Memo To The Sports Media

To The Media

The 1998 Football Media Guide has been prepared especially for the members of the press, radio and television who cover the Colonels. We sincerely hope that it will provide many of the answers concerning the Colonels and Eastern Kentucky University. If you desire additional information, special features, pictures, etc., or have questions not answered in this media guide, feel free to contact the Division of Sports Information located in the Begley Building (Telephone: 606-622-1253, FAX: 606-622-1230, e-mail address: athpark@acs.eku.edu, website address: www.athletics.eku.edu).

Information

for Visiting News

Media Personnel at Football Games radio requests, four persons.

WORKING PRESS TICKETS-All requests for press tickets by working newspaper, radio, or television personnel should be made BY NAME, as far in advance as possible. Press tickets cannot be mailed less than one week in advance of the game. In the event of a large press turnout, priority will go to EKU's regular coverage and statewide media.

RADIO-All correspondence concerning Radio Broadcasting Rights should be addressed to the Division of Sports Information, Eastern Kentucky University. Requests should be made BY NAME as early as possible. Lines are to be ordered by the requesting station direct from the BellSouth Telephone Company with instructions to be made available ifrequested in advance. The "official station," as designated by the Director of Athletics of the visiting institution, will be assigned priority space. Requests by other stations will be considered by availability of space and date of request.

TELEVISION-Live or delayed television prohibited unless permission is granted by the Athletics well in advance.

PRESS TAGS-Press tags must be worn for identification by all writers, photographers and scouts seated in the press box or located on the field. Please note: All press passes are issued BY NAME to authorized working personnel and are nontransferable.

ACCOMMODATIONS AT EASTERN-The working newspaper, radio, and television personnel, as well as scouts and other officials, will be furnished a copy of the play-by - play report and complete team and individual statistics at halftime and approximately 30 minutes after the game. Refreshments are served before and during the game.

AVAILABILITY OF COACH ROY KIDD-EKU head coach Roy Kidd is available for telephone interviews, MondayThursday from 9:00 a.m.-Noon and 2 :00-2:30 p.m. Kidd's office telephone number is (606) 622-2146 and his home number is (606) 623-5533. He can also be reached through his e-mail address: athkiddr@acs.eku.edu.

Generalinformation

Location-Richmond, KY (Pop. 23,842) , Madison County (Pop. 63,897)

Enrollment-15,425

Founded-1906

President-Dr. Robert W. Kustra

Vice President for Academic Affairs-Dr. Russell Enzie Athletic Conference-Ohio Valley, NCAA Division I Gymnasium-McBrayer Arena( capacity 6,500) coverage is Stadium-RoyKidd(capacity20,000) Director of Nickname-Colonels

SCOUTS-All requests by scouts should be made BY NAME as far in advance as possible. Professional scouts' requests, usually one per team per game, are to be made from the team's main office. No passes will be given to professional scouts for a playoff game.

PHOTOGRAPHERS-Advance requests BY NAME are required and, as a general policy, there should be no more than one photographer per school or medium. Photographers may take pictures from the sidelines during the game provided they remain within a specified area-away from the immediate sidelines and in front of the bench and coaching areas (30 to 30 yd. line). Motion picture crews may use the facilities provided in the television tower on the east side of the field, upon assignment of available space. Television station cameramen may park underneath and behind the tower on the bleacher side of the field.

SEATING-In requesting working press tickets, please advise BY NAME as to the number in your party. It is desired that newspaper requests be limited to no more than two persons,

Athleticscommittee

Members: Dr. Janna Vice, Chairman; Dr. Anne Brooks; Dr. Samuel Leung; Dr. Nancy Peel; Dr. Doug Whitlock; Mrs. Jeannette Crockett; Dr. Judy Short; Mr. C .E. Baldwin; Dr. Robert Baugh and Betty Werner, ex-officio; and two faculty representatives to be appointed

Director of Athletics-Dr. Robert Baugh

Associate Director of Athletics for Internal Affairs- Betty Werner

Assistant Directorof Athletics for External Affairs-Mike Blaser

Head Football Coach-Roy Kidd (Eastern Kentucky, 1955)

Line Coaches-Jim Tanara(UT-Chattanooga, 1965); Doug Carter (William Jewell, 1980).

