For Katherine Hueter, class of 2011, the unblemished record she and her USA Athletes International, Inc. (USAAI) teammates compiled while touring the Adriatic Sea Coast of Europe was just part of the story.
An historic 2008-09 winter sports season wrapped up for the Wittenberg University Tigers over the last two weeks as the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) awarded 29 Wittenberg student-athletes and coaches with postseason honors.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Denison's Shaina Kaiser has been named Player of the Year to highlight the 2009 All-North Coast Athletic Conference women's basketball squad, announced today after voting by the conference's head coaches. Wittenberg placed two players on the All-NCAC Honor Roll.
Members of the Wittenberg community will come together again to honor the memory of former Women's Basketball Head Coach and Associate Director of Athletics Pam Evans Smith, class of 1982, with the second annual Pam Evans Smith 5K Memorial Walk/Run Saturday, March 28.
The Wittenberg Tigers jumped out to an early lead in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Tournament quarterfinals, but they couldn't hold on as the No. 4 seeded Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops pulled out a 67-61 victory.
A complete team effort sent the Tiger women's basketball team into the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) postseason on a high note after a 91-50 domination of Oberlin in the regular season finale.
Down 19 with less than eight minutes to go, an inspired Wittenberg Tiger team rallied to cut the deficit to six but could not complete the comeback in a 61-53 home finale loss against Capital.
The Wittenberg women sent their two senior players out in style with a 69-54 victory over the College of Wooster in the final home conference game of the season.
The Wittenberg women's basketball team has struggled to protect the basketball in recent weeks, and the team's fifth loss in the last six games followed the trend as the Tigers committed a staggering 27 turnovers in a 64-53 loss to North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) rival Ohio Wesleyan.
The Wittenberg University Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) will host its first-ever Take a Kid to the Game Day on Saturday, Feb. 14, part of a daylong celebration of basketball and community in Wittenberg's Pam Evans Smith Arena.
On National Girls and Women in Sports Day, the Tigers turned in one of their most complete performances of the year in a 74-46 rout of North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) foe Hiram.
Another close contest found the Tigers on the short end in a pivotal North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) battle. This time, a nine-plus minute scoring drought midway through the second stanza cost Wittenberg against Allegheny in a 58-52 loss.
The Kenyon Ladies blitzed the Wittenberg Tigers with a hot-shooting second half to pull away for a 71-57 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) victory.
The Wittenberg Tigers dropped their second straight North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) road game, this time to hot-shooting Wooster, 75-67, to fall into the middle of a crowded conference pack.
The Wittenberg University women's basketball team will again host a sports expo and a postgame meet and greet/autograph session with its players as part of a celebration of National Girls And Women In Sports Day (NGWSD) on Saturday, Feb. 7.
Hoping to get back into the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) regular season title chase, the Wittenberg Tigers instead found themselves on the very short end of a 74-51 decision at Denison to fall three games behind the unbeaten Big Red in the standings.
It may have happened more than 19 months ago, but the passing of Wittenberg women's basketball coach Pam Evans Smith is still fresh in the minds of many of the coaches and student-athletes who continue to don the Red & White. For Head Coach Sarah Jurewicz, Wittenberg class of 1998, the memories came flooding back Saturday morning when she learned of the passing of North Carolina State University Head Coach Kay Yow.
After losing three games by four points or less earlier in the 2008-09 season - despite having multiple opportunities to score clutch baskets in the waning moments in each instance - the Wittenberg Tigers showed some spunk down the stretch as they pulled out a 73-72 victory over visiting Ohio Wesleyan.
The rematch of the Earlham Quakers and Wittenberg Tigers proved to be much different than the meeting the two teams shared a fortnight prior. Earlham battled to an early lead but could not keep the Tigers down in the second half, as Wittenberg rallied to a 73-64 win.
The Wittenberg women's basketball team put together a furious rally in the late minutes of their road North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) contest against the Kenyon Ladies, but their late chances to claim the win fell just short in a 45-44 loss.
The Wittenberg women outscored Oberlin 44-19 in the second half as they routed the visitors in a 81-41 win from Pam Evans Smith Arena. The Tigers parlayed another dominating day on the boards, to the tune of a 62-34 margin, into an additional 12 field goal attempts.
The Wittenberg Tigers put together one of their most balanced offensive efforts of the 2008-09 season to pull away from host Earlham for a 78-59 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) victory.
A career-high 19 points for senior post Rachel Dixon (West Liberty, Ohio/Salem) sent the Tigers to their first North Coast Athletic Conference victory of the 2008-09 season as they topped the Hiram College Terriers, 63-51, on the road.
The Wittenberg Tigers rallied from 11 points down at the intermission to claim a brief lead, but could not hold on as UW-Oshkosh stopped the Tigers' bid for the Charles B. Zimmerman Memorial Classic title.
The Wittenberg Tigers women's basketball team shook off more than three weeks of rust as they picked up a win in the first round of the Charles B. Zimmerman Memorial Classic with by a 67-55 score over the College of Mount St. Joseph.
The Wittenberg University men's and women's basketball teams welcome an outstanding field of eight teams for the 2008 Charles B. Zimmerman Memorial Classic. The competition is scheduled for Monday, Dec. 29, and Tuesday, Dec. 30, at Wittenberg's HPER Center Arena with games on both days scheduled for 12:30, 2:45, 5:30 and 7:45 p.m.
In an early season matchup of two of the top teams in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC), the Denison Big Red came to Springfield and sent Wittenberg to its third consecutive defeat.
A 13-0 second-half run turned a six-point Wittenberg lead into a seven-point deficit as the Tigers dropped their first game of the 2008-09 season, 82-74, to the host Quakers in the championship game of Wilmington's Fred Raizk Thanksgiving Tournament.