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march 12 august 28 men’s basketball Women’s soccer Lehigh defeats Lafayette 74-59 at Stabler Lehigh opens its season and kicks-off the Arena to win Patriot League Championship and athletics year with a 3-1 win over Big XII automatic berth to NCAA tournament member Nebraska march 13 september 26 Women’s basketball Volleyball Lehigh downs American 58-42 at Stabler Lehigh stuns Patriot League power American Arena to win second straight Patriot League 3-1 on the way to its first Patriot League tournament title tournament appearance since 2003 march 20 october 4 Wrestling Women’s golf Zach Rey ’12 earns Lehigh’s first All-American Livia Amado ’10 finishes second at ECAC medal in four years with a third place finish at Championships as Mountain Hawks tie for heavyweight at NCAA Championships second as a team april 11 october 24 baseball field hockey Greg Angelo ’10 throws no-hitter in first game Behind three goals from Kim Eng ’13, Lehigh of doubleheader as Lehigh completes four- defeats Holy Cross 3-2 and qualifies for the game sweep of Lafayette Patriot League tournament april 17 roWing Lehigh crews win seven of 12 races to defeat Lafayette and retain the River Cup april 24 Women’s lacrosse Mountain Hawks defeat Colgate 15-12 to capture first Patriot League regular season championship since 1994 softball Head coach Fran Troyan picks up his 500th career victory as Lehigh defeats Bucknell 9-1 in game one of a doubleheader lehigh athletics men’s lacrosse Lehigh ends its season with back-to-back 2009–10 annual report wins over nationally ranked opponents, after october 31 downing Lafayette 10-9 in overtime Women’s cross country Katherine Pierce ’12 leads Lehigh with a april 25 third-place individual finish at the Patriot men’s golf League Championships Steve Suarez ’10 finishes second individually at Patriot League Championship and is later noVember 6 named Men’s Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year men’s soccer Adam Welch ’10 heads in game-winning goal april 30 at Bucknell to propel Mountain Hawks into Patriot League tournament Women’s track and field Ashlee Atwell ’10 wins Patriot League noVember 14 Championship in the women’s pole vault men’s cross country may 4 Evans Kosgei ‘10 finishes 17th at NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional meet to earn Lehigh’s men’s tennis highest-ever finish at Regionals Troy List ’11 becomes Lehigh’s first-ever Patriot League Player of the Year in men’s tennis noVember 21 may 5 football Interception by Al Pierce ’10 in overtime Women’s tennis clinches Lehigh’s second-straight win over Julie Arthofer ’10 named All-Patriot League for Lafayette, 27-21 the fourth time and earns Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors as well January 23 may 15 men’s sWimming and diVing Lehigh upsets Bucknell on Senior Day to cap men’s track and field 9-1 dual meet season Khalil Uqdah ’10 wins second career IC4A title in the pole vault february 20 lehigh athletics Women’sW s imming and diVing 641 taylor street Allison Rolish ’11 sets four school records bethlehem, PA 18015 at Patriot League Championships, earning lehighsports.com second team All-League honors contents lehigh on teleVision lehigh on tWitter 1 A Message froM Last year Lehigh produced and For results of Lehigh games, and the televised more than 30 events in the latest breaking news for all Lehigh the Dean of athletics Lehigh Valley, covering football, men’s teams, follow Lehigh Athletics on ChaMpions and women’s basketball and wrestling. Twitter at twitter.com/Lehighsports. engaging Lehigh has continued to partner 4 in the classrooM with Service Electric Cable TV, the lehigh tickets area’s largest cable provider to televise Purchase tickets to any Lehigh Athletics 6 in coMpetition all home football games, plus select event by contacting the Lehigh Ticket basketball games, wrestling matches Office, located in Grace Hall. Call 10 in the coMMunity the neW lehighsports.com Lehigh partnered with AmericanEagle. and several other contests. Regionally, 610-7LU-GAME or buy your tickets 12 coaching accolaDes com – Lehigh’s web site host for Lehigh partnered with WFMZ-TV online at Lehighsports.com! almost seven years – to re-design and in Allentown to produce and televise 14 Hall of faMe inDuction re-launch Lehigh’s official athletics web three football games and one wrestling lehigh merchandise match plus 13 episodes of the Lehigh 18 new faces site, Lehighsports.com. The all-new Order all your favorite Lehigh Athletics site includes a ton of new features, plus Sports Magazine. Nationally, Lehigh gear at the official Lehighsports.com 21 CaMpus athletics all the information you would expect events were televised on CBS, CBS on-line store, located at Lehighsports. in a neatly organized, easy-to-navigate College Sports, ESPN2, Fox Sports com/store. The on-line store features 22 your iMpact