GENERAL INFORMATIONName: University of Alaska AnchorageWebsite: www.GoSeawolves.comAddress: 3211 Providence Dr. Anchorage, AK 99508Founded: 1977Enrollment: 19,692Nickname: SeawolvesColors: Green & GoldWebsite: GoSeawolves.comHome Court: Wells Fargo Sports ComplexOpened: 1977Capacity: 1,250Affiliation: NCAA Division IIConference: Great Northwest Athletic ConferenceChancellor: Fran UlmerAthletics Director: Dr. Steve CobbAthletic Dept. Phone: 907-786-1250

BASKETBALL STAFFHead Coach: Rusty Osborne (Texas, ’88)UAA/Career Record: 49-37, 4th seasonOffice: 907-786-1042Email: coachoz@uaa.alaska.eduFax: 907-786-1142Associate Head Coach: Shane Rinner (Biola, ’94) Office: 907-786-4808 Email: rinner@uaa.alaska.eduAssistant Coach: Bryan Weakley (Biola, ’02) Office: 907-786-1286 Email: weaks@uaa.alaska.eduVolunteer Assistant Coach: Krehg Perez Office: 907-786-1562Sports Information: Nate Sagan Office: 907-786-1295 Email: nate@uaa.alaska.edu SID Fax: 907-563-4565

HISTORYFirst year of basketball: 1977-78All-time record: 536-335 (.613)NCAA Appearances: 13 (Last: 2007)NCAA Div. II Final Fours: 1 (1988)

TEAM INFORMATION2006-07 Record: 19-92006-07 GNAC Record: 10-6 (T-3rd)2007 Postseason: NCAA 1st Round

Letterwinners Returning (4)NO PLAYER POs Ht YR PPG RPG OtHER34 CarlArts F 6-6 Sr. 15.5 6.9 89%FT21 CameronBurney F 6-7 Jr. 4.1 3.0 55%FG14 LukeCooper G 6-0 Sr. 7.3 2.1 8.2apg23 McCadeOlsen F 6-8 Sr. 11.1 4.3 60%FG

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SEAWOLF BASKETBALLProven Winner, Rising PowerOver the years, the University of Alaska Anchorage Men’s Basketball program has become synonymous with success – 23 winning seasons, 13 NCAA Division II Tournaments, 45 victories over Division I teams. Now head coach Rusty Osborne and his staff faces the challenge of improving upon that record. In their 29 seasons, the Seawolves have won at a 68 percent clip against Division II opponents, while also posting victories over such D-I powers as Wake Forest, Michigan (in its NCAA title season), Texas and Washington. Since 1984, UAA has produced nine All-Americans and advanced as far as the 1988 NCAA Division II title game. And when the Seawolves take the court, Anchorage’s fans take notice, filling the 8,700-seat Sullivan Arena every Thanksgiving for theCarrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout, and packing the 1,250-seat Wells Fargo Sports Complex for regular-season games. With one of the most dynamic, young coaching staffs in college basketball and a talent-packed roster, the Seawolves seem poised to write the next chapter of success at UAA.

2007-08 Seawolf RosterNO NAME POs Ht Wt YREXP HOMEtOWN(HIGHsCHOOL/PREVIOUstEAM)

1KevinWhite G 6-4 195 Fr. TR Manly,Australia(ScotsCollege/SanDiegoChristian) 2ChrisBryant G 6-4 200 Sr. TR Metlakatla(MHS/Drake) 3LonnieRidgeway G 6-3 195 Fr. RS Anchorage(HeritageChristianHS)11DougHardy G 5-11 185 Jr. RS Anchorage(BartlettHS/IdahoState)14LukeCooper G 6-0 165 Sr.3V Melbourne,Australia(ParadeCollege/ElthamWildcats)21CameronBurney F 6-7 185 Jr. 1V SteamboatSprings,Colo.(SSHS/OteroJC)22PhillipHearn G/F6-6 200 Fr. HS Anchorage(WestHS)23McCadeOlsen F 6-8 215 Sr.1V Riverton,Utah(RHS/EasternWyomingCollege)25JeremiahTrueman C 6-9 210 Jr. TR Stratford,NewZealand(SanDiegoChristian)30KyleDoerr F 6-7 205 Fr. HS RapidCity,S.D.(St.ThomasMoreHS)32ColinVoreis F 6-7 230 Fr. HS Vermilion,Ohio(VHS)34CarlArts F 6-6 210 Sr.3V Valdez(VHS)45JaredKettler C 6-6 220 Sr.2V DanaPoint,Calif.(St.MargaretísSchool)RSKennyBarker G 6-3 210 Sr. TR SanDiego,Calif.(ClairemontHS/AlaskaFairbanks)

