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Hoopsters put on charity tournament in April Spend a day with your favorite Commodore basketball players at Vanderbilt’s Buzzkill: “Dores for Nets 2011” 3-on-3 basketball tournament for third through eighth graders on April 17 at Memorial Gym. The money raised will help purchase mosquito nets for the children of Africa to help stop the spread of malaria on the continent. Malaria kills a child every 30 seconds and there are 350 million to 500 million cases of malaria illnesses per year. Malaria is 100% preventable and treatable. More information about the event, which is being organized by senior Joe Duffy, can be found at: http://www.buzzkillfoundation.org/BUZZKILL/Vanderbilt.html
Turner, Lee honored as SEC Greats A pair of Commodore legends were honored last month as “SEC Greats” during the league’s two basketball championships. Jeff Turner starred for the Commodores from 1981-84. He was All-SEC and Academic All-SEC in 1984, and he still ranks among the school’s all-time Top 25 career
scorers with 1,271 points. The 6-foot-9 southpaw hit 51 percent of his field goal attempts during his college career. Turner was a member of the United States’ Olympic Gold Medal team in 1984 and went on to a 10-year NBA career, starting with New Jersey and concluding with seven seasons with the Orlando Magic. Candice (Storey) Lee was a four-year letterwinner for the Commodores and helped lead the team to three NCAA Tournament appearances and the 2002 SEC Tournament Championship. The former Gatorade Player of the Year in Alabama, Lee graduated from Vanderbilt in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science degree and then went on to receive her master’s degree in education from Vanderbilt in 2002. Lee has served as Vanderbilt’s Senior Woman Administrator and Compliance Director since 2004, overseen the operation of Vanderbilt’s women’s basketball program since 2008 and in July began overseeing Vanderbilt Student Services.
Baseball on TV seven times in April
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loss in the first 20 games of the 2011 season for the Vanderbilt baseball team, which was ranked No. 1 by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association on March 14.
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consecutive years that Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of Education & Human Development has been ranked No. 1 by U.S. News & World Report.
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of the nation’s best women’s lacrosse teams converge on Vanderbilt’s campus May 5-7 for the 2011 American Lacrosse Conference Tournament.
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Commodore teams ranked in the Top 25 of their respective sport in mid-March: baseball, bowling, lacrosse, men’s basketball, women’s golf and both men’s and women’s tennis teams.
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assists against zero turnovers in the final three games of the season for junior point guard Brad Tinsley.
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Keeping up with the Commodore baseball team will get a little easier this month. Vanderbilt is scheduled for seven television appearances in April, including three of the Dores’ six road SEC games. The schedule includes five regional broadcasts on CSS and FSN, as well as a pair of national dates on ESPN2.
strikeouts by the Vanderbilt pitching staff in a series win at Arkansas as the Commodore hurlers allowed only four Razorback runs all weekend.
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pins—a perfect game—achieved by the Commodore bowlers in a Baker game (five players rotate through the 10 frames) at their own Music City Classic last month.
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