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DR. ROBERT H. FOGLESONG THE FOGLESONG FILE University President West Virginia, 1968 PERSONAL Joined MState: April 2006 Birthdate: July 13, 1945 Birthplace: Williamson, W. Va. Hometown: Williamson, W. Va. Family: Wife (former Mary Thrasher); Children (sons David and Mark)

oc Foglesong was born and Foglesong has been designated AIR FORCE ASSIGNMENTS raised in Mingo County, West by the President of the 1972-1973 Student, Undergraduate Pilot Training Virginia. He’s the son of a as the Co-Chairman of the Joint US Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. D 1973-1976 T-41 instructor pilot, 557th Flying Training Squadron steam fitter on the railroad and a first- - Russia Commission on POWs/MIAs. Peterson Field, Colo., and USAFA, Colorado Springs, Colo. grade teacher. He attendsed West Vir- He is also a Director on the Board of 1976-1977 Aide-De-Camp to the Commander, Korea ginia University and eventually earned Massey Energy and a Director on the 314th Air Division Osan Air Base, South Korea his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate Board of the Michel Baker Corp. 1977-1979 AT-33, EB-57 instructor pilot in chemical engineering—and mar- Foglesong previously was a four- Flight examiner and Asst. operations officer ried his former English teacher—Mary star general in the United States Air 17th Defense Systems Evaluation Squadron Malmstrom AFB, Mont. Thrasher Foglesong of Sistersville, Force. He flew fighters, was a senior 1979-1980 AT-33 instructor pilot and commander, Detachment 1 West Virginia. leader in organizations equivalent to 24th Air Defense Squadron Currently, Foglesong is the Presi- companies ranking 9th, 110th, and Malmstrom AFB, Mont. 1980-1982 F-15 pilot and squadron scheduler dent of Mississippi State University — a 430th on the Fortune 500 List, and 9th Tactical Fighter Squadron land-grant school of more than 16,500 worked directly with the most senior Chief of quality assurance students committed to excellence in national leaders including congressio- 49th Tactical Fighter Wing Commander, 49th Component Repair Squadron teaching, research, and service. His vi- nal members, cabinet members, and Holloman AFB, N.M. sion is for the university to be the most heads of state. 1983-1985 Special Assistant for Tactical Issues respected land-grant school in the Foglesong received numerous Executive Officer for the Deputy Chief Of Staff For Research, Development and Acquisition Southeast. He also is President and awards for leadership. He is a member Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. Executive Director of the Appalachian of the Council on Foreign Relations, 1985-1987 Special Assistant to the Commander Leadership and Education Foundation, has written more than 60 publications Chief Combat Analysis Division Headquarters Tactical Air Command an organization committed to finding, that cover a range of topics, and has Langley AFB, Va. mentoring, and developing young an honorary Doctorate of Strategic In- 1987-1988 F-16 pilot and Assistant Deputy Commander for Operations men and women who will be the next telligence. He likes to run and collect 31st Tactical Fighter Wing Homestead AFB, Fla. generation of leadership across Appa- slide rules and blow torches. 1988-1990 Chief of Staff of the Air Force Chair lachia. Professor of Joint and Combined Warfare National War College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Wash. 1990-1991 F-16 pilot and Chief of Maintenance 347th Tactical Fighter Wing Moody AFB, Ga. 1991-1993 Director, Chief of Staff of the Air Force’s Staff Group Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. 1993-1993 Commander, 14th Flying Training Wing Columbus AFB, Miss. 1994-1995 Commander, 51st Fighter Wing Osan AB, South Korea 1995-1997 Deputy Director for Politico-Military Affairs, the Joint Staff Washington, D.C. 1997-1999 Assistant to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Washington, D.C. 1999-2000 Commander, 12th Air Force U.S. Southern Command Air Forces Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. 2000-2001 Deputy Chief Of Staff for Air and Space Operations Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. 2001-2003 Vice Chief of Staff, Headquarters U.S. Air Force Washington, D.C. 2003-2004 U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander Allied Air Component Command Ramstein Air Component Commander U.S. European Command Ramstein AB, Germany 2005-2006 Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe Commander, Allied Air Component Command Ramstein Air Component Commander, U.S. European Command, Ramstein AB, Germany Director, Multinational Joint Air Power Competence Center Kalkar, Germany

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LARRY TEMPLETON ANN CARR Director of Athletics Associate AD/Women’s Sports Mississippi State, 1969 Mississippi State, 1990 Joined MState: 1969 Joined MState: 1993

