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Friends of Air Force Basketball
President
Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Jim Head
Vice-President
Col. (Ret.) Bill Ayen 

SecretaryCMSgt (Ret.) Dick Pialet

TreasurerMaj. (Ret.) John Fal


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Updated: 4 Sep 2010                         Members Only updated  FoAFB Meeting Minutes and Apparel 09-10

sm_basketball.gifClick for AF Basketball News:   News Updated  New:2Sep10   New: AF's Hood, UNLV losses Wallace, Wyo Sched, Coach Mangino to SMU, more aroung the league Recent: AF 16 TV Games, MWC, more     Read Air Force Basketball/Sports Forums (Go)

affootballsmall.JPGClick for AF Football / Hockey / Other News:   News Updated  4Sep10   New: AF Gameday vs NSU Recent: AF Special teams, AF vs NSU, MWC on BYU, More Army and Navy     Read Air Force Sports Forums (Go)

Friends of Air Force Basketball is now on Twitter....get your 'FoAFB Tweet' when new news is posted:  

 sm_basketball.gifOur 2010-2011 Membership Page has been updated!  Time to join or renew your Friends of Air Force Basketball Membership You can find the 2010-2011 member  form on our membershp page.  Our new pin is awesome and we are planning to continue our pre-game receptions and halftime get togethers.  Members will also have opportunities for listening to our coaches during set pre-game  receptions, during general membership meetings and more.  (Go Membership)

sm_basketball.gifFirst look at the MWC in 2010-11  Air Force and our MWC foes are getting ready for the 2010-11 season.  Here is the first look at the MWC  this fall and who  is back, who is gone and what transfers might make an impact.  (Go to First Look)

sm_basketball.gifSummer Reading! Your Air Force Falcons Run to the NCAA's for first time in twenty-plus years: The 2003-2004 Basketball Season was a historic run to the NCAA's for Air Force.  Know your history...a summary of our NCAA run. (more)

sm_basketball.gifWelcome to new AF assistant coach Drew Long and his family.  Air Force hires assistant coach Drew Long to replace coach Kevin Carroll.  Read Coach Long's bio on our coaching page (Go) 

sm_basketball.gifCheck out our photo gallery and statistics for our departing Seniors  Air Force seniors Grant Parker, Mike McClain, Avery Merriex and Saj El-Amin will be commissioned in May 2010 in the U.S. Air Force.  Remember them through photos and their career satistics.  (Go to Photos/Stats)

Congratulations to Kevin Carroll on 1st Head Coaching Position.  Air Force  assistant coach  Kevin Carroll has been name the head coach for Maryville University in Saint Louis.  This will be the first college head coaching opportunity of Coach Carroll.  Best to him and his family and thanks for the support of Air Force Basketball.

 2010 Air Force Falcons Men's Basketball Alumni Homecoming was a success on January 29th and 30th.  Coach Jeff Reynolds and the Friends of Air Force Basketball invited former players and coaches to the Annual Homecoming event this spring.  A resounding success.  Basketball alumni from teams stretching from the Class of '59 to last years Class of '09 attended.  Photo will be up soon.  Thanks for coming! 

FoAFB Trivia Question?  Many of our Falcon faithful made the trip to watch our AF Falcon Football team beat Houston in the Armed Force Bowl on New Years Eve.  Can you identify these individuals who were there and cheering for our Falcons?   Hint...they are ALL Falcon Basketball player alumni!  Hope to see them and you at the homecoming at the Wyoming game!

Congratulations to Cadet Grant Parker, MWC POW:  Grant Parker, senior forward for the Falcons, was named the MWC Player of the Week for games thru 29Nov09.  Read the news article on 2Dec09 on our basketball news!


sm_basketball.gifFoAFB Calendar and Apparel for Sale have been updated.  New selections of FoAFB apparel have been added to include a 'FoAFB baseball hat w/ Logo'.  Proceeds directly support our players and program.  To see more:  (Go)

sm_basketball.gif2009-2010 Friends of Air Force Basketball Membership form is now on the website.  Click Here to renew your 2009-2010 FoAFB membership or to become a new member.  Come join us as we support our Air Force Falcon Men's Basketball Team.  Fill out the membership form in our Friends membership section on this site and mail it in for your 2009-2010 membership to FoAFBB. Cadets can also become Friends of AF Basketball! Support our Falcons.  If you are a FoAFBB member and not receiving emails: Please send an updated email to foafbb@comcast.net   (Click for membership)   Current FoAFB General Membership Meeting minutes have been posted (Go)

A NEW FOAFB WEBSITE PASSWORD FOR THE MEMBERS ONLY SECTION!  A new password for FoAFB 'members only' for the 2009-2010 season is in effect today.  If you are a current member for this season please email admin@friendsofairforcebasketball.org  and the password will be sent to you.