• 13 NCAA Tournaments• 1988 NCAA Runner-Up

• 9 All-Americans• 23 winning seasons in 30 years

JuniorswingmanCameronBurneyemergedasoneofUAA’stopoffensivethreatsattheendoflastseason.

2007-08 Alaska Anchorage Seawolf Men’s Basketball TeamStanding (left-to-right): Lonnie Ridgeway, Phillip Hearn, Colin Voreis, Jeremiah Trueman, Cameron Burney, Kyle Doerr, Kenny Barker. Sitting (l-r): Kevin White, Chris Bryant, McCade Olsen, Carl Arts, Luke Cooper, Jared Kettler, Doug Hardy.

Luke Cooper - Sr.•2006-071stTeamAll-GNAC•2008CousyAwardnominee•8.2apgin‘06-07No.2inD-II•UAAcareerassistsleader(570)•PreseasonhonorablementionAll-American(SportingNews)

Jared Kettler - Sr.•3-yearsquadmember•2006-07TeamAcademicAward(3.67GPA)•13careergames

Cameron Burney - Jr.•4.1ppg,3.0rpgin2006-07•55%FG,60%3FGassoph.•06-07MostImprovedPlayer

Lonnie Ridgeway - Fr.•2006-07redshirt•2005-06Alaska3APlayerofYearatHeritageChristian•2-timestatechampatHeritage

Seniors & Returning PlayersCarl Arts - Sr.•2006-072ndTeamAll-GNAC•15.5ppg,6.9rpgasjunior•88.7%FTranked7thinD-II•2006ShootoutAll-Tournament•PreseasonhonorablementionAll-American(SportingNews)

Chris Bryant - Sr.•TransferfromD-IDrake•120career3FGatDU•25careerdouble-digitoutings•3AAll-StateatMetlakatla(‘04)

McCade Olsen - Sr.•Team’sNo.3scorer(11.1)&No.2rebounder(4.3)in‘06-07•59.8%FGledGNAC•19ptsinwinoverD-IUMKC

Doug Hardy - Jr.•2006-07redshirtaftertransferfromD-IIdahoState•37careergamesatISU•2-timestatechampatBartlettHS

Seawolf Newcomers

KennyBarker

Kyle Doerr

Phillip Hearn

JeremiahTrueman

ColinVoreis

KevinWhite

2007-08 ScheduleNOVEMBER 3 at Cal State Bakersfield (exh.) 3 pm 4 at Pacific (exh.) 3:30 pm

16 BREVARD COLLEGE 7 pm 17 BREVARD COLLEGE 7 pm

21-24 CARRS/SAFEWAY GREAT ALASKA SHOOTOUT^ 22 TEXAS TECH (ESPN360) 5 pm 23 W. KENTUCKY or GONZAGA 2 or 8 pm 24 MICHIGAN, BUTLER, VIRGINIA TECH or E, WASHINGTON 12, 2, 6 or 8:30 pm

DECEMBER 7 TEXAS-PERMIAN BASIN 7:30 pm 8 TEXAS-PERMIAN BASIN 7 pm 17 at BYU-Hawaii 8:30 pm 19 at Chaminade 8:30 pm 21 at Hawaii-Hilo 8 pm

