In this Issue College GameDay comes to
SMU! Ponies in the Press Student-Athletes named to Honor
Roll SMU Student-Athletes invited to
national team tryouts Hayden Fry to receive inaugural
Legends Award at Hall of Fame Banquet
SMU Tennis Complex opens Upcoming Events
Click the links below for details about Spring 2015 Competition:
Equestrian
Men’s Basketball
Men’s Golf
Men’s Tennis
Women’s Basketball
Women’s Golf
Women’s Tennis
Rowing
Track & Field
Junior Track & Field athlete Holly Archer, whose hometown is Bury Saint Edmunds, England, won the 3,000-meter and finished fourth in the mile at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, AR, on February 14th. It was the latest achievement in a stellar season from Archer, who also won the mile at the J.D. Martin Invitational at the University of Oklahoma last month. Next up for the Mustangs is the AAC Indoor Track & Field Championship on February 27-28 at the New Balance Track & Field Center in New York City. Congratulations, Holly!
New Coaching Staff and National Signing Day bring excitement to the Hilltop New SMU Head Coach Chad Morris wasted no time in hitting the recruiting trail after his hire was announced at a December press conference. Morris, who joins SMU after four seasons as Clemson University’s offensive coordinator, spent 16 years as a high school coach in Texas. Coach Morris took six teams to state championship games, notching three wins, and was named Coach of the Year 11 times. During his tenure at Clemson, the Tigers racked up a 41-11 record, including an ACC Championship (2011), four bowl appearances, including two BCS bowls, and finished in the Top 25 three times. Morris’ new staff on the Hilltop includes offensive coordinator Joe Craddock and defensive coordinator Van Malone. After a busy recruiting season, the full staff joined Mustang Club donors, season ticket holders, and fans at the Miller Event Center on February 4th to celebrate their inaugural signing class at SMU. The 2015 recruiting class features quarterback Ben Hicks, a four-star ESPN recruit and ranked No. 2 at the Elite 11 QB Camp, wide receivers James Proche and Kevin Thomas, both from DeSoto High School, and Xavier Castille from
Rockwall among others. All 22 members of the 2015 class are from Texas. The 2015 Football Season features home games against Big XII foe Baylor, local rival UNT, and a yet-to-be-announced third nonconference opponent, along with four conference contests against East Carolina, Temple, Tulsa, and Tulane. Season tickets are available starting at just $99. Call the SMU ticket office at 214-768-GAME or click here. Current season ticket holders interested in adding or upgrading seats should contact the Mustang Club at 214-768-2582. Season ticket renewals are due by March 2nd. Mustang Club gifts towards seat requirements are due by March 31st. We look forward to welcoming you to Ford Stadium this fall! #PonyUpTempo
WINTER 2015
Junior Holly Archer sets the pace at the J.D. Martin Invitational in Norman, OK this January.
Kurt’s Corner from the desk of the Senior Associate AD for Development
What an exciting few months we’ve had here on the Hilltop! It’s hard to believe that basketball season is winding down and that very soon we’ll be focused on the postseason and the start of spring football! Head Football Coach Chad Morris and his staff are hard at work to prepare the Mustangs for the 2015 season. The 2015 schedule features home contests against Baylor, UNT, and a third opponent TBA, along with conference opponents ECU, Tulsa, Temple, and Tulane. You can get an early preview of the team at our spring game on April 18th. Admission is free, so bring your family and friends! If you’re a current season ticket holder for football, don’t forget that your renewal is due by March 2nd. Additionally, Mustang Club gifts required for premium seating (football & men’s basketball) are due by March 31st. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact our office at 214-768-2582. We’re happy to help you! Football isn’t creating the only buzz around campus these days. Friday, Feb. 20th is the date for the dedication of our newly constructed Tennis Complex. We welcome you to join us for a tennis match sometime this spring as we celebrate a
beautiful new home for our men’s and women’s teams. In addition, we’re already gearing up for conference tournaments and the excitement of the postseason in Swimming & Diving, Indoor Track & Field, and Men’s and Women’s Basketball. If you want to be a part of the action this spring, now is your chance! Tickets for the American Athletic Conference tournament are on sale now through our ticket office, starting at $279 for all games. Join us in Hartford this March as the Mustangs try to bring home a championship! Additionally, NCAA Ticket Requests are available here. The team needs your support to finish the right way this season! As always, SMU Athletics can’t compete at the highest level without you. We thank you for your faithful support in helping us Shape Champions and we look forward to celebrating many more special moments in the year ahead as we continue to work toward establishing SMU Athletics as the best program in the American!
