2000-2001 LADY RAILSPLITTER BASKETBALL
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LMU ATHLETICS DIRECTORY TEX TURNER ARENA (423) 869-6239 Mike Smith, Arena Business Manager
MAILING/OVERNIGHT ADDRESS: Tex Turner Arena Cumberland Gap Parkway Harrogate, TN 37752 ADMINISTRATION Jack Bondurant Roger Vannoy Linda Brack
BASKETBALL OFFICE Roger Vannoy Lakeshia Salters
COMPLIANCE Greg Lasley
TRAINING ROOM (423) 869-6378 Rich Frazee - Head Athletic Trainer
(423) 869-6285 Athletic Director Associate Director Administrative Assistant
TRAINING ROOM (423) 869-6322 Amanda Smith - Assistant Athletic Trainer TRAINING ROOM (423) 869-6322 Jeff Baldwin - Assistant Athletic Trainer
(423) 869-6241 Head Coach GraduateAssistant Coach (423) 869-6209 Compliance Officer
FACULTY ATHLETICS REPRESENTATIVE Dan Graves
(423) 869-6251
PRESIDENT Dr. Jerry Bishop
(423) 869-6391
SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATOR Dr. Phyliss Noah (423) 869-6247 OTHER SPORTS: Head Baseball Coach Assistant Baseball Coach Head Men’s Basketball Coach Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach Head Men’s & Women’s Golf Coach Head Women’s Tennis Coach Head Men’s Tennis Coach Head Men’s & Women’s Cross Country Coach Head Volleyball Coach Head Men’s & Women’s Soccer Coach Head Softball Coach
Eddie Graham Jason Evans Jeff Tungate Reed Sutton Tom Amis Jack Bondurant Charles Poteat Bobby Lockhart Mike Smith Jeff Winterberger Dan Burns
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What is a Railsplitter?
LMU’s Nicknames
Lincoln Memorial University’s unique nickname for its athletics teams seems to always bring about the same question when the Railsplitters play on the road, “What is a Railsplitter?”
Lincoln Memorial University’s athletic teams have not always had the Railsplitter nickname. The early men’s teams were called the LMU Braves. That was changed during the 1924 football season when the name “Airedales” came into use. In the fall of 1931 it was decided that the name “Railsplitters” was more in the Lincoln tradition and the name has lasted to this day. The women’s teams were usually referred to as the “Lincoln Lassies” and the “Railsplitterettes” until basketball was discontinued after the 1945 season. When women’s basketball returned in 1973, they became the “Lady Railsplitters.”
The “Railsplitter” was Lincoln’s nickname as a presidential candidate in 1860. Lincoln and his cousin, Dennis Hanks, had once split 3,000 rails to be used as fences. Lincoln campaign supporters would carry banners supported by such rails. The rails symbolized the humble Western candidate with a common background.
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