AIR FORCE SOCCER 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS GENERAL INFORMATION ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Media Information ..........................................2 Location: USAF Academy, Colo. Assoc. AD/Communications: Troy Garnhart Founded: 1954 Nickname: Falcons Men’s Soccer SID: Jerry Cross Coaches / Staff Colors: Blue and Silver Office Phone: (719) 333-3950 Head Coach Doug Hill .....................................3 Enrollment: 4,000 Office Fax: (719) 333-3798 Coaching Staff ................................................4 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Cell Phone: (719) 338-0804 Support Staff...................................................5 Conference: Mtn. Pacific Sports Fed. E-mail: [email protected] Home Field: Cadet Soccer Stadium Capacity: 2,000 Mailing Address: 2011 Season Press Box Phone: (719) 333-3157 Athletic Communications Office 2011 Season Preview ................................. 6-7 Superintendent: Lt. Gen. Michael C. Gould U.S. Air Force Academy 2011 Roster ....................................................8 Director of Athletics: Dr. Hans Mueh 2168 Fieldhouse Drive Meet the Falcons .......................................9-25 Vice Athletic Director: Col. Billy Walker USAFA, Colo. 80840 2011 Opponents ..................................... 26-27 Assoc. AD/Athletic Prog.: George Nelson The MPSF .....................................................28 ALUMNI INFORMATION AIR FORCE SOCCER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION TEAM INFORMATION 2010 in Review Head Coach: Doug Hill President: Matt Anderson (‘97) 2010 Statistics / Results ...............................29 Alma Mater: USAFA (1983) Vice Pres: Jeff Harder (‘90) Office Phone: (719) 333-2174 Treasurer: Greg Walsh (‘81) Toll-Free: (800) 379-1455 x2174 Secretary: Greg Schiller (‘85) History/Records E-mail: [email protected] For more information, contact: Year-by-Year Results ....................................30 AFA Record / Yrs: 24-45-3 / Four Years Greg Walsh Individual & Team Records ..........................31 Overall Record / Yrs: 24-45-3 / Four Years 3617 Sandbar Lane Where Are They Now? ..................................32 Colleyville, TX 76034 All-Time Letterwinners ............................33-35 2010 Overall Record: 7-12 817-577-8661 Award Winners .............................................36 2010 Conf. Record / Finish: 5-5 / 3rd Mountain Assistant Coaches: CREDITS Writing & Design: Jerry Cross The Academy Matthew Okoh (Denver, ‘96) The USAFA ....................................................37 Chris Foster (USAFA, ‘89) Photos: DenMar Services USAFA Senior Leadership .............................38 Athletic Department Leadership ....................39 Starters Returning / Lost: 9 / 2 The 2011 men’s soccer media guide is a USAFA Athletics ............................................40 Letterwinners Returning / Lost: 17 / 6 production of the Air Force Academy athletic communications office. Thank you to the entire athletic communications office for editing assis- tance. A regular-season record crowd of 3,206 packed Cadet Soccer Stadium on Aug. 25, 2006, as the Falcons and service-academy rival Army battled to a 1-1 tie. goairforcefalcons.com -- 1 MEDIA INFORMATION MEDIA GUIDE POST-GAME IR ORCE The 2011 Air Force men’s soccer media guide A F is produced as a source of information for the PROCEDURES EAD OACHES Head coach Doug Hill will be available to the H C media. Other materials may be obtained by press 10 minutes following the end of the game Name ..........................................Sport contacting the athletic communications office: outside the team’s locker room. Players will Mike Kazlausky .....................................Baseball be available following Hill. The Air Force locker Athletic Communications Office Jeff Reynolds ..........................Men’s Basketball room, training room and weight room are 2168 Field House Drive Andrea Williams ................Women’s Basketball closed to all media. USAF Academy, CO 80840-9500 Eddie Weichers ...................................... Boxing Phone (719) 333-2313 Final statistics, including team and individual Fax (719) 333-3798 Juli Benson ...................... M&W Cross Country totals and play-by-plays, are available following Stan Curnow .................................M&W Diving the game in the Cadet Soccer Stadium Press Box and on the Air Force Academy athletic Abdel Salem ..........................................Fencing website at: Troy Calhoun .........................................Football ORKING RESS W P George Koury ...................................Men’s Golf www.goairforcefalcons.com CREDENTIALS Kip Simons ...........................Men’s Gymnastics Press and photograph credentials are issued to members of the working media only. These Doug Day ........................Women’s Gymnastics credentials may be obtained by contacting the Frank Serratore ................................Ice Hockey athletic communications office. Upon accep- N EASON Eric Seremet ........................................Lacrosse tance of applications, appropriate passes can I -S be picked up at the Cadet Soccer Stadium press INTERVIEWS Launi Meili ................................................. Rifle All Air Force players and coaches are available box. Doug Hill ......................................Men’s Soccer for interviews with the following guidelines. All interviews must be made through the athletic Larry Friend ............................Women’s Soccer communications office at (719) 333-3950 or Rob Clayton ...........................Men’s Swimming 333-2313. All interview requests must be made Casey Converse ................Women’s Swimming AIR FORCE at least 24 hours in advance so that the player PRACTICES or coach can be properly notified. There will be Lt. Col. Dan Oosterhous ...............Men’s Tennis All Air Force practices both home and on the no interviews on game day with players. Kim Gidley ...............................Women’s Tennis road are open to the media. Media members Ralph Lindeman .................M&W Track & Field wishing to film practice must make arrange- ments with the athletic communications office Matt McShane ....................................Volleyball to attend practice. A member of the athletic Jeff Heidmous ..................................Water Polo communications office must accompany you. Joel Sharratt .......................................Wrestling ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS STAFF Troy Garnhart Dave Toller Madeline McGuire Dave Kellogg Brian Jerman Assoc. AD/ Asst. AD/ Graphics Dir. of Internet/ Director Communications Media Relations Specialist Hall of Excellence Falcon Vision Jerry Cross Nick Arseniak Valerie Perkin Melissa McKeown Adam Parker Soccer Contact Asst. SID Asst. SID Asst. SID Asst. Video 2 -- air force men’s soccer 2011 HEAD COACH DOUG HILL Doug Hill enters his fifth season as head coach at Air Force in 2011. Hill spent 13 seasons as an assistant coach at Air Force before being promoted to head coach in June of 2007. A 1983 THE HILL FILE graduate of the Academy, Hill guided the Falcons to a 7-12 overall Hometown record and a 5-5 mark in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, Fleetwood, Pa. good for a third-place finish in the Mountain Division in ‘10. He enters the 2011 campaign with a 24-45-3 career record. Education In his four seasons at the helm, Hill has coached 15 Falcons U.S. Air Force Academy to all-conference honors, including five last season, four of whom B.S., Focus on Engineering, 1983 were underclassmen. This season, Hill has 17 letterwinners and nine starters returning from last year’s squad. In fact, eight of the Univ. of Northern Colorado 11 players that notched at least one point last season are back. M.A., Sports Administration, 1994 Hill, who holds a United States Soccer Federation “A” Playing Experience license, was a four-year varsity letterman at Air Force and played for his predecessor, Lou U.S. Air Force Academy Sagastume. He was team captain both his junior and senior seasons. In all four years, Hill 1979-82 helped the Falcons win the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Soccer League championship. After graduation, he remained at the Academy as the assistant soccer coach and a physical Four-year letterwinner education instructor for one year. Two-time Team Captain, 1981-82 Hill left the Academy in 1984 for Dyess AFB, Texas, where he was an instructor navi- All-RMISL, 1981-82 gator in the C-130 aircraft. In addition, he assisted and filled in as the interim head soccer coach for the men’s and women’s soccer teams at Hardin-Simmons University (Texas) from All-Air Force Team 1986-1988. In 1988, he led the women’s team to the National Association of Intercollegiate 1985, 1987, 1999, 2000 Athletics (NAIA) championship game and finished second in the nation. He also played on Coaching Experience the all-Air Force soccer team in 1985 and 1987 and coached the 1986 team. USSF “A” License After eight years away from the Academy, Hill returned as an assistant coach in 1992 1994 and helped guide the Falcons to consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament in ‘92 and ‘93. In 1993, the Falcons advanced to the Final Eight after beating undefeated and No. 1-ranked Air Force, Head Coach Creighton, 2-1, in four overtimes on the road in the first round. The 1996 team advanced to 2007-present the WAC championships after going 14-3-3 during the regular season, while the 1997 squad earned a trip to the NCAA Tourney. Air Force, Associate Head Coach Hill moved on to McChord AFB, Wash., in 1997, holding positions of Director, Wing 2006 Weapons and Tactics