2009-10 NCCU Women's Tennis Information Guide by North Carolina Central University Department of Athletics

2009-2010 NCCU WOMEN’S TENNIS

GENERAL INFORMATION

Coaching Staff Head Coach ............................................. David Nass Alma Mater (Year) .. University of Wisconsin (1972) Assistant Coach............................... Lewis McMillon Tennis Office Phone .......................... (919) 530-6162 Tennis Fax ......................................... (919) 530-5426 Sports Information Women’s Tennis Contact.....................Ariel Germain Office Phone...................................... (919) 530-7054 Cell Phone ......................................... (919) 491-8720 Fax..................................................... (919) 530-5426 E-mail........................................ agermain@nccu.edu Sports Information Director ..................... Kyle Serba SID Office Phone .............................. (919) 530-7054 SID E-mail .....................................kserba@nccu.edu SID Mailing Address..... 116 McDougald-McLendon ............................................................................ Gym .................................................... Durham, NC 27707 Athletics Dept. Phone ....................... (919) 530-7057 Athletics Dept. Web Site ....................................... ................................. www.NCCUEaglePride.com

Table of Contents................................................2 Schedule/Team Information ...............................3 NCCU Women’s Tennis Team............................4 Head Coach David Nass .....................................5 Assistant Coach Lewis McMillon ......................6 Meet the Eagles ............................................ 7-10 2008-09 Season Review ............................. 11-12 Chancellor Charlie Nelms ................................13 A.D. Ingrid Wicker-McCree, Ed.D. .................14 Athletics Department.................................. 15-16 NCCU Athletics.......................................... 17-18 North Carolina Central University ...................20 The Campus......................................................21

THE CREDITS The 2009-10 North Carolina Central University women’s tennis information guide is a production of the NCCU Sports Information Ofﬁce. Written and edited by Ariel Germain, sports information graduate student assistant. Covers and interior designed by Ariel Germain. Photography by Ariel Germain, Kyle Serba and Robert Lawson.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Name of School... North Carolina Central University City/Zip ...................................... Durham, NC 27707 Founded......................1910 by Dr. James E. Shepard Enrollment......................................................... 8,575 Nickname ........................................................ Eagles School Colors ................................... Maroon & Gray Facility .....................................NCCU Tennis Courts Location ..............................................Campus Drive ........................ Behind McDougald-McLendon Gym National Afﬁliation ..NCAA Div. I (Reclassiﬁcation) Conference ............................................. Independent ................................. MEAC recognized in July 2010 Chancellor ...........................................Charlie Nelms Alma Mater (Year) ......... Arkansas Pine Bluff (1968) Athletics Director ....... Ingrid Wicker-McCree, Ed.D. Alma Mater (Year) ..........George Washington (1989)

Table of Contents

SCHEDULE/ TEAM INFORMATION

2009-2010 Match Schedule September 19-20 Methodist “Team” Tournament

Fayetteville, N.C.

All Day

October 22-24 30-31

ITA Division I Regional Tournament UNC Wilmington Invitational

Winston-Salem, N.C. Wilmington, N.C.

All Day All Day

January 16 19 22 23

Gardner-Webb University of Memphis East Carolina Elon

Chapel Hill, N.C. Durham, N.C. Greensboro, N.C. Elon, N.C.

5 p.m. 7 p.m. 3 p.m. 11 a.m.

February 6 6 20 21 27 28

Coker Coastal Carolina Savannah State Kennesaw State Appalachian State UNC Pembroke

Conway, S.C. Conway, S.C. Kennesaw, Ga. Kennesaw, Ga. Durham, N.C. Pembroke, N.C.

9 a.m. 12 p.m. 1 p.m. 12 p.m. 1 p.m. 12 p.m.

March 5 13 20 20 23 27 28

UNC Asheville Hampton Methodist Shaw Radford Norfolk State Winston-Salem State

Chapel Hill, N.C. Cary, N.C. Durham, N.C. Durham, N.C. Radford, Va. Norfolk, Va. Durham, N.C.

5 p.m. 1 p.m. 9 a.m. 2 p.m. 3 p.m. 12 p.m. 1 p.m.

