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East Carolina University
or more than a century, East Carolina University has served the
people of North Carolina and the nation. From modest beginnings as a school for training teachers, ECU has grown to become an
emerging national research university with an enrollment of nearly
27,000 students.
East Carolina offers 104 bachelor’s degree programs, two educational specialist degree programs, two certificates of advanced
studies programs, 73 master’s degree programs, 18 doctoral degree
programs, and first-professional degree programs in medicine and
dentistry. With a mission of teaching, research, and service, East
Carolina University is a dynamic institution connecting people and
ideas, finding solutions to problems, and seeking the challenges of
the future.
Each year, more than 8,000 East Carolina students contribute in
excess of 100,000 hours of volunteer service to more than 125 community health and human service organizations.
East Carolina leads the University of North Carolina system in distance learning enrollment. Additionally, ECU’s distance education
program is the 12th largest in the United States, according to U.S.
News & World Report. During the spring 2010 semester, ECU’s distance education students took over 36,000 credit hours.
Through its new Access Scholarships program, East Carolina offers
financial assistance to a historically underserved but greatly deserving group of students: those who have proven academic potential
and demonstrated financial need.
Notable East Carolina alumni include Pulitzer Prize winners Rick
Atkinson and Dan Neil; Emmy Award-winning composer Velton Ray
Bunch; actors Sandra Bullock, Beth Grant, and Emily Procter; BB&T
chief operating officer Kelly King; Bob Greczyn, president and CEO
of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina; former North Caro-
East Carolina university
lina secretary of state Janice Faulkner; Kevin Williamson, creator of
Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Dawson’s Creek; former
U.S. senator Robert Morgan; current NFL All-Pro performers David
Garrard, Chris Johnson and Vonta Leach; Broadway star Manley
Pope; Ronnie Barnes, Senior Vice President/Medical Services for the
New York Giants; and James Maynard, founder of the Golden Corral
restaurant chain.
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Steve Ballard
Chancellor
(Arizona ’70)
C
hancellor Steve Ballard, since his arrival
in Greenville in May 2004, has focused on
measures designed to enhance East Carolina
University’s role as the University For North
Carolina. On an array of topics, from student
success to research productivity to athletics, he
has emphasized excellence and leadership.
While leading the fastest-growing university
in North Carolina, Ballard has committed to
providing every student with excellent training
in the classroom, practical experiences in the
community and region, and the opportunity
to develop leadership skills. He has hired nationally known leaders in athletics, research,
finance and diversity. He has overseen a record-breaking building boom on campus and
the addition of over 500 new faculty positions.
New campus facilities under his administration include the East Carolina Heart Institute,
the Family Medicine Center, the new School of
Dentistry, and nearly $60 million in new athletic facilities.
His other strategic directions include providing classroom leaders for the 21st century for
public schools in North Carolina and the rest
of the nation; artistic and cultural leadership;
economic development; and medical innovation.
Before joining East Carolina as the university’s tenth chief executive, Ballard served as
provost at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Previous academic appointments had
taken him from Oklahoma to the East Coast.
Ballard spent his childhood in Galesburg, Illinois, then attended
the University of Arizona, where he graduated with distinction in
1970 with a bachelor’s degree in history. As shortstop and captain
of the University of Arizona baseball team, he earned three varsity
letters and played in the College World Series during his senior year.
After earning his doctorate in political science from Ohio State
University in 1976, he spent the next two years as a postdoctoral
fellow at the University of Oklahoma. He spent thirteen years on
the faculty at Oklahoma and, in 1987, he was named director of the
prestigious research center, the Science and Public Policy Program.
During the 1980’s, he served on the City Council and in 1986 was
elected Mayor Pro-Tempore of Norman, Oklahoma.
In 1989, he moved to the University of Maine as founding director
of the Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy, a post he held
until 1998. While at the University of Maine, he also served as director of the University of Maine System/State Government Partnership Program from 1990 to 1992 and as chair of the Department of
Public Administration from 1991 to 1994.
He was recruited to Ohio in 1998 as vice provost for research and
dean of the Graduate School at Bowling Green State University.
Three years later, he was named provost and vice-chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
His teaching and research have centered on leadership in the public
sector, research and development and the innovation process, public
policy, and the utilization of scientific and technical knowledge. He
has authored five books and more than one hundred professional
articles and manuscripts on such topics as the innovation process,
energy and natural resources, and managing growth and change.
