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Gener al Information Table of Contents GENERAL INFORMATION University of Northern Iowa Media Information 2 Founded: 1876 2004 Team Roster 3 Enrollment: 13,400 2004 Season Outlook 4-6 Nickname: Panthers Colors: Purple and Old Go ld Home Field (Cap.): Waterloo Riverfront Stadium (4,277) Surface/Dim.: Grass L-335, LC-360. C-380. RC-360. R-335 2004 UNI Coaching Staff Conference: Missouri Valley Head Coach Rick Hel ler 7 President: Dr. Robert Koob Assistant Coach Dan Davis 8 Athletics Director: Rick Hartzell Assistant Coach Ryan Jacobs 8 Athletics Web Site: http://www.unipanthers.com Graduate Assistant Coach Marty Sutherland 8 BASEBALL INFORMATION Head Coach: Rick He ll er (Upper Iowa. 1986) Record at UN I: 115-114-1 (4) 2004 Player Profiles Career Record (Years): 406-308-4 (16) Senior Player Bias 9-13 Heller Office Phone (319) 273-6323 Junior Player Bias 13 Assistant Coach/Pitching Dan Davis (Southern Illinois. '95) Sophomore Player Bias 14-16 Davis Office Phone (319) 273-3804 Newcomer Player Bias 17-20 Assistant Coach/Catchers: Ryan Jacobs (UN I. '99) Jacobs Office Phone: (319) 273-7457 Assistant Coach/Outfielders: Marty Sutherland (UN I. '02) 2003 In Review Student Assistant: Brock Sabers. Beau Mathiason 2003 Season Recap 22 Strength/Conditioning Coach: Mike Daugherty Athletics Trainer: 2003 Game-By-Game Results 23 Doug Hess 2003 Record: 27-28 2003 Individua l Player Stats 24 2003 MVC Record/Finish 16-15/4th 2003 MVC Recap 25 2003 MVC Tournament Finish: 0-2 The Missouri Valley Conference 26 Lettermen Returning/Lost: 18/6 Starting Position Players Returni ng/Lost: 7/2 2004 Opponents Starting Pitchers Returning/Lost: 3/1 Press Box Phone Number (319) 232-5633 Opponents 27-29 UNI Athletics Ticket Office (319) 273-DOME UNI Record Book The 2004 Un iversity of Northern Iowa Baseba ll Media Guide was designed. written and typeset by Director of Des ign and Series Histories 30 Information Management Ji ll Gansemer. Cover concept and Division I Yearly Stats 31 design by student assistant Anne Craig. Photos by UNI Office of Career Records 32-33 Marketing & Public Relations. Printed by Pioneer Graphics. Single-Season Records 34-35 Waterloo. IA Single-Game Records 35-36 Conference Awards 36 On the front cover: Sean LaCoste Year-By-Year Records 37 This is UNI All-Time Results 38-44 Th is is UNI 45 Panthers in the Pros 46-47 UNI Administration 48-49 Waterloo Riverfront Stadium/UNI-Dome 50 UNI Players of the Year 51 Di amond Backers 52 University of Northern Iowa =-=============---------1 Media Information Keep Up With UNI Athletics on the Internet Athletics Media Relations Staff Located at www.unipanthers.com. the UNI Athletics home page offers Dir. of Design and Information Mgmt/Baseball SID Jill Gansemer detailed and timely information about all of the Panthers· athletic teams. Gansemer's Work (319) 273-5455 Updated statistics. game notes, rosters. schedules. student-athlete biogra­ Gansemer's Home (319) 287-8007 phies and links to Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier articles are just a sampling of Gansemer's Cell (319) 415-0289 the information that can be found. In addition, a voting booth and Real Audio Gansemer's E-mai l ji [email protected] broadcasts add to the fun . The web site is updated daily by UNl's award-win­ Dir. of Media Relations-Internal: Nancy Justis (319) 273-6354 ning Ath letics Media Relations Office. Dir. of Media Relations-External: Josh Lehman (319) 273-3642 The Missouri Va lley Conference home page is at www.mvc-sports.com and Athletics Media Relations Fax (319) 273-3602 contains information regarding scores, standings, statistics. conference notes Waterloo Riverfront Stadium Press Box (319) 232-5633 and the MVC Player of the Week. UNI Athletics Directory Primary UNI Media Outlets B.aseball-Rick Heller (319) 273-6323 Print Phone Fax Baseball-Ryan Jacobs (319) 273-7457 Waterloo Courier (319) 291-1466 (319) 291-2069 Baseball-Dan Davis (319) 273-3804 Des Moines Register (800) 247-5346 (515) 286-2504 Men's Basketball-Greg McDermott (319) 273-7609 Cedar Rapids Gazette (800) 