Six Indiana high school coaches were honored by the Alumni Association as Alumnus Coach of the Year. They are: Tim Cleland, '87; Jim Garrett, '71; John Hochstetler, '92MAE99; Charles (Chuck) Koeppen, '68MA74; Steve Lewark, '68MA74; and Dave Shondell, '81MA88.

The first alumni coach of the year award was given in 1957. In 1997, the awards program was expanded to include all ten boy's and girl's IHSAA-sanctioned sports. High school coaches who received their bachelor's degrees from Ball State are eligible for the award. Recipients are selected by a vote of other Ball State alumni head coaches in Indiana in their respective sports.

Cleland, head boy's tennis coach at Delta High School, was named Boy's Tennis Coach of the Year. Cleland led the Eagles to a 24-1 record, including a conference and regional title. He has coached at Delta since 1989 and has garnered a 369-51 record over that time.

Garrett, head girl's golf coach at Penn High School in Mishawaka, was named Girl's Golf Coach of the Year. He led his team to a 16-0 record and state championship. His team also set every team scoring record on every course they played last year. Garrett has been the varsity girl's coach at Penn for seven years and has compiled a 115-1 overall regular season record.

Hochstetler, head football coach at Muncie Central High School, has been named Football Coach of the Year. He led the Bearcats to their first football North Central Conference crown since 1954. The team, which finished with a 12-1 record, won its sectional, losing in the regional final to state finalist Fort Wayne Dwenger.

Koeppen, head boy's cross country coach at Carmel High School was named Boy's Cross Country Coach of the Year. He has coached the boy's and girl's cross country teams at Carmel for 31 seasons.

Koeppen was inducted into Ball State's Men's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1981 and was named National Cross Country Coach of the Year in 1982.

Lewark, head girl's cross country coach at West Lafayette High School, was named Girl's Cross Country Coach of the Year. His team finished its season with a 166-7 record, including a regional title, a third-place finish the New Prairie semi-state, and fifth place in state.

Shondell, head volleyball coach at Muncie Central High School, was named the Volleyball Coach of the Year. Shondell led the Bearcat volleyball team to its fourth state championship this year.

He recently finished his 13th year as the head coach of the Bearcats and has compiled a 427-52 record over that time.

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Athletes Inducted Into Hall Of Fame

In January, Ball State inducted six new members into the Athletic Hall Of Fame. They are: Jane Findling, '78, basketball; Greg Garnica, '90, football; Cary Hungate, '80, golf; Scott Sanders, '90MS92, track and field; John Smith, '74MA77, wrestling; and George Swafford, for his lifetime contribution to Ball State athletics.

Findling was a member of the women's basketball team from 1975-79. She started every game in her four seasons at Ball State. As a senior, Findling averaged 20.1 points and 11.1 rebounds per game. After her collegiate career, Findling was drafted by the Women's Basketball Association. She is currently a manager for the Sierra Challenge.

Garnica was a member of the Cardinal football team from 1985-90. He was a three-time Mid-American Conference Defensive Player of the Year. Garnica started 44 consecutive games in his four seasons and set a career mark of 689 tackles, which is still the all-time Cardinal record.

Hungate was a member of the Ball State golf team from 1977-79. He tied for fourth at the 1977 MAC Championships and, as a senior, co-captained the Cardinals while receiving Co-MVP honors. Hungate is a four-time Indiana Professional Golfers Association Player of the Year (1986, 1988, 1991, 1992). He has been the head golf professional at the Kokomo Country Club since 1992.

Sanders was on the Ball State track and field team from 1985-90. He earned All-America honors at the 1989 NCAA Championships in the long jump at both the indoor and the outdoor events. A three-time NCAA participant, Sanders was a six-time MAC Champion and was named the MAC's Most Outstanding Track Performer three times. He also owned the Ball State record in the triple jump (52-10) and 100-meter dash (10.44) while at Ball State.

Smith was a wrestler at Ball State from 1970-73. He earned All-America honors after placing sixth at the 1973 NCAA Championships. He posted a 24-6 record as a senior, including winning the NCAA Regional Championship.

Smith also is recognized by the Indiana High School Athletic Association as the only person in Indiana history to have won a state title in wrestling, coached a wrestling state championship team, and officiated an IHSAA wrestling state final competition. He has worked for the Muncie Community Schools since 1974.

Swafford served as Ball State's faculty representative to the MAC and NCAA from 1971-88. He was chairman of the Ball State Athletics Hall of Fame from 1976-88 and was the university's representative on the MAC Hall of Fame Committee.

A Ball State employee from 1959-88, Swafford served on MAC and NCAA committees. He was inducted into the Indiana Teacher Education Hall of Fame in its inaugural class in 1997, and was a MAC 50th Anniversary Honoree in 1996.

