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ecognized as a rising star in the collegiate basketball ranks,
Jeff Capel was named the 13th men’s basketball head coach
at Oklahoma on April 11, 2006. At 31, Capel, who compiled
a 79-41 (.658) record over the last four years as head coach
at Virginia Commonwealth University, is the second-youngest men’s
basketball coach in NCAA Division I.
His VCU squads posted a 50-22 (.694) combined record in Colonial
Athletic Association play and a 47-11 overall home record for a
staunch .811 winning percentage.
HEAD COACH
Fifth year overall
79-41 (.658) career record
First year at Oklahoma
1 NCAA Tournament (2004)
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1 NIT appearance (2005)
1 Colonial Athletic Association
Tournament title (2004)
COACHING HISTORY
Old Dominion, assistant coach, 2001
VCU, assistant coach, 2002
VCU, head coach, 2003-06
USA Men’s World University Games
Team (gold medal), summer 2005
Oklahoma, head coach, 2007-
“As promised, our search process was thorough, exhaustive and inclusive,” said OU Athletics Director Joe Castiglione. “Our research on
each and every candidate included facts, opinions, observations and,
in some cases, direct experiences with those under consideration.
If the process, plan and goals are sound, it’s exciting and gratifying
to see the rising star it can produce. We are fully confident that
Jeff Capel will successfully usher in another exciting era of Sooner
Basketball and instill the same confidence and passion in his current
and future players, as well as Oklahoma fans everywhere.
“We welcome Jeff and his wife Kanika (pronounced “kuh-NEEkuh”) to our Sooner family. We intend to continue on our journey
in pursuit of championships but with the same class, dignity and
toughness that has defined our program.”
Said OU President David Boren,“I commend Joe Castiglione on an
extremely thorough and comprehensive search which he has conducted. It was the consensus of several of the most knowledgeable
experts on college basketball in the country that Jeff Capel is one of
the two or three most promising rising stars in collegiate coaching in
the United States. As a coach and as a person, he meets the highest
standards of excellence and integrity, which are the hallmarks of our
university.”
In 2003-04, Virginia Commonwealth’s Colonial Athletic Association Tournament championship game victory over George Mason
catapulted the Rams to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since
1996. The Rams lost in the first round to Wake Forest, but not before
putting a major scare into the fourth-seeded Demon Deacons, 79-78.
Capel’s 2004-05 squad, which finished 19-13, competed in the Na-
EDUCATION
South View High School (Hope Mills,
N.C.), ’93
B.A. degree (history), Duke, ’97
PLAYING HISTORY
Four-year starter at Duke (1994-97)
“We have outstanding resources
and administrative support at
Oklahoma and I look forward to
contending for Big 12 and national
championships.” – Jeff Capel
Two-year professional career in CBA
and France
FAMILY
Wife (Kanika); married in 2003
PERSONAL
Born Feb. 12, 1975, in Fayetteville, N.C.
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tional Invitation Tournament, marking just the third time in program
history that VCU made consecutive postseason appearances.
The Rams won at least 18 games each of Capel’s four seasons at
Virginia Commonwealth with the 2003-04 squad registering a
Capel-era-best 23-8 record. His first team finished 18-10 in 2002-03
as Capel tied a school record for wins by a first-year head coach. This
past season, VCU finished 19-10 overall and 11-7 in league play.
Last summer, Capel served as an assistant coach on the gold-medalwinning USA Men’s World University Games Team that finished 8-0
in Turkey in August. Villanova’s Jay Wright was the head coach while
Seton Hall’s Bobby Gonzalez served as the other assistant. The squad
featured, among others, Midwest City (Okla.) High School and Duke
University standout Shelden Williams.
“I’m extremely excited for the opportunity to be the head coach
of one of the best programs in all of college basketball,” said
Capel. “I’m honored that Joe Castiglione and President Boren have
entrusted me to be the leader of the OU men’s basketball program
and I’m eager to start working with our student-athletes.
“I’m a young head coach who feels his age is a benefit, not a detriment. I have an energy and a passion for what I do, and I’m prepared
for this job. I’ve always felt honored to be called a coach. I cherish
the opportunity I have to impact young men.”
Continued Capel,“We have outstanding resources and administrative support at Oklahoma and I look forward to contending for Big
12 and national championships.”
Capel began his coaching career as an assistant at Old Dominion
University in 2000 before moving to VCU as an assistant for the
2001-02 season. In 2002, he became the youngest NCAA Division I
head coach at age 27.
A four-year starter for Hall-of-Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski at
Duke from the 1993-94 through 1996-97 campaigns, Capel earned
Atlantic Coast Conference honors each of his seasons in Durham.
The guard, who wore No. 5, averaged 12.4 points, 3.0 rebounds, 3.4
assists and 1.7 3-pointers during his career. He ranks 22nd in career
scoring at Duke (1,601 points), 16th in minutes played (3,774), sixth
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Year
School
Overall
W
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
Virginia Commonwealth
Virginia Commonwealth
Virginia Commonwealth
Virginia Commonwealth
Total (4 years)
Conference
L
Place
L
W
18
23
19
19
10
8
13
10
12
14
13
11
6
4
5
7
79
41
50
22
2nd
1st
2nd
6th
Conference
Tournament
1-1
3-0
2-1
1-1
Postseason
NCAA (0-1)
NIT (0-1)
7-3
PERSONALITY PROFILE
Prized Possession
my faith
Three Words That Describe Me
loyal, passionate, honest
Favorite Food
macaroni and cheese
Least Favorite Food
broccoli
Favorite Place to Eat
my mom’s house
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Favorite TV Channels
ESPN and VH1
Favorite Video Game
Ms. Pac-Man
Favorite Web Site
www.perezhilton.com
I Wish I Was Better at
fixing things
in 3-pointers (220), seventh in 3-point attempts (553), seventh in
3-point field goal percentage (.398) and 10th in assists (433).
