LSU VOLLEYBALL IN THE MIZUNO TIGER CLASSIC August 24-25 Maravich Center • Baton Rouge, La. Volleyball Contact: Melissa Foley • [email protected] • (225) 578-1869 • (225) 578-1861 - Fax • P.O. Box 25095 • Baton Rouge, La. 70894 2007 SCHEDULE/RESULTS AUGUST ##23 TIGERS 24 (1) New Orleans 7 p.m. 23 LSULSU TIGERS 25 (1) UL-Monroe 11 a.m. (0-0, 0-0 SEC) 25 (1) St. Louis 7 p.m. 31 (2) vs. Illinois 10:30 a.m. IN THE SEPTEMBER 1 (2) vs. Texas A&M-CC 11 a.m. 1 (2) at Rice 5 p.m. MIZUNO TIGER CLASSIC 7 (3) vs. Iowa State 5 p.m. 8 (3) at Drake 10 a.m. FRIDAY’S MATCHES SATURDAY’S MATCHES 8 (3) vs. Iowa 5 p.m. Saint Louis vs. Louisiana-Monroe 4:30 p.m. LSU vs. Louisiana-Monroe 11 a.m. LSU vs. New Orleans 7 p.m. Saint Louis vs. New Orleans 1 p.m. 12 * at Ole Miss 7 p.m. New Orleans vs. Louisiana-Monroe 5 p.m. 16 * at Arkansas 7 p.m. LSU vs. Saint Louis 7 p.m. 21 * South Carolina 7 p.m. LIVE STATS: LSUSPORTS.NET 23 * No. 7 Florida (Cox Sports) 1 p.m. 28 * at Auburn 7 p.m. INTERNET: LSUSPORTS.NET/GEAUXZONE 30 * at Georgia 1 p.m. OPPONENT QUICK FACTS OCTOBER 5 * Alabama 7 p.m. LSU Louisiana-Monroe 7 * Mississippi State 1:30 p.m. (0-0, 0-0 SEC) (0-0, 0-0 Sun Belt) 12 * at Tennessee 6 p.m. 14 * at Kentucky 12:30 p.m. NATIONAL RANKING: No. 23 NATIONAL RANKING: Not Ranked 17 * Ole Miss (Cox Sports) 7 p.m. LOCATION: Baton Rouge, La. LOCATION: Monroe, La. 19 * Arkansas 7 p.m. NICKNAME: Tigers NICKNAME: Warhawks 23 Notre Dame 7 p.m. COLORS: Purple & Gold COLORS: Maroon & Gold 26 * at No. 7 Florida (SEC RSN) 6 p.m. CONFERENCE: Southeastern CONFERENCE: Sun Belt 28 * at South Carolina 12:30 p.m. HEAD COACH: Fran Flory HEAD COACH: Jason Schmidt NOVEMBER SID CONTACT: Melissa Foley SID CONTACT: TBA 2 * Kentucky 7 p.m. 4 * Tennessee (Pelican Sports) 1:30 p.m. New Orleans Saint Louis 9 * at Mississippi State 7 p.m. 11 * at Alabama 1:30 p.m. (0-0, 0-0 Sun Belt) (0-0, 0-0 A-10) 16 * Georgia 7 p.m. 18 * Auburn (Pelican Sports) 1:30 p.m. NATIONAL RANKING: Not Ranked NATIONAL RANKING: Not Ranked 24 Tulane (Pelican Sports) 7 p.m. LOCATION: New Orleans, La. LOCATION: St. Louis, Mo. NICKNAME: Privateers NICKNAME: Billikens 1 – Mizuno Tiger Classic; Baton Rouge, La. COLORS: Royal Blue & Silver COLORS: Royal Blue & White 2 – Mizuno Invitational II; Houston, Texas CONFERENCE: Sun Belt CONFERENCE: Atlantic 10 3 – Iowa Challenge; Des Moines, Iowa HEAD COACH: Jozsef Forman HEAD COACH: Anne Kordes * - Denotes SEC matches SID CONTACT: TBA SID CONTACT: Heather Freehill All times are central and subject to change LSU IN THE MIZUNO TIGER CLASSIC 2007 QUICK FACTS MEDIA INFORMATION UNIVERSITY SPORTS INFORMATION LOCATION: Baton Rouge, La. LSU Associate SID Melissa Foley handles the sports information duties for the Tiger volleyball team. She FOUNDED: 1860 can be reached in her office at (225) 578-1869, via e-mail at [email protected], at home at (225) 344-2072 ENROLLMENT: 29,317 or by cell phone at (225) 241-4365. NICKNAME: Tigers or Fighting Tigers COLORS: Purple & Gold INTERVIEWS FACILITY: Pete Maravich Assembly Center (13,373) CONFERENCE: Southeastern Head coach Fran Flory is available for interviews on weekdays. Her office is located on the fourth floor of PRESIDENT: Dr. Joe Lombardi the Athletic Administration Building. Interviews with coaches and/or players are held before and after CHANCELLOR: Sean O’Keefe practice and phone interviews may be arranged. Requests should be made at least 24 hours in advance. Please arrange all interviews through Melissa Foley. ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT ATHLETICS DIRECTOR: Skip Bertman WWW.LSUSPORTS.NET SENIOR ASSOCIATE AD/OPERATIONS: Verge Ausberry Information about the Tiger volleyball team is available on www.LSUSports.net, the Official Website of LSU SENIOR ASSOCIATE AD/SWA: Judy Southard SENIOR ASSOCIATE AD/EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Herb Vincent Athletics. Information about the Southeastern Conference is available at www.sec.org. ASSOCIATE AD/INTERNAL RELATIONS: Bo Bahnsen ASSOCIATE AD/BUSINESS: Mark Ewing MEDIA.LSUSPORTS.NET ASSOCIATE AD/COMPLIANCE: Bo Kerin Media can now access images for all LSU athletics teams, including action shots, head shots, logos, etc. To ASSISTANT AD/OPERATIONS: Eddie Nunez gain access to the high-resolution pictures, e-mail Melissa Foley. You will be assigned a user name and a ASSISTANT AD/STUDENT SERVICES: Miriam Segar password that will enable you to retrieve pictures. This service is for media use only. Resale of these images ASSISTANT AD/FACILITY