JEff BarBErDirector of Athletics

Jeff Barber was named the Direc-tor of Athletics at Liberty University on Jan. 23, 2006, becoming the 10th Director of Athletics in the history of the University. The University has charged Barber

with the future leadership of the athletics depart-ment and the building of a strong financial basis for the department which will guide Liberty University athletics into the ranks of the elite NCAA Division I athletic programs in the na-tion. Barber has wasted little time making an impact at Liberty, as in less than three years, he has been instrumental in guiding Liberty on a path to the next level of collegiate athletics. He has spearheaded athletics facility improve-ment projects in nearly every athletics venue, high-lighted by changes to Williams Stadium. During the summer of 2006, the football program’s oncampus playing facility received the latest in playing surfac-es as FieldTurf was installed, while numerous other smaller projects were initiated to aesthetically im-prove the appearance of the facility. However, Barber’s chief facility accomplishment since joining the Flames in 2006 was overseeing the completion of the Williams Football Operations Center. The new 48,000-square foot state-of-the-art home base for the football program is one of the most outstanding FCS (formerly I-AA) football-only facilities in the nation. In addition to Barber’s athletic facility achieve-ments, the new Director of Athletics has spurred a dramatic recording-setting increase in Flames Club memberships and season ticket sales for football and basketball. In 2007-08 the athletics booster club set new records, pulling in $351,000 in annual membership contributions. The same year saw Liberty Athletics

surpass the $1 million mark in giving, as the Flames Club brought in $1.3 million in total capital gifts. Barber has also guided the Flames to success on the athletic field of competition, highlighted by the 2007-08 season when Liberty captured its sixth Big South Sasser Cup championship and first since the 2002-03 season. Liberty won 10 team championships during the 2007-08 campaign, including eight Big South titles, an NCAA East Regional championship in wrestling and an IC4A outdoor title in men’s track and field. Besides the Sasser Cup championship, Barber also saw Liberty bring home the Big South’s Men’s All-Sport and Women’s All-Sport trophies, along with its second individual national championship when Josh McDougal crossed the finish line first at the 2007 NCAA Cross Country national championship. Liberty is only the second athletics department in Big South history to win the Sasser Cup, Men’s All-Sport and Women’s All-Sport trophies in the same year. The Flames’ success has garnered national atten-tion on several levels, earning Barber a three-year ap-pointment to the NCAA’s Recruiting Cabinet, begin-ning with the 2008-09 academic year. Barber brought a wealth of experience in the areas of athletic fundraising and administration to Liberty University, including 25 years in the athletic industry.Barber came to Liberty after spending 11 years at South Carolina, including his last three years as Se-nior Associate Athletic Director for Development/Gamecock Club Executive Director. Barber served on the senior management team at South Carolina for nine years, helping raise more than $14 million annually, while working closely with leg-endary football coaches Lou Holtz and Steve Spurrier. Barber supervised the solicitation and receipt of over $85 million during his tenure at South Carolina, setting records each year in annual gifts to the Game-cock Club, which was at 16,500 members when he finished. He was also responsible for all major gifts to the Gamecock Club which exceeded $15,000 annually and developed that level of giving from 21 members to 137 at his time of departure. Barber joined the athletics department at South

Carolina in 1996 as an Assistant Athletic Director for Development and was promoted to Associate Ath-letic Director/Gamecock Club Executive Director in 1999. Prior to his days at South Carolina, Barber served five years at Furman in Greenville, S.C., starting as Ex-ecutive Director of the Paladin Club in 1991, before being promoted to Senior Associate Athletic Director for External Affairs in 1994. While at Furman, Barber was responsible for the collection of $14 million in revenue from annual giv-ing, capital gifts and endowed gifts, while guiding the Paladin Club to gifts totaling $3.75 million and set records for five-consecutive years. He was also the chairman of the Furman Pro-Am Golf EndowmentTournament, which totaled receipts of $6.5 million. Barber got his start in collegiate athletic adminis-tration at his alma mater as the Assistant Director of East Carolina’s Pirate Club in 1987. While serving four years with the Pirates, Barber participated in the re-ceipt of annual giving of $4 million to the Pirate Club, while organizing and managing Pirate Club actionsand Pirate Pro-Am fundraisers. Before joining the staff at East Carolina, Barber served three years in major and minor league base-ball as he was the Assistant General Manager of the Columbia Mets in Columbia, S.C. (1985-86) and Di-rector of Operations for the Montreal Expos SpringTraining Camp in West Palm Beach, Fla. (1986-87). After graduating from East Carolina, Barber served as a health and physical education teacher in Colum-bia, S.C. for four years (1981-85), while coaching foot-ball and basketball. Barber graduated cum laude at East Carolina in 1981 with a bachelor of science degree in health, physical education and recreation. In 1997, he con-tinued his education with a degree from the Sports Management Institute, graduating as class spokes-man. Barber is a member of NACDA and NAAD and serves on the Board of Directors for the Child Evange-lism Fellowship for Central Virginia. Barber, a native of Greenville, N.C., is married to the former Donna Dacus and the couple has three children – Katie (13), Lindsay (11) and Jay (10).

