VARSITY K CLUB MEMBERS, I am excited to meet and get acquainted with the former student-athletes and members of the Varsity K Club. The Varsity K Club provides a unique platform for former student-athletes to continue engaging with their alma mater, while maintaining relationships which were established during your days as a Wildcat. As Athletics Director, I know the importance of engaging with both current and former student-athletes who have made such an impact on our progress as a department. I admire and respect the work that you put in on the playing field and in the classroom and I would love to hear about those experiences. Through your hard work, you laid the foundation for the success of K-State today. By being an active K Club member, you set an example for future K-State studentathletes to stay connected with K-State. K-State is synonymous with FAMILY and here in Manhattan, former student-athletes will always have a place to call home. I look forward to meeting you all this fall at the 3rd Annual Varsity K Club Weekend on September 29, 30 and October 1!
Go ‘Cats! Gene Taylor Athletics Director
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What an incredible 2+ years it has been since the re-launch of the Varsity K Club in 2015! With more than 1,300 members representing 44 states, it is truly remarkable to see the national presence and support of our K-State Family. Last year we saw an all-time high in reunion attendance as 737 former athletes returned to Manhattan and participated in one of our various sport-specific reunions or the Varsity K Club Weekend. One of our priorities was to create a platform for our alumni to reconnect with teammates, coaches and K-State Athletics, and participating in one of our reunions is just one way of doing that. Seeing former teammates reconnect after many years apart is something truly special.
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As we look to take the next step and advance your Varsity K Club, we are proud to announce the addition of Will Cooper to our team. Will, a 2013 Wildcat football alum, recently completed his master’s degree in College Student Development and we couldn’t be more excited to have him on our staff. Will has some great ideas and future plans for this club and he can’t wait to get started. If you have any suggestions, please let one of us know.
opportunities to do so. Whether that is as a mentor, guest speaker, season ticket holder or an active Ahearn Fund member, support at all levels helps create a world-class experience for our 450+ student-athletes.
We want to thank you for your continued participation with K-State Athletics through the Varsity K Club. If you or your teammates would like to get more involved, there are many
Go ‘Cats!
Again, thank you for laying the groundwork for K-State Athletics and we look forward to seeing you back in Manhattan for our 3rd Annual Varsity K Club Weekend starting on September 29.
Matt Giller Baseball ‘12
Will Cooper Football ‘13
ABOUT THE VARSITY K CLUB
Mission
Membership Criteria
The Varsity K Club will utilize the support network of former studentathletes to enhance the experience of current student-athletes academically, athletically and socially while attending K-State. As an integral part of the K-State family, the Varsity K Club will work to uphold and enrich the great tradition of K-State Athletics.
To be a member of the Varsity K Club, you must meet one of the following criteria: • Lettered in your respective sport • Appeared on an active roster while attending K-State • Left your respective sports program in good standing
The mission of the Varsity K Club is to foster a continued lifelong relationship with K-State Athletics for all former student-athletes.
The Varsity K Club is a unique alumni organization and is available exclusively to former student-athletes who attended Kansas State University.
Member Benefits
There are NO ANNUAL DUES associated with the Varsity K Club. All active members of the Varsity K Club will receive: • Regular e-mail updates from K-State Athletics • Varsity K Club membership card • Invitations to exclusive Varsity K Club events and reunions • Varsity K Club lapel pin (first year only) • Varsity K Club car decal • K-State Athletics annual report
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ANNUAL VARSITY K CLUB WEEKEND As a member of the Varsity K Club, you will be invited back to Manhattan on an annual basis to join your teammates and other former K-State student-athletes for a special weekend each fall surrounding a home football game. This is a great opportunity to reconnect with teammates, friends and the K-State family, while enjoying various activities throughout the weekend. The 2017 Varsity K Club Weekend will take place September 29 through October 1, in conjunction with our Big 12 conference football game against Baylor. Full details will be announced at a later date.
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS Please reference the Varsity K Club Room Block BLUEMONT HOTEL: $259 • 785.473.7091
HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS: $179 • 785.320.7454
HOLIDAY INN: $209 • 785.539.7531
FAIRFIELD INN: $159 • 785.539.2400
HILTON GARDEN INN: $199 • 785.532.9116
All rooms have a minimum 2 night stay except the Bluemont Hotel. The room block will end August 28.
