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For the Week oF July 1 - 7, 2014

COACHING LEGEND ED TEMPLE FETED; NEW ADs AT HAMPTON, ALCORN STATE

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DOUBLE DIPS: HBCU products Jeffery Henderson (top, Stillman) and Francena McCorory (bottom, Hampton) win USA Track & Field titles.

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BCSP NotesNorfolk State's Pendarvis Williams on Houston Rockets Summer League team NORFOLK, Va. – Former Norfolk State guard Pendarvis "Penny" Wlliams will play for the Houston Rockets' summer league team in Las Vegas in mid-July after signing a free agent contract with the Rockets orga-nization after last week's NBA Draft. Williams,whofinishedhisfour-yearcareerwithNSUlastseason,isone of at least nine players who will compete for the Rockets' team in Las Vegas from July 12-21. ItwillmarkthethirdyearinarowaformerNSUplayerparticipatedin one of the two NBA summer leagues – the other taking place in Orlando. FormerSpartanKyle O'Quinn competed with the Orlando Magic in 2012

MARSHALL NEW HAMPTON AD: HAMPTON, Va. – Eugene Marshall Jr. has been named

the Director of Athletics at Hampton University. He will begin on July 1. He takes over for Novelle Dickenson, who had served as Inter-im AD for the past two years. Mar-shall brings well over two decades of athletic administration experience to the Pirates. Most recently, he was the in-

terim deputy athletic director at Queens College, where he reported to the Assistant Vice President of Athletics and worked in an athletic program that boasted 18 teams. Prior to that, Marshall spent two years as the Direc-tor of Athletics at Iona College, overseeing some of the Gaels' most successful moments – including two NCAA Tournament appearances for men's basketball, including theprogram'sfirst-everat-largebid. A1981graduateofNortheasternUniversity,Marshallearned a bachelor's degree in business administration. He later completed his Master's degree in sports leadership. While an undergraduate at Northeastern, Marshall was a member of the Huskies' men's basketball team under formerUConnheadcoachandBasketballHallofFamerJim Calhoun. Dickenson, who had also served as Faculty Athletics Representative for the previous 12 years, made a request to return to Academic Affairs, where he has spent 36 years of his life in academics. Prior to his departure, Dickenson assistedwiththesearchfortheUniversity'snextDirectorof Athletics.

INTERIM AD AT ALCORN STATE: SeniorWomen'sAdministrator,LiJuna Weir has been

named the Interim Athletics Direc-tor at Alcorn State University. The appointment was made byASUpresident Dr. Alfred Rankins, Jr. and is effective July 1. Weir has been a part of the Al-cornStatefamilyfor16yearsagoand has helped change the athlet-ics department in various ways. Sheisamemberofseveralasso-

ciations including the National Association of Broadcast-ers (NAB) and National Association of Collegiate Women AthleticAdministrators. She earned both her Bachelor'sand Master's degrees from Alcorn. Rankins describes Weir as a leader who understands the day-to-day operations of Alcorn athletics and has es-tablished positive working relationships with coaches, staff and students. "I am grateful for another opportunity to serve Al-corn," said Weir as she discussed plans to continually ad-vocate for student-athletes and positively position the ath-letic program. "I believe in Alcorn athletics," she said Weir as she highlighted the strength of collaboration. "Working to-gether, we can and will accomplish more. I believe in the power of members of the athletic family—our athletes, coaches, employees, student workers and alumni." The University is accepting applications for a per-manentathleticdirectoronlineuntilthepositionisfilled.Candidate screening will begin immediately.

MEAC TOPS SWAC IN REVENUE: Kenn RashadofTSPNreportsthattheMid Eastern Athletic Conference once again topped the Southwestern Athletic Conferenceinrevenueforthe2012-13fiscalyear. Accordingto990formsfiledwiththeIRS,theMEACreported $7,722,159 in total revenue, up from $6,641,773 thepreviousyear.TheSWACreported$6,186,393intotalrevenue, a slight improvement from the $6,045,980 in total revenuefiledforthe2011-12fiscalyear. Expenses, however, provide a different perspectivewith the SWAC spending $6,444,554, which was morethan the conference earned in revenues. In contrast, the MEACspent$7,276,914during thefiscalyear resultinginanet revenue totalof$445,245.TheMEACreportedreceiving $455,000 in membership dues, compared to $350,000induesreceivedbytheSWAC. SWAC commissionerDuer Sharp was paid a base salary of $240,000, while Dennis Thomas, commissioner oftheMEAC,earnedabasesalaryof$206,000.