Backfield Coaches-Leon Hart (Maryville , 1973); Dean Hood (Ohio Wesleyan, 1986); Donn Landholm (Wayne State, 1979); John Revere (Eastern Kentucky, 197 6).

Defensive Coordinator: Dean Hood

Offensive Coordinator: Leon Hart

Head Coaches Other Sports-Baseball: Jim Ward ; Men's Basketball: Scott Perry; Men's Golf: Pat Stephens; Men's Track and Cross Country: Rick Erdmann; Men's and Women's Tennis : Tom Higgins ; Women's Golf: Joni Stephens; Women's Volleyball: Lori Duncan; Women's Basketball: Larry Inman; Women's Track and Cross Country: Rick Erdmann; Softball: Jane Worthington.

Assistant Coaches Other Sports-Basketball: Tom Souder, To be named; Women's Basketball: Sheila Simmons, Kent Miller; Men's and Women's Track: Tim Moore.

Trainer-Dr. Bobby Barton

Assistant Trainers-Randy McGuire, Sue Geesey-Jean

Sports Information Director-Karl Park

Athletics Business Manager-David Parke

Athletics Ticket Manager-Jim Rice

Boardofregents

Chairman, James Gilbert, Richmond and Berea; Vice Chairman, Barbara Ricke, Lexington; Jane Boyer, Louisville; Gilbert Miller, Richmond; Dr. Daisy French, Lexington; Harold Campbell, Booneville; Dr. William De Vries , Lexington; Alice Rhodes, Ashland; Dr. Mary Fleming, faculty representative; Ronnie Mink, staff representative; Adam Back, student representative.

Division of Sports Information

Karl Park, a 1970 graduate ofEKU, is now in his 29th year as Sports Information Director for Eastern' s athletic teams. He served as sports editor of the school newspaper, The Eastern Progress, for three years while a student of the University. The 49 year-old Richmond, Kentucky native is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (COSIDA), the United States Basketball Writers Association and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association He recently concluded a six-year stint as Mideast Director of the National Collegiate Baseball Writer's Association

He received national recognition for the production ofEKU' s three seasonal media guides for 1978- 79 and 1979-80. The winter sports guide was voted Best in the Nation - Division A for those two years.

Park was a member of the Ohio Valley Conference's 40th Anniversary Celebration Committee in 1987-88 and served on the OVC's 50th Anniversary Committee last year. He received his master's degree from Eastern in 1979 in sports administration.

He is currently serving his fourthyearon the GTEAcademicAIIAmerica Committee as District IV Coordinator for the University Division Men's Fall/Winter and Spring Sports At-Large Teams .

He is married to the former Shelley Steele of Owingsville and they have a daughter, Rachel, age 14 , and son, Drew, 8.

Dr. Robert W. Kustra

EKU President

Dr. Robert W. Kustra began his tenure as Eastern Kentucky University's ninth President July 2, 1998.

At the time of his election by the University Board of Regents, he was serving in his eighth year as the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. While serving two terms as Illinois' second-highest elected official, he directed statewide initiatives in the areas of education, economic development , technology and substance abuse. More closely akin to his current responsiblilities, he spearheaded a major reorganization and streamlining of the public university governance structure in Illinois.

His role in the latter accomplishment was made possible in 1996 when the Governor appointed him as Chair of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, with responsibility for the oversight of 12 public universities. Since 1994, he had been assigned the responsiblity for the state's economic development policy.

For the 10 years prior to his election as Lieutenant Governor , Dr . Kustra served in the Illinois General Assembly, both as a representative and a senator. During his first year in each of the two chambers, his colleagues elected him as the Best Freshman Legislator. In the General Assembly, he championed efforts in education, including Chicago public school reform.

Throughout his public service, President Kustra continued to teach political science at the university level. He has served on the faculties of the University of Illinois at Chicago, Roosevelt University, and Northwestern University. He holds the B.A. from Benedictine College, the M.A. from Southern Illinois University, and the Ph. D. from the University of Illinois.

A believer in the use of technology as a resource to improve teaching and learning and to increase access to education, he credits Kentucky's initiative in postsecondary education reform as one of the factors that attracted him to Eastern Kentucky University.

He and his wife, Kathy, have three grown children.