uring his career as athletic director at Mississippi State, Larry Templeton has guided the veteran of 12 years in athletic administration at MSU and a former sports program to unparalleled success and overseen accomplishments never attained Lady Bulldog athlete, Ann Carr was named the university’s associate Din the near-100 years the school played on athletic fields and courts prior to his tenure. A athletic director for women’s sports in June 2006. He has overseen achievement by State student-athletes in the classroom and in competition Carr is in her second stint within the State athletic department following with the nation’s premier programs. And he has done all that while operating within the depart- seven years as Assistant Athletic Director for Student Life. In that position, ment’s now $30 million budget. she worked with the personal development of MSU’s student-athletes in ad- Mississippi State competes for championships in every sport program, its athletes continue dition to continuing her prior responsibilities as academic counselor for the to excel in the classroom, and the department has operated in the black while expanding its Bulldog football team. varsity athletic sport program and drastically improving its facilities. Templeton has overseen all Carr serves as the director of the department’s Life Skills program, which that and more as the head of the program. On the playing field, the decade of the ‘90s saw virtually every State sport establish a best- includes the support systems and career programs for all MSU student-ath- ever finish. The start of the new millennium has been no different with MSU sports teams having letes, and its CHAMPS program (Challenging Athletes’ Minds for Psersonal qualified for postseason play 51 times during the past seven seasons; a school-record 12 did so Success). in 2004-05. As SWA, Carr will oversee the operation and supervision of MSU’s wom- But State’s student-athletes are not just succeeding on the playing field. MSU’s men’s and en’s sport program. Hired in 1993 as an assistant director in the athletic aca- women’s athletes recorded the highest combined grade point average during the 2005-06 aca- demic office, she returned full-time to MState in 1999 following a one-year demic year in the 18 years in which student-athlete grades have been tracked. In 14 of the last stay in a similar capacity at the University of Southern Mississippi. 16 years, the Bulldog football team has been one of just a handful of schools cited by the Ameri- A native of Brookhaven, Miss., Carr was a four-year letter winner on the can Football Coaches Association for having a graduation rate exceeding 70 percent. MSU is Mississippi State women’s basketball team (1986-90). When Carr finished the only school in the SEC to make that list with that much frequency. In spring 2007, exactly her women’s basketball playing career, she ranked first on the career leaders one-half of all scholarship student-athletes at Mississippi State earned a grade point average of list in free-throw percentage, shooting 75.8 percent over a four-year span. 3.00 or higher. She also ranked 12th on the career points list, having scored 762 points in MSU has produced the SEC’s Male and Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year three times her tenure, averaging 8.3 points per contest. In rebounding, Carr brought each during Templeton’s tenure. And over the past seven years, State is second among league schools in number of Academic all-SEC selections in the sports in which MSU competes. down 597 boards (6.5 per game) to finish her career sixth on the all-time list Templeton oversaw Mississippi State’s move to come into compliance with the SEC’s Gen- in rebounds and rebounding average. She also finished her career holding der Equity plan, adding women’s soccer and to the school’s varsity sport menu. The first the individual record in most three-point field goals made (five) in a single season of soccer was in 1995, while softball began competition in 1997. Since that time, the game. soccer team has won the SEC Western Division title (2001) and the softball team has never had A 1990 graduate of State, she later earned her master’s degree in coun- a losing season and has qualified for NCAA postseason play six of the last eight years. seling from the institution in 1992. And for the 20th year in a row this past year, the MSU athletic program joined just a small group of NCAA Division I schools nation-wide to finish in the black financially at year’s end. Templeton’s work also stretches far from the Starkville campus. He has served as chairman of the SEC’s athletic directors since 1990. He is serving a second term on the prestigious NCAA Baseball Committee, currently serving as that committee’s chairman. He is a former member of the NCAA Championship Committee, the NCAA Management Council and the NCAA Bowl Certification Committee. Templeton is married to the former Linda Jo Nichols. They have a son, Brian, who received his second degree (landscape architecture) at Mississippi State in May 2002. A second son, Stephen, received his doctorate from Mississippi State in August 2002, and a daughter, Nici, is an attorney in Columbia, S.C. Granddaughters Ella Grace and Addison McSwain Comer, and Eliana Xiaojiong Nichols live in Columbia, S.C., and Chattanooga, Tenn., respectively.

Greg Byrne Dr. David C. Boles Jim Ellis Straton Karatassos Duncan McKenzie Assoc. Athletic Director Assoc. Athletic Director Assoc. Athletic Director Assoc. Athletic Director Assoc. Athletic Director External Affairs Student Services Marketing & Corporate Athletic Development Internal Operations Development

Ray Berryhill Bracky Brett Mike Richey Bobby Tomlinson Pat Wallace Asst. Athletic Director Asst. Athletic Director Asst. Athletic Director Asst. Athletic Director Asst. Athletic Director Academics NCAA/SEC Compliance Development Facilities Ticket Operations