28-29 AT&T ALASCOM JAMBOREE 28 FERRIS STATE 7 pm 29 CHRISTIAN BROTHERS 7 pm

JANUARY 3 at Western Oregon* 6:30 pm 5 at Saint Martin’s* 6 pm 12 ALASKA FAIRBANKS* 7 pm 17 CENTRAL WASHINGTON* 7:30 pm 19 WESTERN WASHINGTON* 7 pm 24 at Seattle* 6 pm 26 at Montana State-Billings* 5 pm 31 SEATTLE PACIFIC* 7 pm

FEBRUARY 2 NORTHWEST NAZARENE* 7 pm 9 at Alaska Fairbanks* 7:30 pm 14 at Western Washington* 6 pm 16 at Central Washington* 6 pm 21 MONTANA STATE-BILLINGS* 7 pm 23 SEATTLE* 7 pm 28 at Northwest Nazarene* 5 pm

MARCH 1 at Seattle Pacific* 6 pm 6 SAINT MARTIN’S* 7 pm 8 WESTERN OREGON* 7 pm

Home games in BOLD CAPSAll non-Shootout home games at Wells Fargo Sports Complex^ at Sullivan Arena — Anchorage* Great Northwest Athletic Conference gameAll times Alaska

ASSOC. HEAD COACHShane RinnerEducation:B.A.,Education, BiolaUniversity,1994Phone:907-786-4808Email:rinner@uaa.alaska.edu

Anchorage native Shane Rinner begins his fifth year on the Seawolf men’s basketball staff in 2007-08, his fourth in the role of associate head coach. The program’s chief recruiter, Rinner came to UAA as an assistant in 2003-04 and has been instrumental in helping the Seawolves to 50 victories and a pair of NCAA Tournament berths. A former all-state high school player at Anchorage Christian School, Rinner has previous coaching experience at the NCAA Division I, NAIA, junior college and professional levels. From 1994-96, he coached at his alma mater, NAIA Biola (Calif.) University, and returned there for a second stint from 2000-02. From 1996-98, he coached at Division I Liberty University in Virginia, before moving on to Marshalltown (Iowa) Junior College in 1998-99. In 1999-2000, he was the head coach for the Glostrup Giants in Copenhagen, Denmark. Rinner played two seasons at Biola, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in education in 1994. He also played two seasons at Southwestern (Calif.) Junior College. He and his wife Amanda, a former vol-leyball player at Fresno State, were married in summer 2005.

ASSISTANT COACHBryan WeakleyEducation:B.S.,Physical Education,Biola,2002Phone:907-786-1286Email:weaks@uaa.alaska.edu

Bryan Weakley enters his fourth season as an assistant coach with the Seawolf men’s basketball staff in 2007-08. His duties include player development, recruiting, conditioning and weight training, monitor-ing academics and organizing camps and clinics. A former NAIA All-American at Biola (Calif.) University, Weakley spent the 2003-04 season in England, serving as head coach at Middlesex University and a devel-opmental coach with the London Towers of the British Basketball League. At Middlesex, he coached and played in 30 games, lead-ing the team to an undefeated record and the school’s first-ever BUSU National Tournament title. Weakley was a two-time team captain at Biola, where the Eagles made four straight NAIA national tournaments, including a 2000 Final Four appearance, and went 109-27 from 1998-2002. He scored 1,322 career points and left as BU’s all-time leader in three-pointers with 236. Weakley earned his bachelor’s degree in physical education from Biola in 2002, with a minor in Biblical studies. He hails from Columbus, Ohio, where he was an all-state player at Worthington Christian High.

VOLUNTEER COACHKrehg PerezPhone:907-786-1562Email:krehg_24@hotmail.com

Lifelong Alaskan Krehg Perez begins his college coaching career in 2007-08 as a vol-unteer assistant on Rusty Osborne’s staff. Perez’s primary duties include film exchange, computer technology and on-floor instruction. Perez is a 2000 graduate of Heritage Christian High School, where he played two years for the Eagles. He has since spent five years as an assistant at Heritage, helping the squad to two Class 3A state titles.