April 2 2 9 10 11 14 16-18

Longwood Mount Olive UNC Wilmington Campbell North Carolina A&T Western Carolina Independent Tournament

Cary, N.C. Cary, N.C. Wilmington, N.C. Cary, N.C. Greensboro, N.C. Cullowhee, N.C. Farmville, Va.

9:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m. 3 p.m. 1 p.m. 1 p.m. 2 p.m. TBA

*ALL HOME MATCHES ARE INDICATED IN BOLD

Team Information 2008-09 Overall Record ........................................................................................................................... 4-17 2008-09 Home Record ............................................................................................................................... 1-5 2008-09 Away Record .............................................................................................................................. 3-11 2008-09 Neutral Record ............................................................................................................................. 0-1 Letterwinners Returning/ Lost.................................................................................................................... 5/2

Name Cameron Chatman Kateryna Chorna Ashley McRae Maria Medina Olesya Palko Ashley Rogers Tatiana Velasquez

Ht. 5’6” 5’7” 5’4” 5’0” 5’5” 5’6” 5’8”

Cl. So. Sr. Sr. Sr. Fr. Jr. Jr.

Hometown High Point, N.C. Iavno-Frankivsk, Ukraine Red Springs, N.C. Bogata, Colombia Kyiv, Ukraine Cary, N.C. Cali, Columbia

NCCU WOMEN’S TENNIS TEAM

2009-2010 Eagles Roster High School/Previous School Southwest Guilford H.S. Barton County C.C. Hoke County H.S. Gimnasio Britanico Scandindvian Gymnasium Cary H.S. Santa Maria Stella Maria H.S.

Head Coach: David Nass Assistant Coach: Lewis McMillon

HEAD COACH DAVID NASS

David Nass, the Head Women’s Tennis Coach at North Carolina Central University, boasts 20 years of tennis instructing and coaching experience to his credit. Nass served as head coach for both men’s and women’s tennis programs from 1997-2010. In 1998, Nass was selected as the CIAA Tennis Coach of the Year, after guiding the men’s tennis team to its first conference championship in 24 years. A native of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Nass began his tennis instructing and coaching career as the Director of Tennis at the Stevens Point (WI) Country Club from 1978 to 1982. In 1979, he was selected the Head Men’s and Women’s Tennis Coach at the University of Wisconsin (Stevens Point, WI), where he served a seven-year tenure, earning the Wisconsin Women’s Intercollegiate Athletic Conference “Coach of the Year” Award in 1984. As a tennis player, Nass won a Wisconsin State Open Doubles Championship in 1985, earned a Wisconsin state ranking in 1985 and 1986, and finished as a finalist in 31 tennis tournaments from 1978 to 1988. Nass graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1972, with a bachelor of science degree in History and Sociology. He received a certificate in Management of Tax Exempt Organizations from Duke University in 1990, and earned a master’s degree in Recreation Administration from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1991. From 1991-97, Nass served as general manager with the Chapel Hill Tennis Club in Carrboro, NC, leaving his post to return to college coaching. During his management tenure, the club’s membership grew to become the largest in the state among tennis clubs and the volume of event programming made it one of the most active tennis clubs in the eastern United States. Aside from tennis, Nass has competitive experience in seven sports.

McMillon attended Hampton University (formly Hampton Institutes College), during his matriculation he was a member of the small board riﬂing team. Small board was once an competitive Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) sport. McMillon graduated from Hampton in 1974 with bachelor’s of arts in biology. For his master’s degree McMillon chose NCCU, where he majored in biology with a concentration in microbiology. When McMillon is not whipping the Eagles into shape, he is a full-time Senior Technologist in the Molecular Microbiology Laboratory at UNC Hospitals.

ASSISTANT COACH LEWIS MCCILLON

Lewis McMillon was named an assistant coach at North Carolina C e n t r a l August 2007.

MEET THE EAGLES

Personal: Kateryna Chorna ... daughter of Sergey Chorniy and Natalia Chorna ... born on April 26, 1988 in Nadvrna, Ukraine ... enjoys reading and traveling ... majoring in sociology and minor in business management ... named NCCU Student Athlete of the Year in 2009. Interesting Fact About Kateryna: When Kateryna was 16 years old she lived on her own in the Czech Republic to attend a tennis academy. Since she has been in America, Kateryna has been to New York, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, South Carolina, California, Connecticut and North Carolina.

