2019-20 smu women's basketball n PAGE PB 2019-20 smu women's basketball n PAGE 61 WELCOME TO SMU SMU FACTS A nationally ranked private university with seven degree-granting schools (in the humanities and sciences; business; the performing, visual, and communication arts; engineering; education and human development; law; and theology), SMU is a distinguished center for teaching and research located in the heart of Dallas. SMU’s 11,000 students benefit from small classes, leadership opportunities, international study and innovative programs. G Students come from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and approximately 90 foreign countries, and represent diverse economic, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. G SMU itself is a gateway to the global community, offering access to nearly 150 education abroad programs in 50 countries as well as a unique campus in Northern New Mexico on the site of a historic fort and 13th-century Indian pueblo. G SMU's Cox School of Business and Meadows School of the Arts are listed in Parade Magazine's 2010 College A-List. G The University's 10 libraries house the largest private collection of research materials in the Southwest. nationally ranked private university with G The internationally acclaimed Meadows Museum houses one of the finest collections of Spanish art outside of Spain. seven degree-granting schools, SMU G As part of SMU's focus on leadership, the Tate Distinguished Lecture Series is a distinguished center for teaching and Hart Global Leaders Forum bring national and world leaders to campus A for lectures and interaction with students. and research located near the heart of G SMU is one of the few universities to have a voting student member of its Board of Trustees. Nearly 200 campus organizations provide other opportunities for Dallas. SMU’s 11,000 students benefit from involvement. small classes, leadership opportunities, G Founded in 1911 by what is now The United Methodist Church, SMU opened in 1915 with support from Dallas leaders. The University is nonsectarian in its international study and innovative programs. teaching and committed to freedom of inquiry. SMU is celebrating the centennial of its founding in 1911 and its opening in 1915. As SMU enters a second century of achievement, it is recognized as a university of increasing national prominence. PROMINENT ALUMNI SMU prepares students for leadership in their professions and in their communities. G First Lady Laura Bush The University’s location near the heart of Dallas – a thriving center of commerce and G Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Antonio O. Garza Jr. culture – offers students enriching experiences on campus and beyond. Relationships G U.S. House of Representatives members John Culberson, Ralph Hall, Sam in the Dallas area provide a platform for launching careers throughout the world. Johnson, Eddie Bernice Johnson and Lamar Smith The University offers a strong foundation in the humanities and sciences and G Karen Hughes, former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs through seven schools. Public Affairs The learning environment includes opportunities for research, community service, G Harriet Miers, former Counsel to the President internships, mentoring and study abroad. G Nobel Prize-winning physicist James Cronin SMU was founded by what is now The United Methodist Church, in partnership with G Computer memory pioneer Robert Dennard civic leaders, and was shaped by the entrepreneurial spirit of the region. The University G Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates is nonsectarian in its teaching and committed to academic freedom and open inquiry. G Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley G Emmy Award-winning actor Powers Boothe G Filmmaker-artist-author William Joyce G The late television producer Aaron Spelling G Tony Award winning actor Scott Waara G Robert H. Dedman Jr., chair, ClubCorp International G David Dillon, chairman and CEO of the Kroger supermarket chain G James R. Gibbs, chair, president and CEO, Frontier Oil Corporation G Ray L. Hunt, chair and CEO, Hunt Oil Company G Kenneth R. Morris, co-founder, PeopleSoft G Melissa Reiff, president, Container Store G Angela Braly, president and CEO, WellPoint, Inc. G Helmut R. Sohmen, chair, World-Wide Shipping Group, Hong Kong G Olympic gold medal swimmers Lars Frolander, Steve Lundquist, and Ryan Berube; and gold medal track and field athlete Kevin Robinzine G The late Lamar Hunt, founder of the American Football League G The late Doak Walker, recipient of football’s Heisman Trophy G The late Payne Stewart, championship golfer G Pro Football Hall of Fame members Raymond Berry, Eric Dickerson, Forrest Gregg, Lamar Hunt and Doak Walker G Jerry LeVias, National College Football Hall of Fame and NFL Rookie of the Year

