3,393 Debbie Quibell .................... 2000-03 3,317 Elizabeth Bishop ..................... 2003-pr. 3,073 Robin Moore ......................... 1997-00 2,979 Jennifer Borncamp ................ 1998-01 2,800 Jenn Drais ............................. 1990-93 Attack Percentage .346 Rachel Rice ....................... 2000,02-03 .315 Becky Merchant ...................... 1987-89 .280 Carol DeZwarte ..................... 1994-96 .275 Jamie Lugo ........................... 2000-03 .274 Jennifer McHarg ................... 1999-01 Active Players .382 Joanna Weiss ........................... 2003-pr. Assists 3,572 Jen Strazza ............................ 1989-92 2,927 Vanessa Richlin ..................... 1996-99 2,795 Whitney Fair ......................... 2002-05 2,168 Rachel Rice ....................... 2000,02-03 2,159 Adrienne Greve .................... 1992-95 Active Players 927 Amy Gordon ........................... 2004-pr. Assists Per Game 11.14 Whitney Fair ......................... 2002-05 10.52 Rachel Rice ....................... 2000,02-03 9.41 Vanessa Richlin ..................... 1996-99 9.38 Lisa Turner .................................. 1996 8.65 Jen Strazza ............................ 1989-92 7.13 Tere Duran ............................ 1987-88 Active Players 10.78 Amy Gordon ........................... 2004-pr.
Debbie Debbie Quibell Quibell ‘04 ‘04 Service Aces 139 Jen Strazza ............................ 131 Ann Korioth .......................... 127 Debbie Quibell .................... 124 Becky Merchant .................... 121 Tere Duran ............................
1989-92 1988-90 2000-03 1987-89 1987-88
Digs 1,356 Kelly Kramer ........................ 2002-05 1,271 Jen Strazza ............................ 1989-92 1,118 Debbie Quibell .................... 2000-03 1,077 Jenn Drais ............................. 1990-93 996 Jennifer Borncamp ................ 1998-01 Active Players 906 Elizabeth Bishop ..................... 2003-pr. Digs Per Game 4.26 Kelly Kramer ........................ 2002-05 3.25 Debbie Quibell .................... 2000-03 3.21 Michelle Kizorek ......................... 1993 3.11 Vanessa Gonzalez-Vinas ................. 1998-99 3.08 Jen Strazza ............................ 1989-92 Active Players 3.51 Elizabeth Bishop ..................... 2003-pr. Block Solos 199 Becky Merchant .................... 1987-89 172 Shelley Zierhut ................. 1989,91-93 105 Carol DeZwarte ................... 1994-96 83 Ashely Stover ........................ 2000-03 79 Priya Vasudev ....................... 1992-95 Block Assists 332 Heather Young ..................... 2002-05 323 Ashely Stover ........................ 2000-03 293 Jamie Lugo ........................... 2000-03 205 Becky Merchant .................... 1987-89 194 Shelley Zierhut ................. 1989,91-93 Active Players 170 Elizabeth Bishop ..................... 2003-pr. Total Blocks 406 Ashely Stover ........................ 2000-03 404 Becky Merchant .................... 1987-89 370 Heather Young ..................... 2002-05 366 Shelley Zierhut ................. 1989,91-93 343 Jamie Lugo ........................... 2000-03 Blocks Per Game 1.24 Jamie Lugo ........................... 2000-03 1.17 Heather Young ..................... 2002-05 1.17 Becky Merchant .................... 1987-89 1.14 Ashely Stover ........................ 2000-03 1.05 Carol DeZwarte ................... 1994-96 Active Players 1.35 Katie Rademacher ................... 2003-05 1.23 Joanna Weiss ........................... 2003-05
ALL-TIME RECORDS INDIVIDUAL MATCH RECORDS Kills 33 — Elizabeth Bishop (vs. Yale, 11/21/04) Attempts 92 — Elizabeth Bishop (vs. Yale, 11/21/04) Service Aces 8 — Jennifer Borncamp (vs. St. Francis (Pa.), 11/4/00) 8 — Liz Downs (vs. Lehigh, 10/6/90) 8 — Ann Korioth (vs. St. Francis (Pa.), 10/8/88) Total Blocks 16 — Katie Rademacher (1-15) (at Princeton, 11/16/04) Solo Blocks 8 — Carol DeZwarte (vs. Morgan State, 9/13/96) 8 — Becky Merchant (vs. Harvard, 10/14/88) 8 — Becky Merchant (vs. Colgate, 9/16/88) Block Assists 15 — Katie Rademacher (at Princeton, 11/16/04) Digs 39 — Kelly Kramer (at Yale, 10/28/05) Assists 85 — Jen Strazza (vs. St. Bonaventure, 9/26/91)
TEAM MATCH RECORDS Kills 98 — vs. Brown, 11/10/00 Attempts 285 — vs. Brown, 11/10/00 Attack Percentage .508 — vs. Vermont, 9/8/95 (35-4-61) Service Aces 24 — vs. St. Francis (Pa.), 10/8/88 Total Blocks 28.5 — vs. Princeton, 11/8/03 (2 BS, 53 BA) Block Solos 17 — vs. Morgan State, 9/13/96 Block Assists 53 — vs. Princeton, 11/8/03 Digs 133 — vs. Syracuse, 10/13/92 133 — vs. Penn, 11/7/03 Assists 90 — vs. St. Bonaventure, 9/26/91 90 — vs. Yale, 11/10/90
TEAM SEASON RECORDS Kills 1656 ................................ 1489 ................................ 1468 ................................ 1460 ................................ 1457 ................................
Service Aces Per Game 3.03 ................................. 2.45 ................................. 2.44 ................................. 2.24 ................................. 2.16 .................................
1988 1989 1987 1990 1993
Kills Per Game 15.84 ............................... 2004 15.78 ................................. 2005 15.12 ............................... 2003 15.05 ............................... 2000 15.04 ............................... 2002
Digs 2260 2087 1830 1796 1778
1988 1992 1990 1991 1995
Attack Attempts 4422 ................................ 4310 ................................ 4223 ................................ 4136 ................................ 4038 ................................
2000 1992 1987 1990 1988
Digs Per Game 18.68 ............................... 1988 18.47 ............................... 1992 18.25 ............................... 1999 17.85 ................................. 2005 17.65 ............................... 2003
Attack Percentage .271 (1406-428-3608) ....... 2003 .247 (1468-487-3970) ....... 1995 .237 (1436-540-3776) ...... 2005 .226 (1457-559-3967) ...... 2004 .222 (1238-436-3609) ....... 1996
Solo Blocks 148 .................................. 1996 143 .................................. 1989 142 .................................. 1988 141 .................................. 1991 134 .................................. 1987
Assists 1499 ................................ 1394 ................................ 1372 ................................ 1345 ................................ 1336 ................................