MiCKEy gUriDySenior Associate Athletics

Director - Internal Operations

MErEDith EaKErAssociate Athletics Director/Senior Woman Administrator

KristiE BEitzAssociate Athletics Director -Academic Affairs for Athletics

KEvin KEysAssociate Athletics Director-

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Dr. WilliaM griBBinNCAA Faculty Athletic

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MiKE hagEnAssistant Athletics Director

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Sports Medicine The student-athlete at Liberty University has the luxury of having one of the most dedicated sports medicine teams in the country. The staff is headed by Chris Casola, Assistant Athlet-ics Director for Sports Medicine who oversees medical care for the Flames football team. Scott Lawrenson is the Associate Athletic Trainer and Insurance Coordinator. Barry Finke and Aaron Schreiner are Senior Assistant Athletic Trainers, while Assistant Athletic Trainers Megan Bishop, Madeline Bosek, Jesse Cops and Laura Hoskins round out the staff as Certified Athletic Train-ers (ATC). In conjunction with services avail-able through Team Physicians Dr. Gregg Albers and Dr. Richard Lane at Light Medical, the Lib-erty University Athletic Training staff utilizes

two hospitals, Lynchburg General Hospital and Virginia Baptist, for any emergency or general medical needs. Liberty is also fortunate to have team orthopaedic services from Central Virginia Orthopaedics along with assistance and consul-tation from Rehab Associates of Central Virginia. Housed in the beautiful 3,200-square foot Football Training Room located in the Football Operations Center, the main athletic training room is a modern facility complete with the lat-est equipment. Satellite athletic training rooms are located in the Field House at Williams Sta-dium, located at the south end of the football complex, the Hancock Athletic Center, the Vines Center and the Crowder-Muckel Fieldhouse neighboring Worthington Stadium.

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FacultyLiberty University’s over 350 full-time and

more than 300 part-time faculty are committedto engaging with students in the challenge ofexploring vital links between faith and learning.There are over 450 institutions of higherlearning represented among this impressivegroup. Liberty’s commitment to personalizededucation also ensures that the student-to-professor ratio is nicely balanced at 25:1.

Degree ProgramsIn higher education, the principal means of

ensuring quality is accreditation by arecognized accrediting body or agency. LibertyUniversity is regionally accredited by theSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools(SACS), and nationally accredited by theTransnational Association of Christian Collegesand Schools (TRACS). Additionally, a number ofspecific programs are approved by accreditingand licensing bodies for specific disciplines (i.e.our nursing, sport management and educationprograms). SACS and TRACS, in turn, are bothrecognized accrediting bodies by the UnitedStates Department of Education.

Spiritual LifeThe Spiritual Life Department prepares

students to make a global impact for the gloryof God - wherever He leads them.

Life-changing campus church andconvocation services connect students withtheir Creator through passionate worship andpowerful Biblical messages custom designedfor this collegiate generation. These servicesgive Liberty students first-hand encounters withthe most influential Christians on the planet.

Each semester the Campus Pastor’s Officepersonally trains over 1,000 student leaderswho are the catalysts for the positive peerpressure and Biblical community which is theglue of Liberty University. Each year, thesestudent leaders minister personally to theirpeers and commit to love, pray for, pray withand personally disciple every student oncampus. Every student’s relationship withChrist is a priority.

