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Appalachan State Athletics2010-11 Annual Report

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COMMISSIONER’S CUP

2010-11 COMMISSIONER’S CUP STANDINGS

1 Appalachian State 912 UNC Greensboro 783 Chattanooga 70.54 Furman 605 Elon 59 Samford 597 Wofford 58.58 Davidson 57.59 College of Charleston 54.510 Western Carolina 51.511 Georgia Southern 4312 The Citadel 40.5

For an unprecedented eighth time, Appalachian State University athletics swept Southern Conference’s Commissioner’s and Germann Cups. Appalachian is the only school to ever win both the Commissioner’s Cup (SoCon’s top men’s all-sports program) and Germann Cup (SoCon’s top women’s all-sports program) in the same academic year, a feat it has now accomplished three times in the past six years and eight times since the inception of the Germann Cup in 1986-87.

Appalachian’s Commissioner’s Cup title is its sixth-straight, 19th in the past 20 years, 26th in the past 28 years and 31st overall. No other conference school has won the Commissioner’s Cup more than five times since its inception in 1969-70 and no current SoCon member besides ASU has claimed it more than once.

Thanks to championships in four of the 10 men’s sports, the Mountaineers cruised to this year’s Commis-sioner’s Cup crown with 91 points in the all-sports standings, 13 better than second-place UNC Greensboro. Appalachian was buoyed to the title by its record-tying sixth-consecutive SoCon football championship and its second-straight men’s cross country/indoor track and field/outdoor track and field triple crown.

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GERMANN CUP

2010-11 GERMANN CUP STANDINGS

1 Appalachian State 792 Samford 78.53 College of Charleston 78 Elon 785 UNC Greensboro 77.56 Furman 647 Chattanooga 628 Georgia Southern 52.59 Western Carolina 48.510 Davidson 27.511 Wofford 25.512 The Citadel 24

On the women’s side, the race was the closest in SoCon history, with Appalachian edging defending cham-pion Samford by a half-point for ASU’s ninth Germann Cup title and first since 2006-07. The Mountaineers finished in first or second place in over half of the league’s nine women’s sports, winning championships in women’s basketball and indoor and outdoor track and field, as well as placing second in cross country and softball.

Ironically, after such a terrific campaign, it was a rare loss that wrapped up the outright crown for Appala-chian. ASU softball’s 8-7 setback to Furman on the final day of the regular season allowed the Paladins to pull even with Samford in the final softball standings, which cost the Bulldogs the decisive half-point in the Germann Cup race.

In addition to this year, Appalachian also won both the Commissioner’s and Germann Cups in 1986-87, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1989-90, 1991-92, 2005-06 and 2006-07.

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DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS CHARLIE COBB

APPALACHIAN ATHLETICS MISSION STATEMENT

The Department of Athletics at Appalachian State Uni-versity believes in maintaining the intercollegiate athletics program as an integral part of the University’s overall pro-gram of education, with emphasis on and priority given to the high academic quality and standards and the complete development of the student.

Appalachian State University provides opportunity and encouragement for student-athletes to progress toward degrees of their choice and to develop athletic abilities in an environment consistent with high standards of aca-demic scholarship, leadership and institutional loyalty. The Department of Athletics is committed to ensuring the general welfare of the student-athlete and to encourag-ing the highest standards of sportsmanship on behalf of student-athletes, the student body and the University’s supporters. The intercollegiate athlete representing ASU is both a bona-fide student pursuing a degree program and an amateur competitor.

Appalachian Athletics is committed to insuring equi-table recruitment, participation and treatment of individu-als including members of under-represented populations through its athletics administration, staff, coaches, pro-grams and policies. The University’s policy of non-discrim-ination represents a moral and ethical, not merely a legal, imperative.

The University has determined that its athletics pro-gram will meet the necessary qualifications, guidelines and funding to hold membership in Division I of the NCAA. The athletics administration, the faculty athletics representative and the Athletics Council work together to insure that all teams and coaches follow the rules and regulations govern-ing this division.

A sound program of intercollegiate athletics should benefit the institution through its effects on students, alum-ni ad the institution itself. Specifically, it should maintain and improve the loyalty and esprit de corps of the student body, and in strengthening the pride and enthusiasm of the alumni; it should serve as a favorable public relations factor and provide benefits to the participants.

Dear Appalachian Family,

We submit to you, our biggest supporters, the 2010-11 Ap-palachian Athletics Annual Report. Within the attached pages are just some of the wonderful examples of the tangible ‘Experi-ence Based Learning’ that occurs on our campus each and every day from the commitment of a dedicated staff and tremendous young people.

This past year was truly special as both our men’s and women’s programs earned the highest honors in the Southern Conference with Commissioner’s and Germann Cup victories.

We are fortunate to enjoy many successes – on the field of competition, in the classroom and in the community. Providing our 460 student-athletes with what we proudly describe as the Appalachian State Experience is our paramount goal each and every year.

However, we could not accomplish our goals and enjoy the tre-mendous success without your involvement and support. Your time and resources make a difference for the next generation of Appalachian leaders.

Again, on behalf of the entire Appalachian State athletics de-partment, I thank you for your support. I hope you enjoy reading the next few pages and celebrating as a part of the Appalachian Family.

Today I Give My All For Appalachian State,Charlie CobbDirector of Athletics

ATHLETICS

FOOTBALL CONTINUES SUCCESS IN 2010

SIX-TIME SOUTHERNCONFERENCEC H A M P I O N S

Appalachian Football continued its tradition of excellence in 2010. The Moun-taineers racked up numerous team and individual accolades en route to the pro-gram’s sixth-straight Southern Conference championship. ASU’s most notable accomplishments include: • 10-3 overall record, 7-1 Southern Conference record• No. 4 final national ranking• Southern Conference Offensive Player of the Year DeAndre Presley• Southern Conference Coach of the Year Jerry Moore• NCAA Division I Football Championship Quarterfinalist• 14 all-Southern Conference honorees• Six all-Americans• School-record three NFL Draft picks Mark LeGree - Seattle Seahawks (fifth round - 156th overall) Daniel Kilgore - San Francisco 49ers (fifth round - 163rd overall) D.J. Smith - Green Bay Packers (sixth round - 186th overall)

2010 SCHEDULE/RESULTS

Date Opponent Result Atten.Sept. 4 * at Chattanooga W, 42-41 15,235Sept. 11 Jacksonville W, 45-14 28,708Sept. 18 North Carolina Central W, 44-16 29,218Sept. 25 * at Samford W, 35-17 9,428Oct. 9 * Elon W, 34-31 31,531Oct. 16 * The Citadel W, 39-10 29,519Oct. 23 * at Western Carolina W, 37-14 14,004Oct. 30 * Furman W, 37-26 29,093Nov. 6 * at Georgia Southern L, 21-14OT 20,073Nov. 13 * Wofford W, 43-13 28,622Nov. 20 at Florida L, 48-10 90,119

NCAA Division I ChampionshipDec. 4 Western Illinois W, 42-14 13,322 Second RoundDec. 11 Villanova L, 42-24 15,706 Quarterfinal

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CROSS COUNTRY AND TRACK AND FIELD COMBINE FOR FIVE SoCon TITLES Appalachian’s men’s cross country and track and field teams pulled off the astonishing feat of a Southern Conference Triple Crown for a second-straight year with this season’s cross country, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field titles. In October at Boone’s State Farm Fields, the Apps cruised to their sixth-straight cross country title, 11 points ahead of second-place UNCG. ASU placed five runners among the field’s top 15 and head coach Mike Curcio won the league’s Coach of the Year hon-ors. In the indoor track and field season, the men were again dominant, taking the SoCon title by nearly 70 points in 17 events. ASU scored 216.3 points, while second-place Western Carolina mustered just 149 points at the Clemson Indoor Track Facility.

It was ASU’s eighth indoor title in the past 11 seasons, and the Mountaineers recorded first-place finishes in eight of the 17 events and had 16 athletes earn all-SoCon honors. The Black and Gold also had two athletes receive all-Freshman accolades. The success of the weekend and season earned John Weaver the So-Con Coach of the Year award. The Triple Crown was then competed in Birmingham in April with a 256-point effort in 21 events. Runner-up at the SoCon Out-door Championship WCU tallied 218.5. ASU athletes won nine events at the meet. ASU is the only SoCon institution since 1975 to win the Triple Crown, which it has now done five times, and Furman is the only other current conference institution to have accomplished the feat, winning its lone Triple Crown back during the 1961-62 sea-sons.