Capel started 28 games as a freshman for a Duke squad that lost to
Arkansas in the 1994 national championship game, 76-72. He led
the Blue Devils in scoring as a junior (16.6 ppg) and helped Duke to
a No. 8 final AP ranking as a senior. He averaged 26.5 points over
Duke’s two NCAA Tournament games his final year, the same season
he was named an Academic All-ACC selection.
Responsible for one of the most memorable shots in college basketball history, Capel nailed a running, buzzer-beating 30-footer to force
double-overtime against rival North Carolina in a 1995 home game.
The contest ranked No. 1 on the list of 25 Greatest Moments in ESPN
Basketball History and the play was nominated for an ESPY award.
Capel’s younger brother, Jason, was a four-year starter at North Carolina who averaged 12.1 points during the 1998-99 through 2001-02
seasons. Jason Capel helped the Tar Heels to the 2000 Final Four.
Capel, who graduated from Duke with a bachelor of arts degree in
history, and his wife, Kanika, wed in 2003.
Best Advice My Parents Gave Me
What doesn’t kill you will only make
you stronger
Favorite Movies
Goodfellas and Scarface
Favorite Sports Movie
Remember the Titans
Favorite NBA Team
Los Angeles Lakers
Player I Pretended To Be as a Kid
Magic Johnson
Favorite TV Show
Martin
Following graduation in 1997, Capel played professionally for two
years. He spent the 1997-98 season playing for the Continental
Basketball Association’s Grand Rapids Hoops. In 1999-00, he played
in France before returning to Grand Rapids.
Favorite Cartoon
Bugs Bunny
A standout prep performer, Capel was named the 1993 North
Carolina High School Player of the Year after averaging 23.8 points,
5.1 rebounds and 7.7 assists for 31-1 state champion Fayetteville
South View. He set school career records for points (2,066), rebounds
(668) and assists (663).
Favorite Vacation Spot
Turks and Caicos
Capel boasts a strong basketball pedigree. His father, Jeff Capel Jr.,
was an eight-year Division I head coach at Old Dominion (seven
years) and North Carolina A&T (one year), and currently serves as an
assistant coach for the NBA’s Charlotte Bobcats franchise.
Biggest Fear
letting down people who believe in me
Basketball Rule I’d Change
pay players a monthly stipend
Favorite Music Artist
Jay-Z
Number of Songs on My iPod
2,500
March 21, 1939: In the first NCAA Tournament, rookie head coach Bruce Drake’s Sooners lost in the national semifinals to Oregon in San Francisco, Calif., 55-37
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“Jeff is an outstanding young coach. He’s proven
that at Virginia Commonwealth and I am confident
that he will do a terrific job at Oklahoma, as well.
He and his wife are an amazing couple who will
represent the University of Oklahoma with dignity
and class. Jeff is one of the best communicators I’ve
known and he will continue the quality tradition of
basketball there by building a program suited for
long-term success.”
– Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski
“Jeff Capel is one of the best young coaches in
America today. He always has his team well
prepared for every situation. Jeff and his staff did an
outstanding job at VCU of recruiting good players
and then developing them into great players. He will
be a great success story at Oklahoma.”
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– George Mason head coach Jim Larranaga
“What a great hire for OU. Jeff Capel is quite simply
a natural. He has been around the game his whole
life and has certainly proven himself as one of the
special young coaches in the business. He’s the kind
of guy you want your son to play for. I’m excited for
him and his new challenge at Oklahoma.”
– Notre Dame head coach and former Duke
assistant coach Mike Brey
“Jeff Capel is a rising star in the coaching world. He’s
mature beyond his years and grew up around the
game. He knows how to teach the game, but he
also knows how players want to play it. Jeff brings
integrity and knowledge to the process and has a
very bright future at Oklahoma. I think the world of
him. He’s young chronologically, but not upstairs.”
Jeff and Kanika Capel
“I can’t think of a young
coach in America who has more
potential for success than Capel
does. He was a masterful hire
for Oklahoma.” – CBS analyst
Seth Davis
– ESPN analyst Jay Bilas
“Growing up as a coach’s son and then playing for
Mike Krzyzewski would prepare anyone to be a very
good college basketball coach. Jeff Capel brings the
added dimensions of a sharp intellect, boundless
enthusiasm and an innate knack for dealing with
all kinds of people. I can’t think of a young coach in
America who has more potential for success than
Capel does. He was a masterful hire for Oklahoma.”
– CBS analyst Seth Davis
“Jeff Capel is a rising star in the coaching profession.
He gained valuable experience playing at Duke
under Mike Krzyzewski, as well as coaching at the
World University Games and at Virginia Commonwealth. Joe Castiglione is a PTPer among athletic
directors and he has done his homework to find a
replacement for Kelvin Sampson.”
– ESPN analyst Dick Vitale
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“Preparation and passion will forever be
the keys to our success.”
– Jeff Capel
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A starter as a freshman in the 1994 national championship game against Arkansas (below),
Jeff Capel ranks 22nd at Duke in career scoring (1,601 points), 16th in minutes played
(3,744), sixth in 3-pointers (220), seventh in 3-point attempts (553), seventh in 3-point field
goal percentage (.398) and 10th in assists (433).
Feb. 19, 1944: Bruce Drake attacked goaltending with an article titled “Seven-Foot Trouble” in The Saturday Evening Post.
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od Barnes, former head coach at Mississippi and the
2001 Naismith National Coach of the Year, is in his first
season as an assistant at Oklahoma. Standing second
on Ole Miss’ career victories list and first in career winning percentage among coaches with a tenure of at least seven
years, Barnes compiled a 141-109 (.564) record at the school and
guided the Rebels to four postseason berths.
Ole Miss made three NCAA Tournament appearances during
Barnes’ eight-year tenure as head coach, including the school’s
only Sweet 16 trip during the 2000-01 season when it won a
school-record 27 games. The Rebels finished that year ranked
No. 9 in the USA Today coaches poll and No. 14 in the AP version.
