2009 pitt men's soccer media guide

Similar to the blueprint Pitt began cultivating in 2000 to entrench itself among the country’s finest universities, Pitt Athletics is intent on doing the same from a student-athlete perspective.

Envisioned is a new complex that will provide state-of-the-art homes for Pitt baseball, softball, men’s and women’s soccer, and men’s and women’s track and field. The complex will transform 12 acres of land at the peak of campus, not only giving Pitt student-athletes nationally competitive facilities, but also rejuvenating an untapped area that neighbors the University of Pittsburgh campus.

The Olympic Sports Complex The Olympic Sports Complex will transform 12 acres of unused land into a major attraction for the kind of top-performing student-athletes who can elevate the quality of our Olympic sports programs while competing academically to achieve all that an education at the University of Pittsburgh has to offer.

Combined with the premier venues of Heinz Field, the Petersen Events Center, the UPMC Sports Performance Complex, and the newly renovated Fitzgerald Field House and Trees Pool, this complex will offer students, parents and fans an enthralling sports experience that stretches from Oakland to the North Shore to the booming South Side.

New OlympicSports FacilityComing in 2010!

Track & Field Stadium The track and field stadium will be utilized for practice and competition, and be located on the site presently occupied by Pitt’s current baseball and softball fields.

Baseball Stadium Baseball will include a press box, team dugouts and hitting and pitching practice areas. Synthetic grass will extend the ability to practice and play throughout the year and lighting will allow for evening games.

Softball StadiumSoftball will have a skinned infield with an artificial grass outfield, along with lighting. The stadium will include team dugouts, hitting and pitching practice areas and a press box.

Soccer StadiumThe men’s and women’s soccer stadium will be a practice and competition venue, complete with synthetic grass field, lighting and a press box.

The new facility will be a tremendous step forward for our soccer program in several ways. Obviously it will be nice to play our home games on campus. Playing on campus will be a plus, for the team, our fans and the soccer community in general. In addition, the new stadium will provide our team an excellent training site which is a critical factor in the development of an elite program. We will have a full size field and a quality field surface available for all of our training and practice sessions. Finally, recruits will be able to see a first-class soccer specific facility when they visit the Pitt campus, which enhances the overall image of our program.

- Joe Luxbacher Pitt Men’s Soccer Head Coach

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2009 QUICK FACTS

Editor: Matt HaasContributing Editors: Paul Pancoe, Greg Hotch-

kiss, E.J. Borghetti, Mendy Nestor, Sophia Duck, Celeste Welsh

Photography: Jason Blair, Mike Drazdzinski, Michelle Ray, Patricia Nagle, C.W. Pack, JUST SPORTS, Eric Whiteman, Joe Kapelewski, Sean Brady, Pete Madia.

Printing: Herrman PrintingCover Design: Direct Axis

Associated Press6 Gateway Center, Suite 222, Pittsburgh, PA 15222. (412) 281-3747. Fax: (412) 281-1869. (Alan Robinson, sports editor).

Beaver County Times400 Fair Avenue, Beaver, PA 15009. (724) 775-3200. Fax: (724) 728-0190. (Ed Rose, sports editor).

Pitt TV (University of Pittsburgh Campus Sports Station)502 William Pitt Union, 3959 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213. (412) 401-5994.

The Pitt News434 William Pitt Union, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. (412) 648-7980. Fax: (412) 648-8491. (sports editor TBA).

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette34 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, PA 15222. (412) 263-1621. Fax: (412) 263-1926. (Jerry Micco, asst. managing editor sports, Paul Zeise and Ray Fittipaldo, beat writers).

Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewD.L. Clark Building, 503 Martindale Street, Third Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15212. (412) 321-6460. Fax: (412) 320-7964. (Kevin Smith, sports editor, Kevin Gorman and John Grupp, beat writers).

GENERAL INFORMATIONSchool: University of PittsburghLocation: Pittsburgh, PA 15261Founded: 1787Enrollment: 33,898Nickname: PanthersColors: Blue and Gold (PMS 289/PMS

4515)Home Field: Founders Field (Indianola,

Pa.)Affiliation: NCAA Division IConference: BIG EASTChancellor: Mark A. Nordenberg Alma Mater: Thiel College,’70Athletic Director: Steve Pederson Alma Mater: Nebraska,’80Athletic Phone: (412) 648-8230

MEN’S SOCCER HISTORYFirst Year of Soccer: 1954All-Time Record: 365-366-78Last postseason opponent: DePaul (2008)Result: L, 1-3 (Big East Tournament First

Round)

COACHING STAFFHead Coach: Joe LuxbacherAlma Mater: Pittsburgh ‘74Record at School (Yrs.): 193-194-50 (25)Overall Record (Yrs.): 217-206-54 (28)Assistant Coach: Chris Karwoski (Ver-

mont, ‘91)Goalkeepers Coach: Eric Barnes (Pitts-

burgh, ‘09)Volunteer Assistant: Mike Bacasa (Pitts-

burgh, ‘93)Soccer Phone: (412) 648-8217

2008 REVIEWOverall Record: 7-8-3Big East Record (Finish): 3-6-2/6th Blue

Division

2009 TEAM INFORMATIONLetterwinners Ret./Lost: 16/6 Starters Returning/Lost: 8/3

Top Offensive Returnees: GP SOG G A Pt. GWM. McDade 18 18 3 1 7 0C. Wilcox 18 16 3 1 7 1Prince-Wright 18 12 3 0 6 2

Top Returning Goalkeepers: GP S GA Avg. ShOZ. Matthews Did not compete

PRESS SERVICES Members of the media are supplied with weekly updates containing statistics, game summaries and information regarding upcoming events. On game day, the media relations staff will distribute game programs, team and individual statistics and all postgame information.

MEDIA RELATIONS DEPARTMENT Located on the Petersen Events Center’s Event Level: Men’s Soccer SID: Paul Pancoe Offi ce Number: (412) 648-8240 Cell Number: (330) 559-1131 Email: [email protected] Fax Number: (412) 648-8248Mailing Address:P.O. Box 7436, Pittsburgh, PA 15213Overnight Address:Petersen Events Center, 3719 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261Web Address: www.pittsburghpanthers.com

INTERVIEW POLICY If a media member wishes to interview or pho-tograph a Pittsburgh men’s soccer player or coach, please contact the Media Relations Department in advance. Every attempt will be made to fulfi ll the request as effi ciently and as quickly as possible. Interviews with student-athletes will be set up only by the Media Relations Offi ce. Please allow at least one day’s notice or more. Student-Athletes’ telephone numbers will not be released to the media. Interviews with any of the coaches can be arranged by contacting them directly. Coaches’ offi ce numbers are listed in the athletics department directory.

Media Information ............................................ 22009 Quick Facts ............................................... 22009 Season Outlook ..................................... 3-4Head Coach Joe Luxbacher ............................. 5-6Assistant Coaches ..............................................7Coaching/Support Staff ..................................... 82009 Roster ....................................................... 92009 Player Profi les .....................................10-192008 Final Statistics ......................................... 202008 Results .....................................................21Scoring Records ...............................................22Goalkeeping Records........................................23Team Records ................................................. 24Miscellaneous Records .....................................25Annual Team Leaders ...................................... 26Big East Honors ................................................27Big East Academic Honors ............................... 28All-Time Coaching Records .............................. 29Panthers in the Pros .........................................30Pitt’s All-America Selections .............................31Pitt’s Most Valuable Players ..............................32All-Time Lettermen .....................................33-34Year-by-Year Results ....................................35-38Soccer History ..................................................39Results vs. 2009 Opponents ............................. 40

Table of Contents

Media Outlets

Media Information

Credits

Quick Facts

*This Media Guide is dedicated to the memory of Brian Retzloff, who served nine

seasons as an assistant men’s soccer coach at Pitt.

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2009 SEASON OUTLOOK

The 2008 Pitt men’s soccer season saw a young Panthers’ team overcome adversity and injuries to post a 7-8-3 overall record and advance to the Big East Tournament for the second time in three years. Pitt hopes an ad-ditional year of experience will help as it enters the 2009 campaign with high expectations.

“Our goal as a team is to challenge for the Big East title,” Pitt head men’s soccer coach Joe Luxbacher said. “Obviously it’s a challenge but I like our team and feel that we have the potential to do some big things this year.”

Pitt returns eight of 11 starters and 16 letterwinners to the 2009 roster including sophomore Ryan Brode and senior Matt Firster who missed signifi cant time last season due to injuries.

“We have a deep team,” Luxbacher said. “There is going to be competition for every spot and I feel that will make our team stronger in the long run. Our team also believes they can be good and feels that with a strong, collective eff ort, it can accomplish great things.”

Pitt’s main goals in 2009 will be to post a winning record, return to the Big East Tour-nament and advance beyond fi rst round play. In order to achieve these goals the Panthers will need to continue to play lockdown defense, im-prove on the offensive end and find replace-ments for forward E.J. McCormick, defender Eric Jaeger and goal-keepers Jordan Marks and Eric Barnes.

Pitt hopes that a change in philosophy will add more offense to the team while still keeping the lockdown defense. Pitt will look to constantly attack its opponents on both ends of the field in the hopes of creating turnovers and scoring op-portunities.

“This year we plan on playing a more at-tacking style of play,” Luxbacher said. “We want to attack more in our opponent’s end of the fi eld which will hopefully lead to more scoring opportunities. I feel that this type of play is better suited for our team, but, in order for it to be successful our players need to buy into the system and get in great shape. It will be hard work, but I feel that our players will be up to the challenge.”

One of the fi rst objectives for Pitt will be to continue its success in non-conference play where it fi nished a very respectable 4-1-1 in 2008. Although it won’t be easy with the likes of perennial NCAA College Cup contender UC-Santa Barbara on the schedule, a suc-cessful non-conference stretch could help the Panthers gain confi dence upon heading into a diffi cult Big East Conference schedule which pairs the Panthers against four teams that advanced to the NCAA College Cup a year ago.

Last year, Pitt fi nished with a 3-6-2 record in the extremely deep and talented Big East Conference. The Panthers will look to improve on their 2009 record and must do so on the

road where they only managed one win against four losses and a tie. In order to be considered among the Big East’s elite, the Panthers must also fi nd a way to improve on a home record which saw them go 2-2-1 in Big East play.

Pitt enters the 2009 season as a team that is fi lled with experienced players. Over half of the Panthers’ team is comprised of upperclassmen that have made a signifi cant impact during their careers at Pitt. Pitt also brings back several sophomores who saw action in their freshman seasons along with three freshmen who have the opportunity to compete for immediate playing time. With the years of training, game experiences and team chemistry building that the current Panther players have had together, the group will look to take a big step forward and try to contend for a Big East Championship.

ForwardsOne of the main keys for the Pitt off ense

will be to fi nd a way to match the production that will be lost by the graduation of four-year letterwinner E.J. McCormick. McCormick led the 2008 Panthers in points (11) and tied for the team lead in goals (three). Over his four-year career McCormick recorded 24 points on nine goals and six assists.

“We don’t have one or two superstar goal scorers on our team,” Luxbacher said. “But our team can score goals in a variety of diff erent ways from a variety of players. “

Leading the way for the Pitt forwards will be senior Chris Wilcox. Over his three-year career at Pitt, Wilcox has played in 34 games starting six. Wilcox is coming off a break-through year in 2008 which saw him tie for the team lead in goals (three) and fi nish second on the team in points (seven). Wilcox hopes to build on his success from 2008 and continue his stellar play into the 2009 season.

“Chris is a player who has show the ability to score for us,” Luxbacher said. “He has been very productive in the minutes that he played and we hope to get a lot of off ensive produc-tion out of him this season.”

The Panthers also add a talented transfer from Virginia Tech in junior Terry Boland. Bo-land, who will be eligible to compete immedi-ately, is a big and athletic striker who has great touch and a knack for scoring goals.

“Terry will be a great fi t for the attacking style that we want to play this upcoming sea-son,” Luxbacher said. “He has a tremendously high work rate and will work very well with our returning group of players.”

Adding to the Panthers’ depth at forward are sophomore Wils Alpern and redshirt sophomore Adam Monteverde. Alpern saw action in 10 games as a freshman reserve forward and scored a goal against Bryant. While Monteverde played in all 18 games as a freshman. Both will be counted on in 2009 to help bring a more consistent off ensive attack to the Pitt team.

Midfi eldersO n e o f t h e

strengths of the 2009 Pitt team is a veteran midfi eld that returns all of its start-ers from the 2008 season.

L e a d i n g t h e way for Pitt’s mid-field is senior Matt Baker. In his previ-ous three seasons, Baker has played in all 54 games while starting 52. He has accounted for 16 ca-reer points on five goals (including two game-winners) and six assists and will be counted on to help lead the Pitt off ense in 2009.

“Matt is a key guy for us,” Luxbacher s a i d . “ H e s h o w s great leadership and has tons of ability

but will need to get better at fi nishing plays. I’ve talked with Matt over the summer and feel very confi dent in his ability to fi nish more consistently for us in the upcoming season.”

The Pitt midfi eld will also welcome back a key contributor in redshirt sophomore Ryan Brode. Brode earned a medical hardship after missing all but four games for the Panthers in 2008. In his freshman season (2007), Brode was one of only two Pitt players to start all 18 games where he played nearly every minute and added three assists. The Panthers hope that a healthy Brode will help solidify the midfi eld.

“Ryan is such a well rounded player,” Lux-bacher said. “He has great passion and a high work rate. He is a key for our midfi eld because of his passing skills and high soccer IQ which will help create numerous scoring opportuni-ties for our team.”

Also returning to the Panthers’ midfi eld are senior Michael McDade and junior Joe Prince-Wright who tied for the team lead in goals last season with three. In his three-year career, McDade has played in 48 games with 30 starts scoring fi ve goals and accumulating

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12 points. The midfi elder will also be a key for the Panthers on free kicks due to his strong left foot. Prince-Wright, a tough defensive midfi elder, has played in 31 career games with 15 starts and has accumulated nine points on four goals including two game-winners in two seasons at Pitt.

Adding to the depth of the Pitt midfi eld will be an experienced group which includes senior Orane Gordon (41 career games), junior Justin Boehm (28 career games) and sophomore Ian Farnsworth (played in all 18 games in 2008). Chris Cline and Andy Cliff ord will also contrib-ute. The Panthers also add senior transfer Alex Betancourt who could not compete in 2008 due to NCAA transfer rules and sophomore Ethan Talbott who did not see game action last season.

DefendersThe Panthers’ defense must fi nd a way to

replace four-year letterwinner and two-year team captain Eric Jaeger who was a fi xture on the Pitt backline, but with an experienced returning core, Pitt sees its defense to be an-other one of its strengths for the 2009 season.

Leading the way for the Panthers’ defense will be juniors Andy Kalas and Connor Malone. Kalas, the backbone of the defense, is also the primary organizer of the Panthers off ense due to his ability to read the game and set up opportunities for his teammates. In his two seasons with the Panthers, Kalas has played in all 36 games, starting 35, and scored three goals. Malone is an athletic, tough and physical defender who has played in 33 career games with 21 starts.

“Andy and Connor will be the keys to our defense,” Luxbacher said. “They are both very talented and will provide great leadership. Andy is a natural leader on and off the fi eld. Connor is quieter but his focus and competi-tiveness rubs off on teammates. They are the kind of guys that you defi nitely want on your team.”

Pitt will also welcome back redshirt senior Matt Firster. A key contributor during his fi rst three seasons with the Panthers, Firster returns to Pitt after being granted a medical hardship by the NCAA. Firster has started 49 of 50 ca-reer games as a defender accumulating two goals including a game-winner. But what the Panthers like most about Firster is the tough, physical defense that he plays which helps lock down the opponent’s top forwards.

“Matt’s biggest obstacle will be not playing

for a year,” Luxbacher said. “If he comes back fully healthy he’ll help us a great deal being a solid experienced defender.”

Adding to the depth of the Pitt defense will be an experienced group which includes: senior Samuli Ahola (40 career games), junior Shane Flowers (17 games) and sophomore Sam Luff y (18 games, starting 14 as a freshman).

Newcomers Alex Fischetti and Mike Whita-ker will also have an opportunity to see game action and help contribute to Pitt’s success.

GoalkeepersThe biggest question mark for Pitt enter-

ing the 2009 season is at goaltender. Jordan Marks and Eric Barnes were a terrifi c one-two punch for the Panthers’ in goal and helped guide the 2008 Pitt team to six shutouts. The duo ranked fi rst in the Big East in total saves (92) and saves per game (5.11). The duo also ranks among the all-time great goalkeepers in Pitt soccer history. Marks is ranked in the in the top-10 on four of Pitt’s all-time goal-keeper records including least goals against in a season (third, seven goals against, 2008), lowest goals-against average-season (fourth, 0.87 GAA,2008), least goals against-career (seventh, 54 goals against,2005-08) and most career saves (tenth, 164,2005-08), while Barnes narrowly missed making the top-10 in several categories.

The two Panthers who face the diffi cult task of replacing the departed Barnes and Marks are redshirt junior Zach Matthews and freshman Keegan Gunderson. Matthews has yet to see game action in his three seasons at Pitt but had the experience of learning from the likes of Barnes and Marks. Gunderson brings several years of experience playing at the highest level of high school soccer including U.S. National Team training camps, Minnesota and Region II (Midwest) Olympic Development Program participation and U.S. Club soccer National Championships.

“Zach has been with the program for a few years and had a solid spring for us and Keegan has a lot of experience playing at the highest levels of high school soccer,” Luxbacher said. “So between the two, I am confi dent we will be solid in the goal, even though neither has playing experience in Big East games.”

Luxbacher also believes that the addition of the aforementioned Eric Barnes as a Graduate Assistant/Goalkeepers coach will assist in the development of his young goalkeepers.

“Having Eric will really help out Zach and Keegan,” Luxbacher said. “Goalies, particularly

young goalies, need experience everyday in practice. Having a goalkeepers coach like Eric around makes me feel confi dent that our goal-ies will get the necessary experience and train-ing every time they practice. The experience they gain from working with Eric will no doubt help them as they prepare for the diffi cult task of playing soccer at the Big East level.”

SchedulePitt’s schedule is one of the most diffi cult

in the country. With matchups against fi ve teams-UC-Santa Barbara, Louisville, South Florida, Connecticut and Notre Dame-that advanced to the NCAA College Cup in 2008 as well as the rest of the always tough Big East Conference and the early season tournament opponents, Pitt will need to keep its focus and bring energy and eff ort to every game in order to achieve its lofty goals for the 2009 season.

“We have a lot of tough matches to start but that’s what it’s about, that’s what we want,” Luxbacher said. “We’re ready for the challenges ahead.”

Even with a challenging schedule, Pitt will look to improve on its record from a season ago. Non-conference play kicks off when the Panthers travel to Moon Township, Pa. to play Robert Morris (Sept. 1). The Panthers then travel to Morgantown, W.Va. to compete in the West Virginia Tournament against UC-Santa Barbara (Sept. 4) and Buff alo (Sept. 6). Pitt will then return home to host games in the Pitt/Robert Morris Invitational Tournament where it will play U.W.-Green Bay (Sept. 11) and LaSalle (Sept. 13). The Panthers also play host to Cleveland State (Oct. 21).

Pitt opens Big East play when it travels to Cincinnati on Sept. 18. Other conference road matchups include: Louisville (Sept. 20), Georgetown (Oct. 10), Connecticut (Oct. 17) and Marquette (Oct. 31). Pitt opens its home Big East season on Sept. 28 when it welcomes DePaul to Founders Field. Other conference home matchups include: South Florida (Sept. 27), Providence (Oct. 3), West Virginia (Oct. 6), Notre Dame (Oct. 24) and Seton Hall (Oct. 28). Pitt will look to improve upon its 3-6-2 mark in Big East play from a year ago.

Pitt hopes that another solid season will lead to a run in the Big East Tournament.

“We have a new team, new assistants and we’re all really looking forward to the upcom-ing season,” Luxbacher said. “There are a lot of challenges facing us, but we know what it’s go-ing to take and we’re going to be ready to go.”

Keegan, Luxb

(From left): Matt Baker, Michael McDade and Andy Kalas will be counted on to lead the Panthers in 2009.

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HEAD COACH JOE LUXBACHER

Luxbacher has guided Pitt to six 10 plus win seasons during his 26-year tenure as Pitt’s Men’s Soccer Head Coach.

A legacy of tradition and e x c e l l e n c e has been es-tablished by

University of Pittsburgh men’s soccer coach Joe Luxbacher, only the second head coach in the program’s 54-year history.

The Big East Conference Coach of the Year recipient in both 1992 and 1995, Luxbacher’s teams have compiled six 10-plus victory seasons and eight Big East Conference Tour-nament appearances during his tenure. In 1992, the Panthers set a then-school record for victories (12) and advanced to the Big East Tournament. Despite a slow start the following season, Pittsburgh rallied to win fi ve of its last six games, falling just short in its bid to return to the Big East playoff s. In 1995, Luxbacher’s squad won a school-record 14 games and re-corded Pitt’s fi rst-ever conference tournament victory as it defeated Seton Hall in a shootout. Through the years the Panthers have met the challenge of being a top-25 caliber Division I program. During the 2000 campaign, the team was ranked as high as No. 7 nationally.

“Our goal as a program is to be a top-25 team,” Luxbacher said. “I believe we are es-tablishing a foundation that will enable us to realize that goal on a consistent basis. To do so requires a group of talented and commit-ted players, a quality coaching and support

staff and a willingness by all to prepare for success, to commit to becoming the best we can possibly be. Towards that aim I try to ar-range a diffi cult schedule that will give us a realistic picture of where we are as a program. Competing in the Big East Conference enables us to do that on an annual basis, as we play in what is arguably the strongest Division I men’s soccer conference. I prefer to play a schedule that challenges us to the best of our abilities, a schedule that, if we are successful, truly means we have achieved something.”

Prior to making his mark as a coach, Luxbacher set the standard for individual scoring achievement as a Panther player. In his three-year collegiate career from 1970-73, he established four school records including most goals in a game (seven), most points in a game (15), career goals (37) and career points (84). He led the Panthers in both points and goals for three consecutive seasons and led the 1973 squad in assists. As the team’s captain and Most Valuable Player in his senior season, Luxbacher averaged 12-plus goals and 28 points per season in his career for head coach Leo Bemis. After Luxbacher graduated from Pittsburgh in 1974, he began his professional playing career with the Philadelphia Atoms of the North American Soccer League (NASL). After two seasons with the Atoms, he traveled abroad with a select team touring Europe. Afterward Luxbacher returned to his home-town as a member of the Major Indoor Soccer League’s (MISL) Pittsburgh Spirit, where he had the distinction of scoring the Spirit’s fi rst goal in franchise history.

Even though Luxbacher has had the good fortune to play internationally and compete at the professional level, he remains loyal to his local Pittsburgh roots. Luxbacher learned the game while growing up in Beadling, a small mining town just south of Pittsburgh which boasts a rich soccer history. Through the years, Beadling teams have won many local and national competitions and in 1954 the men’s senior team was crowned national amateur champions (United States Soccer Federation) when it defeated St. Louis in the National Amateur Cup fi nal.

As a youngster Luxbacher developed his passion and love of the sport from his dad, uncles and the many senior players in Beadling. Each evening a group of players, young and old alike, would gather to play pick-up games on the town soccer fi eld. On weekends the Beadling teams would compete against teams from local towns in organized games. Intense rivalries arose and the pride of representing their town provided motivation to win.

“The senior players were tough, blue-collar guys who played a rough game of soccer,” recalls Luxbacher. “There was always a great deal of pride and camaraderie on the Beadling teams, and I learned early on the value of commitment and teamwork. I wouldn’t have reached the playing level that I did had I not grown up in this close-knit and supportive soccer culture.”

In addition to Luxbacher, Beadling

Joe

LuxbacherHead Coach26th Season at PittPittsburgh, ‘74

Joe Luxbacher File

Hometown Beadling, Pa.

Education Bachelor of Science-Biological Scienced, University of

Pittsburgh, 1974.

Masters of Education-Health, Physical Education and

Recreation, University of Pittsburgh, 1978.

Ph. D-Administration of Physical Education and Athletics,

University of Pittsburgh, 1985.

Family Wife: Gail Ann

Daughter: Eliza Gail

Son: Travis Joseph

Coaching Career

Assistant Coach, University of Pittsburgh, 1975

Head Coach, Mount Union College, Ohio, 1978-81

Head Coach, University of Pittsburgh, 1984-Present

Playing Career

University of Pittsburgh, 1971-74

Philadelphia Atoms, 1974-75

Pittsburgh Miners, 1975-76

Pittsburgh Spirit, 1979-81

Luxbacher’s Career Record

YEAR SCHOOL WON LOST TIED

1978 Mt. Union 7 3 21979 Mt. Union 9 4 11980 Mt. Union 8 5 1Total 24 12 41984 Pitt 9 6 11985 Pitt 11 4 21986 Pitt 10 5 21987 Pitt 4 10 11988 Pitt 6 8 11989 Pitt 8 6 31990 Pitt 7 8 21991 Pitt 6 7 41992 Pitt 12 6 11993 Pitt 9 5 31994 Pitt 9 8 11995 Pitt 14 6 11996 Pitt 8 7 21997 Pitt 10 5 41998 Pitt 6 9 31999 Pitt 7 9 32000 Pitt 13 5 02001 Pitt 6 8 32002 Pitt 8 9 12003 Pitt 6 11 12004 Pitt 6 8 32005 Pitt 3 12 12006 Pitt 5 11 22007 Pitt 3 13 22008 Pitt 7 8 3Total (25 Yrs.) 193 194 50Career (28 Yrs.) 217 206 54

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The Luxbacher family (from top): Gail Ann, Travis Joseph , Joe and Eliza Gail.

groomed two other Panther greats, Robert Cherry (1955) and Jerome Bressanelli (1955-57). Bressanelli was an All-American for the Panthers, while Cherry still holds two school records.

With international, professional and col-legiate experiences, Luxbacher decided to return to coaching. In 1978, he was named the head men’s soccer coach at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio. During his three-year tenure at Mount Union, Luxbacher com-piled a 24-12-4 record. In 1981, Luxbacher returned to the University of Pittsburgh to complete a PhD and in 1983 served as an assistant under his former college coach, Leo Bemis. Bemis retired from coaching in 1984 and Pitt named Luxbacher as only its second head men’s soccer coach.

“An essential element for success in any endeavor is to surround yourself with good people and I have tried to do that,” Luxbacher said. “Our players and coaches are expected to work hard, be trustworthy, accept responsibility and be totally commit-ted to the team and program. We treat our players as men and they are expected to act as such. My goal is for everyone involved in our program to be successful and at the same time, cherish the experience. On a personal level I enjoy working with the play-ers, I enjoy the competition, and I take pride in representing Pitt.”

Luxbacher also serves as the founder and director of the Shoot to Score Soccer Acad-emy, which off ers instructional soccer camps to youth players of all ages. In addition, he has authored more than a dozen books for both coaches and players covering various aspects of soccer, as well as a couple of titles dealing with health and fi tness (Conditioning for Soccer – McGraw-Hill Publishers, and Total Fitness – Wish Publishing Co.). Most of Luxbacher’s soccer books are available through the publisher Human Kinetics.

Luxbacher is an avid outdoorsman and has also contributed to another book,

Hiking Guide to the Monongahela National Forest. During the past year he was asked to contribute a chapter titled “Careers in Coach-ing and Athletics” for the college textbook Introduction to Kinesiology (2008) and also wrote and produced a series of coaching DVD’s titled “Winning Soccer.” He is presently near-ing completion on the third edition of “Soccer Practice Games”, due for publication in 2010.

Luxbacher earned both his Master’s (1978) and Doctorate (1985) degrees from the Univer-sity of Pittsburgh and has earned the “Level A” coaching certification from the United States Soccer Federation. He was honored as a “Letterman of Distinction” by the Uni-versity of Pittsburgh in 2003. Luxbacher was inducted into the Beadling Sports Club Hall of Fame (1995), the Upper St. Clair High School Athletics Hall of Fame (2003) and the Western Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 2005. He resides in suburban Pittsburgh with his wife Gail, daughter Eliza (12) and son Travis (11).

Playing Honors and Accolades

At Pitt:• Selected to All-PA-NJ-DE team in 1972

and 1973. • Team Captain and earned Most Valuable

Player Award in 1973.• Honored as a member of the Outstanding

College Athletes of America in 1970 and 1973.

• Scored a school-record seven goals against Edinboro in 1971 (also had an assist, giving him 15 points in the game).

• Tied for Pittsburgh’s school-record with 84 career points.

• Registered a school-record 37 goals dur-ing his career.

• Received Pittsburgh’s Panther Award in 1973.

Coaching Honors and Accolades

• 1992 BIG EAST Conference Coach of the Year.

• 1995 BIG EAST Conference Coach of the Year.

• Inducted into the Western Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.

• Led Pittsburgh to a school-record 14 wins in 1995, including its fi rst ever BIG EAST Championship Tournament win.

• Beadling Soccer Club Hall of Fame in-ductee in 1995.

• 2002 Upper St. Clair High School Hall of Fame Inductee.

• 2005 Western Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame Inductee.

• An accomplished writer who has authored numerous books about soccer. His works include:

Soccer Steps to Success (3rd edition), 2005 Soccer Practice Games, 2003 The Soccer Goalkeeper (3rd edition), 2002 Total Fitness for Women, 2002 Attacking Soccer, 1999 Conditioning For Soccer, 1997 Soccer-Winning Techniques, 1997 Soccer: Steps To Success, Second Edi-

tion,1996 Soccer Practice Games, 1995 The Soccer Goalkeeper, 1993 Soccer: Steps to Success, 1991 Soccer: A Guide for Players, Coaches and

Fans, 1991 Teaching Soccer, 1991 Fun Games for Soccer Training, 1987• Director and founder of Shoot to Score

Soccer Academy.• Director and co-founder of the Keystone

Soccer Kamps.• Recognized as an accredited soccer coach

by the United States Soccer Federation with an “A” coaching certifi cation.

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ASSISTANT COACHES

Eric

BarnesGraduate Assistant/Goalkeepers CoachFirst Season at PittPittsburgh, ‘09

Eric Barnes begins his fi rst season as a graduate a s s i s t a n t /

goalkeepers coach with the University of Pittsburgh men’s soccer program. A former Pitt goalkeeper and current Pitt law student, Barnes’ primary responsibility will be train-ing current Pitt goalkeepers on proper tech-niques and strategies. Barnes will also assist in recruiting. As a Pitt player, Barnes registered six wins with two shutouts, recorded 88 saves and fi nished his two-year career with a 1.42

Chris

KarwoskiAssistant CoachFirst Season at PittVermont, ‘91

C h r i s K a r w o s k i returns to the University of

Pittsburgh for his second stint as an assistant coach. Previously, Karwoski served as an assistant under Joe Luxbacher for fi ve years from 1993-97. Those years produced some of the most successful seasons in Pitt men’s soccer history. “Chris is an excellent addition to our staff and program,” Head Coach Joe Luxbacher said. “Chris and I coached together at Pitt for several years during the 1990’s and some of our best years were when Chris was previously with the program. He is an excellent coach with a true passion for the game. More important, he is a fi ne man whom I respect and trust. He and I have similar philosophies and work well together and I am looking forward to his return to the program.” Prior to rejoining the Panthers, Karwoski spent the past 11 years as the head men’s soccer coach at Western Michigan University. In his 11 seasons at WMU, Karwoski produced 22 All-Mid-American Conference (MAC) selections, nine MAC All-Tournament honorees, four All-Great Lakes Region players, the 2000 MAC newcomer of the year and 14 Academic All-MAC selections. In 2003, Karwoski was named MAC Coach of the Year after leading the Broncos to a school-record 12 wins, a MAC tournament title and the school’s fi rst-ever berth in the NCAA College Cup. While coaching Western Michigan, Karwoski was able to reach out to the Kalamazoo youth soccer community by coaching the Kingdom Reserves Super Y League boy’s team and by assisting with numerous youth programs such as the Michigan Olympic Development Program (ODP) and the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO). Karwoski is also a United

Chris Karwoski File

Hometown Farmington, Conn.

Education Bachelor of Science-Natural Resources Economics,

University of Vermont, 1991.

Family Wife: Terry

Daughters: Kelly, Kathryn

Sons: Corry, Jack

Coaching Career

Head Coach, Western Michigan University, 1997-2008

Assistant Coach,University of Pittsburgh 1993-97

Playing Career

University of Vermont, 1988-91

San Diego Normads, 1991

Forfar Albion, 1992

Polonia Falcons, 1993

Eric Barnes File

Hometown Aiken, S.C.

