WWW.NAVYSPORTS.COM TABLE OF CONTENTS/QUICK FACTS CoachingTABLE Staff OF CONTENTS 2-3 HeadCOACHING Coach STAFF John Morrison October2005-06 SCHEDULE 2005-06 Season Outlook 4-5 Alma Mater North Carolina 93 14 %Potomac Relay Invite 5 p.m. 2005-06 Roster 6 Year at Navy Second 15 Geo. Washington/Loyola 12 Noon Meet the Midshipmen 7-14 Navy Record 10-3 22 Johns Hopkins 2 p.m. 2004-05 Season In Review 15 Career Record 41-28 (Four Seasons) 29 at UMBC 2:30 p.m. Coaching History / Yearly Records 16 Phone: (410) 293-3081 Year-by-Year Results 17-19 E-Mail [email protected] November Army-Navy Results 19 5 at Colgate/vs. Lehigh 2 p.m. Conference Champions 20-21 Assistant Coach Chris Villa 12 at Bucknell/vs. Lafayette 2 p.m. Eastern Champions / NCAA History 22 Alma Mater Hartwick 99 Honors Page 22 Year at Navy Third Navy Records 23-25 Phone (410) 293-3013 December Beat Army! 26-27 E-Mail [email protected] 1 Army 3:45 p.m. The United States Naval Academy 28-33 Navy Swimming Alumnae 34 Diving Coach Joe Suriano January The Patriot League 35 Alma Mater Michigan 70 14 at Cornell/vs.Yale 3 p.m. Lejeune Hall 36 Year at Navy 28th 28 Penn 12 Noon Phone (410) 293-2970 E-Mail [email protected] February 4 at Richmond 2 p.m. LocationNAVY QUICK FACTS Annapolis, Md. 11 Navy Invitational 10 a.m./3 p.m. Superintendent Vice Adm.Rodney P.Rempt, USN 23-25 *Patriot League Championship Director of Athletics Chet Gladchuk O162004-05 Lafayette RESULTS W 119-66 Nickname Midshipmen, Mids O16 Rider W 169-102 March School Colors Navy Blue and Gold O22 George Mason W 175-125 10-12 ^NCAA Diving Zone Home Pool Lejeune Hall (1,000) O29 UMBC W 176-117 Championship Conference Patriot League N6 at Lehigh W 172-121 16-18 #NCAA Championship N6 vs. Colgate W 170.5-120.5 28-1 $USA Senior National Championship N13 Bucknell W 176-124 N13 UNC Wilmington W 179.5-120.5 Home Meets in Bold at Lejeune Hall SPORTS D2 at Army W 182-118 %Potomac Relay Invite —— Washington, D.C. (Georgetown) J15 Cornell W 175.5-123.5 *Patriot League Championship –– Annapolis, Md. J15 Yale L 174.5-124.5 ^NCAA Diving Zone Championship –– SwimmingINFORMATION SID Justin Kischefsky J29 at Penn L 175-124 Annapolis, Md. Phone (410) 293-8772 #NCAA Championship —— Athens, Ga. F5 Richmond L 161-139 Fax (410) 293-8954 $USA Senior National Championship —— Federal Way,Wash. F24-26 Patriot League Meet Second 598 pts. E-mail [email protected] Website www.navysports.com TEAM 2004-05INFORMATION Overall Record 10-3 2004-05 Patriot League Meet Finish Second (598) Letterwinners Returning/Lost 10/12 Newcomers 21 Navy’s 2005-06 senior class (L-R): Lenaya Chamu, Mandy Minikus, Sheila Singer, Sansarae’ Pickett 1 2005-06 NAVY WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING 2005-06 NAVY WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING HEAD COACH JOHN MORRISON SECOND YEAR * NORTH CAROLINA ‘93 John Morrison enters his second season as the head coach for the Navy HometownMORRISON’S HISTORY Toms River, N.J. womens swimming program, Education B.S., North Carolina 93 as well as his sixth year at the Naval Academy. In his initial season back on The Yard, Navy 1991-93COACHING BACKGROUND Assistant Coach,Washington & Lee (M&W) placed second at the Patriot 1993-97 Assistant Coach, U.S. Naval Academy (Women) League Championship, 1997-98 Volunteer Assistant Coach,Tennessee (Men) recorded its highest winning 1999-99 Assistant Coach, Rutgers (M&W) percentage during the regu- 1999-2001 Head Coach & Aquatics Director,Toms River YMCA lar season and its most vic- 2001-04 Head Coach, Lehigh (M&W) tories —— 10-3, 76.9 percent 2004-pres. Head Coach, U.S. Naval Academy (Women) —— in 10 years. Individually on the year,Aubra Thomas Rutgers. Morrison began serving as the head coach and aquatics advanced to the World Championship Trials in Indianapolis, Ind., and director at the Ocean County YMCA in his hometown of Toms River, won her heat in the 100 breaststroke against an all-star field of nation- N.J., for two years starting in 1999 before being named the head mens ally-recognized swimmers. and womens swimming coach at Lehigh in 2001. "Returning to Navy has been a dream since the first day I began Morrison coached the Mountain Hawks to a combined 31-26 as an assistant under Dick Purdy, said Morrison upon his hiring at record during his three seasons in Bethlehem. Lehighs mens team Navy during the 2004 summer. The Academy is a great institution. won the 2002 Patriot League title and also placed second and