Appalachian’s women’s track and field programs swept the indoor and outdoor SoCon championship meets for the seventh time since 2002. Women’s indoor track and field reclaimed its spot atop the SoCon after placing second in 2010 as it won the league’s indoor championships. The squad scored 185 points to earn its ninth title since 2000. The Mountaineers recorded first-place finishes in six of the 17 events and had 17 athletes earn all-SoCon honors. The Black and Gold also had six athletes earn all-Freshman accolades. John Weaver once again earned Coach of the Year honors. Two school records fell and five individual confer-ence champions were crowned when Appalachian won its 17th Southern Conference outdoor title and first out-door crown since 2009 in April. The Mountaineers crushed their competitors, scor-ing 195 team points, with ASU’s next closest opponent, Western Carolina, finishing second with 138 points. ASU narrowly missed out on a Triple Crown of its own as the cross country squad placed second at the So-Con Championships, just three points behind Samford.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL EARNS WNIT BID // SIMS REWRITES RECORD BOOK Under third-year head coach Darcie Vincent, Appa-lachian women’s basketball won the 2010-11 Southern Conference-regular season title with a 17-3 mark in league play. The Mountaineers were 11-1 at home and breezed to the SoCon Tournament championship game before suffer-ing a three-point defeat to Samford in the title bout’s wan-ing seconds. ASU earned its second all-time bid to the WNIT and fell at South Carolina to end one of the best seasons in pro-gram history.

Vincent was named the league’s Coach of the Year and senior guard Sam Ramirez took home Player of the Year honors. She is the first perimeter player to be recognized as the SoCon’s top player since 2002-03. Over the course of the championship run, the squad amassed numerous accomplishments and program records, including: •25wins •11-1homerecord •17-3SouthernConferencerecord •12-gameSoConwinningstreak

If senior guard Donald Sims hadn’t already cemented his legacy at Appalachian as 2010 Southern Conference Player of the Year, he punctuated an outstanding career by adding his name to the top of the ASU career record book in six categories, including points.

SIMS IN ASU’S CAREER RECORD BOOK Category Total Rank Points 2,185 1st Three-Pointers 358 1st Free Throw Pct. 89.2 1st Free Throws 545 1st Three-Point Attempts 883 1st Field Goal Attempts 1,477 1st Games Played 130 2nd Field Goals 641 3rd Assists 346 6th Three-Point Pct. 40.5 7th Scoring Average 16.8 7th Steals 132 8th

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GOLF AND SOFTBALL REACH NEW HEIGHTS Sophomores Yue Xu, Kristina Boo and Rumbidzai Masamvu swept the top three places at the Low Country Intercollegiate in Hilton Head, S.C. in March. ASU finished nine strokes ahead of sec-ond-place Samford. It was Xu’s second career championship after winning the Southern Conference Tournament as a freshman the previous spring. Mountaineers 314-302=616 (+40) 1 Yue Xu 74-73=147 (+3) 2 Kristina Boo 78-73=151 (+7) 3 Rumbidzai Masamvu 76-76=152 (+8) T33 Kerri Dice 86-80=166 (+22) T55 Brittany Zachrich (Ind.) 83-89=172 (+28) T58 Mimi Burke 87-86=173 (+29)

Men’s golf capped a solid stretch in March with a tournament victory in at the Don Benbow/North-South Invitational in Jack-sonville, Fla. Sophomore Josh Nichols matched a program record with an opening-round 65 and paced the Mountaineers to their first team title since 2002-03. Nichols’ individual medal was the first of his career.Mountaineers 291-294=585 (+17) 1 Josh Nichols 65-73=138 (-4) T3 Daniel Walsh (Ind.) 72-72=144 (+2) T12 Darren Cook 74-73=147 (+5) T17 Colin Hobbs 77-71=148 (+6) T30 Jay Brown (Ind.) 78-73=151 (+9) T33 Dustin Hudson 76-77=153 (+11) T35 Casey Komline 76-78=154 (+12)

Softball won 26 games in 2011 and reached numerous mile-stones in head coach Shea Wesley’s first season as head coach. The Mountaineers stormed to a 24-22 regular-season record and 15-7 mark in league play, earning the second seed for the South-ern Conference Tournament. After a first-round upset at the hands of Samford, the Moun-taineers rallied back to force three elimination games at the tour-nament before finally falling to eventual runner-up College of Charleston. Four players earned all-SoCon honors, while sophomore out-fielder Allie Cashion also earned all-tournament honors.

All-Southern Conference Honorees Katie Boyd Sr. 3B Allie Cashion So. OF Hannah Dow Sr. P Meghan Smith So. UT

Upon closer inspection, ASU’s record is all the more impres-sive when considering the team’s brutal non-conference sched-ule and ensuing 1-9 start to the season. The Mountaineers rolled off four-straight wins to capture the UNC Wilmington Tournament in late February and, after a 1-2 start to the conference season, won six of the season’s final seven SoCon series. ASU’s 26-24 final record was the program’s second winning season in its 11-year history. Senior Katie Boyd wrapped up her career as ASU’s most pro-lific offensive player with eight records. Additionally, the three-time all-SoCon performer owns numerous single-game and sea-son records in the ASU annals.

ASU Team Stats in 2011 Batting Average .264 On-Base Percentage .328 Slugging Percentage .396 Earned Run Average 2.95

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UNPRECEDENTEDSUCCESS

ATHLETICS

PAST AND PRESENT FOOTBALL PLAYERS EARN INDIVIDUAL HONORS

Dexter Coakley officially became Appalachian State University’s first Col-lege Football Hall of Famer in July during the Hall’s annual Enshrinement Fes-tival in South Bend, Ind. Coakley was one of 20 of the sport’s legends inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as part of the enshrinement ceremonies. Just weeks earlier, he also entered the Southern Conference Hall of Fame. Perhaps the most decorated defensive player in NCAA Division I FCS (Foot-ball Championship Subdivision — formerly Division I-AA) history, Coakley re-mains ASU’s all-time leader in total tackles (616), solo tackles (350), assisted tackles (266), double-figure tackle games (37) and 20-tackle games (7). He was the 1993 SoCon Freshman of the Year, a three-time Southern Con-ference Defensive Player of the Year (1994-96 — still the only three-time re-cipient of the award), a two-time SoCon Male Athlete of the Year (1995-96 and 1996-97), a three-time All-American (one of only two three-time consensus first-team All-Americans in ASU history) and the winner of the first two Buck Buchanan Awards (1995 and ‘96). Fifteen years after he won the second of his two Buchanan Awards, Coakley remains the only two-time winner of award, which is presented annually to the nation’s top FCS defensive player.

Appalachian State University quarterback DeAndre Pres-ley placed third in voting for the 2010 Walter Payton Award, The Sports Network announced during its 24th-annual NCAA Division I FCS awards banquet at the Dallas-Frisco Embassy Suites in Janu-ary. Presley, the only underclassmen among the three players invited to the unveiling of the FCS player-of-the-year award, re-ceived 13 first-place votes and 182 total points in balloting among national media and sports information directors. Stephen F. Austin’s Jeremy Moses received the honor in a landslide, tallying 37 first-place votes and 372 total points. West-ern Illinois’ Matt Barr placed second with 17 first-place votes and 262 total points. With Presley’s third-place finish, Appalachian has had four representatives among the top three in Payton Award balloting in the past seven years — DaVon Fowlkes also placed third in voting in 2004 and Presley’s predecessor as ASU’s starting quarterback, Armanti Edwards, became the first two-time winner of the award by taking home the trophy in 2008 and 2009. Presley became only the fourth player in FCS history to pass for 2,000 yards (2,631 — 20th nationally) and rush for 1,000 yards (1,039 — 28th nationally and second among QBs) in a season last fall and ranked second nationally with 35 touchdowns accounted for (21 passing, 13 rushing and one receiving) and fourth with 3,670 yards of total offense.

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ASU CONDUCTS FEASIBILITY STUDY In September 2010, Appalachian athletics announced a study to evaluate Appalachian’s options with regards to the changing Division I landscape. A feasibility study committee was formed in January 2011 to analyze data collected by Collegiate Consulting LLC (formerly NACDA Consulting) and make a recommendation to ASU Chancellor Dr. Kenneth E. Peacock. After seven months of study and analysis of the data, the feasibility study committee concluded that Appalachian is best suited for NCAA Division I FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision – formerly Division I-A) as an institution and an athletics department. In August, the committee formally recommended to Chancellor Peacock that, at some future point, Appalachian seek membership in an athlet-ics conference that sponsors football at the FBS level. I During its seven-month analysis, the committee concluded that in addition to ASU’s unprecedented athletic success, the Univer-sity’s enrollment of 17,000-plus, its academic philosophy and its strategic vision going forward more closely mirror FBS institutions than its current FCS counterparts. With signs pointing towards another significant shift in the Division I landscape, the committee determined that the time was right for Appalachian to make its intention to move to FBS known.

“The analysis of the facts is very clear that FBS is the right place for Appalachian athletics from an across-the-board institutional standpoint. A move to FBS mirrors Appalachian’s strategic vision as a nationally prominent institution and would enhance the Univer-sity’s academic mission. The committee has worked to develop a blended financial model that ensures that the move would not be made on the backs of students.

“A move to FBS is not imminent. It is essential that we find a conference fit that creates rivalries and makes financial sense. However, with what appears to be another seismic shift in the Division I landscape on the horizon, the committee concluded that it is crucial to make our future intentions known at this time.” - ASU athletics feasibility study committee co-chairperson G.A. Sywassink

“The committee has done its due diligence and I agree with their assessment. ASU has been a Division I institution for 40 years with a proven record of success on and off the field. Should Appalachian be provided with the right opportunity within the changing Division I landscape, I agree that Mountaineer athletics can excel across the board at the FBS level.