PARKWOOD INN: $179 • 785.320.5440
Formal invitation, ticket information and schedule to follow. Please share this information with your teammates! For questions, please contact Will Cooper at 785.532.7933 or wcooper@kstatesports.com.
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5-YEAR SPORT REUNIONS Starting in 2009, in an effort to re-engage with our student athlete alumni, the athletic department started a five-year revolving sport reunion. During these reunions, alumni from their respective sport are invited back to Manhattan for a special weekend with teammates, family, coaches and student-athletes.
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BASEBALL 5-YEAR REUNION 94
VARSITY K CLUB WEEKEND 236
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FOOTBALL GOLDEN CAT REUNION 175
TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY 5-YEAR REUNION 196
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K-State’s track and field team sent seven current and former athletes to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to compete in the 2016 Olympic Games. The seven athletes matched 2012 for the most Wildcats to compete in the Olympics. In all, seven different countries were represented by K-State athletes. The Wildcats sent the second-most representatives of any Big 12 school to Rio. Head Coach Cliff Roveloto, who just finished his 25th year at the helm of the track program, served as an assistant coach for Team USA.
1952 Olympics in Finland. He followed that with three medals four years later in Melbourne, Australia. Baker won silver in the 100 meters and bronze in the 200 meters and ran a leg of the 4X100 relay team that brought gold back to the United States.
Throughout its history, 27 Wildcats have gone on to represent their homeland at the Olympic Games. That tradition spans 15 Olympic Games since 1920 when Ray Watson finished seventh in the steeplechase in Antwerp, Belgium. Since then, former Wildcats have won a total of eight medals in competition on the world’s biggest stage.
In 2004, two-time NCAA champion Austra Skujyte won the silver medal in the heptathlon, becoming K-State’s first medalist since Kenny Harrison’s gold medal in the 1996 triple jump. Skujyte would finish fifth in 2012 in the heptathlon, becoming the first woman in history to compete in four different Olympic Games in the heptathlon.
Thane Baker is K-State’s most decorated Olympian as he won the silver medal in the 200 meters in the
Harrison’s victorious mark in the triple jump in Atlanta in 1996 remains an Olympic record as well.
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K-State’s most recent Olympic success came in 2012 when high jumper Erik Kynard, Jr. won the silver medal. He became the first Wildcat to win a medal with remaining eligibility since Baker in 1950.
BALAZS BAJI
K-STATE: 2010 HUNGARY 110 METER HURDLES: 15th
AKELA JONES
SHADAE LAWRENCE K-STATE: JUNIOR JAMAICA DISCUS: 22nd
K-STATE: 2014-2016 BARBADOS HEPTATHLON: 20th HIGH JUMP: 31st
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JEFFREY JULMIS
ALYX TREASURE
ERIK KYNARD
COACH CLIFF ROVELTO
K-STATE: 2010-2012 HAITI 110 METER HURDLES: Semifinalist K-STATE: 2010-2013 UNITED STATES HIGH JUMP: 6th
K-STATE: 2007-2009 PUERTO RICO MARATHON: 71st K-STATE: 2012-2015 CANADA HIGH JUMP: 17th
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because it went your way one game and all of a sudden act another way if it didn’t go your way the next game.”
to the Next Level
Sproles, Newman and Lockett, aside from all three being K-State alums, share distinguished reputations in the NFL for their sportsmanship, a rarely recognized attribute among pro athletes.
Win or lose, Darren Sproles makes it a point to shake the other team’s hands and wear a smile while doing it. He’s living a dream, and no amount of pain, frustration or disappointment can wake him from it.
All three former Wildcats were among the 32 nominees for the NFL’s Art Rooney Sportsmanship Award, announced in last November.
“My main thing,” he said, “is you always have to have a smile on your face.”
K-State and the University of Miami were the only two schools with three former players nominated. Only two others — Texas and North Carolina — had more than one.
Terence Newman knows only one way to treat people: with respect. Whether it is coaches, teammates, opponents, team cooks or equipment managers, the 14-year NFL veteran attempts to talk to everyone with a consistent level of kindness.
“I feel like it says a lot about K-State,” Sproles, one of eight finalists for the award, said. “For three of us to be in there at the same time, it really says a lot.”