Personal: Ashley Patrice McRae ... daughter of Khan McRae ... born Nov. 2, 1987 in Raeford, N.C. ... enjoys playing intensive video games ... majoring in criminal justice with a concentration in law enforcement. Interesting Fact About Ashley: Ashley would play basketball if she was tall enough, she has always wanted to dunk a ball on someone.

Interesting Fact About Maria: Maria plays tennis with her right hand, but writes and eats with her left hand.

Personal: Ashley Elaine Rogers ... daughter of James and Bertha Rogers ... born March 14, 1989 in Durham, N.C. ... enjoys shopping and going out to eat ... a member of Kappa Delta Pi International Educational Honor Society (2009) and a member of the Golden Key National Honor Society (2008) ... majoring in elementary education.

MEET THE EAGLES

Personal: Maria Monica Medina Nossa ... daughter of Jairo Medina and Maria Nossa ... born March 4, 1989 in Bogota, Columbia ... enjoys listening to music, watching movies and spending time with friends ... majoring in business with a concentration in marketing

Interesting Fact About Ashley: Ashley is addicted to sweatpants, chapstick and designer handbags.

MEET THE EAGLES

Personal: Tatiana Velasquez Tovar ... daughter of Jose Arturo Velasquez and Liliana Tovar Munoz ... born on Nov. 6, 1989 in Cali, Columbia. ... enjoys playing chess, reading books, salsa dancing, talking to her family in Columbia and playing Rockband ... majoring in biology with a concentratoin in pre-med and chemistry. Interesting Fact About Tatiana: Tatiana loves to eat her roommate’s raisins and her hair is always wild so her teammates call her Lion King.

Personal: Cameron Danielle Chatman ... daughter of Junie and Karris Chatman ... born Oct. 5, 1989 in Greensboro, N.C. ... enjoys playing Rockband, shopping and food ... majoring in criminal justice. Interesting Fact About Cameron: Cameron’s brother is Trey Chatman of the men’s tennis team and she has lived in four different states.

MEET

Personal: Olesya Palko ... daughter of Georgiy Palko and Eva Tsikor ... born on Jan. 26, 1993 in Kyiv, Ukraine ... enjoys reading books, attending theatre productions, poetry, painting and animals ... majoring in pharmaceutical science with a minor in biology. Interesting Fact About Olesya: When Olesya arrived to NCCU she spoke little English, but she still maintains a 4.0 grade point average.

North Carolina Central University women’s tennis team opened the 20092010 with a stellar performance at the Methodist University Invitational in Fayetteville, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 19.

THE EAGLES

By the completion of the invitational, the Eagles boasted an impressive performance. NCCU freshman Olesya Palko won the A flight singles, junior Tatiana Velasquez won the B flight singles and senior Kateryna Chorna and Palko won the A flight doubles.

2008-09 SEASON REVIEW

2008-09 STATISTICS SINGLES

OVERALL

DUAL

TOUR CONF. 1

STREAK

Kateryna McRae Medina Rogers Sinclair Spain Velasquez

6-15 1-4 3-15 5-16 5-13 4-15 6-13

0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

6-15 -------------

------5-15 ----0-1

------0-1 --0-2 6-12

----3-11 --1-5 -----

--0-2 0-4 --3-7 1-3 ---

--1-2 ----1-1 3-10 ---

L1 L1 L1 L1 W1 L6 L1

Totals

31-93

0-0

6-15

5-16

6-15

5-16

4-16

5-15

Percentage

.250

.000

.286

.238

.286

.238

.200

.250

DOUBLES

OVERALL

DUAL

TOUR CONF.

STREAK

LAST 10

Kateryna/ Velasquez

1-1

0-0

1-1

---

1-1

Medina/ Rogers

0-2

0-0

---

0-2

---

0-2

McRae/ Spain

0-3

0-0

---

0-3

Chorna/ Rogers

8-11

0-0

8-11

---

4-6

Medina/ Velasquez

6-10

0-0

---

6-10

---

3-7

Sinclair/ Spain

3-12

0-0

---

0-2

3-10

2-8

McRae/ Sinclair

0-3

0-0

---

0-3

Totals

18-44

0-0

9-12

6-14

3-18

Percentage

.290

.000

.429

.300

.143

NCCU WOMEN’S TENNIS LENDS A PAW On Nov. 7, 2009, the North Carolina Central University women’s tennis team visited seperate animal shelters in three different counties - Granville, Durham and Orange. The Eagles delivered food and supplies, most of which were provided by Food Lion. The team also donated used tennis balls as toys for the animals. “It was a moving experience,” said NCCU head coach David Nass.

