TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
LEXINGTON, KY
NCAA DIVISION III
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NCAA DIVISION III LEXINGTON, KY TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
Transylvania
WELCOME TO
President Seamus Carey
As a former college athlete, I understand the value of participating in competitive athletics while pursuing a degree at an institution that embraces academic rigor. The things you learn about yourself and the principles of discipline, teamwork, commitment and resilience will gird you for a lifetime of challenges. You’ll also make lifelong friends and find valuable mentors among your coaches and the athletics staff. As a member of NCAA Division III, Transylvania is committed to the student-athlete ideal. In fact, 41 percent of our students participate in our 26 intercollegiate teams. We challenge our student-athletes to demonstrate high standards of character and achievement both in the classroom and on the field. Since Transylvania’s transition to the NCAA in 2001, the Pioneers have earned 48 conference championships, more than 30 NCAA tournament appearances, 47 Coach of the Year awards and 47 All-American athlete awards.
Transylvania occupies a unique and historic position in American higher education. Founded in 1780 as the first college west of the Allegheny Mountains, Transylvania was a pioneer in bringing the light of learning to what was then the nation’s frontier. Today, the university is a highly regarded liberal arts college with a reputation for the quality of our academics and the personal approach we bring to teaching and learning. With 40 majors and a number of pre-professional programs, Transylvania offers excellent preparation for graduate and professional school as well as a variety of careers immediately following graduation. Our athletic teams are called the Pioneers, and that’s not only a tribute to our honored past—it’s a way of thinking that pervades our vision of the future. Our liberal arts program emphasizes questioning and creative thinking, and that’s what leads to pioneering discoveries and notable contributions to society. Couple that with athletic competition and community spirit is amplified. We hope you’ll join us as we enthusiastically support our student-athletes—our Pioneers and the community’s future leaders.
Seamus Carey President Transylvania University
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General Information
QUICK FACTS
The 2016-17 women’s basketball media guide was designed and compiled by Sports Information Director Justin Sweeney and Assistant Director of Sports Information Neal Settle
Season Outlook and Review
2015-16 Record....................................................................19-8 2015-16 HCAC Record.......................................................14-4 Lettermen Returning................................................................9 Lettermen Lost..........................................................................8 Newcomers.................................................................................6 Starters Returning/Lost........................................................9/3
Student-athletes are representative of the general student population and are afforded similar opportunities and treatment. Programs, staff and facilities reflect the excellence of the institution and contribute to the quality of campus life.
Women’s Basketball Staff
Head Coach..................................................................Juli Fulks Record.............................................................................202-115 HCAC Record......................................................................32-4 Assistant Coaches.........................Jim Bray, Maggie Prewitt, Loren Bewley, Tim Whitesel Strength and Conditioning....................................Mike Caro WBBall Office Phone......................................(859)-233-8267 Twitter........................................................................@TUWBX
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Credits
The Department of Athletics provides equitable opportunities and support for male and female students to participate in intercollegiate athletics and to compete successfully in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference, Ohio Athletic Conference, Ohio River Lacrosse Conference and Southern Athletics Association. All activities hold paramount the academic, personal and physical welfare of the student-athlete and emphasize physical fitness, self-discipline, teamwork, leadership and the highest standards of ethics, sportsmanship and personal performance.
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Senior Associate AD.................................... Mary Struckhoff Asst. AD of Compliance........................................Keith Cecil Assist. AD of Marketing...................................Kyle Dunaway Executive Assistant.......................................Parviz Zartoshty Sports Information Director..........................Justin Sweeney Asst. Director of Sports Information...................Neal Settle Faculty Athletics Representative...........................Judy Jones Athletics Secretary....................................Diana Whitehouse Title IX Coordinator.........................Ashley Hinton-Moncer
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Location...............................................................Lexington, Ky. Founded................................................................................1780 Affiliation....................................................NCAA Division III Conference.................................................Heartland (HCAC) Colors........................................................Crimson and White Mascot...........................................................................Pioneers President.......................................................Dr. Seamus Carey Vice President of Athletics.........................Dr. Holly Sheilley Athletics Secretary....................................Diana Whitehouse Athletic Department Phone............................(859)233-8270 Athletics Mission Statement Address...................300 N. Broadway, Lexington, Ky. 40508 The Transylvania intercollegiate athletics program is Website.................................................www.transysports.com integral to the university’s educational mission and operates under the principles of amateur athletics and fair play, as established by the National Collegiate Athletic Athletic Administration Vice President of Athletics.........................Dr. Holly Sheilley Association (NCAA) Division III.
