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Dan Dakich was named interim head coach of the Hoosiers on February 22. He returned to Bloomington this past summer as Director of Basketball Operations and was named an assistant coach in October.

The Indiana native began a 16-year association with the IU program in the fall of 1981 after graduating from Andrean High School in Merrillville.

He played for the Hoosiers and Coach Bob Knight from 1982-85 and was a team captain during his junior and senior seasons as the Hoosiers finished with an 84-39 record during his career. As a player, he helped Indiana win one Big Ten title, earn three NCAA Tournament berths and finish as the NIT runner-up his senior season. As a junior, he was named All-Tournament at the Indiana Classic and as a senior he earned similar accolades at the Hoosier Classic. He is best remembered for his excellent defensive effort against Michael Jordan in Indiana’s upset of North Carolina in the 1984 NCAA East Regional.

Dakich also spent 12 seasons on the IU coaching staff under Coach Knight from 1985-97. Dakich helped the Indiana program win 73.7 percent (283-101) of its games over the 12 years he served as an assistant coach while the Hoosiers were winning over 70 percent of their Big Ten contests. He was a graduate assistant from 1985-87 before being named full-time prior to the 1987-88 campaign.

The Hoosiers won a national title in 1987 and earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament in each of his 12 seasons on the staff. IU also captured four Big Ten titles while finishing third or better in nine of his 12 years.

He also coached six All-Americans and three national Player of the Year candidates, including 1993 Player of the Year Calbert Cheaney, worked with three Big Ten MVPs, and academically, graduated every four-year player to go through the program (Dakich was the academic monitor on the IU basketball staff his last seven years). He also coached 10 players at IU who have played in the NBA.

Dakich returns to Bloomington after spending the last 10 years as the men’s basketball coach at Bowling Green. At BGSU, he tied for third all-time in victories among Falcon coaches with 156 and also was just one of three coaches in school history to post four 18-plus win seasons or more in men’s basketball. He saw 22 of 25 seniors complete their degree requirements and had 12 former players sign professional contracts, in-

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cluding former Indiana Pacers guard Keith McLeod. In addition, he had two players earn MAC Player of the Year honors and three lead the league in scoring during his tenure.

His 2000 squad won the regular season MAC title and played in the NIT and in 2002 his team advanced to the MAC Tournament title game and also played in the NIT. Dakich also was heavily involved in community activi-ties. He ran the Junior Falcons basketball program, a league for children ages 7 thru 14. He also was involved with the United Way, Cherry Street Mission and Make-A-Wish program.

Dakich, who was one of 16 former prep players chosen for the 2006 In-diana Basketball Hall of Fame High School Silver Anniversary team, is a 1985 graduate of IU with a degree in telecommunications. He and his wife, Jackie, have a son, Andrew (13), and a daughter, Laura (10).

THE DAKICH FILE

PErsonALDate of Birth August 17, 1962Hometown Merrillville, IndianaWife JackieChildren Andrew, LauraHigh School Andrean High School Merrillville, Indiana (1981)College Indiana University 1985, Bloomington, Indiana B.A., Telecommunications

CoACHIng ExPErIEnCEIndiana University1985-87 Graduate Assistant CoachIndiana University1987-97 Assistant CoachBowling Green State University1997-07 Head CoachIndiana University2007 Director of Basketball Operations2007-08 Assistant Coach2008 Interim Head Coach

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BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITYYear Record Year Record1997-98 10-16 2002-03 13-161998-99 18-10 2003-04 14-171999-00 22-9 2004-05 18-112000-01 15-14 2005-06 9-212001-02 24-9 2006-07 13-18

BGSU TOTAL: 156-140

INDIANA UNIVERSITYYear Overall Big Ten2007-08 3-3 3-2

CAREER TOTAL: 159-143, 3-2 Big Ten

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Indiana native Ray McCallum was named Assistant Head Coach on Febru-ary 22, in the middle of his second year at Indiana.

The Ball State graduate has more than 20 years of coaching experience, including two stints as a head coach at the Division I level. Additionally, McCallum spent the two years prior to Indiana as an assistant coach at Oklahoma.