2008-09 SEASON REVIEW

(Cameron Chatman, Ashley McRae, GCAS employee, Oleysa Palko, Maria Medina, Kateryna Chorna, Ashley Rogers, Tatiana Velasquez)

NCCU WOMEN’S & MEN’S TENNIS TEAMS RECIEVE ITA ACADEMIC AWARDS The North Carolina Central women’s and men’s tennis team recieved the All-Academic Team and StudentAthletes from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) for the 2009 season. The ITA All-Academic Team award is open to any ITA program that has a cumulative team grade point average of 3.20 or above (on a 4.00 scale). All eligible student-athletes whose names appear on the NCAA/ NAIA/NJCAA eligibility form and have competed in one or more varsity matches must average into the GPA for the current academic year (including fall 2008 and spring 2009). Representing the women’s tennis team on the ITA Student-Athlete list are juniors Ashley Rogers and Tatiana Velasquez. NCCU senior Stephen Allsop and sophomores Alejandro Espitia and Jose Fabara represented the Eagles on the men’s side.

CHANCELLOR CHARLIE NELMS

Chancellor Charlie Nelms assumed his duties as chancellor of North Carolina Central University August 1, 2007. Prior to joining the NCCU family, Nelms served as vice president for Institutional Development and Student Affairs at Indiana University, which enrolls approximately 100,000 students on eight campuses. In his role as IU’s vice president for Institutional Development and Student Affairs, Nelms was responsible for a combination of duties on the Bloomington campus and systemwide that spanned university planning, institutional research and effectiveness, enrollment management, student affairs, academic support services, K-12 outreach initiatives, student retention, honors programs, and diversity and equity efforts. In September 2001, TIME magazine named IU’s Bloomington campus the number-one student-centered research university in the nation. Many of the programs cited by TIME were under Nelms’ oversight and direction. A native of Crawfordsville, Arkansas, Nelms majored in agronomy and chemistry at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, graduating in 1968. He later earned a master’s degree in higher education and student affairs (1971) and a doctoral degree in higher education administration (1977) from Indiana University. Early in his career, he rose through the faculty and administrative ranks as associate dean for Student Development at Earlham College in Indiana (1973-1977), associate director of the Center for Human Development and Education Services at the UAPB (1977-1978), associate dean for Academic Affairs at Indiana University Northwest (1978-1984) and vice president for Student Services at Sinclair Community College in Ohio (1984- 1987). In 1987, Nelms began a seven-year tenure as chancellor of Indiana University East, a commuter campus serving east-central Indiana. During his tenure there, the campus was the fastest-growing college in the State of Indiana. In 1994, Nelms was named chancellor of the University of Michigan at Flint (UMF), an urban campus that enrolls over 6,500 students and offers a full spectrum of undergraduate and master’s degree programs. Before being recruited to Indiana University in 1998, he resolved a signiﬁcant campus budget deﬁcit, reversed a four-year enrollment decline, and secured more than $75 million in private gifts to UMF. A former American Council on Education Fellow

and Ford Fellow, Nelms holds honorary degrees from Earlham College and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Over the course of his career, he has received numerous awards for his contributions to education and service to students, including the Benjamin Hooks Award for Meritorious Achievement from the Gary (IN) branch of the NAACP, the Distinguished Alumni Service Award from Indiana University, the Distinguished Alumni Award from the IU School of Education, the President’s Medal from the University of Michigan, and the State of Indiana’s Sagamore of the Wabash—the highest civilian award bestowed by the governor. Nelms is married to Jeanetta Sherrod Nelms. They have one son, Rashad, a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School who serves as a policy ofﬁcer with the United Nations World Food Programme.