manner. Among the new features are Net and Fox College Sports. sport specific apparel including front-and-center multimedia content, sweatshirts, t-shirts, hats, shorts and 25 honor roll larger photos of Lehigh teams and lehigh on the radio more, plus new items are being added student-athletes, a whole new Campus Lehigh football can be heard on all the time. Athletics section, and the integration commercial radio exclusively on the of StablerArena.com. Lehighsports. home of Lehigh Athletics, ESPN lehigh photo store com remains the place to go for the Radio of the Lehigh Valley (1230 Lehigh Athletics has partnered with latest information on all Varsity sports, and 1320 AM). ESPN Radio also Replay Photo to re-launch its on- including news, schedule and roster broadcasts exclusive coverage of every line photo store. Fans, family and information, and stats. The new site Lehigh men’s basketball game, nearly friends can search the store and still has easy access to browse the latest all Lehigh wrestling dual meets, and purchase photos in a variety of sizes, Lehigh gear, purchase tickets for the up to ten Lehigh women’s basketball and even have them framed. New upcoming game, and support the games. All Lehigh women’s basketball photos are added periodically plus Athletics Partnership. games can be heard live on WLVR- archived photos of past Lehigh teams FM, Lehigh University’s radio station. are also available for purchase. Visit lehigh on the Web Select wrestling matches, baseball and Replayphotos.com/lehighphotostore The Patriot League’s annual leader in softball games will air on WLVR as for more information. on-line broadcasts, Lehigh will stream well. over 200 events on the Athletics lehigh camps and clinics web site, including every football lehigh on facebook Each summer, Lehigh Athletics offers and basketball game, every wrestling Lehigh students, alumni, fans and close to 50 summer camps in over 19 dual meet, and most home contests friends are encouraged to become a different sport programs. Camps are for men’s and women’s soccer, field fan of Lehigh Athletics on Facebook. available for various sports in a variety hockey, volleyball, men’s and women’s Fans can get the latest news on all 25 of age groups for beginner to elite swimming & diving, baseball, softball, varsity sports, watch the latest videos, skill levels. Lehigh teams also offer and men’s and women’s lacrosse. For upload photos and interact with other clinics throughout the year. For more the 2010-11 school year, Lehigh has Lehigh fans. Visit www.facebook.com/ information visit Lehighsports.com/ partnered with Stretch Internet to LehighAthletics and become a fan info/camps. offer GameCentral - an exciting new today. product featuring live streaming audio, high quality Flash video, live stats, fan interaction, and more. Athletics programming (Club sports, IMs, and a Message froM Recreation) also reflected an all-time high level of participation and achievement. The Dean of aThleTics Our alumni have also answered the call to action. Sport-specific alumni partnership Joe Sterrett ’76, Murray H. GoodMan dean of atHleticS organizations have taken a strong foothold and are beginning to function in ways that enrich the experience for student-athletes Athletics Partners, and for the alumni that become engaged. The sport-specific partnerships that have been Though it seems a long time ago now, the formed have “raised the bar” in terms of 2009-10 academic and athletic year for Lehigh alumni involvement with, and support for, was one worthy of remembering, and even our programs and have provided significantly more importantly, it was a year to build upon increased opportunities for alumni to re-engage in so many ways. with Lehigh. These successes are owed fully to Our teams achieved competitive success strong alumni leadership and an enhanced level in terms of the aggregate winning percentage of awareness about the importance to program at the highest rate in the past twenty years. successes of growing alumni participation levels Led by league championships and NCAA in annual support. Tournament appearances in men’s and Challenges remain, of course. There is a women’s basketball, 16 Lehigh teams finished lot of financial pressure for all of us which in the top half of the league and seven teams makes ever more important the focus we place participated in NCAA championship on prioritizing and managing carefully and competition. Ten of our student-athletes creatively. Many traditional revenue streams and two of our coaches were honored with (ticket sales, corporate support, camps income) major (“player of the year/coach of the year”) are comparatively depressed from their highest awards. Six of those ten student-athlete award (or even normal) levels. With more than half honorees return to our teams, so there is a great of every dollar spent on direct expenses coming foundation for continued competitive success.