he University U... Leading the Way he University of ennessee is a and-grant university, historicay committed to offering practica education. U is the ony pubic institution in ennessee to hod the Carnegie Foundation's "doctora/research-extensive" cassification, which paces it among the nation's best universities. Did You Know? U geoogist Dr. Harry "Hap" McSween was named a feow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in May. He worked on NASA's Mars Exporation Rover mission in 2003. He was a science team member of the Mars Pathfinder, Mars Goba Surveyor and Mars Odyssey missions. He aso was featured in the New York imes. Severa new initiatives enhance U's invovement with the community and state. In recent months, U kicked off a ennessee Appaachian Higher Education Center to hep youths from poor counties go to coege, a summer reading and writing program for Knoxvie-area second and third graders and an Infant Deveopmenta Research Center to study deveopmenta disorders in babies. ennessee aumni are chief executive officers in more than 50 major corporations and emerging companies. he U Heath Science Center Coege of Medicine's division of rheumatoogy is the first rheumatoogy unit in the United States to have two Speciaized Centers of Research grants in one division at the same time. Funding for studies in sceroderma (a progressive disease of the skin and interna organs invoving coagen tissue), rheumatoid arthritis and a new Center of Exceence for Diseases of Connective issue wi tota $17 miion over the next five years. he university is a partner in an internationa research project that coud ead to a owcost way to transmit high-quaity video on the Internet. U, the University of Caifornia-Berkeey and the Netherands' nationa computer network are working to reduce the cost of using the high-quaity MotionJPEG video format to stream ive V broadcasts on the Internet. U's predecessor, Bount Coege, was founded in Knoxvie in 1794, two years before ennessee became a state. In 1828, the renamed East ennessee Coege moved to its current ocation on he Hi. In 1840, the schoo became East ennessee University and in 1879, the University of ennessee. U has more than 250,000 iving aumni. hey are members of the U Nationa Aumni Association, which provides schoarships to deserving students and awards to outstanding facuty. 42 2006 Vounteers ennis University of ennessee he University of ennessee incudes the main campus at Knoxvie, the Heath Science Center at Memphis, the Space Institute at uahoma and the statewide institutes of agricuture and pubic service. U is the state's odest and argest pubic university and one of the eading institutions of higher earning in the United States. he university offers undergraduate, graduate and professiona studies, conducts a vigorous research program and shares expertise and resources with ennessee communities, the state and the nation through its programs of pubic service. U offers the argest concentration of doctora programs in ennessee and is the ony university that offers courses in discipines such as architecture, dentistry and veterinary medicine. Students come from every county in ennessee, every state in the nation and more than 100 other nations. At Knoxvie, severa new deveopments are points of pride. One of the most visibe is the new Back Cutura Center. his faciity not ony draws together African-American students and facuty, but aso sends a positive message that U vaues and appreciates diversity. In the panning stages is the new Howard Baker Center for Pubic Poicy. Among the important areas this center wi expore are: the roe of the media in the poitica process, the structure of the American eectora system, and the importance of pubic invovement in governing U has received a $6 miion federa grant to hep estabish the center in honor of Baker, a 1949 U graduate and U.S. ambassador to Japan. he university wi raise money for an endowment and for space on campus to house the center. he center wi incude Senator Baker's papers, which he aready has given to the university. here wi aso be a Howard Baker chair in pubic poicy, to be fied by a prominent schoar who wi provide inteectua eadership. Probaby U's greatest strength is its ties to the Oak Ridge Nationa Laboratory, recenty enhanced when UBattee began management of the ab. Eary in 2000, the university took the next step in its ongstanding reationship with the nationa ab and entered a partnership with Battee Memoria Institute to manage ORNL for the U. S. Department of Energy. his has put U at the heart of severa significant deveopments such as the Spaation Neutron Source. his new project wi be the most advanced neutron-beam faciity in the word when it goes onine in summer 2006. he renovation of ORNL's High Fux Isotope Reactor aso heps put U in the forefront of