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Blue Starr Drive- Claremore. Oklahoma 74017 • 918/341-0600 Welcome to Tulsa A Letter from the Commissioner Welcome to Tulsa, Okla., and the 2006 Conference USA Men's Soccer Championship. With another season underway, Conference USA has renewed its commitment to excel• lence with the "Team C-USA: Dedicated to Excellence" campaign. The focus of this campaign is our dedication to excellence, integrity and leadership in athletics, academ• ics and the community. Our team is made 2006 Conference .USA up of outstanding institutions that share this unwavering commitment. Men's Soccer Championship C-USA championship events are the highlight of every season - an oppor• tunity to enjoy the outstanding talents and abilities of our athletic pro• November 1-5 grams, as well as appreciate the competitive spirit of all of our student• athletes and coaches. Congratulations to all of the coaches and players Hurricane Soccer'and Track Stadium who will compete for the C-USA Men's Soccer Championship. The University of Tulsa We would like to extend sincere thanks to The University of Tulsa, who along with the championship committee, has worked hard in preparation for this event. The league also appreciates the support from our fans across the country. On behalf of everyone involved with Conference Welcome to Tulsa . •........ 1 USA, I hope you have a wonderful time in Tulsa. Conference USA 2-3 Sincerely, City of Tulsa 4 ~~ ~J & Britton Banowsky The University of Tulsa . .4 Commissioner Hurricane Soccer and Track Stadium .5 Florida International Golden Panthers 6 A Letter from the TU Athletics Director Kentucky Wildcats . 7 Welcome to The University of Tulsa and to the Hurricane Soccer and Track Stadium. Marshall Thundering Herd 8 We are proud to host the 2006 Conference Memphis Tigers 9 USA Men's Soccer Championship. Athletes, we salute you in your quest for excellence and SMU Mustangs ....•. 10 hope this event brings out your very best play. Friends and guests, we thank you for helping South Carolina Gamecocks 1 l make this event a success. We invite you to explore our campus, where Tulsa Golden Hurricane 12 more than 4,000 talented students pursue excellence of their own in our undergraduate UAB Blazers . B and graduate programs. We hope your stay will take you off campus, as well, where you can enjoy Tulsa's eclectic dining, entertainment, and shop• UCF Golden Knights 14 ping venues. Championship Bracket . 15 We extend our best wishes to each team and every student-athlete for an exciting and memorable tournament. Enjoy your stay. C-USA Championship Results 16 Best regards, NCAA Postseason Results 17 ~-!!~- C-USA Awards ...... 18-19 Lawrence R. CYf111ingham TU Athletic Director C~USA Records l 9~20 Area Restaurants . 20 2006 C-USA MEN'S SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP 1 Conference USA Team C-USA: Dedicated to Excellence SUCCESS ON THE PLAYING FIELD Conference USA performers have achieved great success in competition, Excellence every day. For Conference USA, dedication to excellence is a placing the league among the top conferences in the nation. common thread in athletics, academics and in the community, and the guiding initiative for the league's promising future. Conference USA fea• Football tures 12 nationally prominent, tradition-rich members in East Carolina, Rated among the top seven conferences in the nation Houston, Marshall, Memphis, Rice, SMU, Southern Miss, Tulane, Tulsa, 33 teams have earned bowl bids Member of the Bowl Championship Series UAB, UCF and UTEP. This combination enhances men's and women's Bowl ties-ins with the AutoZone Liberty Bowl (champion), GMAC Bowl, programs that are steeped in athletic success and academic prowess. Sheraton Hawai'i Bowl, Fort Worth Bowl, New Orleans Bowl, the Together, we are dedicated to excellence, integrity and leadership in ath• Houston Bowl and the Birmingham Bowl letics, academics and in our communities. Men's Basketball Consistently rated as one of the top basketball leagues in the country All C-USA institutions sponsor Division I-A football, along with several 72 postseason teams ( 40 NCAA and 32 NIT) other men's and women's athletic programs, many of which compete Strong fan support, drawing more than one million fans each season regularly for NCAA Championships. C-USA sponsors competition in 19 Two Final Four teams sports - nine for men (baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, Five Elite Eight NCAA Tournament teams soccer, tennis and indoor and outdoor track and field) and l O for women One NIT Champion