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1 QUICK FACTS SCHOOL INFORMATION Location . Lawrence, Kan. 2012 FALL RESULTS Founded . .1866 SEPTEMBER Enrollment . .29,462 9-10 Gene Miranda Falcon Invitational Colorado Springs, Colo. 12th/16 Nickname . Jayhawks 16-18 Golfweek Conference Challenge Burlington, Iowa 10th/15 School Colors . Crimson and Blue 24-25 Mark Simpson Colorado Invitational Erie, Colo. 5th/14 PMS Colors . Blue 293, Crimson 186 Home Course . .Alvamar Golf Club OCTOBER Affi liation . .NCAA Division I 5-7 Brickyard Collegiate Macon, Ga. 10th/15 Conference . .Big 12 22-23 Herb Wimberly Intercollegiate Las Cruces, N.M. 5th/12 Chancellor. Dr. Bernadette Gray-Little 2013 SPRING SCHEDULE Athletics Director. Dr. Sheahon Zenger Faculty Athletics Rep.. Susan Stagg-Williams FEBRUARY Athletics Website . www.KUAthletics.com 22-24 Wyoming Desert Classic Palm Desert, Calif. TEAM INFORMATION MARCH Head Coach . .Jamie Bermel (First Season) 4-5 Louisiana Classics Lafayette, La. Alma Mater. Central College (1986) 21-23 Desert Shootout Goodyear, Ariz. Assistant Coach . Zach Zaremba (First Season) APRIL Alma Mater. Wyoming (2011) 6-7 Irish Creek Collegiate Charlotte, N.C. Program Established . 1935 13-14 Hawkeye Invitational Iowa City, Iowa 2012 Big 12 Finish . .10th Place 22-24 Big 12 Championship Hutchinson, Kan. Top Big 12 Individual. Dylan McClure, 27th Returning Lettermen/Lost. 7/3 MAY 16-18 NCAA Regionals TBD COMMUNICATIONS 28-2 NCAA Championship Atlanta, Ga. Men’s Golf Contact . Kevin McCarty Offi ce Phone. 785-864-7979 Mobile Phone. 785-865-6784 E-Mail . [email protected] 2012-13 KANSAS MEN’S GOLF ROSTER NAME CLASS EXP. HOMETOWN HIGH SCHOOL/PREVIOUS SCHOOL David Auer So. 1L Wichita, Kan. Kapaun Mt. Carmel HS Bryce Brown Jr. 2L Lincoln, Neb. Southwest HS Jackson Foth Fr. HS Shawnee, Kan. Shawnee Mission Northwest HS Stan Gautier So. TR Paris, France Heritage Academy (Hilton Head, S.C.) / Arizona State Chris Gilbert Sr. 3L Simi Valley, Calif. Royal HS Alex Gutesha Sr. 3L Greenwood Village, Colo. Cherry Creek HS Ryley Haas Jr. JC Colby, Kan. Colby HS / Hutchinson CC Paul Harris Sr. 1L Oneonta, Ala. Oneonta HS / Central Alabama CC Dylan McClure So. 1L Argyle, Texas Northwest HS Prem Samritpricha Fr. HS Bangkok, Thailand IMG Academy (Bradenton, Fla.) Jordan Santiago Fr. HS Winter Garden, Fla. West Orange HS Head Coach: Jamie Bermel (First Year) Assistant Coach: Zach Zaremba (First Year) 2 THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS • ONE OF 34 U.S. PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN THE PRESTIGIOUS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES • SECOND IN THE NATION FOR FACULTY FULBRIGHT AWARDS 2011-12 • 26 RHODES SCHOLARS • KU has more than 40 nationally ranked academic programs, 28 of which • The KU School of Journalism won the Intercollegiate Writing are ranked among the nation’s top 30 public schools. Two are number Competition in 2007, 2008 and 2009. one in the nation: special education and city management/urban policy. • The KU Debate Team won the national championship in 2009, its fi fth Among the top 10 rankings are the school of education and programs national title. in community health, occupational therapy, nursing and petroleum • KU’s School of Pharmacy ranks third in the nation for NIH research engineering. funding and fi fth in nation in exam pass rates. • KU off ers nearly 200 fi elds of study in 13 diff erent schools, from • KU’s Confucius Institute is ranked among top four in nation, top 20 in Visit KU (Video) architecture, music and engineering to medicine, social welfare and law. world. • KU has an enrollment of 29,462 students, including 20,811 • KU ranks ninth in the world in the rate of new patents issued. undergraduates on the Lawrence campus. KU attracts more than 1,500 • KU’s law school ranks 10th in nation for hands-on educational international students from more than 110 countries. The average ACT opportunities. score of 24.8 exceeds the national average. • When Forbes Magazine named the 100 most powerful women in the • KU’s popular Four-Year Tuition Compact freezes tuition rates for four world, two KU graduates were in the top fi ve. years for fi rst-time freshmen. The Jayhawk Generations Scholarship • KU promotes a global education and ranks 11th in nation for study abroad off ers a 12 to 20 percent discount on out-of-state tuition for qualifying participation and 25th in Peace Corps participation among large doctoral children of KU alumni who live outside Kansas. universities. • KU ranks seventh in nation among “most popular” public universities, • KU has produced 25 Rhodes Scholars, more than all other Kansas per US News’ Student Choice Awards. universities combined. • Counselors from US News’ “best high schools” rank KU 12th in nation, based on a survey of academic reputation. 