fourth The natural beauty speaks for itself, but the real beauty is in the peo- in his tenure, while the womens program produced fourth, third and ple associated with the Naval Academy. From the mids to the support fifth-place showings at the league championship under his guidance. staff, the Academy attracts and breeds great people and the people A successful athlete in his own right, Morrison earned four let- make the institution first class. I am proud and humbled to be back. ters in swimming and in golf while a student-athlete at Toms River "Most important in my return is that I have an opportunity to High School and was selected as a member of the schools inaugural recruit, coach, and instruct at an institution with a fabulous mission." Hall of Fame class in the spring of 2004. He would go on to earn four I am very happy for both John and the Naval Academy, said letters in swimming at North Carolina, helping the Tar Heels win a Dick Purdy, whose retirement after 19 years as the programs head pair of Atlantic Coast Conference titles in the process and graduating coach created the vacancy Morrison filled. I think the two are a per- with a bachelors degree from the school in 1993. fect fit for each other. John has a sincere admiration for the mission Morrison would enter the coaching ranks in 1991 as an assistant of the Naval Academy and understands the relationship between the swimming coach at Washington & Lee where he helped coach four team and the overall goals of the Academy. He was very successful NCAA Division III All-Americans. He also assisted with the schools during his years as an assistant coach here in not only helping the 1992 water polo team that won the Division III Eastern Championship swimmers as athletes, but also in assisting them in every facet of mid- and served as the interim golf coach. shipmen life. John and his wife,Amy, have a six-year old son, John, and a two- Morrison served as an assistant coach to Purdy for four seasons year-old daughter,Avery Grace. beginning in the fall of 1993. The duo coached the Mids to a 33-14 record and to Patriot League titles during each of their years together. After leaving the Naval Academy, Morrison served as a volunteer assistant mens coach at Tennessee during the 1997-98 season in which the Volunteers placed fourth at the NCAA Championship, followed by one year as an assistant for both the mens and womens teams at YEARLY DIVISION I HEAD YearCOACHING Team W-LRECORD PLC Place PLC Titles (I/R) 2002 Lehigh Men 7-0 First (694) 2 (2 / 0) 2002 Lehigh Women 4-5 Fourth (506) 0 (0 / 0) 2003 Lehigh Men 6-5 Second (632.5) 0 (0 / 0) 2003 Lehigh Women 6-6 Third (530) 1 (1 / 0) 2004 Lehigh Men 4-4 Fourth (462) 1 (1 / 0) 2004 Lehigh Women 4-5 Fifth (422) 0 (0 / 0) 2005 Navy Women 10-3 Second (598) 6 (4 / 2) Overall 41-28 —— 10 (8 / 2) John, Amy, John and Avery Grace 2 WWW.NAVYSPORTS.COM WWW.NAVYSPORTS.COM JOE SURIANO ASSISTANTCHRIS VILLA COACH DIVING COACH THIRD SEASON 28TH SEASON Chris Villa begins his third season as the Joe Suriano begins his 28th season as Navys assistant coach for the womens swimming pro- diving coach. Under his tutelage, nine divers on gram. Navys mens team and two divers on the A native of Northboro, Mass., and a 1999 women’s team have qualified for 19 NCAA graduate of Hartwick, served as the head coach Division I Championships. All told, his divers have of the womens team at Juniata College in earned 14 Division I All-America accolades. Huntingdon, Pa., prior to his arrival in Annapolis during the fall of One of the highlights of his coaching career came in 1991 when 2003. In his two seasons at Juniata, the team recorded a seventh-place he was named as the Division II Coach of the Year after Stacia Johnson finish at the 2002 conference meet, as well as a fourth-place showing captured the NCAA title. in 2003. During his tenure at Juniata he also coached a Second-Team Suriano earned a bachelors degree from Michigan in 1970 and a Division III All-America. masters degree from Eastern Michigan in 1978. Prior to coaching at Prior to accepting the position at Juniata,Villa served one-year Navy, he served as the diving coach at Eastern Michigan (1971-72) and stints as an assistant coach at his alma mater and at Juniata. Vanderbilt (1973-78). Villa was a four-year letterwinner in swimming at Hartwick, and Suriano was named an International Olympic Committee diving served as the team captain during his junior and senior seasons.