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For the full athletics update, please visit us on the web at

www.mcm.edu/athletics/.

FALL in REViEW

Football

In Joe Crousen’s last year as head coach, McMurry went 3-7 in 2006. The team beat Austin College 23-0 and Louisiana College 23-12. However, the biggest win of the season came at Homecoming against New Head Football Coach Donny Gray Howard Payne. Donny Gray was named head coach Nov. 29 after Crousen stepped down Nov. 13.

Cross Country

The women’s cross country team won its first American Southwest Conference Championship in school history in 2006. The men placed second for the sixth-straight year. Five women and seven men were named all-conference and head coach David Chandler was named the ASC Women’s Coach of the Year.

Men’s Soccer

The men’s soccer team finished 3-13-1 on the season in 2006. The team’s record could have been very different as it suffered four overtime losses. Other than giving up seven goals to Trinity on Sept. 9, the team never gave up more than four goals.

Women’s Soccer

In the program’s first five years, the McMurry women’s soccer team combined to win five games. However, in 2006 under first-year women’s head coach Steve Allan, the team matched its previous win total for the first five years of the program with a 5-11-1 season. The team finished 4-3-1 in its final eight matches.

Volleyball

The McMurry volleyball team went 6-26 under head coach Jason McAden in 2006. The losing season was the first since 2000 and it was the first time in five years the team didn’t make the American Southwest Conference tournament. The team’s wins came against HustonTillotson, St. Gregory’s, two against Concordia-Austin, LeTourneau and Mississippi College.

WinTER in REViEW

Swimming

McMurry’s swim team began its eighth year of competition Oct. 5. Through Jan. 20’s meet, both the men and women have had successful seasons. The teams have faced several NCAA Division II institutions this season and have competed well; McMurry also opened the season with NCAA Division I Texas Christian University Oct. 5.

Men’s Basketball

McMurry’s men’s basketball team posted its 14th-straight winning season under head coach Ron Holmes with a 20-7 record. The 20-win season was the sixth under head coach Ron Holmes and the ninth in school history. Head coach Ron Holmes, who’s in his 17th season, won his 450th career game Nov. 25 in a 73-61 win over

LeTourneau in Longview.

Women’s Basketball

The McMurry women’s basketball program reached the NCAA tournament for the second-straight season and the third time in history. The team posted a 24-5 record, which made the squad 50-8 in its past two seasons under head coach

Sam Nichols. McMurry lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to

Puget Sound University in Newberg,

Oregon.

For the full athletics update, please visit us on the web at

www.mcm.edu/athletics/.

AthLetICS UPDATE

spRing pREViEW

Baseball

Head coach Lee Driggers and the McMurry baseball team will begin the 2007 season picked to finish third in the American Southwest Conference West Division. In 2006, McMurry’s squad finished 26-16 overall and 14-7 in the ASC. This season, the team returns a solid group to pursue an ASC title.

Track

Head coach Barbara Crousen will be looking for another solid year out of her men’s team in 2007 after the team finished fourth in the NCAA Division III track meet in 2006. Both the men’s and women’s team won the American Southwest Conference track meets last season as well. Three of the four runners that placed second in the nation in the 4X100 relay are back for 2007. The team’s outdoor season began Mar. 2.

Golf

After a successful fall in 2006 where the men’s team won three tournaments, the McMurry golf teams are geared up for the spring season in 2007.

Tennis

The McMurry tennis teams open the spring season Feb. 9-10 and will look to reach the American Southwest

Conference tournament this season after both teams narrowly missed it last season. Three out of four of last year’s all-conference honorees are back for the 2007 season.

McMurry University’s Randall Caussey, along with 74 other individuals, was named to the Lone Star Conference’s 75th-anniversary basketball team Jan. 19. The 20062007 school year marks the 75th year of the conference’s existence and McMurry was a member of the Lone Star Conference from 1965-1972. Caussey was a three-year letterman for the McMurry Indians from 1967-1970. Though he played 40 years ago, his legacy at McMurry still stands in the record books. Caussey compiled 1,450 points, which still stands as 13th all-time on McMurry’s all-time career scoring list. His 588 points in the 1969-1970 season is the eighth best single-season scoring performance in the school’s history. Caussey scored 512 points in his junior season and is one of only 19 players in McMurry’s history to join the 500-point club. He is also only one of 10 players to make the 500-point club twice. The 75th-anniversary team was compiled of men’s and women’s basketball players as well as coaches. Caussey was one of 38 men’s basketball players honored with selection. The team was compiled by media relations and sports information directors from member schools in association with the conference office. 

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