2000 1988 1990 1987 2004
Block Assists 498 .................................. 2003 497 .................................... 2005 475 .................................. 2004 360 .................................. 2001 349 .................................. 2000
Assists Per Game 14.52 ............................... 2004 14.46 ................................. 2005 13.65 ............................... 2003 13.63 ............................... 2000 13.33 ............................... 2002
Total Blocks 327.0 ............................... 2003 290.0 ............................... 1995 281.0 ............................... 1988 279.5 ............................... 2004 273.5 ................................. 2005
Service Aces 367 .................................. 1988 289 .................................. 1989 285 .................................. 1987 237 .................................. 1990 216 .................................. 1993
Blocks Per Game 3.52 ................................. 2003 3.04 ................................. 2004 3.01 ................................... 2005 2.50 ................................. 1995 2.50 ................................. 1996
2000 1988 1995 1990 2004
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Miscellaneous Team Records
The 2003 Big Red volleyball team set 28 school records en route to a 21-4 record and a tie for second place in the Ivy League. Included were career marks for kills (Debbie Quibell, 1,212) and blocks (Ashely Stover, 406), as well as team marks for hitting percentage (.271) and blocks per game (3.52, second in NCAA Division I).
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Most Matches: 54 by 1981 team (47-6-1) Most Wins: 47 by 1981 team (47-6-1) Most Losses: 21 by 1978 team (15-21-2) Most Ties: 2 1978 (15-21-2); 1974 (14-10-2) Longest Win Streak: 20 10/4 to 11/5/1983 Longest Unbeaten Streak: 21 matches 9/19 to 10/10/81 Longest Losing Streak: 8 10/3 to 10/17/98 Fewest Points Allowed - Three Games: 47 vs. Colgate (30-17, 30-22, 30-8), (10/29/02) Fewest Points Allowed - Four Games: 87 vs. Belmont (23-30, 30-18, 30-24, 30-22), (9/23/05) Fewest Points Allowed - Five Games: 106 vs. Yale (30-18, 21-30, 28-30, 30-20, 15-8), (10/18/03)
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CORNELL VS. ALL OPPONENTS Opponent Began W L Akron 1989 0 4 Alabama 2002 0 1 Alabama-Birmingham 1991 0 2 Albany 1981 7 0 Alfred 1980 2 0 American 1994 0 1 Army 1978 6 0 Belmont 2005 1 0 Binghamton 1973 19 4 Boston College 1985 7 0 Brock 1983 2 0 Brockport 1974 10 7 Brooklyn 1983 1 0 Brown 1976 30 14 Bucknell 1984 10 1 Buffalo 1974 13 4 Buffalo State 1978 2 0 Butler 2005 1 0 Cal-Irvine 1999 0 1 Cal State-Fullerton 1999 0 1 Cal State Northridge 1991 0 3 Canisius 1990 7 1 Catonsville 1974 0 1 Central Connecticut 1984 3 1 Central Michigan 1992 0 1 Charlotte 2005 0 1 Clarion State 1984 0 1 Cleveland State 1987 1 2 Colgate 1972 53 22 Columbia 1977 38 4 Connecticut 1982 4 1 Corning CC 1976 4 0 Cortland 1973 13 9 Dartmouth 1981 30 6 Davidson 1993 1 0 Delaware 1974 2 3 Denver 1998 0 1 Drexel 1985 2 1 Duke 1982 1 1 Duquesne 1989 3 0 East Carolina 1996 0 1 East Stroudsburg 1979 0 1 Eisenhower 1972 4 0 Elmira 1974 10 0 Fairfield 1995 2 1 Fairleigh Dickinson 1974 10 2 Florida International 2002 1 0 Fordham 1981 2 0 Fredonia 1976 2 2 Fresno State 1997 0 1 Genesee CC 1973 1 0 Geneseo 1974 7 2 George Mason 1989 2 1 George Washington 1979 0 2 Georgetown 1991 1 2 Georgia Southern 2000 1 0 Georgia Tech 2002 0 1 Grove City 1979 1 2 Hartford 1988 5 1 Harvard 1977 28 14 High Point First Meeting Hofstra 1978 1 6 Holy Cross 1983 4 0 Houghton 1974 0 1 Howard 1981 7 0 IPFW 2005 1 0 Indiana State 1998 0 1 Iona 1997 1 1 Iowa State 1992 0 1 Ithaca College 1973 9 16 James Madison 1992 1 0 Kansas 1995 0 1 Kent State 1990 0 3 Kentucky 1991 0 1 Keuka 1974 3 0 Kings College 1981 1 0 Lafayette 1993 4 0 La Salle 2001 3 0
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T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Opponent Began Lehigh 1983 Lehman 1973 Le Moyne 1984 Liberty 1993 Long Island 2001 LIU-C.W. Post 1980 LIU-Southampton 1988 Louisiana Tech 1996 Louisville 1979 Mansfield 1976 Manhattan 2001 Manhattanville 1978 Marist 1988 Marshall 1990 Maryland 1989 Massachusetts 1982 McMaster 1981 Memphis 2001 Mercy 1985 Mercyhurst 1981 Miami 1991 Missouri-Kansas City 1995 Montana 1992 Morehead State 1994 Morgan State 1996 Navy 1979 Nazareth 1973 Nebraska 1993 Nevada 1997 UNLV 2004 New Hampshire 1984 New Haven 1984 New Mexico State 1996 New York Tech 1977 Niagara 1979 N.C. State 1994 Northeastern 1981 Northeastern Illinois 1997 Northwestern 1995 Notre Dame 1982 Oneonta State 1973 Oswego 1974 Pace 1983 Penn 1974 Pitt-Johnstown 1979 Portland 1994 Potsdam 1983 Princeton 1974 Providence 1993 Purdue 1991 Queens 1978 Radford 1998 Rice 1993 Rider 1985
W L 5 2 1 1 3 0 1 0 2 1 8 3 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 4 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 2 4 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 3 0 1 7 5 10 0 0 1 4 9 1 0 1 0 1 1 9 6 6 2 1 0 20 28 1 0 0 1 1 0 16 34 1 1 0 1 4 1 0 1 0 1 4 1
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Opponent Began W L Robert Morris 1985 2 2 Rochester 1972 12 4 RIT 1974 8 1 Russell Sage 1974 6 1 Rutgers-New Brunswick 1985 2 2 Rutgers-Newark 1982 1 0 St. Bonaventure 1989 6 0 St. Francis (N.Y.) 2004 1 0 Saint Francis (Pa.) 1984 10 0 St. John Fisher 1974 7 5 St. John’s First Meeting St. Lawrence 1980 2 0 St. Mary’s (Calif.) 1997 0 1 St. Peter’s 1988 2 2 Sam Houston State 1996 0 1 San Diego State 1997 0 2 San Francisco First Meeting Seton Hall 1983 2 2 Siena 1995 4 0 Springfield 1983 1 0 Southern Connecticut 1984 1 0 SMU 2004 1 1 Stetson 2000 1 0 Stony Brook 1980 3 0 SUNY-New Paltz 1978 1 0 Syracuse 1972 8 28 Temple 1986 2 0 Texas Christian 1996 0 1 Texas-El Paso 1995 0 1 Texas-Pan American First Meeting Texas Southern 1996 1 0 Toronto 1981 1 0 Towson 1979 2 2 Tulsa 2002 1 0 Union 1976 2 0 Vermont 1987 4 0 Villanova 1990 2 2 Virginia 1998 0 1 Va. Commonwealth 1998 1 0 Virginia Tech 1992 0 1 Wagner 1996 3 0 Wake Forest 1982 1 0 Washington State 1992 0 1 Wells 1974 6 1 Western Michigan 1995 1 0 Wilfrid-Laurier 1981 1 0 William & Mary 1983 2 1 William Patterson 1981 2 0 Wisconsin-Milwaukee 1991 1 0 Wofford 2000 1 0 Wright State 1991 0 1 Wyoming 2002 0 1 Yale 1976 23 22 Totals 649 374