neutron-science research. he synergy with U-Battee enhances U's invovement in research in computationa science and in the physica, bioogica, materias and environmenta sciences. U is one of the first major universities in the country to have campus-wide wireess Internet access. he university has about 1,000 receiver-transmitter stations throughout the main campus and the agricutura campus that make possibe this wireess computer access no matter where or when facuty or students need it. his has been paid for argey by the student technoogy fee. Another point of pride is the performance of U's new research centers of exceence. In their first year of existence, they attracted more outside funding than was expected in two years. here are nine centers ocated at Knoxvie and at the U Heath Science Center in Memphis, exporing such timey topics as food safety and diseases of connective tissues. he campus ibraries house 2.4 miion voumes and are ranked 39th among the more than 110 research ibraries in the U.S. he main ibrary, Hodges, has more than 300 graduate student carres, 200 facuty study rooms and study space for more than 2,000 peope. he Hoskins Library is a repository of primary source materias, incuding three presidentia coections (Andrew Jackson, James K. Pok, and Andrew Johnson). It aso wi house the panned Howard Baker Center.
he City of Knoxvie 2006 Men s ennis Knoxvie is situated at the crossroads of three major interstates, I-75, I-40 and I-81, in the center of the eastern region of ennessee and is ocated within a day's drive of haf the nation's popuation. Knoxvie's city popuation is neary 175,000 with a metropoitan area popuation of 687,249, which incudes Knox, Anderson, Bount, Loudon, Sevier and Union counties. Knoxvie is ocated in a temperate cimate zone with the annua average temperature of 58 degrees. he average Juy temperature is 77 degrees and the average January temperature is 36 degrees. Knoxvie's McGhee yson Airport serves the East ennessee region with more than 120 fights daiy. Airines incude: American/American Eage, Comair, Continenta Express, Deta/he Deta Connection, Northwest Airines/Northwest Airink, rans Word Express, United Express Airines and US Airways Express. Annua Events in Knoxvie incude the Martin Luther King Jr. Hoiday Ceebration, the Dogwood Arts Festiva, the American Indian Ceebration Powwow, Sundown in the City Concert Series, KUUMBA Festiva, Festiva on the Fourth, Boomsday Fireworks Ceebration, ennessee Vaey Fair, Greekfest, RiverLights Boat Parade, Fantasy of rees and Christmas in the City. Knoxvie/Knox County has 5,596 acres of park and recreation space, incuding 27 recreation centers, six senior citizen centers, 144 paygrounds and parks, 103 tennis courts, five pubic gof courses (pus 20 pubic gof courses within a one-hour drive of Knox County) and 14 greenways and waking trais. he Knoxvie area boasts severa professiona sports franchises, incuding the Knoxvie Ice Bears (ACHL hockey), the ennessee Smokies (Southern League-AA baseba), the ennessee Raiders (AFL footba) and the ennessee Fury (NWBL women s basketba). he nearby Great Smoky Mountains Nationa Park is the country's most visited nationa park with neary 10 miion visitors annuay. Knoxviians and visitors aike enjoy the beauty and eisure activities that can be found there and at the numerous parks, akes and resorts which dot the area. he Paces Rated Amanac recenty ranked the Knoxvie metro area as the "best pace to ive in the U.S. among cities with ess than one miion popuation." What s New in Knoxvie? Knoxvie Zoo has severa new exhibits, incuding Back Bear Fas, Goria Vaey, Chimp Ridge and Stokey African Eephant Preserve, which houses a new barn, three poos, a mud hoe and man-made trees for the three femae and one bu eephant. Ijams Nature Center acquired the Mead's Quarry property, marking the transition from a oca nature center to a regiona environmenta education faciity. he 150-acre park contains muched and paved trais, a waterfront boardwak and widife viewing areas. his free park is open from 8 a.m. to sunset and sits just minutes from downtown Knoxvie. he Frank H. McCung Museum opened its second renovated permanent exhibit in three years this past September. he newest exhibit, "he Geoogy and Fossi History of ennessee," focuses on the ast 600 miion years of ennessee's geoogic past. "he Archeoogy and Native Peopes of ennessee" permanent exhibit opened in fa of 2001 and traces the 12,000-15,000 years of Native American occupation of ennessee through five cutura periods and numerous interactive dispays. Gateway to the Smokies N ot ony is Knoxvie easiy accessibe, it is situated in the beautifu East ennessee region. Nested at the foothis of the Great Smoky Mountains Nationa Park on the banks of the ennessee River, the area offers outdoor enthusiasts and nature overs