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TTHEHE SSENIORSENIORS BBechardechard DDurlerurler On The Front Cover From Left to Right #3 Crista Bechard Senior Guard #25 Traci Keyser Junior Forward WWeisereiser 2011-12 Fort Hays State Quick Facts General Sports Information Team Information School Fort Hays State University Women’s Basketball Contact Doug Self 2010-11 Record 12-14 City/Zip Hays, Kansas 67601 Offi ce Phone (785) 628-5800 (Home: 10-4, Road: 2-10, Neutral: 1-1) Founded 1902 E-mail [email protected] 2010-11 Conference Record/Finish Enrollment 9,000 Sports Information Director Ryan Prickett 9-13 MIAA/9th Affi liation NCAA Division II SID Offi ce Phone (785) 628-5903 (Home: 7-4, Road: 2-9, Neutral: 0-0) Conference MIAA SID Fax (785) 628-4383 Starters Returning/Lost 2/3 Nickname Tigers Press Box Phone NA Letterwinners Returning/Lost 5/6 Colors Black & Gold Fort Hays State Athletics Website President Dr. Edward H. Hammond www.fhsuathletics.com Athletic Director Curtis Hammeke Home Court Gross Memorial Coliseum (6,814) Coaching Staff Surface Hardwood Head Coach Tony Hobson Ticket Offi ce Phone (785) 628-4050 Alma Mater, Year Hastings College, 1981 First Year of Basketball 1969-70 Record at FHSU (Years) Overall All-Time Record 664-434 (.605) 39-43/.476 (4th season) Years In NCAA Division II Tourn./Last 4-year College Career Record (Years) 1/2005 250-83/.751 (11th season) Last NCAA Tournament Opponent Total Collegiate Record (Years) North Dakota 452-149/.752 (20th season) Lost 56-87 (North Central Region - First Round) Best Time To Call Weekday Mornings TTABLEABLE OOFF CCONTENTSONTENTS FORT HAYS FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY STATE 2011-12 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL A MEMBER OF THE MID-AMERICA INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION COLISEUM AND THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION GROSS The Seniors/Quick Facts Inside Front Cover Review Table of Contents 1 2010-11 Season Review 34 2010-11 FHSU Final Statistics 35-38 Fort Hays State University About Fort Hays State University 2 The MIAA COACHES FHSU President - Dr. Edward H. Hammond 2 2010-11 MIAA Standings 40 FHSU Athletics Staff 3 2010-11 MIAA Postseason Results 40 Athletics Staff Directory 4 2010-11 All-MIAA Selections 40 Academic Majors at FHSU 4 2010-11 MIAA Individual Leaders 41 FHSU Athletic Facilities 5-6 2010-11 MIAA Team Leaders 42-43 About The MIAA 44 MIAA All-Time Champions 44 Gross Memorial Coliseum PLAYERS Gross Memorial Coliseum 8-10 MIAA Member Information 44 Game Time at Gross Memorial Coliseum 10 Records Coaches Game Records 46 Head Coach Tony Hobson 12-13 Season Records 47-48 Career Records 49-50 Assistant Coaches 14 OPPONENTS REVIEW THE MIAA RECORDS HISTORY Team Records 51-52 Players Yearly Leaders 53-54 2011-12 Roster 16 Pronunciation Guide 16 History 2011-12 Team Photo 17 FHSU Individual Honors 56-57 2011-12 Roster Breakdown 17 Conference Champions 57 2010-11 Outlook 18-19 FHSU All-Americans 57 Returning Player Profi les 20-23 History of Letterwinners 58 Newcomer Profi les 24-26 Coaching History 59 National Champions 59 Series Records 60 Opponents Season-By-Season Results 61-64 Oklahoma State (Exhibition) 28 FHSU Milestone Victories 64 St. Mary’s (Texas) 28 Tarleton State 28 Media Information Inside Back Cover Tabor College 28 FHSU Sports Information Inside Back Cover Central Christian (Kan.) 28 Northwest Oklahoma State 28 2011-12 Schedule Back Cover Bethel College 29 Lincoln 29 Credits Washburn 29 • The 2011-12 Fort Hays State University Women’s Missouri Western 29 Basketball Media Guide was written, edited and Nebraska-Kearney 29 designed by Doug Self, FHSU Sports Information Northwest Missouri State 29 Graduate Assistant. Doane College 30 • Guide also edited by Ryan Prickett, FHSU Sports Truman 30 Information Director. Central Missouri 30 • Outside covers were designed by Doug Self. Southwest Baptist 30 • Player and coach mugs, action photos, and campus Missouri Southern 30 photos are credited to Mitch Weber of FHSU CTELT. Pittsburg State 30 • Statistical research and historical research for the Emporia State 31 guide was conducted by Ryan Prickett, Doug Self, MIAA Opponent Series History 31-32 Jason McCullough, former FHSU Sports Information Director, Trent Smith and Lynn Womack, former sports information assistants, and Rich Topp. • The guide was printed by Fort Hays State University Printing Services. 