East Carolina university
East Carolina University Administration
Steve Ballard
Chancellor
Marilyn Sheerer
Provost
Phyllis Horns
Vice-Chancellor for Health Sciences
Ron Mitchelson
Interim Vice-Chancellor for
Research and Graduate Studies
Rick Niswander
Vice-Chancellor for Administration and Finance
Mickey Dowdy
Vice-Chancellor for University Advancement
Virginia Hardy
Vice-Chancellor for Student Life
Philip Rogers
Executive Assistant to the Chancellor
Donna Gooden-Payne
University Attorney
Mary Schulken
Executive Director of University Communications
Terry Holland
Director of Athletics
ECU Board Of Trustees
Robert G. Brinkley
Charlotte
Joel K. Butler
Grimesland
W. Kendall Chalk
Winston-Salem
Edwin L. Clark
Greenville
Deborah Davis
Richmond, Va.
Steven W. Jones
Raleigh
Robert V. Lucas
Selma
Carol M. Mabe
Oriental
Bobby OwensManteo
Danny R. Scott
Swansea, Ill.
Kieran Shanahan
Raleigh
Mark Tipton
Raleigh
Justin Davis (SGA President)
Greenville
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Terry Holland
Director of Athletics
(Davidson ’64)
A
glorious new era officially began at East Carolina University
during the early autumn of 2004 with the naming of Terry Holland, a Clinton, N.C. native, to the athletic director’s position – a
selection which has already impacted the Pirate Nation with an unparalleled sense of energy, enthusiasm and optimism.
From campuses in Davidson to Charlottesville and Greenville, and
in many basketball arenas across the nation and globe, Holland has
created a legacy and earned a reputation as a well-respected leader in
collegiate athletics for nearly four decades. In the aspect of athletics
administration, he has left enduring marks as director of programs at
Davidson and Virginia, and currently has ECU on the right course to
reach unprecedented heights in both intercollegiate competition and
academic success.
In just seven-plus years, Holland’s fingerprints are firmly secured
on the revitalization of a once-proud football tradition that now
boasts of recent back-to-back Conference USA titles and a run of five
consecutive bowl appearances. The on-the-field success has enabled
East Carolina to enjoy unprecedented record-breaking numbers at
the turnstiles as well – breaking stadium standards for total attendance and average attendance in five consecutive seasons – allowing
for a 7,000-seat expansion at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium that pushed
the facility’s capacity to 50,000 in time for the 2010 campaign
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The
renewed
passion and spirit
has resulted in
unmatched internal and external
support as Pirate
Club membership
has soared past
17,000 and fundraising scholarship
dollars climbed
above $6.4 million
for the first time
in department history. In addition
to the stadium expansion, impressive capital projects such as the renovation of the football practice
facility and the construction of an Olympic Sports Complex have all
been accomplished under Holland’s guidance. Furthermore, work on
a $15 million basketball practice facility is currently underway adjacent to Minges Coliseum and is expected to be completed during the
late summer or early fall of 2013.
Holland, who was introduced at a news conference in Greenville
Sept. 8, 2004 and officially began his duties Oct. 1, most recently
assisted the president in a fund-raising and marketing role at Virginia since 2001.
Holland first arrived in Virginia on April 1, 1974
as head men’s basketball coach, and over the next
16 seasons became the most successful coach in
Cavalier history, with a record of 326-173. He
helped lead the Cavaliers to a pair of Final Four
appearances (1981 and 1984) and a National Invitational Tournament title (1980) while earning
two Atlantic Coast Conference Coach-of-the-Year
awards.
In 1990, he returned to his alma mater, Davidson College, to become its athletic director, but
five years later he was back in Charlottesville to
take on the athletic director duties at Virginia.
Holland earned a bachelor of arts degree in
economics from Davidson in 1964 after earning
three letters as a member of the Wildcats’ varsity
basketball program. He began his coaching career
at Davidson as an assistant coach in 1964 and
was soon promoted to the top position five years
later where he earned three Southern Conference
Coach-of-the-Year selections.
In all, Holland completed his basketball coaching
career with a total of 418 wins in 21 seasons, an
impressive average of 19.8 wins per year.
He has remained active in basketball circles. He
was a member of the powerful NCAA Basketball
Committee, chairing the panel in 1997. He served
on the Senior National Team Committee of USA
Basketball from 1992 through 1996.