ASSISTANT COACH
First year at Oklahoma
COACHING HISTORY
Livingston, assistant coach, 1990-93
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Mississippi, assistant coach, 1994-98
Mississippi, head coach, 1999-2006
Oklahoma, assistant coach, 2007-
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ACHIEVEMENTS
141-109 (.564) record in eight years
3 NCAA Tournament appearances
(1999, 2001 and 2002)
1 NCAA Tournament Sweet 16
appearance (2001)
2001 SEC Coach of the Year and
Naismith National Coach of the Year
In addition to being named Naismith Coach of the Year in 2001,
Barnes picked up the same recognition from CollegeInsider.com
that season.
Year
School
Record
1998-99
1999-00
2000-01*
2001-02
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
Mississippi
Mississippi
Mississippi
Mississippi
Mississippi
Mississippi
Mississippi
Mississippi
20-13
19-14
27-8
20-11
14-15
13-15
14-17
14-16
Totals
Postseason
NCAA Second Round
NIT Quarterfinals
NCAA Sweet 16
NCAA First Round
141-109 (.564)
* SEC Coach of the Year and Naismith National Coach of the Year
A 1988 Ole Miss graduate with a bachelor of arts degree in business management, the 40-year-old Barnes served as an assistant
coach at his alma mater under Rob Evans from 1993-98 before
taking over head coaching duties.
Barnes was a main component in the Rebels’ initial rise
during the Evans era. Ole Miss won two SEC Western Division
titles, posted consecutive 20-win seasons and advanced to
back-to-back NCAA Tournaments in 1997 and 1998. The SEC
Western Division crowns were the first ever regular season titles
in the school’s basketball history and the consecutive 20-win
campaigns were Ole Miss’ first since the 1930s.
As a player, Barnes earned honorable mention All-America
acclaim from The Sporting News his senior year at Ole Miss and
is the only person in SEC history to claim both All-SEC and SEC
Coach of the Year honors. He averaged 19 points a game as a
senior and became the first player in school history to amass 500
points, 100 rebounds and 100 assists in a season. As a player,
assistant and head coach, Barnes spent 17 seasons at Ole Miss.
A three-time All-State performer at Bentonia High School in
Mississippi, Barnes led his school to the Class BB basketball state
title in 1982 and the Class B championship in 1984.
EDUCATION
Bentonia (Miss.) High School, ’83
B.A. degree (business management),
Mississippi, ’88
PLAYING HISTORY
Four-year letterwinner as a point
guard at Mississippi (1984-87);
earned honorable mention AllAmerica honors as a senior
FAMILY
Wife (Bridgett) and three sons
(Brandon, Bray and Corey)
PERSONAL
Born Jan. 8, 1966, in Satartia, Miss.
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Barnes and his wife, Bridgett, have three sons (Brandon, Bray
and Corey).
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he head coach at South Carolina State the past three
years, Ben Betts resigned his position to be reunited with
Jeff Capel. An assistant coach under Capel at VCU during
the 2002-03 season when the Rams went 18-10 overall
and 12-6 in the Colonial Athletic Association, Betts, 38, guided
his three South Carolina State teams to a combined 51-39 (.567)
overall record and a 36-18 (.667) Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference mark.
Betts, whose three SCSU squads all made conference tournament semifinals appearances, coached his first team to an 18-11
record and the 2004 MEAC regular season title. The Bulldogs
posted a 19-12 record in 2004-05 and notched a 20-point win
over Big Ten member Penn State and a 10-point victory over the
ACC’s Miami (Fla.). Last year they finished 14-16.
ASSISTANT COACH
First year at Oklahoma
COACHING HISTORY
South Carolina State, assistant coach,
1991-97
College of Charleston, assistant
coach, 1998-2002
VCU, assistant coach, 2003
South Carolina State, head coach,
2004-06
Oklahoma, assistant coach, 2007-
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ACHIEVEMENTS
51-39 (.567) record in three years
2003-04 MEAC regular season
champions at South Carolina State
EDUCATION
Amherst County (Va.) High School, ’86
Year
School
Record
Conf. Tourney
2003-04* South Carolina State
2004-05 South Carolina State
2005-06 South Carolina State
18-11
19-12
14-16
Semifinals
Semifinals
Semifinals
Totals
51-39 (.567)
* MEAC regular season champions
Prior to his one-year stint at VCU, Betts spent five seasons (19982002) as an assistant coach at College of Charleston under John
Kresse where he helped the Cougars to a 119-31 (.793) record
and a 64-16 (.800) conference mark. College of Charleston
made NCAA Tournament appearances in 1998 and 1999 and
won conference or division crowns each of his five years there.
A win over third-ranked North Carolina highlighted a 1998-99
campaign that saw the Cougars go 28-3 overall and 16-0 in the
Southern Conference. They finished the year ranked No. 16 in
the AP poll.
Before his College of Charleston term, Betts spent seven seasons
(1991-97) as an assistant at South Carolina State under longtime
head coach Cy Alexander. Included was a stint as interim head
coach from February to October in 1995.
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coach, February-October 1995
Betts’ Head Coaching Career
During his initial tenure at SCSU, the Bulldogs posted five
winning seasons, including a 22-8 record in 1995-96 when the
squad tied for the MEAC regular season title, won the conference
tournament and advanced to the NCAA Tournament.
Betts, a Madison Heights, Va., native, graduated with a bachelor
of science degree in physical education from Roanoke College in
1990. As a player, he was a four-year letterwinner at Roanoke
and led the Maroons to the NCAA Division III playoffs in the
1986-87 season.
Betts earned a master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling from
South Carolina State in 1997.
B.S. degree (physical education),
Roanoke College, ’90
M.S. degree (rehabilitation
counseling), South Carolina State, ’97
PLAYING HISTORY
Four-year letterwinner as a guard at
Roanoke College (1987-90)
PERSONAL
Born Aug. 5, 1968, in Lynchburg, Va.
March 22, 1947: Ken Pryor hit a jumper in the waning seconds for a 55-54 win over Texas in the Western Regional Final. The victory put OU into its first national title game.
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o stranger to Jeff Capel, Mark Cline was the head
coach’s first hire upon arriving at OU. Cline served as
an assistant coach for Virginia Commonwealth under
Capel. The 41-year-old Williamson, W. Va., native
helped VCU compile a 61-31 (.663) record over the past three
seasons that included an NCAA Tournament trip in 2003-04, his
first season in Richmond.
