Thanks for a great year, Greyhounds!
Volume 3, Issue 4
April 2010
Thanks for a great year, Greyhounds!
The CHAMPS/Life Skills Program Commitment to Academics Commitment to Athletics Commitment to Personal Growth Commitment to Career Development Commitment to Service Inside this Issue: Sue Willey 1 Quote of the Day 1 Greyhound Summer Reading List 2-3 NCAA Summer Workout Regulations 4
Dr. Sue Willey Director of Athletics We have had and continue to have a great 2009-10 year, Greyhounds! Many of our teams have had great success on many levels this year; something we all strive for each season. As always, I am so very proud of the performances and efforts of our UIndy student-athletes, coaches, athletic trainers and administrators. Thank you to our great coaches, staff and our student-athletes for the suc-
cess they have brought to our university. We have had nine sports make NCAA Tournament appearances this year, with outdoor track and field and baseball and softball still yet to come. This high level of success is what makes us one of the top programs in Division II. We are currently in the hunt for the Great Lakes Valley Conference AllSports Trophy. With softball, baseball and men’s and women’s outdoor track championships still to be decided, UIndy is standing in third place with 117 total points, just 12 points behind league-leading Drury. We are just two-anda-half points behind Northern Kentucky, which currently stands in second. With strong showings in the final four championships, we could win the trophy! We are all looking forward to another great year in 2010-11. We have many exciting things happening at UIndy, the most exciting of which is the construction
and opening of the new Student Athletics and Recreation Center. Not only will the facility add needed space and practice areas for our athletic teams and students, but the NFL will also use the facility as the NFC Champion’s practice site for the 2012 Super Bowl. This is a great opportunity for our university, as well as the city of Indianapolis. Keep raising the bar, Greyhounds. We are all excited for the new and continuing opportunities, to see what everyone will accomplish in the future. Thank you again for the great way you each represent UIndy Athletics. To the seniors who will leave us, we wish you the very best in your future endeavors and hope you will return to campus often to continue to support your sport. To our returning student-athletes, use your summer wisely to prepare for your best season yet. Here is wishing you all a great summer and many future successes! GO HOUNDS!
Quote of the Day: “Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision.” -Muhammad Ali
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GREYHOUND SUMMER READI NG LIST Quiet Strength By: Tony Dungy
Tony Dungy's words and example have intrigued millions of people, particularly following his victory in Super Bowl XLI, the first for an African American coach. How is it possible for a coach--especially a football coach--to win the respect of his players and lead them to the Super Bowl without the screaming histrionics, the profanities, the demand that the sport come before anything else? How is it possible for anyone to be successful without compromising faith and family? In this inspiring and reflective memoir, Coach Dungy tells the story of a life lived for God and family--and challenges us all to redefine our ideas of what it means to succeed. Recommended by: Director of Athletics, Dr. Sue Willey & Assistant AD for Sports Information, Mitch Wigness
UnCommon By: Tony Dungy Super Bowl–winning coach and #1 New York Times best selling author Tony Dungy has had an unusual opportunity to reflect on what it takes to achieve significance. He is looked to by many as the epitome of the success and significance that is highly valued in our culture. Coach Dungy has had all that, but he passionately believes that there is a different path to significance, a path characterized by attitudes, ambitions, and allegiances that are all too rare but uncommonly rewarding. Uncommon reveals lessons on achieving significance that the coach has learned from his remarkable parents, his athletic and coaching career, his mentors, and his journey with God.