College GameDay Comes to SMU ESPN’s popular “College GameDay” broadcast made a visit to Dallas on February 14th as the Men’s Basketball team prepared to take on the reigning national champions UCONN. Students and fans attended in full force for the morning broadcast on Saturday, returning to pack the house that evening and cheer the Mustangs on to a win. Freshman student Shameek Malviya won $18,000 from State Farm with a successful half-court shot in the weekly GameDay contest. Malviya is the second student to win the prize this season, and only the sixth to win since State Farm started sponsoring the half-court shot on GameDay in 2005.
Cross Country: Agnes Sjöström—USTFCCCA Academic All-American Team—USTFCCCA All-Academic Team (3.44 GPA) Equestrian: Sylvia de Toledo—United Rider of the Month, Equitation Over Fences (Nov); United Rider of the Month, Equitation on the Flat (Dec) Morgan Redwine—United Rider of the Month, Horsemanship (Nov) Emma Roberts—United Rider of the Month, Equitation of Fences (Dec) Men’s Basketball: Keith Frazier—AAC weekly honor roll selection (12/15) Ben Moore—AAC weekly honor roll selection (11/17) Nic Moore—Naismith Trophy 50 Watch List (12/3); Wooden Award Preseason Top 50 (11/17); unanimous selection, Preseason All-AAC Team; Lute Olsen Award Midseason Watch List; AAC Player of the Week (1/26); AAC weekly honor roll selection (12/1, 12/8, 12/22, 1/5, 1/12, 2/9) Yanick Moreira—AAC Player of the Week (12/22) Markus Kennedy—unanimous selection, Preseason All-AAC Team; AAC Player of the Week (2/2); AAC weekly honor roll selection (1/19) Men’s Soccer: Idrissa Camara—2nd team NSCAA All-Region selection John Lujano—2nd team NSCAA All-Region selection, 2nd team NSCAA Scholar All-America selection Men’s Swimming & Diving: Devin Burnett—AAC Diver of the Week (11/18, 11/26, 1/6, 1/20) Christian Scherubl—AAC Swimmer of the Week (1/6, 1/20) Sam Straughan—AAC Swimmer of the Week (11/18) Rowing: Savannah Moody—invited to US National Team ID Camp (2/10) Track & Field: Stephanie Kalu—AAC Track Athlete of the Week (1/27); recorded fastest 60m time in the conference this season Volleyball: Avery Acker—Capital One All America Team® selection; AVCA All-America Honorable Mention; AVCA All-Region Honorable Mention; 1st Team All-AAC Selection Morgan Heise—AAC Libero of the Year Team— NCAA Public Recognition Award for post APR scores in the top 10% of its sport Women’s Basketball: Alicia Froling—AAC Weekly Honor Roll (2/2) Women’s Golf: Jennifer Park—qualified/played in the U.S. Women’s Amateur (8/4-10) Alexandra Rossi—qualified/played in the U.S. Women’s Amateur (8/4-10) Team—1st Place, East & West Match Play Challenge (9/ 22)
Women’s Swimming & Diving: Isabella Arcila—AAC Swimmer of the Week (2/3); four personal best times at the FINA World Swimming Championships (12/6-8) Nathalie Lindborg—AAC Diver of the Week (1/13) Madeline Wainman—AAC Swimmer of the Week (1/13) Team—receiving votes in the CSCAA National Poll
Celebrate the achievements of SMU student-athletes this quarter!
What better way to celebrate 100 Years of SMU Athletics than with the complete history of SMU Athletics? Purchase In Honor of the Mustangs: The Centennial History of SMU Athletics today! Available through SMU’s DeGolyer Library, this limited edition publication includes a comprehensive history of SMU Athletics, authored by official SMU centennial historian Darwin Payne. Purchases may be made online or by contacting the SMU Lettermen’s Association at [email protected] or (214) 768-4000.
Join us in congratula ng these student‐athletes who were recognized on the SMU Fall 2014 Honor Roll. Way to go, Mustangs!