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North Carolina A&T coach, assistant
coach, 1994
He transitioned with Capel, Jr., to North Carolina A&T for
the 1993-94 season, a year that saw the Aggies claim the
Mid-Eastern Athletic Association championship and make an
NCAA Tournament appearance. Cline followed Capel, Jr., to Old
Dominion where he spent five seasons with the Monarchs. He
helped ODU reach the NCAA Tournament in 1995 and 1997. In
1999, the Monarchs tied a school record for wins with 25 and
were rewarded with an NIT bid.
Old Dominion, assistant coach,
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After his stint at Old Dominion, Cline served four years (19992003) as an assistant and associate head coach at Virginia Tech.
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head coach, 2000-03
Cline enjoyed an outstanding playing career at Wake Forest over
the 1983-84 through 1986-87 seasons (the same span as Tyrone
“Muggsy” Bogues) and was a three-year starter. He finished his
career with 1,202 points to rank 17th on Wake’s all-time list. He
averaged double figures over his final three seasons and served
as a co-captain the last two. The Demon Deacons advanced to
the NCAA Tournament’s Elite Eight his freshman season.
First year at Oklahoma
COACHING HISTORY
Fayetteville State, assistant coach,
1990-93
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Cline’s relationship with the Capel family dates back to his days
as an assistant coach at Fayetteville State where he served under
Capel’s father, Jeff Capel, Jr., for four seasons (1990-93). Cline
helped convert the Broncos from a team that finished at the bottom of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association’s Southern
Division to one of the top programs in the league. He also served
as the men’s golf head coach at Fayetteville State and was twice
named CIAA Golf Coach of the Year.
VCU, assistant coach, 2004-06
Oklahoma, assistant coach, 2007-
EDUCATION
Williamson (W.Va.) High School, ’83
B.A. degree (sociology), Wake
Forest, ’88
PLAYING HISTORY
Three-year starter as a forward at
Wake Forest (1984-87)
FAMILY
Wife (Nancy) and daughter (Layla)
PERSONAL
Born June 9, 1964, in Williamson, W.Va.
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The two-time West Virginia High School Player of the Year who
earned McDonald’s, Parade and Street & Smith’s high school
All-America honors, shot .414 from 3-point range during his
collegiate career.
Cline, who graduated from Wake Forest in 1988, has a wife,
Nancy, and a four-year-old daughter, Layla.
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ryan Goodman, a Choctaw (Okla.) High School graduate
who spent the last six years as an assistant coach at
Bucknell, is in his first year as OU’s director of basketball
operations. Goodman helped the Bison to a 105-76
(.580) overall record over the past six seasons, including a 52-30
(.634) Patriot League mark.
Bucknell posted combined 50-15 (.769) overall and 24-4 (.857)
conference records over the past two years, advancing to the
second round of the NCAA Tournament each season. In 2005,
No. 14 seed Bucknell downed No. 3 seed Kansas, 64-63, inside
Oklahoma City’s Ford Center. In March 2006, the ninth-seeded
Bison eliminated eighth-seeded Arkansas, 59-55, in Dallas. They
finished the 2005-06 campaign with a 27-5 record and went
14-0 in Patriot League play.
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OPERATIONS
First year at Oklahoma
COACHING HISTORY
Barat College, assistant coach,
1997-98
Bucknell, assistant coach, 2001-06
EDUCATION
Choctaw (Okla.) High School, ‘91
B.S. degree (interdisciplinary social
science), Barat College, ’96
M.A. degree (world history),
DePaul, ’98
Prior to joining the Bison’s staff, Goodman worked for two
seasons at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania, about 12
miles south of Bucknell’s campus.
Goodman graduated from Barat College in Lake Forest, Ill.,
in 1996 with a degree in interdisciplinary social science. He
earned a master’s degree in history from DePaul University in
1998 before returning to Barat as an assistant coach for two
years. Goodman lettered three times as a point guard at Barat
and served as a team captain his final two seasons. He was an
Academic All-American as a senior.
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Susquehanna University, assistant
coach, 1999-2000
Goodman got acquainted with Oklahoma head coach (and thenhead coach at Virginia Commonwealth) Jeff Capel in August
2005 in Turkey. Goodman was serving as a liaison for the USA
Basketball World University Games team that Capel was serving
as an assistant coach (the squad finished 8-0 and claimed the
gold medal). Goodman’s mother lives in Turkey. Capel and Goodman developed a friendship and kept in touch with each other
following the Games.
Goodman, who was born in Ankara, Turkey, and his wife, Amy,
have three children – Grace, Reece and Clark – all born in January 2006.
PLAYING HISTORY
Three-year letterwinner as a point
guard at Barat College (1994-96)
FAMILY
Wife (Amy), daughter (Grace) and
sons (Clark and Reece)
PERSONAL
Born July 12, 1972, in Ankara, Turkey
Brian and Amy Goodman with sons Reece (left) and Clark (right) and daughter Grace
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ALEX BROWN
DR. BROCK SCHNEBEL
Athletics Trainer
Team Physician
20th Year at OU
11th Year at OU
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ow in his 20th season as the Oklahoma men’s basketball trainer, Alex Brown is
a key member of the Sooners staff. One of the most animated trainers in the
business, Brown has used his care and knowledge of players’ needs to help
reduce major injuries and treat players when injuries occur.
Brown also has responsibilities as the trainer for the men’s and women’s golf and
women’s soccer teams at OU, and has worked with the Sooner football program for
seven years.
Prior to his arrival in Norman, Brown served as head athletics trainer at East Central University in Ada. He also taught classes and was the head golf and assistant track coach.
A certified member of the National Athletic Trainers Association and the Oklahoma
Board of Medical Licensure advisory committee on athletics training, Brown has won
several awards for his training abilities and has served on numerous advisory commissions on sports medicine. In 1997, the NATA presented him with the 25-Year Award.
Interested in all sports, Brown has served as a member of the medical staff at two U.S.