Recommended by: Head Football Coach Bob Bartolomeo
Mind Gym By: Gary Mack Drawing on his work with some of the top teams in professional sports, noted sport psychology consultant Gary Mack shares with you the same techniques and exercises he uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle." These 40 accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes will help you gain the "head edge" over the competition. Recommended by: Head Track & Field Coach Scott Fangman and Head Women’s Basketball Coach LeAnn Freeland
Leading with the Heart By: Mike Krzyzewski
In some respects, a top-level college coach is a lot like a manager in any business. Thus, in Leading with the Heart, Krzyzewski reviews the lessons he's learned as basketball coach at Duke University, and tries to universalize them so they translate to any leadership position. For example, he writes, "Adjustments are not unusual, they are usual. So a leader's ability to think on his feet ... to do things without instruction ... is of paramount importance." Makes sense, as does this admonition: "When teaching, always remember this simple phrase: 'You hear, you forget. You see, you remember. You do, you understand.'" Recommended by: Assistant Kinesiology Professor, Dr. Heidi Rauch
The Winner’s Manual By: Jim Tressel The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life shares Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel's "Big Ten" fundamentals for success: Attitude, Discipline, Faith, Handling Adversity & Success, Excellence, Love, Toughness, Responsibility, Team, and Hope. The Winners Manual provides an inside look at the core philosophy that has positively impacted the lives of thousands of student athletes and served as the foundation for two of the most successful college football programs of all time. Recommended by: Assistant AD for Facilities/Operations, Scott Young
A Son of the Game By: James Dodson For Dodson, Pinehurst, NC is also his own home, the place where his father introduced him to golf and where he hopes to inspire the same passion for the game in his teenage son. This slowpaced, eulogistic memoir draws on the deep, near-archetypal feelings that dedicated golfers have for the game, its history, and their own connections to the fathers and mentors who first put clubs in their hands. A bit sentimental, to be sure, but, in Pinehurst, that’s the rub of the green. Recommended by: Head Women’s Soccer Coach Geoff Van Deusen
Here is a list of titles that UIndy staff and coaches have suggested as good reads. Take the time to enjoy your summer and take in some good stories and lessons at the same time!
Training Camp By: Jon Gordon Training Camp is an inspirational story filled with invaluable lessons and insights on bringing out the best in yourself and your team. After spraining his ankle in the pre-season, Martin thinks his dream is lost when he happens to meet a special coach who shares eleven life-changing lessons that keep his dream alive—and might even make him the best of the best. If you want to be your best—Training Camp offers an inspirational story and real-world wisdom on what it takes to reach excellence and how you and your team (your work team, school team, church team and family team) can achieve it. Recommended by: Head Men’s Basketball Coach Stan Gouard
Opening Day By: Jonathan Eig So elegant in its logic is Eig's angle--chronicling Robinson's first major-league season (1947) with the Brooklyn Dodgers--it's a wonder no one thought of it before. From Robinson's preseason call-up by Brooklyn's legendary GM, Branch Rickey, to the 1947 World Series, in which the Dodgers took the Yankees to a seventh game (Brooklyn lost), Eig details the dynamics of Robinson's hard-earned acceptance by teammates, the well-chronicled abuse Robinson took from opposing fans and players, the response of local and outof-town press, and the impact the season had on Robinson's family and on African Americans. Recommended by: Athletic Assistant Jackie Paquette & Athletic Trainer Brian Gerlach
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By: Rebecca Skloot
From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. For a decade, Skloot doggedly but compassionately gathered the threads of these stories, slowly gaining the trust of the family while helping them learn the truth about Henrietta, and with their aid she tells a rich and haunting story that asks the questions, Who owns our bodies? And who carries our memories? Recommended by: Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, Dr. Matt Beekley
One Magical Sunday By: Phil Mickelson Mickelson was long known as "golf's most lovable runner-up" until he finally won the Masters in 2004... He's become a crowd favorite second only to Tiger Woods not only because of his dry spell but also because of his legendary work ethic. Indeed, he begins this book by describing his famous pretournament routine of hitting 100 three-foot putts in a row without missing, no matter how many shots it takes. This and other insights into the methods of a pro golfer are the most fascinating parts of Mickelson's text. Each of the 18 chapters begins and ends with detailed descriptions of how Mickelson played each hole of his Masters' victory (e.g., how he "analyzed the shot dispersion patterns for both right-handed and left-handed golfers" to figure out that the tournament's 12th hole is "set up perfectly for a left-handed player" such as himself). However, the bulk of the book is devoted to the story of Mickelson's life. Although these passages are often moving (concerning his battle to overcome a deep playing slump and his wife's nearly fatal delivery of their third child), the story is marred by frequent generalizations like "success is more rewarding when it is difficult to achieve" and "picking your life partner is a critical decision" for "personal happiness." More golfing and fewer inspirational insights would've strengthened Mickelson's eventually triumphant tale.