SPORTSMANSHIP
“It’s just who I am,” Newman said, “and it’s just the way I go about my life.” Tyler Lockett lives by a model of consistency because he knows one bad moment can soil a reputation nurtured for years on positive acts. In his profession, the Seattle Seahawks’ speedy receiver is also aware that high levels of competitiveness and physicality, which occasionally spills into trash talk, are necessary traits. But, Lockett argues, why stop there? Why strive for the best on the field but change, depending on the outcome, when the clock hits zero? “You have to be able to acknowledge people and congratulate people on a job well done — even if they win, even if they lose,” he said. “You can’t act one way
Individually, the honor produced a slightly different reaction. Collectively, it brought one man to each player’s mind. “It shows that the type of integrity and the type of character that Coach (Bill) Snyder brought into his players is being seen in the NFL, as far as great sportsmanship and the way that you conduct yourself on the field,” Lockett said. “I think it says a lot about Kansas State. I think it says a lot about our coach, and it didn’t pass us by after we left Kansas State. It continued to stay with us even when we got the NFL.” “Obviously, it says a lot about Coach Snyder, in particular, because he’s the guy that was a mentor to all of us,” Newman added. “I think we all take a little bit of who he is when we leave there.”
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SCHOOL OF SNYDER It was always about more than football — those who have played for Snyder can attest to this. The rules, such as the prohibition of wearing hats in buildings; the practices, described by Lockett as marathons of mental tests; and the expectations, where, for example, being 10 minutes early to a meeting could actually be considered late, all serve a purpose. Whether it’s realized in the moment or years down the road, each nuance of Snyder’s program, which thrives on coachable, high-character players, carries long-term value on and off the field. “It’s those things that he teaches you about the real world that allows you to be ready for whatever it throws at you,” Lockett said. “Obviously, other players were able to get jobs outside of football, but we all brought that same integrity and character that we were taught a long time ago to where it’s noticed.” Lockett went on to depict Snyder’s method of running his program as that of a “father figure,” where bad decisions brought punishment and eventually personal progress. “He kind of takes on that father role whenever we’re in college to make sure that we have to do certain things that, maybe, we don’t want to do,” Lockett said, “but at the end of the day you’re going to thank him once you leave because you’re going to see exactly why he wanted us to do that, and you’re going to see exactly why you will excel outside of college.” Newman, who played with Lockett’s uncle, Aaron, at K-State, said he doesn’t remember specific messages from Snyder — 14 years will do that to anyone’s memory. What he does remember was the word “respect,” and just how important it was within the program. “He’s a person who you can pretty much talk to about anything, and he’s someone who instills being respectful, respecting people, and that’s definitely something I learned when I was at K-State, just to follow rules, to be respectful, stay out of
trouble,” Newman said. “Do your job, work hard, be respectful — to yourself, to others, to the game.” “He wanted you to be a great person,” Sproles added. “That was his main goal.”
GREAT SPORTS Newman, despite being nominated for the second time, knew very little about the award. Reflecting on personal accolades isn’t exactly a hobby of his. Sproles heard of the award last season when Charles Woodson won it, but the 12th-year NFL running back was taken back when he found out he was on this year’s list. “I was actually shocked because last year was my first year even hearing about the award. To be up there with (Woodson), it’s truly an honor,” Sproles said. “It feels pretty good just to be nominated, being up there with the other great players.” Lockett, at 24 years old, is the youngest player ever nominated for the award and only the second player with less than three years of NFL experience. “I know he’s a very devout Christian,” Newman said of Lockett. “Obviously, knowing Aaron and knowing of his father (Kevin Lockett), they’re very, very standout, model people, so I wouldn’t expect anything different from Tyler whatsoever.” More important than the honor of being nominated among many highly-respected players is what they all represent, which is a high level of sportsmanship in a violent game. “I think it’s very important because you have to respect everybody that you’re going against,” Lockett said. “Obviously, it’s a great game, it’s a physical game, it’s very competitive, but you have to be able to respect other players, not only on your team, but also the players on the other team. “You have to find ways to continue to be consistent, and I think that’s what makes a great sportsmanlike player.”
