2010-11 News

  • Gustafson Earns All-America Honors In 100 Breaststroke
    March 23, 2011
    Wittenberg freshman swimmer Molly Gustafson (West Hartford, Conn./Conard) became the Tigers' newest and perhaps most improbable All-American with a seventh-place finish in the 100 breaststroke Friday evening at the NCAA Division III Women's Swimming & Diving Championship Meet.
  • B Cut Relay Highlights Wittenberg Performances At Last Chance Meet
    February 19, 2011
    For most of the members of the Wittenberg Tiger swimming and diving teams, the end of the 2010-11 season came a week ago at the North Coast Athletic Conference Championship meet.
  • Tiger Teams Finish Strong On Final Day Of 2011 NCAC Championship Meet
    February 12, 2011
    CANTON, Ohio — The Wittenberg men's and women's swimming and diving teams closed a fine 2010-11 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Championship meet with a pair of strong team finishes.
  • Tiger Teams Hang Tough On Day 2 Of 2011 NCAC Championship Meet
    February 11, 2011
    CANTON, Ohio — The second day of the 2011 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Swimming and Diving Championships featured several outstanding individual performances as both the men's and women's teams remained within striking distance of a coveted third-place finish.
  • Tiger Teams Solid On Day 1 Of 2011 NCAC Championship Meet
    February 10, 2011
    CANTON, Ohio — The Wittenberg swimming and diving teams got off to an outstanding start to the 2011 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Championship meet.
  • Tigers Cap Dual Season With Loss At Kenyon
    January 29, 2011
    GAMBIER, Ohio — The Wittenberg Tigers put the finishing touches on the 2010-11 dual meet season with a solid performance at Kenyon College.
  • Wittenberg Swimming And Diving Coach Tops 100 Career Dual Meet Wins
    January 28, 2011
    Springfield, Ohio — With the Wittenberg University men's and women's swimming and diving teams' sweep of visiting Centre College on Senior Recognition Day on Jan. 22, Head Coach Natalie Koukis became just the second individual in program history with 100 career dual meet victories.
  • Tigers Celebrate Seniors By Beating Centre
    January 22, 2011
    SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The Wittenberg men's and women's swimming and diving teams sent their seniors out on a high note with a pair of victories over Centre in the 2010-11 home dual meet finale.
  • Big Wins Over Visiting Hiram For Tigers
    January 15, 2011
    SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The Wittenberg men's and women's swimming and diving teams won all but one event to sweep Hiram out of the HPER Center Natatorium by scores of 192-81 for the men and 199-77 for the women.
  • Tiger Teams Turned Back By Denison
    January 14, 2011
    GRANVILLE, Ohio — The Wittenberg men's and women's swimming & diving teams took to the road and resumed their dual meet schedule at Denison.
  • Tiger Swimmers Place Second At DePauw Invitational; Divers Strong At Rose-Hulman
    December 04, 2010
    GREENCASTLE/TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — The Wittenberg Tiger swimming and diving teams fared well in a pair of invitationals hosted by NCAA Division III rivals in the state of Indiana.
  • Wittenberg Swimmer Named Semifinalist For Coach Wooden Citizenship Award
    December 03, 2010
    Springfield, Ohio — Even before Conor O'Rourke, class of 2011 from Mendham, N.J., arrived at Wittenberg University, he had discovered a passion for helping citizens of the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti. O'Rourke's on-going volunteer and fundraising efforts for the Haitian people, in combination with his athletic pursuits as a swimmer at Wittenberg, earned him a place on the list of semifinalists for the 2010 Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup.
  • Tiger Swimming And Diving Teams Raise Awareness, Money For Cancer Research
    November 24, 2010
    Springfield, Ohio — Wittenberg University's men's and women's swimming and diving teams joined hundreds of other college, high school and club teams across the country to raise awareness and much-needed funds for cancer research recently as part of the fifth annual "Ted Mullin Leave it in the Pool, Hour of Power Relay."
  • Tigers Sweep Second Home Double Dual Meet Of The Season
    November 20, 2010
    SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The Wittenberg swimming and diving teams hosted Baldwin-Wallace and North Coast Athletic Conference opponent Oberlin in a double dual meet Saturday, sweeping both teams on the men's and women's sides to go 4-0 on the day and move to 7-2 overall for the men and 6-3 for the women in the dual meet schedule.
  • Busy Weekend Starts With Loses To Ohio Northern
    November 19, 2010
    ADA, Ohio — The Wittenberg swimming and diving teams opened a busy weekend at Ohio Northern on Friday night, but came away with a pair of losses.
  • Tigers Sweep Double Dual Hosting Wilmington, Transylvania
    November 13, 2010
    SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The Wittenberg University men's and women's swimming and diving teams swept a double dual meet Saturday, hosting Wilmington and Transylvania in the HPER Center Natatorium.
  • Tigers Split Double Dual Down The Middle, Wins Over Franklin, Losses To Depauw
    November 06, 2010
    GREENCASTLE, Ind. — The Wittenberg swimming and diving teams participated in their first double dual meet of the season with a pair of wins against Franklin and two losses to DePauw.
  • Tiger Men Win Big, Women Fall Just Short At Wooster
    October 30, 2010
    WOOSTER, Ohio — The Wittenberg swimming and diving teams traveled to the College of Wooster Saturday, and the men brought home a big 174-63 win, while the women fell 129-108 to the Scots.
  • Tigers Start Dual Schedule Off With Big Win Over Ohio Wesleyan
    October 29, 2010
    SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The Wittenberg men's and women's swimming & diving teams kicked off the 2010-11 dual meet slate with a convincing pair of victories. The men took home a 139-80 victory while the women were 124-96 winners.
  • Tiger Teams Open Season At NCAC Relays
    October 23, 2010
    GAMBIER, Ohio — The Wittenberg men's and women's swimming and diving teams opened the 2010-11 season officially on Saturday in the North Coast Athletic Conference Relays, an annual "relays only" meet hosted this year at Kenyon College, with diving competition held at Denison University.
  • Wittenberg Alumnus Receives Fulbright Scholarship For The 2010-2011 Academic Year
    October 22, 2010
    Springfield, Ohio – Blake Troxel, Wittenberg University class of 2005, has been awarded a Fulbright U. S. Student Program scholarship to continue work on his master’s degree in Ecology/Environmental Studies at Yale University’s School of Forestry.
  • Wittenberg Swimming And Diving Individuals Earn Academic Awards
    July 19, 2010
    Springfield, Ohio — Wittenberg University's swimming and diving teams not only made waves in the pool during the 2009-10 school year, the Tigers recently earned accolades from the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) for outstanding individual and team academic performances.
  • Wittenberg Student Pursues Passion Serving Victims Of Haitian Earthquake
    July 06, 2010
    Conor O’Rourke ’11 has made multiple service trips to Haiti in recent years. After the devastating earthquake in January that killed more than 200,000 people and left more than one million homeless, O’Rourke organized campus fundraisers and pledged to return to the Caribbean nation as soon as possible. What follows is his first-person account of his summer 2010 service trip to Haiti.