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Green Wave places five athletes among the top three in the state during 2008

June 30, 2008

NEW ORLEANS - Five Tulane University women’s track and field athletes were named to the All-Louisiana team by the Louisiana Sportswriters Association, the organization announced this week.

Senior Shanon Beelendorf, a recent graduate of Tulane, ran the second-best 400-meter hurdle time in the state during the outdoor season, running 1 minute, 00.12 seconds on April 19 at the LSU Alumni Gold Invitational, which stands as the third-best time in Tulane history. Senior Aubrey Phillips ran the state’s best time in two events - the 5,000-meter run and the 10,000-meter run - running season-best times of 17:15.54 and 34:53.01, respectively. Her 10,000m time is a school record and her 5,000m time is the second best in Tulane history. Sophomore Arielle Minor scored the second most points in the heptathlon with her 4,451-point effort at the Conference USA Championships, which ranks third in school history.

Freshman Laurie Dalrymple turned in the state’s second-best times in the 5,000m and 10,000, running 17:29.92 and 38:19.05, respectively, and both times rank third in school history. Fellow freshman Rebecca Coady ran the fastest 3,000-meter steeplechase time in Louisiana at 11:29.68, which was also a Tulane benchmark.

The team was determined by the top three times or field marks turned in by athletes from Louisiana colleges and universities taken from officially accepted NCAA marks through the NCAA Championships.

All Green Wave track and field news, interviews and results are available on the web at www.TulaneGreenWave.com.

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1998 FOOTBALL TEAM

– Won Conference USA title and finished 12-0

– No. 7 ranking in final AP poll

– Beat BYU 41-27 in Liberty Bowl

– Eleven wins by double digits.

PERRY CLARK

Men’s basketball coach 1989-2000

– Had 185-145 record and six 20-win seasons

– Seven postseason appearances (3 NCAA, 4 NIT), one conference title

– National Coach of the Year in 1992 by UPI, USBWA and Scripps Howard

— Metro Conference Coach of the Year in 1991 and 1992

PAM BUFF

Women’s golfer 1997-2001

— Three time C-USA Player of the Year (1998,1999, 2000)

— Honorable mention All-American in 1999

— Led Wave to first NCAA regional championship
appearance

— Won C-USA individual titles in 1998 and 1999

JOHN OLAGUES

Pitcher 1965-66

— Had 12-8 record, 264 strikeouts and a 1.97 ERA

— Had 20 strikeouts in one game twice

— First Tulane player selected in the modern MLB draft

PATRICK RAMSEY

Quarterback 1999-2001

— Has school record for completions (798), attempts
(1,355), yards (9,205) and touchdown passes (72)

— Has school record 31 consecutive games with a
touchdown pass

— Had four 400-yard passing games and 16 300-yard games

— Selected in first round of the 2002 draft by Redskins

Ex-LSU assistant has impressive résumé
Sunday, June 29, 2008
By Nakia Hogan

Tulane has hired LSU assistant tennis coach Mark Booras to take over as men’s coach for the Green Wave, Tulane athletic department officials announced Saturday.

With the team slated to begin competition in 2009-2010, Booras will have a little more than a year to help restart the program, which was suspended after Hurricane Katrina.

“I am excited and honored to be selected as the head men’s tennis coach at Tulane University,” Booras said. “This tennis program has had a great tradition of success, and I look forward to working with the athletic department and the community to restore it to a championship level once again.”

Booras, 37, is the fourth coach hired by Tulane to restart a suspended program, joining women’s golf coach John Thomas Horton and women’s tennis coach Terri Sisk, who were hired last summer, and Lena Guarriello, who was hired earlier this month to relaunch the women’s swimming and diving program.

The Green Wave also will add women’s soccer and women’s bowling next summer, giving the Green Wave 16 varsity programs and returning the athletic department to full strength for the first time since 2006.

Booras will take over at Tulane after spending the previous 10 years at LSU, where he was associate head coach his final four years.

At LSU, Booras became one of the country’s top assistant coaches, helping the Tigers reach the NCAA Tournament in each of his seasons with the program.

In 2007, Booras was selected the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s National Assistant Coach of the Year. He also was recognized in 2004 and 2007 as the best assistant coach in the ITA Southeast Region.

