GENERAL/MEDIA INFORMATION CORNELL QUICK FACTS Location . Ithaca, N .Y . 14853 Founded . 1865 Enrollment . 13,700 President . David J . Skorton Colors . Carnelian Red and White Affiliation . NCAA I Conference . Ivy League Home Field . Hoy Field (315-375-400-375-325) ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATION Director . .J . Andrew Noel, Jr . Associate Director . Anita Brenner Associate Director . .Stephen P . Erber Associate Director/Physical Education . Al Gantert Associate Director/Finance . .Alan Katz Assistant Director/Operations . Matt Coats Assistant Director/Sports Medicine . .Bernie DePalma Assistant Director/Athlete Performance . .Tom Howley Assistant coach Scott Marsh (left) and head coach Asst . Dir ./Student Services & Compliance . Chris Wlosinski Tom Ford hope to guide the Big Red back to the top of the Gehrig Division in 2007. TEAM INFORMATION Head Coach . Tom. Ford (Ithaca ‘79) TABLE OF CONTENTS email . twf2@cornell .edu Table of Contents/Quick Facts . .1 phone . (607) 255-6604 Head Coach Tom Ford . .2 Assistant Coach . .Scott . Marsh Assistant Coach Scott Marsh . .3 email . sm64@cornell .edu Assistant Coach Bill Kerry . .3 phone . (607) 255-3325 Baseball Endowments . .3 Assistant Coach . Bill Kerry 2007 Season Outlook . 4-5 Athletic Trainer . .Dustin Flynn 2007 Roster . .6 Strength Coach . .Tom Dilliplane MEET THE BIG RED Faculty Adviser . Bruce Tracey Bandanza, Brett, DiRicco . .7 Ford, Groth, Hamilton . .8 ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Hardinger, Heinz, Hutchinson . .9 Director . Jeremy Hartigan Hyland, Jacobs, Kagan . .10 Associate Director . Julie Greco Kaufman, Klinesteker, Laughlin . .11 Assistant Director (Baseball Contact) . .Kevin Zeise Loeding, McKown, Meier . .12 Office Phone . (607) 255-5627 Michael, Osterer, Toma . .13 Email . kjz3@cornell .edu Bertucci, Dannaway, David, Hill . .14 Assistant Director . .Lindsey Mechalik Milo, Rochefort, Timpano . .15 Accounts Representative . Marlene Crockford 2007 Opponents . .16 2006 Year in Review . .17 Office Phone . (607) 255-3752 2006 Statistics and Results . .18 Office Fax . (607) 255-9791 Cornell in the Ivy League . .19 Hotline . (607) 255-2385 EIBL/Ivy League/Gehrig Division Championship Teams . .20 Website . .www .CornellBigRed .com Coaching Records/Hall of Fame/Team Records . .21 Individual Records . .22 CREDITS: The 2007 Cornell baseball media guide is a publica- Record vs . All Opponents . 23-24 tion of the Cornell Athletic Communications Office . The guide Year-by-Year Records . .24 was written and designed by Kevin Zeise, assistant director of Annual Team Awards . .25 athletic communications . Editorial contributions from Jeremy WWW THIS IS CORNELL UNIVERSITY/CORNELL ATHLETICS Hartigan and Elizabeth Mayer . Photography: Patrick Shanahan, Realizing a Bold Dream . 26-27 University Photography, Darl Zehr . This is Ithaca . .28 . University Leadership . .29 C Cornell Athletics Leadership . .30 ORNELL Meet the Big Red Coaches . .31 ON THE COVER Ivy League . .32 Front: Blake Hamilton (left) and Friedman Center . .33 Brian Kaufman will try to lead the B Support Services . .34 Cornell baseball team back to the IG Athletic Training . .35 top of the Gehrig Division of the Ivy R Prominent Alumni . .36 League in 2007 . ED Hoy Field . .37 . Facilities . 38-39 C Success In and Out of the Classroom . .40 OM 2007 Schedule . Back Cover 1 2007 BASEBALL MEET THE COACHING STAFF TOMFORD 14 17th Season at Cornell The Ford File Ithaca ‘79 Education Ithaca College B .S ., physical education, ‘79 The Ted Thoren Head Coach of Baseball Coaching Experience Tom Ford has been the head Rocky Collis, Cornell, 1991-present (head) baseball coach at Cornell for selected in the Record at Cornell: 237-390 -2 Ithaca College, 1979-1990 (assistant) 16 seasons and is the first Ted 28th round of Ithaca College, 1979-89 (J .V . head) Thoren Head Coach of Baseball, the 2006 draft an honor that was bestowed in the summer of 1999 when by the Seattle Playing Experience Ithaca College, 1976-79 the position was endowed by Rich Booth ’82 . Ford suc- Mariners . Oth- ceeded the legendary Thoren when he was named the Big er players are: Red’s 15th head baseball coach in 1991 . Prior to joining the Trevor Schumm ‘91, free agent, Anaheim Angels; Joel Nies Cornell staff, Ford was the associate head coach at Ithaca ‘92, free agent, Boston Red Sox, Brian Williamson ‘99, 32nd College for 10 years . round pick, New York Mets; Raul Gomez ‘01, free agent, Ford’s 2005 squad accomplished a number of firsts for the Chicago White Sox; Erik Rico ‘02, 22nd round pick, Toronto Cornell program, including the school’s first Gehrig Division Blue Jays; Chris Schutt ‘03, seventh round pick, Minnesota title . The Big Red swept four games from Penn on Apr . 