Holland, an avid fishing enthusiast, was born
April 2, 1942 in Clinton, N.C. He and wife Ann
are the parents of two daughters, Kate (38, a 1995
graduate of Wake Forest) and Ann-Michael (35, a
1997 graduate of Virginia). They are also grandparents of two boys, Holland and Harrison, born
to Kate and her husband, Steve Baynard.
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Barry Brickman
Director of Athletics Business
(Wilfred Laurier ’79)
B
arry Brickman is in his 16th year as
Director of Athletics Business at East
Carolina.
Brickman joined the Pirate program in July
1996 after serving five years as Associate Athletics Director for Business Affairs at Western Kentucky University.
Prior to his Western Kentucky tenure, Brickman spent three years
as Athletics Business Manager at the University of Texas at El Paso.
He was Assistant Athletics Director at Delta State University from
1980-88. At Delta State, he served as ticket manager and was also
responsible for promotions, game management supervision and
athletic concessions. He also served eight years as women’s softball
coach at the Mississippi school.
Brickman, a native of Brampton, Ontario, earned his bachelor’s
degree at Wilfred Laurier University in Ontario in 1979. He also
earned a master’s degree in sports administration at Ohio University
in 1980.
Brickman and his wife, Gary Lynn, have two children, Clifford Warren and Brittany Lynn.
with the Pirate program after an earlier 10-year strength and conditioning leadership tenure with head football coaches Bill Lewis (1991
season) and Steve Logan (1992-2000). Connors’ efforts helped produce five bowl appearances, three post-season victories, 15 National
Football League draft selections and representation in two final Top
25 polls (9/1991, 23/1995).
The Pirates also gained a reputation as one of the best fourthquarter teams nationally under Connors’ conditioning guidance. In
1996, the ECU defense did not allow a point in the fourth quarter
until the seventh game of the season, and in 1999, the Pirates outscored their opponents 102-56 in the final period. In 2000, ECU held
a 94-57 advantage in the fourth quarter.
He is also credited for playing an integral role in the design and
development of the Pirates’ 22,000-square-foot strength and conditioning facility inside the Murphy Center, which opened in 2002
after his departure.
Connors has been honored as a Master Strength & Conditioning Coach by the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches
association (CSCCa). The Master Strength & Conditioning Coach
certification is the highest honor that can be achieved as a strength
and conditioning coach, representing professionalism, knowledge,
experience, expertise and longevity in the field.
Connors and wife Michelle are the parents of two children daughter Kaitlin and son Beau.
Nita Boyce
Emmett Floyd
Assistant Athletics Director
for Student Development
(East Carolina ’86)
Interim Executive Director
of the Pirate Club
(Atlantic Christian ’67)
N
ita Boyce is in her 21st year at East
Carolina University and her sixth as Assistant Athletics Director for Student Devel-
opment.
Before earning a promotion to Assistant Athletics Director status,
Boyce served as an academic coordinator.
In her current position, Boyce oversees the academic progress of
all ECU student-athletes and is involved in their personal, social and
career development. She also has oversight of study centers and the
tutorial program, and continues to serve as academic coordinator for
five intercollegiate teams while coordinating the department’s award
and scholarship programs.
Boyce, a native of Tyner, N.C., is a 1986 graduate of East Carolina
University with a bachelor of arts in English. She earned her master’s
in adult education from East Carolina in 2001.
Jeff Connors
Assistant Athletics Director/
Strength and Conditioning
(Salem, W.Va. ’80)
J
eff Connors enters the second year of his
second tour of duty as assistant athletics
director for strength and conditioning at East Carolina after rejoining the Pirates’ staff Jan. 21, 2011.
Connors took over ECU’s top athletic performance position after
spending the previous 10 seasons on the University of North Carolina staff as strength and conditioning coordinator and assistant
athletics director, a title he was elevated to a year after his arrival in
2001.
His current assignment at East Carolina marks his second stint
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E
mmett Floyd, an oft-honored administrator with over 40 years of leadership
experience and service to all levels of education, joined the East Carolina athletics staff in the spring of 2011 as
the Interim Executive Director of the ECU Educational Foundation
(Pirate Club).
His appointment to head the department’s fundraising arm follows
19 years of continued association with various academic and administrative divisions on campus, which includes a recent adjunct associate professor’s role that followed his initial retirement in 1998. Floyd served a three-year tenure as Executive Assistant to the
Chancellor from 1996 to 1998 after leading the School of Education
as its Interim Dean. He began his secondary education career in 1992
as an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at ECU.