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STAND OUT Hone your critical thinking and writing skills—abilities employers and grad schools prize—and challenge your mind and imagination through a liberal arts education.
GET PREPPED Immerse yourself in a supportive community, intimate enough for professors to really know you, with peers who believe you’re capable of more than you ever dreamed.
LIVE BIG
CONNECT FOREVER
Make the most of living and learning in the heart of Lexington, a friendly and creative city, with easy access to internships, jobs and infinite opportunities to build your future.
Become a part of the large and welcoming Transylvania network where lifetime friendships are made and career networking opportunities thrive.
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BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE OFFERED IN: Accounting Anthropology Art Art History Biology Biology: Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Track Biology: Molecular and Cellular Biology Track Business Administration Chemistry Chemistry: Biochemistry Track Classics Computer Science Economics Edu. Elementary: P-5 Edu. Middle Grades: 5-9 Educational Studies English Exercise Science French Language and Literature German Studies
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PREPROFESSIONAL PREPARATION IN: Health Professions: dentistry, medicine, occupational therapy, optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy, veterinary medicine Engineering Law Ministry
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L exington WELCOME TO
Transylvania University is in the heart of downtown Lexington, a city with all the excitement and entertainment of a
bustling metropolis while maintaining a small-town feel. Located in the heart of the Bluegrass regions and the second largest city in Kentucky, Lexington features something for everyone to enjoy, whether it’s Third Street Stuff, recently voted the best coffee shop in Kentucky, right around the corner from campus, the Lexington Farmer’s Market; Thursday Night Live featuring local bands and vendors at the 5/3 Pavilion; a concert or basketball game at the world famous Rupp Arena; a day at the track in the horse capital of the world at Keeneland; or a hike at Raven’s Run Nature Preserve.
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TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
LEXINGTON, KY
NCAA DIVISION III
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LEXINGTON,KY KY NCAA NCAADIVISION DIVISIONIII III LEXINGTON, TRANSYLVANIAUNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY TRANSYLVANIA
Transylvania has enjoyed more than a decade of success since joining the NCAA Division III in 2004. The athletics community has excelled both on and off the field, with student-athletes thriving in the classroom and in competition.
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Transylvania’s athletic training staff strives to provide the highest quality healthcare to its student-athletes. The Certified Athletic Trainers are highly qualified and trained medical professionals with diverse educational backgrounds and experiences.
Transylvania has two athletic training rooms for its student-athletes. The main athletic training room is on the performance floor of the Beck Center with the secondary training room located in the field house at the Athletics Complex and both are open daily. Each training room is equipped with state-of-the-art injury prevention and rehabilitation equipment.
Libby Cole begins her third year with the Transylvania sports medicine staff in 2016-17 after two years at Division I Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. At Wright State, Cole worked as a graduate assistant and certified athletic trainer. She received her Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training from Miami (Ohio) University before earning a masters degree in physical education and sports management from Wright State.
KYLE SUTTON ASST. ATHLETIC TRAINER
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Transylvania partners with Lexington Clinic Sports Medicine Center to provide our student-athlete healthcare. Lexington Clinic orthopedic surgeons David Dome, Peter Hester, Ben Kibler and Trevor Wilkes serve as team doctors for the university and make weekly campus visits, eliminating the need to travel off-campus.
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The sports medicine staff is fully accredited by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Board of Certification and the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The staff specializes in the prevention, assessment and rehabilitation of injuries to our student-athletes. Athletic trainers have been recognized by the American Medical Association as allied healthcare professionals since 1990.
Nick Reuss begins his sixth year with the Transylvania sports medcine staff and his first as Head Athletic Trainer for the 201617 season. Reuss joined the Transylvania sports medicine staff in 2011. He holds a Master of Science in recreation and sport sciences from Ohio University and a Bachelor of Science in athletic training from Ohio University. He is a member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association and is certified by the Kinesio Taping Association as a Kinesio Taping Practitioner.