Recommended by: Athletic Trainer Brian Gerlach
April 2010
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NCAA Summer Workout Guidelines & Bylaws 17.02.1 Countable Athletically related Activities. Countable athletically related activities include any required activity with an athletics purpose, involving student-athletes and at the direction of, or supervised by, any member or members of an institution’s coaching staff (including strength and conditioning coaches) and must be counted within the weekly and daily limitations under Bylaws 17.1.6.1 and 17.1.6.2. Administrative activities (e.g., academic meetings, compliance meetings) shall not be considered as countable athletically related activities. 17.02.1.1 Exception—Strength and Conditioning Personnel. Strength and conditioning personnel may monitor voluntary individual workouts (e.g., summer workouts) for safety purposes without considering such supervision as a countable athletically related activity per Bylaw 17.02.1. Although an institution may designate more than one strength and conditioning coach, it is not permissible for an institution to designate a specific strength and conditioning coach for each of the institution’s intercollegiate teams. If the strength and conditioning coach is also a coaching staff member for one of the institution’s intercollegiate teams, such assistance may be provided only if that staff member performs such duties for all intercollegiate teams. This exception shall apply during and outside the declared playing and practice season (see Bylaw 17.1.6.2). 17.02.1.2 Voluntary Athletically Related Activities. In order for any athletically related activity to be considered “voluntary,” all of the following conditions must be met: (a) The student-athlete must not be required to report back to a coach or other athletics department staff member (e.g., strength coach, trainer, manager) any information related to the activity. In addition, no athletics department staff member who observes the activity (e.g., strength coach, trainer, manager) may report back to the student-athlete’s coach any information related to the activity; 17.1.6.2.3 Institutional Vacation Period. A student-athlete may not participate in any countable athletically related activities outside the playing season during any institutional vacation period (e.g., summer, academic year). 17.1.6.3.6 Vacation Periods and between Terms. Daily and weekly hour limititions do not apply to countable athletically related activities occurring during an institution’s official vacation period, as listed in the institution’s official calendar, and during the academic year between terms when classes are not in session. If such vacation periods occur during any part of a week in which classes are in session, the institution is subject to the daily and weekly hour limitations during the portion of the week when classes are in session and must provide the student-athletes with a day off (see Bylaw 17.1.6.4), which may be a vacation day.
Have a Great Summer Greyhounds! See you next year!
April 2010
Thanks for a great year, Greyhounds!
The CHAMPS/Life Skills Program Commitment to Academics Commitment to Athletics Commitment to Personal Growth Commitment to Career Development Commitment to Service Inside this Issue: Sue Willey 1 Quote of the Day 1 Greyhound Summer Reading List 2-3 NCAA Summer Workout Regulations 4
Dr. Sue Willey Director of Athletics We have had and continue to have a great 2009-10 year, Greyhounds! Many of our teams have had great success on many levels this year; something we all strive for each season. As always, I am so very proud of the performances and efforts of our UIndy student-athletes, coaches, athletic trainers and administrators. Thank you to our great coaches, staff and our student-athletes for the suc-
cess they have brought to our university. We have had nine sports make NCAA Tournament appearances this year, with outdoor track and field and baseball and softball still yet to come. This high level of success is what makes us one of the top programs in Division II. We are currently in the hunt for the Great Lakes Valley Conference AllSports Trophy. With softball, baseball and men’s and women’s outdoor track championships still to be decided, UIndy is standing in third place with 117 total points, just 12 points behind league-leading Drury. We are just two-anda-half points behind Northern Kentucky, which currently stands in second. With strong showings in the final four championships, we could win the trophy! We are all looking forward to another great year in 2010-11. We have many exciting things happening at UIndy, the most exciting of which is the construction
and opening of the new Student Athletics and Recreation Center. Not only will the facility add needed space and practice areas for our athletic teams and students, but the NFL will also use the facility as the NFC Champion’s practice site for the 2012 Super Bowl. This is a great opportunity for our university, as well as the city of Indianapolis. Keep raising the bar, Greyhounds. We are all excited for the new and continuing opportunities, to see what everyone will accomplish in the future. Thank you again for the great way you each represent UIndy Athletics. To the seniors who will leave us, we wish you the very best in your future endeavors and hope you will return to campus often to continue to support your sport. To our returning student-athletes, use your summer wisely to prepare for your best season yet. Here is wishing you all a great summer and many future successes! GO HOUNDS!