Prior to accepting a position in Greenville, Floyd provided leadership as Superintendent of four school systems – Franklinton City
(1977-79), Sampson County (1979-1982), Catawba County (198290) and Pitt County (1992-96). He was the recipient of six separate
achievement honors for his work from the North Carolina Association of School Administrators and North Carolina High School Athletic Association spanning from 1986 to 1990.
Floyd, who completed three years of service in the U.S. Army from
1967 to 1969 and served in Korea with the Second Infantry Division,
began his career in the classroom as a teacher and coach with Cumberland County Schools in 1969.
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Nick Floyd
Executive Associate Athletics Director
(Clemson ’82)
A
fter serving five years as East Carolina’s
Senior Associate Athletics Director for
Administration and Olympic Sports, Nick
Floyd earned an elevation in title status in
the spring of 2006 when he was promoted to Executive Associate
Athletics Director.
Floyd joined the Pirate staff in June 2001 after serving as an Associate Commissioner at Conference USA, where he was the league’s
chief financial officer for three years. Floyd participated in the negotiation of the conference’s television agreement and four bowl
tie-ins. He also served as the director of the successful and highvisibility C-USA Men’s Basketball Tournament.
Prior to joining the staff at Conference USA, Floyd spent 12 years
as an athletics administrator - the last five as Senior Associate Athletics Director at the University of Southern Mississippi. During his
tenure at USM, he served as the department’s chief financial and
administrative officer, coordinated football scheduling and helped
oversee the construction of a new baseball stadium.
Floyd is a 1982 graduate of Clemson University and holds a Master
of Business Administration degree from the University of Mississippi.
He and his wife Elizabeth have two children, Suzanne and Nixon.
Mike Hanley
Assistant Athletics Director
for Medical Services
(East Carolina ‘82)
M
ike Hanley, East Carolina’s Assistant
Athletics Director for Medical Services,
begins his 22nd season on the ECU Sports
Medicine staff this fall.
The 2009 National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) College/
University Athletic Trainer-of-the-Year and 2005 North Carolina Athletic Trainers’ Association College/University Athletic Trainer-of-theYear, has contributed an active role for the NCATA during his tenure
at East Carolina, serving in various capacities, including work on committees and as editor of the association’s newsletter.
Prior to joining the ECU Athletics staff in 1990, Hanley spent three
years on the Kent State staff as assistant athletic trainer and one season as head athletic trainer at Kentucky Wesleyan. After accepting an
assistant’s position on the Pirates’ staff, he earned a promotion to
head athletic trainer in 1995 before being elevated to assistant athletics director’s status in the fall of 2004. In addition to overseeing all
facets of East Carolina’s Athletic Training operation, Hanley is directly
responsible for the day-to-day care, injury prevention and rehabilitation efforts for the entire Pirate football program.
The New Rochelle, N.Y., native is a 1982 graduate of East Carolina
and earned a master’s degree from Eastern Illinois in 1986.
Hanley and his wife Karen have two daughters, Kate and Sarah, and
a son, Jack.
Jamie Johnson
Associate Athletics Director
for Compliance
(Tennessee Tech ’83)
J
Johnson, who most recently served as assistant athletic director
of compliance at Rutgers since 2007, reports directly to Chancellor
Steve Ballard as an additional measure to strengthen the university’s
commitment to NCAA compliance as well as to risk management on
campus.
He attained bachelor’s degree in physical education, health, recreation and dance from Florida A&M University in 2001 before earning a master’s degree from the same institution three years later.
Following graduation, he held compliance positions at Georgia Tech,
Arizona State and Auburn before joining the Rutgers staff.
Johnson has one daughter, Allana.
Mack McCarthy
Assistant Athletics Director
(Virginia Tech ’74)
M
ack McCarthy is in his third year as assistant athletics director after stepping
down as head men’s basketball coach following the 2009-10 campaign.
McCarthy, who obtained his bachelor (’74) and masters (’76) degrees from Virginia Tech, compiled a 343-234 record during his collegiate head coaching tenure, which included 14 winning seasons
and eight 20-win campaigns. Prior to rebuilding the Virginia Commonwealth program, which he capped with a 21-11 mark in 200102, he led Chattanooga to unprecedented heights during his 12-year
stay that included five NCAA Tournament and two NIT appearances.