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Cornell University/Realizing a Bold Dream In the mid 1800s, two New York state senators, Ezra Cornell more than 100 countries. Interand Andrew Dickson White, shared the bold dream of disciplinary study and research founding a “truly great university.” Cornell, a plain-spoken are Cornell hallmarks, as is atinventor, wanted “an institution where any person can find tention to undergraduate eduinstruction in any study,” including the mechanical arts and cation. The university’s 2,200 agriculture. White, a scholarly graduate of Oxford and Yale, faculty members are active yearned to establish a university where “truth shall be taught teachers as well as researchfor truth’s sake” in the arts and sciences. Together they ers—Nobel laureates often concreated a nonsectarian university that was the first in the duct introductory courses—and eastern United States to admit women and that pioneered the lines of traditional disciplines the concept of elective courses. Their egalitarian vision and are easily crossed. Engineering innovative ideas, which set Cornell apart at its opening in students dabble in photogra○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ 1868, continue to guide the university today. Cornell includes 13 colleges and schools. On the Ithaca campus are the seven undergraduate units—the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning; the College of Arts and Sciences; the College of Engineering; the School of Hotel Administration; the College of Human ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Ecology; and the School of Industrial and Labor RelaU.S. states phy; theatre arts students explore the tions—as well as four from all 50 e m co s and d ra graduate and profesworld of computers; physics majors learn es, suburbs ’s underg day Cornell s. They come from citi o und landscape architecture. T o ar ay fw sional units: the Gradual ie h tr r 120 coun u grew up o es and perate School, the Law and to where yo se o cl , as e rs, sizes, shap sophical. National Science Foundation studies ar lo l ra co l ru al in me School, the Johnson on programs in research and develophilo lobe. They co us, political, sexual, p tes, artists, Graduate School of the g ment at U.S. universities consistently le io h g li at , tors ns — re cians, inven wyers, professors, rank Cornell among the top 10 or 11 si u Management, and the suasio m — ts studen octors, la College of Veterinary Gifted gners, sys- in total research and development ers; rising d rm fa , ts e o apparel desi p , , rs e ci an n fi Medicine. (The Weill actors ers — who expenditures, and in federally engineers, bor organiz Medical College and the scientistsm political activistsm la eative think- financed expenditures. ysts, achievers, cr g in d n ta Weill Graduate School of tems anal Cornell ranks second ts u They are o rs. e ak sh Medical Sciences are in work hard. among U.S. universities in d an rs, movers New York City.) An Ivy ers, dreame funds allocated by the National SciLeague university that is ence Foundation for programs in acaalso the land grant institution of New York State, Cornell is demic science and engineering. a unique combination of public and private divisions Cornell has five national research committed to teaching, research, and public service. centers: the Center for High Cornell’s 13,700 undergraduates and 6,000 graduate Energy Synchrotron Studies, and professional students come from all 50 states and the Floyd R. Newman
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Cornell may be a cutting-edge research university, but that doesn’t mean undergraduate education is an afterthought. A Cornell undergrad could spend the morning in a meeting with a professor for an independent study and the afternoon in large survey courses like psych 101. Students here work hard. Besides attending classes, there’s reading, writing, and research, not to mention preparing for exams. But students still find time to build friendships, volunteer off campus, hold part-time jobs and play sports. And while some students spend their four years close to campus, many go farther afield. They study natural medicinals in South America, marine biology off the coast of Maine, and public policy in Albany, N.Y. In addition to university-run programs in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Rome, Italy, Cornellians travel to sites around the world, polishing their language skills and broadening their horizons.
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At a research institution, scholars don’t just acquire knowledge — they help create it. Cornell’s faculty members have garnered such prizes as the Nobel and the Pulitzer, not to mention MacArthur “genius” grants and countless other honors. These same luminaries teach undergraduate classes and include students on their research teams. Cornell serves as a land grant institution, receiving funding from New York State for its colleges of Human Ecology, Agriculture and Life Sciences and Veterinary Medicine and for its School of Industrial and Labor Relations. In return, the university offers reduced tuition to state residents in those colleges and helps citizens apply the research generated here to improve the state’s economy and the health of its people. A network of more than 200,000 alumni around the world supports the efforts of CORNELL’S UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS current students by sponsoring internships, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences offering career counseling and mentorship, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning College of Arts and Sciences and providing much of the financial support College of Engineering that maintains the university’s world-class School of Hotel Administration libraries, laboratories, and faculty. College of Human Ecology
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Ithaca, N.Y. Nestled in the heart of New York State’s beautiful Finger Lakes region is Tompkins County, with Ithaca at its center. Long known for the excellence of its educational and research institutions, and more recently for its multitude of scenic wonders, Ithaca is indeed, “Gorges.” • Ithaca and Tompkins County are located in the central Finger Lakes Region of New York State, five hours from New York City, three hours from Niagara Falls, two hours from Rochester and 4.5 hours from Philadelphia. • The 14 counties in the Finger Lakes Region cover more than 9,000 square miles, or roughly the size of New Hampshire or Vermont, and slightly larger than the state of New Jersey. • Ithaca offers more restaurants per capita than New York City.
The beauty of Ithaca and the Cornell campus is unmatched. Ithaca is host to over 150 waterfalls, all of which lie within a 10-mile radius of downtown. Tompkins County is also home to three of the six gorge parks in New York state. Among the amazing sites is Taughannock Falls. At 215 feet high, Taughannock has a greater vertical drop than Niagara Falls.
• The Sagan Planet Walk, built to honor the memory of Ithaca resident and Cornell University astronomer Carl Sagan, is a true-to-scale model of our solar system. It is one of the only walkable “planet walks” in the world. The Sciencenter, Ithaca’s hands-on museum and outdoor science playground, is the sponsor of the Sagan Planet Walk, and is one of eight museums involved in the partnership of educational attractions called the DISCOVERY TRAIL. Some others include the Museum of the Earth and Cornell’s Laboratory of Ornithology. • The downtown Ithaca Commons was named one of the New York’s top design projects of the century by the state chapter of the American Institute of Architects. • Ithaca was designated “America’s Most Enlightened City” by the Utne Reader in 1997.
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Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine made official what most Ithacans already know. This is one smart place to live. In its June, 2006, issue, Kiplinger’s ranked Ithaca eighth in its list of America’s 50 smartest places to live. Ithaca was the smallest city in the top 10, and the second smallest in the top 50.