UNDER THE BANNERWHAT'S GOING ON IN AND AROUND BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS

and '13 after the Magic selected him in the sec-ond round of the 2012 Draft. Williams, a native of Philadelphia, earned first-team All-NABC District 15 and second-teamAll-MEAChonorsin2013-14asaseniorwith NSU. He also garneredAPAll-Americahonorable mention and participated in the Re-ese's College All-Star Game before the FinalFour. He averaged career highs of 15.6 points, 4.9 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.5stealslastyear.Heendedhiscareer15thall-timeatNSUwith1,646points and is only one of two players to tally at least 1,600 points, 500 rebounds, 200 assists, 100 steals and 50 blocks.

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SACRAMENTO, California — FormerStillman College trackster Jeffery Hender-son and former Hampton sprinter Francena McCorory tookhomegoldmedalsat theUSATrack & Field Championships here last week at Hornet Stadium on the campus of SacramentoStateUniversity. Henderson jumped a personal best, wind-aided 8.52m (27'11.5") to capture the national long jump title. His performance set a new adi-das Grand Prix record in the men's long jump. McCorory ran 49.48 to capture the 400 meters national title. Her time ranked among the top-fiveall-timeAmericanperformances. Henderson, the 2013 NCAA D2 long jump champion, established a personal record (PR) on his fourth jump of the day, outdistancing his nearest competitor, Arkansas' Jarrion Lawson, by over a foot. "I think I did really well today," said Hen-derson. "My coach and I were focusing on my approach and my knees getting up. I feel really good.Myfirst timebeing inSacramentoand Iloved the crowd and I loved every single bit of the event." Atthe2013USAOutdoorTrackandFieldChampionships, Henderson won the silver med-al in the long jump with a 8.22 m (26'11.5") jump and represented the United States in the 2013World Championships in Athletics in Moscow. PriortohiswinningjumpSunday,Hender-son set a stadium long jump and personal record of 8.43 m (27 ft., 73/4 in.) earlier in the competi-tion. The accolades for McCorory continued fromindoorstooutdoorsasshewontheUSATFOutdoor Championships in the BMW 400 me-ters. The race came down to the last 100 meters as reigning World Indoor champion McCorory addedaUSATFOutdoorstitle toherbelt.Mc-CororyandSanyaRichards-Ross(Austin,Tex-as)movedaheadofthepackafterthefinalcurvebefore McCorory kicked in an extra gear for a closefinishin49.48,amarkthatmakesherthefifth-fastest American woman ever. Richards-Ross, the American record holder, had a season-best 49.66 in second. McCorory won the 2014 national indoor 400 meters title with a time of 50.85 and the 2014WorldIndoor400meterstitlein51.12.Sheisathree-timeUSAOutdoorrunnerupinthe400and Olympic Gold Medalist (2012) and World OutdoorGoldandSilvermedalistinthe4x400meter relay. Former Bethune-Cookman hurdler Ron-

Henderson, McCorory win titles, set records at USA Track Championships

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nie Ash beganhisdaybybecomingthefirstinthe world since 2012 to break the 13-second bar-rier in the 110 hurdles as he ran 12.99. He ended it on a golf cart being driven slow-lyoutofHornetStadium,bandagesaroundhisright ankle and left wrist, with two big bags of ice secured tightly around his right knee and left shoulder. ItwastheresultofanastyspillSundaymid-waythroughthefinalaftertumblingoveroneofthe hurdles just when it appeared he was pulling away from the pack. "It's bittersweet," Ash said. "I was trying to be so consistent in what I was doing. Once the race started surging on I rushed my dive and I hit underneath my lead hamstring, and the combina-

tion with my trail bashing into the hurdle ... I hit dead smack onto the track." Ash's time of 12.99 was the fastest time in theworldthisyearandthefirstunder13.00sec-onds since Aries Merritt set the world record of 12.80 in 2012. Former Howard hurdler and reigning world champion David Oliverfinishedthirdinthe hurdles in a time of 13.23. Devon Allen won the event in 13.16. Former Saint Augustine's 400 meter hur-dles standout Bershawn Jackson, coming back off an injury from last season, also had the best time in the preliminaries of his event (49.48) but pulledupafter thefirsthurdleof thefinal anddidnotfinish.