a weath of opportunities on area akes, in the mountains and on beautifu gof courses. Knoxvie offers a variety of paces to stay, from top-name brands to historic bed and breakfast accommodations. he county boasts more than 7,500 hote rooms; 1,200 of which are in the downtown/convention center area. Knoxvie is known for its hospitaity, convenience and affordabiity. he scenic city is ocated within a day's drive of more than haf of the nation's popuation, at the crossroads of three major interstates, I-75, I-40 and I-81. McGhee-yson Airport, ocated just 20 minutes from downtown Knoxvie and the Knoxvie Convention Center, is serviced by 10 airines that fy directy to 15 cities and have 6,600 seats daiy. here are penty of activities to choose from whie in Knoxvie. Visitors can discover history and cuture at one of more than 20 historic sites and unique museums. Vounteer Landing, a scenic one-mie riverwak, offers a visitor center, attractions, fu-service marina, restaurants, waterfas and fountains. he Women's Basketba Ha of Fame is a fun way to spend an afternoon or shop the day away at unique shops and nearby outet stores. he Od City section of Knoxvie features many shops, restaurants and nightife opportunities. Visitors can aso experience the beauty of the region by taking a reaxing cruise on the Star of Knoxvie riverboat or seeing the countryside aboard the hree Rivers Ramber steam engine train. Knoxvie Facts and Figures ime Zone: Eastern Popuation: 173,278 Metropoitan Popuation: 712,366 City Square Mies: 99.4 Knox County Square Mies: 526 Monthy Precipitation: 4.0 inches Atitude: 936 feet Knoxvie Annua Events January: Martin Luther King Jr. Day Events February: Dogwood Arts Festiva March: Women s Expo Apri: Dogwood Arts Festiva May: Indian Powwow, Jubiee Int Festiva June: Hot Summer Nights Concert Series Juy: Fourth of Juy Pops Concert August: ArtFest September: Boomsday, ennessee Vaey Fair October: Boo! at the Zoo November: Craft Guid Fa Show December: Christmas in the City Information courtesy of Knoxvie Convention and Visitors Bureau (www.knoxvie.org) 43 2006 Vounteers ennis
Internationa Diversity HE U CENER FOR INERNAIONAL EDUCA ION he Center for Internationa Education (CIE) is a department within the Division of Student Affairs that serves as a catayst at every eve for the internationaization of the entire University of ennessee community. he foowing units make up the U Center for Internationa Education: he Internationa House, or "I-House," is a free-standing, non-residentia programming faciity that was opened in 1996 to provide a U students with a pace in which they coud meet and earn about peope of every cuture represented at U. he I-House is open every day of the year. Its teephone number is (865) 974-4453. he Programs Abroad Office (PAO) provides students with information about their options for overseas study, research, work, vounteer projects and trave. he PAO administers most of U's internationa onefor-one student exchange programs, incuding ISEP, and aso is the campus contact for student Fubright awards, Rhodes Schoarships, Marsha Schoarships and the Nationa Security Education Program. he Internationa Schoar Services Office, which is responsibe for U's "J" Exchange Visitor Program and for "H" visas, works cosey with facuty, departments and coeges to serve the numerous visiting schoars who come from abroad in order to ecture, teach, advise or conduct research on the U campus. Once students have been formay admitted by the U admissions office, the CIE Office of Internationa Student Services becomes responsibe for the orientation and advising of internationa students. University of ennessee he University of ennessee s Internationa House (IHouse) provides many opportunities for foreign students to get invoved with campus ife and adjust to the cuture in Internationa payers have payed an extremey vita roe in Knoxvie and at the university. Serving as a gateway to ennessee s tennis fortunes for many years. Over the past 11 years, the Vos have seen student-athetes from four difcampus, the house s staff is composed amost entirey of ferent continents garner A-America honors. ennessee s internationa students or students who have ived or traveed roster has incuded at east one internationa payer every overseas--a of whom are dedicated to making the transition year since 1978. to American coege ife fun and easy. ennessee s Internationa House aso sponsors more than 20 internationa student associations and a host of various programs throughout the academic year. Such events incude cuture nights, sports and trips, dance essons, cooking demonstrations, an internationa festiva and more. In the cassroom, students can choose from more than 120 programs of study. he University of ennessee offers numerous programs that cater and appea to internationa