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Sports Medicine
NICK REUSS HEAD ATHLETIC TRAINER
Kyle Sutton joined the Transylvania Athletics Sports Medicine Staff as Assistant Athletic Trainer in 2016. Sutton brings over seven years of experience in athletic training to his role at Transylvania. Sutton has previously worked at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Lexington as Head Athletic Trainer from 2015-16 and as Head Athletic Trainer at Westerville Central High School from 2008-15. Sutton received a Master of Science in Applied Exercise Science from Oklahoma State University in 2008 and a Bachelor of Science in Allied Medical Professions from The Ohio State University in 2006.
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Head Coach
Juli Fulks enters her third season as head coach of the Transylvania women’s basketball team.
TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
LEXINGTON, KY
NCAA DIVISION III
Juli Fulks
Pioneers Coaching Staff
Fulks’s track record of leading and winning has spanned multiple stops, with the latest tradition of excellence blooming in Lexington with the Pioneers women’s basketball program.
Fulks comes to Lexington from Portland, Oregon where she served for 10 years as the head coach at NCAA Division III Lewis & Clark College, one of the Top 75 National Liberal Arts Colleges in the country. Fulks took over at Lewis & Clark prior to the 200405 season, inheriting a team that posted a 1-15 conference record. In her first season at the helm, Fulks led her team to an 8-8 record in Northwest Conference play and a 12-12 overall mark in one of the 20 most-improved seasons in the nation. Under Fulks’ guidance, Lewis & Clark found its place atop the USA Today Top-25 rankings each of the past three years, ranking as high as fifth nationally in 2013 on the way to a 25-4 season.
Following the 2011 season, Fulks was named NWC Coach of the Year while player Kristina Williams Fulks took the Pioneers to new heights in her first year, guiding the team to its highest national ranking earned NWC Player of the Year honors. Fulks’s Pioneer squad grew in success, recording threein school history at 13th. Transy posted a record of straight NCAA tournament appearances, three 25-3 overall and a perfect 18-0 record in Heartland Conference play to become the first undefeated team 20-win seasons, and two Northwest Conference in HCAC history, earning the regular season confer- Championships. ence championship and an at-large bid to the NCAA Prior to her tenure at Lewis & Clark, Fulks served Division III Tournament. as an assistant coach at Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference member institution, Defiance ColFulks surpassed the 200 career win mark on Februlege. In her first season at Defiance, Fulks helped ary 13, 2016 with a 75-67 victory against Defiance. improve the Yellow Jackets to a 20-7 record while ranking in the nation’s top 10 in field goal and free The Pioneers ranked near the top of the country throw shooting percentage. in a number of statisitcal categories in Fulks’s first year, including rebounding margin (3rd) and field A native of Dola, Ohio, Fulks was a member of the goal percentage (5th). Transylvania also rattled off 1997 Capital University team that reached the Final 17 consecutive wins from December 30- February 28, surpassing the program record of 13 consecutive Four after winning the Ohio Athletic Conference title. After graduating with a degree in biology, she wins set in 2002-03. later earned a master’s in education from Defiance. Fulks remains the all-time leading scorer at Hardin Northern High School with more than 1,600 career points. 10
Alongside Fulks at both Lewis & Clark and Transylvania, Bray has been part of some of the most successful seasons at both programs; Transylvania won the HCAC Conference crown in 2014-15, while the Lewis & Clark Pioneers won the Northwest Conference regular season title in 2012-2013.
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include all-Freshman team qualifier selection Kristen Hayes, Celia Kline, the leading freshman in 3-point percentage in 2016, and all-Northwest conference team selection Ayisat Afolabi at Lewis & Clark.
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Bray was part of a coaching staff that presided over the winningest era in Lewis & Clark women’s basketball history, which included two conference titles, three NCAA Division III tournament appearances, and three consecutive seasons of being nationally ranked in the D3hoops.com and WBCA Top 25 polls.
Jim Bray
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Jim Bray enters his third year as an assistant coach with the Transylvania women’s basketball team and his fifth year as an assistant coach under Juli Fulks. Bray came to Transylvania in the summer of 2014 from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where he served as an assistant women’s basketball coach under Fulks for the prior two seasons.
Bray also serves as an assistant baseball coach for the Pioneers baseball program, specializing in recruiting, hitting, and player development.