She officially began her new leadership role on May 1, 2008. Wicker-McCree, who joined the rank of only a handful of women athletic directors in the UNC system, previously served as NCCU’s associate athletics director for internal affairs. She has served in a variety of leadership positions in both conference and national level organizations, 8most notably as president of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Executive Board from 200406, becoming only the second woman to ever hold that position in the league’s history. In addition, she served as a member of the NCAA’s Division II Legislation Committee from 2003-07. In recognition of her work, Wicker-McCree received the CIAA Leadership Award for Service as president of the Executive Board and was named the CIAA Senior Woman Administrator of the Year in the spring of 2006. Now entering her 16th year at NCCU, WickerMcCree has been one of the driving forces behind NCCU’s reclassification to NCAA Division I. Since 1998, she has overseen the internal operations of the Athletics Department, including all compliance and eligibility programs. Wicker-McCree began her career at NCCU as the head coach for women’s volleyball and softball. She became the first coach in NCCU history to win conference championships in multiple sports, capturing the school’s first-ever CIAA titles in softball (1998) and volleyball (1999, 2004, 2005). A three-time CIAA Volleyball Coach of the Year (1999, 2002, 2005) and former member of the NCAA Division II National Volleyball Committee, WickerMcCree earned 239 match victories in 12 seasons as head volleyball coach at NCCU. She was also inducted into the NCCU Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004 as head coach of the 1998 softball team.

A native of Durham and a graduate of C.E. Jordan High School, Wicker-McCree played on two North Carolina high school state volleyball championship teams, while also lettering in basketball and track and ﬁeld. She continued her volleyball playing career as a student-athlete at George Washington University. Wicker-McCree earned her undergraduate degree in criminal justice from George Washington University in 1989, and a master’s degree in recreation resources administration from North Carolina State University in December 1991. She also completed doctoral studies in higher education administration at North Carolina State University in June 2008. She began her coaching career as a graduate assistant coach for the women’s volleyball program at N.C. State (1989-90). She then spent two seasons (1992-93) as head volleyball coach and student-athlete academic counselor at North Carolina A&T State University before returning to her hometown to begin her NCCU tenure in August 1994. Wicker-McCree has been involved as a player and coach in the USA Volleyball Carolina Region. She also served as director of three USAV Junior Olympic Teams (ages 18, 16, 14 and under) and director of the Y.M.C.A. Middle School Girls’ Volleyball Camp (ages 10-14). Wicker-McCree and her husband, Geno McCree, a three-sport collegiate student-athlete and 1991 graduate of Elon University, are the proud parents of Alexia (11), Quinton (8) and Sydney (5).

ATHLETICS DIRECTOR INGRID WICKER-MCCREE

Ingrid Wicker-McCree, Ed.D., was appointed as the Director of Athletics at North Carolina Central University on April 23, 2008 after holding the interim position for ﬁve months.