students. One such program is the Language & Word Business Program, a bacheor of arts degree program within the curricuum of the modern foreign anguages and iteratures department. he L&WB program enabes a student to combine a major in foreign anguage with a minor in business. Students are required to take more courses in business than needed stricty for a business minor, and there is a growing trend among L&WB students to doube major. he abe L&WB evokes high quaity, versatiity and we roundedness. Graduates of this concentration are he Internationa House ambitious, high-achieving and we-rounded individuas, who proceed into active ife or go on to pursue a graduate degree in internationa business or foreign anguage. In addition to competing a rigorous and varied curricuum, students are often required to study and work abroad. Most students study abroad for a year and then compete a domestic internship with a company invoved in internationa trade. Many students aso do internships with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the oca Center for Internationa rade. hrough the Internationa Cooperative Education Program based in Meno Park, Caif., students work during the summer in either Begium, Engand, Finand, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, South Africa or Switzerand. More and more companies and graduate schoos now know that Language & Word Business graduates often have better communication skis, more extensive internationa experience and more practica training than their peers with genera business or foreign anguage degrees. A curricuum aone, no matter how eaborate, is not sufficient to create an exciting, synergetic program ike the Language & Word Business program at the University of ennessee. Students meet reguary with highy experienced and sincerey interested facuty advisors and business mentors to discuss their academic pans and ways to deveop business and management skis beyond the cassroom. he customer-service aspect of the program has fostered a sincere enthusiasm among students, and many graduates remain in very cose contact with the department. he professiona emphasis areas within the Language & Word Business Program incude: Internationa agricutura economics Internationa business Internationa retai & consumer science VOL FAC In addition to being responsibe for the overa day-to-day operation of the center, the CIE Administration works cosey with facuty members, departments and coeges to assist in the estabishment and maintenance of inkage agreements with institutions outside the United States. CIE administration works cosey with the U Counci on Internationa Education and the U Facuty Senate Committee on Internationa Education. Center for Internationa Education he University of ennessee 1620 Merose Avenue Knoxvie, ennessee 37996-3531 Phone: (865) 974-3177 Fax: (865) 974-2985 E-mai: cie@utk.edu Internet: http://www.uinternationa.org 44 2006 Vounteers ennis he 1995 ennessee men s tennis team incuded payers from five different countries and four different continents. Front Row (L-R): Christoph Pressmar (Munich, Germany), Mike Garcia, homas Mozur, John Fritts, Danie Dewandaka (Pekaongan, Indonesia), manager Eddie Iagan. Back Row (L-R): Head coach John Kreis, Pabo Montana, Jason Needham, Martijn Magendans (Defzij, Netherands), Chad Copenhaver, Chris Mahony (Brisbane, Austraia), Rob McMiin, assistant coach Caros Garcia.
2006 Men s ennis Academic Support hornton Athetics Student Life Center Mission Statement he University of ennessee and its athetics departments are committed to the academic success of each student-athete. he mission of the hornton Center is to provide the academic support, the educationa programs and the earning environment in which a studentathetes have the opportunity to achieve their academic and persona goas. he center aso wi encourage the student-athetes participation in the many enriching opportunities avaiabe at the University of ennessee and in the surrounding community. he hornton Center academic counseing staff is committed to assisting student-athetes reach their potentia through academics and persona deveopment. he goa of the center is not ony to prepare students educationay and sociay but aso to provide them with the toos necessary to ive productive ives after their coegiate years. Competed in 2001, the hornton Center is the hub for a academic support and student ife activities for Vounteer student-athetes. he center houses two study rooms: the Peyton Manning Study Area and the Lye Finey Study Area. Each comfortaby hods 60 students. he David L. Howard & Famiy Computer Lab provides up-todate technoogica faciities for a Vo student-athetes. hornton Athetics Student Life Center Six fu-time counseors/administrators and severa graduate assistants staff the area of academic support