“However, this is just a first step towards a possible move. The goals of our teams — to compete for Southern Conference and national championships —will not change in the meantime.” - ASU director of athletics Charlie Cobb

“I trust and respect our administration and all of the hard work that they and the committee have put into this issue over the past several months. I fully support the recommendation of the committee and have no doubt that they have the best interests of Appala-chian and our athletics department and football program in mind.

“However, this recommendation does not change our focus as players and coaches one bit — it remains fully competing for a seventh-straight Southern Conference championship in 2011.” - ASU football head coach Jerry Moore

ASU Athletics Feasibility Committee Members*G.A. Sywassink (Chairman and retired CEO of Standard Holding Corp.)*Larry Stone (President and COO of Lowe’s Corporation)Eric Barnes (ASU Student Government Association representative)John Blackburn (President, Linville Resorts, Inc.)Mark Harrill (President, Foscoe Companies)Jay Howard (President, JHE Production Group)Derek Jenkins (Senior Vice President, Target Stores)Doug Johnson (CEO, Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation)Jeffrey A. Shepard (Retired CEO, Footstar)Tommy Sofield (CEO, U.S. Buildings)Brad Wilson (CEO, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of North Carolina)

* Co-chairpersons

ATHLETICS

SUCCESS AWAY FROM THE PLAYING FIELD In addition to their exploits on the field and in the classroom, ASU student-athletes and staff achieved success off the field in many ways in 2010-11. All 20 of Appalachian’s varsity sports boasted multi-year APR scores of 951 or higher, comfortably out-of-range for potential penalties that can be doled out to teams with APRs under 925. On average, ASU’s teams registered APRs that are nearly five points higher than the national average. Leading the way for Appalachian was its field hockey program, which had a perfect multi-year score of 1,000 and earned an NCAA Public Recognition Award for ranking among the top-10 percent in its sport nationally. Also on a national level, football (974 APR) and men’s basketball (970) were tops among ASU’s programs with scores 31 and 25 points higher than their sports’ averages, respectively. Each Division I team calculates its APR annually based on the eligibility and retention of scholarship student-athletes. Teams scoring below 925 out of 1,000 can face penalties, such as scholarship losses and restrictions on practice and competition. Multi-year rates are based on the past four years of performance, mean-ing that the latest figures are determined by performance from the 2006-07, ‘07-08, ‘08-09 and ‘09-10 academic years.

APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS MULTI-YEAR ACADEMIC PROGRESS RATES(for four-year period ending with 2009-10 academic year)

Sport’s National Sport Multi-Year APR APR AverageBaseball 955 959Men’s Basketball 970 945Women’s Basketball 965 968Men’s Cross Country 986 970Women’s Cross Country 992 977Field Hockey 1,000 988Football 974 943Men’s Golf 975 971Women’s Golf 990 983Men’s Soccer 962 967Women’s Soccer 958 978Softball 982 975Men’s Tennis 974 970Women’s Tennis 984 979Men’s Indoor Track and Field 975 960Women’s Indoor Track and Field 965 970Men’s Outdoor Track and Field 972 962Women’s Outdoor Track and Field 965 972Wrestling 951 958Volleyball 968 978

ASU student-athletes are fixtures in the community, volunteering their time and talents to a number of worthwhile causes throughout the year. Organizations that the Mountaineers have served include:

• Allegheny County Schools• Ashe County Schools• Avery County Schools• Boone Celebrity Serve• The Crossnore School• Habitat for Humanity• Leadership In Full Effect (LIFE)

• Locks of Love• March of Dimes• Samaritan’s Purse• Special Olympics• Watauga County Schools• Why The Woods• Wilkes County Schools

Director of Athletics Charlie Cobb was named the 2010-11 NCAA Division I FCS Southeast Region Under Armour Athletics Director of the Year by the National As-sociation of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA). Appalachian athletics has achieved unprecedented success on and off the field since Cobb’s arrival in July 2005. On the field, Mountaineer teams have won 30 con-ference championships in Cobb’s six years at ASU, including seven in 2010-11. Most notably, Appalachian football has claimed a record-tying six-consecutive Southern Conference titles and put together three-straight national championships from 2005-07, becoming the first FCS program to ever win three national titles in a row and the first Division I team (FCS or FBS) in 61 years to achieve the feat. Addition-ally, ASU men’s and women’s basketball have each advanced to postseason play twice during Cobb’s tenure. Thanks to the Mountaineers’ across-the-board athletic success, Appalachian has won six-consecutive Commissioner’s Cups (awarded to the SoCon’s top men’s all-around sports program) and three Germann Cups (awarded to the SoCon’s top women’s all-around sports program) under Cobb’s direction. In the classroom, nearly 35 percent of ASU student-athletes make the depart-ment’s Academic Honor Roll (minimum grade point average of 3.25) and five pro-grams (men’s basketball, women’s cross country, field hockey and women’s indoor and outdoor track and field) have earned NCAA Public Recognition Awards for their Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores being ranked among nation’s top 10 percent in their respective sports during Cobb’s tenure. In the latest APR data released by the NCAA, all 20 of Appalachian’s varsity sports boast multi-year APR scores of 951 or higher (on a scale of 1,000) and, on average, ASU’s teams registered APRs that are nearly five points higher than the national average for their respective sports.

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In 2010-11, Appalachian Athletics’ online home was more prominent than ever. In addition to GoASU.com’s constant coverage of the Moun-taineers, GoASU TV provided the most free and premium content for all 20 varsity programs than in any previous year since its inception.

GoASU.com enjoyed more than 9.3 million page views from August 2010 through May 2011, while GoASU TV produced more than 500 live and on-demand programs during the academic year.

In addition to rosters, schedules, statistics, live stats, media guides, pre-views and complete recaps for all of the Mountaineer teams throughout the year, the site also houses the online homes of the Yosef Club, Ticket Office and online store.

The site also hosts occasional live chats and a regular column by Associ-ate AD for External Affairs David Jackson, as well as other special features and events throughout the year.

AROUND THE MOUNTAIN IN 2010-11

In March 2011, ASU began the process of removing its old football play-ing surface in favor of a revolutionary facelift.

Kidd Brewer Stadium is one of the first venues in the nation to feature FieldTurf’s new ‘Revolution’ playing surface, which includes the latest technology to give ASU the most player-friendly yet durable field avail-able.

The field design features Appalachian’s familiar Block A logo at midfield, the recognizable Appalachian State wordmark in both end zones and al-ternating shades of green every five yards to give the artificial surface the look of a freshly mowed grass field.

Also as part of the project, the field’s crown was removed and the high-jump pit that formerly sat beyond the south end zone was moved to the other end of the field to allow for the installation of additional stadium seating in the north end zone (in front of Owens Field House).

In 2010-11, the Yosef Club created the Student Yosef Club to invigorate the young Mountaineer fan base. Members received benefits such as early admission to football home games, premium seating at basketball games, Yosef Club Priority Points, membership card, a t-shirt and a sub-scription to ASU’s Black & Gold newspaper.

The Student Yosef Club Executive Board is comprised of a 20-member group serving for one-year terms. The Board has several positions of leadership where students are able to help run and facilitate the Student Yosef Club events and serve as hosts for Yosef Club and athletics depart-ment events.

In its first year of existence, the club boasted nearly 300 members.

ATHLETICS

FOOTBALL

Appalachian State University football con-tinued its six-year run as the Southern Confer-ence’s premier program by winning its sixth-consecutive SoCon championship in 2010. In the process, Appalachian became only the second program to win six-straight SoCon titles since the league began officially crowning a gridiron champion in 1933 and, with a final re-cord of 10-3, extended its string of consecutive 10-win seasons to six, a feat matched by only one other NCAA Division I program (FCS or FBS) from 2005-10 (Virginia Tech).

Notable victories for the Mountaineers in-cluded a heart-stopping 42-41 triumph at Chat-tanooga in the season opener, when the Apps rallied from a pair of 21-point deficits in the fi-nal 17 minutes to shock the upstart Mocs, and a 43-13 rout over No. 4 Wofford that clinched ASU’s 11th SoCon crown. Individually, Appala-chian was led by quarterback DeAndre Presley, who in his first year as the Mountaineers’ full-time starter, became only the fourth player in FCS history to pass for 2,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in a season and placed third in vot-ing for the Walter Payton Award (FCS National Player of the Year). Following the season, ASU had three players selected in the National Foot-ball League Draft for the first time in school his-tory. Appalachian’s three NFL Draft picks (Mark LeGree - fifth round, Seattle Seahawks; Daniel Kilgore - fifth round, San Francisco 49ers; D.J. Smith - sixth round, Green Bay Packers) were as many or more than 42 of the 66 programs that play in automatic-qualifying conferences for the Bowl Championship Series.

MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

Men’s cross country defended its home turf by winning its sixth-straight Southern Confer-ence title on the Kennedy Trails at State Farm Fields. The title is also the Apps’ ninth in 11 sea-sons. Will Raby, Brandon Hudgins, Alex Taylor and Sean Soderman all received second-team all-SoCon honors for finishing in the league’s top 14. Hudgins and Taylor each posted career-best times at the conference meet, and head coach Mike Curcio snagged his ninth Southern Conference Men’s Coach of the Year Award for his team’s performance.