Quote of the Day: “Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision.” -Muhammad Ali
April 2010
April 2010
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GREYHOUND SUMMER READI NG LIST Quiet Strength By: Tony Dungy
Tony Dungy's words and example have intrigued millions of people, particularly following his victory in Super Bowl XLI, the first for an African American coach. How is it possible for a coach--especially a football coach--to win the respect of his players and lead them to the Super Bowl without the screaming histrionics, the profanities, the demand that the sport come before anything else? How is it possible for anyone to be successful without compromising faith and family? In this inspiring and reflective memoir, Coach Dungy tells the story of a life lived for God and family--and challenges us all to redefine our ideas of what it means to succeed. Recommended by: Director of Athletics, Dr. Sue Willey & Assistant AD for Sports Information, Mitch Wigness
UnCommon By: Tony Dungy Super Bowl–winning coach and #1 New York Times best selling author Tony Dungy has had an unusual opportunity to reflect on what it takes to achieve significance. He is looked to by many as the epitome of the success and significance that is highly valued in our culture. Coach Dungy has had all that, but he passionately believes that there is a different path to significance, a path characterized by attitudes, ambitions, and allegiances that are all too rare but uncommonly rewarding. Uncommon reveals lessons on achieving significance that the coach has learned from his remarkable parents, his athletic and coaching career, his mentors, and his journey with God.
Recommended by: Head Football Coach Bob Bartolomeo
Mind Gym By: Gary Mack Drawing on his work with some of the top teams in professional sports, noted sport psychology consultant Gary Mack shares with you the same techniques and exercises he uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle." These 40 accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes will help you gain the "head edge" over the competition. Recommended by: Head Track & Field Coach Scott Fangman and Head Women’s Basketball Coach LeAnn Freeland
Leading with the Heart By: Mike Krzyzewski
In some respects, a top-level college coach is a lot like a manager in any business. Thus, in Leading with the Heart, Krzyzewski reviews the lessons he's learned as basketball coach at Duke University, and tries to universalize them so they translate to any leadership position. For example, he writes, "Adjustments are not unusual, they are usual. So a leader's ability to think on his feet ... to do things without instruction ... is of paramount importance." Makes sense, as does this admonition: "When teaching, always remember this simple phrase: 'You hear, you forget. You see, you remember. You do, you understand.'" Recommended by: Assistant Kinesiology Professor, Dr. Heidi Rauch
The Winner’s Manual By: Jim Tressel The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life shares Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel's "Big Ten" fundamentals for success: Attitude, Discipline, Faith, Handling Adversity & Success, Excellence, Love, Toughness, Responsibility, Team, and Hope. The Winners Manual provides an inside look at the core philosophy that has positively impacted the lives of thousands of student athletes and served as the foundation for two of the most successful college football programs of all time. Recommended by: Assistant AD for Facilities/Operations, Scott Young
A Son of the Game By: James Dodson For Dodson, Pinehurst, NC is also his own home, the place where his father introduced him to golf and where he hopes to inspire the same passion for the game in his teenage son. This slowpaced, eulogistic memoir draws on the deep, near-archetypal feelings that dedicated golfers have for the game, its history, and their own connections to the fathers and mentors who first put clubs in their hands. A bit sentimental, to be sure, but, in Pinehurst, that’s the rub of the green. Recommended by: Head Women’s Soccer Coach Geoff Van Deusen
Here is a list of titles that UIndy staff and coaches have suggested as good reads. Take the time to enjoy your summer and take in some good stories and lessons at the same time!