services. Athough students have access to a counseors, the staff is divided according to sport, aowing for continuity in service and reationship-buiding between the academic departments, student service units, coaches and other athetics department staff. In addition to meeting reguary with their academic counseor, student-athetes are required to meet with an academic advisor in their coege or major. he coege academic advisor heps the students put together degree pans that meet the students academic and career goas. he hornton Center counseors coaborate with the advisors and hep the student-athetes pan appropriatey for practice and competition schedues, team trave and the specia requirements of the NCAA and SEC. In addition, the academic counseors pay a critica roe in monitoring continuing eigibiity requirements, assessing the academic preparedness of new recruits, faciitating the university admission process for new students, referring student-athetes to appropriate university academic and support services and coordinating orientation programs. Dr. Ruth Daring was named associate provost and director of the hornton Center in February 2001. She oversees the academic support programs for University of ennessee student-athetes. Additionay, Daring has been appointed by the Southeastern Conference to serve as its representative on the NCAA Academics/Eigibiity/Compiance Cabinet. Prior to her current post, she served as director of student affairs and advising services in the Coege of Arts and Sciences. here she directed the programs, facuty advisors and staff of the coege's advising services, a centraized advising center for more than 6,000 undecided and pre-professiona students. CHAMPS/Life Skis Chaenging Athetes Minds for Persona Success - NCAA Program of Exceence he CHAMPS program strives to hep student-athetes deveop critica skis that can be used beyond their athetic and academic careers. he program contains five commitments: to academics, athetics, career deveopment, persona deveopment and community service. hrough the services offered in these five areas, there is a hope that student-athetes wi graduate and enter a chosen profession with a higher eve of vision, maturity, motivation and overa success. ennessee s CHAMPS program was honored with the Division I-AAthetic Directors Association Program of Exceence award in 1998. Academic Honors SEC Academic Honor Ro U s Men s ennis Honorees Since 1984 Year Name GPA 1984 Pau Annacone 3.06 Marc Fishman 3.00 1986 Marc Fishman 3.40 Caros Garcia 3.29 1987 Caros Garcia 3.05 om Goes 3.45 1989 Connie de Viiers 3.32 John Gibson 3.21 1990 Connie de Viiers 3.27 Brice Karsh 3.34 1991 Connie de Viiers 3.36 John Gibson 3.23 Brice Karsh 3.30 Fabio Siberberg 3.01 1992 Abrie du Pooy 3.80 1993 Cayton Johnson 3.55 Chris Woodruff 3.05 1994 Rhain Buth 3.81 Cayton Johnson 3.30 Chris Mahony 3.74 1995 Danie Dewandaka 3.15 Martijn Magendans 3.38 Chris Mahony 3.84 Pabo Montana 3.02 1996 Chad Copenhaver 3.21 Chris Mahony 3.83 1998 Chad Copenhaver 3.41 Roger Iias 3.02 Kaspar Rasmussen 3.41 1999 Chad Copenhaver 3.49 2000 Peter Handoyo 3.05 2001 Andy Crews 3.33 Peter Handoyo 3.10 Mark Parsons 3.00 Matt urner 3.78 2002 Andy Crews 3.13 Mark Fitzpatrick 3.28 Peter Handoyo 3.06 Pau Podbury 3.16 2003 Andy Crews 3.57 Peter Handoyo 3.06 Wade Orr 3.58 CoSIDA Academic A-America eam Chris Mahony - 1995-96 A-America At-Large 3.83 GPA (Sport Management) Academic Support Staff Wade Orr - 2003 A-District IV At-Large hird eam 3.34 GPA (Industria Engineering) Eric Brey Director FERNANDEZ WES Associate Director KAY SHANAHAN Asst. Director for Advising (ennis) DAVE HAASE CHAMPS/Life Skis Note: o be nominated for the Academic A-District and/or A-America eam, student-athetes must be a starter or important reserve and carry a cumuative GPA of 3.20 or higher. eam members are seected by a vote of the members of the Coege Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) within the district. he team for District IV is made up of student-athetes from Division I schoos in Aabama, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and ennessee. 2006 Vounteers ennis 45