Maggie Prewitt is in her third year with Transylvania, serving as an assistant coach for the women’s basketball program. Prewitt, a 2012 Centre College graduate, had a decorated playing career, win which she was named 2009 SCAC Newcomer of the Year, 2010 SCAC First Team, two-time SCAC Player of the Year (2011, 2012), South Region Player of the Year and a D3hoops.com First Team All-American (2012).
Maggie Prewitt
Prior to joining the Transylvania staff, Prewitt worked as the head coach for the middle school and freshmen women’s basketball teams in the Bath County School District, and an assistant coach for the JV and varsity women’s basketball teams.
In the summer of 2015, Prewitt joined a select number of elite women’s assistants from across the country as part of the Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Association Leadership Workshop hosted by the United States Marine Corps.
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Prewitt also previously worked as a substitute teach- Prewitt earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a minor in Spanish from Centre. er alongside her coaching duties for Bath County. 11
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As part of the Transylvania coaching staff, Bray plays a key role in recruiting future Pioneers. Standout players at Transylvania during Bray’s tenure
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LEXINGTON, KY
NCAA DIVISION III
Pioneers Coaching Staff
Loren Bewley Assistant Coach
Loren Bewley begins her third season as a volunteer assistant to the women’s basketball team in 2016-17. Bewley, a 2009 Transylvania alumni, received her Master of science from Eastern Kentucky University in 2014. During her time at Transy from 2005-2009, Bewley was a four-year member of the softball team and a three-year member of the women’s basketball program. After graduating, Bewley held a number of assistant coaching positions prior to joining the Pioneers, including stints at West Jessamine Middle School, West Jessamine High School and The Lexington School. She received a bachelor of arts in Psychology and a minor in exercise science from Transylvania before earning her MS in physical education with a concentration in sports administration from EKU.
Tim Whitesel Assistant Coach Tim Whitesel begins his third season as an assistant coach with the Pioneers staff and continues his tenure as a longtime assistant under Juli Fulks dating back to their coaching days at Lewis & Clark College. Prior to joining the TU staff, Whitesel served as an Associate Head Coach for the women’s basketball program at Lewis & Clark College for 10 years. While at Lewis & Clark, the Pioneers won the Northwest Conference regular season title twice and advanced to the NCAA tournament three times. Before his time as an assistant at Lewis & Clark, Whitesel was the Girls Basketball Head Coach at Sunset High School in Portland, Oregon, and coached collegiate men’s basketball at Concordia University (Oregon) and Eastern Oregon University. A native of Fredonia, New York, Whitesel earned his B.S. in Biology and B.A. in Philosophy from State University of New York, College at Fredonia. and later obtained graduated with his M.S. in Zoology and later his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences. Tim also works as a Fisheries Scientist for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and serves as an Adjunct Professor for Portland State University’s Department of Biology. 12
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2016-2017 Women’s Basketball Roster
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3 Macey Ford Guard Sophomore 5-6 Florence, Ky. / Boone County 5 Taylor Jackson Guard Sophomore 5-7 Louisville, Ky. / Male 11 Brooklyn Greer Guard Freshman 5-9 Bardstown, Ky. / Nelson Co. 12 Celia Kline Guard Sophomore 5-4 Madeira, Ohio / Madeira 14 Shelby Boyle Guard Freshman 5-10 Morgantown, W. Va. / Morgantown 21 Ashton Woodard Guard Freshman 5-9 Mt. Sterling, Ky. / Menifee Co. 22 Jenna Carothers Forward Freshman 5-11 Walton, Ky. / Ryle 23 Kristen Hayes Point Guard Sophomore 5-10 Berea, Ky. / Madison Southern 24 Carlee Clemons Forward Junior 6-0 Burlington, Ky. / Notre Dame Academy 30 Rachel Cox Forward Junior 6-0 Independence, Ky. / Simon Kenton 31 Kailey Price Guard Freshman 5-11 Greenville, Ind. / Floyd Central 33 Sarah Ashley Guard Junior 5-7 Corbin, Ky. / Corbin 35 Kerigan Davis Guard/Forward Sophomore 5-9 Richmond, Ky. / Henry Clay 44 Caroline Clevenger Forward Sophomore 5-10 Louisa, Ky. / Lawrence Co. 54 Taylor Gray Center Freshman 6-2 Cadiz, Ky. / Trigg Co.
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