Olympic Festivals and as trainer for the basketball tryouts for the 1990 World University Games and Goodwill Games. He also spent three weeks as the trainer for the U.S.
men’s basketball team which won the bronze medal in the 1991 Pan American Games
in Havana, Cuba, and was the official trainer for the gold-medal U.S. team at the 1993
FIBA World Championships in Valladolid, Spain. In 1994, Brown traveled with the U.S.
World Cup soccer team to Trinidad and Jamaica for two international matches.
Brown, who hails from Durham, N.C., is a golf enthusiast and has four holes-in-one to
his credit. The Appalachian State University graduate has two daughters (Evelyn, 21,
and Erica, 19).
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rock Schnebel begins his 11th season working with the Oklahoma men’s
basketball team and seventh as team physician. Certified by the American
Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, he practices at McBride Clinic in Oklahoma City
and also with the University of Oklahoma Department of Orthopaedics Division of
Sports Medicine.
Highly experienced in the field of sports medicine, Schnebel served as the head physician for the 2000 United States Olympic Team in Sydney, Australia. He also served as
the 1998 U.S. Goodwill Games team doctor and was on the medical staff for the 1996
Olympic Games in Atlanta. Schnebel also traveled with USA Basketball’s Junior World
Games Team (coached by former OU head coach Kelvin Sampson) to Greece in the
summer of 1995.
A native of Topeka, Kan., Schnebel was valedictorian at Alva (Okla.) High School and
Northwestern Oklahoma State University. He earned graduate of distinction honors
from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in 1981, where he was also a
member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. He completed his internship at the
University of Oklahoma Department of Surgery and his residency at the University of
Oklahoma Department of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Schnebel, who serves as orthopaedic consultant for each of OU’s varsity sports teams,
is the author of numerous professional articles on sports medicine.
He and his wife, Kelli, are the parents of three daughters (Jessica, Bailey and Addison)
and a son (Chase).
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DARBY RICH
DIONNE PHELPS
Strength and Conditioning Coach
Video Coordinator
Third Year at OU
First Year at OU
arby Rich, a former basketball player at Alabama, is in his third year as a
member of the Oklahoma basketball staff. The strength and conditioning
coach joined the OU program after serving the previous two seasons as South
Carolina’s men’s basketball strength coach.
D
ew to the Oklahoma staff as video coordinator in 2006-07 is college coaching
veteran Dionne Phelps. An assistant coach at UT San Antonio the last three
seasons, including the 2005-06 season as associate head coach, Phelps boasts
16 years of collegiate coaching experience on his résumé.
Basing his training on Olympic movements with an emphasis on explosive power
development and functional strength as it pertains to the game of basketball, Rich’s
program development focuses on team and individual needs. Maximizing each
student-athlete’s physical potential and athletic performance is his goal.
Hired at UTSA in September 2003, Phelps assisted then-head coach Tim Carter in
recruiting, scouting and game preparation while working with the Roadrunners’
frontcourt players. During Phelps’ tenure, UTSA won the 2004 Southland Conference
regular season and conference tournament titles and played Stanford in the first
round of the NCAA Tournament.
Prior to his stint with South Carolina, Rich spent a year and a half as strength and
conditioning intern with the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys. He began that position, working
under former Oklahoma strength coach Joe Jurazsek, in May 2001.
Before making the temporary move to football, Rich spent three seasons (1998-99
through 2000-01) as an assistant coach at Sam Houston State. The program’s recruiting coordinator and scouting director, he helped the Bearkats win the school’s first
Southland Conference title (2000) and recorded the school’s highest Division I victory
total for a season (22 in 2000).
Rich began his college coaching career at Hutchinson (Kan.) Community College, serving from 1994 to 1998 as an assistant coach. He was the head recruiter and also the
strength and conditioning coach. Hutchinson was 117-24 during his tenure and won
the 1994 NJCAA national title.
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Since arriving in Norman in May 2004, Rich has designed and implemented performance enhancement programs especially tailored for the needs of each player. Under
his guidance, the Sooners work to prevent injuries and enhance athletic performance
specific to the demands of basketball.
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Prior to joining UTSA’s staff, Phelps served as assistant coach at Texas State for four
seasons in San Marcos. He also earned a year of Big 12 coaching experience at Baylor
during the 1998-99 season under Harry Miller after spending eight seasons as an
assistant at Texas Lutheran. While at Texas Lutheran, Phelps helped the Bulldogs to a
pair of Heartland Conference regular season championships.
Phelps also played collegiately at Texas Lutheran and was inducted into the Bulldog
Athletic Hall Of Honors in 2002 following a career that saw him earn 1988 Big State
All-Conference and all-district accolades, as well as 1989 Heart of Texas All-Conference recognition. He graduated in 1989 with a bachelor of arts degree in physical
education.
A San Antonio native who is a 1985 graduate of Judson High School in Converse, Texas,
Phelps also earned a master’s degree in education from Texas State in 1996.
He and his wife, Lisa, have a 14-year-old daughter (Aaliyah Gordon) and a 3-year-old
son (Garrison). The family resides in Norman.
An All-State basketball player at Riverside High School in Greer, S.C., Rich played five
seasons at Alabama. He served as a tri-captain his senior year (1992) with Robert
Horry and Latrell Sprewell. He was a member of the Crimson Tide’s 1989, 1990 and
1991 SEC championship teams and was a three-time SEC academic honor roll selection.
A 1992 Alabama graduate with a degree in criminal justice, Rich and his wife, Jennifer,
wed in September 2006.
Dec. 19, 1949: The Sooners beat City College of New York by a 67-63 score at Madison Square Garden. CCNY went on to win the nationial championship that season.
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JON DENIO
C.B. ELDER
RENEE FORNEY
Equipment Manager
Academic Advisor
Coach Capel’s Secretary
Third Year at OU
13th year at OU
13th year at OU
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n his third year at Oklahoma and first with the
men’s basketball program is equipment manager
Jon Denio.