2019-20 smu women's basketball n PAGE 62 2019-20 smu women's basketball n PAGE 63 SMU & DALLAS t SMU you can impact the world every day. Our intellectually rigorous campus Aoffers an inventory of the possible by drawing on the resources of its location in Dallas, a larger-than-life, culturally rich city. As a magnet of opportunity, Dallas is among the leading centers in the nation for business, innovation, culture and service. BUSINESS Business runs deep in Dallas’ DNA, from its founding in 1841 as a center of commerce in the region to its present stature as a global hub for finance, banking, technology, ENTREPRENEURSHIP health care and other industries. Dallas is known for its entrepreneurial spirit and innovative approaches to the business of living. This is the city of Southwest Airlines, which invented a whole new style of SMU and Dallas offer world-class preparation for a successful career. The Princeton travel. This is where TI engineers developed the idea of an integrated circuit that would Review ranks SMU No. 8 for best career services. Dallas’ position as an international become the microchip and change the way humans live, work and play. business and cultural center has enhanced SMU’s ability to attract and retain top faculty and students, making SMU a nationally prominent university with a global reach. Our The can-do spirit of Dallas helps fuel SMU’s intellectual environment to drive cutting- students have the skills and the preparation to pursue their passion and change the edge research, with far-reaching benefits for our world. It’s one reason why SMU is world from any corner of the globe. one of the fewer than 100 universities classified as “high research activity” institutions by the Carnegie Foundation. Dallas has nearly 20 Fortune 500 companies. SMU students in every discipline have access to networks of professional connections in Dallas’ business-friendly environment through 4,400 internships in the region as well as work-study opportunities. Most of our COMMUNITY students graduate with professional experience from internships or co-ops. Many among SMU community service ranges from student volunteerism and programs advancing the 44,000 SMU graduates who live and work in the D-FW area are entrepreneurs, K-12 education to pro bono legal services and partnerships with area churches and executives and civic leaders who mentor SMU students. arts organizations. Each year, more than 2,500 students contribute 200,000-plus hours of community service.

ARTS As an SMU student, you learn in a close-knit community with small classes while being Dallas, the nation’s fifth-largest media market, is home to the largest urban arts district surrounded by the excitement that comes with a city on the move. Tap into the energy in the United States. The Dallas Arts District comprises the city’s leading visual and of the Dallas-Fort Worth region, the nation’s fourth-largest metropolitan area and home performing arts institutions; world-class museums; and a luminous cluster of performing to about 6.5 million people. Dallas is on track to become the third- largest metropolitan arts spaces, including the Winspear Opera House – called America’s finest opera house area, increasing the wealth of opportunities for a successful career after college. by Opera magazine.

World-class resources in Dallas abound, like SMU’s Meadows Museum. This esteemed cultural landmark is the repository of one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of Spanish art outside Spain.

Each year SMU presents 400-plus music, dance, opera and theatre performances, critically acclaimed by Dallas media as among the region’s best and giving students a unique cache of artistic experience.

Is it possible to quantify the “cool” factor? Forbes can, and it puts Dallas at No. 4 in its list of America’s Coolest Cities. Dallas beats a slew of East Coast and West Coast favorites, including Boston, San Diego, Seattle and San Francisco.