11 FFORTORT HHAYSAYS SSTATETATE UUNIVERSITYNIVERSITY About Fort Hays State University Founded in 1902 on the plains of Western Kansas, Fort Hays State University is the second youngest of the state’s six universities. FHSU celebrated its centennial in 2002. From a humble but exciting beginning, when just two faculty members and a 19-course curriculum greeted 34 students, our university has grown to a faculty of nearly 300, a support staff of 250 and a student body of 9,000. The university now offers hundreds of courses in each of its four main colleges — Education, Arts and Sciences, Business and Leadership, and Health and Life Sciences — and the Graduate School. The FHSU Virtual College provides many of the courses through various media to sites across Kansas and beyond. FHSU is governed by a Board of Regents appointed by the governor of the state of Kansas. FHSU is located in Hays, the largest city in northwest Kansas. Hays began as a wild frontier town and has grown into a progressive community of about 20,000 people. The old and new blend beautifully to form a city that is small enough to be comfortable yet large enough to provide abundant cultural, commercial and entertainment opportunities. In 1996, Hays was recognized as an All-America City. The university sits on a campus of 4,160 acres of land that once was part of the historic Fort Hays frontier military post, and it recently expanded to include the relocated Sternberg Museum of Natural History on a site adjacent to Interstate 70 in northeast Hays. Big Creek, with its shady, grassy banks, meanders through the main campus, providing a tranquil learning atmosphere and serving as a natural laboratory for students in the biological sciences. With its stately limestone buildings and profuse fl owers, trees and shrubs, our campus has often been called the prettiest in Kansas. FHSU is academically superior to many comparable universities, offers students an electronic learning and living environment, and is richly endowed by heritage and tradition. Students come to our university for a multitude of reasons, but surveys show that their overwhelming reason is “the university’s reputation for academic excellence and its caring faculty.” The university supports one of the most extensive and successful intercollegiate sports programs of any comparably sized college or university in America, boasting numerous All-American athletes and national championships. More than 350 athletes compete annually in eight men’s and eight women’s sports. FHSU is a member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association, which comprises 10 schools from the states of Kansas and Missouri. The university also serves as the cultural center of western Kansas, featuring fi ne arts exhibitions, performing arts presentations by faculty, students and traveling professional troupes, and a Presidential Lecture Series. FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY Dr. Edward H. Hammond - Fort Hays State University President Dr. Edward H. Hammond is the eighth President of Fort Hays State University. A man of boundless enthusiasm and energy whose style is upbeat and progressive, Dr. Hammond was born in McAllen, Texas, but raised in the Kansas City area. Prior to his current post, President Hammond gained educational experiences and shared his expertise at the universities of Louisville, Seton Hall, Southern Illinois, Purdue, and Missouri-Columbia. The President holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Emporia State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia. President Hammond has been extremely active since assuming the leadership of the university in the summer of 1987. He laid the groundwork for a cooperative educational initiative between FHSU and the community colleges in western Kansas. He has watched his dream to totally computerize the campus become a reality and created an organization comprised of business and community leaders from 54 western Kansas counties and helped to establish scholarship programs for potential minority school teachers at Garden City and Liberal. Dr. Hammond has played a major role in furthering economic development in Hays and western Kansas and introduced a voice mail system that vaulted the foreign language efforts of FHSU into an elite class. He prompted the completion of the Beach/ Schmidt Performing Arts Center for the cultural development of the area and launched the expansion of Sternberg Museum to its new location on Interstate 70. He obtained federal and state funding for the university’s new $12 million science building and completed a $20 million capital campaign to raise private monies for the enhancement of many university programs. FHSUATHLETICS.COM President Hammond has been published widely and is in demand nationally as an educational consultant because of his expertise in risk management, staff and institutional liability, sexual harassment, and alcohol education issues. Hammond is married to the former Mary Sprenkel. Hammond has two daughters, Kelly and Julie, and one son, Lance. 22 FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FFORTORT HHAYSAYS SSTATETATE ATHLETICSATHLETICS STAFFSTAFF FORT HAYS Curtis Hammeke - Athletic Director Carolyn Bird - Associate Athletic Director/ Curtis Hammeke was named the Director of Athletics at Fort Hays Senior Women’s Administrator STATE State University on May 20, 2004. Carolyn Bird is in her 21st year at Fort Hays State University as Hammeke is in his second stint as an administrator at FHSU. Associate Athletic Director and Senior Women’s Administrator. He served as the Head Baseball Coach and Assistant Director of Bird is also the head of NCAA Compliance and all student-athlete Athletics from 1991-1996.