Honor Roll with High Dis nc on
(Top 5% in School)
Avery Acker Volleyball
Nicholas Avan no
Football
Andrew Buchanan Men’s Golf
Sylvia De Toledo
Equestrian
Sophi Farid Rowing
Nicholas Hook
Men’s Swimming
Jessica Jancose Rowing
Anthony Jeffries Men’s Soccer
Kyra Kondis
Women’s Swimming
Elizabeth Krane Women’s Swimming
Natalie Schauwecker Women’s Swimming
Julianne Scheidler
Volleyball
Honor Roll with Dis nc on (Top 10% in School)
William Barns
Football
Ursa Bezan Women’s Swimming
Ma hew Colket Men’s Swimming
Hris na Dishkova Women’s Tennis
Elena Fayner
Women’s Tennis
Melissa Major Equestrian
Eki Olumese
Rowing
Julie Vanderhout Track and Field
Marie Elena Villamil
Women’s Golf
Honor Roll
(Top 15% in School)
Hayden Corley Men’s Swimming
Kelsey Gorney Women’s Soccer
Lauren Harrington Women’s Soccer
Nate Lammons Men’s Tennis
Rachael Larson Women’s Soccer
Garre Welch Men’s Soccer
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SMU Athletes invited to upcoming national team tryouts SMU rower Savannah Moody was invited to last weekend's US National Team ID Camp in Chula Vista, California, which seeks to identify possible rowers to compete on the U-23 National Team. The California native competes in the stroke seat on the Mustangs' 1st Varsity 8+ crew. Following the 2013-14 season, she was named Second-Team All-Region by the College Rowing Coaches Association. "We are very proud of Savannah for her invite to camp," SMU Rowing Coach Doug Wright said. "She has the ability and the poise to have a very suc-
cessful showing at camp… we know she will represent herself and SMU with pride." Moody is not alone in being invited to attend tryouts for a national team this spring. Avery Acker, Morgan Heise, Katie Hegarty and Janelle Giordano, who was selected to compete on the U.S. National Collegiate Team in Europe last summer, will attend the USA Volleyball Women's National Team Open Tryouts Feb. 20-22. Acker, a junior, earned All-America accolades for the second straight season after recording 1,413 assists this season, along with a league-best 26 double-doubles. Heise was named Libero of the Year in the American Athletic Conference this season, averaging 5.13 digs per set. Giordano, an All-Conference selection for the second straight year, led the American with 160 blocks, the third-most in a season at SMU. Freshman Katie Hegarty played in 20 sets this season and finished with 29 kills, nine digs, and 19 blocks. The Mustang volleyball team finished the season with a program record of 26 wins to six losses, including their first defeat of a ranked opponents. Please join the Mustang Club in wishing luck to all the student-athletes competing in national competition this spring!
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Sophomore Savannah Moody
Junior Avery Acker
Former Football Coach Hayden Fry to receive inaugural Legends Award, SMU Athletics Hall of Fame Announces
Legendary SMU football coach Hayden Fry will receive the Legends Award, the SMU Lettermen's Board has announced. Fry will be the first individual to be honored with the newly created award at the SMU Hall of Fame Banquet on May 1. The Legends Award, presented by the SMU Lettermen's Association and the Department of Athletics, recognizes an individual who has made extraordinary
contributions to the success and legacy of the SMU Athletics Program. The timing of the award is significant, as 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of legendary wide receiver Jerry LeVias' arrival to SMU, as the first African American to receive an athletic scholarship in the Southwest Conference. Fry, who served as head coach and athletic director at the time, made the courageous decision to sign LeVias, thereby altering forever the course of collegiate athletics in the southern United States. "The impact of Coach Fry's historic decision to welcome Jerry LeVias as a scholarship student-athlete was transformative," said SMU Athletics Hall of Fame Committee Chair Jim Johnston, "It was this event in particular which led the Lettermen's Association and Athletics Department to honor Coach Fry with this award." Fry, the eighth head coach in SMU football history, was hired in 1962. During his 11 seasons on the Hilltop, Fry led SMU to three bowl appearances, the 1963 Sun Bowl, 1966 Cotton Bowl, and the 1968 Bluebonnet Bowl. Under Fry's leadership, SMU won its first
Southwest Conference Title in 18 years in 1966. Fry also coached some of the greatest players in school history such as LeVias, Chuck Hixson, Mike Richardson, Jim Livingston, Gary Hammond, John LaGrone and Mac White.