Education University of Pittsburgh, ‘09

Playing Career

University of Pittsburgh, 2007-08

George Mason University, 2005-06

States Soccer Federation (USSF) Nationally Licensed “C” coach. During his time in Kalamazoo, Karwoski was able to garner much success at the club level with the Kingdom Reserves. Under Karwoski’s leadership in 2007, the Kingdom Reserves Super Y League Under-13 boy’s team earned a Midwest Regional League runner-up fi nish and qualifi ed for the North American Finals. Karwoski improved on his successful 2007 campaign in 2008 when he led the Kingdom Reserves Under-14 boy’s team to a Midwest Regional League championship and again qualifi ed for the North American Finals. In 2009, Karwoski led the Kingdom Reserves Under-15 boy’s team to an undefeated season en route to yet another Midwest Regional League championship. Karwoski’s 2009 club also won the Junior Irish MDI championship and was a Michigan State Cup quarterfi nalist. Prior to accepting the head coaching job at Western Michigan, Karwoski served as the top assistant at Pitt from 1993-97. While at Pitt, the Panthers averaged 10 wins per season, highlighted by a school-record 14 victories and a No. 22 national ranking in 1995. Karwoski graduated from the University of Vermont in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree in natural resources economics. During his collegiate soccer career, Karwoski earned All-North Atlantic Conference First Team honors and helped the Catamounts advance to the NCAA Elite Eight in 1989. Karwoski was awarded Vermont’s Hal Grieg Award in 1990 which is awarded to the Catamount who, in the opinion of his teammates, has done the most for the Vermont men’s soccer program through his desire, hustle and love of the game. After graduating from Vermont, Karwoski went on to play professionally for the San Diego Nomads, Forfar Albion of the Scottish Third Division and the Polonia Falcon of the

Connecticut Soccer League. Karwoski and his wife Terry have four children: Corry, Kelly, Kathryn and Jack.

goals against average. Prior to Pitt, Barnes played two seasons at George Mason where he registered a 0.99 goals against average, recorded 63 saves, complied a .808 save percentage and fi n-ished with fi ve shutouts after seeing action in 14 games and 1360 minutes with the Pa-triots. Barnes was honored with the Martin Dunphy Goalkeeper of the Year award dur-ing his time at George Mason. Barnes also earned the Colonial Athletic Association Commissioner’s Academic Award, National Dean’s List and Athletic Director’s Honor Roll accolades. A 2004 graduate of South Aiken High

School in Aiken, S.C., Barnes is currently working on his law degree at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

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COACHING/SUPPORT STAFF

Mike Bacasa is in his 16th season as a volunteer assistant coach with the University of Pittsburgh men’s soccer program. A former Pitt soccer player

and 1993 graduate, Bacasa’s responsibilities with the Panthers include scouting opponents and on-fi eld coaching duties.

“Mike has been an integral part of our program for the last 15 years as both a player and coach,” said Head Coach Joe Luxbacher. “His playing experience coupled with his knowledge of soccer and coaching make him a fi ne asset to our program.”

As a player, Bacasa transferred to Pitt after two seasons at Westminster College. He walked-on to the Panthers’ squad and earned the starting stopper position. After his fi rst season in 1992, Bacasa was voted by his teammates as the MVP, and that same season the Panthers advanced to the Big East Championship tournament. He was named team captain the following year.

Bacasa received his bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1993. He earned a master’s degree in physical therapy in 1996 from Chatham College. Currently, Mike operates his own business called Wellness For Life. A product of Pittsburgh’s Shaler High School, Bacasa resides in Squirrel Hill with his wife Holly. Mike and Holly have three children.

Kirk Bruce is in his 12th year as associate athletic director for sports administration, but his association with the University dates back much further.

In his current capacity, Bruce oversees the day-to-day operations for several of Pitt’s Olympic sports.

Bruce previously served as the Panthers’ head women’s basketball coach for 13 years from 1985-1998. His coaching career was highlighted by the 1992-93 season in which the Panthers produced their fi rst 20-win season (21-10) and fi nished third in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament. Bruce coached numerous Big East All-Conference players as well as two Kodak All-American honorable mention players in Jonna Huemrich and Lorri Johnson during his tenure.

A standout point guard at Pittsburgh from 1971-75, Bruce was a member of the Panthers’ 1974 team that fi nished 25-4 and advanced to the NCAA East Regional fi nals. He was drafted by the Utah Stars of the former American Basketball Association (ABA). When the league disbanded, he returned to Pittsburgh to begin his coaching career as an assistant for the Panthers. Bruce was later promoted to the head women’s coaching position prior to the 1985-86 season.

Bruce and his wife Marleen have three daughters, Chelsea (27), Car-men (24) and Courteney (21).

Pitt’s athletic trainer and team confi -dant Tony Salesi enters his 24th season as a member of the Pitt men’s soccer staff . He also serves as the men’s bas-

ketball athletic trainer and coordinator for clinical services for olympic sports. A 1980 Pittsburgh graduate, Salesi began his athletic training career at Frazier High School. Salesi then served three years as a head trainer for the Keystone Rehabilitation Center in Indiana, Pa., working with the IUP football team. Salesi returned to his alma mater in August of 1986, when he was appointed a clinical instructor for the Pittsburgh sports medicine depart-ment and the head trainer for the men’s soccer, basketball, and tennis teams. In addition to his men’s soccer responsibilities, Salesi currently serves as head trainer for the men’s basketball team. Born April 9, 1957, Salesi is married to the former Kathleen Gatch. The couple have fi ve children—Lauren Ashley (22), Andrew Louis (21),

Equipment Manager

Mike

BacasaVolunteer Assistant/Scouting16th Season at PittPittsburgh, ‘93

Kirk

BruceAssociate Athletic Director for Sports Administration12th Season at PittPittsburgh, ‘75

Tony

SalesiCoordinator of Athletic Training for Olym-pic Sports24th Season at PittPittsburgh, ‘80

Brian

BriggerStrength &

Conditioning Coach

Ted

Dworek

Academic Advisor

Jennifer

TuscanoTeam Manager

Mark

Hast

Men’s Soccer Support Staff

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2009 ROSTER

Name No.Samuli Ahola ..............................6Wils Alpern ...............................16Matt Baker .................................9Alex Betancourt .......................24Justin Boehm .............................5Terry Boland ............................. 13Ryan Brode ..............................10Andy Cliff ord ............................18Chris Cline ................................19Ian Farnsworth .........................12Matt Firster ................................2Alex Fischetti............................ 23Shane Flowers .......................... 17Orane Gordon ............................7Keegan Gunderson ...................00Andy Kalas ............................... 15Sam Luff y ...................................4Connor Malone......................... 11Zack Matthews ..........................1Michael McDade ........................3Adam Monteverde ...................21Joe-Prince Wright .......................8Ethan Talbot .............................20MikeWhitaker ...........................22Chris Wilcox ..............................14

Samuli Ahola .............. sa-moo-lieJustin Boehm ..................... BameOrane Gordon .................. O-RainAlex Fischetti................. FISH-ettiRyan Brode ....................Bro-DEEJ. Luxbacher ..............LUX-bocker

Seniors ....................................... 7Juniors .......................................8Sophomores ............................... 7Freshmen ...................................3

England ......................................1Finland .......................................1Jamaica ......................................1Maryland ....................................1Minnesota ..................................1New York ....................................2Pennsylvania ............................18

2009 Pitt Men’s Soccer Team Photo. Front Row (left to right): Alex Fischetti, Justin Boehm, Wils Alpern, Keegan Gunderson, Team Manager Mark Hast, Zack Matthews, Adam Monteverde, Shane Flowers, Alex Betancourt. Second Row: Ian Farnsworth, Orane Gordon, Andy Cliff ord, Andy Kalas, Chris Cline, Chris Wilcox, Ethan Talbott, Connor Malone, Terry Boland. Back Row: Assistant Coach Eric Barnes, Assistant Coach Chris Karwoski, Matt Firster, Samuli Ahola, Joe Prince-Wright, Michael McDade, Mike Whitaker, Ryan Brode, Sam Luff y, Matt Baker, Head Coach Joe Luxbacher.

No. Name Yr. Pos. Ht. Wt. HometoHigh School

00 Keegan Gunderson FR GK 6-1 185 Circle Pines, Minn./Shattuck St. Mary’s1 Zack Matthews JR* GK 6-3 180 Plum, Pa./Plum2 Matt Firster SR* D 6-1 200 Harborcreek, Pa./Harborcreek3 Michael McDade SR MF 6-0 190 Plum, Pa./Plum4 Sam Luff y SO D/MF 6-2 180 Pittsburgh, Pa./Central Catholic

5 Justin Boehm JR MF 5-7 150 South Park, Pa./South Park6 Samuli Ahola SR D 5-11 180 Mikkeli, Finland/Mikkeli Lyseo7 Orane Gordon SR MF 5-10 155 Kingston, Jamaica/Holderness School8 Joe Prince-Wright JR MF 6-2 175 Southampton, England/Itchen/Weston Park9 Matt Baker SR MF 5-11 165 Bethlehem, Pa./Allentown Central Catholic

10 Ryan Brode SO* MF 6-2 175 Setauket, N.Y./St. John the Baptist11 Connor Malone JR D 6-1 185 Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin12 Ian Farnsworth SO D/MF 5-8 160 Allentown, Pa./Salisbury13 Terry Boland JR F 6-1 170 Brentwood, P.A./Seton La Salle14 Chris Wilcox SR F 5-10 170 Pittsburgh, Pa./Peters Township

15 Andy Kalas JR D 6-1 165 North Huntingdon, Pa./Norwin16 Wils Alpern SO F 5-8 145 Baltimore, Md./Towson17 Shane Flowers JR D 5-10 160 North Huntingdon, Pa./PSU-Erie/Norwin18 Andy Cliff ord SO MF 6-0 175 Bethel Park, Pa./Bethel Park19 Chris Cline JR D/MF 5-11 170 Coatesville, Pa./Coatesville

20 Ethan Talbott SO MF 5-10 180 Bethel Park, Pa./Bethel Park21 Adam Monteverde SO* F 5-10 160 Sewickley, Pa./Quaker Valley22 Mike Whitaker FR D 6-2 180 Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks East23 Alex Fischetti FR D/MF 5-10 168 Pittsburgh, P.A./Seton La Salle24 Alex Betancourt SR MF 5-8 150 Syosset, N.Y./Nassau J.C./Stony Brook

*Denotes a Redshirt year

COACHING STAFFHead Coach: Joe Luxbacher (Pittsburgh, ‘74); Assistant Coach: Chris Karwoski (Vermont, ‘91), Volunteer Assistant: Mike Bacasa (Pittsburgh, ‘93), Graduate Assistant/Goalkeepers Coach: Eric Barnes (Pitts-burgh, ‘09), Athletic Trainer: Tony Salesi (Pittsburgh, ‘80); Equipment Manager: Brian Brigger.

2009 Pitt Numerical Roster

Alphabetical

Geographic

By Class

Pronunciaton

Midfi eld ......................................9Defense ......................................6Forward......................................4Defense/Midfi eld ........................4Goalkeeper .................................2

By Position

No. Name Yr. Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown/High School

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2009 SENIOR PROFILES

CAREER: Samuli Ahola has played in 40 career games with 26 starts as a defender.

2008: Played in 10 games with five starts...recorded a shot vs. Rider.

2007: Played in 13 games with six starts...registered two shots on year...helped lead the Panthers’ defense as a wing defender.

2006: Started 15 and played in all 17 games as a freshman in 2006...scored one goal on three shots...scored his fi rst career goal vs. Robert Morris...fi nished with two points on year...helped the Panthers’ defense record fi ve shutouts on the year. HIGH SCHOOL: Joined the Panthers after graduating from Mik-keli Lyeso High School in Mikkeli, Finland where he started all but two games during his high school career…led Mikkeli to Finland’s national championship in 2002-03…in 2001-02, he was named an All-Area team member after he guided his squad to the 2002 Pohjola Cup area team title…in 2005, he played with Mikkelin Kissat where he competed in six Under-20 team matches and scored the fi rst goal...played four represen-tative team matches for Mikkelin Kissat...other interests include music and playing the guitar.

PERSONAL: Born Juha Samuli Ahola on September 21, 1986…son of Jouko and Anni Ahola…has one sister, Johanna…majors in communica-tion & rhetoric.

CAREER: Matt Baker has played in 54 career games with 52 starts...scored fi ve goals, added six assists and accu-mulated 16 points in his career...has two career game-winning goals...three-time

Big East Academic All-Star.

2008: Played and started in all 18 games as a junior...one of four players to start all 18 contests...recorded two assists...assisted on game winning goal vs. Rider...also registered an assist against Bryant...recorded 27 shots on the year...fi nished with four shots against Bryant...played 90 minutes or more in 16 of 18 games...named a Big East Academic All-Star.

2007: Played in all 18 games as a sophomore, while starting 17 contests...fi nished season with two goals, one assist and fi ve points...fi nished tied for second on the team in goals scored and third in points scored...led team with 27 shots on year...named to the Pitt Invitational All-Tourna-ment team...scored his second career game-winning goal against Saint Joseph’s...registered an assist in a victory over Duquesne...scored goal against Seton Hall...fi nished with a team season-high six shots vs. Saint Joseph’s...named a Big East Academic All-Star.

2006: Finished the 2006 season as Pitt’s team leader in points (nine) and fi nished tied as the leader in goals (three)...as a true freshman, Baker started 17 games and played in all 18...helped the Panthers defeat Cincinnati with his fi rst career goal in a 2-1 win...added his second goal against South Florida and picked up his fi rst career game-winning goal in a 1-0 win over Xavier...scored three goals and added three assists in 18 total games...named a Big East Academic All-Star.

HIGH SCHOOL: Joined the Panthers after graduating from Allentown Central Catholic High School where he set school records for most goals in a season (40) most career assists (43), goals (76) and points…earned First Team All-State, First Team All-Area and All-Lehigh Division I First Team honors…also was named to the Salisbury All-Tournament Team…ranked among the region’s all-time top 20 in both goals and points…became the 40th known player in region to score 30-plus goals in a sea-son…led the Lehigh Valley Conference and Colonial League in scoring…received Lehigh Division Honorable Mention honors as a sophomore…led team to a second place fi nish in district play in 2004-05…inducted into the National Honor Roll.

PERSONAL: Born February 25, 1988…son of Richard and Colleen Baker…has two sisters, Jennifer and Shannon and two brothers, Richard and Andrew…enrolled in the School of Business...majoring in marketing.

6 9Samuli

AholaSenior/Defender/5-11/180Mikkeli, FinlandMikkeli Lyseo

Matt

BakerSenior/Midfi elder/5-11/165Bethlehem, Pa.Allentown Central Catholic

Ahola’s Statistics

Season GP/GS Shots Goals Assists Points GWG

2006 17/15 3 1 0 2 0

2007 13/6 2 0 0 0 0

2008 10/5 1 0 0 0 0

Totals 40/26 6 1 0 2 0

Baker’s Statistics


2006 18/17 44 3 3 9 1

2007 18/17 27 2 1 5 1

2008 18/18 27 0 2 2 0

Totals 54/52 98 5 6 16 2

Samuli Ahola

Matt Baker

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SENIOR PROFILES

CAREER: Matt Firster has started 49 of 50 career games played as a defender...accumulated two career goals on 19 shots...scored one game-winning-goal.

2008: Did not see any game action...earned medical hardship after suf-fering season-ending injury prior to opening match...entered year with injury.

2007: Played and started in all 18 games...one of only two players on the squad to start all 18 games...registered six shots...contributed pri-marily as a central defender...helped the Panthers’ defense hold seven oppenents to less than one goal on year.

2006: Started 15 games and played in 16...registered fi ve shots...helped contribute to the Panthers’ defense that fi nished the season with fi ve shutouts.

2005: Started all 16 games as a true freshman in 2005...scored two goals including one game-winner on season...scored his fi rst career goal in the 52nd minute against Marquette and notched his second goal of the season against Notre Dame...totaled four points on eight shots for the year...key contributor to the Panther defense against DePaul which turned out to be the fi rst win and shutout of the season.

HIGH SCHOOL: Finished his career at Harborcreek High School with 32 goals and 55 assists…four-year letterwinner who served as team captain during both his junior and senior seasons…led Harborcreek to a 78-17 record over his four years…team fi nished as Erie County League co-champions after his freshman year, second place in District 10 AA his sophomore year and a fi nal eight fi nish during both his junior and senior years…named PSCA All-State, All-District 10 team and a Region Five All-Star as a senior…named NSCAA/Adidas Regional All-American, PSCA All-State, Erie County Player of the Year, and First Team All-County as a junior…played for Erie Admirals Club that won the state championship in 2000 and also played for the Beadling Soccer Club that won the state title in 2005…played on the Pennsylvania West Olympic Development Team.

PERSONAL: Born April 18, 1987...son of Donald and Patricia Firster...has one sister Jackie...majors in anthropology.

2Matt

FirsterSenior*/Defender/6-1/200Harborcreek, Pa.Harborcreek

Firster’s Statistics


2005 16/16 8 2 0 4 1

2006 16/15 5 0 0 0 0

2007 18/18 6 0 0 0 0

2008 - - - - - -

Totals 50/49 19 2 0 4 1

CAREER: Orane Gordon has played in 41 career games with 10 starts over his three-year career at Pitt.

2008: Played in 12 games, starting two as a junior...recorded two shots...played a season-high 72 minutes against Georgetown.

2007: Played in 15 matches in 2007 with six starts as a sophomore...fi nished season with one assist and registered nine shots...registered an assist vs. St. John’s...recorded three shots against Wright State.

2006: Played in 14 games in 2006 including two starts (vs. Buff alo and Bowling Green)...fi nished the season with one goal and two points...picked up his fi rst career goal in a 3-0 shutout vs. Marquette...totaled seven shots on season.

HIGH SCHOOL: Joined the Panthers after graduating from Holder-ness High School in Plymouth, N.H. where he led his team to a second place fi nish in the Lakes Region League in 2004-05...Holderness tied for second place in 2003…qualifi ed for the New England playoff s in 2003-04...led his team in goals in 2005…received recognition as the Boston Globe All-Scholastic Prep Player of the Year in 2005...selected for the All-New England All-Star team as a senior…named captain and MVP of the Real Mona Football Club Under-13 squad and guided the team to a second place fi nish…led team to the championship in the Ken Mathew League and BIGGA League Under-17…played in the Under-20 level and fi nished in fourth place...also competed for Jamaica’s Under-17 National Team in 2002.

PERSONAL: Born February 3, 1987…son of Michael and Delores Gor-don…has two older sisters, Nikeisha and Raquel…majors in economics.

7Orane

GordonSenior/Midfi elder/5-10/155Kingston, JamaicaHolderness School (Plymouth, N.H.)

Gordon’s Statistics


2006 14/2 7 1 0 2 0

2007 15/6 9 0 1 1 0

2008 12/2 2 0 0 0 0

Totals 41/10 18 1 1 3 0

Matt Firster

Orane Gordon

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2009 SENIOR PROFILES

CAREER: Michael McDade has played in 48 career games with 30 starts at midfi eld...scored fi ve goals, added two assists and accumulated 12 points in his career.

2008: Played and started in all 18 games as a junior...one of four play-ers to start all 18 games...tied for team lead with three goals...ranked second on the team in points (seven) and fourth in shots (18)...scored goals against Robert Morris, Connecticut and at West Virginia...had an assist at Seton Hall...had fi ve matches with 90 or more minutes played.

2007: Started 12 games and played in 17 contests as a sophomore...registered Pitt’s lone goal in a tie vs. South Florida...recorded 16 shots on the year...fi nished with four shots vs. UNLV.

2006: Played in 13 contests in 2006...scored his fi rst career goal and game-winning goal as a Panther against Georgetown in a 1-0 win...fi n-ished the season with one goal, one assist, and three points...registered three shots.

HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Plum Senior High School in 2006…totaled 44 goals and 40 assists in his three-year varsity career…named All-Section and Valley News Dispatch’s All-Area Team in 2004-05…led team to an undefeated season and Sectional Championship in 2004 Section…also helped team to Section Championships, WPIAL Champions and PIAA State Semifi nalists in 2005…highlighted as Pittsburgh Post Gazette’s All-Star Team, Pittsburgh Tribune Review Elite-11, All-WPIAL, All-State and Regional All-American…four year letterman in volleyball where he served as team captain…played varsity basketball in 2004…also was Executive Producer of Plum’s Annual Make-A-Wish Telethon where they raised more money than any other school district in the United States.

PERSONAL: Born August 3,1987…son of Dale and Amy McDade…has two older sisters, Cara and Shannon…majors in communication & rhetoric.

3Michael

McDadeSenior/Midfi elder/6-0/190Plum, Pa.Plum

McDade’s Statistics


2006 13/0 3 1 1 3 1

2007 17/12 16 1 0 2 0

2008 18/18 18 3 1 7 0

Totals 48/30 37 5 2 12 1

CAREER: Chris Wilcox has played in 34 career games with six career starts...scored three goals, added an assist and accumulated seven points in his career.

2008: Played in all 18 games as a junior, starting six contests...tied for team lead in goals with three and ranked second on squad in points (seven)...scored game-winning goal vs. Western Michigan...scored goals against Robert Morris and at DePaul...had an assist against Robert Morris...recorded three points against Robert Morris...named to the Pitt Invitational All-Tournament team...fi nished season with 16 shots...named a Big East Academic All-Star.

2007: Saw action in 16 games as a sophomore...fi nished season with seven shots.

2006: Did not see game action in 2006.

HIGH SCHOOL: Totaled 56 goals and 40 assists in three seasons at Peters Township High School...led Peters Township to the 2003 WPIAL Championship...named All-Section and All-WPIAL during both sophomore and junior years...named All-State and Regional All-American...received the 2005 Washington Observer Reporter Player of the Year Award and All-Star as well as the 2005 Almanac Player of the Year Award...named Pitsburgh Post Gazette All-Star...and also a two-year starter and captain of the varsity basketball team.

PERSONAL: Born on June 27, 1987...son of Sharon Lacey and stepson of Dave Lacey...has two brothers, Nick and Corey...high school teammate of former Pitt goaltender Jordan Marks...majors in communication & rhetoric.

14Chris

WilcoxSenior/Midfi elder/5-10/170Pittsburgh, Pa.Peters Township

Wilcox’s Statistics


2006 - - - - - -

2007 16/0 7 0 0 0 0

2008 18/6 16 3 1 7 1

Totals 34/6 23 3 1 7 1

Michael McDade Chris Wilcox

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SENIOR/JUNIOR PROFILES

2008: Chris Cline contributed as a de-fended/midfi elder on squad...did not see game action.

2007: Saw action in fi ve games as a freshman...fi nished with three shots on the season.

HIGH SCHOOL: Joined the Panthers after graduating from Coatesville High School…a four-year varsity starter…two-time All-Chesmont team selection…played for the Dynamo III club team that won three EPYSA State Cups…also participated in indoor and outdoor track where he was the Chesmont Champion in 300 hurdles and won Penn Relay in DMR…a National Honor Society member.

PERSONAL: Born August 3, 1989…son of Chris and Deborah Cline…has an older sister Samantha...enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences.

19Chris

ClineJunior/Defender/Midfi elder/5-11/170Coatesville, Pa.Coatesville

24Alex

BetancourtSenior/Midfi elder/5-8/150Syosset, N.Y.Nassau J.C./Stony Brook/Syosset

2008: Did not compete due to NCAA transfer rules.

PRIOR TO PITT: Transferred to Pitt from Nassau Junior College...played his

sophomore season at Nassau Community College in Garden City, N.Y....scored three goals and added 15 assists as a sophomore...selected to the NJCAA All-America Team...named All-Region and All-Conference...played his freshman season at Stony Brook...played 18 games and started six..tallied one assist (vs. Iona) and fi nished with three shots.

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2006 graduate of Syosset High School...four-year letterwinner and served as team captain as a senior...NSCAA/adidas All-State and All-Region selection as a senior...named the 2005 conference player of the year...three-time All-County selection...Newsday All-Long Island selection...named a 2005 “National Player to Watch” by studentsportssoccer.com...played in the Long Island Exceptional Seniors game...four-year member of the Eastern New York South ODP team...fi ve-year member of the BW Gottschee team that advanced to the Under-16 and Under 17 Super Y Nationals...also helped guide the team to three state titles and two regional semifi nal fi nishes...National Honor Society member.

PERSONAL: Born on July 8, 1988...son of Herbert and Shelly Betancourt...has a brother, Oliver and sister, Cassandra...majors in rehabilitation science with a certifi cate in Pathokinesiology.

CAREER: Justin Boehm has played in 28 career games with 22 career starts...scored two goals, added two assists and accumulated six points in his career...has one game-winning goal...two-time

Big East Academic All-Star.

2008: Played and started in all 18 games as a sophomore...one of four players to start all 18 games...recorded two assists on the season...as-sisted on game-winning goals vs. Western Michigan and at Seton Hall...registered 19 shots on the year...played 90 minutes or more fi ve times...named a Big East Academic All-Star.

2007: Played in 10 games...scored two goals, one apiece against both Duquesne and Marquette...both goals led to Pitt wins...scored the game-winning goal against Marquette...recorded six shots on the sea-son...made four starts on year (Duquesne, Providence, Georgetown and Marquette)...named a Big East Academic All-Star.

HIGH SCHOOL: Joined the Panthers after graduating from South Park High School where he led his team to the 2005 and 2006 PIAA State Championship…totaled 41 goals and 68 assists during his four-year career…helped lead team to three consecutive appearances in the PIAA Championships…two-time WPSCA All-Star…named All-State in 2006…received the 2006 WPIAL Player of the Year award as well as Pittsburgh Post-Gazette All-Area team honors…three-year varsity starter and three-time co-MVP for South Park…named varsity Rookie-of-the-Year in 2003 and team captain in 2006.

PERSONAL: Born November 8, 1988…son of Joseph and Andrea Boehm…has an older brother Joseph and two older sisters, Brittany and Laura…enrolled in the College of General Studies...majoring in natural sciences.

5Justin

BoehmJunior/Midfi elder/5-7/150South Park, Pa.South Park

Boehm’s Statistics


2007 10/4 6 2 0 4 1

2008 18/18 19 0 2 2 0

Totals 28/22 25 2 2 6 1

Justin Boehm

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2009 JUNIOR PROFILES

2008: Shane Flowers played in 17 games, starting eight as a sophomore...recorded fi ve shots...played 90 minutes or more in fi ve games...named a Big East Academic All-Star.

PRIOR TO PITT: Played his freshman season at Penn State-Erie...scored one goal, added four assists as a freshman at PSU-Erie...led team to AMCC championship and NCAA Division III Tournament Second Round play.

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2007 graduate of Norwin High School in North Huntingdon, Pa....scored 10 goals and contributed 15 assists as a senior...two-time All-Section selection as both a junior and senior...guided team to two sectional titles in 2005-06 and 2006-07...team captain as a senior...played on the Beadling Soccer Club for three years...helped guide Beadling to three state titles...starting third baseman for the Norwin baseball team...National Honor Society student...involved in People-to-People Ambassadors.

PERSONAL: Born on May 27, 1989...son of Rege and Patty Flowers...has two brothers Rege and Ryan...brother Rege Flowers plays football at Robert Morris...majors in accounting/fi nance.

17Shane

FlowersJunior/Defender/5-10/160Noth Huntingdon, Pa.PSU-Erie/Norwin

Shane Flowers

CAREER: Joe Prince-Wright has played in 31 career games with 15 career starts...scored four goals,added an as-sist and accumulated nine points in his career...has two game-winning goals.

2008: Played in 18 games, starting 10 as a sophomore...tied for team lead in goals (three)...scored game-winning goals against Bryant and at Seton Hall...recorded a team season-high two goals and four points at Seton Hall...recorded 12 shots...fi nished season with six points...named a Big East Academic All-Star.

2007: Played in 13 games as a freshman...started fi ve games...scored one goal, one assist and totaled fi ve points on the season...registered two shots on year.

PRIOR TO PITT: Attended Itchen College from 2005-07…led his team to the 2005-06 Colleges Cup Championship and fi nals in 2006-07…named team captain for the 2006-07 season…named the 2006-07 Itchen College Player of the Year.

HIGH SCHOOL: Led his team to fi ve consecutive City League Cham-pionships…member of the fi ve-time Southampton City Cup champions team…earned the 2004-05 English National Schools Cup winners (Na-tional Champions)…won the 1999-2000 Sportsman of the Year award…England Under-18 National team trialist…named the Managers and Supporters Player of the Year in 2003-04 while competing for BTC South-ampton...Great Britian University team fi nalist in 2009.

PERSONAL: Born September 2, 1988…son of Shaun and Susan Prince-Wright…has a sister Charlotte…double-majoring in English writing and communications...interned at FSN Pittsburgh.

8Joe

Prince-WrightJunior/Midfi elder/6-2/175Southampton, EnglandItchen College/Weston Park

Prince-Wright’s Statistics


2007 13/5 2 1 1 3 0

2008 18/10 12 3 0 6 2

Totals 31/15 14 4 1 9 2

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Joe Prince-Wright

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JUNIOR PROFILES

CAREER: Andy Kalas has played in 36 career games with 35 starts...scored three goals and accumulated six points in his career...has one game-winning goal...two-time Big East Academic

All-Star.

2008: Played and started in all 18 games as a sophomore...one of four Pitt players to start all 18 contests...scored the game-winning goal against Marquette on a header off an indirect kick...named to the Pitt Invitational All-Tournament team...recorded 13 shots...played 90 minutes or more in all 18 games...named a Big East Academic All-Star.

2007: Played in all 18 games and started 17 as a freshman...scored two goals on the season and totaled four points, despite playing primarily on defense...scored team’s lone goal in games against Wright State and West Virginia...recorded eight shots on the season...named a Big East Academic All-Star.

HIGH SCHOOL: Joined the Panthers after graduating from Norwin High School…three-year varsity starter and 2005-06 team captain…led his team to section championships in both 2005 and 2006…three-time All-Section selection from 2004-2006…Named to All-WPIAL and All-State teams in 2005 and 2006…two-time Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Top 15 players to watch” selection…six-year member of Classic League Soccer and Premier League…National Honor Society member.

PERSONAL: Born August 13, 1988…son of Rocky and Cathie Kalas…has two brothers: Rob and Mike...enrolled in the College of Business Administration...majors in accounting.

15Andy

KalasJunior/Defender/6-1/165North Huntingdon, Pa.Norwin

Kalas’ Statistics


2007 18/17 8 2 0 4 0

2008 18/18 13 1 0 2 1

Totals 36/35 21 1 0 6 1

CAREER: Connor Malone has played in 33 career games with 21 starts..scored the game-winning goal against Duquesne during his freshman season.

2008: Played and started in 16 games as a sophomore...named to the Robert Morris Tournament All-Tourney Team...named to the Pitt Invita-tional All-Tournament team...played 90 or more minutes in 14 matches...named a Big East Academic All-Star.

2007: Played in 17 games as a freshman midfi elder...started fi ve con-tests...scored game-winning goal in victory against Duquesne...recorded fi ve shots on the season.

HIGH SCHOOL: Joined the Panthers after graduating from Central Dauphin High School in 2007...led his team to the district playoff s in 2006...selected to the Harrisburg Patriot-News 2006 Central Pennsylvania Big 11 Team...named to the 2005 and 2006 Mid-Penn All-Star team and received honorable mention in 2004...named a Central Pennsylvania “Top-10 Players to Watch” nominee in 2005 and 2006...named team captain as a junior and senior...selected to the Under-17 Olympic Devel-opment Program Camp in 2007...First Team All-Region ODP selection in 2006...four-year letterwinner and two-year team captain.

PERSONAL: Born August 6, 1988...son of Shamus and Denise Malone...majors in administration of justice.

11Connor

MaloneJunior/Defender/6-1/185Harrisburg, Pa.Central Dauphin

Malone’s Statistics


2007 17/5 5 1 0 2 1

2008 16/16 0 0 0 0 0

Totals 33/21 5 1 0 2 1

Andy Kalas

Connor Malone

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2009 JUNIOR/SOPHOMORE PROFILES

2008: Zack Matthews did not see any game action in his second year at Pitt.

2007: Redshirted his first season at Pitt...named a Big East Academic All-Star.

HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Plum High School in 2007...two-time All-Section team selection...two-time Valley News Dispatch All-Star and 2005 Player of the Year award winner...guided Plum to a 22-2-1record, sectional and WPIAL titles and a state semifi nal fi nish as a senior goal-keeper...fi nished with a 0.44 goals against average and 14 shutouts as a senior...totaled a 0.89 goals against average and seven shutouts and helped lead team to a 17-2-0 record as a junior...two-year team captain...played on the Penns Forest Football Club (2005-2007) and Pittsburgh Strikers (2003-05).

PERSONAL: Born November 30, 1987...son of Jeffrey and Cindy Matthews...has a sister Melissa...father played on Pitt’s 1976 national championship football team...sister was a member of the Pitt dance team...majoring in mechanical engineering.

1Zack

MatthewsJunior*/Goalkeeper/6-3/180Plum, Pa.Plum

16Wils

AlpernSophomore/Forward/5-8/145Baltimore, Md.Towson

2008: Wils Alpern saw action in 10 games as a freshman forward...scored a goal against Bryant...fi nished the year with four shots...played a personal-high 71 minutes at Duquesne...named a Big

East Academic All-Star.