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DAVID J.SKORTON 1st Year at Cornell 12th President of Cornell University David J. Skorton will be inaugurated as the 12th president of Cornell University on Sept. 7, 2006. He will hold faculty appointments in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Weill-Cornell Medical College in New York City and in Biomedical Engineering at the College of Engineering on the Ithaca campus. Skorton had served as president of the University of Iowa since March 2003. He had been a faculty member there for 26 years. He was appointed vice president for research in 1992 and interim vice president for external relations in 2000. He served as vice president for research and external relations from March 2002 until he assumed the presidency. As vice president, he oversaw more than 30 administrative units and headed a research and development program that ranks among the nation’s top 20 public research universities in obtaining external funding. He also continued his role as a physician, caring for adolescents and adults with inborn heart disease. Co-founder and co-director of the UI Adolescent and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Skorton focused his research on congenital heart disease in adolescents and adults, cardiac imaging, and computer image processing. His research was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the American Heart Association, and by private industry. He has published numerous articles, reviews, book chapters, and two major texts in the areas of cardiac imaging and image processing. He served in a variety of administrative positions at the University of Iowa, including director of the Cardiovascular Image Processing Laboratory (1982–1996), director of the Division of General Internal Medicine (1985–1989), and associate chair for clinical programs in the Department of Internal Medicine (1989–1992). A national leader in research ethics, Skorton is charter past-president of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Inc., the first entity organized specifically to accredit human research protection programs. He has served on the boards and committees of many national organizations, including the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, the American Society of Echocardiography, the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, the Association of American Universities, the Council on Competitiveness, and the Korea America Friendship Society. He has traveled widely in Europe and Asia on behalf of both academic and community projects. Skorton is actively engaged in service to the community and to the state of Iowa, particularly in regional and state economic development. He served on and chaired the Iowa City Area Development Group, served on the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce Priority One Advisory Committee and the Technology Corridor Committee, and currently serves on the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra Board of Directors. He also was a member of the Iowa Business Council and has served on the Iowa Department of Economic Development Board, the Governor’s Life Sciences Advisory Committee, and the Iowa Research Council, of which he was president from 1999 to 2001. Skorton earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1970 and an M.D. in 1974, both from Northwestern University. Following a medical residency and cardiology fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles, he went to the University of Iowa in 1980 as an instructor. He was named assistant professor of internal medicine in 1981 and assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in 1982. He was promoted to associate professor in 1984 and to professor in 1988. As a musician, Skorton has a longstanding interest in jazz. He grew up in Los Angeles surrounded by Latin music and worked as a professional jazz and R&B musician in the Chicago area. He hosted a weekly program, As Night Falls—Latin Jazz, on KSUI, the University of Iowa’s public FM radio station.
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Susan H. Murphy has served Cornell University as vice president for student and academic services since July 1994. Under her direction are academic support, campus life, dean of students, Greek life, career services, public service, religious affairs, athletics and physical education and health services. A 1973 graduate of Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences, Murphy majored in history. She subsequently completed master’s degrees at Stanford University and Montclair State College. In 1994, she earned a Ph.D. in educational administration from Cornell. Murphy joined the Cornell staff in 1978 following work as a guidance counselor and head of the guidance department at Chatham (N.J.) Borough High School. For 16 years, she worked in admissions and financial aid, including nine years as dean of admissions and financial aid. In addition to her responsibilities at Cornell, Murphy chairs the policy committee of the Council of Ivy Group Presidents. Previously, she has held state-wide and national positions in the College Board and the National Association of College Admission Counselors.
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J. ANDREWNOEL Jr. 26th Year at Cornell The Meakem!Smith Director of Athletics and Physical Education Andy Noel begins his eighth year as Cornell University’s director of athletics and physical education having led the Big Red athletics program to unprecedented success while setting a course for his vision of continued prosperity. His position was endowed in December 2003 by Jack ’58 and Diane ’61 Meakem and Scott Smith ’79. Jack is a former oarsman and member of Cornell’s Athletic Hall of Fame, while Scott wrestled under Noel during his time on East Hill. The Big Red teams have parlayed Noel’s accomplishments into success on and off the playing field. Cornell’s athletic teams have won 37 Ivy League team titles and nine national championships during his tenure and have posted a cumulative .510 winning percentage or better in six of his first seven seasons. The program’s 31 Ivy titles in the last four years is a Cornell record dating back to the inception of the Ivy League, including a record nine in 2005-06. Academically in 2005-06, 11 student-athletes were named to academic all-district teams. In addition, Cornell has had 12 student-athletes named Academic AllAmerica in the last four years, among the most of any school in the Ivy League. Noel accepted the appointment as director after serving three years as an associate director of athletics for the Big Red. Since becoming director, Noel has continued to hire top coaches and has also successfully upgraded a number of department facilities (including renovating Schoellkopf Hall and building the Friedman Wrestling Center). During his tenure, he has also been a member of the team that raised $66 million in support of capital projects and endowment, helping secure the financial future of the department. During the campaign, 21 coaching and staff positions were endowed, bringing the total number of endowed positions within the department to 30, the most of any school in the country. Noel was the Big Red’s head wrestling coach from 1974 to 1988 and then served two years as an assistant director in the department’s public affairs office, implementing the athletic department’s annual giving program. At Cornell, his wrestling teams won four Ivy League championships and placed second four times. Under Noel’s direction, the wrestling team established a strong network of support from alumni and friends. In 1990, he was recognized at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships for his distinguished coaching career at Cornell, and in 1992 he was inducted into the New York State Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame. He is also a member of the Franklin and Marshall Sports Hall of Fame and the Council of Mental Health and Welfare. In addition to his coaching and administrative career, Noel served on the wrestling committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association from 1997-2001. He was a member of the NCAA Championships Cabinet from 2003-06 and serves on both the Misconduct Appeals Subcommittee and the Playing Rules Oversight Panel. Noel is a past chairman of the Ivy League athletic directors’ committee on administration and serves on the Cornell President’s Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs and the Council of Mental Health and Welfare. In 2006, he was named to the Wells College Board of Trustees. A native of Lancaster, Pa., he graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1972 with a bachelor of arts degree in history and received his master of arts degree in counseling and guidance from Colgate University in 1973. Noel is married to Dr. Betsy Mead Noel ‘86, and has a son Jonathan ‘04 and two daughters, Amanda ‘07, and 2-year-old Amelie.
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2006-07 Athletic Adminstrators
ANITA BRENNER
STEPHEN P. ERBER
AL GANTERT
ALAN KATZ
MATT COATS
BERNIE DEPALMA
TOM HOWLEY
CHRIS WLOSINSKI
Associate Director of Athletics
Associate Director of Athletics
Associate Director of Athletics/ Physical Education
Associate Director of Athletics/ Business and Finance
Assistant Director of Athletics/ Operations
Assistant Director of Athletics/ Sports Medicine
Assistant Director of Athletics/ Athlete Performance
Assistant Director of Athletics/ Student Services and Compliance
JOHN WEBSTER
PATTY WELDON
PAT GRAHAM
DALE STRAUF
JEFF HALL
GENE NIGHMAN
PAM DOLLAWAY
Director of Athletic Alumni Affairs and Dev.
Compliance Coordinator
Facilities Manager
Head Equipment Manager
Director of Cornell Sports Marketing
Ticket Manager
Human Resources Manager
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Meet The Big Red Coaches An impressive staff of coaches leads the Big Red teams and recruits some of the finest student-athletes from a national and international pool of accomplished young men and women. The coaches demonstrate a commitment to teaching and a willingness to share their own competitive experiences with their teams. Their individual achievements and accomplishments include playing and coaching time in the professional and international ranks as well as numerous all-star performances during their own collegiate careers.
