Spring 2003
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Spring 2003 |
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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology promoted 14-year baseball
coach Jeff Jenkins to athletic director, and named nine-year assistant
basketball coach Jon Prevo associate athletic director in November. Jenkins assumed the responsibilities previously held by Greg
Ruark, who had served as athletic director since 1999. Jenkins, in his 14th year at Rose-Hulman, served as associate
athletic director for the past decade. As associate athletic director, Jenkins
has been on the staff during a period when the college moved to coeducational
athletics in 1995, constructed the Sports and Recreation Center in 1997, and
hosted NCAA Division III National Championships for golf and women's basketball. Jenkins, who will retain his baseball head coaching position,
has rewritten the Rose-Hulman single-season school record for victories in
baseball four times. His highlights include a 30-win effort in 1999 that earned
him SCAC Tri-Coach of the Year honors. His 310 victories at Rose-Hulman
surpassed Hall of Fame Coach Jim Rendel's 178 wins in 1997. He served as assistant football coach at Rose-Hulman from 1989
until 1999. He has also served as chair of the school's Athletic Hall of Fame
Committee since its inception in 1993. Jenkins' career baseball record is 355-260-2, and his record at
Rose-Hulman is 310-195-1. Prevo will continue to serve in his basketball and golf coaching
roles. He came to Rose-Hulman as assistant coach under Jim Shaw after serving as
an assistant at Indiana State University during the 1993-94 season. He became
head golf coach in the summer of 1999. Previously, Prevo was an assistant basketball coach at the U.S.
Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., from 1991-93, and was also an assistant at
the University of Evansville from 1989-91. He was head basketball and track
coach at Cisne (Ill.) High School from 1987-1989. Northwest Indiana native Ted Karras was named the head football coach at Rose-Hulman effective Feb. 3. Karras has spent the last four seasons as the offensive coordinator at St. Xavier University in Chicago. The Cougars earned a Midwest States Football Association Midwest League Championship and qualified for the NAIA playoffs in 2002, after winning eight games in the six years prior to Karras’ arrival. Previously, Karras served as the head coach at Andrean High School in Merrillville from 1996-98. Karras earned three sectional and two regional championships at Andrean, was named the Indiana Football Coaches Association Regional Coach of the Year in 1997 and 1998, and compiled a 30-10 record in three seasons at the helm. At St. Xavier, Karras coached the special teams for two seasons before engineering the team’s record-breaking offense in 2001 and 2002. The St. Xavier offensive squad established nine single-season and two single-game records in 2001. The records included total yards, number of plays, all-purpose yards, rushing yards, rushing attempts, rushing touchdowns, first downs and first downs rushing. Karras directed a balanced offensive attack to an NAIA playoff appearance in 2002. Other stops in Karras’ coaching career have included one season at the University of St. Francis (Ill.) in 1995 and two years at Lake Forest College (Ill.) from 1993-94. On the gridiron, Karras was a four-year varsity letter winner and starter on the defensive line for Northwestern University. He earned honorable mention all-Big Ten honors in 1986, after starting his playing career as a first-team all-state lineman at Hobart High School. He signed a free-agent contract with the Washington Redskins in 1987. Karras earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Northwestern in 1987 and completed a master’s degree program in education from St. Xavier in 2002. He and his wife, Jennifer, have two children, Teddy and Taylor. Karras’ uncle, Alex, played football professionally for the Detroit Lions from 1958-71 after earning all-Big Ten honors at the University of Iowa. He also appeared in more than 25 movies as an actor.
The SCAC Sports Festival – featuring conference championships for baseball, golf, softball, tennis, track – will be held at Rose-Hulman on Apr. 24-27.
Women's Soccer Enjoys Record-Setting 13-6 Season The Rose-Hulman women’s soccer team earned the first regional ranking in the eight-year history of female athletics at the college and tied for third place in the SCAC with a 13-6 record this fall. Junior Jessica Farmer led the team with 12 goals, freshman Amber Hoffman added a team-record eight assists and sophomore Amy Sibilia earned team Most Valuable Player honors after scoring three goals and providing solid defense in the midfield. The men’s soccer team finished 6-13-1 overall, with sophomore midfielder Tom Drochner earning all-conference honors for the second straight year.
Rose-Hulman’s volleyball team finished seventh in the SCAC with a 14-24 mark in a season of record-setting performances. Sophomore setter Lindsey Kerbel established a single-season school record with 1,235 assists, while senior Gina Kulas had 497 digs and sophomore Jesica Petretti tallied 79 service aces to establish school records.
The Rose-Hulman men's and women’s cross country teams placed seventh and eighth in the SCAC championships this fall. Senior Richard Hale was named the men’s Most Valuable Runner after recording the team’s top time in four of seven races. Sophomores Emily Dieter and Larissa Oaks shared Most Valuable Runner honors for the women.
The Rose-Hulman football team placed three players on the d3football.com "National Team of the Week" and set records on both sides of the ball while compiling a 3-7 record in 2002. Junior Matt Jackson, junior Jordan Strunk and senior Tim Swan earned d3football.com recognition for their efforts in compiling Rose-Hulman victories. Jackson and Dan Schwartz were named first-team all-conference for their efforts. The Engineer offense was piloted by senior Jared Tharpe, who completed his playing career with seven school records. The team established single-game records by amassing six sacks and 18 tackles-for loss in a win over Earlham and tallied a single-season school record for offensive pass completions (217).
Rose-Hulman placed three football players on the Verizon Academic All-America Team, by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Senior cornerback Jesse McQuiston and senior linebacker Tim Swan earned first-team Academic All-American honors, while graduate student offensive lineman Daniel Schwartz was named a second-team Academic All-American. Rose-Hulman has placed 56 student-athletes on various Academic All-America teams since 1978, including 31 since 1990. McQuiston maintains a 3.96 grade point average and is President of the Pi Tau Sigma honor fraternity. He was named the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week after recording six tackles, one interception, one fumble recovery and one forced fumble at Washington University in September. Swan established a single-season school record with five fumble recoveries. The mechanical engineering major maintains a 3.93 grade point average and was named a Heminway Scholar, an award given to the Rose-Hulman student with the highest grade-point average following their sophomore year. Schwartz, a preseason first-team All-American by d3football.com, has started at offensive tackle for the last four years for the Fightin’ Engineers. He earned first-team all-SCAC honors in 2001 and 2002 after helping lead the offensive unit to four offensive team school records. Women’s soccer players Anna Burgner and Jessica Farmer earned spots on the 2002 Verizon College Division Academic All-District Five Women’s Soccer Team. Burgner scored four goals on penalty kicks, while Farmer holds 22 offensive school records in the Rose-Hulman record book.
At press time, senior pole vaulter Andrew Schipper finished second in the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field National Championships. For more information, visit the Rose-Hulman athletic Web site at http://www.rose-hulman.edu/sports/.
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