Indiana University Athletics
On Tour with Coach Hoeppner
5/12/2005 12:00:00 AM | Football
Bloomington, Ind. - Indiana University Athletics kicked off its 2005 Coaches Tour on Thursday, May 12 with stops in Evansville and Jasper. The theme of this year's caravan is "Bringing IU To You," as athletics director Rick Greenspan, head basketball coach Mike Davis, head men's soccer coach Mike Freitag and head football coach Terry Hoeppner met and greeted over 150 IU alumni and fans at Eagle Valley Golf Course in Evansville and over 400 at the Jasper Armory.
The Evansville stop included lunch followed by comments from Greenspan and the three coaches and a round of golf. The Jasper stop also featured comments from Greenspan and the three coaches along with tailgate festivities, IU Kids Zone, autograph tables and the opportunity to purchase official IU Athletics gear.
Don Fischer, the veteran play-by-play radio voice of IU football and basketball, served as the master of ceremonies and introduced each of the four speakers, all of whom expressed sincere appreciation to Hoosier fans for their support. Greenspan noted that that loyalty is a two-way street, meaning that it is just as important for the Hoosiers to visit fans around the state as it is for the fans around the state to travel to Bloomington to support all 24 IU programs. At Eagle Valley, Greenspan made special mention of IU All-American golfer and Evansville native Jeff Overton. Overton fired a record-tying 17-under par 199 to win the Big Ten title last week in Madison, Wis. Overton is the seventh Hoosier to win medalist honors at the Big Tens and the first since Shaun Micheel in 1991.
Davis is enthusiastic about a team that returns four starters in addition to Auburn transfers Marco Killingsworth and Lewis Monroe to go along with talented newcomers Ben Allen, Joey Shaw and Earl Calloway. In particular, Killingsworth and 2005 Big Ten Freshman of the Year D.J. White give the Hoosiers one of the top front court duos in the league and nation, while Monroe and Calloway provide much-needed experience at point guard.
Freitag's caravan will continue en route to Washington, D.C. on Friday, as the Indiana soccer team visits the White House for its 2004 national championship recognition. The Hoosiers are hardly resting on their laurels, posting a 5-1 spring ledger as they prepare to welcome the nation's top recruiting class to Bloomington for 2005.
Although 2005 season football ticket sales are already surpassing the 2004 total, Hoeppner said that that fact is just "scratching the surface" of what his program can do. He discussed his team's productive spring workouts and feels that the Hoosiers are on their way to immediate progress. A key step in this development is making the state of Indiana a recruiting priority.
The Indiana Coaches Tour will be back on the road at Harrison Lake Country Club on May 24 and Covered Bridge near Louisville on May 25. For more information on the Harrison Lake outing, please call Tom Delph at 812-376-9299, and for Covered Bridge, please call Les Wright at 812-967-3052.
The Evansville stop included lunch followed by comments from Greenspan and the three coaches and a round of golf. The Jasper stop also featured comments from Greenspan and the three coaches along with tailgate festivities, IU Kids Zone, autograph tables and the opportunity to purchase official IU Athletics gear.
Don Fischer, the veteran play-by-play radio voice of IU football and basketball, served as the master of ceremonies and introduced each of the four speakers, all of whom expressed sincere appreciation to Hoosier fans for their support. Greenspan noted that that loyalty is a two-way street, meaning that it is just as important for the Hoosiers to visit fans around the state as it is for the fans around the state to travel to Bloomington to support all 24 IU programs. At Eagle Valley, Greenspan made special mention of IU All-American golfer and Evansville native Jeff Overton. Overton fired a record-tying 17-under par 199 to win the Big Ten title last week in Madison, Wis. Overton is the seventh Hoosier to win medalist honors at the Big Tens and the first since Shaun Micheel in 1991.
Davis is enthusiastic about a team that returns four starters in addition to Auburn transfers Marco Killingsworth and Lewis Monroe to go along with talented newcomers Ben Allen, Joey Shaw and Earl Calloway. In particular, Killingsworth and 2005 Big Ten Freshman of the Year D.J. White give the Hoosiers one of the top front court duos in the league and nation, while Monroe and Calloway provide much-needed experience at point guard.
Freitag's caravan will continue en route to Washington, D.C. on Friday, as the Indiana soccer team visits the White House for its 2004 national championship recognition. The Hoosiers are hardly resting on their laurels, posting a 5-1 spring ledger as they prepare to welcome the nation's top recruiting class to Bloomington for 2005.
Although 2005 season football ticket sales are already surpassing the 2004 total, Hoeppner said that that fact is just "scratching the surface" of what his program can do. He discussed his team's productive spring workouts and feels that the Hoosiers are on their way to immediate progress. A key step in this development is making the state of Indiana a recruiting priority.
The Indiana Coaches Tour will be back on the road at Harrison Lake Country Club on May 24 and Covered Bridge near Louisville on May 25. For more information on the Harrison Lake outing, please call Tom Delph at 812-376-9299, and for Covered Bridge, please call Les Wright at 812-967-3052.
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