Light Ministries facilitates Liberty’s globalvision by providing dozens of opportunitieseach year for the Liberty community toparticipate in cross-cultural missionsexperiences. Already over 7,000 students haveboarded planes to take the Gospel of JesusChrist to over three million people.

The Spiritual Life Department is radicallycommitted to aligning the Liberty communitywith the Great Commandment and GreatCommission of Jesus Christ. As the spiritualfires are sparked in hearts - Spiritual Life fansthe flame.

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JErry falWEll, Jr.Chancellor/President

Jerry Falwell, Jr. was born in Lynchburg, Va., on Father’s Day, June 17, 1962. He attended Lynch-burg Christian Acad-emy and Liberty Uni-versity, graduating with a B.A. in reli-gious studies in 1984.

He obtained his Juris Doctor degree from the Uni-versity of Virginia School of Law in 1987. Falwell, Jr. is licensed to practice in all Virginia state courts, U.S. District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Virginia, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. He married Becki Tilley of Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1987. They have three children: Jerry Falwell, III (Trey), born 1989, Charles Wesley, born 1993, and Caroline Grace, born 2000, and have lived on a farm in Bedford County, Va., since 1987. Falwell, Jr. has engaged in the private practice of law in Lynchburg since 1987 and has Served as Gen-eral Counsel of Liberty University, Thomas Road Bap-tist Church, Liberty Broadcasting Network and Jerry Falwell Ministries since 1988. Falwell, Jr. and his father worked together closely since 1988 in the management and oversight of the University and all the Falwell ministries. In recent years, he had assumed more and more of the re-sponsibility for the day-to-day management of the

organization from his father who, along with the Lib-erty University Board of Trustees, named him Vice-Chancellor of the University in 2003. He has served on Liberty’s Board of Trustees since 2000. Falwell, Jr. has also played a key role in the devel-opment of the real estate in the vicinity of Liberty University through the recruitment of many national retail and restaurant chains to the area. These developments have greatly enriched the lifestyle of the University community. Falwell, Jr. is a member of the Board of Directors and the Execu-tive Committee of the Lynchburg Regional Chamber of Commerce and was named as the 2006 Business Person of the Year for western Virginia by the Blue Ridge Business Journal.

Dr. rOnalD gODWinExecutive VicePresident/Chief Operating Officer

Dr. Ronald Godwin serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Offi-cer for Liberty Univer-sity. However, for a to-tal of more than 15 years, Dr. Godwin has

worked directly for the Chancellor of Liberty Univer-sity via many of Liberty’s affiliatedministries. During a long administrative career he has held a variety of leadership positions including two presi-

dencies of private Christian colleges, Executive Vice President of the Washington Times, Executive Vice President of the Moral Majority, President of Jerry Falwell Ministries, President of Liberty Broadcast Network, President of Liberty University Founda-tion and more recently, Dean of the Helms School of Government and Senior Administrator of Residen-tial Recruiting. Dr. Godwin received his B.A. from Bob JonesUniversity, his M.S. from Old Dominion University and his Ph.D. in Post-Secondary Planning and Man-agement from Florida State University. Dr. Godwin and his wife, Carol Stanley Godwin,are members of Thomas Road Baptist Church and both serve on the board of the Liberty Godparent Home. They currently reside in Forest with Dr. God-win’s 99-year old father, Mr. Jacob M. Godwin.

Dr. JErry falWEllLiberty University Founder and Former Chancellor (1933-2007)

At the age of 22, having just gradu-ated from college in June 1956, Jerry Fal-well returned to his hometown of Lynch-burg, Va., and started Thomas Road Baptist

Church with 35 members. The offering that first Sun-day totaled only $135. Falwell often said about the first collection, “We thought we had conquered the world”. Today, Thom-as Road Baptist Church has 24,000 members and the total annual revenues of all the Jerry Falwell minis-tries total over $200 million. Within weeks of founding his new church in 1956, Falwell began the Old-Time Gospel Hour, a daily local radio ministry and a weekly local television ministry.Nearly five decades later, this Old-Time Gospel Hour is now seen and heard in every American home and on every continent except Antarctica. Through the years, over three million persons have communicated to the Falwell ministries they received Christ as Lord and Savior as a result of this radio and television min-istry. In 1967, Falwell implemented his vision to build a Christian educational system for evangelical youth. He began with the creation of Lynchburg Christian Academy, a Christ-centered, academically-excellent, fully-accredited Christian day school, providing kin-dergarten, elementary and high school.

