October 19, 2017

IAC Meeting

Attendance:  Bradley, Chu, Henderson, Mayer, Mulvaney, Smith, Thill, Trylowsky, Zaloom

Special Guest:  David Wong, Jasmin Buchta

October 19, 2017

Meeting called to order at 2:18pm

September minutes approved.

Mr. Henderson introduced our Head Women’s Tennis Coach, David Wong.

Mr. Wong – Academics is very important and as a team, GPA was 3.70 last semester, 3.52 cumulative.  Recruits dedicated students and athletes.

Dr. Mulvaney – Thanked the tennis team for assisting the Catholic Charities with Hurricane Harvey relief.  They unloaded trucks and sorted through items at 6:00am.

Jasmin Buchta – women’s tennis student-athlete – Discussed her time at Lamar University and does not regret her decision to come to Lamar University.  There are 5 new freshmen on the team.  Academic goal is to get a dual degree in management and marketing.  Current major is management.

Mr. Wong – Currently, 8 full scholarship players and 2 walk-on players.  Once a week, the team helps the Lamar University club tennis team.  Goal is to help tennis players get better, but also to help grow as people and become productive adults.

When Mr. Wong took over the program, it wasn’t fully funded.  It became fully funded in 2006.  Earned one conference championship.  Finished 2^nd last year.  This year, Mr. Wong thinks they will finish between 1-4.  Teaches the players how to handle adversity and compete.  Jon Flanigan has been a volunteer assistant for 16 years.  Works a lot on mental training and how to deal with pressure. 

Mr. Wong would like to have a new facility and new configuration of the courts so that all 6 singles play on the stadium courts.  Also, wants to have a locker room at the facility.  Always working to recruit better players and thinks facility improvements will help this.   The team has a lot of community support and they do a lot of community service.

Dr. Zaloom – Discussed the tennis team and talked about a former player that received an academic scholarship in place of an athletics scholarship.

Mr. Henderson discussed the NCAA GSR – to be released in 2 weeks.  Gave credit to the academic staff.

Soccer – Earned most wins in school history.  The last game is next Friday and they are already guaranteed to be Southland co-champions.  They will head to the conference tournament in a couple of weeks.  They also do very well academically.

Cross country – Competes in the conference championship next week.

Volleyball and Football – Not having the best years, but still trying to build the programs.

Football – Coach Schultz has changed the attitudes on the team and has a good plan for the future.

The men’s and women’s basketball kick off breakfast raised $18,000 for the Cardinal Emergency Fund for hurricane relief.  The women have been picked 1^st and men picked 2^nd in conference standings.

Baseball and Softball are in their fall seasons.

Men’s Golf is fully eligible for post season.

Men’s and women’s golf are finishing their fall seasons and competing well at tournaments.

We are in the process of hiring a football academic advisor.

Facility projects being looked at are improvements to soccer, baseball, softball and football.

Dr. Chu – next meeting will be Thursday, November 9 at 2:15.

Meeting adjourned at 2:55