23-24 Twins; and Dan Baysinger ‘04, 31st round pick, St . Louis to become the first Cornell team to sweep a four-game series Cardinals . against an Ivy League A 1979 graduate of Ithaca College, Ford has a Bachelor foe . Those four games of Science degree in physical education and was awarded and the first game of a his master’s degree in 1981 . Upon graduation, he served doubleheader at Siena as head junior varsity and assistant varsity coach for the on Apr . 26 marked Bombers from 1979 to 1980 . He worked strictly with the the first time in the Bomber varsity as the pitching coach from 1981 until his 137-year history of appointment at Cornell . Cornell baseball that Ford also worked as a physical education instructor in the the Big Red held five Lansing Central School system . He was the Bobcats’ head straight opponents to football coach from 1984-1990 and also spent time as the one run or less . The head junior varsity and assistant varsity basketball coach . first three games in Ford also coached the Ithaca Junior Yankees in 1980 . the Penn series also During his undergraduate days at Ithaca, Ford was a pitch- marked the first time in er for three years on four years that Cornell the varsity, serving threw three consecu- as a co-captain in tive complete games . 1979 . He was the re- His first squad compiled a 23-17 overall record for Cornell’s cipient of the Carlton first winning season since 1984 . As a team, the Big Red hit “Carp” Wood Atti- 306. that season, marking its first 300. season in seven years . tude Award follow- The Big Red also beat Georgia Tech in the second game of ing his senior year . a twin bill on its spring trip when the Yellow Jackets were A graduate of Tru- ranked second in the country . mansburg (N Y. ). Cen- In 1995, the Big Red was 20-19 and finished second in tral School in 1975, the Gehrig Division of the Ivy League with a 10-10 mark . Ford played varsity Ford also had the 1998 squad in contention for the Gehrig football, basketball OM C Division crown until the final weekend of the season . The and baseball . He and . Big Red’s 12-8 finish in the Ivy League was the team’s best his wife, Kristen, who ED to date and its 12 league wins was the most by a Cornell works in the Cornell R team since the 1982 squad went 12-6 in the then-Eastern Campaign Office as IG B Intercollegiate Baseball League . In his 16 years at Cornell, a Senior Campaign Ford has compiled a 237-390-2 record . He picked up his Officer for Special 200th career win in the first game of a doubleheader at St . Initiatives, have two Joseph’s (Pa .) on March 13, 2004 . children, Matthew ORNELL C Ford has done a good job of preparing his players for the and Jocelyn . next level as well . During his tenure, eight Cornellians have Rocky Collis is one of eight Cornellians either been selected in Major League Baseball’s amatuer draft who have continued their playing careers in Major League Baseball after playing for WWW or signed as undrafted free agents, including most recently head coach Tom Ford 2 2007 BASEBALL MEET THE COACHING STAFF SCOTTMARSH 31 12th Season At Cornell UCLA ‘86 Assistant Coach Scott Marsh is now in his 12th Marsh attended Golden West Junior College from 1981-83, season as a member of the Cornell compiling a 16-5 record over two years and tying the school re- baseball coaching staff and his cord for most wins by a pitcher . He earned second-team all-state second as a full-time coach . Marsh honors as a freshman at GWJC . He then went to UCLA, where works with the Big Red pitchers . he played baseball on a full athletic scholarship, compiling the Under Marsh’s guidance, the Big Red finished second in the lowest ERA in the Pac 6 as a senior . league in team ERA in 2003 and 2005 and had a pitcher selected Marsh is a 1986 graduate of UCLA with a bachelor of arts in the Major League Baseball amateur draft in three consecutive degree in economics . He earned his master’s degree in business years from 2002-04 . Erik Rico, the Ivy League Player of the Year administration from the University of California at Irvine in 1989 in 2002, was selected that year by the Toronto Blue Jays in the and his master’s degree in sports administration from Ohio Uni- 22nd round . Chris Schutt, the league’s 2003 Pitcher of the Year, versity in 1994 . was taken in the seventh round by the Minnesota Twins . Follow- Marsh played pro baseball for the San Diego Padres minor ing the 2004 season, Dan Baysinger was selected by the St . Louis league teams in Spokane, Wash ., and in Reno, Nev . Cardinals in the 31st round . BILLKERRY 38 Third Season At Cornell Le Moyne ‘98 Assistant Coach Bill Kerry returns to Cornell for baseball for the Dolphins for four years, twice earning first-team his third season and second straight All-MAAC honors .