While at UTC, he was a three-time Southern Conference Coach-ofthe-Year selection and left the league as the winningest coach in its
history. He enjoyed his finest season in 1996-97, leading Chattanooga to 24 overall wins and NCAA Tournament triumphs over Georgia
and Illinois to help the Mocs reach the Sweet Sixteen for the only
time in school history.
McCarthy and his wife, Jean, reside in Greenville. The couple has
one daughter, Katie, a recent graduate of the University of Virginia.
Tom McClellan
Assistant Athletics Director
for Media Relations
(Sam Houston State ’87)
T
om McClellan is in his ninth year heading the East Carolina athletic media relations division after an eight-year tenure as
Assistant Athletics Director for Media Relations at Georgia Southern
University.
His efforts at ECU were recognized in 2009 as a Super 11 Team
Member (top 11 FBS sports information offices for outstanding services provided) by the Football Writers Association of America after
working primarily with the Eagles’ six-time national champion football program while at GSU.
McClellan spent four years as Sports Information Director at Stetson (Fla.) University from 1992 to 1996 were he served as media
coordinator for the First and Second Rounds of the NCAA Division I
Men’s Basketball Southeast Regional at Orlando Arena in 1993 and
1996.
McClellan, 47, earned his B.A. in journalism/public relations from
Sam Houston State University in 1987. In 1997, he was the recipient
of SHSU’s Distinguished Journalism Alumni Award.
McClellan is married to the former Joanne Langseth of Deer Park,
Texas, and the couple are the parents of daughter Jessica (15).
amie Johnson is in his second full academic year as associate athletics director
for compliance at East Carolina University, a
newly-created position he assumed Feb. 1, 2011.
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J.J. McLamb
Assistant Athletics Director
for Administrative Affairs
(East Carolina ’01)
J
.J. McLamb returned to East Carolina
University in the spring of 2006 as the
Assistant Athletics Director for Administrative Affairs and provides direct oversight of operations, equipment,
video services, strength and conditioning, grounds and construction
projects. In all, the 2012-13 year will mark his 18th year of association with the Pirate Athletics Department.
Before rejoining the ECU staff, McLamb spent a year at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas as Senior Associate Athletics Director for
Facilities, heading the Runnin’ Rebels day-to-day facility operations
throughout the sports complex.
During his first tenure at East Carolina, McLamb spent four years
as Assistant Athletics Director for Operations, where he was responsible for the all of the department’s physical operations including
game-day activities and special events.
A native of Dunn, N.C., McLamb earned his bachelor’s degree in
management of recreation facilities and services from ECU in 2001.
He married the former Emily Agler in the summer of 2010.
Dr. Gary Overton
Assistant Athletics Director
for Internal Operations
(East Carolina ’73)
G
ary Overton, whose association with
East Carolina University spans nearly
five decades, is in his eighth year as Assistant
Athletics Director for Internal Affairs.
A 2004 ECU Hall of Fame Inductee and color analyst on ECU baseball radio broadcasts, Overton served as the Pirates’ head baseball
coach for 13 years from 1985-97 and departed from the bench as
the school’s all-time winningest coach with 427 victories. During his
tenure in the dugout, he guided East Carolina to five NCAA Championship appearances, five Colonial Athletic Association Tournament
titles and a pair of CAA regular season championships.
In addition, Overton was recently honored with his selection to
serve on the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee beginning Sept.
1, 2008. He also continues to enjoy a long-standing tenure on the
NCAA Division I Baseball Rules Committee and has handled annual
regional tournament director duties for the organization since 2006.
From East Carolina, he earned his bachelor’s degree in 1973, his
master’s degree the following year, and his doctorate in higher education administration in 2001.
Overton and his wife, Candace, have one daughter, Charlotte.
Rosie Thompson
Associate Athletics Director/SWA
(East Carolina ’79)
R
osie Thompson is in her 18th year as Senior Woman Administrator and sixth as
Associate Athletics Director for her alma mater.
A 1979 graduate of East Carolina, Thompson has a long association with ECU, where she is a member of the
Athletics Hall of Fame. She is still the women’s basketball program’s
all-time leading scorer and rebounder.
Following her collegiate career, Thompson played one year professionally with the St. Louis Streak, served as a graduate assistant for
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the ECU women’s program and coached women’s basketball and
track at Northern Nash High School in Rocky Mount, N.C., from
1982-84. Thompson went on to serve as Assistant Director of Admissions at ECU from 1984-87. During that time, she received her
master’s degree from the University in 1985.
