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Welcome
to the UA Wildcat Family!
Parents Greetings Wildcat Parents & Families,
& Family Welcome to our seventh issue of Parents & Family Magazine! You’re
receiving this magazine because you are one of our valued Parents Plus
Magazine members or you have made a generous donation to support the goals of the
Issue 7 UA Parents & Family Association. I thank you for your support! In addition,
parents of new students are also receiving this issue as a complimentary
The University of Arizona Parents welcome to the Wildcat Family!
& Family Magazine is published
twice a year by the Dean of Spring semester on campus at the University of Arizona is a time filled
Students Office and Arizona
Student Media.
with excitement and anticipation! Students, faculty and staff look forward
to traditions like Wildcat Softball and Baseball games and Spring Fling –
the largest student run carnival in the country and of course for Seniors –
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One of the best parts of my job is the wonderful opportunity I have to
communicate with many parents about their student. It is great that so many
Editor parents are turning to the Parents & Family Association (PFA) to find answers
Kathy Adams Riester
Assistant Dean
to questions and for resources which help their student to be successful here
of Students at UA. Parents, please let us know if you change your physical address and/or
Director UA Parents & Family email address so that we can update your records. We want to make sure that
Association you continue to receive Paw Prints, our E-Newsletter and that we can reach
kriester@u.arizona.edu
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I want to express my thanks to all the wonderful parent volunteers who
Design & Production have served the association over the past year – I really appreciate your
Cindy Callahan dedication and support – and so do our students!
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As always, don’t hesitate to give the Parents & Family Association a call or
520-621-3377 send us an email if you have a question or concern. Barbara Camp and I are
happy to be of assistance. We can be reached at (520) 621-0884 or via email at
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and active supporters of the Parents & to college. Their eldest daughter Chelsea
Family Association. Their efforts play an is a junior majoring in Deaf Science at the
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“Parents are the keystone to the suc- man at John Hopkins University.
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community and is the tie that binds us ing safety, health and education support.
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Dick and Mary Roney, Parents of Chelsea,
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ARIZONA 6 Parents & Family Magazine
Sean Miller
thought he had seen
it all. Arizona’s first-
year men’s basketball
coach was a player
in the Big East for
Pittsburgh, an as-
sistant coach with
stops in the Big Ten
at Wisconsin and
in the ACC at N.C.
State. He was then
a head coach in the
Atlantic 10 at Xavier.
However, he needed
to come to Tucson to
experience one more
thing.
It was not until
Miller took the reins Sean Miller, UA men’s
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games.
“I look at our student section as the
best in the country,” Miller said. “There is
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Miller recognizes that a home basket-
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“You identify your time as a student at
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or five-year window, and oftentimes sports
are a big a big part of that experience,”
Miller said. “Did the football team go to
a bowl? How did your team do in rivalry
games? You think of the fun weekends
and nights are associated with teams and
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late 1990s, you will forever remember the
NCAA title.”
This is not to say that Miller and the
Wildcats do not need the fans in this
symbiotic relationship. He appealed to UA
fans prior to the season, saying that his
inexperienced team with only one senior
on the roster would need support more
than any other team ever to play in McK-
ale. He later went out of his way to thank
ZonaZoo in his post-game press confer-
ence following UA’s early-season victory
over Rice and contends that the student ZonaZoo fills McKale Center with nearly 4000 spirited students for each men’s home
section was critical in the Wildcats’ Pac-10 basketball game. Arizona Athletics – J and L Photography
win over Cal.
“We want our fans to be hostile, and That’s where Conner Comp and 12,000 ing, programming and media/communica-
I mean that in a good way,” Miller said, of his closest friends come in. tions – who organize everything from pep
noting that sportsmanship is of the utmost Comp is ZonaZoo’s executive direc- rallies and online video newscasts to blood
importance. “The louder it gets in the tor, overseeing the largest student-run drives and Big Brother-type outreach with
arena, it creates a sense that today or organization in the Pac-10. It is Comp local youth.
tonight is going to be hard ( for a visiting and 35 ZonaZoo crew members, who are In talking with Comp, a sophomore
team), and they’re going to have to be at broken into five branches – community from Valencia, Calif., it is difficult to tell if
their very best to beat us.” development, campus outreach, market- Continued on page 8
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