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2008 GOLF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATION Jeff Barber and season ticket sales for football and basket- in 1991, before being promoted to Senior ball. Associate Athletic Director for External Affairs in Director of Athletics Membership collections for the Flames Club, 1994. the Athletics Department’s booster club organiza- While at Furman, Barber was responsible for Jeff Barber was tion, reached an all-time new high during the the collection of $14 million in revenue from annu- named the Director of 2006-07 campaign as Liberty surpassed the al giving, capital gifts and endowed gifts, while Athletics at Liberty $200,000 mark for the first time in the organiza- guiding the Paladin Club to gifts totaling $3.75 mil- University on Jan. 23, tion’s history. 2006 season ticket sales for football lion and set records for five-consecutive years. He 2006, becoming the were four times as high as the previous year, put- was also the chairman of the Furman Pro-Am Golf 10th Director of ting Liberty on track to sell over 1,000 football sea- Endowment Tournament, which totaled receipts of Athletics in the history son tickets in 2007. $6.5 million. of the University. Barber brought a wealth of experience in the Barber got his start in collegiate athletic The University has areas of athletic fundraising and administration to administration at his alma mater as the Assistant charged Barber with Liberty University, including 25 years in the athlet- Director of East Carolina’s Pirate Club in 1987. the future leadership of the athletics department ic industry. While serving four years with the Pirates, Barber and the building of a strong financial basis for the Barber came to Liberty after spending 11 years participated in the receipt of annual giving of $4 department which will guide Liberty University ath- at South Carolina, including his last three years as million to the Pirate Club, while organizing and letics into the ranks of the elite NCAA Division I Senior Associate Athletic Director for managing Pirate Club actions and Pirate Pro-Am athletic programs in the nation. Development/Gamecock Club Executive Director. fundraisers. Barber has wasted little time making an impact Barber served on the senior management Before joining the staff at East Carolina, at Liberty, as in less than two years, he has been team at South Carolina for nine years, helping Barber served three years in major and minor instrumental in guiding Liberty on a path to the raise more than $14 million annually, while work- league baseball as he was the Assistant General next level of collegiate athletics. ing closely with legendary football coaches Lou Manager of the Columbia Mets in Columbia, S.C. He has spearheaded facility improvement proj- Holtz and Steve Spurrier. (1985-86) and Director of Operations for the ects in nearly every athletics venue, highlighted by Barber supervised the solicitation and receipt Montreal Expos Spring Training Camp in West changes to Williams Stadium. During the summer of over $85 million during his tenure at South Palm Beach, Fla. (1986-87). of 2006, the football program’s on-campus playing Carolina, setting records each year in annual gifts After graduating from East Carolina, Barber facility received the latest in playing surfaces as to the Gamecock Club, which was at 16,500 mem- served as a health and physical education teacher FieldTurf was installed, while numerous other bers when he finished. He was also responsible in Columbia, S.C. for four years (1981-85), while smaller projects were initiated to aesthetically for all major gifts to the Gamecock Club which coaching football and basketball. improve the appearance of the facility. exceeded $15,000 annually and developed that Barber graduated cum laude at East Carolina However, Barber’s chief facility accomplish- level of giving from 21 members to 137 at his time in 1981 with a bachelor of science degree in ment since joining the Flames in 2005 was over- of departure. health, physical education and recreation. In seeing the completion of the Williams Football Barber joined the athletics department at 1997, he continued his education with a degree Operations Center. The new 48,000-square foot South Carolina in 1996 as an Assistant Athletic from the Sports Management Institute, graduating state-of-the-art home base for the football pro- Director for Development and was promoted to as class spokesman. gram is one of the nicest FCS (formerly I-AA) foot- Associate Athletic Director/Gamecock Club Barber, a native of Greenville, N.C., is married ball-only facilities in the nation. Executive Director in 1999. to the former Donna Dacus and the couple has In addition to Barber’s athletic facility achieve- Prior to his days at South Carolina, Barber three children – Katie (12), Lindsay (10) and Jay ments, the new Director of Athletics has spurred a served five years at Furman in Greenville, S.C., (9). dramatic increase in Flames Club memberships starting as Executive Director of the Paladin Club Dr. Jerry Falwell Liberty University