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2008 graduate of Towson High School in Baltimore, Md....scored 52 career goals and added 41 assists...scored 12 goals and fi nished with 13 assists while leading Towson to the regional fi nals as a senior...guided his team to the Maryland class 3A state title in 2005...led team to two Maryland 3A regional titles as a sophomore and junior...two-time All-State selection (2006 and 2007)...two-time All-Metro Baltimore selection (2006 and 2007)...three-time All-Baltimore County honoree (2005-07)...fi nished with 23 goals and 12 assists as a junior...contributed 12 goals and 10 assists as a sophomore...played on the SAC United travel squad that captured three Maryland 3A state cup titles (2003, 2006 and 2007)...also competed in wrestling and lacrosse...qualifi ed for regionals as a wrestler...member of National Honor Society...All-County jazz band member in 2006 and 2008.

PERSONAL: Born on October 18, 1990...son of Steve Alpern and Carolyn Williams...has a brother Jenner...enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Alpern’s Statistics


2008 10/0 4 1 0 2 0

Totals 10/0 4 1 0 2 0

2008: Ian Farnsworth played in all 18 games, starting seven as a sophomore...scored two goals on the season...scored the game-winning goal against Robert Morris...scored go ahead goal against

Connecticut...fi nished the season with four points...recorded 13 shots.

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2007 graduate of Salisbury High School in Allentown...two-time fi rst team all-league selection...named to all-league team as a junior...named all-league honorable mention as a freshman...guided team to the league and district championships as a freshman...played on the Lehigh Valley United club team.

PERSONAL: Born on March 29, 1989...son of James and Janet Farnsworth...has a brother Max...majoring in accounting.

12Ian

FarnsworthSophomore/Midfi elder/Defender/5-8/160Allentown, Pa.Salisbury

Farnsworth’s Statistics


2008 18/7 13 2 0 4 1

Totals 18/7 13 2 0 4 1

Ian Farnsworth

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SOPHOMORE PROFILES

2008: Andy Cliff ord saw action in 10 games as a freshman...recorded a shot at Duquesne...played a personal-high 55 minutes at Duquesne.

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2008 graduate of Bethel Park High School...scored 37 goals and added 52 assists in his four-year varsity career...named a Regional All-American following his senior season...two-time All-State selection...two-time Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Elite 11 selection...named to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Elite 11 as a senior...two-time All-WPIAL and All-Section honoree...named the Most Valuable Player at the WPIAL All-Star game...guided Bethel Park to two WPIAL 3A championships as both a senior and junior...led squad to three Section 4 WPIAL titles (2004, 2005 and 2007)...played on the Beadling Soccer Club for seven seasons...team captain for the Beadling Soccer Club...led team to Pennsylvania West championships in 2003, 2004 and 2005...member of the National Honor Society.

PERSONAL: Born on August 16, 1989...son of Bill and Jaime Cliff ord...has two sisters Courtney and Jaclyn...enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences.

18Andy

CliffordSophomore/Midfi elder/6-0/175Bethel Park, Pa.Bethel Park

CAREER: Ryan Brode has played in 24 career games with 24 starts...recorded three assists and accumulated three points in his career.

2008: Played and started in four games as a sophomore...recorded four shots on the season...named to the Robert Morris Tournament All-Tourney Team...earned a medical hardship after suff ering an injury in the fourth game.

2007: Played and started in all 18 games as a true freshman...one of only two players on the team to start all 18 contests on year...led the team with three assists...assisted on the game-winning goal against Duquesne...recorded 23 shots on year as a midfi elder...also registered assists vs. UC-Davis and Saint Joseph’s...fi nished with four shots vs. Saint Joseph’s.

HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from St. John the Baptist High School in West Islip, N.Y…fi nished his four-year career with 29 goals and 82 assists…four-year varsity starter…led his team to a 2006 season championship and league playoff fi nals…three-time Catholic High School All-League pick from 2004-06 and two-time All-State selection…received Newsday All-Long Island Team honors and NSCAA All-America honors in 2006…member of the fi ve-time East New York State Championship team…named to the Adidas ESP tour team (Germany) in 2005 and named a league all-star in 2006…trained in Brazil over the 2006 summer.

PERSONAL: Born July 23, 1989…son of Mark and Kathryn Brode…has one younger brother Mark...history and political science major.

10Ryan

BrodeSophomore*/Midfi elder/6-2/175Setauket, N.Y.St. John The Baptist

Brode’s Statistics


2007 18/18 23 0 3 3 0

2008 4/4 4 0 0 0 0

Totals 22/22 27 0 3 3 0

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2008 graduate of Bethel Park High School...scored 18 goals and fi nished with 57 assists in his four-year high school career...named All-Section and All-WPIAL as a senior...

scored seven goals and totaled 25 assists in leading Bethel Park to a 23-2 record, sectional and WPIAL titles and state quarterfi nals as a senior...contributed fi ve goals and 20 assists in leading team to 21-2-2 record, WPIAL title and state semifi nals appearance as a junior...served as the kicker on the football team for three years...named an all-conference kicker as a senior...played club soccer with the Victory Express, Century United and PA West ODP teams...led Century United to the Under-15 state title.

PERSONAL: Born on June 4, 1989...son of Scott and Sandy Talbott...has a brother Aaron...undeclared major.

20Ethan

TalbottFreshman*/Midfi elder/5-10/180Bethel Park, Pa.Bethel Park

Ryan Brode

Andy Cliff ord

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2009 SOPHOMORE PROFILES

2008: Sam Luff y played in 18 games, starting 14 as a freshman...scored fi rst career goal vs. Albany...recorded an assist against Connecticut...finished the season with three points...recorded

17 shots...named to the Robert Morris Tournament All-Tourney Team...played 90 minutes or more six times.

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2007 graduate of Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh, Pa....played one season on the Beadling Soccer Club team...helped lead Beadling to the 2008 state championship...also played club soccer for the North Stars and Century United teams...named student council president.

PERSONAL: Born on June 10, 1989...son of Robert and Deborah Luff y...has three brothers- Jake, Cole and Tyler and a sister, Sarah...brother Jake wrestled at Ohio University...sister Sarah played tennis at Catholic University of America...majors in civil engineering.

4Sam

LuffySophomore/Midfi elder/Defender/6-2/180Pittsburgh, Pa.Central Catholic

Luffy’s Statistics


2008 18/14 17 1 1 3 0

Totals 18/14 17 1 1 3 0

2008: Played in all 18 games, starting in four...recorded eight shots on the year...played a personal-best 59 minutes vs. Albany...named a Big East Academic All-Star.

2007: Did not see any game action...earned medical hardship after entering year with injury.

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2007 graduate of Quaker Valley High School in Sewickley, Pa....scored 59 career goals over his four-year varsity career...played in only four games after tearing his ACL during his senior year...scored 30 goals as a junior...two-time All-Section honoree, All-WPIAL selection and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette All-Star...scored 17 goals as a sophomore...earned varsity letter and scored seven goals as a fresh-man...member of the three-time state champion Beadling Soccer Club from 2006-08.

PERSONAL: Son of James and Colleen Monteverde...has a sister Casey...enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences...majoring in com-munications with a minor in economics.

21Adam

MonteverdeSophomore*/Forward/5-10/160Sewickley, Pa.Quaker Valley

munications with a minor in economics.

Sam Luff yAdam Monteverde

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2009 NEWCOMER PROFILES

PRIOR TO PITT:Transferred to Pitt from Virginia Tech where he played two seasons of soccer…saw action in 23 games including two starts during his two years with the Hokies…accumu-

lated six points on two goals and two assists…scored the game-winning goal at Oral Roberts during his freshman season.

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2007 graduate of Seton La Salle High School in Pittsburgh, Pa…led team to state, sectional and WPIAL championships during senior season...captained team for three seasons...two-time section MVP...All-state and All-east region selection in 2006...four-time member of the all-section team…played club soccer for Century United… member of Under-18 Olympic Development Program as a junior.

PERSONAL: Born August 20, 1988...son of Kevin and Fay Boland...majoring in economics.

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2009 graduate of Shattuck-St. Mary’s High School in Faribault, Minn.…attended Under-14 and Under-15 National Team training camps…member of Adidas All-Star

Team in 2006…competed with Boy’s National Team (BNT) in pool play in 2006 and 2007…traveled to France in 2007 to compete for the Under-17 ‘91s team…named to the Minnesota Olympic Development Program (ODP) Team all four years of his high school career…four-time Region II (Midwest) ODP Team member…led team to U.S. Club Soccer National Championship fi nals during junior and senior years…led team to Region II championship during junior year…graduated from Shattuck-St. Mary’s High School with high honors…earned his high school’s Cooley Award in 2008.

PERSONAL: Born on February 3, 1991…son of Peter and Sandra Gunderson…has a younger sister Tryn…undeclared major.

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2009 graduate of Seton La Salle High School in Pittsburgh, Pa….scored 53 goals and added 88 assists in his four-year varsity career…2008 ESPN Rise Magazine All-

Area Player…named Regional All-American following his senior season…two-time All-State selection…two-time All-WPIAL selection…three-time All-Section team member…twice named to Pittsburgh Tribune Review All-Star 11…named to Pittsburgh Post Gazette All-Star 11 following his senior year…named Rookie of the Year by Almanac in 2005…led team to four section championships…guided team to two WPIAL championships…led team to two PIAA titles…guided his team to a four year combined record of 92-7, including a perfect 25-0 senior season…Olympic Development Program (ODP) PANEST tournament pool selection 2003-2007…led North Steel Phantoms to United States Youth Soccer Association (USYSA) state and regional championships in 2006…played on the Beadling Soccer Club for fi ve seasons…traveled to Barcelona in 2004 to compete for Beadling in Mediterranean International Cup tournament…led Beadling to US Club Regional championship in 2006/2007 season…played for Beadling’s USYSA fi nalist Under-18 team in 2008…named team captain for 2009 Beadling Under-18 team…also competed in alpine ski racing…member of National English Honor Society.

PERSONAL: Born on October 1,1990…son of Steve and Nancy Fischetti…has two younger sisters Nina and Mia…majoring in business.

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2009 graduate of Central Bucks East High School in Doylestown, Pa….scored 13 goals and added 20 assists in his four-year varsity career…All-State selection following

his senior season…named First Team All-Southeastern Pennsylvania following his senior season…two-time All-League selection…two-time All-Intelligencer honoree…named Intelligencer defensive player of the year following his senior season… guided team to a four-year combined record of 73-27…led team to league championships during his junior and senior seasons…led team to Class AAA state quarterfi nals his junior year…guided team to Class AAA state semifi nals his senior season…played on the VE Blast Soccer Club team…led VE Blast to quarterfi nals in the Dallas Cup…led VE Blast to Jacksonville Score at the Shore Championship…guided VE Blast to a No. 2 ranking in Eastern Pennsylvania…played on Eastern Pennsylvania Olympic Development Program (ODP) Team for fi ve seasons…played on ODP Regional Team in 2008…also competed in basketball and track…maintained high honors throughout four years of high school…member of National Junior Honor Society.

PERSONAL: Born on June 17, 1991…son of Robert and Susan Whitaker…has two older brothers Robert and Chris…has a younger sister Jenny…majoring in law.

13Terry

BolandJunior/Forward/6-1/170Brentwood, Pa.Virginia Tech/Seton La Salle

00Keegan

GundersonFreshman/Goalkeeper/6-1/185Circle Pine, Minn.Shattuck-St.Mary’s

23Alex

FischettiFreshman/Midfi elder/Defender/5-10/168Pittsburgh, Pa.Seton La Salle

22Mike

WhitakerFreshman/Defender/6-2/180Doylestown, Pa.Central Bucks East

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2008 FINAL STATISTICS

Overall Record: 7-8-3; Home: 4-2-1 Away: 1-5-2; Neutral: 2-1-0; Big East Record: 3-6-2

FIELD PLAYERS ALL GAMES BIG EAST Name GP-GS G A Pts Sh Shot% GW PK GP-GS G A Pts Sh Shot% GW PKE.J. McCormick 16-16 3 5 11 30 .100 2 0 10-10 2 4 8 20 .100 1 0Matt Baker 18-18 0 2 2 27 .000 0 0 11-11 0 0 0 15 .000 0 0 Justin Boehm 18-18 0 2 2 19 .000 0 0 11-11 0 1 1 10 .000 0 0Mike McDade 18-18 3 1 7 18 .167 0 2 11-11 2 1 5 12 .167 0 1 Sam Luff y 18-14 1 1 3 17 .059 0 0 11-8 0 1 1 7 .000 0 0 Chris Wilcox 18-6 3 1 7 16 .188 1 0 11-5 0 0 0 5 .000 0 0Andy Kalas 18-18 1 0 2 13 .077 1 0 11-11 1 0 2 6 .167 1 0

Ian Farnsworth 18-7 2 0 4 13 .154 1 0 11-5 1 0 2 8 .125 0 0Joe Prince-Wright 18-10 3 0 6 12 .250 2 0 11-8 2 0 4 5 .400 1 0Eric Jaeger 17-16 0 0 0 9 .000 0 0 10-10 0 0 0 4 .000 0 0 Adam Monteverde 18-4 0 0 0 8 .000 0 0 11-2 0 0 0 1 .000 0 0Shane Flowers 17-8 0 0 0 5 .000 0 0 10-5 0 0 0 4 .000 0 0Wils Alpern 10-0 1 0 2 4 .250 0 0 4-0 0 0 0 1 .000 0 0Ryan Brode 4-4 0 0 0 4 .000 0 0 - - - - - - - -

Orane Gordon 12-2 0 0 0 2 .000 0 0 9-2 0 0 0 2 .000 0 0John Procope 8-0 0 0 0 2 .000 0 0 6-0 0 0 0 1 .000 0 0Andy Cliff ord 10-0 0 0 0 1 .000 0 0 4-0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0Samuli Ahola 10-5 0 0 0 1 .000 0 0 6-2 0 0 0 0 - 0 0Conner Malone 16-16 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 9-9 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 Matt Firster 1-0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 - - - - - - - - Morgan Faust 1-0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 1-0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0

Total 18 18 12 48 201 .090 7 2 11 9 7 25 101 .089 3 1Opponents 18 22 26 70 252 .087 8 0 11 16 21 53 171 .094 6 0

GOALKEEPERS GP-GS Min. GA GAAvg Svs Pct W L T Sho

Jordan Marks 10-7 727:43 7 0.87 40 .851 4 3 0 3 Big East 5-4 400:57 6 1.35 26 .812 1 3 0 1

Eric Barnes 13-10 984:20 15 1.37 51 .773 3 5 3 2 Big East 8-6 639:51 10 1.41 29 .774 2 3 2 1 Totals 18 1712:03 22 1.16 92 .807 7 8 3 6 Big East 11 1040:48 16 1.38 55 .775 3 6 2 2

Opponents 18 1712:03 18 0.95 67 .788 8 7 3 6 Big East 11 1040:48 9 0.78 44 .830 6 3 2 5

POINTS 4 Joe Prince-Wright at Seton Hall (Oct. 25)

GOALS 2 Joe Prince-Wright at Seton Hall (Oct. 25)

ASSISTS 2 E.J. McCormick vs. Connecticut (Oct. 28)

SHOTS 5 E.J. McCormick vs. Bryant (Sept. 12) 4 Matt Baker vs. Bryant (Sept. 12) 4 E.J. McCormick at Notre Dame (Oct. 11) 4 Mike McDade at Seton Hall (Oct. 25)

SAVES 14 Jordan Marks vs. Georgetown (Oct. 18)) 9 Eric Barnes at Duquesne (Sept. 4) 9 Eric Barnes at Seton Hall (Oct. 25)

SHOTS BY PERIOD 1st 2nd OT OT2 TotalPittsburgh 80 112 5 4 201Opponents 114 124 8 6 252

GOALS BY PERIOD 1st 2nd OT OT2 TotalPittsburgh 6 10 1 1 18Opponents 10 11 0 1 22

SAVES BY PERIOD 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total Pittsburgh 39 48 4 1 92Opponents 32 33 0 2 67

CORNER KICKS BY PERIOD 1st 2nd OT OT2 TotalPittsburgh 29 43 7 0 79Opponents 38 35 3 0 76

FOULS BY PERIOD 1st 2nd OT OT2 TotalPittsburgh 111 121 7 4 243Opponents 113 120 11 3 247

Statistics by Half Individual Game Highs

2008 Final Statistics

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2008 FINAL RESULTS

Overall Record: 7-8-3; Home: 4-2-1; Away: 1-5-2; Neutral: 2-1-0; Big East Record: 3-6-2

Date Opponent Result Score Record Att. Pitt Scorers (Assists)

Aug. 28 vs Albany& L 1-2 0-1-0 187 Sam Luff y (unassisted)

Aug. 31 vs Rider& W 1-0 1-1-0 175 E.J. McCormick (Matt Baker)

Sept. 4 at Duquesne T 2OT 0-0 1-1-1 840 -

Sept. 7 Robert Morris W 3-0 2-1-1 247 Ian Farnsworth (Chris Wilcox) Mike McDade (penalty kick) Chris Wilcox (unassisted)

Sept.12 vs Bryant^ W OT 2-1 3-1-1 159 Wils Alpern (Matt Baker) Joe Prince-Wright (E.J. McCormick)

Sept.14 vs Western Michigan^ W 2OT 1-0 4-1-1 150 Chris Wilcox (Justin Boehm)

Sept.19 Rutgers* W 1-0 5-1-1 213 E.J. McCormick (unassisted)

Sept.21 Villanova* L 2OT 0-1 5-2-1 218 -

Sept.26 at USF* L 0-1 5-3-1 1543 -

Spet.28 at DePaul* L 0-1 5-4-1 264 -

Oct.5 Marquette* W 1-0 6-4-1 302 Andy Kalas (E.J. McCormick)

Oct.9 at West Virginia* T 2OT 1-1 6-4-2 661 Mike McDade (penalty kick)

Oct.11 at Notre Dame* L 1-4 6-5-2 1155 TEAM (unassisted)

Oct.18 Georgetown* L 0-1 6-6-2 273 -

Oct.25 at Seton Hall* W 3-2 7-6-2 309 Joe Prince-Wright (E.J. McCormick) E.J. McCormick (Mike McDade) Joe Prince-Wright (Jusitn Boehm)

Oct.28 Connecticut* T 2OT 2-2 7-6-3 206 Mike McDade (E.J. McCormick) Ian Farnsworth (E.J. McCormick)

Nov.1 at Providence* L 0-3 7-7-3 1001 -

Nov. 5 at DePaul^ L 1-3 7-8-3 211 Chris Wilcox (unassisted)

*Big East Conference game^Big East Conference Tournament Game

W L T Overall 7 8 3 Big East 3 6 2 Home 4 2 1 Away 1 5 2 Neutral 2 1 0Overtime 2 1 3

Gm Tot. Av.Overall 18 8114 451Home 7 1618 231Away 8 5984 748Neutral 3 512 171

Blue Division W L T Pts. Notre Dame 7 2 2 23 Connecticut 6 3 2 20Georgetown 5 3 3 18Providence 5 5 1 16West Virginia 3 4 4 13Pittsburgh 3 6 2 11Seton Hall 2 5 4 10Marquette 1 8 2 5

Red Division W L T Pts. St. John’s 8 1 2 26South Florida 7 3 1 22DePaul 5 4 2 17Louisville 5 5 1 16Villanova 4 5 2 14Syracuse 4 6 1 13Cincinnati 4 6 1 13Rutgers 3 6 2 11

POINTS 9 at Seton Hall (Oct. 25)

GOALS 3 Robert Morris (Sept. 7) at Seton Hall (Oct. 25)

ASSISTS 3 at Seton Hall (Oct. 25) Connecticut (Oct. 28)

SHOTS 23 Bryant (Sept. 12)

SAVES 14 Georgetown (Oct. 18) CORNER KICKS 9 Bryant (Sept. 12)

FOULS 22 Rutgers (Sept. 19)

& Robert Morris Tournament^ Pitt Invitational Tournament

2008 Game-by-Game Results Team Record

Attendance

Standings

Team Game Highs

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PITT SCORING RECORDS

Goals

NAME NO. YEAR 1. Bob Cherry .......................... 18 .............. 1955 2. John D’Amato ..................... 16 ..............1954 3. Robert Cuthbert .................. 15 ..............1962 4. Joe Luxbacher ..................... 14 .............. 1972 Jerome Bressanelli .............. 14 .............. 1955 6. Phil Matilla .......................... 12 .............. 1997 Craig Connolly .................... 12 .............. 1977 Joe Luxbacher ..................... 12 .............. 1973 Robert Cuthbert .................. 12 .............. 1961 10. Joe Luxbacher ......................11 .............. 1971

Assists

NAME NO. YEAR 1. Eric Prex ..............................11 ..............1994 2. Jesus Valencia ..................... 10 .............. 1971 3. David DiEmido ...................... 9 ..............1969 Erik Duff y .............................. 9 .............. 1993 Mark Nigh ............................. 9 .............. 1977 6. Ted Noethling ....................... 8 .............. 1993 Eric Prex ............................... 8 ..............1992 David Reichenbach ............... 8 ..............1962 9. Jason Piombino .................... 7 .............. 1997 10. Spencer Barton ..................... 6 ..............2000 Ben Garry .............................. 6 .............. 1997 Erim Gude ............................. 6 ..............1986 Vic Hugo ............................... 6 ..............1985 George Shimpeno ................. 6 ..............1962

Points NAME POINTS YEAR 1. Bob Cherry ......................... 36 (18G) ....... 1955 2. Rob Cuthbert ...............32 (15G, 2A) .......1962 John D’Amato ....................32 (16G) .......1954 4. Joe Luxbacher .............. 31 (14G, 3A) ....... 1972 5. Erik Duff y .................... 29 (10G, 9A) ....... 1993 Joe Luxbacher ............. 29 (12G, 5A) ....... 1973 7. Eric Prex ..................... 28 (10G, 8A) .......1992 J. Bressanelli ..................... 28 (14G) ....... 1955 9. Phil Matilla .................. 26 (12G, 2A) ....... 1997 Eric Prex ..................... 26 (8G, 11A) .......1994 R. Cuthbert ................. 26 (12G, 2A) ....... 1961

Goals

NAME NO. OPPONENT 1. Joe Luxbacher .........7 ............... Edinboro, 1971 2. Robert Cherry .........5 .......................N/A, 1955 3. Eric Tiedtke .............4 ........ Robert Morris, 1982 Craig Connolly ........4 ....................... YSU, 1977 Joe Luxbacher .........4 .................Geneva, 1973 John White ..............4 .......Slippery Rock, 1969 Ray Tarasi................4 .......... Lock Haven, 1961 J. Bressanelli ...........4 ............Ind. Teach., 1955 John D’Amato .........4 ........... Ind. Teach., 1954

Assists NAME NO. OPPONENT 1. Mark Nigh ...............4 ................ Gannon, 1978 2. Ben Garry ................3..............California, 1998 Mark Nigh ...............3........... Carn.Mellon, 1977 Mark Nigh ...............3.......................YSU, 1977 Dave Reichenbach .....3......... West Virginia, 1962 Alberto Sichel .........3........ Slippery Rock, 1961 6. Several (59)* ...........2 *Most recently: 2, E.J. McCormick vs. Connecti-cut (10/28/08).

Points

NAME POINTS OPPONENT 1. Joe Luxbacher 15 (7G, A) Edinboro, 1971 2. Robert Cherry 10 (5G) N/A, 1955 3. Eric Tiedtke 9 (4G, A) RMC, 1982 4. Craig Connolly 8 (4G) YSU, 1977 Alan Jutca 8 (3G, 2A) Point Park, ‘75 Joe Luxbacher 8 (4G) Geneva, 1973 John White 8 (4G) SRU, 1969 Ray Tarasi 8 (4G) LHU, 1961 J. Bressanelli 8 (4G) Ind. Tchrs., 1955 John D’Amato 8 (4G) Ind. Tchrs., 1954

Goals

NAME NO. YEAR(S) 1. Joe Luxbacher .......................37 ...........1971-73 2. Robert Cuthbert ................... 30 ..........1960-62 3. Eric Prex .............................. 29 ..........1991-94 4. George Shimpeno ................ 24 ..........1962-64 Eric Tiedtke .......................... 24 .......... 1979-82 Keeyan Young ........................ 24 ..........2002-06 7. Drew Kopp ........................... 22 ..........1995-98 Jerome Bressanelli ............... 22 .......... 1955-57 9. Dean Astorino ...................... 21 ..........1992-96 10. Dave Reichenbach ................ 20 ..........1962-64 11. Ben Garry ............................. 18 ..........1997-00 Ted Noethling ...................... 18 ..........1990-93 Bob Cherry ........................... 18 ............... 1955 Sammy Hazou ..................... 18 .......... 1955-57

Assists

NAME NO. YEARS 1. Eric Prex .............................. 26 ..........1991-94 2. Mark Nigh ............................ 14 .......... 1975-78 Dave Reichenbach ............... 14 ..........1962-64 4. Erik Duff y ..............................13 ..........1990-93 Ted Noethling .......................13 ..........1990-93 Jesus Valencia .......................13 .......... 1969-71 7. Ben Garry ............................. 12 ..........1997-00 Drew Kopp ........................... 12 ..........1995-98 Scott Alexander ................... 12 ..........1989-92 10. Jason Piombino ....................11 ..........1994-97 J.R. Perdue ............................11 ..........1989-92 John Curley ...........................11 ...........1972-75 George Shimpeno .................11 ..........1962-64 Keeyan Young .......................11 ..........2002-06

Points

NAME NO. YEARS 1. Eric Prex .............................. 84 ..........1991-94 Joe Luxbacher ...................... 84 ...........1971-73 3. Bob Cuthbert ....................... 67 ..........1960-62 4. George Shimpeno ................ 59 ..........1962-64 Keeyan Young ...................... 59 ..........2002-06 5. Drew Kopp ........................... 57 ..........1995-98 Eric Tiedtke .......................... 57 .......... 1979-82 8. Dave Reichenbach .................. 54 ..........1962-64 9. Jerome Bressanelli ............... 52 .......... 1955-57 10. Dean Astorino ...................... 51 ..........1992-96 11.Ted Noethling ........................ 49 ..........1990-93

Bob Cherry set the school record for points in a season with 36 in 1955.

Eric Prex tied the school record for career points with 84 in 1991-94.Joe Luxbacher still holds the school record for

career goals (37) set from 1971-73.

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PITT GOALKEEPING RECORDS

Shutouts

NAME SO YEAR 1. Adam Spitzer .................10 ...................1992 Dave Torrence ................10 ...................1985 3. Mark Hendricks ...............9 ....................1986 4. Chris Hanlon ...................7 .................... 1997 Adam Spitzer ..................7 ....................19956. Ronald Goga ...................6 .................... 1957 Dave Torrence .................6 ....................1983 Tim Sobelman ................6 ....................1991 Adam Spitzer ..................6 ....................1996 Justin Gaul ......................6 ....................1999 Justin Gaul ......................6 ....................2002

Wins

NAME WINS GP YEAR 1. Adam Spitzer ...............14 ........ 21 ........1995 2. Justin Gaul ...................13 ........ 18 ........2000 3. Adam Spitzer ...............12 .........17 ........1992 4. Dave Torrence ..............11 .........17 ........1985 5. Mark Hendricks ............10 .........17 ........1986 6. Chris Hanlon ................ 9 ......... 18 ........ 1997 Dave Torrence .............. 9 ......... 20 ........1983 8. Adam Spitzer ............... 8 ..........17 ........1996 Dave Torrence .............. 8 ......... 15 ........1984 Scott Thunberg ............ 8 ......... 15 ........ 1981 Kerry Krause ................ 8 ......... 11 ........ 1970 Ronald Goga ................ 8 ......... 10 ........ 1957 Justin Gaul ................... 8 ......... 18 ........2002

Least Goals Against(minimum seven starts)

NAME GA GP YEAR 1. Tim Sobelman ............. 5 .......... 7 .........1990 2. Lou Cepanec ................ 6 .......... 9 .........1965 3. Jordan Marks ................7 ......... 10 ........2008 4. Jay Kapusta ................. 8 .......... 8 .........1988 5. Jay Bonessi ..................10 ......... 8 ......... 1978 Tom Staab ...................10 ........ 10 ........1963 7. Kirk Brodows ...............11 ........ 11 ........1993 Bill Haines ....................11 ........ 12 ........ 1972 Kerry Krause ................11 ........ 11 ........ 1970 10. Adam Spitzer ...............12 .........17 ........1992 Mark Robertson ...........12 ......... 7 ......... 1979

Shutouts

NAME SO YEARS1. Adam Spitzer ...................25 .......... 1992-962. Dave Torrence ..................23 ...........1982-853. Justin Gaul .......................19 .......... 1999-024. Frank Bucci ......................14 ............1974-77 5. Chris Hanlon .................... 11 ...........1995-98 Tim Sobelman ................. 11 ...........1988-91 Mark Hendricks ................ 11 .......... 1986-888. Jay Kapusta .....................10 ...........1987-90 Scott Thunberg ................10 ........... 1978-81 10. Tom Staab ........................9 ...........1961-63

Wins

NAME WINS YEARS 1. Adam Spitzer ...................38 .......... 1992-96 2. Justin Gaul .......................32 .......... 1999-02 3. Dave Torrence .................. 31 ...........1982-85 4. Frank Bucci ......................19 ............1974-77 Tom Staab .......................19 ...........1961-63 6. Scott Thunberg ................18 ........... 1978-81 7. Mark Hendricks ................15 .......... 1986-88 8. Kirk Brodows ...................14 ...........1991-94 Jay Kapusta .....................14 ...........1987-90 Ronald Goga ....................14 ...........1956-58

Lowest Goals-AgainstAverage

(minimum seven starts)

NAME GAA GP YEAR 1. Lou Cepanec .............. 0.66 ....... 9 .........1965 2. Adam Spitzer ............. 0.71 ........17 ........1992 3. Dave Torrence ............ 0.76 .......17 ........1985 4. Jordan Marks ............. 0.87 ...... 10 ........2008 5. Mark Hendricks .......... 0.88 .......17 ........1986 6. Bill Haines .................. 0.92 ...... 12 ........ 1972 7. Kirk Brodows ............. 0.96 ...... 11 ........1993 8. Dave Torrence ............ 1.00 ...... 15 ........1984 Kerry Krause .............. 1.00 ...... 11 ........ 1970 Tom Staab ................. 1.00 ...... 10 ........1963

Saves

NAME NO. YEAR 1. Frank Bucci ...................143 .................. 1975 2. Ronald Goga .................115 ..................1958 3. Adam Spitzer ................114 ..................1995 4. Bill Haines .....................109 .................. 1973 5. Tom Staab ....................108 ..................1961 6. Scott Thunberg .............103 .................. 1981 7. Frank Bucci ...................102 .................. 1974 Bill Haines .....................102 .................. 1972 9. Len Harmon ...................98 ...................1968 Adam Spitzer .................98 ...................1996 Justin Gaul .....................98 ...................2001

Kirk Brodows holds the lowest career goals-against average in school history.