MATT BAUGHAN
PAUL BECKWITH
DICK BLOOD
DEITRE COLLINS-PARKER
TERRY CULLEN
DOUG DERRAUGH
Golf
Gymnastics
The Jan Rock Zubrow ’77 Head Coach of Softball
The Wendy Schaenen ’79 Head Coach of Women’s Volleyball
The Terry Cullen Head Coach of Sprint Football
Women’s Ice Hockey
JULEE DEVOY
MARK DEVOY
IRYNA DOLGIKH
STEVE DONAHUE
LOU DUESING
Women’s Squash
Men’s Squash
Fencing
The Robert E. Gallagher ’44 Head Coach of Men’s Basketball
The Alan B. ‘53 and Elizabeth Heekin Harris Women’s Track & Field and Cross Country Coach
DAVID ELDREDGE ‘81 The Peter B. Orthwein ‘69 Head Coach of Polo
TOM FORD
RICK GILBERT
LAURA GLITZ
JENNY GRAAP ‘86
JOHN HOLOHAN
DONNA HORNIBROOK
The Ted Thoren Head Coach of Baseball
The Richard W. Gilbert Head Coach of Diving
The Carl Meinig ‘31 Head Coach of Women’s Tennis
Women’s Lacrosse
Women’s Swimming
Field Hockey
JIM KNOWLES ‘87
ROB KOLL
JOE LUCIA
CHRIS MITCHELL
DAN ROOCK
BRYAN SCALES
The Roger J. Weiss ’61 Head Coach of Football
The David Dunlop ’59 Head Coach of Wrestling
The Philip H. Bartels ’71 Head Coach of Men’s Swimming
Equestrian
The Spirit of ’57 Director of Men’s Heavyweight Rowing
Men’s Soccer
MIKE SCHAFER ‘86
BARRY SCHOONMAKER
DAYNA SMITH
JEFF TAMBRONI
NATHAN TAYLOR
CHRIS WILSON
GRETCHEN ZIGANTE
The Jay R. Bloom ’77 Head Coach of Men’s Hockey
The Richard Savitt ‘50 - Stephen Weiss ‘57 Head Coach of Men’s Tennis
The Rebecca Quinn Morgan ’60 Head Coach of Women’s Basketball
The Richard M. Moran Head Coach of Men’s Lacrosse
The George Heekin ’29 Head Coach of Men’s Track & Field and Cross Country
The Staley Head Coach of Women’s Rowing
Women’s Soccer (interim)
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TODD KENNETT ‘91 The Robert B. Tallman ’41 Men’s Lightweight Rowing Head Coach
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The Ivy League The Ivy League is truly one of a kind. While the 2006-07 academic year marks the 50th season of official Ivy League athletic competition, the rivalries and traditions in the League go so much deeper. The first official athletic competition between League schools was more than 150 years ago (1852, Harvard-Yale rowing) and the first football game was more than 130 years ago (1872, Columbia-Yale). In the early days, the Ivy schools dominated college athletics. All-America status, Olympic medals and national championships were routinely earned by students from the Ancient Eight. Today, Ivy Leaguers continue to claim national titles and Olympic medals — as well as AllAmerica and Academic All-America status. Hundreds continue athletic careers as professionals and hundreds more as coaches and athletic administrators. The student-athletes also are among the nation’s leading public servants, doctors, journalists, lawyers, scientists, scholars, business leaders, entertainers, educators and so much more. The success of the League comes without athletic scholarships while maintaining self-imposed high academic standards. The Ivy League has demonstrated a rare willingness and ability, given the pressures on intercollegiate success throughout the nation, to abide by these rules and still compete successfully in Division I athletics. Sponsoring conference championships in 33 men’s and women’s sports, and averaging more than 35 varsity teams at each school, the Ivy League provides intercollegiate athletic opportunities for more men and women than any other conference in the country. All eight Ivy schools are among the “top 20” of NCAA Division I schools in number of sports offered for both men and women. The term “Ivy colleges” was first in October, 1933 by Stanley Woodward of the New York Herald Tribune to describe the eight current Ivy schools (plus Army). On Feb. 8, 1935, Associated Press sports editor Alan Gould first used the exact term “Ivy League.” The first “Ivy Group Agreement,” signed in 1945, applied only to football. It affirmed the observance of common practices in academic standards and eligibility requirements and the administration of need-based financial aid, with no athletic scholarships. The agreement created the Presidents Policy Committee, including the eight Presidents; the Coordination and Eligibility Committee, made up of one senior non-athletic administrator from each school; and the committee on Administration, comprised of the eight directors of athletics. The Ivy Presidents extended the Ivy Group Agreement to all intercollegiate sports in February 1954. Their statement also focused on
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Council of Ivy Group Presidents (The Ivy League) 228 Alexander St. Princeton, NJ 08544 Phone: (609) 258-6426 Fax: (609) 258-1690 Web Site: www.ivyleaguesports.com Executive Director: Jeffrey H. Orleans Senior Associate Director: Carolyn Campbell-McGovern Associate Director: Charles Yrigoyen III Assistant Director: Brett Hoover Compliance Assistant: Mary Mulvenna Public Information Assistant: Josie Carlson Public Information Assistant: E.J. Hubbard Office Coordinator: Jane M. Antis Administrative Assistant: Robin Patsey
IVY FAST FACTS Founded—1956; 50th season Student Population—51,525 Members—Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale Ivy-Sponsored Championships—33
Since 2000, the Ivy League has... • Produced 26 individual and 10 team NCAA national champions. The League has also had national champions in a number of non-NCAA sports like squash and men’s rowing. • Posted an average number of 18.3 teams per school to be honored by the NCAA for outstanding Academic Progress Rates in 2005-06. No other single school in the nation met the Ivy League’s average. • Had more than 100 All-Americans each year. • Averaged more than a dozen Academic All-Americans (including an all-time high of 17 in 2004-05) • Had 162 competitors at the four Olympic Games (2000, 2002, 2004). Those 162 have collected 53 medals, including 18 gold. • Sent hundreds of athletes into the professional ranks, including dozens of NFL players, including Sean Morey and Isaiah Kacyvenski, who met at midfield as team captains at Super Bowl XL. • Hosted the first ESPN College GameDay football show to draw more than 1.5 million households. • Became the first conference to ‘sweep’ the four major NCAA Awards in the same year. Columbia’s Robert Kraft claiming the Roosevelt Award; Princeton’s John Doar the Inspirational Award; Yale’s Susan Wellington the Silver Anniversary; and Brown’s Nick Hartigan the Top VIII.
presidential governance of the League, the importance of intra-League competition, and a desire that recruited athletes be academically ‘representative’ of each institution¹s overall student body. Although that is the League¹s official founding date, the first year of competition was 195657. The Ivy League office is housed in Princeton, N.J., under the leadership of Executive Director Jeffrey H. Orleans, who has been at that post since 1984.
