Morehead State University - Raconteur Yearbook (Morehead, KY)

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ABOVE the rim is where a lot of the action takes place in a basketball game. Bo Rivers, a 6-3 sophomore, shows his ability to go up for the ball Rivers led the team in steals with 53. SHOOTERS were a big plus to this year's team Derek Davis played most games and had a good shooting record. Ton y Curry was also the leading scorer for this year: team. 124 Men's Basketball

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A Stroke of Genius wWe worked hard and explained to the swimmers the importance of the spirit of competition, Michael Ford, coach for the MSU men's and womenis swimming team said, summarizing their successful year with a season of 7-2. The teams consist of nine men and seven women. All of the women are new mem- bers and three of the men are new. We take good athletes without competitive swimming backgrounds and show and teach them the importance of competi- tion, Ford said. The team went to nine swimming meetsi excluding the invitational meets in which they did very well. iiWe have two-a-day practices, some mandatory, some optional. Swimmers come to the pool at 6:30 in the morning, but we don't swim more than 8- 10,000 meters a day, Ford said. Ford is a former coach at the YMCA in Louisville and this has been his first year at MSU. Along with Ford are a few others who help with the team. Assistant Coach Tom Fossitt, who was a previous swimmer at MSU; graduate assistant Jackie Uecker; and Athletic Director Palmer Adkins work with the swimmers. The diving coach is George Eyster. iiWe all work together and pull to- gether and do the best job we canX' Ford said. The team did an exceptional job for the 1986-87 year. At the conference, Gretchen Veigal broke the record for the mile and 500 meter freestyle. Jeff Kliner won the 400 in- dividual medley, a very hard and strenuous event. Jim McNeliey won the one meter spring board diving competition at the con- ference. Keith Callihan is one of our most out- standing divers, but had to withdraw from the conference because he pulled a muscle in his back four days before the tourna- ment, Ford said. iiWe offer some of the best facilities in the state and offer the opportunity to com- pete for the people who want to compete in swimming, or any sport for that matter, Ford said. iiPeople don't realize that there's something out there after high school. There is a place for them to compete after high school here at Morehead, and it gives us a chance to work with them. BY BARRY AMBURGEY ?

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IUMPING and height are important for the success of a basketball team. This year the Eagles had both with 6-9 Bob McCann and others with the ability to jump for shots otherwise impossible. DESTINED for the NBA, Bob McCann was named OVC Player of the Year and led the MSU Eagles in scoring and rebounding. McCann, known for his crowd-pleas- ing dunks, holds the school record for most dunks in a season with 54. tHoopfuI' Thinking The MSU Eagles ended the season with an overall record of 14-14, being 8-6 in the Ohio Valley Conference tOVQ. Leading the team this season was Bob McCann, a 6-9 senior from Morristown, N.J., destined for the NBA. McCann was named OVC Player of the Year. He led the team in scoring and rebounding, averaging 18.6 points a game and 11.3 rebounds. He finished sixth in the nation in rebounding, and eleventh in the nation in blocked shots t3 per game; He also holds the MSU record for the most dunks in a season with 54. McCann was not the only successful player this season, however. Tony Curry, a 6-1 freshman from Louisville, KY, was named to the AII-OVC Freshman Team. Curry averaged 10.1 points per game and was second on the team in assists with 80. Jeff Griffin, a 6-5 freshman from Propect, KY, was the leader in assists on the team with 105. Bo Rivers, 3 6-3 sophomore from Haines City, FL, led the team in steals with 53. The Eagles travelled to Bloomington, N, to play the Indiana University Hoosiers, the 1987 NCAA champions, on December 20. The Hoosiers beat the Eagles 80-37 in 1978 and defeated them again by only 22 points in one of the Eagles' most popular games of the season. According to Assistant Coach Randy Mc- Coy, the win over Eastern Kentucky Univer- sity on January 31 was one of the most outstanding games of the season. 11The ri- valry has never left the MSU-EKU series for me, said Head Coach Wayne Martin. Other highlights included the victory over Youngstown State on January 10 and continued to p. 126