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Friday, April 28, 2006
OC tennis coach Lisa Johnson reflects on the Eagles’ Sooner Athletic Conference championship and talks about both tennis teams’ national tournament chances.
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Saturday, April 22, 2006
WES McKINZIE, Blog Host
Former NAIA player of the year Jarred Merrill is back with the Oklahoma Storm of the United States Basketball League. The OC alumnus played five games for the Storm last year after a summer league stint with the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets.
Merrill returns to Oklahoma after playing with Sparta Bertrange in Luxembourg. He also played overseas with Caja Rioja Logrono in Spain. Click here for more info from the Storm’s website.
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Senior All-American Brandon Melville discusses life as an OC golfer and the team’s goal to be No. 1 at the end of the year.
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Click here for a nice article on former OC tennis player and assistant coach Dann Nelson. Nelson now is the head men’s tennis coach at Southern Illinois University.
Several OC tennis alumni lead NCAA Division I programs. Besides Nelson, other head coaching alumni include Sam Winterbotham (University of Colorado), Chris Young (Wichita State University) and John Blackburn (Eastern Illinois University). Luciano Battaglini is an assistant coach at the University of Minnesota.
Former OC head coach Kris Miller, who led the Eagles to the 2003 NAIA national championship, now is an assistant at the University of Oklahoma.
Monday, April 10, 2006
DAVID SCOTT, Men’s Soccer Coach
This past weekend marked the first-annual OC Soccer Alumni Weekend and it turned out to be a great event and a lot of fun for all who attended.
It was great to have these guys back on campus and give them an opportunity to see and play with former friends and teammates whom they hadn’t seen in a few years.
We had 13 alumni return for the match in the afternoon and it was a pretty good game until the alumni started to run out of gas. The current team won the match 5-2, but the game was much closer than the score would indicate. OC has definitely had a lot of talented players come through this program and it was nice to see them back on the field again.
I think this is an important event in that it gives the current players the opportunity to meet the alumni, learn a little of the history of the program, understand where this program has come from and know that, even though many of these former players have moved away and started lives in other places, we still represent them and what they started here.
This event also gives us a chance to keep the alumni informed about changes taking place not only in the soccer program, but within the university as well as much of the campus has changed since they were in school.
My hope is that this event will continue to grow in the future and we will have a greater number of alumni involved in this and other events we host. We mainly want to let them know that they are still a part of this program and they are very important to us.
Sunday, April 09, 2006
WES McKINZIE, Blog Host
You likely saw the news on the front page of the website that our golf team won a tournament at Yale Sunday.
The field was loaded with big-name NCAA schools, including Boston U., UConn, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Providence, Seton Hall and host Yale.
Those schools join teams from Arizona, Army, Bradley, Creighton, Drake, Gonzaga, San Diego State, Texas A&M (and more) as other NCAA schools that have finished behind the Eagles in tournaments this year. (OC also has finished second to UCLA and Baylor this spring).
It’s an impressive resume for Coach David Lynn’s squad, which hopes to capture the national championship after placing in the top four at the NAIA tournament for six straight years (including two runnerup finishes).
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Head track & field coach Randy Heath talks about the upcoming Ray Vaughn Classic and new men’s soccer coach David Scott talks about OC’s 20th-anniversary alumni soccer game.
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