NCCU ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT

JAMAUL ALEXANDER

CAROLYN ARRINGTON

ANTHONY BENNETT

DR. LES BRINSON

Assistant A.D. for Business/Finance

Director of Student-Athlete Services

Faculty Athletic Council Chairman

LOUISE BROTHERS

RECO CHAVIS

BRIGITTE COUNCIL

NATHAN CROCKETT

Business & Finance Assistant

Facilities/Event Coordinator

ATC, LAT/ Asst. Athletic Trainer

MS, ATC, LAT/ Asst. Athletic Trainer

Accountant

ATHLETICS STAFF ARIEL GERMAIN

CHRIS HOOKS

TYRONE IRBY

Sports Information Graduate Assistant

Asst. Sports Information Director/ Broadcast Media

Strength & Conditioning Assistant Coach

MARLYNN JONES

BARRY MARROW

NICOLE MITCHELL

Assistant A.D. for Compliance

Facilities/Turf Management

Sports Information/ Marketing Assistant

ADRIAN POWELL

DARRELL SANDERS

BRENDA SCARBOROUGH

Equipment Manager/ Evening Building Supervisor

Strength & Conditioning Assistant Coach

Executive Assistant to the Athletics Director

REAH NICHOLSON Assistant Sports Information Director

KYLE SERBA

Associate A.D. for Media Relations

INGRID WICKER-MCCREE Director of Athletics

ETIENNE THOMAS

Associate A.D. for Internal Operations/SWA

BRENDA WILLIAMS

SEAN THOMAS

MS, ATC, LAT/ Head Athletic Trainer

DARKINA WARD

MS, ATC, LAT/ Asst. Athletic Trainer

DANNY WORTHY

Administrative Assistant

Assistant A.D. for Corporate Relations

MIKE CHARLTON

GEORGETTE CRAWFORD-CROOKS

Softball

Volleyball

Men’s Tennis/ Director of Tennis

HEAD COACHES

CURTIS LAWSON

MICHAEL LAWSON

LEVELLE MOTON

DAVID NASS

PAUL PERRY

Track & Field/Cross Country

Men’s Basketball

Women’s Tennis

Golf

MOSE RISON

JOLI ROBINSON

KAREN SANFORD

DR. HENRY WHITE

Football

Women’s Basketball

Women’s Bowling

Baseball

NCCU ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT

GEORGE SMITH

Associate A.D. for External Affairs/S&C

North Carolina Central University is competing in its third year of reclassiﬁcation as an NCAA Division I institution (Football Championship Subdivision), and the Eagles will be playing as an independent during the 2008-09 athletics campaign.

NCCU ATHLETICS

2007 CIAA Women’s Basketball Champions

Fourteen men’s and women’s sports teams participate in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition at the Division I-FCS level. Men’s intercollegiate teams include football, basketball, baseball, indoor and outdoor track & field, tennis, golf and cross country. Women’s intercollegiate teams include basketball, volleyball, indoor and outdoor track & field, tennis, softball, bowling and cross country. NCCU’s athletic programs have enjoyed regional and national recognition for years, headlined by the 1989 NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball National Championship. NCCU’s commitment to a balanced athletic program, providing equitable resources to all of its sports teams, is abundantly apparent. In five of the last eight years in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA), NCCU claimed the Loretta Taylor All-Sports Trophy, recognizing the top all-around women’s program in the conference.

2006 CIAA Women's Cross Country Champions

2006 CIAA Women's Volleyball Champions

In 2007-08, NCCU’s first season of Division I (FCS) competition, the women’s volleyball team kicked off the Division I era with a dramatic, come-from-behind win over N.C. State, then cruised to 21 victories, all against Division I opponents. The football team finished its first Division I season with a 6-4 record, the Eagles fourth straight winning season. The men’s and women’s cross country teams each won four of their seven events. The men’s basketball team played one of the toughest schedules in the country, while traveling more than 22,000 miles and playing in 13 different states. The squad earned a road victory over the eventual Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) champions and capped the season with a win over rival Winston-Salem State University at the MEAC Tournament. Finally, the track and field program won two events at the prestigious Penn Relays and qualified two student-athletes for the USA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Boston. In 2006-07, NCCU’s final season in the NCAA Division II, the Eagles placed 24th in the final standings of the U.S. Sports Academy Directors’ Cup, the prestigious award presented annually to the best overall collegiate athletics programs in the country. In 2006-07, NCCU won four CIAA team championships and participated in nine NCAA Division II Championship events.

2006 CIAA Football Champions

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Women’s Basketball (CIAA) Football (CIAA) Women's Volleyball (CIAA) Women's Cross Country (CIAA) Softball (CIAA) Women’s Volleyball (CIAA) Football (CIAA) Women’s Cross Country (CIAA) Women’s Volleyball (CIAA) Men’s Cross Country (CIAA) Women’s Bowling (CIAA) Softball (CIAA) Women’s Volleyball (CIAA) Men’s Tennis (CIAA) Softball (CIAA) Women’s Basketball (CIAA) Football (CIAA) Men’s Tennis (MEAC) Men’s Track & Field (MEAC) Men’s Tennis (MEAC) Football (MEAC) Men’s Track & Field (MEAC) Men’s Tennis (MEAC) Football (MEAC) Men’s Track & Field (MEAC) Men’s Tennis (MEAC) Men’s Track & Field (CIAA) Men’s Track & Field (CIAA) Men’s Tennis (CIAA) Men’s Track & Field (CIAA) Men’s Tennis (CIAA) Football (CIAA) Football (CIAA) Men’s Tennis (CIAA) Men’s Tennis (CIAA) Men’s Tennis (CIAA) Football (CIAA) Football (CIAA) Football (CIAA) Men’s Basketball (CIAA) Men’s Basketball (CIAA)