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2008 • Launched 5-year revolving sport alumni reunions
2010 • Football tallied 10 victories, earned a trip to the Cotton Bowl and finished with a No. 8 BCS ranking • Volleyball upset No. 2 Nebraska to advance to the NCAA Sweet 16
• Bill Snyder hired as head Football Coach
2009
• John Currie hired as 15th Athletics Director in K-State history
• Debut of KSTATEHD.TV
• Women’s Basketball Big 12 Champions
• Men’s Basketball Elite 8 • K-State led the Big 12 in graduation rate for the fourth consecutive year
2011 2012
2011-12
• Football Big 12 Champions • Ice Family Basketball Center Opened • Collin Klein Heisman Finalist • High jumper, Erik Kynard won a silver medal in the London Olympic Games $3.45 million
2012
$18 million
2013
$2.7 million
• Baseball Big 12 Champions • Intercollegiate Rowing Center Opened • Dedicated Mike Goss Tennis Center • West Stadium Center Opened
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2014 • Cost of attendance scholarships implemented • Received zero state and university funding • Dedicated Vanier Family Football Complex
• All of K-State’s athletic teams exceeded the NCAA’s APR multi-year standard for the fourth straight year • Operated with a financial surplus for the fifth consecutive year
2015 2016
• Gene Taylor hired as 16th Athletics Director in K-State history • One of only four schools to have MLB, NBA, NFL and WNBA draft picks • Women’s Track and Field Big 12 Champions • One of five Division 1 FBS schools to make bowl game, VB, MBB and WBB NCAA tournaments
• Coach Bill Snyder’s 200th career victory • Volleyball captures 800th program victory and Coach Suzie Fritz’s 300th career win • Launch of Soccer program • Completed Phase 3B
2017 $18 million
2013
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2015
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BASEBALL NO-HITTER
PARKER RIGLER threw K-State’s first no-hitter since 1991, ninth ever, in a 14-0 victory over Eastern Illinois. Rigler was named National and Big 12 Pitcher of Week.
HOME RUNS
JAKE SCUDDER ended the season tied for second in the Big 12 in homers and RBI.
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The number of career pitching appearances by JORDAN FLOYD – a program record.
MEN’S
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WILL BRENNAN All-Big 12 Second Team All- Freshman Team JAKE SCUDDER All-Big 12 Second Team CAMERON THOMPSON All-Big 12 Second Team All- Freshman Team
BROGAN HEINEN Junior
NO. 4 FABULOUS FRESHMEN Upset No. 4 ranked South Carolina.
WILL BRENNAN and CAMERON THOMPSON each claimed Freshman All-America honors by Collegiate Baseball newspaper while Brennan picked up a Freshman All-America selection from NCBWA. Brennan set K-State’s freshman record for batting average in a season by hitting .350.
BASKETBALL FIRST FOUR
WIN COLUMN
K-State advanced to the NCAA First Round with a win over Wake Forest in the First Four.
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Captured the 1,600th win in school history on Dec. 21, 2016 in a 67-54 victory over Gardner-Webb.
WESLEY IWUNDU – Third Team All-Big 12 D.J. JOHNSON – Honorable Mention All-Big 12 School record 5 Academic All-Big 12 Selections
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DRAFT PICK
Senior WESLEY IWUNDU was selected with the No. 33 pick by the Orlando Magic in the 2017 NBA Draft. Wesley became the first Wildcat in school history to record 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 300 assists and 100 steals in a career.
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Weber earned his 400th career win with a victory over Prairie View A&M on Dec. 6, 2016. XAVIER SNEED Sophomore
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Wins for the 28th time in school history.
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BASKETBALL NCAA TOURNAMENT
K-State made their second straight NCAA Tournament appearance and hosted the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2003. The Wildcats advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the second straight season.
KAYLA GOTH Junior
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MOST WINS
Kansas State was ranked among the top 25 for 10 weeks in the 2016-17 season, concluding the season ranked No. 24.
BREANNA LEWIS First Team All-Big 12 KINDRED WESEMANN First Team All-Big 12 8 Academic All-Big 12 Selections
BREANNA LEWIS was selected 23rd overall by the Dallas Wings in the 2017 WNBA Draft.
K-State registered the most overall wins since the 2008-09 season and the most Big 12 wins, 11, since the Wildcats won the Big 12 in the 2007-08 season.
CROSS COUNTRY LUKAS KOCH Senior
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5 Men’s runners earned Academic All-Big 12 4 Women’s runners earned Academic All-Big 12
KAYLA DOLL Senior
WEDEKIND
MORGAN WEDEKIND was named Big 12 Runner of the Week two times.