Adam Spitzer holds four school records for shutouts and wins.Ad S it h ld f h l d

Least Goals Against(minimum 25 starts)

NAME GA GP YEARS 1. Tim Sobelman ...............31 ....... 27 .........1988-91 2. Bill Haines .....................35 ....... 25 ..........1972-73 3. Chris Hanlon ................ 42 ....... 32 .........1997-984. Kirk Brodows ................43 ....... 40 .........1991-945. Justin Lowery ................51 ....... 31 .........2002-056. Tom Staab ....................53 ....... 31 ......... 1961-637. Jordan Marks ............... 54 ....... 34 .........2005-088.. Ronald Goga ................ 56 ....... 30 .........1956-589. Jay Kapusta ...................57 ....... 38 ......... 1987-9010. Dave Torrence .............. 68 ....... 55 .........1982-85

Lowest Goals-AgainstAverage

(minimum 15 games played)

NAME GAA GP YEAR 1. Kirk Brodows .............. 1.08 ..... 40 .........1991-94 2. Tim Sobelman ............. 1.15 ...... 27 .........1988-91 3. Dave Torrence ............. 1.23 ...... 55 .........1982-85 4. Adam Spitzer .............. 1.24 ..... 66 .........1992-96 5. Kerry Krause ............... 1.25 ...... 16 .........1969-70 6. Justin Gaul .................. 1.29 ..... 70 .........1999-02 7. Chris Hanlon ............... 1.30 ...... 18 .........1995-98 8. Bill Haines ................... 1.40 ..... 25 ..........1972-73 9. Jay Kapusta ................. 1.50...... 38 ......... 1987-90 10. Justin Lowery .............. 1.57 ...... 31 .........2002-05

Saves

NAME NO. YEARS1. Frank Bucci .....................390 ...........1974-772. Justin GauL ..................... 363 ..........1999-023. Adam Spitzer .................. 339 ..........1992-964. Scott Thunberg ...............300 .......... 1978-815. Tom Staab ......................243 .......... 1961-636. Bill Haines ....................... 211 ...........1972-73 7. Ronald Goga ................... 207 .......... 1956-58 8. Dave Torrence .................198 .......... 1982-859. Kirk Brodows .................. 191 ..........1991-94

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PITT TEAM RECORDS

Games Won14 ................... 1995 .............14-6-113 ................... 2000 .............13-5-012 ................... 1992 .............12-6-111 ....................1985 .............11-3-210 ................... 1986 .............10-5-210 ....................1997 .............10-5-49 ..................... 1994 .............. 9-8-19 ......................1993 .............. 9-5-39 ..................... 1984 .............. 9-6-19 ......................1983 .............9-10-18 ..................... 2002 .............. 8-9-18 ..................... 1996 .............. 8-7-28 ..................... 1989 .............. 8-6-38 ......................1981 .............. 8-7-08 ......................1970 .............. 8-4-08 ......................1957 .............. 8-2-08 ......................1955 .............. 8-4-08 ......................1954 .............. 8-1-0

Games Lost13 ....................2007 ............. 3-13-213 ................... 1982 .............6-13-012 ................... 2005 .............3-12-111 ....................2003 .............6-11-111 ................... 2006 .............5-11-210 ....................1987 .............4-10-110 ....................1983 .............9-10-19 ..................... 2002 .............. 8-9-19 ..................... 1998 .............. 6-9-38 ..................... 2008 ...............7-8-38 ..................... 2004 .............. 6-8-38 ......................2001 .............. 6-8-38 ..................... 1994 .............. 9-8-18 ..................... 1990 .............. 7-8-28 ..................... 1988 .............. 6-8-18 ..................... 1980 .............. 7-8-08 ......................1979 .............. 5-8-28 ......................1978 .............. 6-8-08 ......................1973 .............. 5-8-1

Games Tied4 ......................1997 .............10-5-44 ......................1991 .............. 6-7-43 ..................... 2008 ...............7-8-33 ..................... 2004 .............. 6-8-33 ......................2001 .............. 6-8-33 ..................... 1999 ...............7-9-33 ..................... 1998 .............. 6-9-33 ......................1993 .............. 9-5-33 ..................... 1989 .............. 8-6-3

2 ..................... 1996 .............. 8-7-22 ..................... 1990 .............. 7-8-22 ..................... 1986 .............10-5-22 ......................1985 .............11-3-22 ......................1979 .............. 5-8-22 ......................1974 .............. 4-6-22 ......................1972 .............. 6-4-22 ......................1971 ...............7-3-22 ......................1967 .............. 2-7-22 ..................... 1962 .............. 7-2-22 ..................... 1956 .............. 3-5-22 ..................... 2006 .............5-11-22 ......................2007 ............. 3-13-2

Most Goals Scored55 ....................1955 .............. 8-4-043 ....................1971 ...............7-3-242 ....................1997 .............10-5-242 ....................1993 .............. 9-5-342 ....................1983 .............9-10-138 ................... 1992 .............12-6-138 ................... 1986 ............10-5-237 ................... 1994 .............. 9-8-137 ....................1985 .............11-4-237 ................... 1962 .............. 7-2-234 ................... 2000 .............13-5-032 ................... 1995 .............14-6-131 ................... 1982 .............6-13-031 ................... 1969 ...............5-5-1

Fewest Goals Scored8 ......................1967 ............. 2-7-212 ....................1979 .............5-8-212 ................... 1968 ............. 3-7-115 ................... 1988 .............6-8-115 ....................1958 ............. 3-7-016 ................... 1956 ............. 3-5-216 ....................2007 ............3-13-217 ....................1975 ............. 5-7-217 ................... 1966 .............4-6-117 ................... 2005 ........... 3-12-118 ................... 2008 ............. 7-8-318 ................... 1959 ............. 6-3-118 ....................1957 .............8-2-019 ....................1965 ............. 7-2-119 ................... 2006 ........... 5-11-2

Most Opponent Goals39 ................... 2005 ........... 3-12-1 38 ....................2007 ............3-13-2

35 ....................2003 ........... 6-11-134 ................... 1994 .............9-8-132 ................... 1980 ............. 7-8-030 ....................1981 ............. 8-7-029 ................... 2004 .............6-8-329 ....................1971 ............. 7-3-229 ................... 1998 .............6-9-328 ....................1987 ........... 4-10-127 ....................1974 .............4-6-227 ................... 2006 ........... 5-11-226 ................... 1989 .............8-6-326 ....................1976 ............. 4-7-225 ....................2001 .............6-8-325 ....................1975 ............. 5-7-2

Fewest Opponent Goals10 ....................1965 ............. 7-2-110 ....................1954 .............8-1-013 ....................1985 ........... 11-4-213 ................... 1959 ............ 6-3-115 ................... 1986 ........... 10-5-215 ....................1970 .............8-4-016 ................... 1984 .............9-6-116 ................... 1969 ............. 5-5-116 ....................1963 .............5-5-016 ....................1957 .............8-2-0

Most Assists41 ................... 1994 .............. 9-8-136 ....................1993 .............. 9-5-332 ....................1997 .............10-5-430 ....................1971 ...............7-3-229 ................... 1992 .............12-6-128 ....................1977 ............... 7-7-126 ................... 1962 .............. 6-2-225 ................... 1989 .............. 8-6-324 ................... 1998 .............. 6-9-323 ................... 2000 .............13-5-023 ................... 1986 .............10-5-222 ....................1991 .............. 6-7-422 ....................1978 .............. 6-8-121 ....................1961 ..................4-7

Most Points120 ..................1993 .............. 9-5-3116 ..................1997 .............10-5-4115 ................. 1994 .............. 9-8-1114 ..................1977 ............... 7-7-1114 ..................1971 ...............7-3-2

The 1957 team recorded six shutouts in eight victories. The 1995 team set the school record with 14 wins.

110 ..................1955 ................. 8-4106 ................. 1992 .............12-6-1100 ................. 1962 .............. 6-2-299 ................... 1986 .............10-5-291 ................... 2000 .............13-5-082 ....................1978 .............. 6-8-182 ................... 1995 .............14-6-182 ................... 1998 .............. 6-9-378 ....................1991 .............. 6-7-476 ....................1973 .............. 5-8-176 ................... 1969 ...............5-5-1

Most Shutouts10 ................... 1992 .............12-6-110 ....................1985 .............11-4-29 ..................... 1986 .............10-5-28 ..................... 1990 .............. 7-8-28 ......................1997 .............10-5-47 ..................... 2002 .............. 8-9-17 ..................... 1995 .............14-6-16 ..................... 2008 ...............7-8-36 ......................2003 .............6-11-16 ..................... 1999 ...............7-9-36 ..................... 1996 .............. 8-7-26 ......................1991 .............. 6-7-46 ......................1983 .............9-10-16 ......................1957 .............. 8-2-05 ..................... 2000 .............13-5-05 ..................... 1984 .............. 9-6-15 ..................... 1982 .............6-13-05 ......................1979 .............. 5-8-25 ......................1978 .............. 6-8-05 ......................1970 .............. 8-4-05 ..................... 2006 .............5-11-2

Most Shutout Wins10 ................... 1992 .............12-6-19 ......................1985 .............11-4-28 ..................... 1986 .............10-5-27 ..................... 1995 .............14-6-16 ..................... 2002 .............. 8-9-16 ..................... 1996 .............. 8-7-26 ..................... 1990 .............. 7-8-26 ......................1983 .............9-10-16 ......................1957 .............. 8-2-05 ..................... 2008 ...............7-8-35 ..................... 2000 .............13-5-05 ......................1997 .............10-5-45 ......................1991 .............. 6-7-45 ..................... 1984 .............. 9-6-1

The 1995 team set the school record with 14 winsThe 1957 team recorded six shutouts in eight victories.

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MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS

Most Wins: 14 (1995)Most Losses: 13 (1982, 2007)Most Ties: 4 (1991, 1997)Best Winning Percentage: .722 (2000: 13-5-0)Most Overtime Games: 6 (2001, 2004,2007,2008)Most Overtime Wins: 2 (1989, 1993, 1994,

2001,2007,2008)Most Overtime Losses: 2 (1987, 1988, 1998, 1999,

2004,2006,2007)Most Overtime Ties: 4 (1991, 1997)All-time Record in Overtime: 21-17-31Most Goals: 55 (1955)Fewest Goals: 8 (1967)Most Opponent Goals: 39 (2005)Fewest Opponent Goals: 10 (1965)Most Points: 120 (1993)Most Opponent Points: 109 (2005)Most Assists: 41 (1994)Most Opponent Assists: 27 (2004)Most Shots: 291 (2000)Most Opponent Shots: 256 (2003)Most Fouls: 370 (1999)Most Opponent Fouls: 380 (1995)Most Corner Kicks: 105 (2000)Most Opponent Corner Kicks: 110 (2002)Most Saves: 242 (1975)Most Opponent Saves: 178 (1965)Most Shutouts: 10 (1992)Most Opponent Shutouts: 9 (1998, 1999)

Games Won: 7 (1957, 1992, 1995)Games Won at Home: 7 (1969-70) Games Won Away: 6 (2000)Games without a Loss: 12 (1996-97)Games without a Loss at Home: 9 (1971-72) Games without a Loss Away: 9 (1996-97)Games Lost: 7 (2005-2006)Games Lost at Home: 6 (2005)Games Lost Away: 8 (1975-77)Games without a Win: 10 (1987)Games without a Win at Home: 8 (2005-06)Games without a Win Away: 13 (2003-05)Shutouts: 6 (1996-97)

Most Goals: 10 vs. Denison, 1955, W 10-0 vs. Edinboro, Oct. 31 1971, W 10-0 at Youngstown St., Nov. 2 1985, W 10-0 vs. Youngstown St., Oct. 15 1986, W 10-0Most Opponent Goals: 10 vs. Penn State, 1957,

L 10-1Most Goals in a Half: 8 vs. Gannon, Oct. 17, 1978Most Opponent Goals in a Half: 7 at Temple, Oct. 2, 1976Most Fouls: 37 vs. Notre Dame, Aug. 29, 1997Most Opponent Fouls: 33 at Robert Morris, Sept. 2, 1995Most Corner Kicks: 12 vs. Cincinnati, Nov. 12, 2006 vs. Connecticut, Sept. 22, 2000 vs. Gannon, Nov. 3, 1973 vs. Slippery Rock, Nov. 2, 1971Most Opponent Corner Kicks: 14 at Connecticut, Oct. 17, 1993 vs. Temple, Sept. 28, 1979 at West Virginia, Nov. 8, 1975Most Saves: 30 at Penn State, Nov. 15, 1975Most Opponent Saves: 32 at Ohio University, Oct. 23, 1965Fastest Goal: 31 seconds, Craig Connolly vs. Youngstown, Oct. 14, 1977Highest Combined Score: 11 vs. Penn State, 1957, L 10-1 at Penn State, Sept. 27 1983, L 8-3

Billy Brush .................................. Nov. 2, 2003 vs. Syracuse .........................Result: W 3-2

Spencer Barton ......................Sept. 29, 2000 at Notre Dame ....................Result: W 3-2

Phil Matilla ................................ Nov. 4, 1997 vs. California (PA) ................Result: W 7-0

Eric Prex ................................. Sept. 11, 1994 vs. SUNY Buff alo..................Result: W 4-3

Jeff Porter ................................. Oct. 6, 1993 vs. Marshall..........................Result: W 3-0

Eric Duff y ................................. Oct. 27, 1993 at Grove City ........................ Result: W 7-1

Nick Liberati .............................. Oct. 9, 1991 vs. Slippery Rock ..................Result: W 5-0

Craig Connolly ............................Oct. 4, 1978 vs. Gannon ...........................Result: W 9-0

Craig Connolly ........................... Nov. 6, 1977 vs. West Virginia ...................Result: W 3-2

Craig Connolly .......................... Oct. 14, 1977 vs. Youngstown State ...........Result: W 8-0

Joe Luxbacher (4 goals) ............. Sept. 8, 1973 vs. Geneva ...........................Result: W 9-0

Joe Luxbacher ...........................Oct. 28, 1972 vs. Edinboro .........................Result: W 5-1

Joe Luxbacher ........................... Oct. 14, 1972 vs. Grove City .......................Result: W 5-1

Joe Luxbacher (7 goals) ............. Oct. 31, 1971 vs. Edinboro .......................Result: W 10-0

John White .............................. Ovt. 28, 1969 vs. Kent State ......................Result: W 7-2

John White ................................Nov. 4, 1969 vs. Slippery Rock ..................Result: W 8-2

Jerome Bressanelli (4 goals) ...................1955 vs. Indiana Teachers .............Result: W 9-0

Shutout: Oct. 5, 2008 vs Marquette, W 1-0

Opponent Shutout: Nov. 1, 2008 at Providence, L 0-3

10 Team Saves: Oct. 18, 2008 vs. Georgetown, L 0-1

10 Team Goals: Oct. 30, 1971 vs. Edinboro, W 10-0

Hat Trick: Billy Brush Nov. 2, 2003 at Syracuse, W 3-2

Two Hat Tricks (Season): Craig Connolly, 1977 Oct. 14, 1977 vs. Youngstown, W 8-0 Nov. 6, 1977 vs. West Virginia, W 3-2

(left): Spencer Barton scored a hat trick for Pitt against Notre Dame on Sept. 29, 2000.(left):Notre

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Hat Trick History

(left): Jordan Marks recorded the Panthers’ last shutout vs. Marquette on Oct. 5, 2008.

(above): Jeff Porter recorded a hat trick for Pitt against Marshall on Oct. 6, 1993.

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ANNUAL TEAM LEADERS

YEAR NAME ASSISTS

1954 Not Available1955 Not Available1956 Jerome Bressanelli 51957 Jerome Bressanelli 31958 Fernando Fabregas 31959 Edwardo Giraldo 41960 Peter Smith ........................41961 Paul Liberati .......................41962 David Reichenbach ............81963 Eugene Balkovec ................2 David Reichenbach ............2 George Shimpeno ..............2 Aldo Zortea ........................21964 David Reichenbach ............41965 Dominico Millilo .................3 David Shaff er .....................31966 Al Traunsteiner ...................3 Shelton Zvoma ..................31967 Gary Foertsch .................11968 Robert Trexler ................ 21969 David DiEmido .............. 91970 Ali Rdissi .........................3 Jesus Valencia.................31971 Jesus Valencia...............101972 Ray Rex ......................... 41973 Joe Luxbacher ................51974 John Curley .....................3 William Rex ....................31975 John Curley .................... 41976 Randy Gyory ...................1 Marty Moyer ..................1 Tom Murphy ...................1 Mark Nigh ......................1 Todd Wawrousek ............1 Alfredo Woodman ..........11977 Mark Nigh ..................... 91978 Mark Nigh ..................... 4 Jeff Tissue ...................... 41979 Al Adelmann .................. 2 Olabode Anise ............... 2 Bob Hughes ................... 2

YEAR NAME GOALS

1954 John D’Amato 161955 Bob Cherry 181956 Sammy Hazou 51957 Jerome Bressanelli 61958 Fernando Fabregas 51959 Simeon Pestich 61960 Edmund Weihrauch 61961 Robert Cuthbert 121962 Robert Cuthbert 151963 David Reichenbach 9 George Shimpeno 91964 George Shimpeno 71965 David Shaff er 51966 Bob Racunas 41967 Dave Shimpeno 41968 Tsima Lekoma 41969 John White 91970 Ali Rdissi 61971 Joe Luxbacher 111972 Joe Luxbacher 141973 Joe Luxbacher 121974 John Curley 51975 Alan Jutca 91976 Rich Roccon 31977 Craig Connolly 121978 Karl Nigh 51979 Jeff Tissue 51980 Eric Tiedtke 71981 Eric Tiedtke 81982 Eric Tiedtke 71983 Bob Howard 61984 Rick Burkholder 51985 Vic Hugo 51986 Mike Grimes 61987 Dave Moss 81988 Heinz Pak 31989 Huy Tran 71990 Huy Tran 51991 Nick Liberati 7 Eric Prex 71992 Eric Prex 101993 Erik Duff y 101994 Eric Prex 81995 Drew Kopp 61996 Keith Hoetzlein 51997 Phil Matilla 121998 Drew Kopp 91999 Ben Garry 72000 Ben Garry 62001 Chris Churchill 62002 Marco Carrizales 82003 Keeyan Young 62004 Keeyan Young 7 Billy Brush 72005 Dwayne Grant Higgins 52006 Matt Baker 3 Keeyan Young 32007 E.J. McCormick 42008 E.J. McCormick 3 Mike McDade 3 Joe Prince-Wright 3 Chris Wilcox 3

YEAR NAME POINTS

1954 John D’Amato 321955 Bob Cherry 361956 Sammy Hazou 121957 Jerome Bressanelli 151958 Fernando Fabregas 131959 Simeon Pestich 131960 Edmund Weinrauch 151961 Robert Cuthbert 261962 Robert Cuthbert 321963 David Reichenbach 20 George Shimpeno 201964 George Shimpeno 171965 David Shaff er 131966 Bob Racunas 101967 Dave Shimpeno 81968 Tsima Lekoma 71969 John White 201970 Ali Rdissi 151971 Joe Luxbacher 241972 Joe Luxbacher 311973 Joe Luxbacher 291974 John Curley 131975 Alan Jutca 201976 Rich Roccon 61977 Craig Connolly 251978 Karl Nigh 12 Jeff Tissue 121979 Jeff Tissue 111980 Eric Tiedtke 171981 Eric Tiedtke 191982 Eric Tiedtke 171983 Bob Howard 121984 Rick Burkholder 121985 Vic Hugo 161986 Erim Gude 161987 Dave Moss 181988 Heinz Pak 81989 Mike Blatz 16 Huy Tran 161990 Huy Tran 131991 Eric Prex 171992 Eric Prex 281993 Erik Duff y 291994 Eric Prex 271995 Drew Kopp 151996 Keith Hoetzlein 111997 Phil Matilla 261998 Drew Kopp 221999 Ben Garry 162000 Spencer Barton 162001 Mark Sikora 142002 Marco Carrizales 162003 Keeyan Young 152004 Keeyan Young 182005 Dwayne Grant Higgins 102006 Matt Baker 92007 E.J. McCormick 92008 E.J. McCormick 11

1980 Al Adelmann ...................3 Troy Norton ....................3 Eric Tiedtke ....................31981 John Hagenbuch.............3 Eric Tiedtke ....................31982 Not Available1983 Rick Burkholder ............. 41984 Tom Foley ..................... 41985 Vic Hugo........................ 61986 Erim Gude ..................... 61987 Mike Grimes .................. 41988 Marc Mostincky ..............31989 Scott Alexander ..............51990 J.R. Perdue .....................3 Huy Tran .........................31991 J.R. Perdue .................... 41992 Eric Prex ........................ 81993 Erik Duff y ...................... 91994 Eric Prex ....................... 111995 Keith Hoetzlein...............3 Drew Kopp .....................3 Travis Kruse ....................31996 Drew Kopp .....................3 Jason Piombino ..............31997 Jason Piombino ..............71998 Spencer Barton ..............51999 Ben Garry ...................... 2 Chad Porter ................... 2 Spencer Barton ............. 2 Reagan Bender .............. 22000 Spencer Barton ............. 62001 Bryan Hopper ................ 4 Mark Sikora ................... 42002 Bryan Hopper .................3 Keeyan Young .................32003 Keeyan Young .................3 Brian Madden ................. 32004 Keeyan Young .................42005 Steve Cavalier.................42006 Matt Langton .................42007 Ryan Brode..................... 32008 E.J. McCormick ............... 5

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BIG EAST HONORS

Charles Wasson1993 All-Big East Second Team

Jeff Porter1995 All-Big East Second Team

Ben Garry1997 All Rookie Team, 2000 All-Big East Second Team

Joe Luxbacher1992 & 1995 Coach of the Year

Phil MatillaOff ensive Player of the WeekSept. 15, 1997

Eric PrexOff ensive Player ofthe WeekSept. 12, 1994

Adam SpitzerDefensive Player ofthe WeekNov. 4, 1996Oct. 2, 1995Sept. 14, 1992

Since the Pitt men’s soccer team began play in the Big East Conference in 1985, a number of players have been recognized for their eff orts on the fi eld. Former goalkeeper Adam Spitzer became the fi rst Panther to ever earn conference Player of the Week honors in 1992. Former goalkeeper Justin Gaul is the only player to receive four weekly honors in his career. Gaul, along with Keeyan Young are the only two Panthers to earn Big East Player of the Week honors twice in the same season. Young is also the only player in school history to be named as a Rookie of the Week. Mark Sikora earned his only Big East weekly honor on Nov. 5 of 2001. Head Coach Joe Luxbacher is a two-time Big East Coach of the Year honoree, while fi ve other Panthers have earned postseason accolades from the Big East. Charles Wasson, Jeff Porter, Ben Garry, Chris Churchill and Gaul garnered all-conference (second team and third team) honors and Garry was named to the All-Rookie team in 1997.

Justin GaulGoalkeeper of the WeekSept. 11, 2000Oct. 9, 2000Oct. 15, 2001Oct. 7, 2002

Keeyan YoungOff ensive Player of the WeekOct. 13, 2003

Rookie of the WeekSept. 9, 2002Oct. 7, 2002

Mark SikoraOff ensive Player ofthe WeekNov. 5, 2001

All-Big East Conference Honors (since1985):1993-Charlie Wasson (2nd team)1995-Jeff Porter (2nd team)1997-Ben Garry (Rookie Team)2000- Chris Churchill (2nd Team) Ben Garry (2nd Team)2002- Justin Gaul (3rd Team)2003-Keeyan Young (2nd Team)2004-Keeyan Young (2nd Team)

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Big East Player of

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BIG EAST ACADEMIC HONORS

1986-87 Brian Casey

1987-88 Kurt Weber

1988-89 Jon Ascher Dan Cuddy Matt Segedy

1989-90 Al Lopus Marc Mostincky

1990-91 Roberto Croce Al Lopus

1991-92 Mark Brehm Al Lopus Don Overmier

1992-93 Michael Bacasa Brian Pellegrino Jason Tatka

1993-94 John Lopus Charles Wasson

1994-95 John Lopus Charles Wasson

Since the Pitt men’s soccer team began play in the Big East Conference in 1985, a number of players have been recognized for their eff orts in the classroom. In the 1986-87 season, the innaugural season for the Big East Academic All-Stars, only Brian Casey received recognition for his academic excellence. Since it’s inception, the Panthers have col-lected a total of 102 Big East Academic All-Star honors. Each member of the Academic All-Stars must achieve a 3.0 G.P.A. as well as letter to be eligible for nomination. Tim Montgomery, Nate Montgomery, Jacob Kring and Tyler Bastianelli are the only four Pitt players selected to the Big East Academic All-Star honors for four consecutive seasons. Al Lopus, Reagan Bender, Keith Blass, Tom De-Cato, Miles Dowiak, Matt Langton, Pat Kerr and Matt Baker have earned three Academic All-Star honors. The 2008-09 men’s soccer team fi nished with 10 Big East Academic All-Stars, tying the 99-00 and 2006-07 teams for most selections in a season since the inception of the team 21 years ago.

1995-96 J.L. Gorsin Steve Hopper Charlie Kotuby

1996-97 Reagan Bender Drew Kopp Jason Piombino

1997-98 Keith Blass Tim Montgomery

1998-99 Reagan Bender Keith Blass Tim Montgomery

1999-00 Reagan Bender Keith Blass Miles Dowiak Tim Montgomery Nate Montgomery Jorge Rivera Jason Smathers Peter Veltri Toure Weaver Josh Whitham

2000-01 Ryan Costic Miles Dowiak Nate Montgomery Tim Montgomery Jorge Rivera

Peter Veltri Brian Watson Toure Weaver Josh Whitham

2001-02 Mike Doe Miles Dowiak Jacob Kring Nate Montgomery Jorge Rivera Toure Weaver Josh Whitham

2002-03 Tom DeCato Mike Doe Miles Dowiak Jacob Kring Nate Montgomery

2003-04 Tyler Bastianelli Tom DeCato Jacob Kring

2004-05 Tom DeCato Tyler Bastianelli Jacob Kring

2005-06 Tyler Bastianelli Chris Bastidas Tom DeCato Pat Kerr Matt Langton

Sean Ryan Brendon Smith Greg Wilcox

2006-07Samuli AholaMatt BakerTyler BastianelliChris BastidasMatt DetzelMatt FirsterEric JaegerPat KerrMatt LangtonBrendon Smith

2007-08Matt BakerJustin BoehmAndy KalasPat KerrMatt LangtonZach MatthewsMarshall Stula2008-2009Wils AlpernMatt BakerJustin BoehmMorgan FaustShane FlowersAndy KalasConnor MaloneAdam MonteverdeJoe Prince-WrightChris Wilcox

Al Lopus Reagan Bender Keith Blass Miles Dowiak Tom DeCato

NateMontgomery

TimMontgomery

JacobKring

TylerBastianelli

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Matt BakerMatt Baker

Four-Year Big East Academic All-Stars

Three-Year Big East Academic All-Stars

Big East Academic All-Stars

Matt LangtonMatt Langton Pat Kerr

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COACHING RECORDS

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Year Coach Record 1954 Leo Bemis 8-1-0 1955 Leo Bemis 8-4-0 1956 Leo Bemis 3-5-2 1957 Leo Bemis 8-2-0 1958 Leo Bemis 3-8-0 1959 Leo Bemis 6-3-1 1960 Leo Bemis 5-5-1 1961 Leo Bemis 6-4-1 1962 Leo Bemis 7-2-2 1963 Leo Bemis 6-5-0 1964 Leo Bemis 5-5-0 1965 Leo Bemis 7-2-1 1966 Leo Bemis 4-5-2 1967 Leo Bemis 2-7-2 1968 Leo Bemis 3-7-1 1969 Leo Bemis 5-5-1 1970 Leo Bemis 8-4-0 1971 Leo Bemis 7-3-2 1972 Leo Bemis 6-4-2 1973 Leo Bemis 5-9-0 1974 Leo Bemis 4-6-2 1975 Leo Bemis 5-7-2 1976 Leo Bemis 4-7-2 1977 Leo Bemis 7-7-1 1978 Leo Bemis 6-8-0 1979 Leo Bemis 4-9-2 1980 Leo Bemis 7-8-0 1981 Leo Bemis 8-7-0 1982 Leo Bemis 6-13-0 1983 Leo Bemis 9-10-1 1984 Joe Luxbacher 9-6-1 1985 Joe Luxbacher 11-4-2 1986 Joe Luxbacher 10-5-2 1987 Joe Luxbacher 4-10-1 1988 Joe Luxbacher 6-8-1 1989 Joe Luxbacher 8-6-3 1990 Joe Luxbacher 7-8-2 1991 Joe Luxbacher 6-7-4 1992 Joe Luxbacher 12-6-1 1993 Joe Luxbacher 9-5-3 1994 Joe Luxbacher 9-8-1 1995 Joe Luxbacher 14-6-1 1996 Joe Luxbacher 8-7-2 1997 Joe Luxbacher 10-5-4 1998 Joe Luxbacher 6-9-3 1999 Joe Luxbacher 7-9-3 2000 Joe Luxbacher 13-5-0 2001 Joe Luxbacher 6-8-3 2002 Joe Luxbacher 8-9-1 2003 Joe Luxbacher 6-11-1 2004 Joe Luxbacher 6-8-3 2005 Joe Luxbacher 3-12-1 2006 Joe Luxbacher 5-11-2 2007 Joe Luxbacher 3-13-2 2008 Joe Luxbacher 7-8-3 All-Time Record 365-366-78

NOW...

THEN...

J1Year-By-Year Coaching Records Pitt’s Two Head Coaches

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PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Reagen Bender Hershey Wildcats (A-League - 2001-02)

Frank Bucci Hartford (ASL) Denver (MISL) Pittsburgh Spirit (MISL - 1978-80)

Ben Garry Pittsburgh Riverhounds (A-League -2001- 02)

Bill Haines Pittsburgh Miners (MISL - 1975)

Denny Kohlmeyer Pittsburgh Miners (ASL - 1975) Pittsburgh Stingers, Asst. Coach (CISL -1994-95)

Drew Kopp Hershey Wildcats (A-League - 1999-01)

Travis Kruse Pittsburgh Riverhounds (A-League - 2000-01)

Joe Luxbacher Philadelphia Atoms (NASL - 1974-75) Pittsburgh Miners (ASL - 1975-76) Pittsburgh Spirit (MISL - 1979-81)

Phil Matilla Reading Rage (A-League - 2001)

Ted Noethling Pittsburgh Stingers (CISL - 1994)

John O’Hara Pennsylvania Stoners (ASL - 1978) Pittsburgh Spirit (MISL - 1979-81) Cleveland Force (NASL - 1980-81)

Heinz Pak Pittsburgh Stingers (CISL - 1994)

Eric Prex Pittsburgh Stingers (CISL - 1995)

Bill Rex Pittsburgh Miners (ASL - 1975)

Art Richardson Pittsburgh Canons (ASL - 1973) Pittsburgh Miners (ASL - 1975)

Todd Smith Fort Wayne (AISA - 1988) Harrisburg Heat (NPSL - 1993)

KEY: ASL-American Soccer League, NASL- North American Soccer League, MISL-Major Indoor Soccer League, AISA-American Indoor Soccer Association, CISL-Continental Indoor Soccer League, NPSL-National Professional Soccer League.

Joe Luxbacher played seven years of professional soccer for the Philadelphia Atoms, Pittsburgh Miners and Pittsburgh Spirit.J L b h l d f f i l f th Phil d l hi At

Reagan Bender played two professional seasons for the Hershey Wildcats.

Ted Noethling and Eric Prex as members of the Pittsburgh Stingers.

Panthers In The Pros

Ben Garry played two seasons for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds (2001 and 2002).

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PITT ALL‐AMERICANS

George Sommer(1965)

Dave Reichenbach(1963)

Ronald Wyatt(1958-59)

Paul Liberati(1962)

George Zanicoupolous(1959)

JEROME BRESSANELLIhalfback (1955-56)

• Two-time All-American (1955 and 1956).

• Member of All Pa., N.J., Del. Team in 1956.

• Led Panthers in Goals in 1957.• Twice led Panthers in assists 1956,

1957.• Led Pittsburgh in Points in 1957.• Third All-time Goals in a Game (4

goals).• Fourth All time (goals/season) 14

goals 1955.• Sixth Career Goals (22).• Seventh Points in a Season (28).• Eighth in Points in a career (52).

Jerome Bressanelli(1955-56)

RONALD WYATTfullback (1958-59)

• Two time All-American (1958-59).

• 1959 team captain.• Two time member of the All

Pennsylvania/New Jersey/Delaware Team (1958-59).

DAVE REICHENBACHoutside left (1963)

• All-America selection in 1963.• Two time member of the All Pa.,

N.J., Del. 1963-64. • Team Captain.• Second in Assists (game-4).• Second in Assists (Career-14).• Sixth Assists (Season-8).• Seventh Points (Career-54).• Three year letterman.• Led Pittsburgh in goal production

and points in 1963.• Led team in assists from 1962-64.

GEORGE ZANICOUPOLOUS

goalkeeper (1959)

• All-America Honors in 1959.• Member of the All

Pennsylvania./New Jersey/Delaware Team.

• Posted three shutouts.• Surrendered only 13 goals as

a keeper.

PAUL LIBERATIleft halfback (1962)

• All-America Selection in 1962.

• Two time member of All Pennsylvania/New Jersey/Delaware Team (1961-62).

• Led Panthers to fi rst NCAA tournament berth.

• Led team with four assists in 1961.

GEORGE SOMMERleft halfback (1965)

• All-America selection in 1965.

• Member of the 1965 All Pa., N.J., Del. Team.

• Three year letterman.• Led Panthers its second

NCAA tournament berth.• Led a defense that

surrendered only 10 goals on the season.