raining and Conditioning S trength and conditioning and quaity athetic training are priorities for Chris Mahony and his coaching staff. he Vos strength and conditioning team, ed by Johnny Long, and ennessee s outstanding athetic trainers, guided by Keith Cements, have made U s athetes stronger, faster and we-prepared for victory. Strength to Dominate he 12,000-square-foot Percy Strength Faciity houses 140 training stations that have been custom designed and buit to the specifications set by the training staff. With more than 48,000 pounds of weights and state-of-the-art equipment, the Percy Strength Faciity is considered one of the best-equipped and most functiona of its kind. raining for Endurance ennessee s im Kerin raining Room matches the strength faciity both in its eve of technoogica advancement and in its abiity to provide vauabe heathcare. With an overa area of approximatey 14,000 square feet and the most modern equipment avaiabe, it is capabe of handing 25-30 athetes at a time and is we-suited for athetes of a sports. With separate areas for taping, training, rehabiitation and hydrotherapy, confusion and excess traffic are eiminated. Another unique feature to U s training room is a pharmacy within the faciity. It is the ony state-icensed faciity in the country ocated in a coegiate training room. 46 2006 Vounteers ennis ennessee s Strength and Conditioning staff empoys 20 strength coaches, incuding two who work excusivey with the men s tennis team. his nationay known and respected contingent of fitness gurus strives to give each student-athete the attention needed in order for them to reach their maximum athetic potentia. A fu-time nutritionist aso works with Vo athetes to hep them effectivey and efficienty manage their diets, gain ean body mass and/or ose excess body weight. he emphasis of our workouts focus on the obvious components of strength, fexibiity, and conditioning a of which aim to decrease the ikeihood of injuries and improve performance, ennessee Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach roy Wis said. Specificay, we use a number of functiona exercises that incorporate the use of trunk rotation, anke and shouder stabiity and hip fexibiity that aid in aowing the payers to transfer their work in the weight room more successfuy to the court. One of the exercises that we use most often is the unge. We perform variations of this exercise and other exercises from the unge position to utiize muti-joint stabiity, improve the fexibiity and strength of the abdominas and trunk rotators whie aso providing a functiona strength component. he Vo netters regimen carries over into the off-season, when the squad ifts weights and runs four days per week (the team trains twice weeky during the season). he team aso performs about two sessions per week dependent on the season that focus stricty on endurance conditioning, Wis said. Most often, these sessions consist of shutte dris that vary in distance and time aowed. he sessions are designed to provide the payers with a strong endurance base that becomes necessary during matches that sometimes exceed two and three hours. Wis and his staff take particuar pride in the tennis team s agiity and conditioning training program, which is geared toward the athete s abiity to change direction quicky whie being abe to maintain body awareness. In regards to agiity, the majority of the dris we use impement a reaction component where the athete must earn to focus on moving quicky and efficienty through instinct rather than foowing a set pattern, Wis said. he agiity dris are usuay performed with a set increment of time for rest that coincides with the rest that is aowed during a match, thus providing the athetes a form of anaerobic conditioning. Acting tennis coach Chris Mahony appreciates the increased intensity with which today s tennis payers train, as we as the fact that the Vounteers are being supervised by some of the best strength coaches in the nation. University of ennessee
On the Road with the Vos 2006 Men s ennis ouring the Gobe D A gaery of kangaroos ooks on as Peter Handoyo putts espite the fact that the University of ennessee is ocated in one of the most beautifu and friendy regions in the country, the Vo netters spend a generous amount of time traveing to various other ocations to test their skis against top-notch opponents. Coach Chris Mahony beieves extended road trips increase team soidarity, serve as a break from the routine of the coegiate season and aow for both the payers and coaching staff to enjoy themseves whie experiencing new and exciting paces around the word. However, fitness remains a primary focus during each of ennessee s annua spring break trips. A member of the Vos nationay respected strength and conditioning staff accompanies the team on these trips to ensure that the netters are ready to finish the season in good form upon their return to Rocky op. And in recent years, that pan has proved to be successfu, as evidenced by three consecutive trips to the NCAA semifinas in 2000, 2001 and 2002. Boarding a jet to fy to a ournament Snorkeing in the sparking waters of the Pacific Ocean he Hiton Waikooa Resort in Honouu, Hawaii ouring Evis Graceand mansion in Memphis in 2003 Under the media spotight at the NCAA championships In 1999, ennessee ventured towards the bright ights of Las Vegas, Nev. After posting a 4-3 win over UNLV, the Vos traveed to Santa Monica, Caif. It was there that Adam Carey cinched a 4-3 dua-match win against highy ranked