Denio, who oversees all ordering, issuing, inventory
and maintenance of athletics equipment for the OU
men’s basketball and women’s tennis teams, also
supervises the men’s basketball student managers.
Additionally, he is a member of the Nike Basketball
shoe testing program.
The 26-year-old Denio started at OU in 2004 as a
graduate assistant equipment manager. Among his
duties working with the OU football team were assisting in bowl gift and award purchasing, issuance and
team equipment travel for the 2005 Orange and 2005
Holiday Bowls.
Prior to his arrival in Norman, Denio worked two
seasons as an assistant equipment manager for the
Washington Redskins, in charge of on-field setup and
maintenance, and player footwear. He also spent four
years as a student equipment manager working with
the football team at the University of Missouri.
S
tarting his 13th year as academic counselor for
the OU athletics department, C.B. Elder advises
student-athletes and assists them in developing
a strategy for academic success and progress toward
graduation.
Elder, who also works with student-athletes in the
sports of men’s and women’s basketball, men’s golf,
men’s and women’s track and field and cross country, is
an active member of the National Academic Advising
Association and the National Association of Academic
Advisors for Athletics. Elder previously served as an
academic counselor at OU’s University College from
1989-94. He was also director of housing at Texas
Wesleyan College from 1985-88 and coordinator of
OU’s intramural sports from 1979-84.
A native of Farmington, Mo., Elder received a bachelor’s
degree from Missouri in 1977 before earning a
master’s degree in education from OU in 1985. He and
his wife, Lina, have an 19-year-old son, Steven.
Denio, who is from Mexico, Mo., earned a degree from
Missouri in personal finance in 2002. He resides in
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key member of the Sooner basketball program
for 12 years, Renee Forney begins her 10th
season as the head coach’s secretary.
Forney manages the daily operations of the basketball
office and is in charge of all correspondence, communications, travel arrangements, speaking engagements and special projects for Coach Capel. She also
coordinates travel arrangements for assistant coaches,
lodging for prospects and recruiting activities.
Forney, who is heavily involved with Capel’s summer
basketball camps, also helps prepare practice plans
and scouting reports during the season.
Additionally, Forney schedules OU coaches and players
for visits to Norman-area elementary schools as part of
the popular Sooner Reading Program.
A native of Beach, N.D., Forney attended Dickinson
State College in Dickinson, N.D., and played basketball
at Golva High School. She and her husband, Jim, who
have been OU Tip In Club members since 1981, have
two children (24-year-old Ben and 22-year-old Jenna)
and a granddaughter (Courtney Renee, born to Jenna
in July).
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AMY MILLER
Student Office Assistant
RYAN McDERMOTT
Student Manager
RYAN QUINN
Student Manager
KEITH SMITH
Student Manager
DEREK LANAHAN
Student Manager
DAVID PRICE
Student Manager
LANDON HUGHEY
Student Manager
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ANNY WHITTLE
Office Secretary
GERRETT SPEARS
Student Manager
CALEB TURNER
Student Manager
DAVEN VO
Student Manager
Jan. 20, 1951: In its first game against a No. 1-ranked AP foe, OU upended Oklahoma A&M 44-40 in Norman. The win vaulted the Sooners into the poll at the No. 18 spot.
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university PRESIDENT
DAVID L. BOREN
13th University President
D
avid L. Boren, who has served Oklahoma as
governor and U.S. senator, became the 13th
president of the University of Oklahoma
in November 1994. He is the first person in state
history to have served in all three positions.
Boren is widely respected for his academic credentials, his longtime support of education, and for
his distinguished political career as a reformer of
the American political system. A graduate of Yale
University in 1963, Boren majored in American
history, graduated in the top one percent of his class and was elected Phi Beta Kappa. He
was selected as a Rhodes Scholar and earned a master’s degree in politics, philosophy and
economics from Oxford University, England, in 1965.
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In 1968, he received a law degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where
he was on the Law Review, elected to the Order of the Coif, and won the Bledsoe Prize as the
outstanding graduate by a vote of the faculty.
As Oklahoma’s governor from 1974 through 1978, Boren promoted key educational initiatives that have had an enduring impact on Oklahoma. Established during his tenure were:
the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, the Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program, and the
Oklahoma Physicians Manpower Training Program, which provides scholarships for medical
students and medical personnel who commit to practice in underserved rural areas. Also,
the first state funding for Gifted and Talented classes was provided in 1976 and, from 1976
through 1978, Oklahoma ranked first among all states in the percentage increases of funding for higher education.
One of Boren’s most far-reaching projects in promoting quality education at all levels is the
Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence, which he founded in 1985. The foundation recognizes
outstanding public school students and teachers and helps establish private local foundations to help give academic endowment grants to local public schools. As a senator, he was
the author of the National Security Education Act in 1992, which provides scholarships for
study abroad and for learning additional languages, as well as legislation to restore the tax
deductibility of gifts of appreciated property to universities in 1993.
Boren, also a former state legislator, spent nearly three decades in elective politics before
becoming the president of the University of Oklahoma. Boren was the youngest governor
in the nation when he served from 1974 to 1978. Known as a reformer, Boren campaigned
with a broom as his symbol. During his term, he instituted many progressive programs,
including conflict-of-interest rules, campaign-financing disclosure, stronger open meeting
laws for public bodies, and more competitive bidding on state government contracts.
During his time in the U.S. Senate — from 1979 to 1994 — Boren served on the Senate
Finance and Agriculture Committees and was the longest-serving chairman of the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence. From his days as a state legislator and governor of
Oklahoma to Washington, Boren carried a commitment to reform, leading numerous efforts
to make government work better for American citizens. As chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, he strengthened oversight of secret government programs and reformed
the procedures for Presidential notice of such programs to Congress.
For more than 10 years, he led the fight for congressional campaign finance reform and for
legislation discouraging administration and congressional staff from cashing in on government experience and contacts by becoming lobbyists. In addition, he introduced legislation
seeking to limit gifts and travel subsidies that government workers, including members
of Congress, can receive from lobbyists. Boren also chaired the special 1992-93 Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress, which produced proposals to make Congress more
efficient and responsive by streamlining congressional bureaucracy, reducing staff sizes and
reforming procedures to end legislative gridlock.
