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Ball
State Names Honorary Coaches for Saturday’s Spring Game (04/20/2006) |
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FROM BALL STATE
ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING
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| MUNCIE,
Ind. -- Ball State’s football team has selected five
individuals to assist as honorary coaches at Saturday’s annual
Cardinal and White Game at Noon at Scheumann Stadium. |
| Terry
Bennett, a fifth-grade student at West View Elementary School,
will serve as the game’s Master Coach. Bennett is one of Ball
State’s most loyal fans and is battling Ewings Sarcoma Cancer,
which is a cancer that usually starts in bone or in soft tissue.
Bennett, who will be attending middle school next fall and is an
avid fan of football and baseball plus is an excellent bowler,
will be accompanied at the game by his mother Pam Bennett, her
friend Tom Dalton and Terry’s friend Drake Stahl. |
| Ball
State first-year athletics director Tom Collins and Muncie
Police Chief Joe Winkle will also serve as honorary coaches.
Karen Adkins, the assistant director of dining services at Ball
State, and Lou George, the service supervisor in the BSU
transportation department, will be the other honorary coaches. |
| Saturday’s
scrimmage will mark the end of Spring Practice for the Cardinals
as they prepare for the 2006 season. |
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