The Coaching Staff

MATT Matt Walker’s WALKER Collegiate Coaching Experience Head Coach

Matt Walker enters his second season Years Position as DePauw’s head coach and his eighth on 1999-00 Assistant Baseball Coach the football staff. When he was named the DePauw University head coach in June 2006, Walker became Greencastle, just the 11th DePauw head coach in the last 77 years. 2000- Head Baseball Coach A 1999 DePauw graduate, Walker is present DePauw University also the first DePauw alumnus in the last Greencastle, Indiana century to serve as head football coach at his alma mater. 2000-06 Assistant Football Coach Walker directed the Tigers to a 6-4 DePauw University record in his first season and a third-place Greencastle, Indiana finish in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference. Over the previous seven seasons, Walker was an assistant coach for the 2006- Head Football Coach football program and has coached wide receivers, tight ends, running backs and present DePauw University quarterbacks. Greencastle, Indiana The Crawfordsville, Ind., native is also entering his ninth season as DePauw’s head baseball coach where his teams have posted a 196-136 record making him the second winningest coach in school history. He led the 2001 Tigers to the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference title and their first appearance in the NCAA tournament in 22 years. His 2004 team won a school-record 28 games and the 2005 squad broke DePauw All-Time Coaching Records that record with 29 victories. Walker joined the DePauw staff as an assistant baseball coach in the fall of 1999 and was named head baseball coach in mid- COACH YEARS YRS W L T PCT. March, 2000. None Listed 1884 1 0 1 0 .000 Walker was a three-year member of the DePauw football team, earned a W. G. Glenn 1889-90 2 2 3 1 .417 varsity letter during his senior season and was a starter at quarterback as well as Clint Hare 1891 1 3 1 0 .750 a special teams player. During his three seasons, the Tigers posted a 24-6 record A.N. Sager 1892-93 2 7 7 0 .500 E.O. Smith 1894 1 4 4 0 .500 including a school record-tying nine wins in 1996 and an Indiana Collegiate Frank E. Wade 1895 1 3 3 1 .500 Athletic Conference championship. Arthur Hamrick 1896-97 2 6 9 0 .400 As a member of the DePauw baseball team, Walker set the single-season Samuel K. Ruick 1898 1 3 4 2 .444 school record with 79 strikeouts in 1999 on the way to winning 10 games which Jules H. Ford 1899 1 3 2 0 .600 stands as the second-highest season total by a DePauw pitcher. He earned three Herbert J. McIntire 1899-1900 2 7 8 2 .471 varsity letters and was an all-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference first team 1901 1 8 3 0 .727 selection as a senior. Jimmy Henry 1902 1 5 5 0 .500 Walker earned a master’s degree from Indiana State University. He, his wife Chauncey Berrien 1903 1 2 6 1 .278 Jana and daughter, Kraly, reside in Greencastle. McFadden 1904 1 6 3 0 .667 O.H. Luck 1905-06 2 7 10 0 .412 Arthur M. Brown 1907-09 3 11 9 1 .548 R.C. Tapp 1910 1 4 3 0 .571 Arthur H. Berndt 1911 1 0 5 3 .188 1912 1 3 5 0 .375 Tom A. Bogle 1913-14 2 9 7 1 .559 Ralph Young 1915 1 5 3 0 .625 Edbert C. Buss 1916-20 5 21 13 1 .614 Fred M. Walker 1921 1 4 3 0 .571 James M. Ashmore 1922-24 3 9 11 3 .457 William L. Hughes 1925-29 5 20 17 3 .538 Raymond “Gaumey” Neal 1930-45 16 79 34 7 .688 Robert Nipper 1946 1 1 5 2 .250 Mike Snavely 1947-55 9 29 42 2 .411 Bob Hicks 1956-58 3 9 15 1 .380 Tom Mont 1959-76 18 67 94 4 .418 1977-78 2 3 16 0 .158 1979-80 2 9 9 1 .500 1981-2003 23 138 87 4 .611 2004 1 8 2 0 .800 Tim Rogers 2005 1 7 2 0 .778 Matt Walker 2006 1 6 4 0 .600 TOTALS 119 508 455 40 .526