Boren left the U.S. Senate in 1994 with an approval rating of 9l percent after being reelected with 83 percent of the vote in 1990, the highest percentage in the nation in a U.S.
Senate contest in that election year.
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David and Molly Shi Boren
Boren served from 1988 to 1997 on the Yale University Board of Trustees. His university
experience also includes four years on the faculty of Oklahoma Baptist University, where he
was chairman of the Department of Political Science and chairman of the Division of Social
Sciences. In 1993, the American Association of University Professors presented Boren with
the Henry Yost Award as Education Advocate of the Year.
In April 2004, Boren received the Mory’s Cup from the Mory’s Association at Yale University.
In making the presentation to Boren it was noted that he was the first Yale graduate in the
university’s history extending over three centuries to have served as a Governor, U.S. Senator and President of a major university.
The number of new facilities started or completed on the campus during the Boren years
has matched the explosion in new programs. Since 1994, almost $1 billion in construction
projects have been completed or are under way on OU’s three campuses. Among the largest
of the current projects are the $18.7 million renovation and expansion of historic Holmberg
Hall, home of music and dance programs; the $67 million National Weather Center; the $19
million addition to the Michael F. Price College of Business; the $17 million Gaylord Hall for
journalism and mass communication; the $27 million Stephenson Research and Technology Center; and the $83.5 million stadium project. The Health Sciences Center has a new
Student Union, and the new $24 million Stanton L. Young Biomedical Research Center.
Above all, the Boren years have been marked by an emphasis on putting students first.
There is not a university president in the country who is more committed to students as his
number one priority. He teaches a freshman-level course in political science each semester
and is one of the few presidents of major universities to teach.
Boren is married to Molly Shi Boren, a former judge and English teacher. Molly Boren has
two degrees from the University of Oklahoma, a master’s degree in English and a Juris Doctor degree from the OU College of Law. A native of Seminole, Boren has two children, Carrie
Christine Boren, an Episcopal minister, and David Daniel Boren, a member of the United
States Congress from Oklahoma. Devoting much of his life to public service, Boren drew
from the example of his parents, the late Congressman Lyle H. Boren and Christine Boren.
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During the 2004-2005 academic year, the Sooners recorded their sixth consecutive top 25
finish in the United States Sports’ Academy Director’s Cup standings, continuing a recordsetting streak that started in Castiglione’s second year with OU. Developed as a joint effort
between USA Today and NACDA, the United States Sports Academy Directors’ Cup program
is the only all-sports competition that recognizes the institution with the best overall
athletics program. The Sooners finished 24th in the annual competition and OU was third
among Big 12 schools.
JOE CASTIGLIONE
Athletics Director
Ninth Year at OU
W
hen the words champions, leaders,
inspiring and building are part of the
mission statement, the expectations
are high. When you represent the University
of Oklahoma, expectations are equally high.
Put them together and you will understand
exactly the magnitude of what Joe Castiglione
has accomplished in his eight years as director of
athletics at the University of Oklahoma.
This pattern of excellence began when Castiglione arrived at OU in July of 1998, Since then,
OU has won six national championships and multiple conference championships as well as
national and conference individual titles. Success goes well beyond competition as Sooner
student-athletes are graduating at a higher percentage than the student body as a whole,
grade point averages for all teams continue to rise and major national academic awards
have been earned by OU athletes.
When Castiglione arrived in Norman, he embraced the expectations and built a staff whose
goal was to meet and exceed expectations as they continued to raise the bar of expectations. It’s a team effort at OU from the student-athletes, to the coaches, to the staff, to
university administrators, to the donors. All are focused on one goal – adding to the legacy
of Sooner Athletics – and one man is leading that effort.
Castiglione has left a mark on the department that few in his profession could match.
Quite frankly, his tenure may be one of the most successful in the history of the program, a
program where success is measured in decades.
He has been honored by his peers for the success enjoyed at the University of Oklahoma
in his tenure. In October 2004, he was named the inaugural Bobby Dodd Athletics Director
of the Year. In 2003, he was inducted into the National Association of Collegiate Marketing
Administrators Hall of Fame. In June 2001, he received the General Robert R. Neyland
Athletic Director Award for lifetime achievement from the All-American Football Foundation. In 2000, he was named the Central Region AD of the Year by the National Association
of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA).
Castiglione was instrumental in re-energizing the athletics department’s major campaign,
Great Expectations: The Campaign For Sooner Sports. The campaign officially came to an
end in November of 2003 with more than $125 million raised or pledged and it has become
a blueprint for success that college athletic departments across the country are using. The
largest fund-raising effort in OU athletics history, Great Expectations was a unique because
Feb. 13, 1954: Oklahoma ended Oklahoma A&M’s 28-game home winning streak by claiming a 63-60 triumph in Stillwater.
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Last year, OU celebrated a national championship in men’s gymnastics, the fourth in five
years; the women’s basketball team became the first team to go a combined 19-0 against
league opponents; Sooner baseball finished out at Super Regional finals ranking ninth at
the end of the season and barely missing the College World Series finals. Five of the Sooner
teams ranked in the top 10 at the end of the season including men’s gymnastics ranking
number one, wrestling third and women’s basketball seventh. Football and softball were
both ranked in the top 25. For the eighth consecutive year, OU sent teams or individuals
to NCAA postseason competition in 13 of the 20 sports sponsored by the Sooners, a fact
Castiglione, whose commitment to the student-athlete is measured by success in all sports,
takes great pride in.
The 11th director of athletics at OU, Castiglione has overseen the most ambitious and successful fund-raising campaign in school history for the athletic department and has been
the driving force behind major facility improvements and the development and construction of new facilities. Castiglione has demanded a fiscally sound department in spite of all
the improvements, one that has produced a balanced budget for each of his seven years, a
first for OU since the 1980s.
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four-year term on the NCAA Championship/Competition Cabinet and is a member of the
NCAA Football Special Events Certification Committee. He also served a four-year term on
the NCAA’s Baseball Committee.