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Football Program Names Assistants For 2003

Brady Hoke, '82, the new football head coach, has named new assistant coaches for the 2003 season. They are: Ted Huber, '67, assistant head coach/guards, centers; Don Treadwell, offensive coordinator/wide receivers; Phil Burnett, defensive line; Eric Lewis, secondary; Mark Smith, defensive coordinator; and Ed Stults, offensive tackles, tight ends. Trenton Boykin, Dennis Moynihan, Jr., and Brent Baldwin, '96MA99, have also been appointed.

Huber, a member of Ball State's coaching staff for the last eight years, has been retained by Hoke. He will continue as the team's assistant head coach, along with coaching guards and centers.

Last season, Huber's offensive line blocked for tailback Marcus Merriweather's, '02, record-setting season. In 2000, Huber's offense helped BSU rank 34th in the nation in rushing offense with 164.8 yards per game. A member of the Ball State Athletic Hall of Fame, is also a past president of the Indiana Football Coaches Association.

Treadwell, who was the receivers coach at Michigan State for the last three seasons, has been named the Cardinals' offensive coordinator and will coach the wide receivers. A native of Ohio, Treadwell graduated from Miami University, where he was a four-year starter and team captain as a senior. He began his career as a graduate assistant at North Carolina State in 1983. He was an assistant at Dayton in 1984; at Youngstown State, 1987-91; Miami University, 1992-93; Cincinnati, 1994; Stanford, 1995-96; Boston College, 1997-98; North Carolina State, 1999; and Michigan State, 2000-02.

Burnett, a native of Hobart, will coach the defensive line. He spent five years as an assistant at California University of Pennsylvania, where he coached the defensive line and special teams, before joining Ball State's staff.

Burnett, who helped Hobart to the Indiana High School State Championship in 1980 and 1982, played center and long snapper at Northern Illinois from 1983-88, graduating in 1988. He was a graduate assistant at NIU (1989-90); a graduate assistant at Oregon State (1991-92), earning a master's degree in 1992; and the assistant head coach at Defiance College (1994-96).

Lewis, the son of 19-year NFL coaching veteran Sherman Lewis, will coach the Cardinals' secondary. He was defensive backs coach at Bucknell in 2002 after serving in 2001 as a defensive graduate assistant at Michigan State.

Lewis began his coaching career as the wide receivers coach at St. Augustine High School in San Diego, CA. A four-year starter at cornerback at San Diego State, Lewis was a 1998 All-Western Athletic Conference Second-Team selection was SDSU's all-time career leader in pass break-ups.

Smith, an assistant coach at Indiana State for the past 15 years, will be the defensive coordinator. Smith completed his second season as ISU's defensive coordinator last year and coached the Sycamores' inside linebackers.

In his tenure at Indiana State, he also coached the school's defensive line and special teams.

A native of Richmond, Smith began his coaching career at Defiance High School in Ohio (1979-81). He served as an assistant coach at Bowling Green (1982-85) and Rose Hulman (1986-87) before joining the Indiana State staff in 1988. He is a 1979 graduate of Purdue.

Stults, the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at Jacksonville University for the last two seasons, will coach the offensive tackles and tight ends. From 1996-2000 he was an assistant coach at California University of Pennsylvania, where he was the assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach in his last three seasons.

He began his coaching career at Bluffton College (1980-87) before moving to Cincinnati in 1988. He was at Edinboro from 1989-93. From 1994-96, Stults was the head coach at Defiance College.

Boykin joins the Ball State ranks from Youngstown State University, where he was the special teams coordinator and wide receivers coach. He also played at YSU, helping his team win national championships in 1991, 1993, and 1994.

Boykin also has coached at Otterbein College, Boston College, the University of Akron, and Tiffin University.

Moynihan comes from South Bend, where he was a recruiting assistant and most recently a graduate assistant football coach at the University of Notre Dame. He previously was a defensive coordinator at Bryant College in Rhode Island from 1998-99 and served as an assistant coach at the University of Connecticut from 1993-96.

Baldwin, who played quarterback for Ball State in the mid-'90s, served as quarterbacks coach for the Cardinals on the previous football staff.

During his years as a player, Baldwin led his team to the 1996 Las Vegas Bowl. His senior season was capped with 14 touchdown passes and a ranking of 12th in the nation in passing efficiency.

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At The Buzzer. . .

Men's Basketball: Senior Chris Williams (Oak Park, IL Fenwick H.S.) has been named the MAC- West Division Player of the Week on three occasions this season...Football: Three members of the 2002 football team were named to the Academic All-Mid-American Conference Football Team. Travis Barclay (Bedford/Bedford North Lawrence H.S.), Jon Eckert (New Bremen, OH/New Bremen H.S.), and Nick Tabacca (Columbus, OH/Hilliard Davidson H.S.) share the honors, which are voted on by the league's faculty athletic representatives. Women's Volleyball: Stephanie Keller, (Muncie/Yorktown H.S.) a sophomore member of the 2002 Ball State women's volleyball team, was named to the 2002 Academic All-MAC Volleyball Team. A secondary education major, Keller has a 3.8 GPA.