USD Football 2009

PFL Commissioner: Administrative Assistant: Office Phone: Media Relations Contact:

Patty Viverito Maxine Day (314) 421-2268 Cody Bush (931) 221-7561 BushC@apsu.edu (931) 221-7562 pioneer-football.org

Bush's Phone: Bush's Email: Office Fax: PFL Website:

The 2009 season marks the 17th year for the Pioneer Football League - the nation's only non-scholarship NCAA Football Cham– pionship Subdivision conference. The league will expand to 10 members in 2009 as Marist CoUege begins conference play. In addition, the Pioneer Football League will participate for the third consecutive year in the Gridiron Classic, a postseason championship game which pits the PFL champion against the Northeast Conference champion. The PPL is one of only two conferences that sponsor football as its only sport (the Missouri Valley Football Conference being the other). However, the PFL is a truly national conference with members on each coast and throughout the nation's heartland. The league still retains four of its charter members - Butler University, the University of D ayton, Drake University and Valparaiso University, plus the University of San Diego Gaining in 1992) - which were joined in 2001 by D avidson College, Jacksonville University and Morehead State University. Campbell University joined the PFL in 2008, its firs t season of intercollegiate football. In January 1991 the NCAA passed legislation to require Division I institutions to sponsor all intercollegiate sports at the Division I level. The five charter members (Evansville the fifth before dropping football in 1997), each dedicated to the enhancement and sound management of intercollegiate football as an integral part of the student-athletes' collegiate experience, joined together to form the Pioneer Football League. From the league's inception it has been a proponent of the creation of a non-scholarship football classifica– tion within Division I and adopted the moniker of Pioneer based on the intent to become the first league in that new division. The PFL is comprised of NCAA Division I universities that previously sponsored intercollegiate football at other levels with the exception of Jacksonville, which started a non-scholarship program in 1998. All are currently committed to the non-scholarship football model. The PFL began play in 1993 with Dayton winning the league's first crown. The league spent its first season in 1993 under the ad– ministrative guidance of the Midwestern Collegiate Conference, and the office moved to St. Louis in 1994 when current commissioner Patty Viverito was named the PFL commissioner, a leadership position she continues to fill.

'08 SECOND-TEAM ALL-PFL OFFENSE Geavon Tribble, WR, Jacksonville Dan Bohrer, WR, Butler D errick Burks, TE, Morehead State Rob Florian, QB, Dayton Mozale McHenry, FB, Valparaiso Phil Morelli, RB, San Diego Ross Weimer, RB, Valparaiso Patrick McCormick, OL, D ayton Chris Tessitore, OL, Jacksonville Ryan Pollock, OL, Dayton Quinn McVey, OL, Drake Conrad Smith, OL, San Diego DEFENSE Chris Gianelli, DL, San Diego Dain Taylor, DL, Drake Will Funderburg, DL, Davidson Sean Heenan, DL, D ayton Andrew Doane, DL, Morehead State Joseph Fennell, LB,Jacksonville Mike Bennett, LB, Butler Andy Green, DB, Drake Al-Rilwan Adeyemi, DB, San Diego Robson Noel, DB, Jacksonville Corey Vossler, DB, D ayton Ryan Koepke, LB, Valparaiso Tyler Lemons, LB, D avidson

'08 FIRST-TEAM ALL-PFL OFFENSE John Matthews, WR, San Diego Steve Valentino, WR, Dayton Mitch Ryan, TE, San Diego Sebastian Trujillo, QB, San Diego Steve Platek, FB, Drake Rudell Small, RB, Jacksonville Eric Fitzpatrick, RB, Morehead State Mike Aguliar, 0 L, Jacksonville Deene Kabiling, OL, San Diego Will olte, OL, Davidson Nick Schoenfeld, OL, Morehead State Ryan Kozey, OL, Valparaiso DEFENSE Scott Vossler, DL, D ayton D erik Steiner, DL, Morehead State Grant Hunter, DL, Butler Kalen Hemmelgarn, DL, Dayton Wes McDermott, LB, Morehead State Cole Douglas, LB, Drake Joe Ries, LB, D ayton MIiton Brown, LB, Campbell Derek Martin, LB, San Diego Gabe Derricks, DB, San Diego Steve McDonald, DB, Dayton D avid Hyland, DB, Morehead State Tremaine Mack, DB, Jacksonville

OFFENSE Ben Hannula, WR, Business, 3.51 GPA DEFENSE Chris Gianelli, DL, Engineering, 3.57 GPA Patrick O'Neill, DB, Business, 3.82 GPA

SAN DIEGO SECOND TEAM

OFFENSE John Matthews, WR, Business, 3.07 GPA Conrad Smith, OL, Business, 3.11 GPA

SPECIAL TEAMS Logan Rees, PK, Drake

SPECIAL TEAMS Jordan Quiroz, PK, Butler Brandon Wubs, P, D rake John Popper, RS, Valparaiso

Mason Webb, PK, Morehead State Mason Webb, K, Morehead State Elliott Finkley, RS, Jacksonville