Fry, who played quarterback at Baylor from 1947-50, later coached at North Texas and then at Iowa from 1979-1998, where the Hawkeyes went 143-89-6 during his tenure. He also led Iowa to 14 bowl games, three Big Ten titles and three Rose Bowl appearances. Fry retired from coaching following the 1998 season, finishing his career with a record of 232-178-10, which at the time placed him 10th all-time among the collegiate marks. Fry's influence on college football can be seen on a national level, with former players and assistants including Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops, Iowa's Kirk Ferentz, Wisconsin's Barry Alvarez, Arkansas' Bret Bielema and Kansas State's Bill Snyder, among others. Fry was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003, in the same class as LeVias. Fry has received numerous other honors for his college football contributions, including induction into the North Texas Athletic Hall of Fame, the University of Iowa Athletic Hall of Fame, the Rose Bowl and Sun Bowl Halls of Fame, the Peach and Holiday Bowl Halls of Fame and the United States Marine Corps Hall of Fame. Fry also received the 2012 Paul "Bear" Bryant Award, given by the American Heart Association. Fry was also given the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award in 1997, presented by the American Football Coaches Association, in 2005. For information on purchasing tickets to the SMU Hall of Fame Banquet, please call 214-768-4314, email Jeff Lockhart at [email protected] or visit www.smu.edu/halloffame.
SMU Tennis launches 2015 season in new facility The SMU Men’s and Women’s tennis teams have a new home on the Hilltop, as the SMU Tennis Complex nears completion at Mockingbird and US-75 South.
The SMU Tennis Complex, a 45,000-square foot state-of-the-art facility, features space for practice, training, and tournament play. The Turpin Stadium includes six outdoor courts and a viewing terrace, and the Ann and Brad Brookshire Family Pavilion includes six indoor courts and a patron balcony. All of the
courts are covered with Plexipave, the same surface used at the USTA National Tennis Center in New York, which annually hosts the U.S. Open. With seating for 300 on the outdoor courts and 280 inside, with additional viewing space in the Styslinger Family Grand Viewing Terrace and the Edwin L. Cox Club Suite, Mustang fans have a variety of options from which to watch the team in competition. The training center includes home and visitor locker rooms, coaches’
offices, team meeting rooms, and a fitness center and athlete training room for treatment, injury prevention, and rehabilitation. The Men’s team currently sits at 9-1 on the season with wins over Nebraska and Ouachita Baptist on Saturday, Feb. 14th. The team plays its first road match of the season on Feb. 21st at Arkansas. Their match against University of Texas on January 31st drew a crowd of nearly 2000 to watch the team take on the top-10 ranked Longhorns. Men’s Head Coach Carl Neufeld was thrilled with the turnout. "I'm so proud of our fans and supporters that came out and watched an amazing match against this tremendous Texas team. This is an exciting beginning to our new future here." The Women’s team is 5-0, having shut out Northwestern State and defeated Midwestern State on Sunday, Feb. 15th. They begin conference play on Saturday, Feb. 21st at 12:00 pm CT with a match against UCF. The SMU Tennis Complex will be formally dedicated on February 20th at noon.
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February 2015 21st: Women’s Basketball at Houston, 2:00 pm, Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston, TX 25th: Women’s Basketball vs. Temple, 7:00 pm, Moody Coliseum 26th: Men’s Basketball at Memphis, 8:00 pm, FedEx Forum, Memphis, TN (pre-game happy hour at Jerry Lee Lewis’ Café and Honky Tonk, 310 Beale St, 6:00—7:30 pm) 27th: Doak Walker Award Presentation Banquet, 7:00 pm, Hilton Anatole, Dallas, TX (Buy tickets here) 28th: Women’s Basketball vs. Cincinnati, 2:00 pm, Moody Coliseum March 2015 1st: Men’s Basketabll at UCONN, 1:00 pm, XL Center, Hartford, CT 2nd: Women’s Basketball at Memphis, 7:00 pm, Elma Roane Fieldhouse, Memphis, TN 8th: Men’s Basketball vs. Tulsa, 2;00 pm, Moody Coliseum *Mustang Club donors at the Mustang level and above are invited to join us in the Miller Club post-game! 12-15th: Men’s Basketball Conference Tournament, XL Center, Hartford, CT (Click here for tickets!) April 2015 16-18th: Founder’s Day Weekend (visit the SMU website for details) 17th: Annual Jerry LeVias Mustang Football Golf Classic, Stonebriar Country Club, Frisco, TX 18th: SMU Football Spring Game, Ford Stadium, 1:00 pm 20th: 2015 Payne Stewart Cup benefitting SMU Men’s Golf, time and location TBA May 2015 1st: SMU Athletics Hall of Fame Banquet, 7:00 pm, Hilton Anatole, Dallas, TX
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