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The Netherlands and returned to the mainland Mississippi State and with the 2007 Junior World Championship. In USA Softball 2006 he coached the junior national team to the Pan American Qualifier title, securing the team a berth in the Pan-Am Games. ince first really making a name for itself Throughout his numerous journeys with at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, repre- the national team program, Miller has had the Ssenting the United States on the softball opportunity to coach a trio of Bulldogs on the field has been a goal of many players to come international stage. In 2006 he assisted Michigan through the collegiate ranks. head coach Carol Hutchins on the USA’s World Many players who have donned the Maroon University Games team. That team included and White for Mississippi State have aspired to senior Bulldog Courtney Bures, who one day wear the Red, White and Blue while had earned NFCA All-Region accolades a year KERI McCALLUM MICHELLE GATES hustling, diving and sliding for the United removed from claiming SEC Freshman of the States. Year and first team All-America honors. Since softball became an Olympic sport in Bures’ selection to the United States’ World U.S. National Team in 2005 following a col- 1996, the Bulldogs have contributed greatly to legiate career in which she still rates as MSU’s the success that the U.S. has enjoyed on the lone four-time all-American international stage. McMichael played on Miller’s Elite squad USA Softball was created by the Amateur that captured the 2003 Cup. The Softball Association to train, equip and pro- two-time all-American clinched the title for mote the various national teams to competi- the Americans, hitting a walk-off tion both in the United States and on the in the bottom of the 14th inning against mainland. Australia after Miller’s squad knocked off the Bulldog head coach Jay Miller plays a vital U.S. National Team in the semifinal. role in helping guide and teach the athletes Both players currently play in the National who are selected to carry on the rich tradition Pro Fastpitch league, as McMichael was the of success the United States has enjoyed for top selection for the who won many years. Miller currently serves as a member a league title in 2005 after her game-winning of the U.S. National Team coaching staff. home run against the Bandits. For Miller got his first taste of international McMichael, the successes professionally and at coaching experience in 1987 as the pitching COURTNEY BURES & JAY MILLER the international level are a continuation of her coach for the Netherlands Antilles’ Pan-Am outstanding MSU career which included a pair Games team. He joined the USA Softball of SEC Player of the Year honors. coaching ranks in 1992 as a member of the USA University Games team continues a rich tradition Michelle Gates and Keri McCallum earned Softball National Team Selection Committee, that previously included fellow all-Americans the program’s first U.S. team selections since which was responsible for selecting the teams Iyhia McMichael and Kellie Wilkerson. Both the program returned in 1997. The duo, who that compete in various international competi- competed extensively on various U.S. squads led State to the SEC Tournament finals in tions, and he has served with the program ever following the completion of MSU careers which 1998 and the program’s first NCAA regional since. saw them establish numerous school records. appearance in 2000, were both invited by USA Miller has also enjoyed his share of success Wilkerson, a four-time all-SEC selection, Softball to the Olympic Festival in 1998 and on the field for the U.S. at the international has seen extensive action on the international again in 1999. level. Just last summer he guided the United stage, competing with the 1999 junior national States Junior National Team that ventured to team, the USA Elite National Team, and the

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playing field, Mississippi State softball has JESSUP WATERMAN played an integral role in the growth of the professional league dating back to the development of the WPSL. The Bulldogs’ impact on the profes- sional league began with Autumn Anderson and Keri McCallum being drafted by the WPSL. Since then, eight other MSU alumni have gone on to compete in the WPSL or the NPF. In its first season as NPF, the Akron Racers utilized the No. 1 overall senior draft Akron Racers Texas Thunder Akron Racers pick to select former Bulldog all-American Iyhia McMichael. ous offensive categories. The duo has also time NFCA all-region winner, was selected with Her former teammate, Kellie Wilkerson, been tabbed to multiple NPF All-Star teams, the 10th overall pick by the Tampa Bay Firestix. was drafted by the league’s New York/New and McMichael claimed the 2004 National Pro McCallum’s former teammates, Michelle Gates Jersey Juggernaut. Both players have since Fastpitch Most Valuable Player Award after lead- and Karrie Rider, also enjoyed stellar careers in captured a league title, as McMichael led ing the league in (.339) and runs the professional softball ranks. Gates, who earned the Racers to the 2005 crown a year after scored (34) and ranking third overall in home runs two all-region accolades playing third base for the Wilkerson helped the Juggernaut to the (four) and doubles (12). Bulldogs, actually teamed with Rider for the Ohio 2004 championship. Wilkerson finished immediately behind Pride who lost in the 2000 WPSL championship Since entering the league, both McMichael in the hitting title race, batting .331 series to the Florida Wahoos. McMichael and Wilkerson have consistently with a league fourth-best 20 RBI while guiding the topped the NPF leaderboard in numer- Juggernaut to the Cowles Cup which is presented annually to the league champion. The very next season McMichael expe- rienced the thrill of hoisting the champion- ship trophy after she the game-winning home run off USA national team member to clinch the title series for the Racers. That season McMichael and Wilkerson, who had moved to the New England Riptide, both finished among the top offensive players in the league. Wilkerson concluded the year second in batting average after hitting .435. McMichael continued to solidify her place among the league’s greats, rank- ing fifth with a .400 average and hitting 11 home runs which ranked right behind USA national team member Crystl Bustos for tops in the league and for the Racers. Former Bulldog hurlers Melissa Massey and Kasey Whitehead joined McMichael on the Racers for a season, and several other former MSU standouts completed in the professional ranks in either NPF or the WPSL. Anderson, a 1998 NFCA second team all-region selection in the circle, was selected with the ninth overall pick by the Durham Dragons in the 1999 WPSL draft. A year later, McCallum, MSU’s first four-time all-SEC selection and a two-

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