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Table of Contents 2003-04 Quick Facts Table of Contents Media Information School Information Sports Information Department Location . Fort Worth, Texas 03-04 Ram Basketball Founded . 1890 Coaching Staff . 2 The Texas Wesleyan Sports Information Department is located in the second floor of the Enrollment . 2,900 Season Preview. 3 Nickname . Rams, Lady Rams Sid Richardson Center, which is on Collard Street Colors . Blue and Gold Roster Breakdown . 4 between Rosedale Avenue and Vickery Street. Facility . Sid Richardson Gymnasium (2,500) Meet the Rams . 5-7 Affiliation . NAIA Division I 02-03 Recap . 8 Best Time to Reach Coaches Conference . Red River Red River Athletic Conference . 9 Coach Waldrop and Coach Francis can generally Administration Record Book . 10-12 be reached in the morning from 10 to 12. All President. Dr. Harold Jeffcoat All-time vs. Opponents. 13 interviews should be coordinated through the Director of Athletics . Terry Waldrop All-time Roster . 14 Sports Information Department. Assistant Athletics Director . Kevin Millikan 03-04 Opponent Quick Facts . 15 Faculty Athletics Representative. Pam Rast Interview Policy Media interviews of athletes and coaches are Coaching Staff encouraged, and every effort will be made to Men Head Coach . Terry Waldrop accommodate requests. In-person interviews are Alma Mater . Louisiana-Monroe `86 preferred, but telephone interviews can be Record at Wesleyan. 75-69 (5) arranged through the Texas Wesleyan Sports Career Record. same Information Office. Under no circumstances will Office Phone . (817) 531-4851 student-athletes’ residence numbers be supplied to E-mail . [email protected] the media. Assistant Coach . Brennen Shingleton Alma Mater. SE Louisiana ‘99 On the World Wide Web Office Phone . (817) 531-4212 Volunteer Assistant . Talvin Hester Roster information, complete schedules and Alma Mater . Texas Wesleyan `03 results are available on the athletics Website at Office Phone . (817) 531-5843 www.ramsports.net. All game releases are posted Women Texas Wesleyan Supporters . 16 as soon as possible after the conclusion of each Head Coach. Stacy Francis Message from the President . 17 event. Alma Mater . TCU `98 Message from the A.D. 18 Record at Wesleyan. 14-43 (2) Career Record. same Office Phone . (817) 531-6599 03-04 Lady Ram Basketball E-mail . [email protected] Assistant Coach. Ashanti Nix Coaching Staff . 19 Alma Mater . TCU `03 Season Preview. 20 Office Phone . (817) 531-6599 Roster Breakdown . 21 Team Information Meet the Lady Rams . 22-24 Men 02-03 Recap . 25 Overall/Conference Record . 22-12/13-7 Red River Athletic Conference . 26 Starters Returning/Lost . 2/3 Record Book . 27-29 Letterwinners Returning/Lost . 5/6 Women All-time vs. Opponents. 30 Overall/Conference Record . 13-19/7-12 Sid Richardson Center . 30 Starters Returning/Lost . 5/0 All-time Roster . 31 Letterwinners Returning/Lost . 5/6 03-04 Opponent Quick Facts . 32 History Men First Year of Basketball . 1935 Media Outlets All-time Record. 958-870 Conference Championships . 14 Fort Worth Star-Telegram All-time Postseason Record . 9-21 Tracey Meyers. (817) 548-5481 Women Dallas Morning News First Year of Basketball . 1970 Bob Yates. (214) 977-8260 All-time Record. 456-501 Credits Conference Championships . 4 Arlington Star-Telegram The 2003-04 Texas Wesleyan basketball All-time Postseason Record . 21-23 Rick Mauch . (817) 548-5479 media guide is a production of the Texas Arlington Morning News Wesleyan Sports Information Office. The book Sports Information Cameron Maun . (817) 695-0330 was written and edited by Logan Lawrence. Editorial assistance was provided by Richard Sports Information Director. Logan Lawrence WFAA-TV (ABC) Lind. Layout and design by Logan Lawrence. Office Phone . (817) 531-4855 George Riba. (214) 977-6585 Home Phone. (817) 263-7293 Covers by Logan Lawrence. Contributing pho- Cell Phone . (817) 980-5401 KDFW-TV (Fox) tographers include Logan Lawrence, Jose Valdez, E-mail . [email protected] Mike Doocy. (817) 654-4000 Richard Lind, Tarantula Train Company and the Fax . (817) 531-4208 KTVT-TV (CBS) . (817) 451-1111 Fort Worth Convention and Visitors Bureau. The Website . www.ramsports.net KXAS-TV (NBC) book was printed by MultiAd Sports, Peoria, Ill. Newy Scruggs . (817) 429-5555 1 Coaching Staff Terry WALDROP Top-10 ranked College of Charleston, snapping Waldrop’s Career Record the nation's longest winning streak. Sixth Season Terry began his collegiate coaching career in Louisiana-Monroe, `86 Texas at Navarro Junior College in Corsicana. He Overall Conference was an assistant for the widely-respected Coach Year W L Pct. W L Pct. T erry Waldrop begins Lewis Orr, (a Texas Wesleyan alum) where he 98-99 9 17 .346 5 5 .500 his sixth season as head bas- helped bring in three All-America players, two of 99-00 15 12 .556 5 5 .500 ketball