Heading the charge of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games was Dr. LeRoy T. Walker, President of the U.S. Olympic Committee, who lifted the Eagle track & ﬁeld program to international prominence during his unprecedented tenure as head coach at NCCU. Under Walker’s reign, the Eagles produced 30 national titles, 77 All-Americans, and eight Olympic medalists. Legendary basketball practitioner, John B. McLendon, a member of the National Basketball Hall of Fame, established a remarkable record of 239-68 (.779) as an Eagle head coach from 1940 to 1952. A student of Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of the game of basketball, McLendon is credited with the development of the zone press, fast break and four corners offense. Boston Celtics great Sam Jones, a student-

athlete under McLendon and a fellow Hallof-Famer, became the first black player to be drafted in the first round after scoring a record 1,745 points during his stellar NCCU career. Internationally-renowned artist, Ernie Barnes - best-known for his famous paintings seen on the 1970s sitcom “Good Times” - played football for the NCCU prior to a professional gridiron career with the Baltimore Colts, San Diego Chargers and Denver Broncos. The LeRoy T. Walker Physical Education Complexhousesamulti-purposegymnasium, Olympic-sized swimming and diving pool, athletic training facilities, strength and fitness center, and much more. O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium hosts NCCU football action for a capacity crowd of 10,000 dedicated Eagle fans. In mid-November, McDougald-McLendon Gym lights-up with men’s and women’s basketball excitement.

1975 TENNIS TEAM The 1975 MEAC Tennis Championship Team was coached by Dr. James W. Younge. The Eagles edged Howard University 22-20 on May 4 to capture their fourth consecutive conference title. Competing in the ﬁnals for NCCU were Ricardo Jones, William Torres, Michael Taylor, Bennett Miller, Leonard Lewis and Larry McCollum.

Legendary track & ﬁeld coach Dr. LeRoy T. Walker, president of the U.S. Olympic Committee in 1996, led the Eagles to 30 national titles, 77 All-America citations, and eight Olympic medals.

NCCU ATHLETICS

2007 2006 2006 2006 2006 2005 2005 2005 2004 2004 2001 1999 1999 1998 1998 1984 1980 1975 1974 1974 1973 1973 1973 1972 1972 1972 1971 1965 1965 1964 1964 1963 1961 1959 1958 1957 1956 1954 1953 1950 1946

Several former student-athletes and coaches are nationally and internationally known.

NCCU’s Shari Matthews was selected as the 2006 NCAA Division II Women's Volleyball National Player of the Year.

NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY

NEW INITIATIVES

NCCU HIGHLIGHTS

NCCU is on the cutting edge with its Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise known as BRITE. The institute offers new bachelor’s and master’s degrees in pharmaceutical science. These programs provide students with core scientiﬁc competencies in biology or chemistry as well as hands-on laboratory practice. In addition, there are seminar courses in drug development operations, FDA regulations, quality assurance and control, and intellectual property and patent law. NCCU’s BRITE is

• NCCU was the fastest growing institution in the University of North Carolina System. At 5.5 percent for fall 2006, NCCU surpassed the UNC System’s average rate of growth of 3.1 percent.

an important part of the statewide initiative to make North Carolina a premiere provider of skilled workers for the biotechnology industry.

HISTORY In 1910, Dr. James E. Shepard envisioned and founded a school that prepared African American adults for leadership roles in our nation’s communities. Founded as the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua, North Carolina Central University (NCCU) became the nation’s ﬁrst state-supported historically black liberal arts college. In 1923, the National Training School became the state-supported Durham State Normal School, devoted to “the training of teachers for the Colored Public Schools of North Carolina.” Two years later, Dr. Shepard was able to persuade the General Assembly to take a revolutionary step, making the institution a liberal arts college and naming it North Carolina College for Negroes in 1925. The School of Law was established in 1940 and the School of Library Science in 1941. By the time of Dr. Shepard’s death on October 6, 1947, the institution that had become North Carolina College at Durham was fully-accredited, highly respected and had become the alma mater of a growing list of distinguished alumni. Today, under the leadership of Chancellor Charlie Nelms, NCCU is a comprehensive university offering more than 100 bachelor’s degrees in various disciplines, 40 master’s degree programs and three professional degrees in law. The university reaches out to all racial and ethnic groups, and has a diverse student population of more than 8,000.