McCallum has helped IU and OU to a combined 66-28 record and three NCAA Tournament appearances and has helped land top-10 recruiting classes at both schools. Prior to going to OU, McCallum was the head coach at Houston from 2000-04.

In 2001-02, he led the Cougars to an 18-15 mark and a berth in the NIT, Houston’s first postseason tournament appearance since the 1992-93 sea-son. Houston finished 9-7 in Conference USA’s National Division that year, and advanced to the league’s tournament semifinal for the first time.

During his stay in UH, McCallum played an integral role in the development of Andre Owens, who is with the Indiana Pacers. Overall, he has coached eight NBA players during their collegiate career.

McCallum made his head coaching debut at Ball State, where the Cardi-nals posted a 126-76 record from 1993-00. McCallum directed Ball State to two NCAA Tournament appearances and an NIT berth and became the first coach in Ball State history to post seven consecutive winning sea-sons.

In 1999-2000, McCallum directed the Cardinals to a 22-9 record and the Mid-American Conference’s (MAC) Western Division championship. Ball State captured the MAC Tournament title that year to earn an automatic NCAA Tournament bid. When he left BSU, his .624 winning percentage rated as fourth-best in the 53-year history of the MAC. During his head coaching career at Ball State, McCallum recruited and coached Bonzi Wells, who has had a long NBA career. McCallum briefly joined the coach-ing staff at Michigan in 1993 before accepting the Ball State head coach-ing job.

McCallum started his full-time coaching career as an assistant at Wiscon-sin in 1984. The Badgers had won only 63 games the six seasons before McCallum joined the program. He helped reverse the trend when the Bad-gers were selected to play in the 1989 NIT -- Wisconsin’s first postseason

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tournament showing since the 1947 NCAA Tournament.One of the most illustrious players in Ball State history, McCallum graduat-ed as the MAC’s all-time scoring leader and became the first BSU athlete to have his jersey retired in any sport. McCallum led his team in scoring all four years.

Born in West Memphis, Ark., and raised in Muncie, Ind., McCallum won Indiana state titles at Muncie Central High School in 1978 and ‘79 before earning his Ball State degree in industrial technology, and his wife, Wendy, are the parents of a daughter, Brittany ,and a son, Ray Michael.

THE McCALLUM FILE

PErsonALDate of Birth March 6, 1961Hometown West Memphis, Ark. (Raised in Muncie, Ind.)Wife WendyChildren Brittany, Ray MichaelHigh School Muncie Central Muncie, Ind. (1979)College Ball State University Muncie, Ind., 1983 B.S., Industrial Technology

CoACHIng ExPErIEnCEBall State University1983-84 Volunteer Assistant CoachUniversity of Wisconsin1984-93 Assistant CoachUniversity Michigan1993 Assistant CoachBall State University1993-2000 Head CoachUniversity of Houston2000-04 Head CoachUniversity of Oklahoma2004-06 Assistant CoachIndiana University2006-08 Assistant Coach

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BALL STATE UNIVERSITYYear Record Year Record1993-94 16-12 1997-98 21-81994-95 19-11 1998-99 16-111995-96 16-12 1999-2000 22-91996-97 16-13

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONYear Overall 2000-01 9-202001-02 18-152002-03 8-202003-04 9-18

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Jeff Meyer is in his second season at Indiana University and offers nearly 30 years of coaching experience to the Hoosier program.

The Reynolds, Ind., native works with the Hoosier guards and is known as an outstanding recruiter and game strategist. His ties in Indiana were es-sential in helping IU register a top-10 recruiting class last year.

Meyer has had experience on every level and has developed expertise in every aspect of what it takes to run a top-flight program. From augment-ing relationships in recruiting to speaking with the media, Meyer has the knowledge and experience to get the job done.

Prior to his arrival at Indiana, Meyer spent two seasons at the University of Missouri under former head coach Quin Snyder. He has been a winner at every level throughout his career, as Meyer’s squads have registered a 505-331 (.609) overall record and have qualified for postseason play 11 times, including seven NCAA Tournament (one Final Four and one Sweet 16) and four National Invitation Tournament appearances.