3 KANSAS TRADITIONS CAMPANILE HILL THE SCHOOL COLORS Campanile Hill forms the picturesque backdrop for Memorial Stadium. On a sunny fall The University of Kansas colors, crimson and blue, used since the early 1890s, are not the Saturday, the “Hill” is transformed into a congregating place for watching Jayhawk football, colors originally adopted by the university Board of Regents in the 1860s. The Regents had sunning and barbequing. Potter Lake, just to the southwest of Memorial Stadium and at the decided to adopt the Michigan colors, maize and sky blue. However, when football came bottom of Campanile Hill, adds to the beauty of the Kansas campus. upon the scene in 1890, the student backers wanted to use Harvard crimson as the athletic color in honor of Col. John J. McCook, a Harvard man, who had given money for an athletic THE ROCK CHALK CHANT fi eld at KU. That fi eld ran east and west in the proximity of where the north bowl of Memorial The Rock Chalk Chant has been the battle cry of KU fans for more than 80 years. This strange, Stadium stands on the Kansas campus today. traditional chant, which is among the most famous of all college cheers, was started by E.H.S. Bailey, a professor of chemistry. On May 21, 1886, Bailey submitted the cheer to his club. Some Yale men were on the faculty, and they demanded the Yale blue be included. The rooters rallied forth to allow crimson and blue on their team. No one fought to retain the Before the University adopted the cheer in 1897, it consisted of “Rah, Rah, Jayhawk, KU” original colors, and the vivid deeper tone crimson and blue became generally used. Finally, in being repeated three times. An English professor soon suggested that “Rock Chalk” be May 1896, the KU Athletic Board adopted crimson and blue as the offi cial team colors for the substituted for “Rah, Rah” because it rhymed with Jayhawk. “Rock Chalk” was also symbolic university. of the chalky limestone formations found on Mount Oread. Teddy Roosevelt once said the Rock Chalk Chant was the best he had ever heard. WAVING THE WHEAT Since the early days of KU sports, it has been a ritual of Jayhawk fans to “wave the wheat” THE NICKNAME following every Kansas scoring drive in football. The tradition also extends to Allen During the Civil War a regiment raised by Kansas Governor Charles Robinson called itself Fieldhouse where fans “wave the wheat” when an opponent fouls out and at the conclusion the “Independent Mounted Jayhawks” (later offi cially the First Kansas Calvary and then the of every Jayhawk victory. The ritual consists of fans waving their arms in the air, an activity Seventh Kansas Regiment). By the end of the Civil War the word “Jayhawk” was associated which, when done by a large crowd, resembles a breezy Kansas wheat fi eld. with the spirit of camaraderie and the courageous fi ghting qualities that characterized eff orts to keep Kansas a free state. THE FIGHT SONG George “Dumpy” Bowles, a student with the class of 1912, longed to make a great By 1886, the University of Kansas had adopted the mythical bird as part of the KU yell. When contribution to the KU spirit, but wasn’t athletic enough to do historic deeds on the athletic the football team fi rst took the fi eld in 1890, it seemed only natural that they should be called fi eld. He turned to music and produced some outstanding student musical shows. Jayhawkers. Few colleges and universities have such a meaningful symbol, one so deeply associated with the struggles of the people who founded them. A song in one of these shows was “I’m a Jayhawk.” Written in 1912, it was dormant until 1920 when a growth in school spirit brought out “I’m a Jayhawk” once more. The song contributed THE ALMA MATER to the raising of funds to build both the KU football stadium and student union as World War I In 1891, professor George Barlow Penny searched for a school song for the Glee and Mandolin memorials. The 1926 glee club made it known nationally. Club to sing on its tour through Kansas to Denver and back. No one responded with an original song in answer to his appeals. Just before departure, he thought of the Cornell song “Far Above Cayuga’s Waters.” Hastily changing a few words, he gave it to the glee club men to sing on the trip. He did not expect the song to be used after their return, but “Crimson and the Blue” still goes on. The music is not Cornell’s but an old English folk tune, “Annie Lisle.” 4 KANSAS LEADERSHIP BERNADETTE GRAY-LITTLE • UNIVERSITY CHANCELLOR “ As the state’s fl agship university, the mission of the University of Kansas is to lift students and society far above by ” educating leaders, building healthy communities, and making discoveries that change the world. - CHANCELLOR BERNADETTE GRAY-LITTLE A highly regarded scholar, teacher and university leader, Bernadette Gray-Little began her A native of eastern North Carolina, Gray-Little received her bachelor’s degree from Marywood tenure as the 17th chancellor of the University of Kansas on Aug.

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