HEAD COACHRusty Osborne

Education:B.S.,Education, UniversityofTexas,1988; M.A.,EducationalAdmin. SWTexasState,1990Phone:907-786-1042Email:coachoz@uaa.alaska.edu

After back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in his second and third seasons as UAA’s head coach, Rusty Osborne is look-ing for even bigger things for the Seawolves embark on the 2007-08 campaign. Under Osborne’s leadership, UAA has gone 38-21 over the past two seasons, including victories over NCAA I power Southern Illinois and four top-25 Div. II teams. In the same span, Osborne’s teams have finished among the NCAA Div. II top 10 sta-tistically in seven categories - assists (twice), field-goal pct., three-point pct. (twice), and free throw pct. (twice). From 1991-2004, Osborne spent 13 seasons as an assistant at UAA, including 11 years as the top assistant. In that time, the Seawolves won more than 70 percent of their games against non-Division I competi-tion and made five trips to the NCAAs. He was responsible for the recruitment of five All-Americans, 12 All-West Region play-ers, 28 all-conference performers and five league Players of the Year. In addition, 14 of his players have gone on to play profes-sional basketball in the U.S. and abroad. During his tenure, players who complet-ed their eligibility at UAA have a graduation rate of over 85 percent and have earned numerous academic honors. “Rusty’s best quality is that he has always had the respect of the players,” said for-mer head coach Harry Larrabee, who hired Osborne at UAA in 1991. “He is firm, yet fair, a communicator and a motivator, but also a listener. And Rusty strongly empha-sizes the importance of graduation.” Before coming to UAA, Osborne spent three seasons (1988-91) as an assistant at Southwest Texas State and one year at Hyde Park Baptist High School in Austin, Texas. Osborne and his wife Staci are the par-ents of five children – sons Sagan (14), Austin (12) and Kylan (9), and daughters Jalyn (7) and Kadyn (4).

Alaska Anchorage Coaching Staff2007-08 ScheduleNOVEMBER 3 at Cal State Bakersfield (exh.) 3 pm 4 at Pacific (exh.) 3:30 pm

16 BREVARD COLLEGE 7 pm 17 BREVARD COLLEGE 7 pm

21-24 CARRS/SAFEWAY GREAT ALASKA SHOOTOUT^ 22 TEXAS TECH (ESPN360) 5 pm 23 W. KENTUCKY or GONZAGA 2 or 8 pm 24 MICHIGAN, BUTLER, VIRGINIA TECH or E, WASHINGTON 12, 2, 6 or 8:30 pm

DECEMBER 7 TEXAS-PERMIAN BASIN 7:30 pm 8 TEXAS-PERMIAN BASIN 7 pm 17 at BYU-Hawaii 8:30 pm 19 at Chaminade 8:30 pm 21 at Hawaii-Hilo 8 pm

28-29 AT&T ALASCOM JAMBOREE 28 FERRIS STATE 7 pm 29 CHRISTIAN BROTHERS 7 pm

JANUARY 3 at Western Oregon* 6:30 pm 5 at Saint Martin’s* 6 pm 12 ALASKA FAIRBANKS* 7 pm 17 CENTRAL WASHINGTON* 7:30 pm 19 WESTERN WASHINGTON* 7 pm 24 at Seattle* 6 pm 26 at Montana State-Billings* 5 pm 31 SEATTLE PACIFIC* 7 pm

FEBRUARY 2 NORTHWEST NAZARENE* 7 pm 9 at Alaska Fairbanks* 7:30 pm 14 at Western Washington* 6 pm 16 at Central Washington* 6 pm 21 MONTANA STATE-BILLINGS* 7 pm 23 SEATTLE* 7 pm 28 at Northwest Nazarene* 5 pm

MARCH 1 at Seattle Pacific* 6 pm 6 SAINT MARTIN’S* 7 pm 8 WESTERN OREGON* 7 pm

Home games in BOLD CAPSAll non-Shootout home games at Wells Fargo Sports Complex^ at Sullivan Arena — Anchorage* Great Northwest Athletic Conference gameAll times Alaska

Facilities

For the 2007 tournament, Nov. 21-24, the Seawolves welcome Butler, Eastern Washington, Gonzaga, Michigan, Texas Tech, Virginia Tech and Western Kentucky. UAA will open against Bob Knight and Texas Tech live on ESPN360, marking the Seawolves’ 17th all-time appearance on the ESPN family of networks. In 29 Shootouts, the Seawolves have posted 28 wins against their Division I competition, including six victories in the past five years.