The 1976 graduate of Taylor University went to Mizzou following three sea-sons at Butler University in Indianapolis. During Meyer’s time at Butler, the Bulldogs were Horizon League Champions in both 2002 and 2003, and advanced to the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 in 2003. Butler registered a 69-26 mark during his three seasons on the staff and 12 of the program’s 13 student-athletes who exhausted the eligibility at BU went on to earn their degrees.

Meyer spearheaded the recruiting efforts at BU and played a vital role in the Bulldog’s player-skill development program, game preparation and strategy.

ASSISTANT COACH

JEFF MEYER

Prior to his time at Butler, Meyer helped the Winthrop Eagles win three straight Big South Conference championships and make three consecu-tive appearances in the NCAA Tournament from 1999-2001 as associate head coach. He also helped foster an outstanding commitment to aca-demics at Winthrop, as eight of nine student-athletes who matriculated through the program earned their degree.

Meyer also brings experience as a head coach to the table. In 16 years at Liberty University, he registered a 259-206 mark and led the Flames to the 1994 Big South Conference Tournament championship and a bid to the NCAA Tournament. He guided Liberty to a 23-9 record and a first-place tie for the Big South regular season championship in 1996-97 and became instrumental in helping Liberty make the transition from NAIA to NCAA Division I.

In addition to his outstanding efforts as a head coach on the floor, Meyer’s program also produced successful individuals in the classroom where it registered a 90-percent graduation rate (45 of 50 student-athletes) from 1981 to 1997. Meyer is Liberty’s all-time winningest coach.

Meyer began his career as an assistant to Lee Rose at Purdue Univer-sity from 1978-80, where he earned his master’s degree. During his time in West Lafayette, Ind., he helped the Boilermakers reach the NCAA Fi-nal Four in 1980 following a Big Ten regular-season co-championship and NIT final appearance in 1979. Meyer then joined Rose at the University of South Florida during the 1980-81 season, helping the Bulls to an appear-ance in the NIT.

Meyer and his wife Karen are the parents of two daughters, Holli Torrie and Sarah, and a son, Josh.

Travis Steele is in his second season at Indiana and was promoted to as-sistant coach on February 25 after serving as the Hoosiers video coordina-tor.

A 2004 Butler University cum laude graduate with a bachelor’s degree in business, Steele served as an assistant basketball coach at Ben Davis High School during his undergraduate career. He helped Ben Davis to the 2002 Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference title and the 2003 sectional crown.

ASSISTANT COACH

TRAVIS STEELE

Following graduation from Butler, he enrolled in graduate school at Ohio State University and served as a graduate assistant to Thad Matta. The Buckeyes posted a 20-12 record in 2004-05, including upset victories over then-No. 1 Illinois and No. 14 Iowa.

Steele continued his coaching career as an assistant at Wabash Valley College in Mt. Carmel, Ill., in 2005-06. The Warriors recorded a 16-6 mark and advanced to the second round of the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region XXIV Tournament.

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Tim Garl is in his 27th year as Indiana’s men’s basketball trainer.

Garl is a regular speaker at both national and international sports medi-cine programs, including numerous presentations in Asia, South America, Europe and most recently at the European Basketball Championships in Spain.

Garl has served on the United States Olympic Committee’s Sports Medicine Committee since 1988. He is the longest serving member of this group. He was recently reappointed and will serve through the Beijing Olympics. As a result of the appointment, he travels to sporting events where the USOC sponsors teams and reviews and advises in various areas of Sports Medi-cine quality of care issues.

He has recently traveled to events in Palma De Mallorca, Spain, Beijing, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and Izmir, Turkey. Garl was on the road again this summer attending the Pan American Games in Rio de Ja-neiro, Brazil and the World University Games in Bangkok, Thailand.

