Running as a Pro
Aliphine Tuliamuk-Bolton ’13 is continuing her winning ways. An All-American runner at Wichita State, she has already won four races as a professional.
In August, she dominated the 10-mile race at the HealthPlus Crim Festival of Races in Flint, Mich., with a time of 54:28.
Next was the Santa Fe to Buffalo Thunder Half-Marathon in New Mexico. By the end of this race, Tuliamuk-Bolton, who finished in 1:09:16, had set a new race record.
In October, she proved she isn’t done breaking records.
Tuliamuk-Bolton, who trains in Santa Fe, won the Prairie Fire Wichita Half-Marathon in 1:14:35, which gave her the record for fastest female half-marathon time in Kansas history.
She later won the Tulsa Run 15K with a time of 49:24, photo above.
On the Knicks Roster
Former Shocker men’s basketball player Toure’ Murry ’12 starts the 2013-14 NBA season as a member of the New York Knicks. Murry, who signed a non-guaranteed contract with the Knicks in September, earned his way onto the roster with his play during the NBA summer league and preseason. As a Shocker, Murry averaged 11.1 points and 4.5 rebounds. He is the program’s all-time leader in assists with 430.
From Croatia to WSU
Shocker senior Ilija Cuic, who hails from Zagreb, Croatia, defeated Dyaln Steffans of Illinois State and Arthur Romanet of Bradley to move into quarterfinals play against Jonny Rigby of Southern Illinois Saturday, Nov. 9 at the Missouri Valley Conference Individual Championships at the Roger Knapp Tennis Center in Des Moines, Iowa.
As a junior, Cuic finished the season with a record of 11-11 in singles play and 14-6 in doubles, and was named to the MVC All-Select Team. He went a perfect 3-0 at the No. 1 singles position and helped the Shockers capture the doubles point in their NCAA Tournament match against No. 14 Oklahoma when he and his partner Erick Reyes defeated Guillermo Alcorta and Axel Alvarez Llamas, 8-5.
As a 16-and-under player, Cuic was ranked first in his native country.
-- WSU Sports Information
They #Watched!
Shocker fans weren’t the only ones Wichita State Athletics got to #WATCHUS. The National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators was watching too.
The NACMA selected WSU to receive the 2012-13 Marketing Team of the Year Award. “We are honored to accept this prestigious award,” says John Brewer, assistant AD/marketing and corporate relations at WSU. “It is an important award for the association and collegiate sports marketing in general, and we are humbled that our peers have selected us as its recipient. Wichita State has had a very special year – and this is a great way to cap it off.”
The two other finalists for the award were Iowa State University and Kansas State.
A Mavericks Rookie
Gal Mekel fs ’08 made his NBA debut with the Dallas Mavericks this season. Mekel, who is from Tel Aviv, Israel, played basketball for two seasons at Wichita State before returning to Israel. He then played for Treviso in the Italian League and for Haifa before signing a three-year, minimum-salary guaranteed deal with Dallas, becoming only the second Israeli player in NBA history.
