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June 2003 – Issue 2 Non Profit Org. High Point University US Postage 833 Montlieu Avenue PAID High Point, NC 27262 Mailed From Zip 30340 Permit# 6849 Newsletter for Friends of the High Point University Department of Athletics www.highpointpanthers.com Men's Basketball Signs Six MEET BASKETBALL COACH BART LUNDY Jerald Minnis Bart Lundy is High Point University's 10th head men's 6-7, 215, forward Miami, F.L./ Miami Senior basketball coach. Lundy succeeds Jerry Steele, who retired The reigning Miami-Dade County Player of the Year and a March 28 after 31 seasons at High Point. second-team All-State selection after averaging 18.6 points and 10.0 rebounds per game during his senior season...played at one of the top high school programs in the country which produced Lundy comes to High Point after five highly-successful seasons former Florida standout Udonis Haslem and former Maryland as the head coach at Queens University of Charlotte,where he led star Steve Blake. the Royals to a 115-39 record and a pair of NCAA Division II Landon Quick Elite Eight appearances, including a trip to the Final Four in 6-1, 175, guard High Point, N.C./Southwest Guilford 2003. The reigning Piedmont Triad Class 3A Player of the Year and a Bart Lundy finalist for North Carolina's Mr. Basketball award in 2003... "I’m thrilled to have Bart Lundy as our next men’s basketball honorable mention All-State selection, two-time All-Guilford County, three-time All-Conference and two-time High Point coach," High Point director of athletics Dr.Woody Gibson said. "He’s compiled a great record over the Enterprise Player of the Year... averaged 16.1 points, 6.1 assists, past five years at Queens University, and I expect that he will bring a great deal of excitement and 6.0 rebounds and 2.8 steals his senior year... the school's career leader in assists (742) and steals (500)... blocked 21 shots last success to our men’s basketball program." season...three career triple-doubles...selected to play in the 2003 North Carolina-South Carolina All-Star Classic and the 2003 Queens won the Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference (CVAC) in four of Lundy's five seasons on the North Carolina East-West All-Star Game. bench, and finished the season ranked in the Top 10 in three of Lundy's five years there (including a Dwayne Martin No.3 ranking in 2003). 6-7, 245, forward/center Greensboro, N.C./Western Guilford Averaged 13.0 points and 8.5 rebounds and earned All- Under Lundy, the Royals shattered the school record for victories three times (including a 29-4 mark Conference honors his senior season... ranked as the #5 power in 2002-03), set the CVAC record for conference wins in a season with a 19-3 finish in 2001, and have forward recruit in the state by the North Carolina Recruiting Service. broken the school record for points scored in a game (126) five times since the 2000 season. STEELE SPORTS CENTER Jorsua Chambers In 2002-03, Queens was ranked in the top-ten nationally in scoring offense (88.8 ppg/2nd), scoring 6-5, 215, guard/forward th th th Panama City, Panama/Dixie State [Utah] JC margin (+14.7 ppg/5 ), field-goal percentage defense (.384/6 ), and free-throw percentage (.759/9 ). The $3 million Jerry and Kitty Steele Sports Center will be the Helped the Rebels to the 2002 NJCAA national championship... new home for the NCAA Division I Athletics at High Point averaged 8.4 points and 4.2 rebounds as a freshman, and began A 1993 graduate of Winthrop, Lundy compiled a 73-15 mark in three seasons as a player at UNC his sophomore season as a starter before breaking his foot and Pembroke and Lenoir-Rhyne before transferring to the Rock Hill, S.C. school. Following graduation, University. It is being named in honor of Jerry and Kitty Steele, tearing a wrist tendon... originally committed to Colorado out of who teamed up for 51 years of successful coaching and teaching. high school, when he was ranked as the #5 prospect in the state he broke into coaching as an assistant for two seasons at Winthrop before leaving to become an of Florida and the #67 prospect in the nation by Breakdown An anonymous donor has already committed $1.5 million to the Magazine... high school and Panamanian under-21 national assistant at Queens for three seasons under Dale Layer (who is now the head coach at Colorado State, project. teammate of fellow HPU signee Javier Palacios. and led the Rams to the Mountain West Conference title and an NCAA berth in 2003). No two individuals have touched High Point University and its department of athletics more than Jerry and Kitty. Before retiring in March, Jerry Steele Jerry Echenique 6-7, 260, forward/center