SERVICES: Ronnie Haliburton is strictly prohibited. VOLLEYBALL STAFF HEAD COACH: Fran Flory (Texas, 1984) TIGERS ON THE TUBE RECORD AT LSU: 155-115/10th year LSU will play on television six times this season. The Tigers will make two appearances on Cox Sports OVERALL RECORD: 265-229/17th year Television (Channel 37), including the Sept. 23 match against Florida and the Oct. 17 match against Ole ASSISTANT COACH: Steve Loeswick (Southern Cal, 1996) Miss, both in the Maravich Center. LSU will also take on Florida in Gainesville on SEC Regional Sports ASSISTANT COACH: Jill Lytle Wilson (LSU, 2001) Network (FSN Southwest - Channel 38) on Oct. 26. In addition, Pelican Sports (Digital Cable Channel 113) has picked up a trio of Tiger matches. The local cable access station will televise the Nov. 4 match against SPORTS INFORMATION Tennessee, the Nov. 18 match against Auburn and regular season finale against Tulane on Nov. 24. ASSISTANT AD/SPORTS INFORMATION: Michael Bonnette SENIOR ASSOCIATE SID: Kent Lowe ASSOCIATE SID: Laurie Cannon ASSOCIATE SID/VB CONTACT: Melissa Foley HEAD COACH FRAN FLORY ASSOCIATE SID: Bill Franques ASSOCIATE SID: Brian Miller Going into her 10th year as head coach at LSU, YEAR SCHOOL RECORD PUBLICATIONS COO.RDINATOR: Jason Feirman recording a 155-115 (.574) record ... Overall record 1986 Wittenburg University 11-21 in her 17th year as a head coach is 265-229 (.536) GRAPHIC DESIGN COORDINATOR: Peter Hoang 1992 Southeastern Louisiana 21-13 GRAPHIC DESIGN COORDINATOR: Krystal Bennett ... Three-time Louisiana Coach of the Year (2001, 1993 Kentucky 29-4 PHOTOGRAPHER: Steve Franz 2005, 2006) ... In 2006, guided the Tigers to back- to-back SEC West titles, advancing to the NCAA 1994 Kentucky 13-21 PHONE DIRECTORY Tournament for the second-straight year ... In addi- 1995 Kentucky 10-18 tion, she led LSU to the most wins since the 1992 ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT: (225) 578-8001 1996 Kentucky 12-20 season and a school record 16 SEC wins ... In 2005, VOLLEYBALL OFFICE: (225) 578-5050 guided the Tigers to first SEC West title in school 1997 Kentucky 14-17 SPORTS INFORMATION: (225) 578-8226 history, advancing to the NCAA Tournament for the 1998 LSU 15-16 SPORTS INFORMATION FAX: (225) 578-1861 first time in 13 years ... In addition, she led LSU to FOLEY OFFICE: (225) 578-1869 1999 LSU 17-15 the most wins since the 1993 season and most SEC FOLEY HOME: (225) 344-2072 2000 LSU 15-17 wins since 1992 ... In 2004, she led the Tigers to a FOLEY CELL: (225) 241-4365 third place finish in the SEC West, the seventh con- 2001 LSU 16-11 FOLEY E-MAIL: [email protected] secutive year LSU finished at least third in the West 2002 LSU 17-11 ... In second stint with LSU ... Was an assistant 2003 LSU 11-19 coach from 1988-1991 ... Helped Tigers to three 2004 LSU 17-12 Follow LSU volleyball on: conference titles, three SEC tournament titles and two Final Fours ... Spent five years as the head 2005 LSU 21-8 coach at Kentucky, compiling a 78-80 (.494) record 2006 LSU 26-6 ... In first year, led Wildcats to a 29-4 record and 2007 LSU 0-0 took UK to the second round of the NCAA Total 17th year 265-229 Tournament en route to being named the Tachikara/AVCA South Region Coach of the Year ... at WU One year 11-21 Played at Texas from 1980-1983 ... Member of the at SLU One year 21-13 1981 AIAW National Championship team ... Named at UK Five years 78-80 All-Southwest Conference in 1982. at LSU 10th year 155-115 LSU IN THE MIZUNO TIGER CLASSIC QUICK SETS SEC STANDINGS WESTERN DIVISION With a 26-6 record in 2006, LSU recorded the most wins in a season since also posting 26 in TEAM OVERALL SEC 1992. The Tigers recorded their 20th 20-win season, including their second straight, but only Alabama 0-0 0-0 the third since 1993. Arkansas 0-0 0-0 Auburn 0-0 0-0 With a 16-4 record, LSU broke the school record for most SEC wins in school history, break- No. 23 LSU 0-0 0-0 ing the previous record of 13 recorded in 1991. It marked only the fifth time the Tigers have Mississippi State 0-0 0-0 recorded double-figure wins in SEC play, including back-to-back seasons in 2005 and 2006, Ole Miss 0-0 0-0 but just the third time since 1992. Eastern Division The Tigers posted six straight conference sweeps to start the 2006 schedule in the Maravich TEAM OVERALL SEC No. 7 Florida 0-0 0-0 Center before losing the first game to Florida on Nov. 3. Last year, LSU lost only nine games Georgia 0-0 0-0 at home, going 36-9 (.800) in games in the PMAC.