George Zanicoupolous

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George Sommer

P l Lib ti

Ronald Wyatt

Pitt’s Men’s Soccer All-Americans

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PITT TEAM MVP’S

Year MVP1994 None1993 Erik Duff y1992 Mike Bacasa1991 Mike Watson1990 Nick Liberati Robert Croce1989 Heinz Pak1988 Scott McCurry1987 David Moss1986 Daniel Liberati1985 David Torrence1984 None1983 None1982 Eric Tiedtke

Year MVP1981 Al Adelmann1980 Eric Tiedtke1979 Tom Liebenguth1978 None1977 Mark Nigh1976 None1975 Frank Bucci1974 None1973 Joe Luxbacher1972 None1971 None1970 None1969 Robert Trexler1968 C. Lekoma

Daniel Liberati1986 MVP

David Torrence1985 MVP

Heinz Pak1989 MVP

Jason Piombino1997 MVP

Jeff Porter1995 MVP

Mike Bacasa1992 MVP

Nick Liberati1990 co-MVP

Robert Croce1990 co-MVP

DavidTorrence

Jason PiombinoJeff PorterJ JaMik B

Nick Liberati Robert Croce

Year MVP1967 Joseph Kruth1966 A. Richardson1965 George Sommer1964 Andrew McGraw1963 Thomas Staab1962 Paul Liberati1961 Stephen Daniels1960 Cal Smith1959 Ronald Wyatt1958 William Eisinger1957 J. Bressanelli1956 Paul Griffi ths1955 Robert Cherry1954 Donald Clark

Year MVP2008 None2007 None2006 Andy Jorgensen2005 Brendon Smith2004 Jacob Kring2003 Clay Hafl ich2002 Justin Gaul2001 Chris Churchill2000 Ben Garry1999 Ben Garry1998 Drew Kopp1997 Jason Piombino1996 None1995 Jeff Porter

Drew Kopp1998 MVP

Eric Duff y1993 MVP

Year-By-Year Most Valuable Players

33

ALL‐TIME LETTERMEN

Hagenbuch, John, 1980-82Hamm, Dan, 1977-80Hammond, Bryan, 1986-88, 90Hanlon, Chris, 1997-98Harley, George, 1961Harmon, Leonard, 1966-68Harrison, Steve, 1976-78Hazou, Sami, 1955-57Heacox, Bill, 1954Headrick, Brian, 2002-04Heimbach, Karl, 1979-81Hendricks, Mark, 1986-88Hester, Jack, 1955-57Hicks, Bill, 1996-99Higgins-Grant, Dwayne, 2004-05Hill, Jack, 1954-56Hirt, Jay, 1982Hissom, Rob, 1954Hoetzlein, Keith, 1993-96Hoolihan, Greg, 1996-97Hopkins, Richard (Mgr.) 1956-58Hopper, Bryan, 1999-2002Hopper, Steve, 1995-97Horox, Jack, 1956-58Hosler, Wade, 1996-97Howard, Robert, 1983-86Hughes, Robert, 1977, 1979-80Hugo, Victor, 1982-85Hull, George, 1971

JJacobs, Charles (Mgr.), 1954Jacobs, Victor, 1993Jaeger, Eric, 2006-08Jerich, Donald, 1959Jones, Thomas, 1969-70Jorgensen, Andy, 2004-06Jutca, Alan, 1973-75

KKaiser, Wayne, 1968Kalas, Andy, 2007-Kalchthaler, Robert, 1957Kamara, Swaray, 1983, 85Kane, Charles, 1956-58Kapusta, Jay, 1987-90Karavelles, Peter, 1957, 59Katrancha, Aaron, 1996, 98Katzin, Jamie, 1982, 84Kerr, Pat, 2004-2007Kipp, Don, 1957Kluge, Evan, 2007Kohlmyer, Dennis, 1970-71Komoroski, Gregory, 1983Kopp, Andrew, 1995-98Kotuby, Charlie, 1995-97Kovalchik, Bill 1957Kovacs, William, 1962Kozak, Dennis, 1969-71Krause, Jeff , 2001-02Krause, Kerry, 1969-70Kring, Jacob, 2001-04Kruse, Travis 1995, 1997-99Kruth, Jerry (Manager), 1968-70Kruth, Joseph, 1965, 1967Kunkel, Tom, 1977-80

LLamory, Walter, 1992-93Lang, Kenneth, 1963-64Langton, Matt, 2004-07Lanza, Samuel, 1985-86, 1988-89Laus, Mike, 1988Lekoma, Conference, 1968Liberati, Daniel, 1984-86, 1988Liberati, Nick, 1989-91Liberati, Paul, 1960-62Liebenguth, Tom, 1978-79Light, Andrew, 1999-00Long, Robert, 1957Lopus, Al, 1989-91Lopus, John, 1991-94

Lowery, Justin, 2002-05Lucke, Sherlund, 1981-83, 1985Luffy, Sam, 2008-Luxbacher, Jerry, 1973Luxbacher, Joseph, 1971-74

MMadden, Brian, 2003-04Malone, Connor, 2007-Marich, Brian, 1996-97Marks, Jordan, 2006-08Matilla, Phil, 1995-98McCormick, E.J., 2005-08McCurry, Scott, 1987-88, 1990-91McDade, Mike, 2006-McFarland, Kenneth, 1960-61McGonigle, Chris, 1998McGraw, Andrew, 1962-64McGrevin, Eugene, 1962-63McKinn, Tom, 1954-55McNulty, Robert, 1958-60Mehock, Ronald, 1960Meyers, Joseph, 1963-64Midock, Gary, 1969-71Mielecki, Ronald, 1967Migliore, Todd, 1998Milillo, Dominico, 1963, 1965Miller, Theodore, 1974-75Mincin, Mike, 1995Montgomery, Nate, 1999-2002Montgomery, Tim, 1997-00Monteverde, Adam, 2007-Morahan, John, 1973-75Morris, Gregory, 1958Moss, David, 1984-87Mostincky, Marc, 1988-89Mouen, Ernest, 1966-67Moyer, Martin, 1976-77Murdoch, Robert, 1956, 1958-59Murphy, Robert, 1962Murphy, Thomas, 1973-76

NNasrallah, Phillip (Mgr.), 1965Neuman, Dennis, 1955-56Nicholacoupolos, Antonio, 1969-71Nigh, Karl, 1976-78Nigh, Mark, 1975-78Noethling, Ted, 1990-93Norris, Mike, 1998Norton, Troy, 1979-82

OOcchluto, John, 2001-02O’Hara, John, 1977-78Osberg, John, 1985-88Overmier, Don, 1989-91

PPak, Heinz, 1988-89Pearson, Timothy, 1976-78Pelaez, Alfred, 1955Pellegrino, Brian, 1988, 1990-92Perdue, J.R., 1989-92Pestich, Simeon, 1959Pine, Scott, 1998-99Piombino, Jason, 1994-97Porter, Chad, 1998-00Prince- Wright, Joe, 2007-Procope, John, 2008

QQuinlin, Robert, 1967

RRacunas, Robert, 1965-67Raff a, Leonard, 1970-71Rdissi, Ali, 1969-70Reginella, Frank , 1956Reichenbach, David, 1962-64Reimer, Scott, 1984-86Reinhard, Keith, 1981

AAblak, Seckin, 1985-86Adelmann, Alfred, 1978-81Adelmann, Andrew, 1983-85Ahola, Samuli, 2006-Alexander, Scott, 1989-92Alfi di, Tony, 1955Alpern, Wils, 2008-Amayo, Ivan, 1989-91Anise, Olabode, 1979Arbes, Cliff , 1968Arlotta, Anna (Mgr.), 1978Armour, Kevin, 1996-98Armstrong, Edward, 1954Armstrong, Scott, 1986-89Ascher, Jon, 1987-88Astorino, Dean, 1992-96Avendino, Sebastian, 1998

BBacasa, Michael, 1992-93Baguley, Ian, 1967Baker, Matt, 2006-Barnes, Eric, 2007-08Balkovec, Eugene, 1963Barcs, Miklos, 1961Bartolotta, Vincent, 1964-66Barton, Spencer, 1997-2000Bastianelli, Tyler, 2003-06Bastidas, Chris, 2004-06Becker, Matt, 1983Behrend, Andrew, 1973-75Belovich, Joseph, 1966Bender, Reagan, 1996-99Bensasi, Rami, 2007Bilbie, Steve, 1995Bishop, Carsten, 1989-92Blasko, Kim, 1974-76Blass, Keith, 1997-00Blatz, Michael, 1987-89Boehm, Justin, 2007-Bonawitz, Calvin, 1963-65Bonessi, John, 1978, 1980Bottomley, James, 1986Bowen, Don, 1980-82Bowley, Joseph, 1955-56Brehm, Mark, 1989-91Bressanelli, Jerome, 1955-57Brode, Ryan, 2007-Brodows, Kirk, 1992-94Brooks, Josh, 1994-96Brush, Billy, 2002-04Bucci, Frank, 1974-77Bugaj, Ronald, 1968Buirge, Jerry, 1977-79Burkholder, Richard, 1982-84Butler, Mike, 2001-02

CCampos, Zamahir, 2003-04Carriquiry, Fernando, 1971Carrizales, Marco, 2001-03Casey, Brian, 1982-85Cavalier, Steve, 2004-06Cepanec, Louis, 1965-66Chauvin, John, 1986Cherry, Robert, 1955Cheshelski, Ben, 1955-56Chleboski, Ron, 1954Chibundu, Uzoma, 1983-85Chrisanthon, Nicholas, 1973Churchill, Chris, 2000-01Clery, David, 1963Clifford, Andy, 2008-Cline, Chris, 2007-Clow, Johnathan, 2003-05Conlan, Joe, 2000-01Connolly, Craig, 1975-78Cook, Robert, 1954Cooke, Jason, 2003Costic, Ryan, 1998Croce, Roberto, 1989-90

Crowley, Kevin, 1971Cuddy, Dan, 1989Cuddy, James, 1963-65Culhane, Michael, 1954-55Cunha, Mike, 2003-06Curley, John, 1973-75Cuthbert, Robert, 1960-62

DD’Amato, John, 1954Daniels, Stephen, 1959-61Davin, Joe, 1983DeCato, Thomas, 2003-06Denzel, Matt, 2006DeTorre, Dick, 1954-55DiEmido, David, 1968-70DiPalma, Dennis, 1991Doe, Mike, 2001-02Dohrmann, Fred 1973, 76-77Domsic, Debbie (Mgr.), 1974-75Donatelli, Sam 1961-62, 1964Dornisch, David, 1987Dowiak, Miles, 1999-2002Dry, Randy, 1968-70Duff y, Erik, 1990, 1992-93Dunbar, Charles, 1960-62Dunn, Jeff rey, 1981-82Dyer, Jeff , 1996-99Dyer, Mike, 1993-96Dyer, Robert, 1991-94

EEisinger, William, 1956-58Emejulu, Chukwuma, 1986

FFabregas, Fernando, 1958Farnsworth, Ian, 2008-Faust, Morgan, 2007-08Ferrer, Edin, 1957Fibel, Steven, 1969, 1971Fiedler, Robert, 1958-60Firster, Matt, 2005-Flowers, Shane, 2008-Foertsch, Gary, 1965-67Foley, Thomas, 1984Freund, Craig, 1984-85Frick, Ryan, 2005-06

GGaido, Gary, 1981Gannon, Mark, 1974-75Garcia, Hector, 1976Garner, Brendon, 2003Garry, Ben, 1997-00Gaul, Justin, 1999-2002Genes, Justin, 2002-04Georgakakos, George, 1960Gillespie, Jeremy, 2003Giraldo, James, 1984, 1986Giralso, Edward, 1959Godfrey, Richard, 1983Goga, Ronald, 1956-58Goldberg, Adam, 1993-94Goodman, Lee, 1957-58Goodman, Marge (Mgr.), 1979Gordon, Orane, 2006-Gorsin, J.L., 1992-95Graf, Todd, 1992, 1994-95Graham, J.P., 1955Graham, Robert, 1974-75Gray, Matt, 1994-98Griffi ths, Paul, 1954-56Grimes, Michael, 1984-87Gross, Ernest, 1973-75Grubisha, Justin, 2005-Gude, Erim, 1985-87Gyory, Randy, 1976-77

HHackworth, James, 1979-81Hafl ich, Clay, 2000-04

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ALL‐TIME LETTERMEN

Rex, William, 1971-73Richardson, Arthur, 1964-66Richmond, Christopher, 1980Rivera, Jorge, 2001Robertson, Mark, 1979Roccon, Richard, 1976Rogers, Phil, 1954Rosenberry, Robbin, 1982Ross, Joseph, 1984Roux, Normand, 1967-69Russell, Michael, 1982Ryan, Sean, 2006

SSadowski, Robert, 1956Saeter, Knut, 1994-95, 97Sauer, Ferdinand, 1964-65Sbei, Stan, 1973Schalk, Michael, 1967-68Scheil, Karl, 1954-55Schell, Matt, 1994-95Schulman, Norman, 1968Schwarz, Bruno, 1961-63Searfoss, Bruce, 1968-69Seddon, Raymond, 1955Segedy, Matt ,1987-88Seigel, Erwin, 1974-75Shaff er, David, 1963, 1965Shaff er, Kurt, 1985Sherrill, Matt, 2001Shimpeno, David, 1966-67Shimpeno, George, 1962-64Shireman, Jeff , 1976-77Shrinsky, Jason, 1957Siegel, Erwin, 1976-78Sikora, Mark, 1998-2001Smathers, Jason, 1998-99Smith, Brendon, 2003-06Smith, Cal, 1959-60Smith, Peter, 1960Smith, Todd, 1983-86Snyder, James, 1964-66Snyder, Peter, 1965-67Sobelman, Tim, 1988-91Solomon, Alfred, 1956, 1958Sommer, George, 1963-65Sonnett, Eric, 1965Spitzer, Adam, 1992-93, 1995-96Sprecher, Jay, 1963Sprites, David, 1968Staab, Thomas, 1962-63Steele, James, 1981-83Stein, Barry, 1977-79Stezoski, Bret, 1994-96Stout, Cindy (Mgr.), 1974-75Stula, Marshall, 2007Suzich, Harry, 1955 TTagaris, George, 2004-05Tarasi, Ray, 1961Tatka, Jason, 1992Tavares, Goncalo, 1964-66Taylor, Tripp, 1987-88Tedesco, C.J., 1995Templin, Carl, 1960Thackery, Jason, 1998-99Theofi los, Gus, 1969-71Thunberg, Scott, 1978-81Tidd, Jeff rey, 2003-05Tiedtke, Eric, 1979-82Tissue, Jeff rey, 1978-79Tomassetti, Jerry, 1977, 1979Torrence, David, 1982-85Tran, Huy, 1989-90Trappen, Bill, 1991Tratke, Erick, 1980Traunsteiner, Alfred, 1964-66Trempus, Tom, 1979-82Trexler, Robert, 1967-69

Triglia, Joseph, 1984-86Tsoursis, Andy, 1989-91, 1993

UUawithya, Damri, 1960

VValencia, Jesus, 1969-71VanNewkirk, David, 1983-84Vargas, Jeff , 1985-88Veltri, Peter, 1998-2001Venanzi, Mark, 1973Venglik, Richard, 1961-62Verlato, Theodore, 1961-62Vida, Louis, 1968-69

WWalkowiak, Adam, 2006Wallace, John, 1973Wasson, Jerry, 1980-81Wasson, Charlie, 1991-94Watson, Michael, 1990-91Wawrousek, Todd, 1976Weaver, Toure, 1999-2002Weber, Mike, 1996-97Weber, Kurt, 1985-87Weihrauch, Edmund, 1958-60Weiler, Terry, 1966-67Weir, Eric, 1961Westlake, Eric (Mgr.), 1969White, John, 1969Whitham, Josh, 1999-2002Wilcox, Chris, 2007-Wildman, Shawn, 2003-2007Wilhelm, Jeff rey, 1984Wilson, Nicholas, 1980-83Wolff , Peter, 1967Woodman, Alfredo, 1976Wyatt, Ronald, 1957-59

YYee, Joseph (Mgr.), 1970Yospin, Jerry, 1960-62Young, Keeyan, 2002-2006Young, Tom, 1957-58

ZZelnick, Edward, 1965Zanardelli, Norman, 1954-55Zemanski, Dan, 1981-82Zaring, Jedd, 1974-75, 1978Zortea, Aldo, 1963-65Zouma, Shelton, 1966Zulton, Richard, 1958Zurzolo, William, 1965-66

The following list was compiled from various sources. Although all cautions were taken to avoid errors, we do realize that names were likely omitted due to the immensity of the task. If you have any ad-ditions, or find errors in the list, please contact the Media Relations Office.

YEAR CAPTAIN(S)1954 .........Mike Culhane1955 .........Not Available1956 .........Not Available1957 .........Jerome Bressanelli1958 .........Ronald Goga, Chuck Kane1959 .........Ronald Podmilsak, Ronald Wyatt1960 .........Steve Daniels1961 .........Not Available1962 .........Paul Liberati, Richard Venglik1963 .........Andrew McGraw, Bruno Schwarz, Tom Staab1964 .........Andrew McGraw, David Reichenbach1965 .........James Cuddy1966 .........Arthur Richardson1967 .........Gary Foertsch, Robert Racunas1968 .........Leonard Harmon1969 .........Not Available1970 .........Not Available1971 ..........Not Available1972 .........Not Available1973..........Joe Luxbacher, Gary Midock1974 .........Jerry Luxbacher, William Rex, Mark Venanzi1975..........Ernest Gross, Alan Jutca1976 .........Kim Blasko, Tom Murphy1977 ..........Frank Bucci, Karl Nigh, Mark Nigh1978 .........Erwin Siegel1979 .........Tom Liebenguth, Jeff Tissue1980 .........Al Adelmann, Dan Hamm, Tom Kunkel1981 .........Al Adelmann, Jim Hackworth, Tom Trempus1982 .........John Hagenbuch, Eric Tiedtke, Tom Trempus1983 .........James Steele, Nick Wilson1984 .........Brian Casey, Uzomo Chibundu, Dave Torrence1985 .........Brian Casey, Uzomo Chibundu, Dave Torrence1986 .........Michael Grimes, Daniel Liberati, Todd Smith1987 .........Michael Grimes, David Moss, Kurt Weber1988 .........John Ascher, Sam Lanza, Dan Liberati1989 .........Michael Blatz1990 .........Roberto Croce, Nick Liberati1991 .........Nick Liberati, J.R. Perdue, Michael Watson1992 .........J.R. Perdue1993 .........Michael Bacasa, Ted Noethling1994 .........Robert Dyer, Eric Prex, Charlie Wasson1995 .........J.L. Gorsin, Jeff Porter1996 .........Dean Astorino, Adam Spitzer, Bret Stezoski1997 .........Jason Piombino1998 .........Phil Matilla, Drew Kopp, Ben Garry1999 .........Ben Garry, Reagan Bender, Travis Kruse 2000 .........Ben Garry 2001 .........Chris Churchill, Justin Gaul2002 .........Justin Gaul, Clay Hafl ich 2003 .........Clay Hafl ich2004 .........Jacob Kring2005 .........Keeyan Young, Brendon Smith, Tom DeCato2006 .........Brendon Smith, Keeyan Young, Tyler Bastianelli2007 .........Matt Langton, Pat Kerr, Eric Jaeger2008 .........Jordan Marks, Eric Jaeger, E.J. McCormick

J. ConnollyBill Hillgrove

L. Oval JaynesDr. Bernard J. Kobosky

Bernard P. KoperekC. Robert Miller

Chancellor Mark A. NordenbergDr. Wesley W. Posvar

Carol SpragueJohn Vasvary

Pitt’s All-Time Team Captains

Honorary Letter-

Winners

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YEAR‐BY‐YEAR RESULTS

Pittsburgh’s fi rst men’s soccer team in 1954.

The 1961 Pittsburgh Panthers men’s soccer squad.

THE LEOBEMIS ERA

1954 (8-1-0) Coach: Leo Bemis 7 Indiana Teachers 1 1 Slippery Rock 0 1 Ohio State 0 3 Denison 1 2 Grove City 4 4 Franklin & Marshall 1 3 Allegheny 2 4 Case 0 2 Slippery Rock 1 27 W-8, L-1, T-0 10

1955 (8-4-0) Coach: Leo Bemis 9 Indiana Teachers 0 4 Slippery Rock 1 0 Duke 1 1 North Carolina St. 2 3 Grove City 1 6 Ohio State 1 1 Navy 4 10 Denison 0 4 Franklin & Marshall 2 7 Allegheny 0 7 Case 0 3 Penn State 6 55 W-8, L-4, T-0 18

1956 (3-5-2) Coach: Leo Bemis 1 Slippery Rock (OT) 1 4 Lock Haven 2 1 Grove City 2 0 Brockport (NY) 4 1 Navy 5 4 North Carolina St. 1 2 Ohio State 3 2 Denison 1 1 Army (OT) 1 0 Penn State 3 16 W-3, L-5, T-2 23

1957 (8-2-0) Coach: Leo Bemis 2 Akron 1 3 Lock Haven 1 3 Denison 0 4 Ohio State 0 1 Grove City 0 1 Brockport (NY) 0

1 Slippery Rock 0 1 Navy 4 1 Army 0 1 Penn State 10 18 W-8, L-2, T-0 16

1958 (3-8-0) Coach: Leo Bemis 2 Akron 3 2 at Slippery Rock 1 0 at Michigan St. 1 0 Slippery Rock 3 0 Grove City 1 1 at Navy 2 0 Army 2 6 Ohio University 3 0 Brockport (NY) 1 2 Ohio State 0 2 Penn State 5 15 W-3, L-8, T-0 22

1959 (6-3-1) Coach: Leo Bemis 3 Slippery Rock 1 2 Ohio University 1 1 Akron 0 1 Grove City 2 1 Navy 4 2 Brockport (NY) 1 2 Army (OT) 2 4 Ohio State 0 1 Michigan State 2 1 Penn State 0 18 W-6, L-3, T-1 13

1960 (5-5-1) Coach: Leo Bemis 3 Frostburg 0 2 Slippery Rock 1 1 Ohio University 2 0 Michigan State 4 0 Akron 8 0 St. Louis 4 1 Howard 3 7 Grove City 0 1 West Chester (OT) 1 4 Lock Haven 2 2 Penn State (OT) 1 21 W-5, L-5, T-1 26

1961 (6-4-1) Coach: Leo Bemis 1 Frostburg (OT) 1 4 at Ohio University 0 4 at Akron 3

1 at Howard 4 1 Michigan State 4 0 St. Louis 4 4 Slippery Rock 0 1 Grove City 0 1 at West Chester 3 5 Lock Haven (OT) 3 1 at Penn State 0 23 W-6, L-4, T-1 22

1962 (7-2-2) Coach: Leo Bemis 2 at Frostburg 0 5 at Slippery Rock 1 2 Ohio University (OT) 2 5 Akron 1 5 West Virginia 1 3 Howard 1 5 at Grove City 2 3 West Chester (OT) 3 3 at Lock Haven 1 1 Penn State 2 3 at Maryland# 4 37 W-7, L-2, T-2 18#First Round NCAA Playoff

1963 (6-5-0) Coach: Leo Bemis 4 Denison 1 1 at Akron 6 4 Frostburg 0 1 at Ohio University 2 0 at Maryland 2 4 Slippery Rock 1 4 at West Virginia 0 2 Grove City (OT) 0 0 at West Chester 1 3 Lock Haven 0 2 at Penn State 4 25 W-6, L-5, T-0 17

1964 (5-5-0) Coach: Leo Bemis 4 at Frostburg 2 2 West Chester 3 7 Ohio University 2 3 West Virginia 1 2 at Howard 0 3 at Grove City 6 3 Maryland 6 0 Akron 1 2 at Bucknell 4 2 Penn State 1 28 W-5, L-5, T-0 26

1965 (7-2-1) Coach: Leo Bemis 3 Frostburg 0 1 at West Chester 4 1 Grove City (OT) 1 3 Kent State 1 2 Slippery Rock 1 2 at Ohio University 0 1 at Akron 0 3 at West Virginia 1 3 Bucknell 0 0 East Stroudsburg# 2 19 W-7, L-2, T-1 10#First Round NCAA Playoff

1966 (4-5-2) Coach: Leo Bemis 4 at Frostburg 0 1 West Chester 2 0 at Michigan State 6 5 Ohio University 1 2 at Slippery Rock 3 1 at Grove City 4 1 at Kent State (OT) 1 0 West Virginia 1 1 Akron 0 0 at Bucknell (OT) 0 2 at Penn State 1 17 W-4, L-5, T-2 19

1967 (2-7-2) Coach: Leo Bemis 0 Frostburg 1 0 at West Chester 2 0 Michigan State 1 1 at Ohio Univ. (OT) 1 1 Slippery Rock (OT) 1 0 Grove City 3 1 at West Virginia 5 3 Bucknell 0 0 at Akron 2 1 Kent State 0 1 at Penn State 7 8 W-2, L-7, T-2 23

1968 (3-7-1) Coach: Leo Bemis 0 at Bucknell 3 0 West Chester 4 3 at Slippery Rock 0 0 at Temple 1 0 at Grove City 3 0 Ohio University 3 0 West Virginia 3 2 at Kent State 0

2 Akron 5 3 at Frostburg 1 1 Penn State (OT) 1 11 W-3, L-7, T-1 23

1969 (5-5-1) Coach: Leo Bemis 1 Bucknell 2 0 at West Chester 1 3 Cleveland State (OT) 3 5 Temple 0 3 Grove City 0 1 at Ohio University 2 0 at West Virginia 1 7 Kent State 2 8 Slippery Rock 2 1 at Carnegie Mellon 0 2 at Penn State 3 31 W-5, L-5, T-1 16

1970 (8-4-0) Coach: Leo Bemis 2 at Akron 4 3 at Temple 0 2 West Chester 1 2 at Bucknell 4 2 Carnegie Mellon 1 2 Ohio University 0 0 Cleveland State 2 3 at Grove City 1 4 at Kent State 0 4 at Slippery Rock 0 1 West Virginia 0 1 Penn State 2 26 W-8, L-4, T-0 15

1971 (7-3-2) Coach: Leo Bemis 2 Bucknell 0 2 at West Chester 3 4 at Carnegie Mellon 2 2 Temple 1 4 Akron (OT) 4 4 Grove City 2 5 at Indiana (PA) 2 1 Cleveland State (OT) 1 10 Edinboro 0 8 Slippery Rock 1 0 at West Virginia 1 1 at Penn State 5 43 W-7, L-3, T-2 18

1972 (6-4-2) Coach: Leo Bemis 2 at Bucknell 0 1 West Chester (OT) 1 3 Carnegie Mellon 0 0 at Temple 2 0 at Akron 2 5 at Grove City 1 1 at Cleveland State 3 5 at Edinboro 1 3 at Slippery Rock 0 0 West Virginia 1 3 Indiana (PA) 0 0 Penn State (OT) 0 23 W-6, L-4, T-2 11

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1973 (5-9-0)Coach: Leo Bemis

9 Geneva 0 0 Bucknell 1 0 at West Chester 1 0 Akron 3 0 Edinboro 6 1 Temple 2 0 at West Virginia 2 2 at Carnegie Mellon 0 5 Point Park 0 3 Grove City 1 1 Slippery Rock 2 5 Gannon 0 0 at Indiana (PA) 1 2 at Penn State 5 28 W-5, L-9, T-0 24

1974 (4-6-2) Coach: Leo Bemis 0 at Bucknell 2 5 Point Park 4 1 West Chester 4 1 at Edinboro (OT) 1 2 Carnegie Mellon 0 2 at Temple 3 0 at Slippery Rock (OT) 0 0 West Virginia 2 3 at Grove City 2 3 at Gannon 1 0 Indiana (PA) 1 3 Penn State 6 20 W-4, L-6, T-2 26

1975 (5-7-2)Coach: Leo Bemis

0 Akron (OT) 0 0 Bucknell 1 5 Point Park 3 2 Edinboro 0 3 at Carnegie Mellon 1 1 Temple 2 0 at Slippery Rock 1 2 at Indiana (PA) 0 0 Jersey City 2 1 Davis & Elkins (OT) 1 2 Grove City 0 0 at Lock Haven 5 0 West Virginia 1 1 at Penn State 8

17 W-5, L-7, T-2 25

1976 (4-7-2) Coach: Leo Bemis 1 at Akron 5 1 St. Vincent 0 0 at Davis & Elkins 1 2 Slippery Rock 1 1 Carnegie Mellon (OT) 1 0 at Temple 8 3 Gannon 2 1 Indiana (PA) 0 1 at Edinboro 2 0 at Grove City 3 0 Lock Haven 1 0 West Virginia 2 0 Penn State 0 10 W-4, L-7, T-2 26

1977 (7-7-1) Coach: Leo Bemis 0 at Akron 5 8 St. Vincent 0 1 Bethany 3 1 Slippery Rock (OT) 1 5 at Carnegie Mellon 0 1 Temple 3 7 at Gannon 1 0 Bucknell 1 8 Youngstown State 0 6 Edinboro 0 1 Grove City 0 1 at Lock Haven 2 1 at Penn State 5 3 West Virginia 2 0 at Indiana (PA) 2 43 W-7, L-7, T-1 25

1978 (6-8-0) Coach: Leo Bemis 2 Akron 3 4 at Bethany 0 1 at Slippery Rock 4 1 Carnegie Mellon 0 1 at Temple 4 9 Gannon 0 0 at Bucknell 1 1 at Davis & Elkins 2 3 at Edinboro 1 1 at Grove City 3

2 Penn State 0 1 Lock Haven 2 4 Indiana (PA) 0 0 West Virginia 3 30 W-6, L-8, T-0 23

1979 (4-9-2) Coach: Leo Bemis 0 Akron 1 0 Grove City 1 0 Bethany 1 3 Slippery Rock (OT) 3 1 at Carnegie Mellon 2 0 Temple (OT) 0 2 at Mount Union 0 0 Bucknell 2 2 Davis & Elkins 0 2 Edinboro 1 0 at Penn State 6 1 at Lock Haven 7 1 at Gannon 0 0 at Indiana (PA) 1 0 at West Virginia 3 12 W-4, L-9, T-2 28

1980 (7-8-0) Coach: Leo Bemis

1 at Akron 4 2 Kent State 0 5 St. Vincent 2 1 at Slippery Rock 2 2 Carnegie Mellon 0 5 at Mercyhurst 2 2 Mount Union 1 2 Gannon 0 2 at Grove City 0 1 at Bethany 3 1 at Edinboro 4 0 West Virginia 4 0 at Bucknell 5 1 Indiana (PA) 3 0 Penn State 2 24 W-7, L-8, T-0 32

1981 (8-7-0) Coach: Leo Bemis 4 at Gannon 1 3 Grove City 1 3 at St. Vincent 1 5 Slippery Rock 0 2 Carnegie Mellon 1 1 Mercyhurst 0 1 Bethany 2 0 Akron 3 0 at Bucknell 1 4 at Youngstown State 1 2 Edinboro 0 0 at Penn State 5 1 W. Va. Wesleyan 4 0 at Indiana (PA) 4 1 at West Virginia 6 27 W-8, L-7, T-0 30

1982 (6-13-0) Coach: Leo Bemis 0 at George Mason 3 0 at Virginia 3 3 at Grove City 0 0 St. Vincent 2 0 at Slippery Rock 1 3 at Carnegie Mellon 1 3 Gannon 0 1 at Bethany 5 1 at Mercyhurst 2

0 at Akron 5 0 at Bucknell 2 4 Youngstown State 0 3 at Edinboro 0 0 Geneva 1 9 Robert Morris 0 0 Penn State 2 2 at W.Va. Wesleyan 3 1 West Virginia 2 1 Indiana (PA) 3 31 W-6, L-13, T-0 35

1983 (9-10-1) Coach: Leo Bemis 0 at George Mason 7 0 at Geo. Washington 3 7 Mercyhurst 0 1 Grove City 0 3 at St. Vincent 1 2 Slippery Rock 1 1 at Gannon 2 3 at Penn State 8 1 at West Virginia 2 1 Bethany 2 1 at Bucknell 3 7 at Youngstown St. 0 5 Edinboro 0 2 at Robert Morris 0 2 Carnegie Mellon 3 1 W.Va. Wesleyan (OT) 1 2 at Villanova 1 1 at Geneva 2 1 Akron 0 1 at Indiana (PA) 4 42 W-9, L-10, T-1 40

The 1965 Pittsburgh Panthers Men’s Soccer Team.

A group from the 1960 Pittsburgh Panthers men’s soccer squad.

The 1965 Pittsburgh Panthers Men’s SoccerTeam

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The 1991 Pittsburgh Panthers men’s soccer team.