In 1987, Thompson returned to the court as assistant coach for
the ECU women’s program. In 1992, Thompson was elevated to head
coach, just the fifth in ECU women’s basketball history, a position
she held until spring of 1995, when she resigned to become ECU’s
Senior Woman Administrator.
Scott Wetherbee
Assistant Athletics Director
for Ticketing & Marketing
(Ball State ’97)
S
cott Wetherbee enters his ninth overall year on the East Carolina Athletics
Department staff and his sixth as Assistant
Athletics Director for Ticketing and Marketing. After exclusively directing ECU’s ticket operations from 2004 to 2006, he was given additional responsibilities of coordinating the department’s marketing
and promotional strategies.
Prior to his tenure on the Pirate staff, Wetherbee served in a similar
position at San Diego State after spending three years in the ticket
office at Fresno State and two years as a graduate assistant at alma
mater Ball State.
A Michigan native, Wetherbee has been credited with upgrading
ticketing systems during each stop of his career, including the overhaul of the Pirate Ticket Office’s second significant upgrade in the
last five years. In addition, Wetherbee has keyed the advent of the
department’s electronic marketing efforts, utilizing Pirate Mail and
a progressive online ticketing system to enhance customer satisfaction with ECU’s large fan base.
Wetherbee earned his B.S. in sport administration in 1997 from
Ball State.
He currently resides in Winterville, N.C., with his wife Tracy,
daughter Taylor and son Spencer.
Lee Workman
Associate Athletics Director
for Administration
(Tennessee Tech ’83)
L
ee Workman, a veteran member of the
East Carolina athletics family since 1984,
began as an intern and has held positions as
Associate Marketing Director, Marketing Director, and currently
serves as the Associate Athletics Director for Administration and as
the University’s Licensing Coordinator.
In his current position, Workman oversees administrative projects
as assigned by the Director of Athletics, sideline endorsement relationships, bowl game coordination, on-campus post-season hosting
opportunities and the administration of ECU’s licensing program which has more than tripled in revenue since he began - and serves
on various university committees.
Workman is a 1983 graduate of Tennessee Tech, earning a bachelor’s degree in business administration and marketing. He earned a
master’s degree in sports administration from St. Thomas University
in 1984.
Workman and his wife Jan have two children, Rachel and Jason,
who both attend ECU.
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Pirate Athletics Staff
Ashley Anderson
Associate Athletic Trainer
Brad Coleman
Assistant Director of Event
Marketing
Dr. David Dosser
Faculty Representative
Gloria Gorham
Administrative Support
Specialist
Jennifer Bonner
Mallory Bryson
Mike Cherry
Learning Specialist/Tutor
Coordinator
Administrative Support
Associate
Assistant Director of
Operations
Evan Craft
Carlester Crumpler
Jenna Czarnecki
Assistant Athletic Trainer
Barbara Flake
Academic Coordinator
Erika Giesking
Administrative Support
Specialist/Business
Assistant Director of
Ticket Operations
Matt Holt
Kristin Jeffries
Assistant Equipment Manager
Scott Lane
Director of Ticketing
Operations
Dance Team Coach
Erik Lewis
Head Athletics
Equipment Manager
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Eligibility Specialist
Susie Glynn
Cheerleading Coach
Jennifer Johnson
Office Assistant/Computer
Lab Coordinator
David Lipay
Assistant Director
of Compliance
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Nate Clark
Associate Athletic Trainer
Jackie Daniels
Administrative Support
Associate/Mailroom Clerk
Rob Goldberg
Staff Photographer
Scott Jurgens
Director of Event Marketing
Pirate Athletics Staff
Angie Lower
Administrative Support
Specialist/Business
Jake Moore
Head Football Athletic Trainer
Jamie Quinn
Academic Coordinator/
Community Relations Liaison
Brandon Smith
Assistant Director of
Athletic Video
Jay Malcolm
Director of Compliance
Brian O’Hara
Emmanuel McDaniel
Assistant Strength and
Conditioning Coach
Sue Parisher
Academic Coordinator
Academic Coordinato
Jen Rangelova
Mary Beth Respess
Associate Athletic Trainer
Bobby Tuggle
Technical Support Analyst
Zac Womack
Head Athletic Trainer
Administrative Support
Associate/Olympic Sports
Michael Weller
Director of Commercial
Marketing
Holly Wyche
Administrative Associate/
Administration
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Brian Meador
Creative Media Specialist
Joey Perry
Director of Athletic Grounds
Vickie Revels
Patricia Monroe
Academic Coordinator
Greg Pierce
Director of Athletic Video
Sharon Rogers
Executive Assistant/
Athletics Director
Assistant Athletic Trainer
Scott Wells
Sheri Whitfield
Director of Development/
Administration
Tracy Yoshikawa
Assistant Athletic Trainer
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Strength and Conditioning
T
he Murphy Center, still considered one of the athletic department’s newest facilities, is located between Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium and Minges Coliseum. It’s one of the largest and best-equipped
strength and conditioning centers in the country.
