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EAST CAROLINA EAST Katie YAMAMOTO 2011-12 SWIMMING & DIVING GUIDE J.D. FLANAGAN Jessica BRINKLEY 2011-12 SWIMMING & DIVING SCHEDULE HOME HOME AWAY AWAY HOME Sept. 30 • 3 p.m. Oct. 6 • 5 p.m. Oct. 15 • 1 p.m. Oct. 29 • 2 p.m. Nov. 2 • 5 p.m. College of Charleston/ Purple-Gold North Carolina Davidson Georgia Southern NC State Greenville, N.C. Greenville, N.C. Davidson, N.C. Charleston, S.C. Greenville, N.C. HOME NEUTRAL NEUTRAL AWAY HOME Nov. 12 • 1 p.m. Nov. 17-19 • All Day Dec. 1-3 • All Day Jan. 14 • 1 p.m. Jan. 21 • 1 p.m. Short Course Campbell/ Catawba Nike Cup Nationals Old Dominion William & Mary Greenville, N.C. Chapel Hill, N.C. Atlanta, Ga. Norfolk, Va. Greenville, N. C. AWAY NEUTRAL NEUTRAL NEUTRAL NEUTRAL Jan. 27-28 • Feb. 15-18 • All Day March 8-10 • All Day March 15-17 • All Day March 22-24 • All Day 5 p.m./10 a.m. South Carolina/ Conference USA NCAA Zone Diving NCAA Women’s NCAA Men’s Vanderbilt Championships Championships Championships Championships Columbia, S.C. Houston, Texas Auburn, Ala. Auburn, Ala. Federal Way, Wash. CONTENTS GENERAL INFORMATION Name: East Carolina University Quick Facts/Media Information .........................1 Location: Greenville, N.C. The University ................................................2-3 Founded: 1907 Enrollment: 27,367 Chancellor Steve Ballard ....................................4 Conference: Conference USA Athletics Director Terry Holland ........................5 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Greenville, N.C. ................................................6 School Colors: Purple and Gold Minges Natatorium ............................................7 Mascot: Pirates Murphy Center ..................................................8 Chancellor: Dr. Steve Ballard Director of Athletics: Terry Holland Strength and Conditioning ................................9 Sr. Women¹s Administrator: Rosie Thompson Student Development ...................................... 10 Faculty Representative: Dr. David Dosser Pirate Traditions ............................................. 11 Conference USA ............................................... 12 SwiMMING & DIVING INFORMATION Head Coach: Rick Kobe (Fairmont State ’76) Diving Coach: Mark Lenzi (Indiana ’90) COAchiNG STAFF Head Assistant Coach: Matthew Jabs (East Carolina ’01) Head Coach Rick Kobe ................................14-15 Assistant Coach: Keith Dawley (South Carolina ’09) Assistant Coaches .......................................16-18 Assistant Coach: Kate Gordon (East Carolina ’07) Support Staff ................................................... 18 Assistant Coach: Brent Noble (Eastern Illinois ’09) Volunteer Assistant Coach: Sarah Kehe (Ball State ’10) Administrative Assistant: Melrose Moore MEET THE piRATES Office Phone Number: (252) 737-1757 2011-12 Men’s Roster ...................................... 20 Home Facility: Minges Natatorium Men’s Bios ..................................................21-28 Twitter: ECUswimPirates 2011-12 Women’s Roster ................................. 29 Women’s Bios .............................................30-40 MEdiA RELATIONS Director of Media Relations: Tom McClellan Associate Director/Swimming Contact: Jody Jones YEAR IN REVIEW Jones’ E-mail: [email protected] 2010-11 Review ..........................................42-43 Assistant Director: Sarah Fetters Top Times ........................................................ 44 Assistant Director: Malcolm Gray Assistant Director: Charles Welch Administrative Assistant: Deirdre Harris RECORds Media Relations Phone: (252) 737-4522 All-Time Records ........................................46-47 Media Relations Fax: (252) 737-4528 All-Time Top 10 ..........................................48-49 Office Address: 319 Ward Sports Medicine Building Year-by-Year Results ...................................50-54 Greenville, NC 27858 All-Americans .................................................. 55 Official Website: www.ecupirates.com Championships ...........................................56-57 CREDITS: The 2011-12 East Carolina Swimming & Diving Media Guide has been published Individual Conference Champions ...............58-59 by the East Carolina University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Content and Honors and Awards.......................................... 60 design coordination by the ECU Athletics Media Relations Office. EDITOR: Jody Jones. EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE: Sarah Fetters and Matthew Jabs. COVER PHOTOGRAPHY: All-Time Captains ............................................ 61 Chris Cribari, Rob Goldberg. PHOTOGRAPHY: Rob Goldberg, Chris Cribari and Hall of Fame .................................................... 