The Mountaineers finished the 2010 season ranked 13th in the 34-team NCAA Southeast Regional. Other highlights included a pair of first place finishes at the Asics-Winthrop Invi-tational and at the Black and Gold’s own Blue Ridge Open. Soderman claimed the individual crown at the Asics-Winthrop Invitational and barely missed setting a new personal-best time while doing so. The United States Track & Field/Cross Coun-try Coaches Association also named ASU a 2010 All-Academic Team. The Apps were one of 152 schools to receive the accolade, which was awarded to teams boasting a grade point aver-age 3.0 or above. For the year, Appalachian posted an overall head-to-head record of 88-31.

WOMEN’S INDOORTRACK AND FIELD

Women’s indoor track and field reclaimed its throne atop the Southern Conference by winning the indoor title for the ninth time since 2000. The championship is head coach John Weaver’s 16th indoor crown since he took over the program in 1982. The Mountaineers claimed six individual crowns at the SoCon Championships and had a total of 17 athletes receive all-SoCon honors and six newcomers earn all-freshman acco-lades. Breanna Alston was named the SoCon Freshman of the Year after winning the 60 and 200-meter dashes along with being on the all-SoCon 4x400-meter relay. Weaver also claimed his 26th Women’s SoCon Coach of the Year award. ASU had a pair of school records fall dur-ing the season. Alston broke the a-year-old 300-meter dash record at the Appalachian Pre-Conference meet by running 39.09, nearly a second and a half faster than the previous re-cord that was set in 1992. The quartet of Che-nel McFadden, Breahna Morrison, D’Shawrna McLucas and Asia Dunlap snapped the 10-year -old 4x400-meter relay record at the Akron Invi-tational with a time of 3:51.29. Other accolades acquired throughout the season were three Athlete of the Week honors (Alston, Cassie Crawford, Bianca Harvey) and one Athlete of the Month award (Crawford).

2010-11 SPORT RECAPS

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MEN’S INDOORTRACK AND FIELD

Men’s indoor track and field won its third consecutive Southern Conference title and its eighth indoor championship since 2000. The victory is head coach John Weaver’s 22nd since taking over the men’s program in 1995.

The Mountaineers had eight athletes earn nine total individual titles at the conference meet with Dennis Moore snagging two crowns (60m and 200m). The squad had 16 athletes tally a total of 19 all-SoCon performances along with Chris Moen earning the Most Outstanding Track Performer rcognition and Malcolm Styers being named the Most Outstanding Field Per-former. Weaver was also tabbed as the Men’s SoCon Indoor Coach of the Year for the 13th time. Jamal Tiller and Landon Hunt rounded out ASU’s awards by earning all-freshman team honors. Appalachian had a memorable year with four school records and a handful of Holmes Center records falling. Jerod Gardner set the school record in the shot put with a throw of 56 feet and half an inch. Darius Purcell soared at the SoCon Championships in the high jump and set the new record at 7-1.75. Moen and Sean Soderman each recorded new school bests at the Akron Invitational. Moen ran an 8:05.88 in the 300-meters, shattering the previ-ous record by nearly 16 seconds. Soderman ran 14:32.99 in the 5,000-meter run, breaking a 20-year old record. Other highlights for the Black and Gold were earning SoCon Athlete of the Week five times and Athlete of the Month twice.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Women’s basketball capped a stellar sea-son under third-year head coach Darcie Vincent with a 25-7 overall record and 17-3 mark in So-Con action, good for school records in both to-tal and conference victories. As if breaking program records wasn’t enough, the Mountaineers captured their first regular-season SoCon title since the 1995-96 campaign, dethroning 11-time regular-season champion Chattanooga. Appalachian also posted an 18-game home winning streak that started in January 2010 and tied the longest winning streak in program his-tory with 12-straight regular season victories. The Black and Gold swept all but two its league foes, highlighted by snapping a 26-game losing streak to SoCon-rival UTC by beat-ing the Mocs for the first time since 1998. Vincent was named the SoCon Coach of the Year for the second year in a row and three Mountaineers picked up all-conference acco-lades. Ashlen Dewart, Anna Freeman and Sam Ramirez were all named to the all-SoCon team, while Freeman was also tabbed the SoCon De-fensive Player of the Year and Ramirez became just the fourth player and first true guard in ASU program history to be named the SoCon Player of the Year. The Mountaineers rode their strong play all the way to the SoCon tournament champion-ship game before falling just short to Samford, with a three-point loss to the Bulldogs. For the first time since 1987, Appalachian earned a Women’s National Invitation Tourna-ment bid, and narrowly fell at South Carolina in the WNIT’s first round.

MEN’S OUTDOORTRACK AND FIELD

Men’s track and field had no problem re-maining atop the SoCon during the 2011 out-door season, as the Mountaineers not only posted an impressive outdoor season but com-pleted the rare feat of winning the program’s second-straight Southern Conference Triple Crown. The Apps capped off their historic fifth all-time Triple Crown run by routing their next nearest competitior, Western Carolina, at the 2011 SoCon Championships. Contributions came from all over for the highly successful squad, as 26 Apps picked up all-SoCon accolades and eight Mountaineers won individual conference titles.

Malcolm Styers won his second consecu-tive title in the hammer throw, while teammate Jerod Gardner completed the clean sweep of the throwing events for the Black and Gold by winning both the shot put and discus. Darius Purcell won the high jump title, becoming the first Mountaineer since 1996 to do so. Well represented in the distance events, Sean So-derman won the 3000m steeplechase and Will Raby captured his first individual conference title by winning the 5000m run. Speedster Den-nis Moore dominated the sprinting events, win-ning both the 100m and 200m dashes and the 4x100m relay team comprised of Moore, Justin Thomas, TJ Lockard and Landon Powell won the event. For their spectacular efforts, Moore was named the Most Outstanding Track Performer, and Styers was named the Most Outstanding Field Performer of the 2011 SoCon Outdoor Championships. Styers went on to a stellar performance at the NCAA East Regional in the hammer throw, finishing tied for 11th in the event with a new personal best throw of 201-8.

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WOMEN’S OUTDOORTRACK AND FIELD

No stranger to success, women’s outdoor track and field carried over its impressive in-door showings to the outdoor season. The Black and Gold exerted its dominance and strength throughout the entire outdoor campaign, culminating with the 2011 SoCon Outdoor title, the team’s first since 2009. In a complete team effort, 23 Mountaineers posted all-SoCon performances and five Apps claimed individual conference titles. Breanna Alston was victorious in the 200m dash, Chenel McFadden won the 400m hurdles title and set the school record in the event, Rebecca Hazeltine won the high jump crown, Cassie Crawford captured the pole vault title and graduate student Norjai Palma won the shot put for ASU. Alston’s title in the 200m dash was Appa-lachian’s first in the event since 2005 McFad-den’s win in the 400m hurdles is ASU’s first in the event since 1994. Continuing to make their marks on ASU’s record book, Hazeltine’s title in the high jump was the program’s first in the event since 1993, while Crawford’s crown in the pole vault is ASU’s first since 2009 and just third in program history. Rewarded for her stellar efforts, Alston picked up outdoor SoCon Freshman of the Year accolades after winning the 200m dash and earning the runner-up spot in the 100m dash. In addition to winning the SoCon title, three

Mountaineers also broke school records during the course of the outdoor season. Asia Dunlap set the 400m dash record at the SoCon champi-onships with a speedy time of 55.11, McFadden set the 400m hurdles record with a stout mark of 60.94 at the SoCon championships and Ha-zeltine tied the school record in the high jump at two different meets, leaping 5-10.

WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

Women’s cross country finished as the run-ner-up in the Southern Conference with four competitors in the meet’s top 20, falling by only three points to champion Samford. Amy Neilson led the Mountaineers’ surge by finishing sixth overall and earning first-team all-SoCon honors. Brittney Caudle and Dani Reese finished eighth and 14th, respectively, to earn second-team all-conference honors. Freshman Destine Kirkman was named to the all-freshman team for her 24th-place finish. Other highlights from the season included the team placing third at the Covered Bridge Open, second at the Asics-Winthrop Invitation-al and 17th at the Paul Short Run.

At the Asics-Winthrop Invitational, seven Appalachian runners placed in the top 20 of the 5k race. Caudle led the way with a 25th place finish out of 366 runners at the Paul Short Run while four other Black and Gold runners posted personal best times. Neilson paced the Apps at the Southeast Regional in Louisville with an 87th-place finish while Hannah Orders also placed in the top 100 with a 92nd-place showing at the event. The United States Track & Field/Cross Coun-try Coaches Association also named ASU a 2010 All-Academic Team for boasting a grade point average above 3.0. For the year, Appalachian posted an overall head-to-head record of 77-47.