Four NIT semifinalists (basketball, cross country, golf, softball, soccer, swimming and diving, ten• nis, indoor and outdoor track and field and volleyball). Women's Basketball 39 NCAA Tournament appearances The league sponsors numerous academic awards, including the 25 WNIT appearances Commissioner's Honor Roll and the Commissioner's Academic Medal, One team in the NCAA Sweet 16 Two WNIT semifinalists indicative of outstanding achievement in the classroom. C-USA annually Strong fan support, ranking among the nation's top l O conferences in awards six postgraduate scholarships, along with the Sport Academic attendance Award, Scholar Athletes of the Year and the Institutional Academic Setting league attendance record for three straight seasons Excellence Award. Baseball 35 NCAA appearances Two College World Series appearances in 2005 and 2001 Seven Super Regional appearances Has produced at least four NCAA teams in each of the last five seasons Marshall University Huntington, Vv'V University of Tulsa Tulsa, OK University of Alabama ot Birmingham Birmingham, Al Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX University of Central Florido Orlando, Fl University of Houston Tulane University Rice University New Orleans, LA Houston, TX 2 2006 C-USA MEN'S SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP Conference USA In addition, 27 volleyball teams, 34 men's and women's soccer teams Marquette, Memphis, Saint Louis, Southern Miss, Tulane, UAB and USF. and 17 softball teams have earned NCAA Tournament bids. C-USA has Eleven of the institutions began athletic participation in 1995, while sent three men's soccer teams to the NCAA College Cup, five softball Houston joined competition in the fall of 1996. teams to the Women's College World Series and three volleyball teams to the Sweet 16. The league has also had three national champions in The league's headquarters were established in Chicago and after nine NCAA track and field competition, one national champion in diving and years, relocated to the current office in Irving, Texas. Britton Banowsky numerous NCAA individual and team competitors in cross country, golf, was named Commissioner in October 2002, succeeding Mike Slive, the swimming, tennis and track and field. Overall, Conference USA teams league's first commissioner. and individuals have made more than 420 NCAA appearances. C-USA added East Carolina (September, 1996) and the United States SUCCESS OFF THE FIELD Military Academy (March, 1997) as football members. ECU began league C-USA institutions are among the nation's best in academic performance competition in 1997; Army in 1998 and UAB began football play in among student-athletes, bolstered by the fact that student-athletes at 1999. The league added TCU and ECU ( 1999) for all sports and they league schools have a higher graduation rate than the general student began competition in 2001. USF started C-USA football in 2003. population. Among C-USA's 5,000 student-athletes, there are champions off the playing field as well. In 11 years, 89 student-athletes earned After celebrating its l 0th Anniversary during the 2004-05 season, C-USA national ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America honors, while 282 began a new chapter in 2005-06 when its current membership came were named All-District. In addition, more than l 1,000 student-athletes together to form the new look of the league. have been named to the Commissioner's Honor Roll or received the Commissioner's Academic Medal, indicative of outstanding achievement Since its formation, C-USA has established a strong foundation, an identity in the classroom. and a history that reflects the league's national presence. Eleven years of remarkable history has reinforced the league's position in collegiate athlet• C-USA ON TV ics, setting the course for the next decade and beyond. C-USA enjoys significant television exposure through its partnerships with ESPN Inc. and College Sports Television Networks (CSTV). The league entered into long-term agreements with both ESPN and CSTV, which, combined, provides C-USA with significant national and regional exposure for football, men's and women's basketball, and all other conference C-USA Academic Awards sports. Additionally, the CSTV agreement includes video-on-demand, Internet, broadband, national over-the-air and satellite radio, and wireless Institutional Academic Excellence Award distribution as well as corporate marketing rights, and website production Awarded to the institution with the highest overall student-athlete through CSTV Online, a subsidiary of CSTV.