398-8257 (319) 398-5861 Women's Basketba ll-Tony DiCecco (319) 273-6443 Northern Iowan (319) 273-2157 (319) 273-5931 Men's and Women's Cross Country-Chris Bucknam (319) 273-6481 Associated Press (515) 243-3281 (515) 243-1550 Football-Ma rk Farley (319) 273-6175 Men's and Women's Golf-John Bermel (319) 266-8266 Television Phone Fax Softball-Christy Hebert (319) 273-2520 KWWL-TV (319) 291-1290 (319) 291-1233 Women's Swimming-Stacey Simmer (319) 273-7946 KCRG-TV (3,19) 398-8391 (319) 368-8505 Women's Tennis-Sachin Kirtane (319) 273-3901 KGAN-TV (319) 395-9081 (319) 395-0113 Men's and Women 's Track-Chris Bucknam (319) 273-6481 Volleyball-Bobbi Petersen (319) 273-7170 Radio Phone Fax Wrestl ing-Brad Penrith (319) 273-5860 KCNZ (319) 277-1918 (319) 277-5202 Athletics Director-Rick Hartzel l (319) 273-2470 KCRR (319) 233-9770 (319) 235-7774 Senior Associate AD/ Business Services-Julie Bright (319) 273-2475 KXEL (319) 283-1234 (319) 233-7430 Associate AD/Internal Operations-Justin Sell (319) 273-3647 Athletics Training Staff-Don Bishop (319) 273-6369 Media Information Ticket Office-Greg Davies (319) 273-6131 Credential Requests/Radio Lines: Please make all credential requests on official letterhead through the UNI Athletics Media Relations Office. NW Upper UNI-Dome, Cedar Fal ls, Iowa 50614. One courtesy phone line per school is pro­ vided. Listen to the Panthers UNI Fans will have a chance to follow the Panthers through the Missouri Interview Policies: Coach Heller and al l UNI players wi ll be available for Valley Conference as KWAY (Waverly, IA) and Y99.3 wil l serve as the flagship post-game interviews outside the dugout following the fina l game of the day. station for the 2004 UNI Baseball. Dallas Kincade will broadcast the games on For non-post-game interviews, contact Baseball SID Jill Gansemer at (319) 273- www.iowasportspage.com while ans al o can log onto 5455. Do not contact players directly. www.unipanthers.com to ca tch al oft e action. The following games wil l be ai ed thi e son. Press Luncheons: When in town. Coach Rick Heller wi ll speak at the weekly March 5-7 at Arkansas State Iowa UNI Press Luncheon. held each Monday at noon at Pepper's on 18th Street in March 26-28 at Wichita State Creighton Cedar Fa lls. The Press Luncheons are open to the public and will be re-broad­ April 2-4 at Illinois Stat at Bradley cast by KXEL (1540 AM) at 5 p.m. and via the internet at April 7 at Nebraska www.unipanthers.com. April 9-11 Evansville April 14 Ma at Minnesota Scoreboard phone: The conference ofice maintains the scoreboard phone April 16-18 0-'A Sbuthern Illinois that may be reached by calling 314-997-9877. Scores from Va lley baseball are O April 20 #l ay 26-29' lt1vc Tournament updated each evening. April 23-25 at Indiana State WW1&unipanthers.com 2-----------=================== UNIPAN THERS.COM 2004 UNI Ro~ter 2004 UNI Panther Baseball Roster Alphabetical 27 Jim Bauer No. Name Yr. Pos. 8/T Ht. Wt. DOB Hometown (Last School/High School ) 19 Spencer Black 1 Nate Heath Sr. 28/0F S/R 5-7 155 12/2/81 Temecula. CA (Cypress CC/Chaparral HS) RS Justin Bolger 2 Micah Christensen Sr. RHP R/R 5-11 175 6/1 3/82 Elma. IA (Waldorf CC/Forest City HS) RS Curt Bradley 3 Joe Burgett Sr. OF R/R 6-1 185 4/3/82 Des Moines. IA (Golden West CC/Trabuco Hil ls HS) 3 Joe Burgett 4 Andrew Farmer So. SS/28 R/R 6-1 180 3/1/83 Ankeny, IA (Ankeny HS) 2 Micah Christensen 5 Brandon Rinnan Jr. LHP L/L 5-11 180 7/8/8 2 Urbandale. IA (Yauapia College/Urbandale HS) 33 Neal Currell 6 Nate Trumm So. C S/R 6-1 180 9/28/82 Worthington, IA (Troy St/Dyersville Beckman HS) RS Clayton Daniels 7 Josh Potthoff So. LHP/18 L/L 6-4 · 205 8/2/82 Des Moines, IA (West Des Moines Dowling HS) 23 Eric Dejong 8 Jose Guzman Jr. SS/28 R/R 5-10 165 11/2/82 El Monte. CA (East Los Angles JC/Mountain View HS) 4 Andrew Farm er 9 Kory Kelchen Jr. RHP/1 B R/R 6-7 210 4/ 14/83 Manchester, IA (West Delaware HS) RS Hans Frey 10 Drew Kel ly Sr. RHP R/R 5-9 180 12/ 21 /80 Charles City, IA (Charles City HS) 29 Ryan Fulton 11 Pat Moran So. SS/28 R/R 5-10 175 1/4/84 Rapid City, SD (Stevens HS) 17 Dan Grant 13 Drew Wold So.