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PRESIDENT FACULTY ATHLETIC REPRESENTATIVE

As president of SMU since 1995, R. Gerald Turner is leading an era of unprecedented Paul Rogers is the Marilyn Jeanne Johnson Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Professor of progress. His tenure has included two historic major gifts campaigns that raised more Law and the former dean of the SMU Dedman School of Law. He is also the University’s than $1.6 billion for student scholarships, endowed faculty positions, academic programs faculty athletic representative and helps represent the University with the American and capital projects, including new academic, student life and athletics facilities. To Athletic Conference and the NCAA. Rogers currently serves as a member of the Na- continue its rise in impact and quality, SMU is engaged in a three-year drive, “Pony tional Football Foundation’s Awards Committee and the NCAA Football Competition Power: Strengthening the Stampede,” to provide annual gifts that support today’s Committee. He is a former president of the Southwest Conference and also previously students, faculty and academic programs. served on the NCAA Division I Amateurism Cabinet, the Academics/Eligibility/ Compli- ance Cabinet, the NCAA’s Football Oversight Committee and the Executive Committee Fueled by these investments, SMU’s progress has included increases in average admission of the Division I-A Faculty Athletics Representative Association. test scores, a near tripling of student applications, an increase in students of color to nearly 29 percent, and a more than tripling of the endowment. The University continues In 1988 Rogers was the principal drafter of the Manual of Governance for SMU Athletics to advance as a leading center of teaching and research that creates new knowledge, and became the first chair of the SMU Athletic Council, which provides oversight of addresses significant the SMU athletics and recommends academic and administrative policies governing issues and prepares student-athletes. He continues as a member of the council. students to be world changers. SMU ranks Prior to joining the SMU law faculty in 1980, he served on the law faculty at Loyola in the top 20 percent University of Chicago. He previously practiced law in Pennsylvania. Rogers has two of the best national degrees (B.A., J.D.) from The University of Texas at Austin and an LL.M. from Colum- universities by U.S. bia University. Rogers served as dean of the School of Law from 1988-97. Earlier he News & World Report served as associate dean for academic affairs from 1982-86. He has co-authored a and the top 15 percent leading casebook on antitrust law, now in its fourth edition, and has written numerous of universities worldwide articles on antitrust, regulated industries, contracts, commercial law, sports law and by the Center for World legal history. An avid baseball historian, he has published six books and many articles University Rankings. dealing with the history of baseball. From its home in the He serves on the board of the Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation in Ft. Worth and is former global city of Dallas, president of the board of directors of Dispute Mediation Services and a former trustee SMU’s vibrant campus of the Dallas Bar Foundation. Rogers is a fellow of the Dallas Bar, Texas Bar and the offers enrichment American Bar Foundations. A member of the American Law Institute, he also served as opportunities such as chair of the Ethics Oversight Committee for Dallas 2012 and is president of the Ernie the Tate Lecture Series Banks-Bobby Bragan Chapter (Dallas-Fort Worth) of the Society of American Baseball and Meadows Museum Research. In 2006 Rogers was named an Honorary Letterman by the SMU Lettermen’s of Art to students and Association. He received the Tom Tunks Distinguished University Service Award in 2016 the wider community. and the University’s “M” Award in 2017. Rogers is married to Julie Forrester Rogers President Turner led of the SMU law faculty and together they have five children and five grandchildren. efforts with the Board of Trustees to attract the George W. Bush Presidential Center, which opened at SMU in 2013. SMU and the Bush Center partner through fellowships, public lectures, the new George W. Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative and additional collaborations that bring together students, faculty and global experts to tackle pressing challenges. Beyond the campus, President Turner has served on the boards of the American Council on Education and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, and he co-chaired the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for nearly 10 years. In Texas, he serves on the boards of the Methodist Health System Foundation, the Salvation Army of Dallas, the AT&T Performing Arts Center and one publicly traded company. Before joining SMU, President Turner was the chancellor of the University of Mississippi. He previously served in administrative positions at the University of Oklahoma and Pepperdine University. A native of New Boston, Texas, he earned an A.A. degree from Lubbock Christian University, a B.S. in psychology from Abilene Christian University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. He and his wife, Gail, have two married daughters and five grandchildren.