Giant KillersBeginning with a 79-60 victory over Penn State in 1978, the Seawolves have a strong tradition of success against the giants of Division I basketball. All-time UAA has a total of 45 wins over 39 D-I programs, including against such powers as Wake Forest, Texas, Missouri, and Michigan in its national championship season of 1988-89. Here is a complete list of the Division I teams UAA has beaten:

Stretching from Alaska to Oregon to Idaho and now to Montana, the Great Northwest Athletic Conference has quickly become one of the most successful leagues in NCAA Division II. Founded in 2001, the GNAC features 10 schools – UAA, Alaska Fairbanks, Central Washington, Montana State Billings, Northwest Nazarene, Saint Martin’s, Seattle Pacific, Seattle, Western Oregon and Western Washington. MSUB joins the league as the newest member for the 2007-08 campaign. The Seawolves sponsor seven of the GNAC’s 14 sports – men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross country, and men’s and women’s track & field, and volleyball.

AuburnCaliforniaCanisiusDaytonDrexelEasternKentuckyGramblingStateHighPointHoustonIdahoIona

JacksonStateLafayetteMaineMiami,Fla.MichiganMissouriMissouri-KansasCityMontanaNewMexicoNichollsStateNotreDame

UAA hosts one of

college basketball’s

most prestigious

tournaments every

Thanksgiving week

when it brings seven

Division I teams north

for the Carrs/Safeway

Great Alaska Shootout.

CarlArtshad20points,9reboundsand6assistsvs.Hofstrain2006toearnShootoutAll-Tournamenthonors.

The Seawolves open the season at the 8,700-seat Sullivan Arena in Midtown Anchorage before moving to the comfortable confines of the on- campus Wells Fargo Sports Complex for the regular season. The Sports Complex is a multi-use facility that also includes a complete fitness center, weight room, swimming pool and indoor jogging track.

PacificPennStateRhodeIslandSamfordSanFranciscoSantaClaraSouthernIllinoisSouthernMethodistTennesseeTexasTexasChristianTexasStateTexasTechWakeForestWashingtonWeberStateWesternMichiganWilliam&Mary

LukeCooperdishedaschool-record16assistsinlastyear’svictoryoverUMKC.

This is UAA!ACADEMICS

The University of Alaska Anchorage is the state’s largest, most comprehensive university, serving near-ly 20,000 students through four primary campuses and numerous other sites in southcentral Alaska and the Aleutian chain. Academic units located on the Anchorage campus include the College of Arts and Sciences; College of Technical and Community Education; College of Health Education and Social Welfare; College of Business and Public Policy, and the School of Engineering. Organized research units at UAA complement the academic programs and reflect the special character of the University’s mission in Alaska. Research units include the Alaska Center for International Business, the American Russian Center, the Environment and Natural Resources Institute, the Center of Alcohol and Addiction Studies, the center for Economic Education, the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies, the Center for Human Development, the Institute of Social and Economic Research and the Justice Center. UAA operates on a semester system. Fifteen semester credits are a normal class load and a minimum of 120 credits are required to complete a bachelor’s degree. The attractive, wooded campus is an urban oasis with residential wildlife populations of moose, water-fowl and birds.

ATHLETICS Nicknamed the Seawolves, UAA’s athletic teams compete as members of NCAA Division I in hockey and gymnastics and NCAA Division II in all other sports, including basketball, volleyball, skiing, track & field, and cross country. UAA annually hosts the Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout men’s and women’s basketball tournament – recognized as one of the top in-season tournaments in the nation – as well as the Nye Frontier Classic hockey tournament. Over the last three decades, the University of Alaska Anchorage has become a perennial national power in many of its sports. A total of 116 Seawolves have earned All-America honors since 1984 and UAA has produced several individual national champions. UAA athletes have enjoyed unprecedented success in the classroom.The entire UAA Athletic Department has compiled a cumulative GPA of 3.0+ in 10 of the last 13 years.