PERFECT 1000
Women’s cross country was awarded APR Public Recognition distinction for the fourth straight year after posting multi-year APRs in the top 10 percent of all squads.
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K-State’s Men’s Cross Country team finished 18th at the Midwest Regional.
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K-State’s Women’s Cross Country team finished 21st at the Midwest Regional.
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FOOTBALL 200
COACH SNYDER earned his 200th career victory, one of only six coaches to reach the milestone and only coach at one school.
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Riding a current streak of 33-consecutive sellouts.
DALTON RISNER Junior
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Ranked fourth nationally by filling up its stadium at a 103.84-percent clip in 2016.
DRAFT STREAK
K-State has had a player selected in the NFL Draft for 24-straight years, a mark that leads the Big 12 and is tied for 12th nationally.
BOWL CHAMPS Advanced to seventh-straight bowl game, winning the 2016 Texas Bowl, as they are one of 21 teams nationally to earn seven-consecutive bowl berths.
ALL-BIG 12
Had 29 Academic All-Big 12 performers, leading the Big 12 for a third-straight year and tying the school record.
MEN’S GOLF 293.27
GREEN
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EKLUND
Team stroke average, the fourth-best mark in school history.
Placed a program-record six players on the Academic All-Big 12 team, including a perfect 4.0 GPA by BEN FERNANDEZ.
MATT GREEN ended his career tied for fifth in school history with a 73.79 stroke average.
JACOB EKLUND tied for 16th at the Big 12 Championship, the second-straight year a freshman led the Wildcats in the event.
SEASON BEST
Finished second at the Bill Ross Intercollegiate, a season best, while MATT GREEN tied for second in the event, the Wildcats’ best individual placing of the year.
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WOMEN’S GOLF NCAA REGIONAL Advanced to the fifth NCAA Regional in school history.
ALL-BIG 12
Had four members earn Academic AllBig 12 honors, including KATHERINE GRAVEL-COURSOL, who earned her third-straight first team accolade.
CHAMPIONS KATHERINE GRAVELCOURSOL Senior
Won two team tournaments, the second time in the last three seasons the Wildcats won multiple events.
AMATEUR TITLE CONNIE JAFFREY claimed the Scottish Women’s Amateur Championship at Royal Aberdeen Golf Club in Bridge of Don, Scotland.
22 YEARS Led by KRISTI KNIGHT, who completed her 22nd year as head coach to rank as the longest-tenured head coach in the Big 12.
STROKIN’
Had a 298.00 team stroke average to rank third in school history.
ROWING 3RD PLACE Finished third at the Big 12 Championship with 92 points, its highest point total since 2014.
GO FOR GOLD All four boats won gold medals at the Southern Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championship Regatta (SIRA) for first time since 2014.
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NOELLE DYKMANN was named to the All-Big 12 Rowing Team.
The first varsity eight (1V8) was named Big 12 Boat of the Week after a gold medal performance at SIRA’s. MARISSA BUTRUM Senior
ALL-BIG 12 Had 29 members earn Academic All-Big 12 honors.
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SOCCER PROGRAM FIRSTS
First win in program history: Aug. 26 at Oakland, a 6-0 decision. First home win: Sept. 25 against South Dakota with a 2-0 margin.
ALL-BIG 12 Three student-athletes were selected to the Academic All-Big 12 Teams.
4TH IN NATION
2,265 average attendance in the four home matches which ranked fourth in the nation. K-State ranked fifth in the nation for percent of capacity filled, as K-State was at 107.85 percent of the capacity of the K-State Soccer Complex (2,100).
GOOOOOAL
Sophomore forward TATUM WAGNER and freshman midfielder LARAMIE HALL led the team in goals with three goals each. Wagner led the team with four assists.
MIRANDA LARKIN Senior
TENNIS ALL-BIG 12 7 players were selected to Academic All-Big 12 teams.
BIG 12 TOURNEY
Advanced past first round of Big 12 tournament with win a over Iowa State before falling to top-seeded Texas Tech in the quarterfinals.
BIG WINS
K-State finished the season with the most wins since the 2011 season and won a first-round match in the Big 12 Championship for the fifth year in a row.
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PLAYER OF THE WEEK
INES MESQUITA named Big 12 Player of the Week. The award was K-State’s second since 2011.
