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Leading up to the 2010-11 USF women's basketball season, GoUSFBulls.com will take some time to get a closer look at the players who will make up the roster this season.
The 2010-11 season is one of the most anticipated in recent history for the USF Bulls, and leading up to the season, we will take some time to get to know the players, on and off the court. This week we feature sophomore guard Tiffany Conner...
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Fresh off a 20-win season, USF has announced a new contract extension for men's basketball coach Stan Heath, who picks up a solid raise and is now the Bulls' coach through 2015.
Heath, who led USF to its first postseason appearance in eight years in the NIT in March, had two years remaining on the contract he signed when he came to Tampa in 2007. This new contract, combined with the Muma Center practice facility being built just south of the Sun Dome, represents a substantial financial commitment to basketball as the Bulls try to move up in the Big East standings.
"My family and I are honored and appreciative of USF's commitment to our basketball program," Heath said in a statement. "My staff and I look forward to the work ahead in building a championship program. It's an exciting time to be a USF Bull."
Heath, 41-54 in three years at USF, was making $675,000 a year under the original contract, but his new deal averages $900,000 a year, a raise of 33 percent. The contract was signed by Heath, athletic director Doug Woolard and USF President Judy Genshaft on Wednesday, the final year of USF's fiscal year.
"I am very pleased to extend Stan's contract," Woolard said in a statement. "In just three years, he has been able to position our men's basketball program as a viable competitor within the Big East Conference and\ nationally. Winning games in the best conference in America is no small feat, and to have us in the postseason in that period of time is one heck of an achievement.”
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USF athletic director Doug Woolard, who has been talking recently about adding a new $3.5-million soccer stadium to the ambitious package of facility upgrades, said Monday that he can now officially announce that USF has secured the funding to include soccer in this wave of construction.
That means USF soccer will have a new home immediately east of the athletic facility in time for its 2011 fall season. Woolard is saying that all the construction -- new stadiums for baseball and softball, the Muma Center practice facility for basketball and new practice fields for football -- will be completed a year from now.
Taken from http://blogs.tampabay.com/usf/
By SCOTT CARTER | The Tampa Tribune
Published: May 28, 2010
Updated: 02:00 am
CLEARWATER - If there had been more games like Thursday's for the USF baseball team, the Bulls' postseason hopes might not rest on having to win the Big East Conference Tournament.
The Bulls got another solid outing by their starting pitcher, played sharp defense, and perhaps most importantly, the lineup produced the way Coach Lelo Prado envisioned. The leader of the pack was first baseman Todd Brazeal, whose three-run homer in the third inning sparked USF (26-31) to a 10-5 victory against West Virginia (27-30) in the second round of the tournament and helped keep USF's season alive. The Bulls will play Louisville tonight at 7. "That's what we expected out of him, and we haven't gotten it," Prado said. "We're happy. We'll see if we can carry it over." While the offense pounded out 12 hits after Prado moved Stephen Hunt into the leadoff spot and inserted catcher Andrew Longley and outfielder Sean Buckley into the lineup, Bulls starter Andrew Barbosa made sure the offensive tweaks didn't go to waste. Barbosa pitched seven innings, striking out eight and walking two. Barbosa struck out five consecutive batters over the third and fourth innings. "This could have been our last game," said Barbosa, who avoided the fate of starter Randy Fontanez on Wednesday. Fontanez pitched eight stellar innings but lost to St. John's as the Bulls managed only five hits. "When (Todd) hit that three-run homer, I got to settle down and go out there and just do what I have to do." Read the full article here.