A native of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Castiglione was born Oct. 8, 1957. He is married to the
former Kristen Bartel, a 1990 graduate of the University of Missouri. They are the proud
parents of two sons, Joseph Robert, Jr., and Jonathan Edmund.
CONNIE DILLON
Faculty Athletics Representative
I
n her second year as OU’s Faculty Athletics
Representative, Connie Dillon is familiar with
the department’s commitment to studentathletes and its role in shaping Big 12 and NCAA
policies, having served on the Athletics Council for
many years.
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Dillon, a professor and director of the Research
Center for Continuing Professional and Higher
Education at the University of Oklahoma since
July 1998, was named to the position of Faculty
Athletics Representative in the summer of 2005
following the retirement of long-time representative Dan Gibbens. Dillon, whose career at
OU began initially in 1977, received her master’s degree in public administration from OU in
1975 and earned her Ph.D. in education technology from OU in 1980.
She has worked for the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress, the
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education and has held academic positions at Montana
State University and the University of Oklahoma. She also served as the director of media
services and telecommunications at Cameron University.
Joe and Kristen Castiglione and sons Johnathan (left) and Joseph
it included projects that affected every sport and each of OU’s nearly 500 student-athletes
with facility construction and/or improvements. Fund-raising for athletics at OU is at an alltime high, both in annual campaigns and the capital campaign. On behalf of the University
of Oklahoma, he cultivated several million dollar gifts, the largest capital gifts in history for
athletics at OU and some of the largest ever for the university as a whole.
He has overseen a dramatic construction, renovation and expansion of OU’s athletics
facilities with four new facilities opened and major renovations finished at eight others.
Construction and renovation projects have totaled more than $100 million as projects are
currently underway at other existing facilities while plans are being completed for continued improvements that are part of a innovative master plan that touches all sports.
He negotiated a multi-million dollar multi-media rights contract that produces more than
$3 million in annual revenue for the athletics department. He created a licensing program
at OU that currently produces more than $2.5 million in revenue for the department on an
annual basis. The Sooners have had sellouts in football for each of the last seven seasons,
and season tickets were sold out for the 2000 through 2006 seasons. A waiting list has been
created for Sooner football for the first time the 1980s.
Castiglione is active on a conference and national level. He is currently serving on the Board
of Directors for the Collegiate Women Sports Awards, formerly the Honda Award, and is
a board member of the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame.
He also is serving as a member of the NCAA Diversity Leadership Planning Committee
and the NCAA Division I Womens’ Basketball Discussion Group. He recently was named to
serve on the inaugural Gatorade Athletic Director Advisory Council. He served two terms
as chair of the Big 12 Board of Athletics Directors, completing his second in 1999-2000. He
is past president of the Division I-A Athletic Directors Association and NACDA. He served a
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Since returning to OU in 1988, Dillon has served as chair of both the Norman campus
Faculty Senate and the OU Athletics Council. She served in the Faculty Senate for eight years
and has been a member of the Athletics Council and NCAA certification committees since
1992. She has received the UOSA Outstanding Professor Award and served on many search
committees for academic and athletic appointments.
She is a well-published author in the distance learning field and received the Elizabeth
Powell Award for excellence in research in educational telecommunications. She has served
on several scholarly juries, panels and professional committees.
A native Oklahoman, she and her husband, Dave, have one daughter, Jenny, age 18.
OU Athletics Department Philosophy
The University of Oklahoma Athletics Department promotes excellence in athletics
without compromising excellence in academics or integrity in its commitment to rules
or conduct. Student-athletes are encouraged by the coaching and administrative staff
to maintain a balance between athletics, academics, and the social aspects of college.
It is believed that athletic participation gives an added dimension to the student’s
overall college experience and provides an opportunity for social, moral, emotional, and
cultural growth and development.
The athletics programs strive to create traits that once acquired will carry over and
benefit student-athletes in their personal and professional endeavors. The University of
Oklahoma maintains a tradition of excellence in intercollegiate sports.
The Athletics Department continues to uphold this tradition by striving to make each
athletic team and individual of championship caliber. Its staff members work to
instill in student-athletes an appreciation for hard work, perseverance, and pride in
accomplishment. It is believed these attributes will be utilized throughout the studentathlete’s life.
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GERALD GURNEY
Senior Associate AD
Academics and Student Life
KEITH GILL
Senior Associate AD
Administration
KENNY MOSSMAN
Senior Associate AD
Communications
GREG PHILLIPS
Senior Associate AD
Chief Financial Officer
STEPHANIE REMPE
Senior Associate AD
Senior Woman Administrator
MATT TRANTHAM
Associate AD
Event Management
DEREN BOYD
Assistant AD
Development
TIM GEORGE
Assistant AD
Marketing and Promotions
BILLY RAY JOHNSON
Assistant AD
Ticket Operations
MELANIE ROBERTS
Assistant AD
Compliance
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LARRY NAIFEH
Executive Associate AD
MERV JOHNSON
Special Assistant to the AD
March 3, 1955: Bruce Drake coached his last game for OU. Kansas dealt the Sooners a 71-67 defeat in the second game ever played at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence.
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head COACHES
SUNNY GOLLOWAY
Baseball
JEFF CAPEL
Men’s Basketball
SHERRI COALE
Women’s Basketball
MARTIN SMITH
Cross Country/Track and Field
BOB STOOPS
Football
JIM RAGAN
Men’s Golf
CAROL LUDVIGSON
Women’s Golf
MARK WILLIAMS
Men’s Gymnastics
K.J. KINDLER
Women’s Gymnastics
RANDY EVANS
Soccer
PATTY GASSO
Softball
PAUL LOCKWOOD
Men’s Tennis
MARK JOHNSON
Women’s Tennis
SANTIAGO RESTREPO
Volleyball
JACK SPATES
Wrestling
The mission of the University of Oklahoma Athletics Department is to inspire champions today
and prepare leaders for tomorrow by providing an excellent environment to enable studentathletes to achieve their highest academic, athletic and personal aspirations.
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