Pepperdine. It was Mahony s native Austraia that served as the team s destination in 2000. he Vos competed in two tournaments during their four-week stay Down Under. Peter Handoyo won the University Open singes championship and Adam Carey won the tite at the Koorabyn Open. he Big Easy provided the setting for ennessee s team trave stop in 2001, as the Vo netters invaded New Oreans, La. he squad spent one week training in Cajun Country before focusing their efforts on a dua match with the uane Green Wave, which ennessee won 4-3. In 2002, the Vos headed west across the Pacific Ocean to the sunny Kohaa coast in Hawaii. In addition to posting a 6-0 win over Hawaii Pacific University, the Vounteers aso found time to arrange a team gof tournament, snorke on offshore reefs and reax on the beach. Beautifu Miami, Fa., was the spring break destination for the Vos in 2003. Athough a schedued dua match against the Miami Hurricanes was canceed due to heavy rains, the trip was far from a wash. ennessee recorded a neutra-site victory over Georgia Southern and worked on heightening its eve of fitness. Last season, the Vounteers spent spring break in Chareston, S.C., a historic port city on the Atantic Coast. Whie there, they posted dua-match triumphs against he Citade and the Coege of Chareston. he Vos aso found time to tour storied sites such as Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the U.S. Civi War were fired in 1861. Sunny Orando, Fa., wi serve as the backdrop for U s 2005 spring break excursion. Honored by more than 107,000 Vos fans at Neyand Stadium 47 2006 Vounteers ennis
he Legend of the Vounteer University of ennessee Give me a thousand ennesseans, and I whip any other thousand men on the gobe! President Andrew Od Hickory Jackson What s a Vounteer? Not your run-of-the-mi schoo nickname, the proud egacy of the Vounteer cas ennessee student-athetes to compete at an eevated standard when the stakes are highest. A Vounteer is the bravest breed of human from the bodest nation on Earth, fiercey proud to ca ennessee home whether the batte ies within its borders or in a and far away. he First Vounteers In the aftermath of the Decaration of Independence, Americans were determined to create a nation that was free of the evis that had required them to resort to revoution. Among these was the fear of a arge standing army. Such a force coud be used to impose the wi of an evi monarch and was therefore a threat to individua iberties. Instead, they woud rey upon a vounteer army, citizen sodiers who woud be caed into service at times of crisis to serve their country. When the peope who woud ater be known as ennesseans were first asked to vounteer for such an army, they had been iving aong the upper tributaries of the ennessee River, near modern day Eizabethton. he ca went out for vounteers to gather at Sycamore Shoas in September 1780 and march across the Smoky Mountains to meet this British threat. When finay assembed, the vounteers totaed amost 1,000 men, virtuay the entire fighting force of the settements. hese Overmountain Men defeated the British at King s Mountain to turn the tide of the war in favor of the fedging nation. he tradition of the ennessee Vounteer was thus aready initiated when, in the War of 1812, the nation once again went to war. As they had done over 30 years before, ennesseans responded enthusiasticay. Instead of the 3,500 troops requested, 25,000 ennesseans joined, participating in battes from the Canadian border to the Guf of Mexico. Od Hickory Earier in the War of 1812 the British torched Washington. he ennessee Vounteers made sure New Oreans woud suffer no such fate. Under future President Andrew Od Hickory Jackson at the Batte of New Oreans, ennessee Vounteers took part in the greatest victory of the war when they heped to defeat an army of crack British reguars. Facing more than twice their number, the ennessee Vounteers joined a New Oreans miitia, a group of former Haitian saves fighting as free men and a band of outaws headed by the notorious pirate Jean Lafitte. hanks in no sma part to the deady Vounteer rifemen of ennessee, the U.S. took a opsided victory where more than 2,000 British were kied or wounded compared to eight kied and 13 wounded on the American side. Jacob Hartse, a captain in the 2nd East ennessee miitia, was among the ennesseans who took part in the batte. He was so inspired by his feow ennesseans that he wrote a heroic poem in their honor. Entited he Brave Vounteer, this poetic journa entry is the eariest known written reference to ennesseans as Vounteers. Vounteers at the Aamo wo decades ater, ennesseans advanced their reputation as vounteers when, unsoicited, severa hundred made the journey south to assist the exans in their war for independence from Mexico. he best known of these was David