Training Camp By: Jon Gordon Training Camp is an inspirational story filled with invaluable lessons and insights on bringing out the best in yourself and your team. After spraining his ankle in the pre-season, Martin thinks his dream is lost when he happens to meet a special coach who shares eleven life-changing lessons that keep his dream alive—and might even make him the best of the best. If you want to be your best—Training Camp offers an inspirational story and real-world wisdom on what it takes to reach excellence and how you and your team (your work team, school team, church team and family team) can achieve it. Recommended by: Head Men’s Basketball Coach Stan Gouard
Opening Day By: Jonathan Eig So elegant in its logic is Eig's angle--chronicling Robinson's first major-league season (1947) with the Brooklyn Dodgers--it's a wonder no one thought of it before. From Robinson's preseason call-up by Brooklyn's legendary GM, Branch Rickey, to the 1947 World Series, in which the Dodgers took the Yankees to a seventh game (Brooklyn lost), Eig details the dynamics of Robinson's hard-earned acceptance by teammates, the well-chronicled abuse Robinson took from opposing fans and players, the response of local and outof-town press, and the impact the season had on Robinson's family and on African Americans. Recommended by: Athletic Assistant Jackie Paquette & Athletic Trainer Brian Gerlach
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By: Rebecca Skloot
From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. For a decade, Skloot doggedly but compassionately gathered the threads of these stories, slowly gaining the trust of the family while helping them learn the truth about Henrietta, and with their aid she tells a rich and haunting story that asks the questions, Who owns our bodies? And who carries our memories? Recommended by: Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, Dr. Matt Beekley
One Magical Sunday By: Phil Mickelson Mickelson was long known as "golf's most lovable runner-up" until he finally won the Masters in 2004... He's become a crowd favorite second only to Tiger Woods not only because of his dry spell but also because of his legendary work ethic. Indeed, he begins this book by describing his famous pretournament routine of hitting 100 three-foot putts in a row without missing, no matter how many shots it takes. This and other insights into the methods of a pro golfer are the most fascinating parts of Mickelson's text. Each of the 18 chapters begins and ends with detailed descriptions of how Mickelson played each hole of his Masters' victory (e.g., how he "analyzed the shot dispersion patterns for both right-handed and left-handed golfers" to figure out that the tournament's 12th hole is "set up perfectly for a left-handed player" such as himself). However, the bulk of the book is devoted to the story of Mickelson's life. Although these passages are often moving (concerning his battle to overcome a deep playing slump and his wife's nearly fatal delivery of their third child), the story is marred by frequent generalizations like "success is more rewarding when it is difficult to achieve" and "picking your life partner is a critical decision" for "personal happiness." More golfing and fewer inspirational insights would've strengthened Mickelson's eventually triumphant tale.
Recommended by: Athletic Trainer Brian Gerlach
April 2010
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NCAA Summer Workout Guidelines & Bylaws 17.02.1 Countable Athletically related Activities. Countable athletically related activities include any required activity with an athletics purpose, involving student-athletes and at the direction of, or supervised by, any member or members of an institution’s coaching staff (including strength and conditioning coaches) and must be counted within the weekly and daily limitations under Bylaws 17.1.6.1 and 17.1.6.2. Administrative activities (e.g., academic meetings, compliance meetings) shall not be considered as countable athletically related activities. 17.02.1.1 Exception—Strength and Conditioning Personnel. Strength and conditioning personnel may monitor voluntary individual workouts (e.g., summer workouts) for safety purposes without considering such supervision as a countable athletically related activity per Bylaw 17.02.1. Although an institution may designate more than one strength and conditioning coach, it is not permissible for an institution to designate a specific strength and conditioning coach for each of the institution’s intercollegiate teams. If the strength and conditioning coach is also a coaching staff member for one of the institution’s intercollegiate teams, such assistance may be provided only if that staff member performs such duties for all intercollegiate teams. This exception shall apply during and outside the declared playing and practice season (see Bylaw 17.1.6.2). 17.02.1.2 Voluntary Athletically Related Activities. In order for any athletically related activity to be considered “voluntary,” all of the following conditions must be met: (a) The student-athlete must not be required to report back to a coach or other athletics department staff member (e.g., strength coach, trainer, manager) any information related to the activity. In addition, no athletics department staff member who observes the activity (e.g., strength coach, trainer, manager) may report back to the student-athlete’s coach any information related to the activity; 17.1.6.2.3 Institutional Vacation Period. A student-athlete may not participate in any countable athletically related activities outside the playing season during any institutional vacation period (e.g., summer, academic year). 17.1.6.3.6 Vacation Periods and between Terms. Daily and weekly hour limititions do not apply to countable athletically related activities occurring during an institution’s official vacation period, as listed in the institution’s official calendar, and during the academic year between terms when classes are not in session. If such vacation periods occur during any part of a week in which classes are in session, the institution is subject to the daily and weekly hour limitations during the portion of the week when classes are in session and must provide the student-athletes with a day off (see Bylaw 17.1.6.4), which may be a vacation day.
Have a Great Summer Greyhounds! See you next year!