Founder and Former Chancellor (1933-2007) At the age of cal youth. He began with the creation of The Moral Majority chose California Governor 22, having just Lynchburg Christian Academy, a Christ-centered, Ronald Reagan as "their candidate" for President graduated from col- academically-excellent, fully-accredited Christian in 1980, registered millions of new voters, and set lege in June of day school, providing kindergarten, elementary about to inform and activate a sleeping giant - 80 1956, Jerry Falwell and high school. million Americans committed to faith, family, and returned to his In 1971, Liberty University was founded. Judeo-Christian values. hometown of Today, over 27,000 students from 50 states and With the impetus of the newly organized Moral Lynchburg, Va., 80 nations attend this accredited, liberal arts Majority, millions of people of faith voted for the and started Christian university. Falwell’s dream has become first time in 1980 and helped elect Ronald Reagan Thomas Road a reality. A pre-school child can now enter the and many conservative congressmen and sena- Baptist Church with 35 members. The offering that school system at age three, and 20 or more years tors. Since 1979, about 30% of the American elec- first Sunday totaled only $135. later, leave the same campus with a Ph.D., with- torate has been identified by media polls as the Falwell often said about the first collection, out ever sitting in a classroom where the teacher "Religious Right". Most recent major media sur- “We thought we had conquered the world”. Today, was not a committed follower of Jesus Christ. veys have acknowledged these "faith and values" Thomas Road Church has 24,000 members and Falwell was also publisher of the National voters re-elected George W. Bush in November the total annual revenues of all the Jerry Falwell Liberty Journal, a monthly newspaper which is 2004. ministries total over $200 million. read by over 200,000 pastors and Christian work- Though perhaps better known outside Within weeks of founding his new church in ers, and the Falwell Confidential, a weekly e-mail Lynchburg for political activism, Jerry Falwell's 1956, Falwell began the Old-Time Gospel Hour, a newsletter to over 500,000 pastors and Christian personal schedule confirmed his passion for being MEDIA GUIDE daily local radio ministry and a weekly local televi- activists. a pastor and a Christian educator. He often stated sion ministry. Nearly five decades later, this Old- In June 1979, Falwell organized the Moral his heartbeat was for training young people for Time Gospel Hour is now seen and heard in every Majority, a conservative political lobbying move- every walk of life. American home and on every continent except ment which the press soon dubbed the "Religious Falwell, who went home to be with the Lord at Antarctica. Through the years, over three million Right." During the first two years of its existence, the age of 73 on May 15, 2007, was married to persons have communicated to the Falwell min- the Moral Majority attracted over 100,000 pastors, Macel for 49 years and they have three grown istries they received Christ as Lord and Savior as priests and rabbis and nearly seven million reli- children and eight grandchildren. a result of this radio and television ministry. gious conservatives who mobilized as a pro-life, In 1967, Falwell implemented his vision to pro-family, pro-Israel, and pro-strong national build a Christian educational system for evangeli- defense lobbying organization. 33 LIBERTY FLAMES 33 ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATION 2008 GOLF Jerry Falwell, Jr. Dr. Ronald M. Godwin Mickey Guridy Meredith Hollyfield Kristie Beitz Chancellor/President Executive Vice President/ Senior Associate Associate Athletics Director Associate Athletics Director - Chief Operating Officer Athletics Director for Senior Women’s Administrator Academic Affairs for Athletics Internal Operations Kevin Keys Dr. William Gribbin Bob Good Mike Hagen Todd Wetmore Associate Athletics Director for NCAA Faculty Director of Athletics Director of Compliance Assistant Athletic Director for External Operations Athletic Representative Development & Athletic Media Relations Flames Club Anna Whitehurst Chris Casola Bill Gillespie Jeff Alder Jesse Castro Assistant Athletics Director Head Athletic Trainer Strength & Conditioning Men’s Soccer Wrestling Ticket Operations Director Head Coach Head Coach Carey Green Chris Johnson Ritchie McKay Shane Pinder James Price Women’s Basketball Tennis Men’s Basketball Volleyball Women’s Soccer Head Coach Head Coach Head Coach Head Coach Head Coach Danny Rocco Jeff Thomas Brant Tolsma Jim Toman Paul Wetmore Football Golf Track and Cross Country Baseball Softball Head Coach Head Coach Head Coach Head Coach Head Coach GOLF 34 LIBERTY FLAMES SportsSports MedicineMedicine The student-athlete at Liberty University has the luxury of having one of complex, the Hancock Athletic Center, the Vines Center and the Crowder- the most dedicated sports medicine teams in the country.

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