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Assistant Coaches

LEN FELTON and played in the 2002 Sugar Bowl. Northwestern and completed 20 of 37 passes for Running Backs He played professionally with NFL Europe’s 246 yards which were all career highs. Scottish Claymore in 2003 where he was the team’s Len Felton enters his second special team’s captain. Jackson was also on the NFL season as an assistant coach at rosters of the New York Jets, Colts JAKE WISSING DePauw and will coach the run- and Green Bay Packers. Most recently, he was an Offensive Linemen ning backs. He also serves as a assistant coach at Champaign Central High School New York Posse X mentor. in Illinois. Jake Wissing begins his first Felton earned a bachelor of Jackson and his wife, Chequetta, reside in season as an assistant coach at science degree in English from suburban Indianapolis. his alma mater and will direct the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in 1988 and the offensive line. Wissing came to DePauw from Cornell College in Mt. Ver- comes to DePauw from St. non, Iowa, where he was the defensive backs coach ROBBY LONG Joseph’s (Ind.) College where for two seasons. Assistant Head Coach he coached the offensive line He previously served one year each as an assistant Defensive Coordinator during the 2006 season. at both St. Norbert College and Lawrence University Wissing graduated from DePauw in 2003 and and was the head coach at St. Thomas More High Robby Long enters his earned a Bachelor of Arts degree while majoring in School as well as an assistant in the Village of Allouez fourth season as an assistant communication. While at DePauw, Wissing served School, both in Green Bay. Felton also was a sports coach and second as the Tigers’ as a student assistant his senior year after playing for reporter for WLUK-TV in Green Bay for 14 years. assistant head coach and de- the Tigers each of his first three seasons. fensive coordinator. He also is Upon graduation he served as a graduate assistant DePauw’s director of student- coach at Alfred University where he coached the TIM HREHA athlete recruitment. running backs and earned a Master of Professional Defensive Linemen In the two seasons prior to coming to DePauw, Studies degree. Long served as a graduate assistant on the defensive He then moved on to Norwich University where Tim Hreha (RAY-ha), now line at the University of Illinois. He assisted the he coached the running backs during the 2005 in his 30th year as assistant defensive line coach in planning and conducting season. football coach at DePauw, practices in addition to organizing and coaching the serves as defensive line coach. defensive and special teams scout teams. He also is an assistant track and Long, a native of Champaign, Ill., earned a bach- JAMIE ZORBO field coach at DePauw. elor of science of applied life degree from Illinois. Linebackers Throughout the years, the A three-year varsity letterman for the Fighting Tigers’ defense has been ranked among the nation’s Illini, Long played on the 2001 outright Big Ten Jamie Zorbo enters his sec- leaders. The Tigers led the Indiana Collegiate Athletic champion squad that finished with a 10-2 record and ond year as an assistant coach Conference in rushing, total and scoring defense competed in the 2002 Sugar Bowl. He also played on at DePauw and will coach the in 1995. The 1983 Tigers led all of Division III in the squad that won the 1999 Micron PC Bowl and linebackers. Zorbo also serves rushing defense by allowing just 41.6 yards on the finished with an 8-4 record. Long was the team’s the University as a strength ground. defensive player of the week after the California coach. Hreha was a three-year letterman in football for game in 2001. Zorbo graduated from DePauw and co-captain during his senior year. A Long and his wife, Stacy, reside in suburban Kalamazoo College in 2000 with a bachelor’s de- three-year starter at defensive tackle, Hreha earned Indianapolis. gree in chemistry before earning a master’s degree the team’s spirit award as a junior. in business administration from Western Michigan After graduating in 1973 with a B.A. degree in University in 2004. history, he earned the M.A.T. degree in physical DUSTIN WARD An assistant coach at Kalamazoo since 2000, education in 1976 while serving as graduate assistant Offensive Coordinator Zorbo was named the defensive coordinator in 2004 football coach. Hreha has also served as head men’s Quarterbacks and the assistant head coach in December 2005. and women’s track and field coach at DePauw and He coached six all-Michigan Intercollegiate coached Alan Hill to a national pole vault champion- Dustin Ward returns to Athletic Association players including Division III’s ship as well as two additional all-America awards. DePauw as the offensive leading tackler and conference defensive player of coordinator after previously the year in 2004. Zorbo earned four letters for the serving as the running backs Hornets as a defensive end and was an all-Michigan BOBBY JACKSON coach during the 2004 season. Intercollegiate Athletic Association selection in Defensive Backs Ward comes from St. 1999. Joseph’s (Ind.) College where he was the offensive Zorbo and his wife, Kristy, reside in Bobby Jackson begins his coordinator and quarterbacks coach during the 2006 Greencastle. second season as an assistant season. He also worked as a recruiting assistant at for the Tigers and will coach Indiana University in 2005. the defensive backs. He also A 2003 University of Illinois graduate, Ward serves as an assistant track and earned a bachelor of science degree in leisure stud- field coach. ies/sports management. Jackson graduated from The Champaign, Ill., native played 22 games at the University of Illinois in 2001 with a bachelor’s quarterback and started nine during his Illini career. degree in history and was a four-year starting safety He completed just over 54 percent of his career for the Illini. A four-year letterman, Jackson served passes for nearly 2,000 yards and 13 touchdowns. as team captain twice including his senior season In his first season as quarterback in 2000, he when Illinois was the outright Big Ten champion earned a start in the Illini’s season finale against