SOFTBALL

Softball recorded its second winning sea-son in program history, finishing the season 26-24, including a 15-7 record in SoCon play. The Mountaineers also finished second in the league, good for the highest finish in program history. Sophomore Meghan Smith led Appala-chian all season at the plate, finishing the sea-son with a .359 batting average. Smith had 16 multi-hit games, the most of anyone on the roster, and also led ASU in multi-RBI games with 12. Sophomore Allie Cashion ranked second on the team with a .345 batting average, notch-ing 50 hits in 145 at bats. Cashion had 14 multi-hit games and 10 multi-RBI games to her credit, and led ASU with six four-RBI games. Senior Katie Boyd capped off the most dec-orated career in ASU history, leaving her name in over 30 offensive and defensive categories in the ASU and NCAA record book. Most notable was her mark of 44 career home runs, second most all-time in SoCon history. Boyd ended her final season third on the team with a .317 bat-ting average while leading Appalachian in runs scored (48), homeruns (10), triples (3), slugging percentage (.626) and walks (37). Senior Hannah Dow was solid in the circle for the Black and Gold pitching staff, leading the way with a career-low 1.81 ERA and career-best 13 wins. After not allowing an earned run during the weekend series against Western Carolina, Dow was named SoCon Pitcher of the Week.

First-year head coach Shae Wesley became the second head coach in program history to post a winning record in her first season at the helm. Smith and Cashion were tabbed first-team all-SoCon, while Dow and Boyd earned second-team honors. Boyd came the first Mountaineer in program history to be named all-SoCon four-straight seasons.

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VOLLEYBALL

Volleyball posted an impressive 2010 sea-son, with an 18-12 overall record and 9-7 SoCon mark earning the team a third-place finish in the North Division standings. The Black and Gold wasted no time getting off to a strong start, as the Mountaineers were stellar in their season-opening tournaments. ASU raced to a 6-0 record to start the season, the program’s best start since 1981. Appalachian was victorious at the High Point Tournament, bested former conference foe ETSU in five sets and won two matches at the Appalachian Invitational before suffering its first loss of the season. ASU carried its solid play and momentum into league action with a 3-0 start by routing The Citadel, Western Carolina and Elon. Over the course of the SoCon slate, ASU downed defending SoCon North champion Samford, 3-1, on the Bulldogs’ home floor and swept the season series against SU, as well as sweeping divisional foe Western Carolina and splitting the season series with North Division champion Elon. For the first time since 2006, the Mountain-eers played host to the 2010 SoCon Volleyball Tournament. Earning the No. 3 seed in the North, ASU opened with eventual tournament champion Georgia Southern, and lost, 3-1, to close out the season.

Defense proved to be the strength for Ap-palachian during the 2010 season, as ASU fin-ished the campaign 13th in NCAA Division I in blocks per set, while senior Caroline Sedon was 15th in NCAA Division I in blocks per set, aver-aging 1.35. Sophomore Courtney Rhein also contribut-ed to the squad’s defensive efforts, as the libero was named second team all-SoCon.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

In his first season at the helm, head coach Jason Capel led men’s basketball to a 16-15 re-cord and third-place finish in the Southern Con-ference’s North Division. Senior Donald Sims capped off a stellar career in the Black and Gold, leaving his mark as arguably the most prolific scorer in the pro-gram’s history. The guard took over six career records, most notably ASU’s career scoring mark while becoming Appalachian’s first-ever 2,000-point scorer.

With the help of junior transfer Omar Cart-er’s 35 points, the Apps opened the 2010-11 campaign with a statement win at Tulsa. Just a week later, Sims scored 40 points as the squad narrowly missed a chance for a season-defining win at Mississippi State. With a mix of youth and experience, the Mountaineers found their groove in league play as the calendar flipped over to February. The squad won 7-of-8 games in the month, in-cluding an overtime thriller at UNCG, a home win against regular-season league champion College of Charleston and a nail-biting Bracket-Buster win at High Point. Appalachian posted a 10-8 record in the SoCon to earn the third seed in the North for March’s league championship at Chattanoo-ga’s McKenzie Arena. ASU dispatched Georgia Southern before falling to eventual tournament champion Wofford. Andre Williamson led ASU in rebounding and blocks on the season while Carter and Sims each earned all-conference accolades after combining for 37 points per game on the year. Despite the loss of Sims and three other se-niors, ASU returns four starters in 2011-12.

WRESTLING

Appalachian State wrestling finished the 2010-11 season with a 8-11-1 overall record and a 2-3 SoCon mark to finish fourth in the league’s regular-season standings. Juniors Austin Trotman and Kyle Blevins captured individual SoCon titles at 184 and 165 pounds, respectively, and moved on to repre-sent ASU at the NCAA Tournament. Trotman and Blevins both ran the table at the SoCon Championships with Blevins being named SoCon Tournament Outstanding Wres-tler for his upset of SoCon Wrestler of the Year Turtogtokh Luvsandorj (The Citadel) in the fi-nals. Trotman became the 16th Mountaineer to win back-to-back SoCon crowns while Blevins’ title was his first. Blevins ended his season with a career-high 38 wins against nine defeats, tying him with Scott Ervin (2007-08) for most wins in a sea-son all-time at ASU. The Sapulpa, Okla. native moved his career tally to 84-38, good for sev-enth place in ASU history. Trotman, who was a perfect 20-0 in dual meets during the campaign, concluded his

season with a 33-9 record and won his third-career match at the NCAA Championships. With a career mark of 91-31, Trotman finished in fifth place all-time in career victories and tied for fifth with Donnell Rawls (1991-92) for most wins in a season. Trotman (two times) and Blevins (once) also combined to capture three SoCon Wrestler of the Week awards and combined to become the first pair of Apps to earn 30-plus wins in a single season since 2002-03. The duo also finished the season ranked 14th in their respective classes by Intermat. For Blevins, it was his third straight 20-plus win season, the second straight 20-plus win season for Kostis and the second straight for Trotman and third overall for his career. Junior Savva Kostis (149), junior Carter Downs (174) and freshman Marc Tyson (285) all claimed third-place finishes a the SoCon Cham-pionships. The Apps placed three on all-SoCon squads voted on by the league’s coaches. Trotman was named all-SoCon at 184 and freshmen Chris Johnson and Marc Tyson were named to the all-freshman team.

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FIELD HOCKEY

Following a successful 2009 campaign, the 2010 field hockey squad burst out of the gates by winning its first two matches of the season for the first time since 2003, and went on to fin-ish 5-14 overall and 1-5 in NorPac play. Senior Nicole Morgan, junior Bridgette Street and sophomore Lisa Charney earned all-NorPac honors, which was the first time since 2003 that Appalachian had at least three play-ers tagged with all-conference accolades. Morgan was also named to the NorPac All-Tournament Team after a strong performance in the conference tournament in Davidson, N.C. where she tallied two goals in as many games. The senior capped her career by moving into seventh all-time in career assists at ASU with nine and 10th all-time in career points with 51. Street climbed up three spots on ASU’s ca-reer saves chart to fifth all-time. The Stillwater, Pa. native denied 162 balls on the season and currently sits at 433 saves. She was also named NorPac East Defensive Player of the Week three times.

Junior captain Lauren Kloeppinger and se-nior Jenn Heiss also climbed the Mountaineers’ all-time lists with each notching five assists on the season, which ranks them both sixth in school history. The Apps’ best stretch was a three-match winning streak from Sept. 25 to Oct. 1. During which, it defeated Georgetown, Limestone and conference foe Radford. For the second-straight season, Charney and Morgan led the team in scoring with 20 and 17 points; Charney had a team-high nine goals while Morgan was second with seven.

MEN’S TENNIS

Men’s tennis put together arguably the best season in 12 years under head coach Bob Lake by going 15-7 overall and 7-3 in SoCon action. The 15 wins tied for the most wins in single sea-son during Lake’s tenure, and the seven confer-ence victories set a new single season-high. Appalachian began the season with a pair of 5-2 losses to No. 49 East Tennessee State and No. 69 South Carolina but rebounded from the defeats to post a pair of five-match winning streaks during the course of the season. The dynamic double duo of Alain Hum-blet and Philip Kloc recorded one of the most memorable seasons for an ASU doubles team by going 17-5 at the No. 1 position, including a 12-match winning streak. For their impressive season, the tandem was named first team all-SoCon.

The additions of transfer Alex Markov and freshman Sebastien King to the 2011 roster proved to provide depth to Lake’s squad, with each garnering SoCon honors. Markov played mainly at the No. 1 slot and boasted a 12-10 re-cord for the season. The Bulgarian received first-team all-SoCon honors for going 5-5 in league play. King slid right into the fourth spot on the team and went 15-7 in his first collegiate year. King was named to the SoCon all-freshman team. Part of the Black and Gold’s success was its ability to defend its home court. Appalachian went 7-1 on the ASU Tennis Courts with the team’s lone loss coming in its final home match versus regular-season SoCon Champion Elon. The Mountaineers received the fourth seed for the SoCon tournament, which matched its highest seed ever. In the quarterfinals, eventual tournament champion Samford upset ASU to end the Apps’ noteworthy season.