Crockett. His aready egendary status was ony enhanced by his dramatic death at the Aamo in 1836. But before the Aamo fe, 33 ennesseans, the argest number of defenders provided by any state neary four times as many as from exas kept Mexican Genera Santa Anna s overwheming army at bay for 13 days against unbeievabe odds. On March 6, 1836, the brave ennessee Vounteers and the other Aamo defenders were overrun and breathed their ast. However, the crucia days the Vounteers sowed down the Mexican army gave another ennessean, Sam Houston, enough time to gaop through exas raising an army to defend what woud become the Lone Star State. his army defeated Santa Anna in no sma part because of the contributions of ennessee s Vounteers. here can be no doubt exas owes a great debt of gratitude for its statehood to the fierce men from ennessee. ennessee... he Vounteer State But ennessee s status as the Vounteer State was soidified 10 years ater when the United States War Department caed for vounteers in the War with Mexico. Moving quicky to meet their aotted quota of 2,800 recruits, state officias were overwhemed by 30,000 vounteers. It was during the Spanish-American War that the students of the University of ennessee began to ay officia caim to the Vounteer nickname for themseves. In 1897, the student yearbook was christened, he Vounteer. In 1902, the Atanta Constitution used the term Vounteers to describe the footba team when recounting a game between U and Georgia ech. However, the university sports teams continued to operate without an officia nickname unti 1905. In March of that year an artice in the Knoxvie Journa announced a nickname had been chosen. One of the admirers of the od schoo has suggested the Vounteers, the newspaper reported. In cassic understatement the report concudes, he name sounds good, and it is ikey that it wi stick. he Vounteer Spirit here have been other men who symboized the indomitabe ennessee Vounteer spirit on and off the fied of batte. One of the most famous proved to be Avin York in Word War I. York was drafted and neary singe-handedy captured 132 Germans, took out about 35 machine guns which had been decimating his battaion and kied no fewer than 25 of the enemy, according to officers reports. Indeed, Marsha Ferdinand Foch said of York s heroism, What you did was the greatest thing accompished by any private sodier of a the armies of Europe. Humby, the reuctant hero returned home to ennessee as the toast of the nation. Yet York wasn t interested in ceebrity or cashing in on his fame, saying, his uniform ain t for sae. ennessee Vounteers took part in every theater of Word War II, whether heping secure the deady beaches of Normandy to working in their own backyard in Oak Ridge on he Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb that brought an end to war in the Pacific. Not every... Vounteer story was forged in wartime. Part of the Vounteer egend deas with sef-sacrifice for the good of others. ake ennessee train President Andrew Jackson engineer Casey Jones, for instance. Steaming fu-bore in the eary morning in Vaughan, Miss., in 1900, Jones saw boxcars in the distance on the tracks in front of him. When it became apparent the passenger train he was driving was destined for a catastrophic coision, Jones was faced with a desperate choice he Davy Crockett coud jump out of the engine and save his ife before the crash or he coud stay in the engine and try to sow the train enough to save more passengers ives. After ordering his fireman to jump from the racing ocomotive and save himsef, Jones died that day saving dozens of ives in an amazing dispay of sef-sacrifice. But his story and heroism ive in the baad devoted to the ennessean who saved so many ives that day in his casket of spintered wood and twisted stee. he egend of the ennessee Vounteer aso appies to great minds who create items of great cutura vaue in interesting ways. he first constitution ever written by white men in America was drafted in 1772 by the Watauga Association near present day Eizabethton. ake the exampe of the Cherokee siversmith Sequoyah, the ony known man in the history of the word to singe-handedy create an aphabet, the first written anguage for a Native American peope. Simiary, ennessean Aex Haey became one of America s most famous authors after recounting the experience of African-Americans in his highy-accaimed Roots. Haey chose to make his home in Norris, just a short drive from the University of ennessee. Every time since the nation s birth to this very day, when the U.S. needs an extraordinary effort to brush back the dark curtain of hopeessness, the ennessee Vounteers are caed. he bravery, heroism, wisdom and ferocity of the Vounteers pace them on a pedesta of great American egends. - Contributed by Nathan Kirkham 48 2006 Vounteers ennis