2013-14 Virginia State Women's Basketball Schedule
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2013-14 Virginia State Women’s Basketball Schedule November 9 (Sat.) Bloomfield (at Elizabeth City, N.C.) 5:00 p.m. 10 (Sun.) Belmont Abbey (at Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1:00 p.m. 14 (Thu.) BARBER SCOTIA 6:00 p.m. 16 (Sat.) at Cheyney 6:00 p.m. 18 (Mon.) at Washington Adventist 7:00 p.m. 20 (Wed.) SALEM INTERNATIONAL 6:00 p.m. 23 (Sat.) ALDERSON BROADDUS 4:00 p.m. 29 (Fri.) VIRGINIA-LYNCHBURG (Chick-fil-A Classic) 5:00 p.m. 30 (Sat.) WASHINGTON ADVENTIST (Chick-fil-A Classic) 6:30 p.m. December 5 (Thu.) at Alderson-Broaddus 6:00 p.m. January 4 (Sat.) at Fayetteville State 2:00 p.m. 6 (Mon.) at Shaw 6:00 p.m. 9 (Thu.) WINSTON-SALEM STATE 5:30 p.m. 11 (Sat.) LIVINGSTONE 3:00 p.m. 13 (Mon.) JOHNSON C. SMITH 5:30 p.m. 18 (Sat.) VIRGINIA UNION (at Richmond, Va.) 5:30 p.m. 22 (Wed.) at Chowan 5:30 p.m. 25 (Sat.) ELIZABETH CITY STATE 3:00 p.m. 29 (Wed.) BOWIE STATE 5:30 p.m. February 1 (Sat.) at Lincoln 5:30 p.m. 5 (Wed.) at St. Augustine’s 5:30 p.m. 8 (Sat.) VIRGINIA UNION 3:00 p.m. 12 (Wed.) CHOWAN 5:30 p.m. 15 (Sat.) at Elizabeth City State 5:30 p.m. 19 (Wed.) at Bowie State 5:30 p.m. 22 (Sat.) LINCOLN 3:00 p.m. Feb. 24-March 3 at CIAA Tournament (at Charlotte, N.C.) -1- Quick Facts Quick Facts Location: Ettrick, Va. 23806 Founded: March 6, 1882 Enrollment: 5,700 Nickname: Trojans School Colors: Orange and Blue Affiliation: NCAA Division II Conference: CIAA Arena (capacity): Daniel Gym (3,454) President: Dr. Keith T. Miller Alma Mater, Year: Arizona, ‘76 Athletics Director: Peggy Davis Alma Mater, Year: Howard Payne, ‘85 Head Coach: James Hill Alma Mater, Year: Shaw, 2003 Career Record (Years): 113-89 (7) Record at VSU: 113-89 (7) Assistant Coaches: Chiante Wester Anthony Mills Faculty Representative: Dr. Corey Davis SID: Mike Ballweg Phone: (804) 524-5028 Email: [email protected] Website: www.govsutrojans.com 2012-13 Team Information Record: 14-14 (.500) CIAA Record: 6-10 (.375) Returning Lettermen: 7 Starters Returning: 3 -2- Trojan Athletics Trojan Athletic Facilities Director of Athletic Peggy Davis th enters her 10 year at Virginia Virginia State boasts some of the top athletics facilities in the State. In Dec. 2012, she answered CIAA and in Division II. Improvement to the physical plant the call of the CIAA to serve a continue to ensure that stint as interim commissioner. Trojan student-athletes She restructured the conference have the best facilities. office and staff making the league more accountable and Daniel Gymnasium responsive. She returned to (3,454) is home to the Virginia State in August 2013 to Virginia State’s men’s resume her duties as director of and women’s basketball athletics. teams and the Lady Since coming to Virginia State in 1997, Davis has held the Trojan volleyball team. roles of head women’s basketball coach, associate director of athletics and senior woman administrator at Virginia State before being named director of athletics in 2003. Daniel Gym Weight She has been enshrined in the Halls of Fame at Virginia State Room houses modern and Howard Payne. Davis has been honored as Athletics equipment for weight Director of the Year for the CIAA in four of the last five years. training and physical She was recognized by the National Association of Collegiate fitness. Directors of Athletics (NACDA) as the 2010-11 Under Armour Southeast Region for Division II Athletics Director of the Year. She was also honored with the Jeanette A. Lee Administration Achievement Award in 2005 and 2010. Davis is past President of the CIAA Executive Committee as well as the CIAA Athletic Director’s Association. She is a member of NACDA and National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators (NACWAA). Rogers Stadium Weight The native of Bastrop, Texas earned a bachelor’s degree from Room boasts weight- Howard Payne and a master’s degree from Tarleton State. lifting and other state-of- Davis and her husband, Thomas, have two daughters: the-art training and Courtney and Taylor. exercise equipment. VSU Tennis Complex opened in 2005 and consists of nine courts. The facility has been the site of the CIAA Men’s and Women’s Tennis Championships each year since it’s opening. -3- This is Virginia State Virginia State University was founded on March 6, 1882, The University is situated in Chesterfield County at Ettrick, when the legislature passed a bill to charter the Virginia on a bluff across the Appomattox River from the city of Normal and Collegiate Institute. Petersburg. It is accessible via Interstate Highways 95 and 85, which meet in Petersburg. The University is only two The bill was and a half hours away from Washington, D.C. to the north, sponsored by the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area to the southwest, and