“After a long and exhaustive nationwide search, which attracted many prominent successful head coaches and top associate head coaches, we believe Mark stood above the candidates because of his passion for developing the total student-athlete,” Tulane Athletic Director Rick Dickson said. “He is widely recognized for his skill development, excellent match strategies and unique ability to identify and develop top collegiate-level talent as evidenced by his selection to direct the USTA Summer Collegiate Team.”

Posted by Nakia Hogan Staff writer June 28, 2008 10:55PM

Former Tulane record-setting quarterback Shaun King has only one regret from his playing days with the Green Wave. He wishes he and teammates on the 1998 team that went undefeated and captured the Conference USA title were playing under the current NCAA system and given an opportunity to play in a BCS bowl game.

Instead, the Green Wave finished its 12-0 campaign with a decisive 41-27 win against Brigham Young in the Liberty Bowl and were left with thoughts of what could have been.

“I just hate that we didn’t have this new arrangement so we could have went to the Fiesta Bowl that year and played Tennessee or Florida State,” King said.

The sting of not being included in one of college football’s elite postseason games has been eased by the fact that the 1998 Green Wave squad is being inducted as an honorary member of the 2008 Tulane Athletic Hall of Fame class.

The 1998 team that was led by King, who became the first NCAA I-A player to have 3,000 yards passing and 500 yards rushing in a season and set a then-NCAA I-A passing efficiency record of 183.3, highlights a class that also includes former men’s basketball coach Perry Clark, former women’s golfer Pam Buff, former baseball player John Olagues and former football player Patrick Ramsey.

The group will formally be enshrined during a ceremony Oct. 3 at the Lavin-Bernick Center on the Tulane campus.

“We are the first team to ever be collectively inducted into the Tulane Hall of Fame, so anytime you are a first it gives you great pride and a great sense of accomplishment,” King said. “It’s a just reward for all the hard work and effort that was put into that season by that team. I thought the guys did a great job of making our success a priority, and it paid off for us.”

Clark, who coached the Green Wave for 11 seasons (1989-2000), said he was pleased with the honor. He was responsible for helping resurrect the program in 1989 after a four-year suspension of the program.

At Tulane, Clark’s teams compiled a 185-145 record, had six 20-win seasons, seven postseason appearances (3 NCAA, 4 NIT) and won the Metro Conference regular season championship once. He was the United States Basketball Writers National Coach of the Year in 1992 and a two-time Metro Conference Coach of the Year in 1991 and 1992.

“I feel very, very honored and special to be honored in the Tulane Hall of Fame,” Clark said. “New Orleans will always be home for me, and Tulane will always be very, very special.

“The way I look at my time at Tulane is like Camelot. It’s just a very special time, and there were a lot of special and magical people that came through. I’ve come to learn to just put it in a time capsule. I don’t ever try to duplicate it because it will never ever come again. You just kind of put it up on a mantel and appreciate and enjoy the memories.”

That’s precisely what Buff plans to do.

She said she was flattered when the call came informing her of the induction. She is enamored that her accomplishments on the golf course are being further recognized.

Buff, who competed at Tulane from 1997-2001, is one of the most accomplished women’s golfers in school history. Three times she was chosen C-USA Player of the Year (1998, 1999, 2000), and she was an honorable mention All-American in 1999.

She also won two C-USA individual titles in 1998 and 1999. But this latest honor ranks up there with all her previous awards.

“This is a huge honor, definitely,” Buff said. “I am very thankful, and I am very happy to be selected to such a prestigious group. I know that there is such a small group that is picked, and I’m just honored to be a part of it.”

Olagues, a hard throwing right-hander and former team captain, starred for the Green Wave in 1965 and 1966.

Olagues, who was 12-8 with 264 strikeouts and a 1.97 earned-run average, averaged 14.03 strikeouts per nine innings on his way to becoming the first Green Wave player selected in the modern-day MLB draft.

Ramsey, who passed for more than 9,000 yards as a three-year starter from 1999-2001, left Tulane as one of the most accomplished quarterbacks in school history, having thrown 72 touchdown passes, including at least one in a school-record 31 consecutive games.