Take long jump and 400 meters titles

Jeffery Henderson Francena McCorory

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SACRAMENTO, Ca. – USATrack & Field honored the ac-complishments and contributions of the legendary Edward Stanley Temple-amanwhohadasignifi-cant impact on the Tennessee State Tigerbelles legacy and in the lives of dozens of Olympians. He was recognized at Hornet Stadium at 1:30 p.m. PST, Satur-day, during USA Outdoor Cham-pionshipsatSacramentoStateUni-versity. Temple received the firstAn-nual Legend Coach Award from the UnitedStatesofAmericaTrackandField Association, and the Coaches Advisory Committee of the US-ATF. The Coaches Advisory Com-mittee established this award to recognize coaches whose athletes have won medals at the Olympics and/or World Championships. Temple, who will turn 87 on Sept.20,hashadhisshareofthose. •In1956,sixTigerbelleswentto the Olympic Games in Mel-bourne. Willye B. White won a sil-ver medal in the broad jump. Mae Faggs, Margaret Matthews, Wil-ma Rudolph and Isabelle Daniels won bronze in the 4x100 meter re-lay. • In the 1960 Olympics inRome, Rudolph won three gold

medals, one in the 100 meters, one in the 200 meters and one as a member of the 4x100 meter re-lay. Also on that relay team, and coached in the Olympics by Tem-ple were Tigerbelles Martha Hud-son, Barbara Jones and Lucinda Williams. •Inthe1964OlympicsinTo-kyo, Wyomia Tyus won the gold medal in the 100-meter dash and fellow Tigerbelle Edith McGuire won the silver. McGuire won gold in the 200 meters. • In the 1968 Olympics inMexico City, Tyus won the gold in the100meters,becoming thefirstAmerican to win back-to-back gold

in an event, and fellow Tigerbelle Madeline Manning won gold in the 800meters, thefirstAmericanwoman to win that Olympic race. •Inthe1984OlympicsinL.A.,Chandra Cheeseborough won a silver medal in the 400-meter dash and a gold medal as a member of both the 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams. Temple coached 23 Olympic medalists, 30 medalists in the Pan-American Games, as well as eight National Hall of Fame Inductees. His commitment was true not only to the athletic accomplishments of those he coached, but also to the value of education, which is evi-dent in that 39 of his 40 Olympians who have one or more college de-grees. The Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, native was also a great athlete in his own right. He earned the dis-tinction of All-City in track, foot-ball and basketball at John Harris High School beforemoving on toearn undergraduate and graduate degreesinHealthandPhysicalEd-ucation from Tennessee Agricul-tural and Industrial State College (notTSU)wherehealsominoredinSociology. Temple was at the helm as TeamUSA'sheadwomen'strack&

fieldcoachfortheRome1960andTokyo 1964 Olympic Games and was named assistant coach for the Moscow 1980 Games among many other international team appoint-ments. His international leadership gained recognition, but Temple is best regarded as the legend who led and inspired the Tennessee StateUniversity women's track & fieldprogram for 44 years before retiring after the 1993-94 academic year. In the 1980s, he was a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee andbecame chairman of the Amateur Sports Committee. He remains amember of the International Wom-en's Track and Field Committee. Among his many honors are inductions into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame, the Ten-nesseeSportsHallofFame,HelmsHall ofFame, theTennesseeStateUniversityHall ofFame, theHar-risburg Central Area Chapter Hall of Fame, the Pennsylvania SportsHall of Fame, the Ohio Valley Con-ference Hall of Fame and the Com-muniplex National Sports Hall ofFame. Temple, a devoted husband for 57 years before his wife's passing, is also a devoted father to two chil-dren, Bernard and Dr. Edwina R.

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FALLING SHORT Former Bethune-Cookman hurdler Ron-nie Ash (l.) clips the hurdle and eventu-ally fell to the track in the finals of the 110-meter hurdles at the USA Track & Field Championships Sunday in Sacra-mento. Ash had run 12.99 seconds in the semifinals, the world's best time this year and the first below 13 seconds since 2012, to lead the field and was leading and pulling away before his fall. The 12.99 time is the 14th-fastest i110-meter hurdles time n history.

TSU's Temple receives Legend Coach Award