ECU’s Board of Trustees approved the project in the spring 1997,
thus putting it into the athletics department staff’s hands to make
this 52,475-square-foot, two-story streng­th and conditioning/Pirate
Club multipurpose center a reality.
ECU’s strength and conditioning programs for its student-athletes
are based out of the 22,000-square-foot first floor of the $13 million
facility. The weight room has revolutionized the Pirates’ strength and
conditioning efforts.
The center opened for workouts in June 2002 and was dedicated at
ECU’s home football game on September 14, 2002.
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Athletic Training
he student-athlete at East Carolina University has the luxury
of having one of the most dedicated health care teams in the
Southeast. Directed by Mike Hanley, Assistant Director of Athletics
for Medical Services, along with assistants Ashley Anderson, Nathan
Clark, Evan Craft, Jake Moore (head football athletic trainer), Jennifer Rangelova, Sharon Rogers, Zac Womack, Tracy Yoshikawa, and
team physician Dr. Joe Armen, the ECU Athletic Training program
provides every Pirate student-athlete the best available care for their
injuries. Hanley, the 2009 National Athletic Trainer’s Association
(NATA) Trainer-of-the-Year, and his staff are assisted by a wide array of community-based physicians and other health care providers.
Professional Consultants
Dr. John Siegel
Team Physician Emeritus
Dr. Joe Armen
Team Physician/Student Health Services
Dr. Randy Fussell Dentistry
Dr. Phil Perdue
Orthopedics
Dr. Chris Hasty Orthopedics
Dr. Stuart Lee
The second floor of the building features a private dining area for
recruits as well as a 9,000-square-foot banquet hall and a large terrace with a view of the football stadium for Pirate Club functions.
Scattered throughout the facility is a stunning array of photomurals, sports memorabilia and trophies.
Because of its location behind the Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium endzone and its connection to Minges Coliseum, the Murphy Center is
an ideal place for Pirate Club members to socialize at both football
and basketball games.
East Carolina University’s student-athletes train for competition
under the direct supervision of Assistant Athletics Director for
Strength and Conditioning Jeff Connors. The full-time strength
staff consists of assistants Toby Jacobi, Blaine Kinsley, Emmanuel
McDaniel and Aaron Walker.
Housed in the Ward Sports Medicine Building adjacent to DowdyFicklen Stadium and Minges Coliseum, the main athletic training
room is a modern facility complete with the latest equipment. Satellite athletic training rooms are located in Minges Coliseum, Murphy
Strength and Conditioning Center, Clark-LeClair Stadium and the
Olympic Sports Complex.
Athletic Training Staff
Mike Hanley
Ashley Anderson
Assistant AD for Medical Services
Associate Athletic Trainer (Women’s Basketball)
Nate Clark
Associate Athletic Trainer (Men’s Basketball)
Evan Craft
Assistant Athletic Trainer (Football)
Jake Moore Jennifer Rangelova
Sharon Rogers
Zac Womack
Tracy Yoshikawa
Head Football Athletic Trainer
Associate Athletic Trainer (Softball)
Assistant Professor (Men’s/Women’s Golf)
Head Athletic Trainer (Baseball)
Assistant Athletic Trainer (Soccer)
Neurosurgery
Katie Walsh Education Program Director
Dr. Walt Jenkins
Physical Therapy
Linda Miller Office Assistant and Insurance Coordinator
Dr. Kevin Youngs
Physical Therapy
Dr. Dennis McGee
Chiropractic
Dr. Greg Murphy
Urology
Dr. Peter Wagner
Cardiology
Laura DePalma
Sports Medicine Fellow
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Amanda Burley Graduate Assistant
Matt Ludwig Graduate Assistant
James Ramsdell
Graduate Assistant
Nicole Ross
Graduate Assistant
Jacqui Urban
Graduate Assistant
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Minges Coliseum
O
ne of the most intimate, beautiful and fan friendly arenas in all
of NCAA Division I Basketball is Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum, home of East Carolina basketball. This cozy 8,000-seat facility
gives the Pirates a distinct home court advantage unlike any other.