MEN’S SOCCER

For the first time in four years, Appalachian State University men’s soccer advanced to the Southern Conference Tournament semifinals to cap an 8-8-3 2010 campaign. Appalachian went 4-2-1 in SoCon play dur-ing the regular season to earn the No. 4 seed in the conference tournament. The Mountaineers dispatched fifth-seed Elon, 1-0, in the tourna-ment’s opening round at ASU Soccer Stadium to advance to the SoCon semifinals for the first time since 2006, where it dropped a heart-breaking 1-0 overtime decision to nationally ranked SoCon regular-season and tournament champion, UNC Greensboro. The overtime match in the SoCon semifi-nals headlined a season full of close calls for the Mountaineers, who needed extra time to de-cide six of the year’s 19 matches. ASU finished 1-2-3 in overtime contests. Sean Dreybus headlined Appalachian’s three all-SoCon selections, leading the club in goals (4), assists (3), points (11), shots (52) and shots on goal (20). He was joined on the all-conference squads by Steven Sassano and Lee Williams, who also were named to the league’s all-tournament team.

Off the field, Shaun Pendleton’s squad earned a spot on the NCSSA Team Academic List for a third-straight year while Dreybus was tabbed by the organization as an all-South Scholar. Dreybus also led four Mountaineers on the SoCon’s academic all-conference team.

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2010-11 SPORT RECAPSBASEBALL

Appalachian State University baseball put together its fifth-consecutive 30-win season and made its second-straight appearance in the Southern Conference Tournament semifinals to highlight a successful 2011 season. A 33-27 campaign gave Appalachian 30 or more wins in five-straight seasons for the first time since 1982-86. The 33 victories were highlighted by a 7-5 triumph at No. 20 Miami (Fla.), ASU’s first win over a nationally ranked opponent in 29 years, a 6-5 victory over Tennessee that moved the Mountaineers to 3-2 in their last five meet-ings with clubs from the powerful Southeastern Conference, and a 5-0 SoCon Tournament shut-out over Furman that lifted the Apps to the con-ference semifinals for the second year in a row.

Individually, junior Ryan Arrowood put to-gether the best season by an Appalachian start-ing pitcher in recent memory, going 8-3 with a 2.96 ERA and 83 strikeouts. He was part of four of the Mountaineers’ seven shutouts, which were the most by an ASU staff since a school-re-cord nine in 1983. Senior Taylor Miller anchored the back end of the Mountaineers’ stellar pitch-ing staff by registering 12 saves, just one shy of the school record of 13 set the prior year by St. Louis Cardinals’ draftee Chris Patterson.

Senior Jack Myers led the Mountaineers at the plate for much of the season. One of college baseball’s great stories in 2011, the walk-on hit safely in 41 of his first 45 games on the season, including an 18-game hitting streak that saw him raise his batting average as high as .392 in the final month of the season. Sophomore Tyler Zupcic went on a tear at the end of the season and finished as the SoCon’s sixth-leading hitter with a team-best .350 average.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Women’s tennis pieced together the pro-gram’s best season since the 2006 campaign by going 11-11 on the year. The 11 victories is head coach Colin Crothers’ third most during his 13-year tenure at ASU. Appalachian achieved this noteworthy record by putting together two separate three-match winning streaks during the course of the season. In Southern Conference play, the Moun-taineers posted a record of 3-7 with triumphs over Davidson, Western Carolina and Wofford, and finished seventh in the standings. The wins over WCU and WC were part of the Apps’ sec-ond three-match winning streak that began April 2 and ended at the hands of Samford on Apr 10.

The Black and Gold capped its impressive campaign by winning its first SoCon Tourna-ment match since 2008 with a nail-biting 4-3 win over Wofford in the first round. Sophomore Jennifer Ansari claimed the final point for ASU by winning at the No. 2 slot in singles play. The squad’s season came to an end when it ran into regular-season and tournament champion Col-lege of Charleston in the SoCon quarterfinals. Sophomore Ellie Linsell boasted the best singles record for ASU by going 13-7 on the season at the No. 1 position. Senior Amanda Cash, who played the fifth and sixth slot, is the lone Mountaineer that Crothers won’t have returning for the 2012 sea-son.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

First-year head coach Sarah Strickland led Appalachian State University women’s soccer to a 5-8-5 record in her first season at the helm of the Mountaineers. Strickland featured an ultra-young lineup for much of her first season at Appalachian, with freshmen accounting for over half of ASU’s goals on the campaign. The young squad performed better than its record might suggest, with eight of the team’s 18 matches going to overtime. However, the in-experienced club did not win any of the eight matches that required extra time (0-3-5). Senior goalkeeper Carolina Clarke turned in a spectacular season between the pipes with 104 saves and just 19 goals against in 17 match-es. Her .846 save percentage led the SoCon while here 1.05 goals against average and six shutouts ranked fourth and fifth in the league, respectively. She was named the SoCon Player of the Week after not allowing a goal over 200 minutes of action in back-to-back shutouts dur-ing the week of Oct. 4-10. Offensively, sophomore Hannah Coad paced the Mountaineers with three goals, six points, 29 shots and 20 shots on goal while sophomore Michelle Jewell led the club with three assists.

Six Mountaineers (Coad, Katy Dodd, Meg-gie Graham, Shannon Healy, Jewell and Sam McVeigh) were named to the SoCon’s academic honor roll while senior Lindsay Jaffe earned first-team all-America recognition from the Jewish Sports Report.

ATHLETICS

WOMEN’S GOLF

Head coach Heather Brown’s women’s golf squad continued to make strides toward the top of the Southern Conference in 2010-11, as ASU won its first team title since 2004 and placed ninth in the league tournament. Sophomore Yue Xu won her second career title when she won March’s Low Country Inter-collegiate with a 74-73=147 (+3) to finish four strokes ahead of teammate and classmate Kris-tina Boo, who placed second at the event. A third ASU sophomore rounded out the top-three at the event, as Rumbidzai Masamvu placed third, one stroke behind Boo. Xu broke her own single-season program record with a 76.64 stroke average on the sea-son. She took home five top-10 finishes at nine tournaments and placed 19th at the SoCon Tournament. Boo became ASU’s career stroke average leader (minimum 40 rounds played) after post-ing a solid 78.05 mark for the season, includ-ing three top-five finishes. In an up-and-down week at the SoCon Tournament, she placed 38th overall. Masamvu led the Apps at the SoCon Cham-pionship with an 11th-place finish and three sub-80 rounds. On the season, the Zimbabwe

native ranked third on the team with a 78.09 stroke average and took home four top-10 fin-ishes on the year. In the fall, the Mountaineers recorded three-straight top-three finishes, including second place at the Boscobel Intercollegiate in Pendleton, S.C. and third-place finishes at the Sea Trail Intercollegiate at Sunset Beach, N.C. and the Wendy’s Charleston Southern Intercol-legiate.

MEN’S GOLF

Men’s golf secured its first team title since 2002-03 as young golfers quickly matured to keep pace with the squad’s veterans. Head coach Bill Dicus’ Mountaineers placed 10th at the Southern Conference Tournament in Flor-ence, S.C. Sophomore Josh Nichols posted quite the breakout season with a 74.33 stroke average in 30 rounds and tied the program’s lowest 18-hole score with a 65. Nichols’ low score spurred the Apps to vic-tory at the Don Benbow/North-South Invita-tional, defeating 10 teams in the field. The Kern-ersville, N.C. native took home the individual title as well with a 138 (-4) over two rounds. He finished 15th at the SoCon Championship, good for second on the Apps.

Boone native Darren Cook ranked second on the team with a 75.26 stroke average and led ASU at three tournaments on the year. The junior placed 11th at the Davidson Invitational in October with a 71-74-74=219 (+3). His best round of the season came in early March at the Barefoot at the Beach Challenge, where he carded a third-round 69 en route to a 16th-place finish. Senior Dustin Hudson paced ASU at the SoCon Tournament with a 14th-place finish. He was just one of two Apps to play 30 rounds on the season and posted a 76.6 stroke average. Freshman Casey Komline made a splash in limited action for the Black and Gold, scoring a 75.81 stroke average in 16 rounds with a pair of top-10 finishes. The Apps return their top eight scorers for 2011-12.

THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT

In 2010-11, Appalachian Athletics continued to boost its social networking presence, primarily through Facebook and Twitter. The department connects with thou-sands of fans on a regular basis through the online outlets with periodic updates regarding game outcomes, information that doesn’t show up in the box score, trivia contests and more. ASU Athletics’ primary Twitter ac-count, @goasu, boasts over 4,000 follow-ers. Appalachian’s primary Facebook fan group is close behind with more than 3,400 members and ASU Football’s fan group numbers more than 40,500 mem-bers. Additionally, numerous sports, coaches and departmental groups have joined the fray, providing fans with up-to-date news and information. GoASU.com’s Fan Zone gives Mountaineer faith-ful unprecedented access into nearly ev-ery facet of their favorite squads.

on Facebook:ASU AthleticsASU BaseballASU BasketballASU FootballASU TennisASU VolleyballASU Ticket OfficeYosef ClubASU Sports NetworkASU Student Yosef Club

on Twitter:@goasu - ASU Athletics @AppBaseball - ASU Baseball@AppStateWBB - ASU Women’s Basketball@AppalachianXC - ASU Cross Country@ASUFieldHockey - ASU Field Hockey@AppStateVB - ASU Volleyball@appstatetickets - ASU Ticket Office@YOSEFCLUB - Yosef Club@StudentYosef - Student Yosef Club@appsportsnet - ASU IMG Sports Network@JBlalock57 - Coach Jason Blalock (Football)@bglenn1121 - Coach Brad Glenn (Football)@CoachSpeir - Coach Mark Speir (Football)@coach_sloan - Coach Scot Sloan (Football)@kellenmsampson - Coach Kellen Sampson (Men’s Basketball)

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ATHLETIC HONORSMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY•WonSoConChampionship•All-SoCon:BrandonHudgins,WillRaby,SeanSoderman,Alex Taylor•SoConCoachoftheYear:MikeCurcio•Asics-WinthropInvitationalteamchampion•BlueRidgeOpenteamchampion

WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY•SoConChampionshiprunner-up•All-SoCon:BrittneyCaudle,AmyNeilson,DaniReese

FIELD HOCKEY•Record:5-14•NorPac:1-5(4thEast)•All-NorPac:LisaCharney,NicoleMorgan,BridgetteStreet•All-NorPacTournamentTeam:NicoleMorgan•NorPacRookieoftheWeek:EmilyKnapp,BrooklynShearer•NorPacEastDefensivePlayeroftheWeek:BridgetteStreet (three times)

FOOTBALL•Record:10-3•SoCon:7-1(t-1st)•WalterPaytonAwardfinalist:DeAndrePresley•BuckBuchananAwardfinalist:JabariFletcher,MarkLeGree, D.J. Smith•EddieRobinsonAwardfinalist:JerryMoore•All-America:JabariFletcher,DanielKilgore,MarkLeGree, DeAndre Presley, Brian Quick, D.J. Smith•SoConOffensivePlayeroftheYear:DeAndrePresley•SoConCoachoftheYear:JerryMoore•All-SoCon:TravarisCadet,JabariFletcher,OrryFrye,Ed Gainey, Brett Irvin, Ben Jorden, Daniel Kilgore, Mark LeGree, Pat Mills, DeAndre Presley, Brian Quick, D.J. Smith, Jason Vitaris, Justin Wray•SoConall-freshman:PatrickBlalock•SoConPlayeroftheMonth:JabariFletcher,DeAndrePresley•NationalPlayeroftheWeek:DeAndrePresley(twice)•SoConPlayeroftheWeek:JabariFletcher(twice),SamMartin (twice), Devon Moore, DeAndre Presley (four times), Brian Quick, Jason Vitaris (twice)•NFLCombine:DanielKilgore,MarkLeGree,D.J.Smith•Texasvs.TheNationAll-StarGame:DanielKilgore,MarkLeGree, D.J. Smith

MEN’S SOCCER•Record:8-8-3•SoCon:4-2-1(T-4th)•All-SoConTournamentTeam:StevenSassano,LeeWilliams•All-SoCon:SeanDreybus,StevenSassano,LeeWilliams•NSCAATeamAcademicList•NSCAAAll-SouthScholar:SeanDreybus

WOMEN’S SOCCER•Record:5-8-5•SoCon:2-5-4(T-8th)•SoConPlayeroftheWeek:CarolineClarke•Jewish Sports Review all-America: Lindsay Jaffe

VOLLEYBALL•Record:18-12•SoCon:9-7(3rdNorth)•SoConDefensivePlayeroftheWeek:AlisonBlasingame•All-SoCon:CourtneyRhein

MEN’S BASKETBALL•Record:16-15•SoCon:10-8(3rdNorth)•All-SoCon:OmarCarter,DonaldSims•All-District(NABC):OmarCarter,DonaldSims•SoConPlayeroftheMonth:DonaldSims(twice)•SoConPlayeroftheWeek:OmarCarter(twice),DonaldSims (twice)

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL•Record:25-7•SoCon:17-3(1st)•SoConTournamentFinalist •Women’sNationalInvitationTournamentParticipant•SoConPlayeroftheYear:SamRamirez•SoConCoachoftheYear:DarcieVincent•SoConDefensivePlayeroftheYear:AnnaFreeman•All-SoCon:AshlenDewart,AnnaFreeman,SamRamirez•SoConPlayeroftheWeek:AshlenDewart(twice),SamRamirez (three times)•SoConPlayeroftheMonth:SamRamirez•All-SoConTournamentTeam:AshlenDewart,AnnaFree-man, Courtney Freeman, Kelsey Sharkey•All-state(NCCSIA):AshlenDewart,SamRamirez

MEN’S INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD•WonSoConChampionship•SoConMostOutstandingTrackPerformer:ChrisMoen•SoConMostOutstandingFieldPerformer:MalcolmStyers•SoConIndoorFreshmanoftheYear:JamalTiller•SoConIndoorCoachoftheYear:JohnWeaver•All-SoCon:DennisMoore(60m,200m);LandonPowell(60m, 200m); Alex Taylor (Mile, DMR); Chris Moen (Mile, 3000m); Sean Soderman (5000m, DMR); AJ Dohanic (60m hurdles); Nicholas Kelly (DMR); Andrew Yarchin (DMR); Darius Purcell (high jump); Ryan Twifford (pole vault), Mike Wilson (pole vault), Jamal Tiller (triple jump); Jerod Gard-ner (shot put); Malcolm Styers (shot put, weight throw); Tim Daly (weight throw); Jake Goodchild (heptathlon)•SoConAll-FreshmanTeam:JamalTiller(triplejump,longjump); Landon Hunt (pole vault)•SoConTrackAthleteoftheWeek:ChrisMoen(twice)•SoConFieldAthleteoftheWeek:JerodGardner,DariusPurcell, Malcolm Styers•SoConTrackAthleteoftheMonth:ChrisMoen•SoConFieldAthleteoftheMonth:MalcolmStyers

WOMEN’S INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD•WonSoConChampionship•SoConIndoorFreshmanoftheYear:BreannaAlston•SoConIndoorCoachoftheYear:JohnWeaver•All-SoCon:BreannaAlston(60m,200m,4x400mrelay);Crystal Dukes (60m); Chenel McFadden (800m, DMR); Amy Neilson (5000m); Asia Dunlap (4x400m relay, DMR); Nadia Liriano (4x400m relay); Breahna Morrison (4x400m relay); Dani Reese (DMR); Brittney Caudle (DMR); Rebecca Hazeltine (high jump); Shaquiela Robinson (high jump); Cassie Crawford (pole vault); Bianca Harvey (long jump); Gayshawna Watkins (shot put, weight throw); Norjai Palam (shot put); Whitney Smyre (weight throw); Ana DeLeon (weight throw)•All-FreshmanTeam:ShaquielaRobinson(highjump);Ana DeLeon (shot put, weight throw); Cassie Crawford (pole vault); Breanna Alston (60m, 200m); Kristen Camp-bell (60m, 200m); Breanna Morrison (400m)•SoConTrackAthleteoftheWeek:BreannaAlston•SoConFieldAthleteoftheWeek:CassieCrawford,Bianca Harvey•SoConFieldAthleteoftheMonth:CassieCrawford

WRESTLING•Record:8-11-1•SoCon:2-3(4th)•SoConWrestleroftheWeek:AustinTrotman(Twice),Kyle Blevins (Once)•SoConChampions:AustinTrotman(184);KyleBlevins(165)

BASEBALL•Record:33-27•SoCon:15-15(6th)•All-SoCon:RyanArrowood,JackMyers•All-SoConTournamentTeam:SethGrant,TylerZupcic•JohnnyBenchAwardWatchList:JeremyDowdy•SoConPitcheroftheWeek:RyanArrowood(twice),Nathan Hyatt, Taylor Miller, Lawrence Pardo

MEN’S GOLF•Placed10thattheSoConChampionship•TeamChampionship:DonBenbow/North-SouthInvite•DonBenbow/North-SouthInvitemedalist:JoshNichols•SoConGolferoftheWeek:JoshNichols

WOMEN’S GOLF•PlacedninthatSoConChampionship•All-SoCon:YueXu•TeamChampionship:LowCountryIntercollegiate•LowCountryIntercollegiateMedalist:YueXu•SoConGolferoftheWeek:YueXu

SOFTBALL•Record:26-24•SoCon:15-7(2nd)•All-SoCon:KatieBoyd,AllieCashion,HannahDow,Meghan Smith•All-SoConTournamentTeam:AllieCashion•All-state(NCCSIA):AllieCashion,MeghanSmith•SoConPitcheroftheWeek:HannahDow

MEN’S TENNIS•Record:15-7•SoCon:7-3(4th)•All-SoCon:AlexMarkov(singles);PhilipKlocandAlainHumblet (doubles)•All-Freshman:SebastienKing•SoConPlayeroftheWeek:AlainHumblet

WOMEN’S TENNIS•Record:11-11•SoCon:3-7(7th)

MEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD•WonSoConChampionshiptocompletesecond-straightTriple Crown•SoConMostOutstandingTrackPerformer:DennisMoore•SoConMostOutstandingFieldPerformer:MalcolmStyers•All-SoCon:DennisMoore(100m,200m,4x100mrelay);Landon Powell (100m, 4x100m relay); Justin Thomas (100m, 200m, 4x100m relay); Brandon Hudgins (800m); Bud Galloway (1500m); Will Raby (5000m); AJ Dohanic (110m hurdles, 400m hurdles); Sean Soderman (3000m steeplechase); Chris Moen (3000m steeplechase); Thomas Lockard (4x100m relay); Darius Purcell (high jump); Jamal Tiller (triple jump); Jerod Gardner (shot put, discus); Jacob Lane (shot put); Malcolm Styers (shot put, discus, hammer throw); Tim Daly (hammer throw); Jake Goodchild (decathlon)•SoConAll-Freshman:JoshHogg(highjump);JamalTiller (triple jump)•OutdoorTrackAthleteoftheWeek:DennisMoore(twice), Brandon Hudgins•OutdoorFieldAthleteoftheWeek:MalcolmStyers(twice)

WOMEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD•WonSoConChampionship•SoConOutdoorFreshmanoftheYear:BreannaAlston•All-SoCon:BreannaAlston(100m,200m,4x100mrelay);Asia Dunlap (400m, 800m); Amy Neilson (10000m); Chenel McFadden (400m hurdles); Shenita Martin (400m hurdles); Crystal Dukes (4x100m relay); Christina Parker (4x100m relay); Kristen Campbell (4x100m relay); Re-becca Hazeltine (high jump); Shaquiela Robinson (high jump); Cassie Crawford (pole vault); Bianca Harvey (long jump); Erika Ivey (triple jump); Norjai Palma (shot put, discus, hammer throw); Gayshawna Watkins (shot put, discus, hammer throw); Deanne Tiplady (javelin)•All-Freshman:JocelynParnell(shotput);CassieCrawford (pole vault); Shaquiela Robinson (high jump); Breanna Alston (100m, 200m); Kristen Campbell (200m); Breahna Morrison (400m)•OutdoorTrackAthleteoftheWeek:BreannaAlston•OutdoorFieldAthleteoftheWeek:CassieCrawford,Rebecca Hazeltine (twice)

ATHLETICS

ACADEMIC HONORS

2010-11 SOUTHERN CONFERENCE ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM MEMBERS

American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic AwardVolleyball

FCS Academic All-Star (NCAA Division I FCS Athletics Directors Association)Orry Frye

National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) National Academic SquadKelly Allaband, Stephanie Childress, Kelsey Dorset, Jennifer Heiss, Lauren Kloeppinger, Emily Knapp, Anna Long, Hannah Martin, Christine Zanowicz

National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) National Academic Team AwardField Hockey

Southern Conference Student-Athlete of the WeekCourtney Freeman (women’s basketball), Maggie Seeds (volleyball), Kelsey Sharkey (women’s basketball), Allie Cashion (softball)

2010 United States Track and Field Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic TeamPatrick Morgan (men’s track and field)

National Soccer Coaches Association of America College Team Academic AwardMen’s Soccer

National Soccer Coaches Association of America College Team All-South ScholarSean Dreybus

2010 USTFCCCA all-Academic Team AwardMen’s Cross CountryWomen’s Cross Country

NCAA Public Recognition Award for Academic Progress RateField HockeyWomen’s Tennis

Karl Anderson (football)Kristina Boo (women’s golf )Mark Bridges (men’s soccer)Jay Brown (men’s golf )Michelle Brutus (women’s indoor and outdoor track and field)Brittney Caudle (women’s cross country)Stephanie Chapman (women’s XC/indoor and outdoor track and field)Hannah Coad (women’s soccer)Naadia Crutchfield (women’s indoor and outdoor track and field)Katy Dodd (women’s soccer)Carter Downs (wrestling)Sean Dreybus (men’s soccer)Ryan Duffy (men’s soccer)Blake Elder (football)Gisela Fernandez (women’s tennis)Meghann Forshey (volleyball)B.J. Frazier (football)Michael Frazier (football)Courtney Freeman (women’s basketball)Orry Frye (football)Jake Goodchild (men’s indoor and outdoor track and field)

Michelle Gorzelle (softball)Hayley Grabner (softball)Meggie Graham (women’s soccer)Tony Gravely (wrestling)Amanda Hamilton (women’s cross country/outdoor track and field)Kelsey Hanger (women’s cross country)Brad Hardee (football)Nathan Healy (men’s basketball)Shannon Healy (women’s soccer)Dustin Hudson (men’s golf )Alain Humblet (men’s tennis)Erika Ivey (women’s indoor and outdoor track and field)Michelle Jewell (women’s soccer)Josh Jirgal (men’s outdoor track and field) Josh Jurius (football)Savva Kostis (wrestling)Mike Lilley (men’s cross country)Nate Latigue (men’s soccer)Sam Martin (football)Rumbidzai Masamvu (women’s golf )Andrew McKinnon (men’s tennis)Sam McVeigh (women’s soccer)

Amy Neilson (women’s cross country/outdoor track and field)Josh Nichols (men’s golf )Cougar Norris (football)McKenzie Phillips (softball)Will Raby (men’s cross country)Dani Reese (women’s cross country/outdoor track and field)Megan Rembielak (softball)Courtney Rhein (volleyball)Kelly Rhein (volleyball)Troy Sanders (football)Ezekiel Sansing (men’s tennis)Kasey Sauls (volleyball)Caroline Sedon (volleyball)Maggie Seeds (volleyball)Kelsey Sharkey (women’s basketball)Natalie Shaw (women’s cross country)Lauren Swecker (volleyball)Deanne Tiplady (women’s outdoor track and field)Sarah Williamson (women’s outdoor track and field)Meredith Wilson (women’s indoor track and field)Yue Xu (women’s golf )Brittany Zachrich (women’s golf )

ANNUAL REPORT

$2,502,351 2011

YOSEF CLUB CONTINUES GROWTH

Football 31,531* vs. ElonMen’s Basketball 2,356 vs. The CitadelWomen’s Basketball 1,032 vs. UNC GreensboroBaseball 804 vs. Western CarolinaVolleyball 635* vs. Georgia Southern

Women’s Soccer 625* vs. Coll. of CharlestonMen’s Soccer 510 vs. LibertySoftball 217 vs. Furman Field Hockey 113 vs. Georgetown

* - Facility record

For the fifth-consecutive year, donations to the Yosef Club, which provides scholarship and facility support for Appa-lachian State University student-athletes, reached a record high in 2010-11. The total amount raised for the fiscal year totaled $2,502,351.

The group had a successful spring tour in April as well, with stops in Asheville, Atlanta, Charlotte, Hickory, Raleigh and Winston-Salem. As has become an annual tradition, Director of Athletics Charlie Cobb, head football coach Jerry Moore and various other ASU coaches and staff members updated attendees on the current state of the program.

In 2009-10, the Yosef Club raised $2,500,075, surpassing the previous record of $2,424,630, set the previous year.For more than 38 years, the Yosef Club has provided scholarship support for Appalachian’s 450-plus student-athletes in 20 varsity sports.

$664,500

$2,295,010

$2,424,630

$2,500,075

$1,376,441

$1,042,704

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Along with the growth experienced in terms of Athletic Development, Appalachian saw average regular-season football attendance top the 25,000-mark and led NCAA Division I FCS for the fourth season in a row, with an average of 29,449 fans at six regular-season home games in 2010.

HIGHEST ATTENDED HOME GAMES IN 2010-11 (BY SPORT)

ATHLETICS

• COMMISSIONER’S CUP WINNER

• GERMANN CUP WINNER

• SEVEN SOUTHERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS FOOTBALL MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY MEN’S INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD WOMEN’S INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD WOMEN’S BASKETBALL MEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD WOMEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD

• NCAA DIVISION I NATIONAL QUARTERFINALIST FOOTBALL

• WNIT POSTSEASON TOURNAMENT PARTICIPANT WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

• SEVEN NATIONAL ACADEMIC HONORS NFHCA NATIONAL ACADEMIC SQUAD: FIELD HOCKEY AVCA TEAM ACADEMIC AWARD: VOLLEYBALL NSCAA COLLEGE TEAM ACADEMIC AWARD: MEN’S SOCCER USTFCCCA ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM AWARD: MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY, WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY NCAA PUBLIC RECOGNITION FOR ACADEMIC PROGRESS: FIELD HOCKEY AND WOMEN’S TENNIS

• PLACED 65 STUDENT-ATHLETES ON THE SOUTHERN CONFERENCE ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM ALL 19 SOCON-AFFILIATED PROGRAMS REPRESENTED

• 10 STUDENT-ATHLETES EARNED INDIVIDUAL NATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR ACADEMICS

• THREE SOUTHERN CONFERENCE STUDENT-ATHLETE OF THE WEEK AWARDS

• 160 ALL-SOUTHERN CONFERENCE HONORS

• TWO SOUTHERN CONFERENCE PLAYERS OF THE YEAR

• YOSEF CLUB RAISED $2.5MM IN DONATIONS FOR STUDENT-ATHLETE SCHOLARSHIPS

• REGULAR SEASON ATTENDANCE NATIONAL LEADER FOOTBALL (29,449 IN SIX GAMES)

Appalachian athletics2010-11 accomplishments