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ROBERT BOTTOMS Western Theological Seminary in Chicago, the teaches in the Athletic Training Education Program, Joyce Foundation in Chicago, and the Center provides clinical instruction for athletic training President for Leadership Development in Indianapolis. students and is an academic advisor. In a five-year Dr. Robert Bottoms is in his In addition, Dr. Bottoms has been a consultant process that culminated in May 1999, he led the 22nd and final year as President to the Lilly Endowment, the Arthur Vining Athletic Training Education Program to accredita- of DePauw University. A native Davis Foundations and the Fund for Theological tion by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied of Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Education. The DePauw President has written Heath Education Programs. Bottoms earned his bachelor articles and opinion pieces for The New York Times, Over the years, Call has been active in both his degree at Birmingham-Southern The Indianapolis Star and the Chicago Tribune. profession and community. In May, he was awarded College, a Bachelor of Divinity As of July 1, 2008, Dr. Bottoms will become the 2002 College/University Athletic Trainer of the degree at Emory University, and his doctorate at Chancellor of the University and will assume the Year by the Indiana Athletic Trainers Association. Vanderbilt University. His career in higher education Directorship of the Janet Prindle Institute for Call is an oral examiner for the National Athletic began when he was appointed Chaplain and Assistant Ethics. Trainer’s Association Board of Certification. He to the President at Birmingham-Southern. He has assisted six high schools in the first-time utiliza- later moved to the Vanderbilt Divinity School as PAGE COTTON tion of a certified athletic trainer to care for their Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor of Church Director of Athletics athletes. Each spring, Call and the DePauw athletic and Ministry. In 1978, DePauw University selected training staff assist Orthopaedics Indianapolis and Dr. Bottoms as its Vice President for University Page Cotton enters his Greencastle Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine Relations; he subsequently advanced to Executive 12th year as the Theodore M. in providing affordable and comprehensive sports Vice President of the University before being named Katula Director of Athletics. physicals for Putnam County school-age athletes. President in 1986. Cotton also oversees recre- He has been active with Main Street Greencastle The University’s chief officer immediately ational sports at DePauw and and worked with the Heritage Preservation Society established three key goals for his administration- serves as the head men’s soccer in the development of the “Heritage Wall.” -increasing campus diversity, improving science coach, a position he has held Call earned a B.S. degree from Ball State Univer- education, and advancing moral reflection--and since 1969. sity in 1979 and an M.S. degree from the University in the intervening years the University has made Cotton oversees the University’s 21 men’s and of Arizona in 1980. In addition to DePauw, Call significant strides on each. While diversification women’s athletic teams as well as several club and worked four years with the University of Pittsburgh efforts are ongoing, DePauw’s curriculum, faculty, intramural programs. During his tenure as director football program and worked two preseason training staff, and student body are more geographically, of athletics, DePauw’s athletic program has consis- camps with the Buffalo Bills. He and his wife, Carol, socioeconomically, and racially diverse than at any tently moved up in the Sports Academy Directors’ have three children. time in its history. Cup standings. The Tigers finished 13th in 2005-06 Through Dr. Bottoms’ leadership, DePauw has and 15th last year. BILL WAGNER also made momentous advances in the sciences, A professor of kinesiology at DePauw, Cotton Director of Sports Information including unique research/study opportunities received the Medora C. Adams Distinguished provided by the University’s recently established Professor Award in April, 2004. Bill Wagner begins his 22nd Nature Park. Located on the site of an abandoned Cotton begins his 39th season as head coach of year as director of sports infor- quarry, the nearly 500-acre DePauw University the DePauw men’s soccer program and his teams mation. The Tiffin, Ohio, native Nature Park has opened new academic horizons have compiled a 378-185-32 mark including .500 or is responsible for publicity for for faculty and students in the fields of