In 1971, Liberty University was founded. Today, over 41,000 students from 50 states and 80 nations attend this accredited, liberal arts Christian universi-ty. Falwell’s dream has become a reality. A pre-school child can now enter the school system at age three, and 20 or more years later, leave the same campus with a Ph.D., without ever sitting in a classroom where the teacher was not a committed follower of Jesus Christ. Falwell was also publisher of the National Liberty Journal, a monthly newspaper which is read by over 200,000 pastors and Christian workers, and the Fal-well Confidential, a weekly e-mail newsletter to over 500,000 pastors and Christian activists. In June 1979, Falwell organized the Moral Major-ity, a conservative political lobbying movement which the press soon dubbed the “Religious Right.” During the first two years of its existence, the Moral Major-ity attracted over 100,000 pastors, priests and rabbis and nearly seven million religious conservatives who mobilized as a pro-life, pro-family, pro-Israel, and pro-strong national defense lobbying organization. The Moral Majority chose California Governor Ronald Reagan as “their candidate” for President in 1980, registered millions of new voters, and set about to inform and activate a sleeping giant - 80 mil-lion Americans committed to faith, family and Judeo-Christian values. With the impetus of the newly organized Moral Majority, millions of people of faith voted for the first time in 1980 and helped elect Ronald Reagan and many conservatve congressmen and senators. Since 1979, about 30% of the American electorate has been identified by media polls as the “Religious Right”. Most recent major media surveys have acknowledged these “faith and values” voters re-elected George W. Bush in November 2004.

Though perhaps better known outside Lynchburg for political activism, Jerry Falwell’s personal sched-ule confirmed his passion for being a pastor and a Christian educator. He often stated his heartbeat was for training young people for every walk of life. Falwell, who went home to be with the Lord at the age of 73 on May 15, 2007, was married to Ma-cel for 49 years and they have three grown children and eight grandchildren.

AthleticsAthleticsSince joining the Big South Conference in 1991, Liberty has won82 conference championships, averaging nearly five league titlesper season.

Liberty captured its sixth Big South Sasser Cup championship in2008, making Liberty the second most honored athleticsdepartment in conference history. The Flames also won theprestigious honor in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2003.

Besides claiming its sixth Big South Sasser Cup title, Liberty alsotook home the Men’s All-Sport and Women’s All-Sport trophiesto become the second athletics department in league history toclaim the “triple crown” sweep.

During the 2007-08 season, Liberty posted more teamchampionships than any other athletics program inside theCommonwealth of Virginia. The Flames won eight Big Southtitles, an NCAA East Regional in wrestling and the men’s outdoortrack and field IC4A championship.

For the third time in athletics department history, Liberty hadthree CoSIDA Academic All-America honorees in the same year.Mike Gelatt was named to the men’s soccer first-team squad,Megan Frazee was named to the women’s basketball second-team listing and Clendon Henderson was named to the track andfield first-team list of academic award winners.

With the trio of CoSIDA Academic All-America honorees last year,Liberty now has placed 14 student-athletes in athleticsdepartment history on the most prestigious collegiate academicteam in the nation.

Among the athletes named Big South Scholar-Athlete for theirrespective sports during the 2007-08 season were ClendonHenderson for men’s indoor and outdoor track & field and AllysonFasnacht for women’s basketball.

Fasnacht capped off a stellar Liberty athletics career last year bybeing named the recipient of the Mac Rivera/Rock Royer Award,an award given annually to honor Liberty’s top graduating seniorstudent-athlete.

Liberty had 190 student-athletes named to the Big SouthPresidential Honor Roll at the conclusion of the 2007-08 season.Over 47 percent of its student-athletes recorded a 3.0 GPA orhigher in the classroom during the academic year.

FootballThe football program captured its first-ever Big Southchampionship in football, posting a perfect 4-0 record in leagueplay and an overall 8-3 mark. The team title capped off adramatic, two-year turnaround, as the program was 1-10 in 2005and winless in conference action.