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1984 (9-6-1) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 2 Villanova 0 0 St. Vincent 1 1 at Slippery Rock 2 1 Bucknell 0 0 Penn State 2 2 at Mercyhurst 0 2 at Bethany 1 1 at California(PA)(OT) 1 1 Youngstown State 0 0 West Virginia 1 2 Robert Morris 1 5 at Edinboro 0 0 at W.Va. Wesleyan 3 2 at Grove City 1 4 at Carnegie Mellon 2 0 Indiana (PA) 1 23 W-9, L-6, T-1 16

1985 (11-4-2) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 2 California (PA) 0 1 Mercyhurst 0 5 Slippery Rock 0 3 at St. Francis (PA) 0 1 at Bucknell 2 3 Edinboro 0 1 at Robert Morris 0 2 at Villanova* 1 4 at Seton Hall* 2 0 at West Virginia (OT) 0 3 Georgetown* 0 0 at Penn State 3 1 St. John’s* 0 0 Carnegie Mellon 2 10 at Youngstown St. 0 1 at Indiana (PA) (OT) 1 0 at Syracuse# 2 37 W-11, L-4, T-2 13*Big East Conference game#Big East Championships

1986 (10-5-2) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 2 California (PA) 0 1 at Slippery Rock 0 6 St. Francis (PA) 1 1 Bucknell 0 3 at Edinboro 0

0 at Ohio State (OT) 0 5 Morehead State# 0 3 Vanderbilt# 2 0 West Virginia 2 0 Seton Hall* 4 10 Youngstown State 0 0 at Georgetown* 1 0 Robert Morris 2 2 at St. John’s* (OT) 2 0 at Carnegie Mellon 1 2 Villanova* 0 3 Indiana (PA) 0 38 W-10, L-5, T-2 15#Marshall Tournament*Big East Conference games

1987 (4-10-1) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 2 Slippery Rock 1 2 Tiffi n# 3 3 at California (PA) 0 6 at St. Francis (PA) 1 0 at Bucknell 2 0 at West Virginia 2 1 Ohio State (OT) 2 2 Canisius (OT) 2 0 at Seton Hall* 7 0 Georgetown* 1 0 at Robert Morris 1 1 St. John’s* (OT) 2 0 Carnegie Mellon 1 0 at Villanova* 1 4 at Indiana (PA) 0 21 W-4, L-10, T-1 26#Neutral Site*Big East Conference games

1988 (6-8-1) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 3 at Slippery Rock 1 0 at Bucknell (OT) 1 1 West Virginia 3 2 at Ohio State 1 2 Geneva 0 0 Seton Hall* 5 1 at Canisius 0 1 at California (PA) (OT) 2 1 Carnegie Mellon (OT) 1 0 at Georgetown* 1 0 Robert Morris 2 0 at St. John’s* 1 3 Niagara 0 1 Villanova* 0 0 Indiana (Pa.) 2 15 W-6, L-8, T-1 20

*Big East Conference games

1989 (8-6-3) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 2 Slippery Rock 1 2 California (PA) (OT) 1 2 St. Francis (PA) 1 1 Bucknell 2 0 at West Virginia 2 1 Georgetown* 3 1 at Geneva 0 1 Ohio State (OT) 1 2 Canisius 0 1 at Seton Hall* 8 2 Carnegie Mellon (OT) 2 2 at Villanova* 1 6 at Robert Morris 0 0 St. John’s* 1 0 at Niagara 1 1 Indiana (PA) 0 1 at Grove City (OT) 1 25 W-8, L-6, T-3 25*Big East Conference games

1990 (7-8-2) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 3 at St. Francis (PA.) 1 1 Seton Hall* 3 2 Villanova* 0 2 West Virginia 4 0 at Georgetown* 3 7 at Slippery Rock 0 1 at Ohio State 3

0 at Indiana (PA) 1 0 at St. John’s* (OT) 0 1 Geneva 0 0 Connecticut* (OT) 0 1 at Carnegie Mellon 2 2 at Providence* 3 1 at Boston College* 0 0 Robert Morris 3 1 Syracuse* 0 1 Grove City 0 23 W-7, L-8, T-2 23*Big East Conference games

1991 (6-7-4) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 2 at Geneva 0 1 at Carnegie Mellon 0 1 St. John’s* (OT) 1 4 Canisius 0 3 Georgetown* 4 4 Indiana (PA) 2 0 at Connecticut* 4 0 Marshall (OT) 0 1 Boston College* (OT) 1 5 Slippery Rock 0 1 at Villanova* 3 0 at West Virginia 1 0 Providence* 2 2 at Robert Morris (OT) 2 0 at Syracuse* 3 3 at Grove City 0 1 at Seton Hall* 2 28 W-6, L-7, T-4 25*Big East Conference games

1992 (12-6-1) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 1 at California (PA) 2 2 Bucknell 3 3 at Providence* 1 1 at Boston College* 0 1 Geneva (OT) 0 3 Seton Hall* 2 3 at Slippery Rock 0 1 Villanova* 0 3 St. Francis (PA) 0 1 at Georgetown* 2 2 Carnegie Mellon 0 0 SUNY Buff alo 1 1 Connecticut* 0 6 Canisius 0

2 Syracuse* (OT) 2 4 Grove City 0 1 at St. John’s* 4 2 Robert Morris 0 1 Seton Hall# 5 38 W-12, L-6, T-1 22*Big East Conference games#Big East Championships

1993 (9-5-3) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 0 at Bucknell 3 0 St. John’s* 2 4 at SUNY Buff alo (OT) 4 1 at Seton Hall* (OT) 1 3 Slippery Rock 0 2 Providence* 1 2 at St. Francis(PA)(OT) 1 0 at Villanova* 1 3 Marshall 0 1 Boston College* 2 1 at Carnegie Mellon(OT) 1 2 at Connecticut* 1 9 Canisius 0 5 at Syracuse* 3 7 at Grove City 1 1 Georgetown* 3 1 Robert Morris (OT) 0 42 W-9, L-5, T-3 24*Big East Conference games

1994 (9-8-1) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 1 Bucknell 0 4 SUNY Buff alo 3 3 Carnegie Mellon 2 2 at Georgetown* 3 2 at Robert Morris 3 0 Villanova* 1 3 at St. Bonaventure(OT) 2 1 at Boston College* 5 4 at Providence* (OT) 3 7 St. Francis (PA) 0 0 Seton Hall* 2 0 Connecticut* 1 3 Canisius 1 0 at St. John’s* (OT) 3 4 West Virginia 1 0 Syracuse* (OT) 0 3 at Slippery Rock 0 0 at Penn State 4

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37 W-9, L-8, T-1 34 *Big East Conference games

1995 (14-6-1) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 0 at Robert Morris 4 2 St. Francis (PA) 1 1 Slippery Rock 0 0 at SUNY Buff alo 2 3 at Providence* 0 2 at Connecticut* 1 0 at Seton Hall* 2 2 St. Bonaventure 0 0 Boston College* 1 2 St. John’s* 1 2 at Syracuse* 1 2 Rutgers* 0 3 at Carnegie Mellon(OT) 1 3 Notre Dame* 0 2 Canisius 1 1 at Villanova* 0 1 at West Virginia* 4 1 Georgetown* 0 1 Seton Hall#$ 1 3 Rutgers# 1 0 St. John’s# 2 31 W-14, L-6, T-1 23*Big East Conference games#Big East Championships$Won game in a shootout

1996 (8-7-2) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 1 Duquesne (OT) 0 2 SUNY Buff alo 1 2 Providence* 2 0 at Boston College* 1 1 Seton Hall* 3 0 Connecticut* 2 2 at St. John’s* (OT) 4 2 at Robert Morris 1 0 at Georgetown* 2 1 West Virginia* 2 0 at Notre Dame* 3 3 at Villanova* 3 1 at Rutgers* 0 3 California (PA) 0 2 at St. Francis (PA) 0 1 Canisius 0 1 Syracuse* 0 22 W-8, L-7, T-2 24*Big East Conference games

1997 (10-5-4) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 0 Notre Dame (OT)* 0 4 vs. Oneonta State 2 2 vs. Hartwick (OT) 2 3 at West Virginia* 2 4 at Providence* 1 0 Boston College (OT)* 0 2 Rutgers* 4 1 Villanova (OT)* 1 2 Robert Morris 0 4 at Syracuse* 3 1 St. Francis (PA) 0 1 Georgetown (OT)* 2 4 at Canisius 0 1 St. John’s* 2 2 at Connecticut* 4 0 at Seton Hall* 1 3 at Duquesne 1

1 Cleveland State 0 7 California (PA) 042 W-10, L-5, T-4 25*Big East Conference games

1998 (6-9-3) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 3 Niagara 0 0 Duquesne (OT) 0 3 Qunnipiac 0 7 at Robert Morris 3 2 at Notre Dame*(OT) 2 1 at Villanova* 0 0 at Rutgers*(OT) 1 0 Providence* 2 0 West Virginia* 3 0 at Boston College* 3 0 at Georgetown* 2 3 Seton Hall*(OT) 3 0 Connecticut*(OT) 1 3 Canisius 1 1 at St. John’s* 2 0 at St. Francis (PA) 2 0 Syracuse* 1 6 California (PA) 329 W-6, L-9, T-3 28*Big East Conference games

1999 (7-9-3) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 3 St. Francis (PA) 0 0 vs. Cen. Connecticut 1 0 vs. St. Francis (NY) 0 1 at West Virginia* 3 1 Notre Dame* (OT) 1 2 at Seton Hall* (OT) 3 4 at Canisius (OT) 3 0 Georgetown* (OT) 1 3 Robert Morris 0 0 at Providence* 1 2 at Duquesne 0 0 St. John’s* 2 0 Rutgers* (OT) 0 1 Villanova* 0 0 at Syracuse* 2 3 at Cleveland State 0 0 Boston College* 1 0 at Connecticut* 3 4 California (PA) 124 W-7, L-9, T-3 22*Big East Conference games

2000 (13-5-0) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 5 at Bucknell 1 4 at St. Francis (PA) 1 1 at St. John’s* 0 3 Duquesne 0 2 Providence* 1 1 Canisius 0 0 Connecticut* 1 4 Seton Hall* 3 3 at Notre Dame* 2 1 West Virginia* 0 4 at Georgetown* 2 2 at Robert Morris 1 0 at Boston College* 1 0 at Rutgers* 2 0 at Villanova* 3 2 Cleveland State 1 1 Syracuse* 0 1 Seton Hall# 2

34 W-13, L-5, T-0 21*Big East Conference games#Big East Championships

2001 (6-8-3) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 2 Rutgers* 3 3 St. Francis (PA) 0 0 at UAB 1 2 Birm. South.(OT) 3 0 at West Virginia* 2 0 Villanova* 2 0 at Connecticut* 1 3 St. Bonaventure 0 2 at Cleve. State(OT) 1 1 at Syracuse* 4 1 St. John’s* (OT) 1 3 at Providence* 2 0 Robert Morris (OT) 0 2 at Virginia Tech*(OT) 2 2 Bucknell 0 3 Boston College*(OT) 2 0 Georgetown* 1 24 W-6, L-8, T-3 25*Big East Conference games

2002 (8-9-1) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 1 vs Oneonta State 0 1 vs. Bowling Green 0 1 Niagara 0 2 at Villanova* (OT) 1 1 at Robert Morris 0 0 at Bucknell 1 1 Connecticut* 4 3 at St. Francis (PA) 1 0 at St. John’s* 1 0 West Virginia* (2OT) 0 1 at Notre Dame* (OT) 0 0 Seton Hall* 1 1 Virginia Tech* (OT) 2 0 at Boston College* 2 2 at Rutgers* 3 3 Cleveland State 0 2 Providence* 4 0 Virginia 2 19 W-8, L-9, T-1 22*Big East Conference games

2003 (6-11-1) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 1 Boston College* 0 0 vs. Hartwick College 1

0 at Oneonta State 1 2 Robert Morris 3 1 Rutgers* 4 1 St. Francis (Pa.) 0 1 at Seton Hall* 2 2 at Cleveland State 3 2 Villanova* 3 1 at Niagara 0 0 Notre Dame* 2 3 Bucknell 2 2 at Gtown* (2OT) 1 0 at Providence* 1 3 at WVU*(2OT) 3 0 at Ohio State 1 0 at Virginia Tech* 6 3 Syracuse* 2*Big East Conference games

2004 (6-8-3) Coach: Joe Luxbacher 3 Canisus 0 3 at Rutgers(2OT) 3 0 at Long Island(2OT) 0 2 vs Hofstra 1 0 at Robert Morris 1 0 at Connecticut 1 3 Marshall (2OT) 3 2 Seton Hall* 1 0 at Notre Dame 3 0 at Western Michigan* 5 0 at Boston College 2 2 Georgetown* 1 0 St. John’s 1 1 at W.Virginia* (2OT) 2 2 Providence* 0 2 Syracuse(2OT) 3 3 Cleveland State(OT) 2

2005 (3-12-1) Coach: Joe Luxbacher1 at Drexel 32 La Salle (OT) 35 at Marshall 43 Mt. St. Mary’s (2OT) 30 at Villanova 21 at Rutgers 41 DePaul 00 South Florida 11 Seton Hall 70 West Virginia 21 at Marquette 00 at Canisius 10 at Connecticut 3

1 Notre Dame 21 Georgetown 30 Providence 1 1 7 W-3, L-12, T-1 3 9

2006 (5-11-2) Coach: Joe Luxbacher1 Buff alo 21 Fairfi eld 20 Cleveland St. (2OT) 00 at Mt. St. Mary’s 12 Louisville (OT) 22 Cincinnati (2OT) 11 at DePaul 01 at USF (2OT) 11 Xavier 01 at Notre Dame 31 Robert Morris 43 Marquette 01 at Providence (OT) 21 Bowling Green 23 Connecticut 41 Georgetown 00 at Seton Hall 20 at St. John’s 1 1 9 W-5, L-11, T-2 27

2007 (3-13-2) Coach: Joe Luxbacher1 UNLV (2OT) 12 UC Davis 41 at Robert Morris 31 Wright State (20T) 20 Binghampton 12 St. Joseph’s (OT) 10 at Syracuse 21 at St. John’s 41 USF (2OT) 10 DePaul (2OT) 10 at Connecticut 41 West Virginia 31 Seton Hall 23 Duquesne 10 Providence 20 Notre Dame 30 at Georgetown 22 at Marquette (2OT) 116 W-3, L-13, T-2 38

2008 (7-8-3) Coach: Joe Luxbacher1 Albany 21 Rider 00 at Duquesne (2OT) 03 Robert Morris 02 Bryant (OT) 11 Western Mich. (2OT) 01 Rutgers 00 Villanova(2OT) 10 at USF 10 at Depaul 11 Marquette 01 at West Virginia (2OT) 11 at Notre Dame 40 Georgetown 13 at Seton Hall 22 Connecticut (2OT) 20 at Providence 31 at DePaul 318 W-7, L-8, T-3 22


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PITT SOCCER HISTORY

School Won Lost Tied First Game Akron .........................................................7 ........... 16 ...........2 ........................1957Albany ........................................................0 ........... 1 ............0 ....................... 2008Allegheny College ......................................2 ........... 0 ............0 ....................... 1954Army ..........................................................1 ............ 1 ............2 ....................... 1956Bethany College .........................................2 ........... 6 ............0 ........................1977Binghampton .............................................0 ........... 1 ............0 ....................... 2007Birmingham Southern ................................0 ........... 1 ............0 ....................... 2001Boston College ...........................................4 ........... 9 ............2 ....................... 1990Bowling Green ............................................1 ............ 1 ............0 ....................... 2002Brockport (NY) ...........................................2 ........... 2 ............0 ....................... 1956Bryant ........................................................1 ............ 0 ............0 ....................... 2008Bucknell ....................................................10 .......... 21 ........... 1 ....................... 1964Buff alo .......................................................0 ........... 1 ............0 ....................... 2006California (PA) ............................................8 ........... 2 ............ 1 ....................... 1984Canisius ..................................................... 13 ........... 1 ............ 1 ........................1987Carnegie Mellon ........................................ 17 ........... 6 ............4 ....................... 1969Case University ...........................................2 ........... 0 ............0 ....................... 1954Central Connecticut ....................................0 ........... 1 ............0 ....................... 1999Cincinnati ...................................................1 ............ 0 ............0 ....................... 2006Cleveland State ..........................................6 ........... 3 ............ 3 ....................... 1969Connecticut ................................................3 ............13 ...........2 ....................... 1990Davis & Elkins .............................................1 ............ 2 ............ 1 ........................1975Denison ......................................................5............ 0 ............0 ....................... 1954DePaul .......................................................1 ............ 3 ............0 ....................... 2006Duke University ..........................................0 ........... 1 ............0 ....................... 1955Duquesne ...................................................5............ 0 ............2 ....................... 1996East Stroudsburg ........................................0 ........... 1 ............0 ....................... 1965Edinboro ...................................................12 ........... 3 ............ 1 ........................1971Fairfi eld ......................................................0 ........... 1 ............0 ....................... 2006Franklin & Marshall ....................................2 ........... 0 ............0 ....................... 1954Frostburg ...................................................7 ............ 1 ............ 1 ....................... 1960Gannon ......................................................9 ........... 1 ............0 ........................1973Geneva .......................................................6 ........... 2 ............0 ........................1973George Mason ............................................0 ........... 2 ............0 ....................... 1982Georgetown ...............................................6 ...........17 ...........0 ....................... 1985George Washington ...................................0 ........... 1 ............0 ....................... 1983Grove City .................................................23 ...........11 ...........2 ....................... 1954Hartwick.....................................................0 ........... 1 ............ 1 ....................... 1997Hofstra .......................................................1 ............ 0 ............0 ....................... 2004Howard ......................................................2 ........... 2 ............0 ....................... 1960Indiana (PA) ............................................... 11 ...........11 ........... 1 ........................1971Jersey City ..................................................0 ........... 1 ............0 ........................1975Kent State ..................................................6 ........... 0 ............ 1 ....................... 1965Lock Haven ................................................6 ........... 5 ............0 ....................... 1956Long Island .................................................0 ........... 0 ............ 1 ....................... 2004Louisville ....................................................0 ........... 1 ............0 ....................... 2006Marquette ..................................................3 ............ 0 ............0 ....................... 2006Marshall .....................................................2 ........... 0 ............2 ....................... 1991Maryland ....................................................0 ........... 3 ............0 ....................... 1962Mercyhurst .................................................5............ 1 ............0 ....................... 1980Michigan State ...........................................0 ........... 6 ............0 ....................... 1958Moorehead State .......................................1 ............ 0 ............0 ....................... 1986Mount St. Mary’s ........................................0 ........... 1 ............0 ....................... 2006Mount Union College ..................................2 ........... 0 ............0 ....................... 1979Navy...........................................................0 ........... 5 ............0 ....................... 1955Niagara ......................................................4 ........... 1 ............0 ....................... 1988North Carolina State ...................................1 ............ 1 ............0 ....................... 1955Notre Dame ...............................................3 ............ 6 ............ 3 ....................... 1995Ohio University ..........................................7 ............ 4 ............2 ....................... 1958Ohio State ..................................................6 ........... 4 ............2 ....................... 1954Oneonta State ............................................2 ........... 1 ............0 ....................... 1997Penn State ..................................................6 .......... 22 ........... 3 ....................... 1955Point Park College ......................................3 ............ 0 ............0 ........................1973Providence .................................................8 .......... 10 ........... 1 ....................... 1990Qunnipiac...................................................1 ............ 0 ............0 ....................... 1998Rider ..........................................................1 ............ 0 ............0 ....................... 2008Robert Morris ............................................14 .......... 10 ...........2 ....................... 1982Rutgers ......................................................4 ........... 7 ............2 ....................... 1995St. Bonaventure .........................................3 ............ 0 ............0 ....................... 1994St. Francis (NY) ..........................................0 ........... 0 ............ 1 ....................... 1999St. Francis (PA) ..........................................16 ........... 1 ............0 ....................... 1985St. John’s ....................................................3 ............15 ...........4 ....................... 1985St. Joseph’s ................................................1 ............ 0 ............0 ....................... 2007St. Louis .....................................................0 ........... 2 ............0 ....................... 1960St. Vincent College .....................................5............ 2 ............0 ....................... 1976Seton Hall ..................................................6 ...........17 ........... 3 ....................... 1985South Florida ..............................................0 ........... 1 ............2 ....................... 2006Slippery Rock ............................................30 ........... 8 ............ 5 ....................... 1954SUNY Buff alo .............................................2 ........... 2 ............ 1 ....................... 1992Syracuse ....................................................7 ............ 7 ............2 ....................... 1985Temple .......................................................3 ............ 8 ............ 1 ....................... 1968Tiffi n ..........................................................0 ........... 1 ............0 ........................1987UAB ...........................................................0 ........... 1 ............0 ....................... 2001UC Davis ....................................................0 ........... 1 ............0 ....................... 2007UNLV .........................................................0 ........... 0 ............ 1 ....................... 2007Vanderbilt ..................................................1 ............ 0 ............0 ....................... 1986Villanova ...................................................12 ........... 9 ............2 ....................... 1983Virginia ......................................................0 ........... 2 ............0 ....................... 1982Virginia Tech ...............................................0 ........... 2 ............ 1 ....................... 2001West Chester ..............................................1 ............11 ........... 3 ....................... 1960West Virginia ..............................................9 .......... 30 ...........4 ....................... 1962West Virginia Wesleyan ..............................0 ........... 3 ............ 1 ....................... 1981Western Michigan ......................................1 ............ 1 ............0 ....................... 2004Wright State ...............................................0 ........... 1 ............0 ....................... 2007Xavier .........................................................1 ............ 0 ............0 ....................... 2006Youngstown State ......................................7 ............ 0 ............0 ........................1977Totals ....................................................... 365 ........ 366 ......... 78 ...................... 1954

Conference: Record:Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference ......................................... 7-1-1 American East ......................................................................................0-2-0American Mid East Conference .......................................................... 14-5-0Atlantic Conference ..............................................................................4-2-1Atlantic Coast Conference .................................................................... 1-7-0Atlantic 10 Conference ......................................................................13-10-3Big East .........................................................................................71-150-28Big South .............................................................................................0-1-0Big 10 ............................................................................................... 12-32-5Centennial Conference .........................................................................2-0-0Colonial Athletic Association ................................................................ 1-3-0Conference USA ...................................................................................0-3-0Empire Conference ...............................................................................2-4-0Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference .................................14-2-0Horizon League ................................................................................. 13-4-3 Independent ........................................................................................0-1-0Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference ................................................ 2-6-0Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference .....................................................17-3-1Mid American Conference ...............................................................24-23-6 Mountain West Conference .................................................................0-0-1 North Coast Athletic Conference ..........................................................7-0-0Northeast Conference ...................................................................... 32-13-6Ohio Athletic Conference .....................................................................2-0-0Ohio Valley Conference ........................................................................1-0-0Other ...................................................................................................0-1-0Patriot League ..................................................................................10-27-3Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference ......................................... 68-41-11President’s Athletic Conference ........................................................ 23-11-2Southeastern Conference .....................................................................1-0-0SUNYAC Conference ............................................................................2-2-1University Athletic Association ...........................................................19-6-4West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference .................................1-5-2

Pitt vs. All Opponents Pitt vs. All Conferences

School Won Lost Tied First Game Robert Morris 14 10 2 1982Buff alo 0 1 0 2006UC-Santa Barbara - - - 2009Green Bay - - - 2009LaSalle - - - 2009Cincinnati 1 0 0 2006Louisville 0 1 0 2006DePaul 1 3 0 2006USF 0 1 2 2006Providence 8 10 1 1990West Virginia 9 30 4 1962Georgetown 6 17 0 1985UCONN 3 13 2 1990Cleveland State 6 3 3 1969Notre Dame 3 6 3 1995Seton Hall 6 17 3 1985Marquette 3 0 0 2006Totals 60 112 20 1962

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RESULTS VS. 2009 OPPONENTS

Opponent W/L Pitt Opp

BUFFALO (0-1-0)2006 Buff alo L 1 2

CINCINNATI (1-0-0)2006 Cincinnati (2OT) W 2 1

CONNECTICUT (3-13-2)1990 Connecticut* (OT) T 0 01991 @ Connecticut L 0 41992 Connecticut* W 1 01993 @ Connecticut W 2 11994 Connecticut* L 0 11995 @ Connecticut W 2 11996 Connecticut* L 0 21997 @ Connecticut L 2 41998 Connecticut* (OT) L 0 11999 @ Connecticut L 0 32000 Connecticut* L 0 12001 @ Connecticut L 0 12002 Connecticut* L 1 42004 @ Connecticut L 0 12005 @ Connecticut L 0 32006 Connecticut L 3 42007 @ Connecticut L 0 42008 Connecticut (2OT) T 2 2

CLEVELAND STATE (6-3-3)1969 Cleveland State (OT) T 3 31970 Cleveland State L 0 21971 Cleveland State (OT) T 1 11972 @ Cleveland State L 1 31997 Cleveland State W 1 01999 @ Cleveland State W 3 02000 Cleveland State W 2 12001 @ Cleveland State (OT) W 2 12002 Cleveland State W 3 02003 @ Cleveland State L 2 32004 Cleveland State (OT) W 3 22006 Cleveland State (2OT) T 0 0

DePAUL (1-3-0)2006 @ DePaul W 1 02007 DePaul (2OT) L 0 1 2008 @ DePaul L 0 12008 DePaul L 1 3

GEORGETOWN (6-17-0)1986 @ Georgetown L 0 11985 Georgetown* W 3 01987 Georgetown* L 0 11988 @ Georgetown L 0 11989 Georgetown* L 1 31990 @ Georgetown L 0 31991 Georgetown* L 3 41992 @ Georgetown L 1 21993 Georgetown* L 1 31994 @ Georgetown L 2 31995 Georgetown* W 1 01996 @ Georgetown L 0 21997 Georgetown (OT)* L 1 21998 @ Georgetown L 0 21999 Georgetown* (OT) L 0 12000 @ Georgetown W 4 22001 Georgetown* L 0 12003 @ Georgetown* (2OT) W 2 12004 Georgetown W 2 12005 Georgetown L 1 32006 Georgetown W 1 02007 @ Georgetown L 0 22008 Georgetown L 0 1

LOUISVILLE (0-1-0)2006 Louisville (OT) L 1 2


MARQUETTE (3-0-0)2006 Marquette W 3 02007 @ Marquette (20t) W 2 12008 Marquette W 1 0

NOTRE DAME (3-6-3)1995 Notre Dame* W 3 01996 @ Notre Dame L 0 31997 Notre Dame (OT)* T 0 01998 @ Notre Dame (OT)* T 2 21999 Notre Dame* (OT) T 1 12000 @ Notre Dame W 3 22002 @ Notre Dame W 1 02003 Notre Dame* L 0 22004 @ Notre Dame L 0 32006 @ Notre Dame L 1 32007 Notre Dame L 0 32008 @ Notre Dame L 1 4

PROVIDENCE (8-10-1)1990 @ Providence L 2 31991 Providence* L 0 21992 @ Providence W 3 11993 Providence* W 2 11994 @ Providence (OT) W 4 31995 @ Providence W 3 01996 Providence* T 2 21997 @ Providence W 4 11998 Providence* L 0 21999 @ Providence L 0 12000 Providence* W 2 12001 @ Providence W 3 22002 Providence* L 2 42003 @ Providence* L 0 12004 Providence W 2 02005 Providence L 0 12006 @ Providence (OT) L 1 22007 Providence L 0 2 2008 @ Providence L 0 3 ROBERT MORRIS (14-10-2)1982 Robert Morris W 9 01983 @ Robert Morris W 2 01984 Robert Morris W 2 11985 @ Robert Morris W 1 01986 Robert Morris L 0 21987 @ Robert Morris L 0 11988 Robert Morris L 0 21989 @ Robert Morris W 6 01990 Robert Morris L 0 31991 @ Robert Morris (OT) T 2 21992 Robert Morris W 2 01993 Robert Morris (OT) W 1 01994 @ Robert Morris L 2 31995 @ Robert Morris L 0 41996 @ Robert Morris W 2 11997 Robert Morris W 2 01998 @ Robert Morris W 7 31999 Robert Morris W 3 02000 @ Robert Morris W 2 12001 Robert Morris (OT) T 0 02002 @ Robert Morris W 1 02003 Robert Morris L 2 32004 @ Robert Morris L 0 12006 Robert Morris L 1 42007 @ Robert Morris L 1 32008 Robert Morris W 3 0

SETON HALL (5-18-3)1985 @ Seton Hall W 4 21986 Seton Hall* L 0 41987 @ Seton Hall L 0 71988 Seton Hall* L 0 51989 @ Seton Hall L 1 8


1990 Seton Hall* L 1 31991 @ Seton Hall L 1 21992 Seton Hall* W 3 21992 Seton Hall# L 1 51993 @ Seton Hall (OT) T 1 11994 Seton Hall* L 0 21995 Seton Hall#$ T 1 11995 @ Seton Hall L 0 21996 Seton Hall* L 1 31997 @ Seton Hall L 0 11999 @ Seton Hall L 2 31998 Seton Hall*(OT) T 3 32000 Seton Hall# L 1 22000 Seton Hall* W 4 32002 Seton Hall* L 0 12003 @ Seton Hall* L 1 22004 Seton Hall W 2 12005 Seton Hall L 1 72006 @ Seton Hall L 0 2 2007 Seton Hall L 1 22008 @ Seton Hall W 3 2

SOUTH FLORIDA (0-1-2)2006 @ South Florida T 1 1 2007 South Florida (2OT) T 1 12008 @ South Florida L 0 1

WEST VIRGINIA (9-29-3)1962 West Virginia W 5 11963 @ West Virginia W 4 01964 West Virginia W 3 11965 @ West Virginia W 3 11966 West Virginia L 0 11967 @ West Virginia L 1 51968 West Virginia L 0 31969 @ West Virginia L 0 11970 West Virginia W 1 01971 @ West Virginia L 0 11972 West Virginia L 0 11973 @ West Virginia L 0 21974 West Virginia L 0 21975 West Virginia L 0 11976 West Virginia L 0 21977 West Virginia W 3 21978 West Virginia L 0 31979 @ West Virginia L 0 31980 West Virginia L 0 41981 @ West Virginia L 1 61982 West Virginia L 1 21983 @ West Virginia L 1 21984 West Virginia L 0 11985 @ West Virginia T 0 01986 West Virginia L 0 21987 @ West Virginia L 0 21988 West Virginia L 1 31989 @ West Virginia L 0 21990 West Virginia L 2 41991 @ West Virginia L 0 11994 West Virginia W 4 11995 @ West Virginia L 1 41996 West Virginia* L 1 21997 @ West Virginia W 3 21998 West Virginia* L 0 31999 @ West Virginia L 1 32000 West Virginia* W 1 02001 @ West Virginia L 0 22002 West Virginia* (2OT) T 0 02003 @ West Virginia* (2OT) T 3 32004 @ West Virginia (2OT) L 1 22005 West Virginia L 0 22007 West Virginia L 1 32008 @ West Virginia (2OT) T 1 1

Pitt Year-By-Year Results vs. 2009 Opponents

Welcome to the University of Pittsburgh

“Only Big Dreams”

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The University of Pittsburgh campus is a place of delightful contrasts: unabashedly urban, yet dotted with gardens and trees. Situated on the edge of 456-acre wooded Schenley Park, the campus weaves in and out of an exciting section of the city known as Oakland. Pittsburgh’s cultural and medical center, Oakland is home to the University’s 132-acre main campus that includes more than 90 academic, research, administrative buildings and residence halls.

• Founded in a log cabin in 1787, Pitt is among the oldest institutions of higher education in the United States. The University has more than 250,000 alumni living in all 50 states and territories and 119 foreign countries.

• Among the campus’ most impressive attractions is the 42-story structure known as the Cathedral of Learning. The tallest academic building in the western world, the Gothic Revival skyscraper is home to several of the institution’s classrooms and the famed 26 Nationality Classrooms authentically designed to depict ethnic art and culture.

• Among the new freshmen entering the University in 2008, 54 percent were in the top-10 percent of their high school graduating class and 75 percent were in the top-20 percent.

• Pittsburgh’s academic record is outstanding, rating among the leading national and international universities in the United States. Pitt offers 383 distinct degree programs. Its faculty includes many world-renowned scholars, researchers and innovators. A number of academic departments are rated at the top of their respective fields.

• At Pitt, an education can come to life. Learning is not relegated to textbooks and chalkboards. An English writing major can put their studies to use by working at the student newspaper, The Pitt News. Students involved in the sciences can visit the Carnegie Science Center or the Allegheny Observatory. Business students can gain hands-on experience while interning with one of the many corporations headquartered downtown.

• Along with its formal education, Pitt offers a wide range of over 400 clubs and organizations-- a spanning from auto racing to the pre-med society-- to supplement a student’s learning experience.

• One of Pitt’s most exciting advantages is its close proximity to downtown Pittsburgh, one of the nation’s largest cities. Consistently ranked as one of the most livable cities by various publications, Pittsburgh provides an abundance of opportunities for its students in career exploration from internships in Fortune 500 companies, clerkships and residencies in major law and medical facilities.

World Class Institution

university of pittsburgh

Location: Pittsburgh, Pa.

Founded: 1787

Total enrollment: 33,898

Faculty members: 3,800

Total employees: 12,000

Degree programs: 383

Main campus area size: 132 acres

Campus buildings: 92

Total schools: 18

School type: state-related

Student: Teacher Ratio: 17:1

Library volumes: 4.4 million

Periodical subscriptions: 35,000

Total alumni: 250,000+

Website: www.pitt.edu

Varsity sports: 19

Pitt Quick Facts:

Cal-BerkeleyIllinoisMichiganNorth Carolina

pittUCLAWisconsin

According to the Center for Measuring University Performance in 2007

According to Educational Institutions and Affiliates

1. Harvard2. Johns Hopkins3. Penn4. UC-San Francisco5. Washington

6. pitt7. UCLA8. Duke9. Michigan10. Washington Univ.

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Top American Research Universities

Nation’s Top Universities For National Institute of Health Funding

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Cathedral of LearningThe Cathedral of Learning, which is still the tallest educational building in the United States, is a 42-story gothic cathedral. Inspired by the vision of Chancellor John Bowman, the Cathedral was partially funded by 97,000 area school children, each of whom contributed a dime to buy a brick for the cathedral.

“They shall find wisdom here and faith—in steel and stone, in character and thought—they shall find beauty, adventure, and moments of high victory,” said former Chancellor Bowman.

Our City is our CampusFrom the “old” Allegheny Observatory on the North Side, to the Applied Research Center in Harmarville, to the brand new Duratz Athletic Complex on the South Side, it is really true that the city is our campus.

Factors like performing arts, museums, sports, healthcare, and safety make Pittsburgh the “second-most attractive college town” in the U.S. among cities of its size, according to a recent survey. Pitt Arts connects our students to the extensive cultural life of the region, providing free admission to many of our neighboring museums and city events.

Pitt: A World-Class InstitutionPitt ranked No. 37 on Newsweek’s “Top-100 Global Universities” list. Including a variety of factors, the list ranked the world’s top colleges and universities.

Key Numbers at the University of Pittsburgh• 90% of Pittsburgh faculty hold earned doctorates and/or first professional degrees.

• Student:Faculty Ratio: 17:1.

• 94% of classes have less than 100 students and offer small group sessions for questions and answers.

