Barnes Earns
All-America Honors
By Brady Smith
The
National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) has honored
WVU women's soccer player Katie Barnes as a 2001 first-team all-American.
She is the first women's soccer player in Mountaineer history
to garner all-America honors.
Barnes had a stellar 2001 campaign in which she extended her legacy by capturing her second straight Big East offensive player of the year award. She also was named NSCAA first-team all-Mid-Atlantic region.
The Mason, Ohio, native led the Mountaineers with 34 points while setting new WVU marks for assists (10) and shots (113) in a single season. The senior now holds or is tied for an astounding 19 school records. She was a two-time Big East player of the year pick.
Barnes was the catalyst of a WVU team that reached its first Big East final, losing to Notre Dame 1-2, and made its second consecutive appearance in the NCAA tournament, losing to Miami of Ohio 0-1. The Mountaineers finished with a 15-5-1 mark, tying a WVU record for wins in a season set in 2000.
Two Join the 1,000-Point Club
WVU senior guard Lionel Armstead, the "Little Train," has chugged past 1,000. On January 9 against Notre Dame, the Toledo, Ohio, native became the 38th player in WVU basketball history to crack the 1,000-point mark, and the first since Marcus Goree did it early in the 2000 season. Veteran coach Gale Catlett had yet another 1,000-point scorer in senior forward Chris Moss, a Chesterfield, Virginia, native. The 6'8" Moss broke the 1,000-point mark against Rutgers on January 27. Moss also topped the 500-rebound mark for his career in West Virginia's season opener against UNC Asheville.
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Rich Rodriguez
Has Poor First Year
With a whole new
look on offense, defense, and special teams, Coach Rich Rodriguez's
first season as West Virginia's head football coach was, at best,
a learning process.
The 2001 football team posted a 3-8 record that included an upset
by the Temple Owls. Two of the victories came against Mid-American
Conference opponents, and the third was the Homecoming win over
Big East Conference foe Rutgers. In the November Backyard Brawl
against Pittsburgh, the Mountaineers let a 17-17 tie at the end
of the third quarter become a 23-17 defeat.
One of few bright spots in the grim season was the play of running
back Avon Cobourne, who was named the team's Most Valuable Player
after gaining more than 1,000 yards rushing for the third consecutive
season.
Alumni Receive School of Physical Education Honors
By Jim Davis
The WVU School of Physical Education has
inducted three distinguished Mountaineers into its Hall of Fame,
and honored one of its graduates with the 2001 Outstanding Alumnus
Award.
Gene Corum, a former WVU head football coach, was honored
as an Outstanding Alumnus. Actress Susan Barnes, educator J.
William Douglas, and high school coach Sam Mandich received the
Hall of Fame honor.
Gene Corum coached the Mountaineer football
team from 1960 to 1965 and led the 1964 team to the Liberty Bowl.
Before that, he was an assistant coach under Art "Pappy"
Lewis for nine years. He joined the School of P.E. faculty full-time
in 1966 and has been assistant dean since 1978.
A Huntington native, Corum enrolled at WVU in 1940 and graduated
in 1948 with bachelor's and master's degrees following military
service during World War II. While at WVU, he played guard for
the football team and was captain of the 1947 squad.
Susan Barnes
has enjoyed a career as a film, television, and stage actress
since 1977. She has appeared in 41 major motion pictures, acting
opposite Paul Newman, Nicolas Cage, Glenn Close, Morgan Freeman,
Jeff Bridges, and Andy Garcia. She has also appeared in more
than a dozen television movies and mini-series. She has had roles
on Laverne and Shirley, Growing Pains, and Titus.
She was recently elected to the actors' branch of the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group that nominates
and votes for the Oscars.
The Rice's Landing, Pennsylvania, native graduated from WVU in
1968. She was head cheerleader for three years and a member of
the Orchesis dance ensemble. She also has a master of fine arts
degree and resides in Hollywood, California.
J. William Douglas
was a professor in the School of P.E. from 1972 to 2001 and served
as dean from 1979 to 1992. His published works include a wellness
text for senior citizens and a history of the School of P.E.
The Morgantown native graduated from WVU with a bachelor's degree
in physical education and biology in 1961 and a master's degree
in health and safety education in 1962. He also has a doctorate
in physical education and higher education administration from
Ohio State University.
Sam Mandich
was involved in Parkersburg High School athletics for 28 years,
serving as head basketball coach, football coach, and athletics
director. He also was a placement director for Wood County schools.
During his coaching career, which spanned four decades, his teams
won three state AAA basketball championships (1958, 1960, and
1970), and he set a record for career wins among high school
basketball coaches.
Born in Steubenville, Ohio, Mandich graduated from WVU in 1941.
He played basketball and football and was captain of the 1941
Mountaineer basketball team.