He has also published several articles about sports medicine issues and basketball injuries. He, along with team physician Larry Rink, M.D., and Bloomington physician Tom Hrisomalos, M.D., authored the U.S. Olympic Committee’s position paper on Blood Born Pathogens and Sports Partici-pation. This was the first widely accepted position paper dealing with the

ATHLETIC TRAINER

TIM GARL

subject. A native of Elkhart, Ind., he served as a student athletic trainer (1975-78) for legendary football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant while complet-ing an undergraduate degree at Alabama. In 1978, Garl was hired at Mis-sissippi, where he served as assistant athletic trainer for all of the Rebels’ men’s sports. He also completed a master’s degree in administration at Ole Miss and completed an MPA degree in health systems management at Indiana in 1989.

Garl has worked with numerous United States basketball teams in interna-tional competition, including the 1984 gold medal men’s Olympic team and the 1986 FIBA World Championship team.

During the summer of 1996, Garl was appointed chairman of the USOC’s Olympic Sports Medicine Society, the alumni group of the USOC Medical Division, becoming the first non-physician to lead that organization. He also serves as a consultant to the U.S. Antidoping Agency.

Certified by the National Athletic Trainers Association and licensed by the state of Indiana,

Garl was also recently selected to the board of directors for the College Athletic Trainers Society. Garl and his wife, Jennifer, have three daughters (Emily, Meg and Haley).

Jeff Watkinson is in his second season as Indiana’s men’s basketball strength and conditioning coordinator. Watkinson specializes in strength training, athletic development, conditioning and nutritional guidance. The Chicago, Ill., native obtained his master’s degree in exercise science in 1996 from IU.

Watkinson returns to Bloomington after spending five seasons at Missouri as the director of strength and conditioning for the men’s basketball team. Prior to Missouri, he worked at Clemson (1999-2001), Charlotte (1997-99) and College of Charleston (1996-97).

STRENGTH COACH

JEFF WATKINSON

Watkinson began his college studies in 1989 at Kishwaukee College in Il-linois, where he was a member of the baseball team while earning an as-sociate’s degree in pre-medicine. He then earned a baseball scholarship to North Carolina State University.

He played two years with the Wolfpack baseball team (1991-1993) and graduated with a pre-medicine degree in 1993. Watkinson obtained cer-tification with the National Strength and Conditioning Association during his stint at IU.

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Bilal Batley is in his first season as a graduate man-ager for the Hoosiers. The native of Houston comes to IU after spending two years as a student manager at Oklahoma and three years as a student assistant at Navarro (Texas) College.

For seven summers, Batley served as an assistant coach/personal assis-tant at the John Lucas Pre Draft Camp in Houston where he assisted with player skill development, practice schedules, advising and training.

He also has been CEO and Camp Director of Dynasty Basketball since 2006. He earned a bachelor’s degree from OU in sociology in 2007 and an associates degree from Navarro in 2004.

GRADUATE MANAGER

BILAL BATLEY

Kellen Sampson begins his first season as a gradu-ate manager for the Indiana staff. He will help in all facets of the program while he pursues a master’s degree in sports marketing from the University.

Sampson comes to IU after playing three seasons at Oklahoma, including two for his father (2004-05 and 2005-06). He earned first-team Academic All-Big XII honors in 2007 and received from the team The Roy Marler/Hollis Price Most Inspirational Award. Even more impressive is that at a young age, Sampson showed his leadership skills in the community. He spent two weeks on a mission in Liberia in May 2006 as a member of The Shine Foundation, a group he served as a board member. In addition, he served on OU’s Student-Athlete Advisory Council. For his efforts, he was honored by his team with the Brent Price Connection To The Community Award last year.

The son of Kelvin and Karen Sampson was born in Butte, Mont. He gradu-ated with honors with a degree in communication last spring joining his sister, Lauren, as a graduate of Oklahoma.

GRADUATE MANAGER

KELLEN SAMPSON

Dr. Steve Ahlfeld is in his 23rd year as the basketball team’s orthopedic surgeon. He has practiced ortho-pedic surgery and sports medicine in Indianapolis since 1984. He owns the Ahlfeld Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center in Indianapolis.

Ahlfeld was a guard on Hoosier teams from 1972-75. He received his bachelor’s degree in 1975 and his M.D. in 1979 from Indiana.