The School of Law has won kudos for providing top-notch legal education. According to Vault, Inc., a publishing ﬁrm that researches and collects data on diverse professions, the law school has not received the acknowledgment it is due. Vault surveyed 512 recruiters who identiﬁed 25 “underrated” schools, and the NCCU School of Law was ranked at number 14.

• Black Enterprise magazine named NCCU one of the Top 50 Colleges for African Americans in the nation in its September 2006 edition. NCCU was ranked No. 30. • The Golden LEAF Foundation awarded $2.3 million to the Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise. • In 2006, NCCU’s School of Law students passed the State Bar Examination at a rate of 86 percent; the highest of any other historically black school in the country. • NCCU received accreditation of its bachelor’s and master’s programs in business administration from the Assembly of American Colleges and Schools of Business International.

NCCU and the African American Jazz Caucus are partnering to form the NCCU/AAJC Jazz Research Institute (NAJRI) in an effort to preserve the integrity of jazz as an African American art form. One of the functions of the Institute will be to address the critical artistic and economic situation of jazz in the African American community as well as develop other initiatives such as a North Carolina Hall of Fame dedicated to highlighting the work of jazz artists from North Carolina. In an effort to bring more study abroad options to students, NCCU has been accepted as a member of the International Student Exchange Program (ISEP), a nonproﬁt membership organization that provides affordable and diverse study abroad and exchange opportunities to students around the world. NCCU is only one of four historically black college or university in the ISEP network. ISEP membership makes it possible for NCCU students to study abroad at over 135 different universities in 39 countries. NCCU is the ﬁrst historically black institution in the nation to have an athletic training education program accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs. Built upon the motto of Truth and Service, NCCU is a university committed to preparing and equipping students with the knowledge and skills to compete in the global marketplace.

• NCCU received a $150,000 grant from the Darden Restaurants Foundation to establish a Culinary Teaching Laboratory at the university to support its Hospitality and Tourism Program. • An endowment in the amount of $100,000 was awarded for the Christopher S. Meldrum Chemistry Scholarship Fund to establish a scholarship for chemistry majors. • NCCU led in recruiting National Achievement Scholars. NCCU was No. 3 in the state and tied for third place among historically black colleges and universities across the nation.

THE CAMPUS

2009-2010 North Carolina Central University Women’s Tennis Match Schedule September 19-20 Methodist “Team” Tournament

Fayetteville, N.C.

All Day

October 22-24 30-31

ITA Divsion I Regional Tournamnet UNC Wilmington Invitational

Winston-Salem, N.C. Wilmington, N.C.

All Day All Day

January 16 19 22 23

Gardner-Webb University of Memphis East Carolina Elon

Chape Hill, N.C. Durham, N.C. Greensboro, N.C. Elon, N.C.

5 p.m. 7 p.m. 3 p.m. 11 a.m.

February 6 6 20 21 27 28

Coker Coastal Carolina Savannah State Kennesaw State Appalachian State UNC Pembroke

Conway, S.C. Conway, S.C. Kennesaw, Ga. Kennesaw, Ga. Durham, N.C. Pembroke, N.C.

9 a.m. 12 p.m. 1 p.m. 12 p.m. 1 p.m. 12 p.m.

March 5 13 20 20 23 27 28

UNC Asheville Hampton Methodist Shaw Radford Norfolk State Winston-Salem State

Chapel Hill, N.C. Cary, N.C. Durham, N.C. Durham, N.C. Radford, Va. Norfolk, Va. Durham, N.C.

5 p.m. 1 p.m. 9 a.m. 2 p.m. 3 p.m. 12 p.m. 1 p.m.

April 2 2 9 10 11 14 16-18

Longwood Mount Olive UNC Wilmington Campbell North Carolina A&T Western Carolina Independent Tournament

Cary, N.C. Cary, N.C. Wilmington, N.C. Cary, N.C. Greensboro, N.C. Cullowhee, N.C. Farmville, Va.

9:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m. 3 p.m. 1 p.m. 1 p.m. 2 p.m. TBA

For updated schedule and results information, visit www.NCCUEaglePride.com.