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The Friedman Center
TOMHOWLEY
Champions are crowned during the season, but championships are earned long before competition begins. Cornell’s 900 varsity athletes have exclusive access to one of the newest and best training facilities in the nation— the 8,000-square-foot Friedman Strength and Conditioning Center. Completed in June 1997, this impressive $2 million addition to Bartels Hall reflects the university’s strong commitment to athletic excellence. Coaches and team members alike credit the center, its world-class equipment, and first-rate staff with adding immensely to the success of the Big Red athletic program. The Friedman Center contains free-weight, selectorized, plyometric, and cardiovascular equipment and has been designed to meet the diverse training needs of Cornell’s athletes. The center can accommodate up to 100 users at a time without compromising safety or function. Its unique features include air-conditioning, a 175-watt stereo system, and damage-resistant flooring. Cornell’s varsity strength and conditioning program—nicknamed “Big Red Power”—focuses on enhancing performance and preventing injury. The new facility and equipment enable the staff to prescribe year-round sport-specific programs with variety and precision. Before the training programs are designed, the muscular and metabolic needs for each sport—and for each position within the sport—are analyzed. Athletes are then assessed to identify their individual strengths and weaknesses, and follow-up assessments are conducted at regular intervals. Comprehensive workouts are prescribed to address deficiencies and promote the development of skills used during competition. Injury prevention also is emphasized. Through resistance training, the number and the severity of injuries are reduced. If an injury does occur, the strength and conditioning staff works closely with the sports medicine staff to ensure a safe and complete rehabilitation. The objective is to allow the athlete to resume full participation as soon as possible.
12th Year at Cornell Assistant Director of Athletics for Athlete Performance
Strength & Conditioning Staff TOM DILLIPLANE Asst. Strength Coach
MARILYNN BROCKMAN Asst. Strength Coach
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Tom Howley has been the strength and conditioning coach at Cornell since July 1995. In that role, he oversees the design and implementation of athletic performance programs for Cornell’s 36 varsity sports. The comprehensive, year-round programs include strength and power development, mobility skill training and conditioning, and are implemented in a motivating, team-oriented environment. Prior to his arrival at Cornell, Howley was the assistant director of strength and conditioning at East Carolina University from 19911995. During these seasons, the Pirates participated in two bowl games (1992 Peach Bowl and 1995 Liberty Bowl), qualified for the NCAA baseball regional tournament (1994) and played in the NCAA basketball tournament (1993). Howley was a graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach at Auburn University from 1989-91, where he earned his master’s degree in exercise physiology. The Tigers were the 1989 Southeastern Conference cochampions, the 1990 Hall of Fame Bowl and the 1991 Peach Bowl champions. Howley also served as an assistant coach with the special teams. A 1988 graduate of Tulane, Howley earned a bachelor of arts degree in history and was a three-year letterman and two year starting offensive lineman on the football team. The Green Wave played in the 1987 Independence Bowl his senior year. He was the recipient of the New Orleans Quarterback Club Student-Athlete Award as a senior. Howley is an active participant in the Cornell University/Ithaca College chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. He and his wife, Amanda, reside in Ithaca with their daughter, Anna Corrine.
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Support Services Class of ‘44 Study Room Student-athletes at Cornell have access to the Class of ’44 Study Room. The room is furnished with study tables and chairs to comfortably accommodate 15-20 people in addition to the computers that are all equipped with internet access. Members of Cornell’s Class of 1944 contributed to the project, covering the expense of new furniture, computers, a printer, a lectern and a coat rack. The space is conveniently located in Bartels Hall and is accessible to studentathletes between classes and before and after practice. The room is open Monday to Thursday 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Fridays 8 a.m.to 4 p.m.
Academic Services Academic counseling is provided in partnership with the student-athletes’ assigned academic advisers and college advising office. Academic contracts are developed in conjunction with the student-athlete to outline specific academic goals for the semester. Academic monitoring of current course grades and academic performance can be requested from instructors by coaches or student-athletes at anytime throughout the semester. The instructor will be asked to fill out a form and return it to Athletic Student Services Office. Once received, a follow-up meeting with the director allows the student-athlete to meet and discuss their academic progress. Tutoring services are available to all student-athletes as a supplement to existing tutorial services on campus. Student-athletes may request a tutor by completing a tutor request form that can be obtained from their coach or the form can be printed from www.CornellBigRed.com. Laptop computers are available for student-athletes to sign out on away athletic trips. You may request a laptop by contacting Chris Wlosinski. There is a limit of one per team and are available on a first-come first-serve basis. Study skills workshops can be arranged through the Athletic Student Services office. Referrals to the Center for Learning and Teaching provide additional support for individual academic and study skills support.
Support Services
For more information regarding Student-Athlete Support Services at Cornell, contact ... Mailing Address Chris Wlosinski Department of Athletics — Cornell University Teagle Hall, Campus Road Ithaca, NY 14853-6501 Phone Number: (607) 254-7472 E-mail: cmw32@cornell.edu
Personal Needs Counseling Student-athletes are encouraged to schedule an appointment with the director when they have concerns regarding academic, athletic, or personal issues. Assistance will be provided and referrals will be made to appropriate support services on campus. Educational Seminars/Workshops Various seminars and workshops are given throughout the year and provide information relevant to student-athletes. Past workshops include topics such as nutrition and eating disorders, alcohol education, sports psychology, women’s health issues, and study skills. Career Development Services Career development services for student-athletes are coordinated with the University Career Center and each of the undergraduate colleges. Services including assistance with resume writing and conducting a job search is also available through the various Career Centers across campus. Student-Athlete Assistance Fund Money is available for Pell Grant recipients and to non-US citizens who have demonstrated need that is comparable to those qualifying for Pell grants and are receiving institutional aid. There is a $500 allowance for clothing and essentials and/or travel home and $100 for academic course supplies.
CHRISWLOSINSKI
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Eighth Year at Cornell The Andrew ‘78 and Margaret Paul Assistant Director of Athletics for Student Services and Compliance
Chris Wlosinski took over the role of the Andrew ‘78 and Margaret Paul Director of Student-Athlete Support Services in August 2001 and was promoted to Assistant Athletic Director for Student Services and Compliance in March 2005. In her position, she has assumed a dedicated role focused on student-athlete support and compliance with NCAA and Ivy League rules. Cornell and its counterparts embrace a philosophy that includes the notion that student-athletes should experience a mainstream collegiate life, but the university also recognized the extra demands placed on this special population. In August of 1998, the position, the first of its kind in the Ivy League, was created, a role that asks Wlosinski to work as an available and reliable adviser who understands the lifestyle student-athletes lead and assists them in balancing their academic, athletic and personal challenges. In this capacity she also serves as a liaison with the colleges and directs student-athletes to appropriate campus-wide resources for academic and personal needs. When Wlosinski first joined the Big Red program, she worked collaboratively with the director of student-athlete support services, coaches and administrators to provide counseling and
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academic support services serving 36 varsity sports. She developed and maintained personal contacts with administrators and professors throughout Cornell’s seven colleges, and she assisted the director in monitoring the academic progress of student-athletes. Most of Wlosinski’s time is devoted to personal meetings with student-athletes, and while the bulk of her work focuses on freshmen, sophomores and transfer students, she does assist athletes from all classes and across all colleges at Cornell. Wlosinski came to Cornell in August 1999 and worked in compliance, student services and event management. In June 2000, she accepted the position of associate director of alumni affairs and development for athletics where she served until assuming her current position. Prior to joining the Cornell staff, Wlosinski spent a year each as an athletics administrative intern at Bates College and Plymouth State College. She also served as a special education teacher for the learning disabled for seven years in Lancaster, Pa. Wlosinski graduated from Millersville University in 1989 with a bachelor’s degree in special education and from Plymouth State College in 1999 with a master’s degree in education.