2019-20 smu women's basketball n PAGE 64 2019-20 smu women's basketball n PAGE 65 Hart has served on the NACDA Executive Committee, the NCAA Division I Championship/Sports Management Cabinet, the FCS Athletics Directors Association RICK HART Executive Committee and as a faculty member for the D1-A Athletics Directors’ Institute. Hart is an active speaker, and has made presentations at the Career in Sports Seminar, DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS the NACDA Leadership Institute, the Texas High School Athletic Directors’ Association AD_RICKHART and the Dallas Women’s Club, to name a few. Hart came to SMU after six years as Director of Athletics at Tennessee at Chattanooga. Hart served seven years at Oklahoma in various athletics administrative capacities, ending as the Senior Associate Athletics Director in 2006. Hart has also worked in Rick Hart was named SMU’s Director of Athletics on July 16, 2012. athletics at North Carolina and East Carolina and has served with the U.S. Olympic During Hart’s seven years on the Hilltop, SMU student-athletes have excelled in the Committee. classroom, with over 60% of SMU student-athletes currently holding cumulative GPAs A graduate of UNC, Hart earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education, health and of 3.0 or higher and almost one-third of all SAs boasting GPAs of 3.5 or better. SMU has sport science. Hart and his wife, Allison, also a graduate of North Carolina, are proud also excelled athletically, winning 21 conference team championships over his tenure parents of Trevor, an SMU sophomore, and Caroline (Carly), who attends Highland and consistently finishing among the leaders in the American Athletic Conference, Park High School. with nine sports reaching the post-season last year. In the 2018- 2019 season, SMU student-athletes earned eight All-America honors, six American Athletic Conference A third-generation athletics administrator, Hart’s father, Dave, served as Director of Player of the Year awards and 74 All-Conference recognitions. Athletics at the University of Tennessee, Florida State and East Carolina, and his late grandfather, Dave Sr., served in a variety of roles within collegiate athletics including SMU has also connected with the community, as Mustang student-athletes logged stints as a Coach, Athletics Director and Conference Commissioner. 3,557 community service hours during the 2017-18 academic year, an amount almost equivalent to two entire years’ worth of work. The community has responded to SMU as well, increasing attendance at events and donations to the department. Due to the generosity of alumni and friends, donor support has grown significantly in Hart’s tenure. Across all funds, donors gave more than $18.7 million to support Athletics in fiscal year 2019, a total that includes $9.6 million in capital gifts. KURT POTTKOTTER During Hart’s time, SMU has renovated and expanded Moody Coliseum and opened numerous new facilities including the Miller Event Center, the SMU Tennis Complex, the Robson & Lindley Aquatics Center and Barr-McMillion Natatorium and the Payne DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS Stewart SMU Golf Training Center at Trinity Forest Golf Club. The Indoor Performance KURTPOTTKOTTER Center opened in the summer of 2019. Hart also developed and installed the Strategic Plan for SMU Athletics titled, “The SMU Advantage.” The SMU Advantage consists of a departmental vision, mission, values and goals and operates on a principle of S.P.I.R.I.T. (Service, Passion, Integrity, Respect, Kurt Pottkotter joined the SMU Athletics staff as Senior Associate A.D. for Development Innovation and Teamwork), with a focus on the student-athlete and aligning the Athletics in September 2013 and transitioned to Deputy A.D. in January 2017. Department with the educational mission of the University. Pottkotter now serves as sport liaison for football while assisting with the day-to-day operations of the department. He is also responsible for capital projects and developing and managing the major gifts and annual giving fundraising and program strategies and activities for donors and prospective donors who have an affinity for athletics initiatives. He also serves as Sport Administrator for the SMU's men's and women's tennis programs. Pottkotter led SMU Athletics fundraising efforts to the conclusion of the University’s $1.15 Billion Second Century Campaign. Before joining SMU Athletics, he successfully led SMU's National Major Giving program, building momentum and increasing major gift commitments from key regional markets. In addition to his major gift experience at SMU and with the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State, Pottkotter has served SMU as Assistant Director of Development for the Cox School and Assistant Director of Annual Giving. He earned a Master's degree in sports administration at Ohio University and supported Athletics giving efforts at Boston College early in his career. Pottkotter and his wife, Amy, are the proud parents of Joshua, Audrey and Katherine.

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RICK HART KRIS HARRIS Director of Athletics Associate A.D./Event Management & Facilities Operations

KURT POTTKOTTER MATT PETERS Deputy Director of Athletics Senior Associate A.D./Development

LAUREN ADEE BRAD SUTTON Senior Associate A.D./Executive Affairs Senior Associate A.D./External Affairs

KYLE CONDER SUSAN VOLLMERHAUSEN Senior Associate A.D./Compliance Associate A.D./SWA/Student Services