• 90% of freshmen return the subsequent year.

• Pitt is ranked among the “100 Best Colleges for African American Students” by Amazon.com

• 15,622 is the full-time undergraduate enrollment for the Pittsburgh campus.

• The 2001 U.S. News & World Report rankings rated the University of Pittsburgh’s College of Business Administration among the nation’s top-10 percent of accredited U.S. business programs.

• According to U.S. News & World Report, the University of Pittsburgh ranks among the nation’s top-10 programs in information systems, engineering medicine, education, business, metallurgy, and computer engineering.

• The University of Pittsburgh is one of 62 members of the Association of American Universities, a prestigious group whose members include the major research universities of North America.


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“Besides being one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States, the University of Pittsburgh is also among the nation’s most distinguished comprehensive universities, with a wide variety of high-quality programs in both the arts and sciences and professional fields.”

About The UniversityA “World-Class Institution” the University of Pittsburgh is an internationally respected center of learning and research, offering exceptional educational opportunities in the arts, sciences and professions.

MissionThe University of Pittsburgh’s mission is to advance teaching, research and public service. This three-part commitment enables the University to serve others by educating diverse students from the region, the nation and the world; expanding boundaries of knowledge, discovery and technology; and enhancing quality of life in the Western Pennsylvania region and beyond.

HistoryThe University began in the Pennsylvania wilderness as the Pittsburgh Academy in 1787, the year the U.S. Constitution was adopted. Thirty-two years later, the Pittsburgh Academy became the Western University of Pittsburgh, and in 1908, the school changed its name to the University of Pittsburgh. Graduate degrees have been conferred since 1836, and the first doctoral program was developed in 1884. A private institution for most of its past, the University of Pittsburgh became state-related in 1966, establishing a relationship with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that continues to benefit both partners. Today, as an elected member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, Pittsburgh claims its place among the top public research universities in the nation.

AccreditationAll campuses of the University of Pittsburgh are accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on High Education. Schools, programs and departments may furthermore be accredited by discipline-specific accrediting bodies.

Academic OrganizationAs an independent, state-related, coeducational institution, the University of Pittsburgh’s main campus offers a multitude of degree-granting and other programs housed in 16 undergraduate, graduate and professional schools. The University system includes the Pittsburgh campus and four regional campuses at Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown and Titusville.

There are approximately 122, academic, research and administrative buildings and residence halls located on the Pittsburgh campus, which covers 132 acres in the culturally rich Oakland neighborhood. At the heart of the campus stands a central landmark- the Cathedral of Learning, a 42-story Gothic tower, which is the tallest school building in the western hemisphere. The cathedral contains the Nationality Rooms, 26 classrooms, each designed to reflect a distinct culture and providing an overall, multi-dimensional understanding of America’s heritage.

At the Pittsburgh campus, over 12,000 employees and 4,600 faculty serve approximately 27,562 students, including over 10,000 graduate and over 17,000 undergraduate students. Alumni accomplishments range from managing Fortune 500 corporations, to writing best-selling novels, to unlocking the secrets of DNA…and more.

As we enter the 21st century, Pitt remains a place of enduring tradition and vitality, true to the work ethic of western Pennsylvania, rich in intellectual rigor, and committed to preparing students for their lives and careers.



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Academic ProgramsArts and SciencesAfricana StudiesAnthropologyArchitectural StudiesBioethicsBiological SciencesChemistryChildren’s LiteratureClassicsClassics, Philosophy & Ancient ScienceCommunicationComputer ScienceCultural StudiesEast Asian Languages & LiteraturesEconomicsEnglishEnvironmental StudiesFilm StudiesFrench & Italian Languages & LiteraturesHispanic Languages & LiteraturesHistoryHistory and Philosophy of ScienceHistory of Art & ArchitectureIntelligent SystemsJewish StudiesLinguisticsMathematicsMedieval and Renaissance Studies

MusicNeurosciencePhilosophyPhysics and AstronomyPolitical SciencePsychologyReligious StudiesSlavic Languages and LiteraturesSociologySpanishStatisticsStudio Arts Theatre ArtsUrban StudiesWomen’s Studies

BusinessKatz Graduate School of BusinessCollege & Business Administration

Dental Medicine EducationAdministrative and Policy StudiesHealth, Physical, & Recreation EducationInstruction and LearningPsychology in Education

EngineeringBioengineeringChemical and Petroleum EngineeringCivil and Environmental Engineering

Computer EngineeringElectrical EngineeringEngineering PhysicsIndustrial EngineeringMaterials Science and EngineeringMechanical Engineering

General Studies

Health & Rehabilitation SciencesCommunication Science & DisordersEmergency MedicineHealth Information ManagementOccupational TherapyPhysical TherapyRehabilitation Science & TechnologySports Medicine and Nutrition

Honors College Information SciencesInformation Science & TelecommunicationsLibrary & Information Science

Law

MedicineAnesthesiologyBiomedical InformaticsCell Biology and PhysiologyClinical ResearchComputational Research

Critical Care MedicineDermatologyEmergency MedicineFamily MedicineImmunologyInstitute of AgingInterdisciplinary Biomedical Graduate ProgramIntegrative Molecular BiologyMedicineMicrobiology and Molecular GeneticsNeurobiologyNeurological SurgeryNeurologyOB/GYN and Reproductive SciencesOphthalmologyOrthopaedic SurgeryOtolaryngologyPathologyPediatricsPharmacology and Chemical BiologyPhysical Medicine and RehabilitationPsychiatryRadiation OncologyRadiologyStructural BiologySurgeryUrology

Nursing

Pharmacy

Public and International Affairs

Public HealthBehavioral & Community Health SciencesBiostatisticsEnvironmental & Occupational HealthEpidemiologyHealth and Policy & ManagementHuman GeneticsInfectious Diseases & MicrobiologyMultidisciplinary MPH Program

Social Work

University Center for International StudiesAsian Studies CenterCenter for Latin American StudiesCenter for Russian & East European StudiesEuropean Union Center of Excellence and European Studies Center


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Adrian Cronauer Radio disk jockey and inspiration of the movie Good Morning Vietnam

Michael Chabon 2001 Pulitzer Price winning author

Bill Cullen Game show host, original host of the Price Is Right

Gene Kelly Academy Award winner, dancer and actor

Charles Klauder Well-known architect who designed the Cathedral of Learning, the world’s first educational skyscraper

Fred Rogers Host of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

August Wilson 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning playwright who wrote about African-American experience in the 20th century

Michael Waldholz 1997 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting on AIDs (Wall Street Journal)

Mike Ditka Pro Football Hall of Fame member

Tony Dorsett Pro Football Hall of Fame member, Heisman Trophy winner

Herb Douglas Bronze medalist in the long jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Bill Fralic Pro Football Hall of Fame member

Marshall Goldberg Pro Football Hall of Fame member

Roger Kingdom Two-time Olympic Gold medalist, sprint hurdler, world recordholder

Dan Marino Pro Football Hall of Fame member

Jock Sutherland Hall of Fame football coach, All-American football player, Pitt professor of dentistry

Glenn “Pop” Warner Pitt football coach who guided the Panthers to 33 straight wins and three national championships (1915, ‘16, ‘18)

John Woodruff 1936 Berlin Olympic gold medalist in the 800-meters

Most commonly recognized as a leader in a variety of fields including science, medicine and technology, University of Pittsburgh graduates are pioneers and achievers in numerous occupations. Pitt graduates have been found winning Olympic Gold medals, serving our country in the armed forces, leading international corporations, writing for the Wall Street Journal, excelling in politics, performing on Broadway, movies and televisions shows, receiving induction into numerous athletic halls of fames and inventing life-altering technology and cures.

From pioneering nuclear energy to inventing CPR and the Pentium Pro chip, from winning an Oscar, the Nobel Peace Prize and the Pulitzer to producing the first African-American four-star General, University of Pittsburgh alums have made their presence known to the world.

Distinguished Alumni


Arts & Entertainment

Athletics

Patricia Churchland Dick Thornburgh

Roscoe Robinson, Jr.

Roger Kingdom

Orinn Hatch

Gene Kelly

Andrew Mellon

Vladimir Zworykin

Bert O’MalleyErik Buell

Paul Lauterbur

“The university that began in a humble log cabin has evolved into an internationally recognized center of learning and research. Medical breakthroughs, amazing discoveries and brilliant victories dapple its long history. For 215 years, Pitt has been making the world healthier, safer, and more tolerant, but there is always more work to be done…”

Tony Dorsett

Thomas Starzl

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Business Science, Medicine & Technology

Military

Philosophy

Politics

Andrew W. Mellon Banker, philanthropist, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and founder of Carnegie Mellon

Thomas Usher Chairman of U.S. Steel and Marathon Oil

Herbert Boyer Biochemist, 1990 National Medal of Science, co-founded Genentech

John Brashear Astronomer, Pitt Chancellor, maker of astronomical and scientific instruments

Erik Buell Engineer, founder of the Buell Motorcycle Company, subsidiary of Harley-Davidson

Reginald Fessenden Inventor, chemist and sonar pioneer who developed insulation for electrical wires, built the first wireless telephone and transmitted the first audio radio broadcast

D.A. Henderson Faculty member, National Medal of Science winner, directed World Health Organization’s Global Smallpox Eradication Campaign

Norman Horowitz Geneticist who worked on the famous one-on-one gene enzyme hypothesis and space scientist for the Mariner and Viking missions to Mars

James E. Keeler Astronomer who discovered Saturn’s rings were made of particles

Charles Glen King Biochemist known for isolating vitamin C

Samuel Pierpont Langley Astronomer, physicist, inventor and aviation pioneer whose infrared observations were used to make the first calculations on the greenhouse effect

Paul Lauterbur 2003 Nobel Prize winner for his invention of the MRI machine

Bert W. O’Malley Molecular endocrinologist and 2008 National Medal of Science laureate

Peter Safar Physician and CPR pioneer

Dr. Jonas Salk Developer of the polio vaccine

John W. Simpson Pioneer of nuclear energy, recipient of the Edison Medal

Thomas Starzl Father of the organ transplant

Vladimir Zworykin Inventor of television technology

Roscoe Robinson, Jr. First African-American Four-star general

Patricia Churchland 1991 MacArthur Genius-winning philosopher noted for her work in neurophilosophy

Orinn Hatch United States Senator since 1977

Wangari Maathai 2004 Nobel Peace Prize

Dick Thornburgh U.S. Attorney General and Governor of Pennsylvania

Fred Rogers

Bill Cullen

Jim Burke

Wangari Maathai

Jonas Salk

Herbert Boyer August Wilson

Dan Marino

Michael Chabon

Mike Ditka

Adrian Cronauer

Paul Lauterbur

D.A. Henderson

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The city of Pittsburgh has grown and adapted as the world itself has changed. From its days as the “Gateway to the West” to its famous steel-town age and now as a cultural and medical center, Pittsburgh has been hailed as one of the top places to live in the United States.

There is an unmatched beauty as you cross one of the many Pittsburgh bridges and take a look down one of the three rivers- the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio. The view is awe-inspiring from the heights of Mount Washington or coming out of the Fort Pitt Tunnel. The rivers surround Pittsburgh, keeping the buildings nestled in the “Golden Triangle,” highlighted by the striking fountain at the city’s Point.

The city and its numerous neighborhoods are an appealing mix of the old and the new, the classic and the modern. Those neighborhoods are full of pre-modern churches, giving them a nostalgic sense even as more modern architecture is built around them.

The past several years, Pittsburgh has undergone yet another renaissance, as the majestic new stadiums, PNC Park and Heinz Field, have been erected as well as the new David Lawrence Convention Center.

There is something for everyone in Pittsburgh. For children, there is the Children’s Festival, the Pittsburgh Zoo and Kennywood Park, rated the sixth-best amusement park in the world even in its second century of existence. For anyone looking to mix learning and excitement, there is the Carnegie Science Center and its World War II submarine that patrons can board and view up close. The Three Rivers Arts Festival and Three Rivers Regatta are perennial events that bring thousands of visitors to the city to enjoy cultural activities in Point State Park. A recent resurgence in the performing arts has welcomed a slew of world-renowned actors, actresses, stage technicians, musicians and opera singers to the numerous cultural centers. The renovated Byham Theater, Benedum Center, Heinz Hall and O’Reilly Theater host a variety of shows and performances throughout the year.

New medical facilities have helped Pittsburgh continue to be on the cutting edge of the health profession. Many of those facilities are housed in Oakland, also the site of the University of Pittsburgh’s main campus. Oakland has emerged as a city of its own with museums and the beautiful Schenley Park.

The city of Pittsburgh has provided excitement and thrills for over two centuries, but it has also supplied millions of people with a fabulous place to call home.

America’s Most Livable City

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“I’ve been struck by how many beautiful places there are in this country that you don’t necessarily think of as beautiful. Pittsburgh, for example, is a really handsome town with the rivers and hills.”

-President Barack Obama on Pittsburgh

Established: 1758

Population: 334,563 (city) 1.33 million (Allegheny County)

Area: 55 sq. mi.

Bridges: 448 (most of any city in the world)

Elevation: 1,223 ft.

Average Temp: Spring – 49 F Summer – 71 F Fall – 53 F Winter – 30 F

World Championships: Steelers (6), Pirates (5), Penguins (3)

Educational Institutions: 29 colleges and universities in Southwestern Pennsylvania

Tourism: 3.9 million people visit annually

Pittsburgh Quick Facts

*Places Rated Almanac

1. pittsburgh, pA2. San Francisco, CA

3. Seattle, WA

4. Portland, OR

5. Philadelphia, PA

6. Rochester, NY

7. Washington, DC

8. San Jose-Sunnyvale, CA

9. Boston, MA

10. Madison, WI

America’s Top-10 Most Livable Cities*:

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City of pittsburgh

“Pittsburgh’s industrial past has given way to an enterprising and vibrant present. Pittsburgh has all the charms of a larger city, but lacks many of the usual disadvantages. Crime is low and it’s easy to find a neighborhood that perfectly fits your needs. There are a number of things that make it a great place to live, work and play. The abundance of leisure activities create a quality of life in Pittsburgh that is virtually unmatched.”

-Visitpittsburgh.com

“While Pittsburgh used to be called Steel Town, they need to call it Knowledge Town.”

- Former President George W. Bush while meeting with Pitt researchers to discuss efforts to combat bioterrorism

1. Ride the Duquesne or Monongahela Incline

2. Have lunch at Primanti Brothers

3. Visit Point State Park

4. Spend an afternoon at one of the Carnegie Museums

5. Take in a professional game

6. Visit the Cathedral of Learning

7. Enjoy the rides at Kennywood Amusement Park

8. Experience the South Side

9. Ride the Gateway Clipper Cruiseline

Top 9 Things To Do In Pittsburgh

Source: Pittsburgh Vibe Magazine

Mt. Washington and the inclines

Andy Warhol Museum

Carnegie Museums of Art & Natural History

Heinz Regional History Center

The Strip

Carnegie Science Center & UPMC Sportsworks

Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens

Nationality Classrooms at the Cathedral of Learning

The Mattress Factory

Pittsburgh Zoo

Kennywood Amusement Park

Station Square

Shadyside

South Side Nightlife

Fallingwater

Pittsburgh Attractions

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The FactsAbout Pittsburgh

“…the only city in America with an entrance.”

- New York Times on entering the city of Pittsburgh through the Fort Pitt Tunnel

1. Baltimore, MD

2. Fort Lauderdale, FL

3. Houston, TX

4. Kansas City, MO

5. Louisville, KY.

6. Minneapolis, MN

7. pittsburgh, pA

8. Portland, OR

9. Providence, RI

10. Sacramento, CA

America’s Most Underrated Cities

Source: MSNBC.com, March 2, 2008

• Only city in the United States with the distinction of being named “America’s Most Livable City” twice by Places Rated Almanac.

• Ranked as America’s “Greenest City” by Green Building Alliance in 2004.

• Pittsburgh has 448 bridges, more than any other city in the world.

• Home of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, the first–and largest–certified green convention center in the world, which was selected by the White House to host the 2009 G-20 Summit.

• Ranked among the World’s Top-10 Cleanest Cities by Forbes Magazine (2007).

• Referred to as the “San Francisco of the East Coast” for its notable hills and beautiful views.

• Named one of the World’s Top Travel Destinations for 2008 by Frommer’s, a leading publisher of international travel guides.

• Boasts the second-most beautiful view in the United States according to USA Today (view from Mt. Washington).

• Ranked as America’s sixth “most literate” among 64 metro areas (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 2003).

• Pittsburgh is home to many “firsts,” including the first U.S. public television station (WQED), the first U.S. radio station (KDKA), the first all-aluminum building (Alcoa), the first polio vaccine (Jonas Salk) and the first robotics institute (Carnegie Mellon University).

• Ranked the 11th best city for women in cities with more than 300,000 people (Ladies’ Home Journal, April 2002).

• Has been rated safer than 82 out 100 metro areas in the United States (Places Rated Almanac).

• Host of the 2006 Major League Baseball All-Star game at PNC Park.

• Host of the 2008 PGA USA Open.

• PNC Park was rated the best ballpark in Major League Baseball by ESPN’s Jim Caple in 2008.

• Sports Illustrated ranked Heinz Field as the second-best stadium in the National Football League.

• Pittsburgh was ranked the Ninth “Best City for Work and Family” in America by Fortune Magazine.

• UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) was named the 13th best hospital in America.

• Pittsburgh is ranked among the nation’s top-25 arts destinations (American Style Magazine, 2003).

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1. Red Rock Country, Sedona, AZ

2. nighttime view from Mount Washington, pittsburgh, pA

3. Upper Mississippi River

4. Hawaii’s Na Pali Coast

5. Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA

6. Grafton, VT

7. Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park, WM

8. Drive from Key Largo to Key West, Florida

9. Clingmans Dome along Appalachian Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN

10. The Squares of Savannah, GA

America’s 10 Most Beautiful Places:

Source: USA Today Weekend.com Date: May 18, 2003

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City of Champions

Each year, Pittsburgh ranks among the best sports towns in America. The Panthers are part of a great city sports family that includes professional franchises in football, baseball and hockey. The Steelers of the NFL , the Pirates of Major League Baseball and the Penguins of the NHL all call Pittsburgh home and, along with the Panthers, are an exciting part of the city’s flavor.

• The 2009 and 2006 Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers are one of the most accomplished franchises in professional sports history, winning an unprecedented four Super Bowls during the 1970s.

• Sensational Sidney Crosby currently stars for the Pittsburgh Penguins franchise that won the 2009 Stanley Cup. The franchise has enjoyed NHL Playoff berths in each of the last three seasons.

• PNC Park has been named one of the most beautiful baseball stadiums in the country. It opened in 2001 and boasts a stunning view of the Pittsburgh skyline.

• Over the last eight seasons (2001-09), Pitt Basketball’s .797 winning percentage (220-56) ranks among the nation’s top-5 best winning percentages during that span. Pitt Basketball games at the Petersen Events Center have also been sold out for the last seven consecutive seasons.

“Pittsburgh is “City of Champions” once again. Football, baseball, hockey, basketball. Pittsburgh’s sports résumé stacks up with the best. With the Penguins winning their third championship, Pittsburgh becomes the first city to ever hold the Lombardi and Stanley Cup trophies at the same time. The Super Bowl-champion Steelers have a young core and the Penguins have an even younger one. Pitt basketball is now a perennial national title contender. TitleTown USA, City of Champions, whatever you want to call it, it’s Pittsburgh, PA.”

- D.J. Gallo, ESPN.com

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pitt is it. It’s a place to learn, have fun and make memories that will last a lifetime As a student at the University of Pittsburgh, education isn’t limited to the confines of a classroom or the extent of studies; learning encompasses every facet of a college experience. Whether it’s joining a student club, trying new foods, attending one of the numerous seminars, obtaining tickets to the latest Broadway production or simply becoming more familiar with the City of Pittsburgh, every day our students are engaged.

Oakland, home to Pitt’s main campus, boasts numerous activities within walking distance. Schenley Park, the third-largest urban park in America, provides an escape from the city atmosphere. At the park, individuals can tour Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, play a game of tennis with friends, catch the latest outdoor movies at “Cinema in the Park,” or go ice-skating during the winter. Pitt students have free access to the Carnegie Museum of Art and Natural History, located just a block away from the Cathedral of Learning, where individuals can view and study famous pieces of artwork created by such artists including Monet, Degas and Warhol or mingle alongside the numerous fossils and artifacts within the museum.

As part of a diverse neighborhood, Oakland is home to many favorite foods and ethnic restaurants. Whether it’s craving a basket of fries from the famous Original Hot Dog Shop, world-famous sandwiches from Primanti Bros., a great gyro for dinner or desiring sushi, students are bound to satisfy their taste buds somewhere in Oakland. Oakland is also home to Dave & Andy’s Home Made Ice Cream, a local favorite to satisfy that sweet tooth, which was rated one of USA Today’s national top-10 places to enjoy ice cream.

The Pitt Experience

student life

President Barack Obama visited the Petersen Events Center on his campaign trail.

“Friendly and diverse, the city is Pitt’s campus. Pitt students enjoy all the benefits of a major city—ballet, professional sports, opera, major concert tours, internship opportunities, shopping and restaurants—with few of the problems. Pittsburgh is also one of the safest cities of its size—large enough to offer plenty of activities but small enough to get around in.”

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Oakland is just the beginning for Pitt students. With its central location, it is in walking distance, or just a short and free bus ride (all students get on the city buses for free with their Pitt I.D.) away from various Pittsburgh neighborhoods including Shadyside, Squirrel Hill, the South Side and Downtown; each of which provides students with something different.

Shadyside is home to Ellsworth Ave. and Walnut St. which guarantee great shopping with nationally recognized brands and local boutiques. Squirrel Hill offers that “small town feel” with its main street set-up along Forbes and Murray avenues. There, one can find various specialty shops ranging from kosher delis, shoe shops, book stores and numerous vintage stores. Just across the Monongahela River is the vibrant South Side, which is renowned for its endless amount of entertainment venues that line East Carson Street. The 15 block stretch provides numerous shops, eateries, cafes, art galleries, live music venues, novelty shops and the best nightlife Pittsburgh has to offer. Also located adjacent to downtown is Station Square, where individuals can ride one of Pittsburgh’s two inclines to Mount Washington, the best view of Downtown Pittsburgh.

Just three miles from Oakland is Downtown Pittsburgh which essentially provides students with that “urban, big city” lifestyle. Home to eight Fortune 500 companies it’s the perfect place for students to begin their careers with fantastic internship opportunities just minutes away from the University of Pittsburgh. Not only is it a place to jumpstart your future, but it provides great entertainment for students; with the growing cultural district, three different sporting venues and a new arena being built, Pittsburgh has become a frequent stop for big-time entertainers. Within the last year, students have had the opportunity to see Dane Cook, Kenny Chesney, Britney Spears, Green Day, Taylor Swift and Legally Blonde (off-Broadway) just to name a few.

“Pitt students enjoy a fun, beautiful and urban campus that is secluded enough to feel like college and at the same time, fully integrated into the vibrant, affordable and extremely friendly city of Pittsburgh.”

-2009 Princeton Review

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Every athlete dreams, but at Pitt we only dream big.

The University of Pittsburgh has a valued, championship athletic tradition. One that, since it’s beginning has thrived off of one thing: big dreams. Big dreams have led our teams to numerous national titles and fueled individual athletes into their own realm of success.

While the dreams of our past have been marked in the record books, it hasn’t stopped our current pursuit for even bigger dreams. They are what push our athletes to excel during practice, perfect their routine down to the most minute detail, hit the weight room and exceed their own expectations when there is no audience to impress. So when the right moment comes they are able to quicken their feet as they near the finish line, extend their arms as they reach for that extra inch on a fourth and goal and push themselves to the limit as the clock works its way down to zero.

By accepting only big dreams in each endeavor that we take and aspiration we pursue, we get the greatest return: immense successes.

Pitt athletics by the numbers:

FootballNine-time national champions (1915, 1916, 1918, 1929, 1931, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1976)

25 major college bowl game appearances

18 Associated Press poll top-25 finishes

Seven undefeated seasons

One Heisman Trophy winner (Tony Dorsett, 1976)

10 major individual college award winners

Four Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees

26 College Football Hall of Fame inductees

23 NFL First Round draft picks

289 NFL players

85 First Team All-Americans

Eight retired jerseys (Mike Ditka, Tony Dorsett, Bill Fralic, Marshall Goldberg Hugh Green, Dan Marino, Mark May, Joe Schmidt)

Women’s Swimming and DivingTwo Olympians Angie Lopez (1976) and Sue Heon (1984)

Four four-year All-Americans

17 total All-Americans (five others earned honorable mention)

Nine Big East Championships

Only Big Dreams

AthletiC trAdition

“Pitt fans are very passionate about their school and its teams. It’s a special bond that comes from dedicating four years of your life to a school, of spending so much time on the campus and of interacting with members of the athletic teams who also have classes to attend, term papers to write and final exams to study for. Besides athletics, the University of Pittsburgh has so much to offer. Many of its undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs are among the best anywhere.”

—Beano Cook, ESPN

Tony Dorsett: 1976 Heisman Trophy Winner

1976 National Football Champions Jerome Lane shattered backboard in 1988

John Woodruff: U.S. Olympic

Gold Medalist

1991 Final Four Team

Keith Gavin 2008 NCAA Wrestling Champion

Alex Volovetski and Jeremy Stultz: back-to-back Big East Divers of the Year

Diana Andreyko: Pitt ’s Volleyball Career Kills Leader

Pat Santoro: Two-time NCAA Wrestling Champion

Sue Heon: 1984 Olympic Swimmer

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Women’s BasketballTwo NCAA Sweet Sixteens (2008, 2009)

Three NCAA Tournament appearances

One WNBA first-round draft pick

One All-American

Men’s BasketballTwo-time national champions (1927-28, 1929-30)

One NCAA Final Four - (1941)

Two NCAA Elite Eight - (1974, 2009)

Six NCAA Sweet Sixteens (1974, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009)

Five Big East regular season titles (1986-87, 1987-88, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04)

Four league tournament titles (1981, 1982, 2003, 2008)

21 NCAA Tournament appearances

12 All-Americans

Four retired jerseys: (Don Hennon, Billy Knight, Brandin Knight, Charles Smith)

GymnasticsOne National Champion Lisa Shirk (1982, Uneven Bars)

Six National Qualifiers

15 All-EAGL first team Members

Seven EAGL Champions

Men’s Swimming and Diving19 Big East Championships

Nine All-Americans (13 others earned honorable mention)

BaseballEight All-Americans

29 MLB Draft selections

36 All-Big East selections

Men’s SoccerSix All-Americans

16 professional players

Women’s Volleyball11 Big East Tournament Championships

11 NCAA Tournament appearances

Eight Big East Tournament MOPs

Six Big East Players of the Year

Three Big East Rookies of the Year

14 All-Big East First Team selections

Two All-Americans

SoftballFirst Professional Player -(2007) Jessica Dignon (Washington Glory)

Track & FieldTwo Olympic U.S.A. Gold Medal winners John Woodruff (1936, 800 meters), Roger Kingdom (1984 & 1988, 110-Meter High Hurdles)

10 Olympians

Six NCAA Men’s Champions

10 NCAA Women’s Champions

18 NCAA Women’s All-Americans

19 NCAA Men’s All-Americans

Wrestling29 wrestlers that have gone undefeated in dual season

16 NCAA Champions

26 NCAA Finalists

40 NCAA Semifinalists

44 NCAA All-Americans

Four Eastern Wrestling League Tournament Outstanding Wrestlers

Three EWL Wrestlers of the Year

Rande Stottlemyer: three-time EWL Coach of the Year

40 EWL Champions

87 EWL Finalists

27 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Champions

Four EIWA team titles

Roger Kingdom: Two-time Olympic

Gold Medalist

Women’s Basketball: Two-time NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearances

Tony Dorsett: NCAA Division I Rushing Record

1984 Big East Champions Women’s Swimming and Diving

Varsity Walk On the University of Pittsburgh campus, between the Cathedral of Learning and Heinz Chapel, is a sidewalk known as the Varsity Walk. There, embedded in the stones, are the names of former Pitt athletes who have promoted the University through their athletic or academic achievements.

The Varsity Walk was conceived in 1950 as a way to honor athletes, and new members are added each year. The distinctive hand-carved stones were first presented as the Athletic Committee Award and the Charles C. Hartwig Award. The Athletic Committee recognized the best athlete from any sport. The Charles Hartwig Award was given to the senior athlete who promoted and sponsored the best interests of Pitt athletics, in honor of the 1934 All-America tight end. In 1971 the awards were changed to the Panther and Blue-Gold awards, respectively.

The Panther Award is presented to the graduating senior-athlete who has promoted Pittsburgh athletics through his/her outstanding athletic achievement. The Blue-Gold Award is

given to the seniors who represent the student-athlete ideal based on academic scholarship, athletic achievement, leadership qualities and citizenship.

The awards were expanded to include women in 1975.

Sue Heon: 1984 Olympic Swimmer

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Petersen Events CenterA 12,508-seat basketball and multipurpose arena, the Petersen Events Center, serves as the home for the Pitt men’s and women’s basketball programs, as well as numerous campus events, graduation ceremonies, concerts and modern recreational and fitness facilities.

Game day accommodations include four luxury courtside suites, 12 luxury club level suites, a luxury courtside special event suite and the finest club lounge in college basketball.

The Petersen Events Center serves as the home of the Pitt Athletic Department and Hilda M. Willis Center for Academics for student-athletes. The academic center includes a computer lab with 27 computers, writing lab, math/science area, individual tutor rooms, counseling offices, career resource area and media room.

It additionally houses the McCarl Panther Hall of Champions, a walking museum of Pitt Athletics both past and present.

The building’s Restaurant Row has nine major concession areas with 66 total points of sale, featuring a five-store food court that is open daily as well as on game day.

The Baierl Student Recreation Center boasts 40,000 square feet of recreation space including four racquetball courts, two squash courts, Cybex weight machines, a large free-weight area and state-of-the-art aerobic areas.

Charles L. Cost CenterThe Charles L. Cost Center is spacious enough to house a regulation football field or nine tennis courts.

It was recently resurfaced with new Astroturf and serves as an indoor practice facility for the Panther baseball, soccer, softball and track and field teams.

The center is named after former running back Charles L. “Corky” Cost who donated an excess of $1 million for its construction.

Heinz FieldOne of the nation’s finest football venues, Heinz Field is home to Panther football. The horseshoe stadium seats 65,050 people and provides a stunning view of Pittsburgh’s breathtaking skyline.

Pitt has a private locker area (the Duratz Locker Room) and competes on a heated grass playing surface.

Fan amenities include more than 400 television monitors, two video walls, 32 concession areas, club seating and 122 luxury suites.

Located on Pittsburgh’s North Shore, the stadium is also home to the six-time Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers.

Trees Pool Petersen Events Center Fitzgerald Field House

FantasticFacilities

pitt fACilities

The Club, Tennis Facility

Fitzgerald Field House, Olympic Weight Room

“With the Petersen Events Center, Pitt now has the finest set of athletic facilities in the Northeast corridor. The University of Pittsburgh has made two major improvements to its campus, both designed to give the athletic program a competitive advantage. The UPMC football complex and the Petersen Events Center are both state-of-the-art and palatial and have taken Panther athletics to another level.”

- Dick Weiss, New York Daily News

Heinz Field

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UPMC Sports Performance ComplexThe UPMC Complex is a state-of-the-art training facility, which includes Pitt’s Duratz Complex, serving as the Panthers’ football practice facility.

Its features include expansive training rooms, team meeting and film-viewing rooms, weight rooms and dining facilities.

In addition, it houses coaching and administrative staff offices for the football program as well as the Panthers’ Hall of Fame, housed in the Duratz Athletic Complex.

UPMC Sports Medicine facilities are also on site, providing Pitt athletics with some of the best care in the world.

Fitzgerald Field HouseThis facility serves as the competitive venue for several of Pitt’s sports, including volleyball, gymnastics and wrestling. It is also used as an indoor partial practice facility for the track and field team. Built in 1951, it was named for Rufus H. Fitzgerald, Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh from 1944-1945.

The Field House contains offices for many of Pitt’s coaches and includes locker rooms, training rooms and weight rooms for the Panther student-athletes.

Fitzgerald Field House Locker RoomsThe locker rooms in the Fitzgerald Field House are custom designed for Pitt’s Olympic sports teams.

Added in 1999, the locker rooms include pro-style individual wooden lockers and audio-visual systems for exclusive use by the Panthers.

The Fitzgerald Field House is home to the following Pitt sports: Baseball, Gymnastics, Soccer, Softball, Swimming and Diving, Track and Field, Volleyball and Wrestling.

Olympic Sports Weight RoomOne of Pitt’s newest facilities, it opened in 2005 as part of the athletic department’s “Quest for Excellence.”

It covers the entire east balcony of the Fitzgerald Field House and is large enough to train approximately 70 student-athletes at one time.

With nearly 10,000 pounds of free weights, the weight room also includes new treadmills and stationary bikes. There is also an open area for stretching and focusing on specialized muscle groups.

Trees FieldLocated behind the Cost Center with a striking view of the downtown skyline is Trees Field, home of the Panthers’ baseball and softball teams.

