Saturday Is Senior Day At The Orange Bowl

Give the gift of the Hurricanes for the Holidays

Nov. 23, 2001

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (www.hurricanesports.com) – A dozen members of the top-ranked University of Miami Hurricanes football team will be honored when they take the field for the final time in their careers when the Hurricanes take on 12th ranked Washington this Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Orange Bowl.

Every player on the team who will have exhausted his eligibility at the end of the 2001 football season is on pace to receive a diploma no later than the end of Summer, 2002. Four members of this Senior class already have earned undergraduate degrees – Joaquin Gonzalez, Daryl Jones, Edward Reed and Robert Williams. Gonzalez and Williams are slated to receive their MBA diplomas in May, 2002.

This Senior class is one of the most accomplished in Miami history – both on the field and in the classroom. Eight members of this Senior class (Martin Bibla, Najeh Davenport, Markese Fitzgerald, Joaquin Gonzalez, Daryl Jones, Scott Puckett, Edward Reed and Robert Williams) either have graduated with their bachelor’s degrees or will have graduated by the end of the current Fall semester. The other four members of the Senior class (Chris Campbell, James Lewis, Bryant McKinnie and Mike Rumph) are on schedule to receive their degrees by the end of the Summer 2002 semester.

The Miami-Washington game will be nationally televised by ABC Sports and can be seen locally on WPLG-TV (Channel 10) in the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area. For ticket information about Hurricanes football, contact the UM Ticket Office at 1-800-GO-CANES or purchase them on the web at www.hurricanesports.com.