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Athletic Training Athletic training at Cornell University is dedicated to providing all student-athletes in the department with the highest level of health care. The care given by the Big Red training staff goes well beyond the daily medical concerns that every Division I program has regarding injury prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. The total health care of the individual is the goal of the Cornell program.
BERNIEDePALMA
26th Year at Cornell Assistant Director of Athletics for Sports Medicine Doc Kavanagh Head Athletic Trainer/Physical Therapist
Bernie DePalma’s top priorities are the health and safety of the student- athletes, and providing them with a safe environment for training and competition. He has been an integral member of the athletic staff as head of physical therapy, athletic training and rehabilitation for Cornell University Health Services since August 1980 and head athletic trainer since 1983. Bernie graduated from Quinnipiac College with a bachelor of science degree in physical therapy in 1978 and received his master’s degree in athletic training-sports medicine from the University of Virginia in 1980. DePalma and the Big Red head coaches work together in planning practice schedules to assist in the prevention of injuries. DePalma also works closely with the strength and conditioning staff to assist with injury prevention. Bernie was a founding member of the Cornell sports nutrition discussion group, which examines the role nutrition plays in the student-athlete’s well-being and perfor-
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JIMCASE 19th Year at Cornell Associate Athletic Trainer
DR. DAVIDWENTZEL 17h Year at Cornell Chief of Sports Medicine
MARC CHAMBERLAIN, ATC
SARAH HERSKEE, ATC
LINDA HOISINGTON, ATC
KATHY MACCHEYNE, EMT
CHRIS SCARLATA, ATC
JOCELYN STARK, ATC
ED KELLY, ATC
JOCELYN STARK, ATC
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mance. He also manages programs he developed for graduate assistantships with Ithaca College and athletic trainer internships from Ithaca and other area colleges. He supervises seven full-time staff members and numerous part-time assistants. Bernie’s expertise impacts national athletics legislation. He has served on numerous NCAA committees, including the committee on competitive safeguards and medical aspects of sport safety, which he chaired; the NCAA special committee on studentathlete welfare, access and equity; and the national athletic trainer’s task force which developed medical coverage guidelines for all intercollegiate athletic programs. He was honored in 2001 by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) with the Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award. The award recognizes the NATA’s certified members for their outstanding contributions to the profession of athletic training and to the association. Bernie and his wife, Mary, have a daughter, Taylor, and a son, Turner.
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Prominent Cornell Alumni AEROSPACE ED LU ’84 Mission specialist for the Space Shuttle Atlantis, which docked with the Russian Space Station Mir ARTS RICHARD MEIER ’57 Internationally known architect SUSAN ROTHENBERG ’67 Painter JASON SELEY ’40 Sculptor; Cornell faculty member PETER YARROW ’59 Musician; Peter, Paul & Mary BUSINESS ADOLPH ’07 AND JOSEPH COORS ’39 Founder/executives of the nation‘s largest single brewery PETER COORS ’69 President, Coors Brewing Company HERBERT F. ’22 AND SAMUEL C. JOHNSON ED LU ‘84 ’50 Founder/executives of Johnson Wax Company SANFORD I. WEILL ’55 Financier and philanthropist; CEO of Citigroup EDUCATION AND HUMANITIES URIE BRONFENBRENNER ’38 Pioneer in human development studies; Cornell faculty member JEROME H. HOLLAND ’39, MS ’41 Former Ambassador to Sweden; former president of Hampton Institute and Delaware State University; businessman WILLIAM STRUNK PHD 1896 Educator and editor; co-author of Elements of Style
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ENTERTAINMENT ARTHUR LAURENTS ’37 Tony Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, director, and author; wrote West Side Story and directed La Cage Aux Folles BILL MAHER ’78 Comedian, author; host of Politically Incorrect panel show on ABC EDWARD MARINARO ’72 Actor, Hill Street Blues, Sisters CHRISTOPHER REEVE ’74 Actor, Superman I, II, III and IV movies; award winning director; activist for medical research GOVERNMENT SAMUEL (SANDY) R. BERGER ’67 International consultant; national security advisor 1993-2000 STEPHEN FRIEDMAN ’59 Assistant for economic policy to President George W. Bush, and director of the National Economic Council RUTH BADER GINSBURG ’54 U.S. Supreme Court Justice; member of National Women’s Hall of Fame JANET RENO ’60 U.S. attorney general, 1993-2000; member of National Women’s Hall of Fame LEE TENG-HUI PHD ’68 President of Taiwan LITERATURE KENNETH BLANCHARD ’61, PHD ’67 Author, The One-Minute Manager; management consultant TONI MORRISON ’55 Winner of 1988 Pulitzer Prize and 1993 Nobel Prize for literature KURT VONNEGUT JR. ’44 Author (Cats Cradle, Slaughter House Five); prisoner of war in Germany during World War II
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E. B. WHITE ’21 Author (Charlotte‘s Web, Stuart Little) and editor; co-author of Elements of Style MEDIA FRANK GANNETT 1898 Newspaper publisher; founder of the Gannett chain BILL NYE ’77 Award-winning popular-science media host and author KEITH OLBERMANN ’79 Television sports anchor and commentaCHRISTOPHER REEVE ‘74 tor DICK SCHAAP ’55 Emmy Award-winning television sports commentator , sports commentator, journalist, and author SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND HEALTH JOYCE BROTHERS ’47 Psychologist, author, and media personality HENRY HEIMLICH ’41, MD ’43 Developer of the Heimlich maneuver and of esophagoplasty C. EVERETT KOOP MD ’41 U.S. surgeon general 1981-89 BARBARA MCCLINTOCK ’23, ’25, PHD ’27 Genetics researcher; winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in physiology/ medicine DOUGLAS OSHEROFF MS ’71, PHD ’73 Co-winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in physics STEVEN WEINBERG ’54 1991 National Medal of Science winner, and co-winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics SPORTS JON ANDERSON ’71 1972 Olympian, track; winner of 1973 Boston Marathon BRUCE ARENA ’73 Coach of U.S. National soccer team; coached 1996 U.S. Olympic team GARY BETTMAN ’74 First National Hockey League commissioner KEN DRYDEN ’69 Former NHL player, Montreal Canadiens, 1971-79; inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, 1983; current Vice Chairman, GLENN (POP) WARNER 1894 Toronto Maple Leafs AL HALL ’56 Four-time Olympian (1956, 1960, 1964, 1968), hammer throw ROBERT TRENT JONES ’30 Golf course architect; constructed over 450 courses around the world; inducted into PGA World Golf Hall of Fame, 1987 CHARLES H. MOORE ’51 1952 Olympic gold medalist (hurdles) and silver medalist (1600meter relay); honored as Golden Olympian, 1996; Cornell Director of Athletics, 1994-99 JOE NIEUWENDYK ’88 Drafted in second round by the NHL Calgary Flames, 1985; currently plays for the Toronto Maple Leafs; three-time Stanley Cup winner; 1998 Olympian; 2002 Olympic gold medalist; 1999 Conn Smythe Trophy winner GLENN (POP) WARNER 1894 Football coach at Cornell, Georgia, Carlisle (where he coached Jim Thorpe), Pittsburgh, Stanford and Temple. Overall 44-year coaching record was 319-106-29.