The baseball park underwent more than $500,000 worth of renovations, including the installation of a new major-league caliber astroturf infield and lights. The Panthers played their first-ever home night game in 1999 under the field lights.

An additional field was added for the softball program in 2003, giving the Panthers’ their first on-campus softball facility.

Two all-purpose astroturf infields adjoin Trees Field allowing for additional practice area for the Panthers.

Trees Hall and Trees PoolTrees Pool serves as the Panthers’ swimming and diving teams’ home pool. Pitt has hosted 15 Big East Conference Championships in the facility and is set to host the 2010 conference meet.

A new high-tech scoreboard was added in 2002 and dedicated to Ben Grady, a former Pitt head swimming coach, at the 2003 ECAC Championships.

The newly renovated 75-by-165 foot Olympic sized pool has the dual capability of an eight-lane, 50-meter course or a 20-lane, 25-yard course. This past summer, renovation to the pool brought it up to current NCAA regulations in addition to the installation of a new diving board platform and railings. The circulation, drainage and heating systems were also refurbished.

The diving area is well equipped with two 1-meter and two 3-meter durafirm stands with maxiflex boards in addition to multiple diving towers with a 16-foot water depth.

Trees Hall is also home to many of the University’s sports and recreation classes as well as providing a home to all intramural sports including basketball, soccer and lacrosse.

Pitt Wrestling Room

Gymnastics Training Center

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Similar to the blueprint Pitt began cultivating in 2000 to entrench itself among the country’s finest universities, Pitt Athletics is intent on doing the same from a student-athlete perspective.

Envisioned is a new complex that will provide state-of-the-art homes for Pitt baseball, softball, men’s and women’s soccer, and men’s and women’s track and field. The complex will transform 12 acres of land at the peak of campus, not only giving Pitt student-athletes nationally competitive facilities, but also rejuvenating an untapped area that neighbors the University of Pittsburgh campus.

The Olympic Sports Complex The Olympic Sports Complex will transform 12 acres of unused land into a major attraction for the kind of top-performing student-athletes who can elevate the quality of our Olympic sports programs while competing academically to achieve all that an education at the University of Pittsburgh has to offer.

Combined with the premier venues of Heinz Field, the Petersen Events Center, the UPMC Sports Performance Complex, and the newly renovated Fitzgerald Field House and Trees Pool, this complex will offer students, parents and fans an enthralling sports experience that stretches from Oakland to the North Shore to the booming South Side.

New OlympicSports Facility

Coming in 2010!

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Baseball Stadium Baseball will include a press box, team dugouts and hitting and pitching practice areas. Synthetic grass will extend the ability to practice and play throughout the year and lighting will allow for evening games.

Soccer StadiumThe men’s and women’s soccer stadium will be a practice and competition venue, complete with synthetic grass field, lighting and a press box.

“Pitt ranks among the best in the world academically and wants to achieve at that same high level athletically. I am incredibly excited about the plans for a new Olympic sports facility. Not only will the facility enhance the Pitt student-athlete experience but it also will make our outstanding University even greater with the opportunities it provides.”

- Jessica Dignon, (CAS ’08) Three-time All-Big East honoree and the first Pitt softball student-athlete to play professionally.

“A commitment to this project is an investment in the future of a great university and athletic program. My wife Fran and I are committed to making this facility a reality because of the tremendous impact it will have on the Pitt student-athlete experience.”

- Charles L. “Corky” Cost, (ENGR ’58), Pitt football, basketball and baseball letterman.

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is a reality.”

–John Lennon

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“I have had the honor and privilege to experience firsthand the rich tradition of Olympic sports at the University of Pittsburgh. My Pitt experience continues to impact my life to this very day, so I want to ensure that current and future generations of student-athletes have that same lifelong benefit.”

- Herbert Douglas Jr., (EDUC ’48, M.Ed. ’50), 1948 Olympic Bronze Medalist in the long jump, Pitt track and football letterman.

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Track & Field Stadium The track and field stadium will be utilized for practice and competition, and be located on the site presently occupied by Pitt’s current baseball and softball fields.

Softball StadiumSoftball will have a skinned infield with an artificial grass outfield, along with lighting. The stadium will include team dugouts, hitting and pitching practice areas and a press box.

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Academic Support Services has one mission: to help the men and women athletes of the University of Pittsburgh have a meaningful and successful academic experience during their campus years.

While competing in their respective sports, University of Pittsburgh student-athletes focus on graduation and preparation for the future. To this end, Academic Support Services is an invaluable resource for the student-athlete community.

Academic counselors meet with their student-athletes on a regular basis to provide advising, counseling, tutorial and study skills support as well as career services.

Pittsburgh boasts first-class academic facilities in the Hearst Academic Center for Student-Athletes and the Hilda M. Willis Center for Academic Support. Located in the Petersen Events Center and within seconds of the basketball coaches’ offices and other basketball facilities, the Willis Center serves as another resource for student-athletes to reach their highest academic potential. Staffed by full-time academic counselors and graduate assistants, the Willis Center features a computer lab with 25 computers, tutorial rooms and a student reference library, giving the Panthers access to all of the features of Academic Support Service.

Academic Emphasis

Learning is Strength for Life

aCademiC suPPort

“The student-athletes at the University of Pittsburgh have been given an excellent opportunity to succeed in their academic pursuits. Our alumni, faculty and administration would be proud to know that our student-athletes are hard-working, dedicated and as committed to success in the classroom as they are on the athletic arena.”

- Michael Farabaugh, Director of Academic Support

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A.C.T.S. Program

A-Academic SupportHelp student-athletes balance workload while adjusting to the demands of a highly competitive NCAA Division I program.

• Review team schedules and assist with layout of class schedule.

• Monitor progress in classes by communicating directly with instructors two times per semester.

• Review NCAA continuing eligibility requirements.

C-Career CounselingWork closely with University Career Services to assist students with choosing majors, internship preparation, and resume preparation.

• Freshman Year: Self-exploration to identify personal interests.

• Sophomore Year: Career inventories to assist in deciding majors.

• Junior Year: Resume preparation/internship exploration.

• Senior Year: Job/Graduate school preparation.

T-Tutorial ProgramFree tutoring provided to assist with course and content review.

• Helpful both in and out of season; in particular during times of team travel.

• Offer individual tutoring, group tutoring and review sessions.

• Appointments are structured around class and practice schedules.

S-Study Skills ProgramMandatory program designed to assist first-year student-athletes with a successful transition from high school to college.

• Identify learning styles to help with study techniques.

• Review time management to assist with balancing demands.

• Review various other issues relating to the student-athlete experience.

The University of Pittsburgh Academic Support program is designed specifically to guide and assist student-athletes in their pursuit of meeting graduation requirements. The following is an outline of the academic services each student-athlete will receive on a yearly basis:

Athletics Academic Program

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2008-09 PITT Academic Highlights

• 283 Student-Athletes achieved a 3.0 term GPA or above

• 23 Student-Athletes achieved a 4.0 term GPA

• 108 Student-Athletes named Big East Academic All Stars

• Three members of the gymnastics team were named All-American Scholar Athletes by the National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches for Women

• Seven members of the gymnastics team were named to the EAGL All-Academic Team by the National Association of Collegiate Gymnastic Coaches for Women

• Two members of the 2008 softball team were named National Fast Pitch Coaches Association All-American Scholar Athletes

• Two members of the women’s tennis team were named ITA All-Academic honorees for the 2008 Women’s Tennis ITA All-Academic Team

• 19 members of the wrestling team were named to the EWL Academic Honor Roll

• Jonathan Buchanan (men’s swimming) and Kristy Borza (women’s tennis) earned the 2008-09 Big East Institutional Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award

• Conor Lee was named the Big East Football Scholar-Athlete of the Year

• Conor Lee of football was named to the 2007-08 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American Team

• Kelly Campbell and Meagan Dooley of women’s volleyball were named to the 2008 ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District Team

• 25 members of the Pitt Band achieved a 3.0 term GPA or above

• 43 Cheerleaders & Dance team members achieved a 3.0 term GPA or above

“The University of Pittsburgh is a special place, and its student-athletes are truly remarkable people. Our student-athletes are the backbone of what makes our program special and it is their “Big Dreams” that make us all so excited to be a part of the Panther family. Our student-athletes once again reached an impressive level of academic success. In addition to their work in the classroom, our student-athletes were highly active in the community, dedicating over 2,500 hours of community service to over 40 local charitable events and organizations. Our student-athletes have set themselves apart as leaders on campus and in the community.”

- Steve Pederson, Athletic Director

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Big east ConFerenCe

The Big East Conference will mark its 31st season of existence with the 2009-10 academic year. The 16-team league has gone through membership changes over the past three decades but has never been stronger. This season will mark the conference’s fifth year as the nation’s largest NCAA Division I conference.

The goals of the Big East have never changed. The league aims and expects to compete at the highest level and does so with integrity and sportsmanship. The student-athletes of the member schools continue to maintain the league’s proud tradition of success.

5 – Number of new members joining the conference in 2005-06. (University of Cincinnati, DePaul University, University of Louisville, Marquette University and the University of South Florida).

6 – The Big East is one of six conferences that comprise the NCAA Division I football Bowl Championship Series, the highest level of competition in collegiate athletics.

9 – Big East institutions reside in nine of the nation’s largest media markets, including, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Tampa, Pittsburgh, Hartford, Milwaukee and Cincinnati.

16 – Number of institutions that belong to the Big East Conference.

24 – Number of sports the Big East Conference sponsors with the addition of men’s lacrosse in 2009-10.

25% - Coverage area of both the nation’s population and television audience the Big East Conference reaches.

26 – Number of national championships the league has won since opening its doors in 1979.

31 – Years in existence for the Big East Conference.

370 – Over 370 Big East Conference student-athletes have earned academic All-America honors.

550 – Over 550 students-athletes have earned All-America recognition.

5,500 – With its headquarters in Providence, R.I., the conference administers to more than 5,500 student-athletes.

The BIG EAST by the numbers:Big East ConferenceOne of America’s Great Conferences

“The BIG EAST conference reflects a tradition of broad based programs, led by administrators and coaches who place a constant emphasis on academic integrity. Its student athletes own significantly high graduation rates and their record of scholastic achievement notably shows a balance between intercollegiate athletics and academics.”

- bigeast.org

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liFe skills

Life at an active, first-rate university is, among other things, a rehearsal for life to follow. The city of Pittsburgh and its Oakland campus setting – complete with all of its joys and hardships, its competition, exhilaration, hopes and disappointments—can offer a student-athlete many characteristics of the real world following graduation. Created to assist student-athletes with these challenges, the University of Pittsburgh has initiated the Panther Game Plan program, a life skills program for student-athletes which is focused on development.

The mission of the Panther Game Plan is to develop and prepare student-athletes for success while in college and for life after college, utilizing academic, athletic and community resources.

Panther Game Plan

Pitt’s Student-Athlete Life Skills Program

“The Panther Game Plan life skills program provides student-athletes with numerous opportunities to grow and develop beyond the classroom and field of play. Through our services, programs and workshops, Pitt student-athletes will be better prepared for life’s challenges.”

- Penny Semaia, Director of Life Skills

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Initiated in 1995 as one of the pilot programs in the NCAA Champs Life Skills Program, The Panther Game Plan continues to expand its commitment to the offerings and opportunities in the following areas:

Academic AchievementWhile the coaches and the staff of Academic Support Services work timelessly to support our student-athletes in their academic pursuits, the Panther Game Plan contributes to these efforts by providing recognition and supplementary programs.

Athletic AchievementThe Panther Game Plan provides programming to supplement the efforts of our coaches and to assist coaches and staff in the athletic development of Pitt student-athletes.

Career Development and Graduate School PreparationIn collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh’s Career Development Office, the Panther Game Plan provides career and graduate school preparation services to student-athletes.

Community ServiceThe Panther Game Plan is dedicated to engaging student-athletes in experiences that involve the university, local, and national communities through service and exposes them to diverse groups and cultures while increasing awareness about vulnerable populations. In addition to serving the community, the Panther Game Plan utilizes community service as a resource for student-athlete development.

Personal DevelopmentPanther Game Plan programs are designed to develop the whole student-athlete: for success in the classroom, on the field of play and in the community.

Health and WellnessThrough the Panther Game Plan, student-athletes are empowered and encouraged to lead a healthy life style. The Panther Game Plan collaborates with services here at the University of Pittsburgh as well as the nation’s top professionals in their field.

Leadership and Character DevelopmentPanther Game Plan programs assist in shaping good character and building leadership skills. In addition to programming, Pitt student-athletes have an opportunity to participate in national training and development.

Financial EducationFor many college students, personal finance is a new responsibility. Panther Game Plan programs are available to assist student-athletes with developing sound financial practices and habits.

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Strength & Conditioning

Pitt’s strength and conditioning program is designed to improve athletic performance in all facets: strength and flexibility, speed and power, conditioning, agility, nutrition and mental toughness. Each individual student-athlete receives personal instruction, individual attention and a strength and conditioning program based on need. A strength and conditioning coordinator is on hand to provide personal instruction.

PhilosophyThe University of Pittsburgh strength and conditioning program is designed to provide Panthers student-athletes with a coordinated step-by-step, year-round program with the goal of enhancing each student-athlete’s athletic ability and achieving maximum results.

Weight Room and EquipmentWeight rooms are located in Fitzgerald Field House, Petersen Events Center and Duratz Athletic Complex. The weight rooms are conveniently located to provide easy access for student-athletes’ use. The weight room is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment including several power lift Olympic platforms custom made to fit people seven feet tall, York Barbell DB Racks, Body Master, Hammer Strength, Elite Fitness Systems, Free Motion Fitness, PreCore Treadmills, Step Mill, Schwinn Bikes, Versa Climber and Concept II Rower.

Program Design, Goals and Objectives• Increase strength and flexibility

• Develop/increase speed and power

• Increase overall condition

• Improve agility

• Improve position-specific skills

• Increase mental toughness through discipline and competitiveness

• Balance nutrition

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Supreme Care

Athletic Training and Sports MedicineWorking with the University of Pittsburgh student-athletes in the area of sports medicine is a team of athletic trainers and doctors at the UPMC Sports Performance Complex. They provide the University of Pittsburgh student-athletes the best in sports medicine and health care.

Program and ObjectivesThe primary focus of the Athletic Training Services is injury prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation. The sports medicine team utilizes a multidisciplinary approach including athletic training, strength and conditioning, orthopedics and nutrition, to name a few. The program at the University of Pittsburgh is dedicated to providing all the aspects of prevention, evaluation, management and rehabilitation of all injuries and illnesses.

FacilitiesStudent-athletes receive treatment in three athletic training facilities: The Petersen Events Center, Duratz Athletic Complex, and Fitzgerald Field House. The facilities feature a full-size whirlpool, X-Ray capabilities, physician examination room, therapeutic modalities and rehabilitation equipment and is staffed by professionals who provide health care to student-athletes.

UPMC Sports Performance ComplexUniversity of Pittsburgh student-athletes also have access to the UPMC Center for Sports Medicine located on Pittsburgh’s South Side. This clinic provides student-athletes the opportunity to be seen by various medical specialists who are able to combine the resources of a major academic institution and expert clinical services for professional and collegiate sports teams. Specialty areas include sports nutrition, physical therapy, neuromuscular research, as well as X-Ray and magnetic resonance imaging capabilities. The clinic is under the under the direction of the David Silver Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Freddie Fu.

Hospital care is provided at UPMC.

Duratz Athletic Complex Training Center

Fitzgerald Field House Training Center

Petersen Events Center Training Facility

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Mark A. Nordenberg joined the faculty of Pitt’s School of Law in 1977, where he quickly built a reputation as an outstanding teacher. He was the initial recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award now presented annually by the Law School’s graduating class. He also was one of the first faculty members to receive the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, which recognizes teaching excellence university-wide. His area of academic specialty is civil litigation, and he has served as a member of both the U.S. Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on Civil Rules and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Civil Procedural Rules Committee.

Earlier in his career, Chancellor Nordenberg served as Dean of the School of Law and Interim Provost of the University. He has long been an active leader in the broader community, leading efforts focused on such key issues as the proposed consolidation of the city and county governments, the challenges facing the state’s urban schools, the work force development needs of the region, and issues of governance in the city’s public schools. He served as the founding chair or co-chair of such technology-driven economic development initiatives as the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse, the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse, the Robotics Foundry, and the Technology Collaborative. He also is a member of the board of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and a Director of Bank of New York Mellon.

Among many other forms of recognition, Chancellor Nordenberg has been named Pittsburgh’s Person of the Year by both Vector’s Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh magazine. To celebrate the remarkable progress achieved during his first decade as Chancellor, University trustees, alumni leaders and other special friends contributed $2.5 million to endow a faculty chair in his name. This past year, he was named a History Maker in Education by the Senator John Heinz History Center.

This past year also was Mark Nordenberg’s 14th year of service as Chancellor. It was a year of great challenge, as the talented and committed people of Pitt worked to maintain the University’s extraordinary momentum in the face of the unrelenting financial pressures brought by what now has been called the Great Recession. According to Chancellor Nordenberg, some of our greatest satisfactions ultimately will come from knowing that, even in the face of historic challenges, we continued to craft a record of excellence in an institution that is contributing so much to the common good as a leader in education, a pioneer in research and a partner in regional development.

In the face of serious pressures to many of its revenue streams including those associated with the steep decline in the stock market and significant mid-year cuts to its state appropriation the University implemented a series of fiscally prudent steps. These included budget cuts to both academic and support units, the implementation of centralized controls over all new and replacement hiring, a deliberate slowing of the pace of construction projects on all five campuses, and the imposition of an institution-wide salary freeze.

According to Chancellor Nordenberg, what distinguishes Pitt from many other organizations engaged in their own budgetary struggles is that demand for the principal products of the University the highest quality higher education and cutting-edge research has not diminished as a result of the recession but continues to grow. And during the past year, well informed observers, both at a distance and close to home, publicly advanced what has long been one of the Chancellor’s main messages that Pitt’s progress is essential to the economic health and social vitality of the entire region.

Mark A. Nordenberg

Chancellor of the University and Distinguished Service

Professor of Law

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Chancellor Mark Nordenberg and wife Dr. Nikki Nordenberg

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A favorable front-page article in The New York Times positively described Pittsburgh’s passage to an economy grounded in university-based research. Miami Herald column enviously identified research as the foundation for our transformation into a Knowledge City. The Cleveland Plain Dealer analyzed lessons from Pittsburgh’s renaissance, with one respected commentator, who knows both cities well, concluding that there is a growing gulf between Cleveland and Pittsburgh in higher education and stating that Cleveland does not have the equivalent of a Pitt, which was described as a big engine, both regionally and nationally.

One of the most intriguing assessments was offered in a New York Times column on brainy cities. Its author concluded, Brainy cities have low divorce rates, low crime, high job creation, ethnic diversity, and creative capitalism. They are places like Pittsburgh, with its top-notch universities.

Locally, a highly respected analyst of regional economic trends writing in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, confirmed that this region had been more successful than most in weathering the recession because fully one-fifth of the jobs in the Pittsburgh region are in the two most recession resistant sectors: health care and higher education. In fact, the education and health services sector has become the region’s largest employment sector and is the only sector that has added jobs each and every year since 1995.

During the past year, the University continued to rise in the ranks of the country’s finest universities. Some dimensions of its progress can be measured quantitatively. For example:

• Applications for admission to the undergraduate programs on the Pittsburgh campus soared past the 21,600 mark a dramatic rise when compared to either the 7,800 applications received in 1995 or the 20,600 received just last year.

• Pitt moved into fifth place nationally in terms of the research grants competitively won by members of its faculty from the National Institutes of Health. That NIH top-ten, in rank order, now consists of Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Penn, the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), Pitt, Michigan, Washington, UCLA, Duke and Washington University in St. Louis, which is very good company.

• According to rankings released by the National Science Foundation, Pitt also ranks among the top-ten universities nationally in terms of total federal science and engineering research and development support. That top-ten consists of Johns Hopkins, Washington, Michigan, Penn, UCLA, Duke, Columbia, Stanford, UCSF and Pitt.

Total annual research expenditures for the University passed the $650 million mark last year. A national study released last fall utilized methods developed by the U.S. Department of Commerce to conclude that every $1 million in R&D spending generates 36 jobs. Through its research spending alone, then, Pitt supports some 23,500 local jobs.

Of course, it is the growing quality of the University’s programs that keeps all of these numbers rising and that has become the defining characteristic of its institutional distinction. Not only is the number of applications for admission soaring, but the academic accomplishments of enrolled students is growing in strength, and the performance of those students is a source of great pride. During the past year, for example, Pitt undergraduates claimed such high national honors as a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Goldwater Scholarships and Humanity in Action Fellowships further cementing the University’s position as one of the country’s leading producers of high-achieving students.

Faculty members not only attracted financial support for their work but received high honors for their achievements. Among the special forms of recognition received during the past year were election to the American Academy of Arts and Science, the Institute of Medicine, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Nursing and the American Educational Research Association. Other high honors included the National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award, the American Cancer Society Research Professor Award and the James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History. It also was a year in which the great potential of less senior faculty members was recognized through highly selective early career awards made by both the Alfred Sloan Foundation and the Pew Foundation.

Of course, it also was a very special year for Pitt sports. Our football team claimed nine regular-season wins and earned the right to play in the Sun Bowl. Our women’s basketball team made it to the Sweet Sixteen round of the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive year. And our men’s basketball team claimed the program’s first-ever number one national ranking, its first-ever number one NCAA tournament seed and advanced to the Elite Eight. In the process, Coach Jamie Dixon broke a 57-year-old record by claiming the most wins by an NCAA Division I head coach in his first six seasons and was named the Naismith Men’s College Basketball Coach of the Year.

Chancellor Nordenberg has long been a strong and enthusiastic supporter of Pitt athletics. He is a past Chair of the Big East Conference and a past member of the NCAA’s board and executive committee. He continues to serve on the Big East executive committee and recently served as co-chair of its search for a new commissioner. Chancellor Nordenberg also serves as the Big East Conference representative to the Presidential Oversight Committee of the Bowl Championship Series.

Born in Duluth, Minnesota, Chancellor Nordenberg first moved to this region as a high school senior, when his father was transferred to Pittsburgh by U.S. Steel. He is an honors graduate of North Allegheny High School, Thiel College and the University of Wisconsin Law School. He has been married for 38 years to Nikki Pirillo Nordenberg, who earned her Ph.D. at Pitt. The Nordenbergs have three adult children Erin, Carl and Michael.

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The key to accomplishment, Pederson believes, is aspiration — the Panthers will work hard and aim high in every endeavor. That philosophy resonates with each Pitt student-athlete and staffer, and is the driving spirit behind his department mantra of “Only Big Dreams.”

Pederson has Pitt dreaming big again for 2009-10.

On the eve of the new academic year, he announced an exciting partnership with Nike that will make the Panthers one of the finest outfitted programs in the country. Each of the Panthers’ 19 intercollegiate sports teams will wear Nike footwear, uniforms, practice gear and equipment. The long-term partnership will outfit more than 450 student-athletes at the University of Pittsburgh.

Also kick-starting the year has been the continued progress being made in the construction of an Olympic Sports Complex at the peak of upper campus. The complex will transform 12 acres of land and result in state-of-the-art facilities for Pitt’s baseball, softball, men’s and women’s soccer, and men’s and women’s track and field programs. This initiative will not only give Pitt student-athletes nationally competitive facilities, but also rejuvenate an untapped area that neighbors the University of Pittsburgh campus.

To those familiar with Pederson’s first tour at Pitt, the tremendous momentum of the past 18 months comes as no surprise.

During his initial Pitt tenure, Pederson hired six Big East Conference Coach-of-the-Year honorees (football, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, track and field and volleyball), an unprecedented achievement by a Big East athletic director.

In 1999 he charged an unknown coach from Northern Arizona University with the task of resurrecting the Panthers’ struggling men’s basketball program. That coach, Ben Howland, would build Pitt into a Big East power and was named the consensus National Coach of the Year in 2002.

Pitt, which had not been to the NCAA Tournament in nine years, advanced to the “Sweet 16” in 2002 after posting a school-record 29 victories. The following season, Pitt would reach No. 2 in the polls, capture its first Big East Tournament championship and again advance to the NCAA regional semifinals. Since that time, Pitt basketball has become one of the nation’s most consistent winners, advancing to eight consecutive NCAA Tournaments from 2002-2009.

Current Pitt basketball coach Jamie Dixon, the 2009 Naismith National Coach of the Year, recalled how instrumental Pederson was in helping to lure him to Pittsburgh to serve with Howland a decade ago.

“Steve was the person who originally convinced me to come to the University of Pittsburgh back in 1999,” Dixon said. “He has continued to be a tremendous friend and a person I have regularly sought out for advice and direction over the years…Everyone in our department is going to benefit from his leadership.”

Pitt football also was renewed under Pederson’s watch. Upon his arrival, the Panthers were coming off seven consecutive seasons without a bowl. By the end of his tenure, Pitt earned four bowl berths in six years, including back-to-back postseason wins in 2001 and 2002. The ’02 team finished 9-4, the program’s best mark in 20 years, and ranked No. 18 in the final polls.

One of the stars of that 2002 team was receiver Larry Fitzgerald, who would become a unanimous All-American and now is an All-Pro performer for the Arizona Cardinals.

Steve PedersonAthletic Director

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There is an unmistakable briskness in Steve Pederson’s walk. It is a stride that conveys this clearly is a man on the move.

Spend 10 minutes talking to him about the state of Pitt Athletics and you understand his enthusiasm to get from place to place.

This past March was a perfect example. In the span of three days, Pederson flew between a pair of men’s and women’s NCAA Tournament sites, where Pitt’s nationally ranked teams were competing, and back to Pittsburgh for the beginning of spring football practice.

The Pitt athletic director wouldn’t have it any other way.

Pederson’s many travels by planes, trains and automobiles mean the Panthers are going to some exciting places. That was especially true during the 2008-09 academic year.

The University of Pittsburgh was one of only four institutions nationally to have its football team advance to a bowl game, its men’s basketball team reach the NCAA’s Elite Eight and its women’s basketball team make the Sweet 16. (The others were Connecticut, Oklahoma and Michigan State.)

Each of those three Pitt teams were fixtures in the Top 25 last year. Men’s basketball, in fact, reached No. 1 in the polls — twice — for the first time in school history. The women’s basketball team finished with a No. 15 ranking, matching its highest final rating ever.

Individually, Pitt student-athletes earned All-America and Academic All-America honors, while continuing to graduate and achieve in the classroom at unprecedented levels.

But, as Pederson likes to say, “As great as the past has been at Pitt, the future is even brighter. I get up every morning so excited to come to work at this great university.”

Pederson enters his ninth year as Pitt athletic director. His initial tenure, from 1996-2002, was characterized by a dramatic revitalization of the Panthers’ fortunes – on and off the fields of play. His return to the university in November 2007 gave the Pitt Athletic Department an instant shot of adrenaline that continues to be felt two years later.

His ability to galvanize people and programs prompted Pitt chancellor Mark Nordenberg to say, “In my judgment, and this assessment is shared by countless others, Steve Pederson is one of this country’s most talented and accomplished athletic directors.”

The Pederson Family: Son Mark with wife Brooke, daughters Kristin and Kari with Tami and Steve.

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the UPMC Sports Performance Complex where both Pitt and the Steelers run their football operations.”

Fitzgerald Field House underwent a major renovation in 1998-99, providing Pitt’s Olympic sports programs with new locker and training facilities. Trees Field also underwent major upgrades to accommodate both baseball and Pitt’s new softball program.

During his five years at Nebraska (2002-07), Pederson was also at the forefront of significant facilities construction, including a $51 million expansion to Memorial Stadium. The project resulted in new football facilities as well as new strength, sports medicine and indoor facilities for baseball, softball, soccer and sand volleyball. Additionally, the women’s volleyball, gymnastics and rifle teams received a new office complex. Athletics fundraising doubled over his final four years, going from $9 million annually in 2003 to $16 million his final year.

Nebraska achieved at exceptional levels athletically and academically during his tenure. In 2006-07, the Cornhuskers won the national championship in women’s volleyball, while the football team won the 2006 Big 12 North title and advanced to its first New Year’s Day bowl game since 2001. Overall, 15 Nebraska teams earned NCAA invitations. Academically, Nebraska earned a school-record 94% graduation rate, the highest in the Big 12 as Cornhusker student-athletes achieved a combined 3.0 grade-point average during the 2007 spring semester.

Pederson and his wife Tami have three children: Mark, Kari and Kristin. Mark was married to the former Brooke Gillette in July 2009.

“When I decided to go to Pitt, it was for many reasons – a great school, a great football tradition and great people,” Fitzgerald said. “Steve Pederson was one of those great people who made me feel like Pitt was the place for me. I couldn’t be happier that Steve is back.”

While Pederson was instrumental in helping to revive Pitt football’s present, he was very attentive to honoring the program’s historic past. One of his first major steps as athletic director was to retire the jerseys of all-time Pitt greats Mike Ditka, Marshall Goldberg and Joe Schmidt. Pederson later initiated the Pitt jersey retirement of Mark May, the Panthers’ lone Outland Trophy winner.

Pitt enjoyed tremendous achievements in attendance under Pederson. In NCAA Division I men’s basketball, Pitt ranked among the nation’s top five schools in attendance increase for two consecutive years (2001-02 and 2002-03). The 2002-03 basketball season – the inaugural campaign in the 12,508-seat Petersen Events Center – was sold out. Capitalizing on the exciting and unanticipated success of the 2001-02 basketball team, Pitt held a highly successful “select your seat” campaign for prospective season-ticket holders that simultaneously achieved customer satisfaction as well as enhanced fundraising.

In football, Pederson formed a marketing and ticket pricing plan that resulted in record attendance for the 2003 season. Season tickets were soldout for the ’03 campaign as the Panthers averaged an all-time record 59,197 fans for their home season, surpassing the previous mark of 54,818 set in 1982.

Pederson’s tenure witnessed a major strengthening of Pitt’s athletic infrastructure. With Chancellor Nordenberg, he helped shape the vision of the Petersen Events Center, the state-of-the-art convocation center that dramatically revolutionized Pitt’s campus upon its opening in 2002.

The Events Center is widely considered one of the finest college basketball venues in the country and has also been a major asset for student life, providing outstanding recreational facilities and a fitting place for graduation ceremonies.

Pederson was at the forefront of the football program’s move into the UPMC Sports Performance Complex, which included the forging of a unique relationship between UPMC, a professional sports franchise and college athletic program. He personally oversaw the design and layout of the Panthers’ Duratz Athletic Complex, which houses Pitt’s football offices and training areas, and has been described as the finest facility for a college football program in the country.

Pitt football gained a sparkling new home in Heinz Field under Pederson’s watch in 2001.The Panthers gained a prominent presence at the new stadium with their logos on the seating, gates and signage. Pederson additionally initiated the renaming of Martindale Street to “Tony Dorsett Drive” to further enhance Pitt’s identity on the North Shore.

“Steve Pederson made many important contributions during his first tenure as Pitt’s athletic director from which the university is still seeing the benefits today,” said Pittsburgh Steelers chairman Dan Rooney. “He played an integral role in the development of Heinz Field and

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“As great as the past has been at Pitt, the future is even brighter. I get up every morning so excited to come to work at this great university.”

- Steve Pederson Athletic Director

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Date Opponent Site TimeThursday, Aug. 20 CALIFORNIA, PA (Exh.) Founders Field 11 a.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 25 at Duquesne (Exh.) Pittsburgh, PA. 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 26 ST. FRANCIS, PA. (Exh.) Founders Field 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 1 at Robert Morris Moon Township, PA 4 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 4 vs. Buffalo Morgantown, W.Va. 5 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 6 vs. UC-Santa Barbara Morgantown, W.Va. 11 a.m.

Friday, Sept. 11 GREEN BAY Founders Field 7 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 13 LaSALLE Founders Field 1 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 18 at *Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio 5 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 20 at *Louisville Louisville, Ky. 1 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 25 *DePAUL Founders Field 7 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 27 *SOUTH FLORIDA Founders Field 1 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 3 *PROVIDENCE Founders Field 1 p.m.

West Virginia Tournament

Pitt/Robert Morris Invitational Tournament

*denotes Big East Conference games CAPS AND BOLD DENOTES HOME GAMES

All times are Eastern All home games played at Founders Field, Indianola, Pa. Directions to the field

can be obtained on www.pittsburghpanthers.com (click on travel).

Date Opponent Site TimeTuesday, Oct. 6 *WEST VIRGINIA Founders Field 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 10 at *Georgetown Washington, D.C. 1 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 17 at *Connecticut Storrs, Conn. 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 21 CLEVELAND STATE Founders Field 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 24 *NOTRE DAME Founders Field 1 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 28 *SETON HALL Founders Field 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 31 at *Marquette Milwaukee, Wis. 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 4 Big East First Round campus sites TBA

Saturday, Nov. 7 Big East Quarterfinal campus sites TBA

Friday, Nov. 13 Big East Semifinal Morgantown, W.Va. TBA

Sunday, Nov. 15 Big East Championship Morgantown, W.Va. TBA

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