coach and second as whom went on to play in the N.B.A. Ruben 00-01 8 19 .296 2 2 .500 Director of Athletics for Garces led Providence to the Elite Eight and later 01-02 21 9 .700 --- --- --- Texas Wesleyan. During his played for the Phoenix Suns, while Corey Brewer 02-03 22 12 .647 13 7 .650 tenure, he has developed Ram basketball into a was honored as the Big 12 Player of the Year at Totals 75 69 .521 25 19 .568 highly competitive program at every level, Oklahoma and become a first-round draft choice improving the quality of play, opponents, recruit- of the Miami Heat. Rico Grant would lead ing and national perception of the program. Southeastern Louisiana to a Conference Last season, the Rams finished the season 22- Championship a year later. 12 for the second consecutive 20-win season. The Terry took his first head coaching position at squad included 6-10, Honorable-Mention All- Sterlington High School where he posted back-to- American, David Johnson, who was among the back 20-win seasons with the Panthers. Terry leaders nationally in block shots with 156. began his coaching career at West Monroe High In the 2001-02 season, Terry led the Rams to a School in Louisiana, serving as an assistant for 21-9 finish with a 10-1 home record - Wesleyan's Sidney Smith. While at West Monroe, Waldrop all-time best home winning percentage. It was helped guide the Rebels to several USA Today also the first 20+ win season for a Wesleyan team Top-25 rankings, and two regional finals appear- in over a decade. The Rams finished the year in ances. the USCAA National Tournament in Detroit, Waldrop is a 1986 graduate of the University advancing to the Elite Eight. The Rams went in of Louisiana-Monroe with a B.S. in Kinesiology. as a No. 2 seed after holding theNo. 2 national He has a Masters Degree in Sport Management ranking most of the season. from the United States Sports Academy in In his second season, Terry led the then- Mobile, Alabama and is currently completing his NCAA division II Rams to a 15-victory season Ph. D. in Higher Education from Capella and the best winning percentage at Wesleyan in University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. more than a decade. The Rams continued their Terry is a native of Louisiana, growing up in climb in the Division II hierarchy by pulling off the North Louisiana city of Monroe. Waldrop stunning road victories over nationally ranked attended East Union in Marion, Louisiana and teams, including Lincoln and Tarleton State. graduated from Ouachita Parish High School in Prior to joining Wesleyan, Terry was an assis- 1981. He is married to Nicole, who teaches at tant to John Lyles at Southeastern Louisiana Fielder Road Baptist Church Early Childhood University, an NCAA Division I program, on the Education Center, and they are the parents of north shore of New Orleans. During his five sea- three children, Cody (15), Allyson (6) and sons with the Lions, SLU won a Trans-America Michael (4). The family resides in nearby Terry Waldrop has led the Rams to back-to-back 20-win season Athletic Conference Championship, had two Arlington. for the first time since the 1940-41 season. Waldrop is only 25 nationally-rated recruiting classes, and defeated victories away from reaching the 100-mark for his career. Brennen Talvin Aaron SHINGLETON HESTER WHALEY Assistant Coach Volunteer Assistant Coach Junior Varsity Coach Second Season First Season First Season SE Louisiana, `99 Texas Wesleyan, `03 Texas Wesleyan, `03 Brennen Shingleton is a native Talvin Hester begins his first Aaron Whaley begins his first of Fort Worth and is renewing a relationship with season as volunteer assistant coach and athletic dorm season as head JV coach for the Rams, after spend- head coach Terry Waldrop that began when Terry supervisor for the Rams. Hester, a native of ing the last three season as a starting guard for Texas recruited him out of Boswell High School. Arlington, attended Sam Houston High School and Wesleyan. Brennen would eventually join Terry at SE Texas Christian Academy where he competed in bas- Whaley helped lead the Rams to the USCAA Louisiana, and in their first season together they won ketball. While at TCA, Hester was named second- Elite Eight his junior season. Whaley started every a Trans-America Athletic Championship. Prior to team all-state his senior season. game for the Rams the last two seasons and led the that, Brennen helped lead Lon Morris Junior College Hester went on to play collegiately at Dallas team in assists and three-point accuracy. He also led to a Texas Eastern Conference Championship in his Christian College for one season, before joining the the conference in three-point shooting and was only season with the Bearcats. coaching ranks. He was an assistant coach at named honorable mention all-conference in the Shingleton graduated from SE Louisiana with a Northlake College in 2002-03.