After 27 years of basketball, Minges Coliseum underwent a facelift prior to the 1994-95 season. The anticipation was great and the
much-awaited unveiling was everything it was supposed to be and
more. The renovations, totaling almost $12 million, have made the
arena one of the finest on-campus basketball facilities on the East
Coast.
Constructed at a cost of $2 million, Minges Coliseum was dedicated
on Jan. 27, 1968, in the name of the Minges family of Greenville,
N.C. As owners of Pepsi-Cola bottling operations in Greenville, Kinston and New Bern, the Minges family has provided leadership and
support of East Carolina University Athletics over the years, going
back to the days when the late Dr. Ray Minges served as President
of the Century Club (forerunner of the Pirate Club), from 1965-68.
The Pirates have won 66 percent of their games since the Coliseum
opened in 1967. ECU has had only eight losing records in Minges
in its history. Since the building was renovated in 1994, the Pirates
have won nearly 70 percent of their home games.
All the Minges Coliseum attendance records were shattered following renovation in 1995, including total season (71,761), average
season (5,980 for 12 games) and for a single game (7,670 vs. UNC
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Wilmington (Feb. 25). The single-game mark, in fact, was broken
three times during the season — Jan. 6 vs. East Tennessee State,
Jan. 14 vs. James Madison and Feb. 25 vs. UNC Wilmington.
Before 1994-95, the largest crowd to witness a game in the Coliseum was on Dec. 10, 1969 when ECU hosted then-top-ranked South
Carolina. An estimated crowd of 7,500 jammed the 6,500-seat facility.
Those figures stood until the 2002-03 season in which a single
game record crowd of 8,081 watched the Pirates defeat ninth-ranked
Marquette on Dec. 30. Two weeks later, over 8,000 fans passed
through the turnstiles at the coliseum for just the second time as
ECU battled Louisville. A new season record total of 81,538 came out
to see the Pirates during the year.
Williams Arena is named in honor and recognition of Walter and
Marie Williams for their support of East Carolina Athletics over the
years. As alumni of East Carolina College, Walter and Marie have endowed two Men’s Basketball Position scholarships, the Spirit of the
East Post-Eligibility Scholarship, and an unrestricted student-athlete
scholarship on behalf of the University’s athletics program. Further,
through Trade Oil Company, the Williams family gave the first $1
million gift ever given to the Educational Foundation in support of
ECU Athletics, through the Shared Visions Campaign.
In addition to his financial support, Walter Williams has given his
time unselfishly in support of the Pirate Club. During 1997-98, Walter served as Executive President of the Educational Foundation.
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ECU Basketball Practice Facility
T
he two-story 48,000 square-foot basketball practice facility will
accommodate separate courts for the men’s and women’s teams
at ECU, in addition to all supporting elements of a top-flight intercollegiate basketball program, including separate coaches’ office suites,
separate locker rooms and separate team meeting rooms. In addition
the building will house the ECU Athletics’ Hall of Fame and memorabilia from seasons past. Ground was broken this summer and the facility is expected to open prior to the start of the 2013-14 campaign.
“The practice facility is vital to giving our studentathletes a place they can improve individually and
as a team. It will provide our players and staff a
first class facility that we can be proud of, along
with making a statement that basketball is
“The critical missing piece between ECU Athletics
important at East Carolina University!”
and the success we seek will a dedicated practice
— Jeff Lebo, Head Men’s Basketball Coach
facility for basketball.”
— Terry Holland, Director of Athletics
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North Campus Crossing
ast Carolina University Department of Athletics
and ECU Educational Foundation have entered
into a contractual agreement with North Campus
Crossing to utilize its Recreation, Entertainment
and Activity Center as an alternate practice facility
for its basketball and volleyball teams.
The gymnasium includes six goals on a regulation
size basketball court. The floor was recently refinished and has been painted with exact same markings as the court inside Williams Arena at Minges
Coliseum.
The use of this facility will give the teams flexibility
in scheduling practices, individual workouts, camps
and clinics when displaced by graduation, concerts
or other events taking place at Minges Coliseum.
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