Delegate Alfred W. Charlottesville to the northwest. Harris, a Black attorney whose Virginia State University has a long history of outstanding offices were in faculty and administration. The first person to bear the title Petersburg, but of President, John Mercer Langston, was one of the best- who lived in and known blacks of his day. represented Until 1992, he was the only black ever elected to the United Dinwiddie County States Congress from Virginia (elected in 1888), and he was in the General the great-uncle of the famed writer Langston Hughes. From Assembly. A hostile 1888 to 1968, four presidents - James H. Johnston, John M. lawsuit delayed Gandy, Luther H. Foster and Robert P. Daniel served an opening day for average of 20 years, helping the school to overcome adversity nineteen months, and move forward. until October 1, 1883. In 1902, the For the next four decades, seven more presidents would lead legislature revised the University to its current level of excellence including the charter act to curtail the collegiate program and to James F. Tucker, Wendell P. Russell, Walker H. Quarles, Jr., change the name to Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute. Thomas M. Law, Wilbert Greenfield, Wesley Cornelious McClure and Eddie N. Moore, Jr. In 1920, the land- grant program for Blacks was moved from a private school, Hampton Institute, where it had been since On November 30, 2009, the Virginia State University Board 1872, to Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute. In 1923 of Visitors announced that Keith T. Miller, Ph.D. would the college program was restored, and the name was become the institution’s thirteenth president. Dr. Miller changed to Virginia State College for Negroes in 1930. The officially took office on July 1, 2010. two-year branch in Norfolk was added to the college in 1944; the Norfolk division became a four-year branch in 1956 and gained independence as Norfolk State College in 1969. Meanwhile, the parent school was renamed Virginia State College in 1946. Finally, the legislature passed a law in 1979 to provide the present name, Virginia State University. In the first academic year, 1883-84, the University had 126 students and seven faculty (all of them Black), one building, 33 acres, a 200-book library, and a $20,000 budget. By the centennial year of 1982, the University was fully integrated, with a student body of nearly 5,000, a full-time faculty of about 250, a library containing 200,000 books and 360,000 microform and non-print items, a 236-acre campus and 416- acre farm, more than 50 buildings, including 15 dormitories and 16 classroom buildings, and a biennial budget of $31,000,000, exclusive of capital outlay. -4- Dr. Keith T. Miller Keith T. Miller, Ph. D., was appointed by the Virginia State Affairs Division to focus on faculty University Board of Visitors on July 1, 2010 as the support, learning outcomes and University’s 20th president. curricular innovation, and helped to With more than 20 years of experience in higher education, expand the opportunities available Dr. Miller possesses a keen understanding of how to build to students to participate in research academic success. Through support of faculty development, activities with university faculty. infusion of innovative technology and strategic partnerships with the business community, Dr. Miller is constructing a Dr. Miller was named President of state-of-the-art institution for the 21st century. With faculty, Lock Haven University of staff and community leaders, he is laying the cornerstone Pennsylvania in 2004. During his for Virginia State University to build a better world. tenure, Lock Haven was named the fastest growing university in the Pennsylvania State System Dr. Miller began his professional academic career in 1987 at of High Education. Under his leadership, the University Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Teaneck Campus serving focused on technology, teacher education, international concurrently as Assistant Professor/Interim Chair of the Department of Management and Marketing, and as Director education opportunities and community-based service of the Teaneck Campus’ MBA program. Dr. Miller accepted a learning initiatives. Upon his departure from Lock Haven, position at Quinnipiac College in Hamden, Conn., in 1991, he was honored by the University conferring upon him the where he spent three years as Associate Dean of the School title of President Emeritus. of Business. Under Dr. Miller’s leadership, VSU has become a founding He later became the Dean of the College of Business at Niagara member of the Commonwealth Center for Advanced University, a position he held from 1994-2001. During his Manufacturing (CCAM) and a catalyst for the Virginia tenure, the University was granted accreditation by the Logistics Research Center (VLRC).