USD Magazine Spring 2016

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16 / NOTHING BUT NET USD Women’s Basketball Head Coach Cindy Fisher is tenacity, personified. Now in her 11th season, before her arrival the team had suffered five consecutive losing seasons. Though her first team went 9-19, since then, the Toreros have rattled off nine straight winning campaigns. Fisher says that as far back as she can remember, she’s been on the basketball court.

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TORERO NEWS 4 / Community Celebration

An event-filled week brought the university community together, culminating in the inauguration of President James T. Harris III, DEd.

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6 / From Start to Finish Admissions, Career Development Center move into renovated shared space in Manchester Hall.

ON THE COVER: USD Women’s Basketball Head Coach Cindy Fisher photo- graphed by Tim Mantoani

8 / Practical Idealism School of Business Dean Jaime Alonso Gómez brings exemplary credentials to his new position.

ATHLET I CS 14 / The Precisionist Tennis standout Uros Petronijevic is key to the team’s success. Thus far, he’s proven able to rise to the occasion every time he’s called upon.

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10 / To Search and Find Search Retreat encourages students to grow in their relationship with themselves, with others and with God. 12 / Author E. Hughes, PhD (1929-2015) Heartfelt thoughts about USD’s much-beloved first president, who passed away at the age of 85 in Sept. 2015.

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