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CAROLINA COSTAMAGNA Senior
TRACK & FIELD NCAA CHAMPIONS
CHRISTOFF BRYAN added to K-State’s storied high jump history, claiming the program’s fifth outdoor men’s high jump title in the last 11 years. SHADAE LAWRENCE continued her torrid season, winning K-State’s first discus title ever.
BIG 12 CHAMPIONS
The women’s track team won their first Big 12 Championship since 2002. The Wildcats finished the competition with a program-best 133 total points.
ALL-AMERICANS 6 Men’s All-Americans 16 Women’s All-Americans
TERELL SMITH Senior
ALL-BIG 12
Cliff Rovelto – Women’s Coach of the Year Nina Schultz – Outstanding Freshman of the Year Combined 20 Academic All-Big 12 Honorees
JANEE’ KASSANAVOID Senior
VOLLEYBALL ALL-AMERICAN KATIE BRAND was named an All-American for the third time in her career making her the first three-time selection in program history.
NCAA
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KATIE BRAND – First Team All-Big 12 KATIE REININGER – Second Team All-Big 12 ELLIE SANDBOTHE – All-Freshman Team BRYNA VOGEL – Second Team All-Big 12 Program record 11 players were selected to Academic All-Big 12 teams
Fifth NCAA Tournament appearance in last six years. Advanced to the second round.
TOP 10
9th in nation in total attendance (36,063) and 15th in NCAA in average attendance (2,121).
BRYNA VOGEL Senior
800 WINS
Captured the 800th win in program history. Coach Suzie Fritz picked up her 300th career victory while posting her 12th 20-win season.
ALL-REGION
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PERFORMANCE TABLE
AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY FOR VARSITY K CLUB MEMBERS FOR 6 HOME GAMES! K-State Athletics is proud to offer members of the Varsity K Club a premium seating location for six home football games this year. This exclusive indoor space, located within the West Stadium Center, overlooks the field in the northwest corner of Bill Snyder Family Stadium. You must be a K Club member to order. To order your tickets, please call the K-State Athletics Ticket Office at 1-800-221-2287.
SEPT. 2 Central Arkansas $50 EACH
SEPT. 9 Charlotte $50 EACH
OCT. 14 TCU $80 EACH
OCT. 21 Oklahoma $80 EACH
SEPT. 30 Baylor $80 EACH
VARSITY K CLUB WEEKEND
NOV. 25 Iowa State $80 EACH
RESOURCES AHEARN FUND STAFF
JOSH MCCOWAN Senior Associate AD for Development 785.532.7881 jmccowan@kstatesports.com
MATT GILLER Director of Annual Giving 785.532.7984 mgiller@kstatesports.com
MIKE CLARK Senior Director of Development 785.532.7716 mclark@kstatesports.com
AUSTIN SCHILLING SUSAN SHIPMAN Senior Director Senior Director of Stewardship, of Development Hospitality and Events 785.532.7677 785.532.7763 aschilling@kstatesports.com sshipman@kstatesports.com
WILL COOPER CHELSEY FRIHART Assistant Director Assistant Director of of Development Hospitality and Special Events 785.532.7933 785.532.7952 wcooper@kstatesports.com cfrihart@kstatesports.com
TICKET OFFICE
JONI SMOLLER Associate AD for Fan Experience and Sales 785.532.5769 jsmoller@kstatesports.com
LEON JACKSON Director of Ticketing Services 785.532.5582 ljackson@kstatesports.com
1800 COLLEGE AVENUE MANHATTAN, KS 66502 888.232.9074 AHEARNFUND@KSTATESPORTS.COM WWW.AHEARNFUND.COM
KATIE LARSON Gift Processing Assistant 785.532.7882 klarson@kstatesports.com
COMPLIANCE
LINDSEY BABCOCK DAREN KOUDELE Executive Associate AD Associate AD for Compliance for Compliance 785.532.7696 785.532.7678 lbabcock@kstatesports.com dkoudele@kstatesports.com
100 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 1720 ANDERSON AVE MANHATTAN, KS 66506-1001 785.532.6260 ALUMNI@K-STATE.COM
OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS 119 ANDERSON HALL MANHATTAN, KS 66506-0102 800.432.8270 K-STATE@K-STATE.EDU
FOR CAMPUS TOURS 800.432.8270