I' Team Rosters and Scorecards $5 . !-i . ·--+·«·· .t •. ' I 15 15 YEARS STRONG The 20 IO Conference USA Baseball Championship Program is published by Conference USA and IMC College. Welcome to Conference USA Baseball 2 Conference USA .4 Conference USA Championship and the College World Series 6 Conference USA Championship Results 18 Commissioner All-Tournament Teams and Honors 19 Britton Banowsky Editorial Staff Individual Championship Records 20 Courtney Morrison-Archer, Team Championship Records 21 Russell Anderson Scorecards 22, 24 I1~lG www.imgworld.com East Carolina 8 (888) 484-4678 .A Corporate Officers ~ Chairman and CEO Theodore J. Forstmann President, Sports and Entertainment George Pyne - Houston 9 Senior Corporate Vice President, College Par Barrie !MG College Senior Vice President, Managing Director - Marshall 10 Thomas J. Stultz Senior Vice President, Operations Steve Cornwell Senior Vice President, Sales Lawton 1\1. 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'Yctu. / I ,lllc/ chan, <nic in H ,,,// ofn ,, lc,igu P•on,h11, usro ,,. n1•on '. •. nv 0 I Ved Wif' ha lso, ·'Ppr lU,Jrt ~ c/1t 0 Confcrcn . ec· USA. ·-- -I · --,I arking its 15-year milestone during the Men's Basketball Academic Medal, indicative of outstanding 1-10 season, Conference USA is still going • Consistently rated as one of the top achievement in the classroom. tg. From the beginning, dedication to basketball leagues in the country lence has been the league's guiding principle • 90 postscason reams (45 NCAA and 38 NIT, C-USA O~J TV remains today a common thread for a 5 CBI, 2 CIT) C-USA enioys significant television 1ising future. C-USA is home to 12 • One National Championship title game exposure through its partnerships with ESPN ,nally prominent, tradition-rich members in appearance Inc. and CBS College Spores Television Carolina, Houston, Marshall, Memphis, • Three Final Four reams Networks. The league entered into long-term SMU, Southern Miss, Tulane, Tulsa, • Seven Elite Eight NCAA Tournament teams agreements with both ESPN and CBS College ,, UCF and UTEP. This combination • One NIT champion and four NIT Sports, which, combined, provides C-USA nces men's and women's programs that are semifinalists with significant national and regional exposure ersed in athletic success and academic • Inaugural CBI champion for football, men's and women's basketball, -ess. Together, we are committed to and all other conference sports. Additionally, lence, integrity and leadership in athletics, Women's Basketball the CBS College Sports agreement includes -mics and in our communities. • 44 NCAA Tournament appearances video-on-demand, Internet, broadband, 1 C-USA institutions sponsor Division I-A • 33 WNIT appearances national over-the-air and satellite radio, and ,all, along with several ocher men's and • One team in the NCAA Sweet 16 wireless distribution as well as corporate en's athletic programs, many of which • Two WNIT semifinalists marketing rights, and website production iere regularly for NCAA Championships. through CBS Interactive. The agreement with ~A sponsors competition in 20 sports - Baseball ESPN extends the conference's current regular for men (baseball, basketball, cross country, • 47 NCAA appearances season football package to include the iall, golf'. soccer, tennis and indoor and • Six College World Series appearances (2009, broadcast of the conference's Football oor track and field) and IO for women 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 200 I), Championship Game. It also encompasses .crball, cross country, golf; rowing, softball, including the last five in a row distribution of men's basketball and women's r, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and • 13 Super Regional appearances basketball on ESPN/ESPN2 and both aor track and field, and volleyball). • Has produced at least four NCAA reams in tournament championship games. 1e league sponsors numerous academic seven of the last eight seasons is, including the Commissioner's Honor Roll C-USA IN THE COMMUNiTY the Commissioner's Academic Medal, In addition, .34 volleyball teams, 49 men's and The conference's footprint is concentrated ative of outstanding achievement in the women's soccer teams and 22 softball teams have with 12 members in nine states and a ·oom. C-USA annuallv awards 12 earned NCAA tournament bids. C-USA has sent combined area population of nearly 17 million. raduate scholarships, along with the Sport three men's soccer teams to the NCAA College More than 1.1 million living alumni represent ernic Award, Scholar Athletes of the Year and Cup, five softball teams to the Women's College C-USA schools across the nation. With a rsritutional Academic Excellence Award. World Series and three volleyball reams to the renewed commitment to community inference USA also added a Spirit of Sweet 16. The league has also had six national involvement, the conference has begun ce Award, recognizing student-athletes champions in NCAA track and field development of several initiatives to maintain : times a year for a combination of competition, one national champion in diving strong ties in C-USA cities, as well as with fans ficant community service efforts, good and numerous NCAA individual and team and alumni across the country. C-USA schools .mic standing and participation in their competitors in cross country, gol( swimming, also place a priority on giving back to their :d sport. tennis and crack and field. Overall, Conference communities through volunteer service with USA teams and individuals have made more local and national organizations. than 500 NCAA appearances. :CESS ON THE Plf-\YING GOVERN;.\i'-JCE _D SUCCESS OFF THE ~IELD Along with the ACC, Big East. Big Ten, Big 12, ,nference USA performers have achieved C-l.JSA institutions are among the nation's Pac-I 0 and SEC, C-USA is one of the seven success in competition, placing the league best in academic performance among student• conferences having significant representation in 1g the top conferences in the nation. athletes. bolstered by the fact that srudcnr• the NCAA governance structure. The Presidents athletes at league schools have a higher of the member institutions serve as the league's oall graduation rate than the general student Board of Directors. R. Gerald Turner of SMU teams have earned bowl bids population. Among C-USA's 5,000 student• currently serves as chair of the Board. mber of the Bowl Championship Series athletes, there are champions off the playing field vl tie-ins with the AutoZone Liberty as well. In 15 years, LlO student-athletes earned A PROUD HISTORY vi, Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl, national ESPN The Magazine Academic All• /:,_ PROMISl~~e_; r u fURE ;leBank Bowl, R+L Carriers New Orleans America honors, while 461 were named All• Conference USA was formed in 1995 and vl, Sheraton Hawai"i Bowl, Beef District. In addition, more than 20,000 student• quickly emerged as one of the nation's top 3rady' s St. Petersburg Bowl and Dallas athletes have been named to the Commissioner's conferences. The conference unveiled its name, nball Classic Honor Roll or received the Commissioner's logo and commissioner on April 24, 1995, in 2010 C-USA BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP ..,,...._I , .... I "J-- ·- ··,- .'\. -·~ Chicago. The league's charter members October 2002, succeeding Mike Slive, the the 2004-05 season, C-USA began a new included Charlotte, Cincinnati, De Paul, league's first commissioner. chapter in 2005-06 when its current Houston, Louisville, Marquette, Memphis, C-USA added East Carolina (September, membership came together to form the new Saint Louis, Southern Miss, Tulane, UAB and 1996) and the United States Military Academy look of the league.