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Coach Fisher and team to celebrate season with SD Hall of Champions
May 28, 2008
The Hall of Champions and University of San Diego will celebrate the 2007-08 men's and women's basketball seasons with Sports at Lunch on Wednesday, June 11 at the San Diego Hall of Champions in Balboa Park. USD alumnus Eric Musselman, an NBA head coach with the Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings, will speak with USD men's coach Bill Grier and USD women's coach Cindy Fisher. Andy Masur, the USD play-by-play man and Padres radio broadcaster, will serve as moderator for the event.
As a special feature, Jared Dudley, a Horizon High alumnus with the Charlotte Bobcats, will speak about his NBA rookie season. Dudley was honored as a 2007 Amateur Star of the Year by the Hall of Champions for his senior season at Boston College when he was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year. But because Dudley was playing his season with the Bobcats, he was unable to receive his award at the 62nd annual Viejas Salute to the Champions dinner on March 4 at the Town and Country Hotel. Dudley will be presented with his award at lunch and speak about his rookie season as the Bobcats' first-round draft pick.
Musselman is among the USD fraternity of NBA head coaches along with Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Mike Brown and former Charlotte head coach Bernie Bickerstaff, who is still with the franchise's front office. Musselman played on the Toreros' 1986-87 team that won the West Coast Conference title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament. He will talk about USD basketball then and now and the NBA playoffs.
Grier and Fisher will talk about their WCC Tournament championships and trips to the NCAA Tournament and what they see in the future for USD basketball. In addition, the Hall of Champions will unveil a new display featuring USD basketball. USD guard Brandon Johnson, the WCC men's tournament MVP, and USD point guard Amanda Rego, the WCC women's tournament MVP, will donate jerseys from their season to the HOC.
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Eric Musselman will also present USD student-athletes with their star of the month awards from this past season - Amanda Rego, Amber Sprague and Sam Child from the women's team, and Rob Jones, De'Jon Jackson, Gyno Pomare and Brandon Johnson from the men's team.
There will be a question-and-answer period that follows lunch and the talk by the coaches.
WHAT: Sports at Lunch with former NBA head coach Eric Musselman, a USD alumnus, and USD men's coach Bill Grier and USD women's coach Cindy Fisher.
WHEN: Wednesday, June 11, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Check-in begins at 11:15 a.m. and program at noon.
WHERE: Center Court at the Hall of Champions, 2131 Pan American Plaza in Balboa Park.
RESERVATIONS: Admission is $25 for members and $30 for non-members. Call the Events Departmant at 619-699-2309.
