I heart TCU!

Today is a pretty exciting day at TCU. As you know the Colonial is going on but what's truly exciting is our Horned Frog Baseball team is hosting the 2009 Regional Tournament!!!

The baseball team is ranked 1st and will play #4 Wright State tonight at 7:00 at the Lupton Stadium. Tickets are sold out but there is still standing room available (I'm making sure I wear comfy shoes). Right now, #2 TX A&M is playing #3 Oregon State. It's a real privilege to host a NCAA tournament and hopefully the home field crowd will help cheer the Frogs to sweeping the whole thing. Tomorrow's games will be played at 2 and 7.

On a more somber note, today is my last day with the TCU Soccer team as a staff member. :(
I had so much fun playing as a Horned Frog and then getting the opportunity to stay 2 more years and work with the program was such a great experience. I am soo thankful and appreciative to the entire coaching staff. Mark, you always knew how to push my buttons and win a disagreement and then we could settle everything over Chipotle. Adam, your accent made it too easy to just laugh at you no matter what you said. Michelle, I'm going to miss hanging out with you in the office everyday and going on walks and getting the Best Salads EVER!! Dan, Thank you so much for everything you've done for me these last 4 years. I am so grateful for all of it!

Lastly, I just want to say good luck to all of the current and future TCU Soccer players. Cherish your time here and the friends you make because trust me, it goes by soo fast (even if practice doesn't hehe)!!

~ANJ

Crowne Plaza Inviational at Colonial

Well the PGA Tour returns to Cowtown for 61st time to play in the Crowne Plaza Invitational at the Colonial Country Club just down the street from TCU.

The weather is perfect! Sunny, high in 80's and light winds.

There will be some great golfers taking on the Colonial including 8 former champs, 17 major championship winners and 11 winners from 2009. If you want to follow the action, you can listen on Sirius-XM, or watch CBS and the Golf channel.


The current leader is Ian Poulter but with 3 more days to play who knows what could happen. Last year Phil Mickelson came from behind on the last day to take the purse.


It's a pretty exciting time here in Fort Worth!

This week in TCU Sports

I'll be away for the next week but theirs a lot going on with TCU athletics this week:


*#10 Ranked Baseball hosts the Mountain West Conference Championships. The Horned frogs will be looking for their fifth straight tourney title!


*#27 Women's Golf heads to Owings Mills, MD for the NCAA Championships!


*TCU women's tennis players Macall Harkins, Nina Munch-Soegaard and Anna Sydorska will begin play at the 2009 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Individual Championships this week in College Station, Texas.


*The TCU doubles team of junior Adrian Simon and sophomore Emanuel Brighiu will open its run at the 2009 NCAA Men's Individual Tennis Championships Thursday at the George P. Mitchell Tennis Center in College Station, Texas.


Good luck to all of the TCU teams and hope everyone has a great Memorial Day Weekend!

Kaylie Garcia Joins Mexican National Team

Kaylie Garcia yesterday jumped on a flight to join the Full Mexican National Team for training camp. It is Kaylie's first experience with Mexico, although, she had participated in US National Camps as a youth player, and will be in camp through the end of May.

She'll be looking to make the Mexico roster that will travel to the US to play matches June 1, 3 & 5. Congratulations Kaylie and best of luck!

Ft. Worth To House Michelangelo Painting

I always brag about how great our museums are here in Ft. Worth-we've got 9 world class museums within 5 miles of TCU-but the Kimball Art Museum took it to a whole different level yesterday when it acquired Michelangelo's The Torment of Saint Anthony. The local Museum beat out the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for the piece. The price tag for the painting-one of only 4 free standing easel paintings by Michelangelo-was not disclosed but a similar painting went for $69 million in 2002.

TCU to Host 2011 Super Bowl

The National Football League and North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee have announced that TCU will be the site of team practices for the AFC champions when the 2011 game is played at the Dallas Cowboys' new stadium in Arlington on Feb. 6.

Fort Worth has been designated as the AFC host city. In addition to practicing at TCU, the AFC champions will stay at the Omni Fort Worth.

Taste of the NFL, one of the more popular events centered around the Super Bowl, will celebrate its 20th anniversary when it takes place Feb. 5 at the Fort Worth Convention Center. That same night, the AFC Fan Party will be held in downtown Fort Worth. Bass Hall, also in downtown Fort Worth, will be the site of a kick-off concert on March 6, 2010.

Happy Mother's Day!

Wishing all of you mother's out there a very Happy Mother's Day! Mom's make such an impact on all of our lives and shaping who we are as people, so make sure you take the time today to let them know how special they are!

Congratulations Graduates, Tennis and Golf!

Congratulations go out to a lot of people this weekend. First, to Courtney Johnson, Sara Schneider and Caroline Starns for walking across the podium yesterday at Daniel Meyer Colesium and receiving your diplomas! Congrats to all 3 of you and you've meant so much to this program. You'll have a lasting effect here and we know each of you has such big things in your future!

Congrats also goes out to TCU Women's Golf and TCU Women's Tennis, both teams won in the NCAA's yesterday. Women's Golf finished fourth in the NCAA western regional and advance to the NCAA Championships for the third consecutive year next weekend. While Women's Tennis upended Tulsa in the First round of the NCAA's 4-1.

Great job ladies and keep up the great stuff!

Finals Finish Up with a $7000 Study Break

It's been a busy and crazy week, but all good stuff. The team is finishing up finals and starting to head in different directions. We've got just about everybody headed off to play for the summer, 3 out to the Slammers in Southern Cal, 5 here with our local WPSL Team, 3 up in Oklahoma with a WPSL team, 1 down to Mexico for national team training camp and then a bunch also going back to their own club teams for state cups, regional sand nationals. It's always fun to see the girls with different teams.

They took a break today from finals to present Cooks Children's Hospital with a check for $7000, which they raised by putting on Kicks For Kids!

Also, had a design meeting today with our architects on our new soccer Jane Justin Fieldhouse. It's been fun and to see it all coming together is great-not only will it be very functional with the locker room and all, but it's going to be just a beautiful building all around and add so much to our already great Garvey-Rosenthal Stadium. As soon as I can get pictures up I will.

It's been a great semester on and off the field so it was a great way to finish things up!