For the second year in a row, head coach Danny Rocco wastabbed Big South Coach of the Year, becoming the second headcoach in league history to garner the honor in consecutiveseasons.

Liberty set a new Big South standard with 22 all-conferencehonorees, while placing a program-best eight players on theVaSID all-state squad and eight more grabbing All-Americadistinctions.

The Flames continued to shatter program and Big Southattendance records, averaging over 14,000 fans per home gameat Liberty’s Williams Stadium. The 12,000-seat venue ranked No.6 nationally in reaching stadium capacity.

VolleyballThe volleyball squad captured its first Big South title since 2001,advancing to the NCAA Tournament for the fourth time in programhistory.

Liberty snapped Winthrop’s 63-match conference winning streakwith a 3-0 sweep of the Eagles, Oct. 27 at the Vines Center.

Men’s SoccerFor the first time in program history, the men’s soccer team wonthe league title at the 2007 Big South Men’s SoccerChampionship, earning the Flames their first-ever trip to the NCAATournament.

Women’s SoccerFor the fifth time in the last nine seasons, the Lady Flames playedin the Big South Women’s Soccer Championship title game in2006.

ExcellenceCross CountrySenior Josh McDougal edged Oregon’s Galen Rupp to win theNCAA Division I National Cross Country Championship. Thedramatic victory, Liberty’s second-ever NCAA Division I nationaltitle, capped off an undefeated season by McDougal.

For the second-consecutive year, the Liberty men’s and women’scross country teams swept the Big South team titles.

Men’s BasketballLiberty had its second former student-athlete inducted in the BigSouth Hall of Fame. Men’s basketball standout Peter Aluma wasenshrined along side the league’s best student-athletes in 2008.

Women’s BasketballThe women’s basketball team captured its 11th Big South title in12 years on a last-second, game-winning shot by Megan Frazee,helping the Lady Flames match a school record with 28 victories.

Megan Frazee won both the Big South Player of the Year andRichmond Times-Dispatch State Player of the Year awards.

WrestlingFor the second-straight year, the wrestling program captured theNCAA East Regional title, winning the team championship at theVines Center in the first-ever NCAA Championship event hostedby Liberty.

Liberty sent a program-best six wrestlers to the NCAA NationalChampionship, seeing Tim Harner (141 pounds) and Chad Porter(165 pounds) advance to the “Sweet 16” rounds.

Track and FieldThe men’s track & field team completed a Big South “TripleCrown” for the second year in succession, winning theconference cross country, indoor track and outdoor trackchampionships. The Flames also defended their IC4A outdoorcrown from 2007.

Josh McDougal won a pair of All-America honors during theindoor track & field season, enabling him to end his Libertycareer as a 14-time All-American.

Senior Clendon Henderson placed third in the discus at the NCAADivision I Outdoor Track & Field Championships, becoming theFlames’ first thrower to earn All-America distinction.

Men’s GolfThe men’s golf team holds the distinction of being the onlyathletics program in Liberty’s history to garner an at-large berthto a NCAA Championship, doing so twice over the past six years(2003 and 2006).

Nathan Schenz-Davis played along side the nation’s best amateurgolfers in July, when the junior qualified for the U.S. AmateurPublic Links Championship held at the Murphy Creek Golf Coursein Aurora, Colo.

Tennis Jordan Jenkins was named the 2008 Big South Women’s TennisPlayer of the Year and Chris Johnson was named Coach of theYear, as the Lady Flames posted a 13-4 record, the best inprogram history.

BaseballFor the first time in the 35-year history of the program, Libertywon 30 or more games in four-consecutive seasons, winning 35contests in 2008 under first-year head coach Jim Toman.

With pitchers Ryan Page and David Stokes being drafted in thisyear’s Major League Baseball Draft, Liberty has now had 38players taken in the MLB draft and a player taken in each draftsince 1999.

SoftballThe softball program advanced to its fourth Big South SoftballChampionship title game, moving the squad into third place onthe league’s list of all-time title game participants.

Head coach Paul Wetmore picked up his 400th career victoryduring the 2008 season, becoming the 89th coach in NCAAsoftball history to reach the lofty career victories milestone at thetime of the victory.