biology, better seasons each of the last 25 seasons. Additional all 21 of the University’s inter- geology, and geography, among others. The facility success for Cotton’s Tigers has come on the national collegiate athletic programs and also offers opportunities for reflection and recreation level with eight appearances in the NCAA Division oversees the athletics portion for members of the University and neighboring III Championship with the most recent trip coming of the DePauw Web site. communities. in 2000 when the Tigers advanced to the second Wagner earned a bachelor To support efforts on behalf of moral reflection, round. In Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference of science in business administration with a major the University announced in September 2005 play from 1989 through 1997, the Tigers dominated in marketing and an emphasis on advertising and the formation of the Janet Prindle Institute for the competition by winning all 54 matches. Cotton marketing research from in 1985 Ethics. The Institute, which is near completion in earned the league’s coach of the year honors each before obtaining a master of arts in sport manage- the DePauw Nature Park and will be dedicated in of those nine seasons. ment from The Ohio State University in 1986. He October, will help faculty and students integrate A native of Newton, Mass., Cotton graduated worked in the sports information offices at both the study of ethical issues across the curriculum, from Springfield College where he captained the schools. focusing greater attention on the role ethics play team that posted an undefeated season and captured He served as a venue media director at the Tenth in every individual’s personal and professional life. Atlantic Coast and New England championships. Pan American Games in Indianapolis in 1987 and The culmination of the President’s lifelong studies Cotton is recognized as a leader of soccer de- assisted with media relations at the 1988 NCAA of personal and public ethics, underscored by velopment in Indiana and has been selected state Division I Men’s Basketball Midwest Regional at insights gained from such events as the April 2003 clinician by the National Soccer Coaches Association. the Pontiac Silverdome. Wagner also worked in sales symposium, Political Education and the Modern Additionally, he has served on several NCAA soccer for the Cleveland Cavaliers professional basketball University and the University’s annual seminar, committees and recently chaired the championships team. DePauw Discourse, the Prindle Institute will also selection process. A member of the College Sports Information serve as a resource for the national academic He and his wife, Narda, are the parents of Eliza- Directors of America (CoSIDA), Wagner currently community. beth and Page. serves on the national organization’s board of direc- President Bottoms has led two highly successful tors and is a district coordinator for the ESPN The fund-raising endeavors, the most recent being the REX CALL Magazine Academic All-America program. Campaign for DePauw: Leadership for a New Director of Sports Medicine Wagner received a “Best in the Nation” award for Century, which culminated in April 2000 with gifts the 1996 and 1997 football media guides and for the and commitments in excess of $374 million. This Rex Call enters his 22nd cover of the 1988 football media guide. The 2002 achievement was recognized by the Council for year at DePauw. With a staff and 1994 guides earned second place honors. Advancement and Support of Education when of three certified athletic train- In all, nine of the DePauw football guides since Dr. Bottoms was named in 2000 a recipient of the ers and one graduate assistant 1992 have been ranked among the top five in the CASE V Chief Executive Leadership Award. As certified athletic trainer, Call nation as well as three men’s basketball guides. a result of that record-setting effort, DePauw has administrates sports health Wagner has previously been a member of the hired additional faculty, constructed new state-of- care services to over 400 men’s Football Writers Association of America, the United the-art buildings, renovated existing structures, and and women’s intercollegiate States Basketball Writers of America and the Col- gained recognition as a leading national liberal arts student-athletes at DePauw. He works directly with legiate Baseball Writers of America. college. football, softball and men’s basketball. He and his wife, Shelly, reside in Greencastle. He currently serves on the boards of the On the academic side, Call is a faculty member Posse Foundation in New York City, the Seabury- with rank of Associate Professor in Kinesiology. He