SMU HEAD COACHES

GRANT CHEN TIM JANKOVICH Men's Tennis Men's Basketball

STEVE COLLINS TRAVIS MAYS Women's Swimming Women's Basketball

KIM CUPINI JEFF NEVOLO Rowing Women's Tennis

SONNY DYKES CHRIS PETRUCELLI Football Women's Soccer

JASON ENLOE GREG RHODENBAUGH Men's Golf Men's Swimming

CAROL GWIN LISA SEIFERT Equestrian Volleyball

'A HAVAHLA HAYNES DARIAN SCHMIDT Cross Country // Track & Field Diving

KEVIN HUDSON JEANNE SUTHERLAND Men's Soccer Women's Golf

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THE HOME OF SMU BASKETBALL Women's basketball came to Moody Coliseum in 1976. The Lady Mustangs won the Western Athletic Conference title there in 1999 and the Conference USA title in 2008. In December of 2013, a renovation of Moody Coliseum was completed to the arena Women's basketball clinched the C-USA championship again on March 3, 2012, in the that has been the home of SMU basketball since December of 1956. On Jan. 4, 2014, final event in Moody Coliseum before renovation began. Women's volleyball began in SMU men's and women's basketball debuted the state-of-the-art facility to a nationally- Moody in 1996. In 2010, Mustang volleyball set a school record with 25 wins, including televised audience as the men hosted Connecticut and the women hosted South Florida. an 11-2 mark at home in Moody Coliseum. Legend has it that "Moody Magic" contributes The renovation and expansion of Moody Coliseum provided many new and improved to consistent wins at home for Mustang teams. features, including the Richard & Nancy Rogers Lobby at the main west entrance, Each May and December the coliseum is transformed to host SMU Commencement expanded concourses with raised ceilings, club seats, loge boxes, private suites, group as well as graduation ceremonies for thousands of area high school students. SMU suites, new event space, offices, team locker rooms and meeting space. Commencement speakers have included former First Lady and SMU graduate Laura "Moody Magic" has become a popular term regarding SMU's play at the Coliseum. From Bush, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, journalists Jim Lehrer and Bill Moyers 1956 through 2013, SMU men's basketball was 510-261 (.661) in Moody Coliseum as and Oscar-winning actress and SMU graduate Kathy Bates. Four U.S. presidents have the Mustangs captured nine conference titles. spoken at Moody Coliseum: Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush. Poet T.S. Eliot also spoke to audiences there. Other events such as From 1976 through 2013, women's basketball was 332-197 (.628) with five combined installation of United Methodist Church bishops and Highland Park United Methodist conference regular season and tournament titles. Church Easter services have taken place at Moody.

Moody Coliseum also has been the venue for entertainers such as the Kingston Trio, HISTORY the Rolling Stones, John Denver, Three Dog Night, the Grateful Dead, Queen, U2 When Moody Coliseum opened in 1956, it was one of the largest structures of its kind. and Pearl Jam. It has been home to exciting athletic events, academic ceremonies, concerts and performances - an SMU asset shared with the Dallas community. Dallas' first professional basketball team, the Chaparrals, played most of its home games at Moody from 1967-73 before the team moved to San Antonio and was renamed the SMU men's basketball moved into Moody in time for the 1956-57 season, filling the Spurs. From 1971 to 1979, Moody hosted one of the biggest tennis championships of the arena with fans after the team's first and only NCAA Final Four appearance at the year, the World Championship Tennis Finals, a season-ending eight-player tournament 1956 tournament. to decide the champion of the men's professional tennis circuit. All-time greats such as Arthur Ashe, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors and Rod Laver dueled before packed In the decade that followed Moody's opening, SMU, led by legendary coach E.O. "Doc" houses at Moody and national television audiences. The tournament was moved to Hayes, won six Southwest Conference championships and made six NCAA Tournament Reunion Arena in 1980, but Moody continued to host exhibitions between stars such appearances. In the 1984-85 season, SMU again rose to national prominence, staying as Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras into the 1990s. The Virginia Slims of Dallas Tennis in the Associated Press Top Ten for most of the season and earning a spot in the NCAA Championships and the Rolex Intercollegiate Indoor Tennis Tournament also were held tournament. at Moody Coliseum.

Younger athletes also have polished their skills there. Cheerleading, basketball and volleyball camps, Boy Scout conferences and fundraising dance marathons have taken place at Moody Coliseum through the years.

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The SMU Crum Basketball Center is a dedicated, state-of-the-art space where the SMU ABOUT THE CENTER men's and women's basketball programs practice and train. The SMU Crum Basketball G $13-million, 43,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art practice facility Center includes separate full-size practice courts for each program, locker rooms and G Home for men's and women's intercollegiate basketball programs lounges, training and rehabilitation areas, coaches' offices, meeting areas and film G Separate full-size practice court for each program with multiple goals editing rooms. The facility opened on Feb. 21, 2008. G Players' locker rooms and lounges, a fully-equipped training and rehabilitation room with in-ground hydrotherapy pools, a state-of-the-art strength and conditioning room, an on-site laundry facility, coaches' offices and conference facilities for both programs, coaches' locker rooms and film editing rooms G Direct connection to Moody Coliseum event level via tunnel ADVANTAGES OF THE NEW CENTER G State-of-the-art space for basketball programs to practice and train G Maximum availability for student-athletes and coaches G No schedule conflicts with summer camps G Practice scheduling flexibility greatly reduces class scheduling conflicts G New Moody Coliseum playing surface G Strengthens competitive recruiting against conference and regional peers with basketball practice facilities G Locker room renovated in 2018

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