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Newman Arena The Cornell volleyball team entered the new millennium of play in Newman Arena, one of the finest facilities in the Ivy League. The facility is named for F. R. Newman (‘12), who was considered one of the nation’s foremost experts in industrial fuel-oil marketing. Helen Newman Hall, named for his wife of 36 years, is also part of his legacy and one of his many gifts to Cornell. Since opening its doors to play, the arena has hosted 368 basketball games and 162 volleyball matches, including the 1996 Ivy League volleyball tournament. The arena has also hosted the Harlem Globetrotter basketball team and has held speeches by world leaders such as Nobel Peace Prize winner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, and Lee Teng-hui ‘68, President of Taiwan The arena provides seating for 4,473 fans, and features telescoping bleachers that allow for conversion to three courts for practice. In addition to the outstanding volleyball arena, Bartels Hall contains locker room facilities for the Big Red and its visiting teams. The building also houses offices for several of Cornell’s athletic programs. A 27,000-square-foot artificial turf field provides practice for the baseball, lacrosse, soccer and field hockey teams, and a playing field for the intramural, recreational and physical education programs.
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Big Red Facilities
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Set against a backdrop of the natural beauty of Cayuga Lake and the surrounding hills, an extensive array of facilities provides a tremendous environment for practice and competition for Cornell’s varsity teams. Schoellkopf Field and its distinctive crescent-shaped stadium may be Cornell’s most familiar sports venue, but since the mid-’90s, a number of new facilities have become landmarks as well. The Friedman Strength and Conditioning Center, a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to the support and improvement of athletes’ performances, is a place where all teams gather to train. The Kane Sports Complex, with its Berman Field for soccer and the Simon Track, and the Niemand•Robison Softball Field are also impressive facilities. The Reis Tennis Center, the Belkin Squash Courts, and the Oxley Equestrian Center, home of the equestrian and polo teams, are part of an expanding complex that will include new homes for other teams as Cornell continues to realize its plan for renovation and building of athletic facilities. Spacious and historic Barton Hall is home to the indoor track and field teams. The volleyball and basketball teams compete in Bartels Hall’s 4,473-seat Newman Arena and the fencing team’s home, the Stifel Fencing Salle, is located on the lower level of the facility. Adjacent to Bartels Hall is famed Lynah Rink, where the Big Red hockey teams perform before sellout crowds for most home games. Lynah Rink is currently undergoing a facelift, and is expected to be ready for the 2006-07 season. The Friedman Wrestling Center, opened in 2002, is located to the north of Bartels. The gymnastics and swimming teams are housed in Teagle Hall, where Cornell crews also train during the winter months. Just down the hill from campus are the Collyer Boat House and the Doris Robison Shell House, which are scheduled for renovation and expansion.
TEAGLE HALL
SCHOELLKOPF FIELD
(GYMNASTICS, M&W SWIMMING)
(FOOTBALL, SPRINT FOOTBALL, M&W LACROSSE, FIELD HOCKEY)
NEWMAN ARENA
REIS TENNIS CENTER/BELKIN INTL. SQUASH COURTS
(M&W BASKETBALL, VOLLEYBALL)
(M&W TENNIS, M&W SQUASH)
JAMES LYNAH RINK
BARTON HALL
(M&W HOCKEY)
(M&W INDOOR TRACK & FIELD)
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NIEMAND•ROBISON SOFTBALL FIELD
(BASEBALL)
(SOFTBALL)
OXLEY EQUESTRIAN CENTER
FRIEDMAN WRESTLING CENTER
(EQUESTRIAN, M&W POLO)
(WRESTLING)
ROBERT TRENT JONES GOLF COURSE
COLLYER BOAT HOUSE/ROBISON SHELL HOUSE
(GOLF, M&W CROSS COUNTRY)
(M&W ROWING)
ROBERT J. KANE SPORTS COMPLEX
ANDREW P. STIFEL ‘91 FENCING SALLE
(M&W OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD, M&W SOCCER)
(FENCING)
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Success In And Out Of The Classroom ... To be a Cornellian is to be among the best and Cornell University’s intercollegiate athletic program is no different, ranking among the nation’s elite. The Big Red competes at the highest level of intercollegiate athletic competition as an NCAA Division I institution. Rich tradition and history follow Cornell athletics throughout the university’s storied past. Cornellians have been national champions in ice hockey, lacrosse, polo, rowing, track and field and wrestling. They have also earned spots in halls of fame, on All-America teams, on the Olympic medal podium and have written their names in record books as Wimbledon tennis champions and major league players in baseball, basketball, football and hockey. More recently, Cornell has won 31 Ivy League titles in the last four years, which is a school record for a four-year span. That is only part of the equation. During the same time period, the Big Red has had 12 student-athletes named Academic All-Americans.
DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION MISSION STATEMENT The Department of Athletics and Physical Education strives to provide students with powerful and meaningful participatory experiences that forge enduring bonds with Cornell, and to provide for the well-being of members of the faculty, staff, and community. We offer a diverse program of physical and outdoor education, recreational services, and intercollegiate athletic competition, equitably adminstered with special attention to the needs of women and members of under-represented minority groups. We foster the values of physical fitness, total well-being, and enduring participation in athletics; teach leadership skills, teamwork, responsibility, and accountability; and administer programs that can be critical to the educational and personal development of students in keeping with the high standards of Cornell, the Ivy League, the Eastern College Athletic Conference, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The department promotes pride and unity within the university community and provides opportunities to develop, strengthen and maintain ties to external audiences such as alumni, friends, the educational community, and the general public by attracting interest, recognition and support.
Going National The Big Red participated in 18 NCAA tournaments or national meets in 2005-06 while getting All-America performances from 22 student-athletes. Cornell athletes were also recognized for their academic performances, garnering an ESPN the Magazine Academic AllAmerica selection and 11 AllDistrict bids.
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The senior class of 2006 combined for a record 31 Ivy titles in their four seasons, continuing the program’s storied success in athletics.
Lyndsay Robinson ‘06 (left) was given the IWLCA‘s national Community Awareness Award for community service. Here, Robinson and teammate Noelle Dowd ‘08 do lawn work for a local emeritus professor as part of the Cornell Traditions program.
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NCAA Woman of the Year finalists ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame members NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Recipients Cornellians who own major professional sports franchises Ivy League Player of the Year selections in 2005-06 Cornell student-athletes who have been awarded Rhodes Scholarships Ivy League team championships in 2005-06 Cornell athletes named ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District in 2005-06 Ivy League team championships the last two years (School record) NCAA tournament or championship meets Cornell participated in during 2005-06 Total NCAA individual and team national championships Olympic gold medalists First team ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-Americans Cornell All-Americans in 2005-06 Ivy League team championships the last three years (School record) Varsity sports at Cornell Cornellians who have earned Olympic medals Total Cornell ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-Americans Total national championships in all sports for the Big Red All-Ivy selections in 2005-06 Total Ivy League team titles for the Big Red since 1956-57 Total Academic All-Ivy selections