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DePauw University Athletic Department Directory (765 area code)

SWIMMING AND DIVING, MEN’S ADMINISTRATION Adam Cohen, head coach ...... 658-4119 TBA, graduate assistant ...... 658-4954 DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS S. Page Cotton, Jr...... 658-4938 SWIMMING, WOMEN’S Mary Bretscher, head coach ...... 658-4946 ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS TBA, graduate assistant ...... 658-4954 Mary Bretscher ...... 658-4946 TENNIS, MEN’S COACHING STAFF Tom Cath, head coach ...... 658-4279

BASEBALL TENNIS, WOMEN’S Matt Walker, head coach ...... 658-4939 Scott Riggle, head coach ...... 658-4935 Jake Martin, assistant coach ...... 658-4929 P.J. Mitchell, graduate assistant ...... 658-4929 TRACK and FIELD, MEN’S and WOMEN’S Kori Stoffregen, head coach ...... 658-4945 BASKETBALL, MEN Nipun Chopra, graduate assistant ...... TBA Bill Fenlon, head coach ...... 658-4940 Tim Hreha, assistant coach ...... 658-4943 Carson Harris, assistant coach ...... 658-6313 Bobby Jackson, assistant coach ...... 658-4951 Jon Miller, graduate assistant ...... 658-4942 Linda Skaggs, assistant coach ...... 658-6623 Jim Spencer, volunteer assistant ...... 658-6602 Keith Solverson, graduate assistant ...... 658-4947

BASKETBALL, WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL Kris Huffman, head coach ...... 658-4960 Deb Zellers, head coach ...... 658-4969 Mary Smith, assistant coach ...... 658-6280 Erin Plumley, graduate assistant ...... 658-4950 Tria Yoder, graduate assistant ...... 658-4930 Dana Ferguson, volunteer assistant ...... 658-4933 SUPPORT PERSONNEL CROSS COUNTRY, MEN’S and WOMEN’S Kori Stoffregen, head coach ...... 658-4945 EQUIPMENT MANAGERS Nipun Chopra, graduate assistant ...... TBA Jeanne Morris, equipment manager ...... 658-4949 or 4952 Linda Skaggs, assistant coach ...... 658-6623 Sandra Moore-Glass, part-time equipment manager ...... 658-4949 Keith Solverson, graduate assistant ...... 658-4947 NCAA COMPLIANCE FIELD HOCKEY Adam Cohen, director of NCAA compliance ...... 658-4119 Gina Preston, head coach ...... 658-4931 Becca Gaines, graduate assistant ...... TBA PROMOTIONS and MARKETING Mary Smith, coordinator ...... 658-6280 FOOTBALL Matt Walker, head coach ...... 658-4939 SPORTS INFORMATION assistant coach ...... 658-6086 Len Felton, Bill Wagner, director ...... 658-4630 Tim Hreha, assistant coach ...... 658-4943 Bobby Jackson, assistant coach ...... 658-4951 Robby Long, assistant head coach ...... 658-4944 SPORTS MEDICINE Rex Call, head trainer ...... 658-4937 Dustin Ward, assistant coach ...... 658-4957 Roger Doan, assistant trainer ...... 658-4972 Jake Wissing, assistant coach ...... TBA Zach Jones, part-time assistant trainer ...... 658-4953 Jamie Zorbo, assistant coach ...... 658-4908 Jen Pipkin, assistant trainer ...... 658-4968 GOLF, MEN’S and WOMEN’S Vince Lazar, head coach ...... 658-4921 STRENGTH and CONDITIONING Roger Doan, coordinator ...... 658-4972 Carson Harris, assistant coach ...... 658-6313 Tria Yoder, assistant ...... 658-4930 Jamie Zorbo, assistant ...... 658-4908 SOCCER, MEN’S S. Page Cotton, Jr., head coach ...... 658-4938 Corbin Sutton, assistant coach ...... 658-4958 STUDENT-ATHLETE RECRUITMENT Robby Long, coordinator ...... 658-4944 SOCCER, WOMEN’S John Carter, head coach ...... 658-4961 SUPPORT STAFF Ginny Kersey, secretary to the Director of Athletics ...... 658-4934 Greg Ruark, assistant coach ...... N/A Donna Rust, KIN/Athletics secretary ...... 658-4012 SOFTBALL Bonnie Skrenta, head coach ...... 658-4967 Robin Knapp, part-time assistant coach ...... N/A

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