While Lundy was an assistant and head coach at Queens from 1995-2003, he recruited and coached led the men's basketball team for 31 seasons, and ranked seventh among active coaches with 1,095 games coached and 12th among active coaches with Tegucigalpa, Honduras/Highland [Ill.] CC five Division II All-Americans. More importantly, during the same span, the school graduated 90 609 wins. Kitty Steele coached tennis and field hockey at High Point for 20 years,winning 12 conference championships and being named conference and Averaged 12.9 points and 7.7 rebounds last season en route to second-team All-Region honors at Highland CC, where he percent of its men's basketball players. district coach of the year 12 times before retiring in 1996. teamed with fellow HPU signee Javier Palacios... shot 58 percent from the field... member of Honduras' under-21 national team. Lundy is well-connected and nationally-known in the college basketball community.He has served on The Jerry and Kitty Steele Sports Center will be a two-story, 24,000-square-foot facility replacing the antiquated the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Board of Directors, founded the Charlotte field house between the baseball and soccer stadiums. It will feature training and weight rooms, locker rooms, an Javier Palacios 6-3, 185, guard Coaches Association (an organization to promote basketball at all levels in the Charlotte metro area) indoor practice area for golf, an academic services room,and a hospitality/conference room. The center will also Panama City, Panama /Highland [Ill.] CC in 1998, and served as director of the Dave Cowens/Charlotte Hornets College Coaches Clinic. He include space to display athletic achievements and awards as well as offices for athletics administrators and Averaged 13.1 points and 4.8 assists and led team to a 28-5 record in 2003... second-team All-Region selection... shot 39 received his masters from Winthrop in 1998. coaching staffs of all sports except men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball. percent from three-point range and 48 percent overall... in high school was the starting point guard and second-leading scorer Lundy is the third Queens coaching alumnus since 1990 to land a Division I head coaching job,joining For more information contact John C. Lefler, Vice President for Institutional Advancement, at 336.841.9135 or for Berkshire Academy (Homestead, Fla.) – a team which had [email protected] or Christopher H. Dudley, Director of Athletic Development and Marketing, at 336.841.4530 seven Division I signees, including Jamaal Levy (Wake Forest) Layer (Colorado State) and Ritchie McKay (New Mexico).Other notable head coaches who have made and Jaime Lloreda (LSU)... member of Panama's under-21 or [email protected]. national team which competed at the 2000 Pan Am Games the jump from D-II to D-I prominence include Bob Huggins of Cincinnati (Walsh U. in Ohio), Bobby against Team USA and future NBA stars Jason Williams, Drew Lutz of Charlotte (Pfeiffer), and Bruce Pearl of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Southern Indiana). Jerry and Kitty Steele Gooden, and Zach Randolph. 2003-2004 High Point Wins The 2002-2003 Year In Review PANTHER CLUB 2 NCAA Division I Baseball MEMBERSHIP With a roster full of newcomers sprinkled with a few key veterans, 2003 was full of highs and lows for CAMPAIGN Conference Championships the High Point baseball program. UNDERWAY The Panthers opened their home schedule by sweeping a pair of contests from local rival North Cross Country Carolina A&T, before venturing on the road and claiming a victory at Conference USA member If you are not already a member Charlotte. After a pair of close losses to former High Point coach Chuck Hartman’s Virginia Tech High Point won its first-ever Big South Conference title in any sport when the men's cross of the Panther Club, now is a great squad, the Panthers swept three games from Buffalo and then went country team obliterated the competition at the 2002 Big South Cross Country time to join.Membership levels start to Blacksburg to upset the Hokies, who would end the season in Championships. the top four in the Big East. as low as $50.For more details on the Al Barnes also became the first High Point coach to Panther Club call 336.841.4530 or go High Point struggled early in Big South play, dropping its first five earn Big South Coach of the Year honors by himself.Dr. to www.highpointpanthers.com. league contests against Big South powers Elon and UNC Asheville, Joe Ellenburg shared the 2000-01 Women’s Basketball before taking two of three games at Radford to get back in the Over the last four (4) years, a record Coach of the Year award.