62 unidentified sources. PUBLISHING: Laura Doolittle, Lisa Roberts and Jai Giffin, Provations Group. DIGITAL ONLINE EDITION: Provations Group (www.provations.com) East Carolina University or more than a century, East Carolina University has Fserved the people of North Carolina and the nation. From modest beginnings as a school for training teachers, ECU has grown to become an emerging national research university with an enrollment of nearly 28,000 students. East Carolina offers 104 bachelor’s degree programs, two educational specialist degree programs, two certificates of advanced studies programs, 73 master’s degree programs, 18 doctoral degree programs, and first-professional degree pro- to U.S. News & World Report. During the spring 2010 semester, grams in medicine and dentistry. With a mission of teaching, ECU’s distance education students took over 36,000 credit hours. research, and service, East Carolina University is a dynamic Through its new Access Scholarships program, East Carolina institution connecting people and ideas, finding solutions to offers financial assistance to a historically underserved but great- problems, and seeking the challenges of the future. ly deserving group of students: those who have proven academic Each year, more than 8,000 East Carolina students contribute potential and demonstrated financial need. in excess of 100,000 hours of volunteer service to more than 125 Notable East Carolina alumni include Pulitzer Prize win- community health and human service organizations. ners Rick Atkinson and Dan Neil; Emmy Award-winning com- East Carolina leads the University of North Carolina system in poser Velton Ray Bunch; actresses Sandra Bullock, Beth Grant, distance learning enrollment. Additionally, ECU’s distance educa- and Emily Procter; BB&T chief tion program is the 12th largest in the United States, according operating officer Kelly King; Bob 2011-12 EAST CAROLINA 2 SWIMMING & DIVING Greczyn, president and CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Caro- lina; former North Carolina secretary of state Janice Faulkner; Kevin Wil- liamson, creator of Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Dawson’s Creek; former U.S. senator Robert Morgan; current NFL All-Pro performers David Garrard, Chris Johnson and Vonta Leach; Broadway star Manley Pope; Ronnie Barnes, head athletic trainer for the New York Giants; and James Maynard, founder of the Golden Corral restaurant chain. East Carolina University. Tomorrow starts here. 2011-12 EAST CAROLINA 3 SWIMMING & DIVING Steve Ballard Chancellor • Arizona ’70 hancellor Steve Ballard, since his arrival in Greenville Cin May 2004, has focused on measures designed to enhance East Carolina University’s role as the University For North Carolina. On an array of topics, from student success to research productivity to athletics, he has empha- sized excellence and leadership. While leading the fastest-growing university in North Carolina, Ballard has committed to providing every student with excellent training in the classroom, practical experi- ences in the community and region, and the opportunity to develop leadership skills. He has hired nationally known leaders in athletics, research, finance and diversity. He has overseen a record-breaking building boom on campus and the addition of over 500 new faculty positions. New campus facilities under his administration include the East Carolina Heart Institute, the Family Medicine Center, the new School of Dentistry, and nearly $60 million in new athletic facilities. His other strategic directions include providing class- room leaders for the 21st century for public schools in North Carolina and the rest of the nation; artistic and cultural leadership; economic development; and medical innovation. cess, public policy, and the utilization of scientific and technical Before joining East Carolina as the university’s tenth chief knowledge. He has authored five books and more than one hun- executive, Ballard served as provost at the University of Missouri dred professional articles and manuscripts on such topics as the at Kansas City. Previous academic appointments had taken him innovation process, energy and natural resources, and managing from Oklahoma to the East Coast. growth and change. Ballard spent his childhood in Galesburg, Illinois, then attend- ed the University of Arizona, where he graduated with distinction ECU Administration in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in history. As shortstop and cap- Steve Ballard Chancellor Marilyn Sheerer Provost tain of the University of Arizona baseball team, he earned three Phyllis Horns Vice-Chancellor for Health Sciences varsity letters and played in the College World Series during his Deirdre Mageean Vice-Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies senior year. Kevin Seitz Vice-Chancellor for Administration and Finance After earning his doctorate in political science