Ahlfeld has been a speaker at numerous national and international meet-ings related to sports medicine. He is currently involved in a national study on articular cartilage injuries to the knee. Additionally, he has au-thored multiple national publications related to sports medicine and ortho-pedic surgery. He was the chief medical officer for basketball at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis. He recently was a panelist for a national symposium on basketball injuries, presented by the American College of Sports Medicine.

He and his wife Helen have two sons, Adam and Chris. Adam is a guard for the Hoosiers.

ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON

DR. STEVE AHLFELD

Dr. Larry Rink is in his 28th season with the Indiana Basketball program. He initiated cardiovascular testing on IU players in 1980 and is considered a pioneer in this area. Rink practices cardiology and sports medicine in Bloomington. He is a graduate of Indiana University’s School of Medicine and completed his internal medicine and cardiovas-cular fellowship at IU. He is currently a professor of medicine with the IU School of Medicine.

Rink has worked with the Pan American Games, U.S. Olympic Trials, Olym-pic Sports Festivals, World University Games and was selected as the United States Team Physician for the XXV Olympiad in Barcelona, Spain.Dr. Rink now serves as President of the FISU Medical Commission head-quartered in Brussels, Belgium. The Commission manages medical care and doping control for all international university sport competitions.

He also serves as the Medical Director for IU Sports Medicine Program in Bloomington. In 1999, Rink received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the IU Alumni Association.

TEAM PHYSICIAN

DR. LARRY RINK

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J.D. Campbell is in his first year as Director of Media Relations where he will serve as the day-to-day me-dia contact for the men’s basketball program. Camp-bell, 44, comes to Bloomington after spending the last seven years at Bowling Green, where he served as Assistant Athletics Director for Communications.

A native of Las Vegas, Nev., Campbell received his bachelor’s degree in communications from Kansas Newman in 1986, and his master’s degree in sports administration from Xavier in 1994. He was an All-American base-ball player at Newman in 1985 and also played two seasons of college baseball at Taft (Calif.) College.

Campbell came to BGSU from Emporia State , where he was Director of University Public Affairs and Marketing (2000) for one year and SID for six years (1993-99). Campbell began his career as the SID at Johnson County CC from 1986-89 and was sports information and promotions coordinator at Northern Kentucky from 1989-93.

Campbell and his wife, Kerri, are the parents of two boys, Jon (15) and Christopher (12).

DIRECTOR OF MEDIARELATIONS

J.D. CAMPBELL

Marty Richter, who has served as an assistant coach at Chipola Junior College for the past year, is in his first year as IU’s video coordinator.

Richter had been an assistant coach on interim head coach Dan Dakich’s staff from 2003-2007 at Bowling Green. Richter was involved in many as-pects of the program, of which included; team travel, scouting, academ-ics and the Junior Falcons program. He came to BGSU in 2003 where he served as the team’s administrative assistant and was promoted to full-time status in the summer of 2004.

He also served two years (2001-2003) as a graduate assistant coach at The University of South Dakota. He helped the Coyotes have two consecutive 19 win seasons. He also was an assistant coach at Simpson for two years (1999-2001).

He played for Simpson from 1995-99 when the team rolled up an 80-23 record. He earned a degree in physical education from Simpson and a master’s in athletic administration from the University of South Dakota.

VIDEO COORDINATOR

MARTY RICHTER

B.J. McElroy is in her 32nd year at Indiana University. McElroy is the assistant to interim head coach Dan Dakich, as well as assisting with the daily aspects of the IU Basketball program.

This is her 27th year in the IU Basketball Office. McElroy has a son, Jim (28), and a daughter, Courtney (24).

ASSISTANT TO THE HEAD COACH

B.J. McELROY

Beth McLaughlin is in her second year as a basket-ball office assistant, where she provides administra-tive assistance to the coaching staff.

Beth is in her fifth year at IU, as she has also worked in the ticket office and as an administrative assistant in the Director of Athletics office. She is a native of Lawrenceburg, Ind.

OFFICE ASSISTANT

BETH McLAUGHLIN

TEAM MANAGERS

ChristopherNusbaum

KyleWalters

MichaelSanta

JoshLee

JeremyGrowe

MatthewRyder

BrianRoberts