Air Force Basketball Mid-Day Madness and FoAFB 2009 General Membership Meeting was held 24 October!    Both had excellent attendance.   See the 'Members Only' section for link to summary and photos or (Click here)

A NEW FOAFB WEBSITE SPONSOR!  We would like to welcome and thank Fairfield Inn & Suites to the Friend's family.  They are our new sponsors for this website for the 2009-10 and 2010-11 seasons.  Click on the link on the left for more information about Fairfield Inn & Suites.

MORE PHOTOS! HOMECOMING 2009 AND FRIENDS 'PRE-GAME' PRIOR TO OUR FIRST WIN IN THE MWC tourney vs CSU!  Go to Photos

NEW FOR ALL AIR FORCE FANS: GET YOUR FoAFB Google Toolbar which includes links to major pages in this website, AF team links to CSTV, Fox and ESPN sports, RSS News feeds for Air Force sports, radio stations and weather forecasts. Questions on RSS email admin@friendsofairforcebasketball.org .  Install/uninstall click: GO TO LINK

 

A Successful Bus Trip to watch our Falcons win over CSU

CSU Bus trip Feb 08

FoAFBB organized the trip with over 50 members and they were met by several carloads of Section 8. We definately tried to let it be known that we were there to support our Falcons!  Coach Jeff Reynolds, in his post game interview, mentioned that Friends of Air Force Basketball brought a bus full of people to the game.  He said that the players had mentioned how nice it was to have support in the crowd. 

Trivia questions:  Why are there NO current player pictures on our FoAFBB website?  Go to our Members Only section to find the answer (Go)

What is Blue, jingles and screams "We Support our Falcons?" Go to our Members Only section to find the answer (Go)

Notice: If you are a FoAFBB member and not receiving emails: Please send an updated email to foafbb@comcast.net

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Check out the College basketball links and blogs page for information on college basketball everywhere! (go to Links and Blogs)  


 Friends Website Guestbook - -Select the link at the left to go to our new Guestbook.  Let us know what you think of Friends and our new website and read what other Friends have written.  Go Falcons!

Welcome to Friends of Air Force Basketball! 

Our website is  here for you!  We are an organization which supports the United State Air Force Academy Basketball team, the Falcons.  Our support for the team comes in many ways.  Read the welcome letter below from the President of Friends of Air Force Basketball, and go to our Membership section to find out more about how to become a ‘Friend’ yourself!    We have organized our website to allow you to follow and support the Falcons throughout their year as they play a demanding NCAA Division IA schedule.  Follow along with the Falcons on the team link and news section.  Our extensive ‘Opponents’ links will allow you to follow our team and the upcoming opponents as well.  A ‘Special Projects’ section will tell you what upcoming events are being organized by the Friends and how you can participate or help with them.   We hope you find this an informative and interesting site which allows your support of the Falcons to grow into a long-term friendship with the team.  

From the President of Friends...

Dear Air Force Basketball Fans, I am writing to introduce you to the Friends of Air Force Basketball. Some of you are well acquainted with the Friends. For those who don’t know us, we were organized eight years ago... (more)

 

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FoAFBB 'Members Only' Section:  We have developed this portion of our site to give you, our members, additional information on our team than that found on our main website.  We are catering to all our AF Basketball fans, so will keep the bulk of our information on our main pages and available to all fans.  Hopefully here you can find some insider information on Friends special activities, BoD and General Membership meeting minutes, financial updates and some great photos and statistics. Current Friends members for the 2008-2009 season that desire access to our Member Only section, send an email to membership@friendsofairforcebasketball.org and our user name and password will be email to you!  Then Click here to go to our Members Only  (Go)

 

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